SUMMARY:

Enthusiastic, results oriented professional with more than twenty years’ experience overachieving business objectives. Extensive experience in Project Management, Hardware Systems, and Competitive Marketing. A solid blend of Engineering and Business experience, providing sound judgment with expanding responsibilities and s across multiple functions. An excellent teacher and Mentor.

TECHNICAL PROFILE:

Business: Competitive Intelligence, Total Quality Management, Project Leadership, Project Management (PMI), Motivating People, Business Planning, Proposal Development, Forecasting.

Resource Management: Assign resources and profiles, adjust resource over allocation and under allocation, track weekly time claiming against the projects utilizing Rational Portfolio Manager (RPM). Collect and update task level information on the project schedule. Develop and maintain project schedule in MS Project.

Financial Management: P&L ownership. Cost and revenue forecasting. Track estimate and actual expenses, recoveries and revenue effectively. Load estimated and actual expenses and revenue/recoveries in RPM. Create and maintain financial spreadsheets utilizing MS Excel to assist in the tracking and reporting of all project financial data.

System Engineering: Computer Architecture Systems Design, COTS Integration, Requirements definition, Cable/Interconnect design validation, Switches, controllers, support logic, memory, TCP/IPLAN/WAN, cost analysis, System design evaluation, Integration and testing.

Software: MS Windows, Office, Access, Lotus Notes, Word Perfect, Lotus 123, Lotus Approach, Freelance, Database Management, DOORS, widely used business applications

Interpersonal: Presentation skills, Negotiating, Communicating, Coach and Mentor.

CAREER BACKGROUND:

Confidential, Rochester, MN

Principle Engineer - Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Product manager within the System Integration Test Lab for Confidential products.
• Focused on new product development and testing within the SIT Lab, as well as sustaining products that are under customer qualification, product engineering change validation and regression testing.
• Responsible for the Master Test Plan and schedule to meet drive launch and announce plans.

Assistant Golf Professional

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the day to day operation of the pro-shop. Organized and ran a junior golf league, Co-ran the senior golf league, women’s leagues as well as the parent-child golf event.
• Instructed youth to adults in game improvement and volunteered for the Special Olympics Golf team as a coach and mentor.
• Created, designed and maintained the new Confidential website and served as the IT consultant for the city golf courses.

Confidential, Rochester, MN

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Senior Project Manager with proven performance for managing scope, cost, schedule and deliverables while applying project management methodologies as well as Agile methodologies for planning, tracking change control and risk management.
• All project were within budget, on time and within scope.

Confidential, Rochester MN

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• responsible for planning, directing, coordinating and delivering project activities through the entire project life cycle (from initiation to hand off to customer) that are major/complex/business critical.
• Lead project objectives and completion on time, on budget, and in conformance to Confidential project management methodologies and standards.

Confidential, Dubuque, IA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Advisory Project Manager, driving the projects to completion.
• Proven performance for managing scope, cost, schedule and deliverables while applying project management methodologies for planning, tracking change control and risk management.
• Responsible for running the day to day operations within the Confidential organization.
• Public relations, marketing, player development on and off the ice, housing, merchandising, scouting and recruiting. Served as IT consultant.

Assistant Golf Professional

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the day to day operation of the pro-shop.
• Organized and ran a junior golf league, Co-ran the senior golf league, women’s leagues as well as the parent-child golf event. Ran the First Tee program for Rochester, providing golf instruction to youth as well as adults.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the server(s), Storage, and switch configuration analysis matched against the customers requirements. Presented this information to the customer, and proposal work started.
• Had P&L accountability, driving the projects to completion. Proven performance for managing scope, cost, schedule and deliverables while applying project management methodologies for planningtracking, change control and risk management.
• Proven management of all project resources and for establishing an effective communication plan with the project team and the client.
• Managed the efforts of team members, engineers, administrators and third party vendors/contractors.
• Executed onsite inspections (worldwide), of the customers site prior custom IT solution delivery. Ensuring the clients site met the minimum requirements to support the Blue Gene and supporting hardware; Servers, storage and Cisco/Force 10 switches
• Participate with executive team to build business cases, cost benefit analysis and negotiation strategy for new products.
• Responsible for negotiations, terms and conditions of contracts.
• Continue to serve as the Client representative for the projects that have been completed.
• Prepare and present weekly presentations at for the executive teams, briefing team on the status of each project.

Confidential, MN

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the oversight and monitoring of the subcontracted activities, located in Athens Greece.
• Time is split between monitoring technical performance and System Engineering activities, providing the skills and expertise in project planning, communication network, client/server architectures, interface controls, software methodologies, security, and formal review processes.
• Support the Confidential Systems ( Confidential ) development efforts.

Confidential, Rochester, MN

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for optimizing Confidential eServer's and workstation products profits through total cost management.
• Setting cost targets that are derived based on Competitive Cost Data, Predecessor Product Costs, and Affordability Cost Targets from Pricing.
• Evaluate concepts for function, cost, required resources, and schedule.
• Evaluate product simplification and commonality issues with other functions such as manufacturing, brand management, and procurement.