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CAREER PROFILE
Systems Engineering 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.
Generated SBIR for non-contacting torque sensor to detect dynamic loading and torque on a rotating shaft. Included detailed discussion of state-of-the-art sensors, results from testing an innovative new sensing technique, approach to developing and testing a commercially viable product, and commercialization strategy. Wrote System Overviews, Configurations, and Design Specifications as well as Installation and Operational Qualification Test Cases for 21CFR11 compliant Data Historian Systems. Configured Data Historian Systems with redundant OPC and Manufacturing Execution System interfaces to Allen-Bradley ControlLogix/PLC systems, role-based security, 21CFR11-compliance-enabled monitoring, and Batch analysis. 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.
Implemented Performance and Information Management System (PIMS) at customer site in Holland. Developed automated configuration of complex role-based database security and area-based historical repositories in InfoPlus.21 real time database. Performed Benefits Analyses at petroleum refinery calculating annual savings from application of multivariable controls optimizers. Calculated $7.5M in annual savings, resulting in $0.75M performance bonus for AspenTech.

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.
Designed/specified/proposed web applications involving internet/intranet access servers, firewalls, web development tools, MIS applications, network hardware, and network management tools. Developed Internet/Intranet Web pages for department with proposal and project database views, facilitating the monitoring/input of status and automated generation of status reports. Designed/implemented Sequence-of-Events (SOE) log consolidation system for Power Generation facility, enabling data transfer to central monitoring facility. Managed project to automate transition from legacy to new Distributed Control System (DCS). Achieved project objectives providing technical leadership, acting as customer/vendor liaison, and managing project resources.

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. Implemented peer review system requiring reviews at the conclusion of all Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) analyses. Reviews greatly improved accuracy and thoroughness of IV&V analyses. 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.
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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