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CAREER PROFILE
Project Management professional actively involved in team building, long range planning, and leadership, with proven abilities in:Project Management professional actively involved in team building, long range planning, and leadership, with proven abilities in:
  • Technical Management
  • MS Project Professional 2002
  • Technical Leadership
  • Project & Program Management
  • Technical Proposals
  • PMI PMBOK® Best Practices
  • Management Information Systems (MIS)
  • Access 2002 Database Applications
  • SQL Server 2000 Database Applications
  • Office 2002 VBA Applications
  • Visual Studio .NET; VB 6.0, VB.NET, ASP.NET
  • Visual SourceSafe 6.0
  • Visio for Enterprise Architects
  • Crystal Reports 8.5
  • Dreamweaver MX Web Applications
  • MySQL PHP Web Development
CAREER PROGRESSION

Systems Engineering Consultant

  
Clients in Cleveland, Ohio and Indianapolis, Indiana
2002 to Present
Clients include Eli Lilly; ESA Engineering Services, Inc.; e-Diner Online; Domestic Violence Center of Cleveland; Lighting Institute at JCU; REI at Case Weatherhead; IEEE Cleveland Section; and CCRSC Management Group.
  • Wrote System Overviews, Configurations, and Design Specifications as well as Installation and Operational Qualification Test Cases for 21CFR11 compliant Data Historian Systems.
  • Created VB .NET and MS Access/SQL/VB database applications to track program activities, provided custom data summaries for grant reporting, and provided custom searches of business databases.
  • Implemented web sites with Dreamweaver MX incorporating DHTML menus, MySQL/PHP polls and input forms.

Senior Engineer

  
Aspen Technology Incorporated, Strongsville, Ohio
2000 to 2002
Proposed, managed, and implemented management information systems (MIS) on projects involving real time and relational databases, human interfaces, and interfaces to production and office LAN networks. Developed VB, SQL Server, InfoPlus.21, and Crystal Reports solutions to improve productivity and product quality.
  • Developed Access project status database and MS Project schedules for status tracking of performance calculation tasks. The database/schedules facilitated planning/tracking of complex array of tasks involving several engineers from different AspenTech offices. These accomplishments contributed substantially to project success ($0.75 M in performance bonus revenues) and customer satisfaction.

Senior Proposal Engineer

  
ABB Automation Inc., Wickliffe, Ohio
1996 to 1999
Directed proposals within Custom Software Services group. Lead Engineer/Project Manager on projects involving custom software and custom interfaces to third-party control hardware/software, devising innovative, cost effective solutions to difficult system integration problems.
  • Provided technical leadership and project management over development/testing phases of complex projects to $1.0 M involving multiple contractors, vendors, and ISO 9000 procedures/requirements. Consistently met performance specifications and schedule while successfully negotiating change orders for out-of-scope work.
  • Generated proposals to cover development of subsystem components, developed work plan, estimated resource requirements, and coordinated work assignments. Conducted periodic design reviews and generated Product Development Plan, Functional Specifications, and Test Plan documents in compliance with ISO 9000 procedures.
  • Developed Access database to track project status and provide assignment of task priorities, responsible parties, ongoing status updates, and automated progress reports. Features added to track adherence to ISO 9000 software development procedures. Developed forms/queries/reports to facilitate entry of critical project data, provide project status updates tailored to user-specified criteria, and support analysis and reporting in variety of Office applications. This database improved and facilitated tracking of critical tasks and project issues.

Systems Engineer/Consultant

  
Eclectic Systems Architecture, Maple Heights, Ohio
1995 to 1996
ABB Automation Inc.: Responsible for proposals in Advance Automation Services group. Developed Word/Excel/VBA templates to automate proposal processes, increase efficiency, provide tracking, and reduce proposal generation time.
  • Created Access/SQL/Visual Basic database applications to track proposal and engineering project activities.
  • Developed system designs/proposals in areas of power generation performance measurement/load optimization, data acquisition/historian systems, management information systems, and custom software/interfaces.
  • Reliance Electric, Research & Development Center: Developed custom graphical user interfaces (GUI), or man-machine interfaces (MMI), for process control applications in Visual Basic.

Manager, Flight Mechanics

  
Analex Corporation, Brook Park, Ohio
1987 to 1995
Created/managed Flight Mechanics group performing Guidance Accuracy, Mission Design, and Flight Control Stability analyses of expendable launch vehicles. Provided technical leadership, direction and support. Group won over $12M in engineering service contracts over eight-year period.
  • Project management including definition of project tasks, estimation of resource requirements, scheduling, resource assignments, and direction of technical activities.
  • Developed configuration management system for analysis models. System eliminated non-functional modifications to models, redundant models, and greatly improved consistency, quality and accuracy of flight controls models.
  • Developed MS Project and Office applications to automate generation of detailed project schedules, manpower projections, and hardware/software requirements. Developed applications to transfer data to spreadsheets depicting budgeted/actual work hours per month and hardware/software budget. These tools greatly improved project tracking while automating status reporting, resulting in timely, accurate reporting.

Principal Engineer

  
Analex Corporation, Brook Park, Ohio
1982 to 1987
Provided technical support to NASA Glenn Research Center.
  • Provided planning, design, and advisory services in areas of control dynamics, process control, mission design, and digital communications, achieving NASA project objectives while meeting Analex contract requirements.
  • Lead Engineer responsible for developing analysis tools in support of new-concept launch vehicles mission design analyses and performance calculations. Developed tools providing critical information to decision makers charged with planning launch vehicle development for NASA and USAF.
EDUCATION
MS Systems Engineering; Case Western Reserve University.
Thesis: “On-Demand Multilayer Control of a System of Interconnected Heat Exchangers”
BS Systems and Control Engineering; Case Institute of Technology.

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