SUMMARY:

• Project Management Customer Interaction Project Scheduling and Resource Allocation
• Invoicing and Revenue Tracking Quality Assurance Design and Implementation
• ArcGIS Database Maintenance and Map Design American Red Cross First Aid/CPR Training ATV Training
• An experienced Project Manager that has successfully managed eight projects from start to completion over the past three years that have generated over 2.5 million dollars in revenue and produced three additional projects through referrals from clients.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Kent, OH

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Create budgets for potential projects based on project goals, time lines, personnel needs and equipment needs.
• Conduct pre - project meetings with clients to formulate a plan tailored to meet the stated goals and deadlines for the project and develop a Project Procedures Manual.
• Allocate the necessary staffing and equipment for the project through transfers or acquisitions.
• Monitor and project weekly revenue goals for each project.
• Conduct weekly safety meetings to keep employees focused safety while on the job.
• Formulate and implement Quality Assurance checks for all MapWise projects to ensure the delivery of quality data back to the client.
• Track project production and progress on a weekly and monthly basis and prepare monthly invoices.
• Use ArcGIS software to create project-specific maps, alter databases as needed, and create scripts for Quality Assurance checks using Model Builder.
• Check for and correct connectivity issues in MapWise using integrated Flow Checks.
• Train personnel for each project to ensure data is collected in accordance with the Project Procedures.
• Perform Quality Checks in the field on employee data to ensure data is collected correctly and determine if additional training is required.
• Manage all corporate leases for our department including the lease review, deposits, monthly payments, documentation, and termination.
• Monitor compliance of all employees in our department completing required safety training.
• Provide First Aid/AED/CPR training as a certified American Red Cross Instructor to employees in our department.
• Provide OSHA-certified ATV training to employees in our department as an ATV Instructor.
• High customer satisfaction has resulted in referrals for at least three additional projects
• Only manager in the company to manage both the field personnel and the database for my projects saving over $250,000 in office personnel hours over the past three years.

Project Coordinator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Train employees on the data collection requirements for the project
• Provide safety training to employees on various safety topics and issues
• Perform QA/QC on employee work to ensure data quality
• Coordinate employee work to ensure project was completed on schedule
• Repair and troubleshoot equipment and computer issues
• Organize housing and travel arrangements for employees on the project
• Communicate with the client to resolve questions and customer concerns
• Attend weekly conference calls to report on project status and resolve questions and concerns
• Investigate and report safety incidents to corporate headquarters
• The only Project Coordinator in the Asset Management division to ever receive a Letter of Commendation from a client for work above and beyond expectations.

Field Technician/QA Technician

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Collect GPS coordinates for all poles, meters and UG equipment using Trimble receivers
• Collect/identify primary and secondary distribution equipment including:
• Overhead equipment such as switches, reclosers, fuses, sectionalizers, capacitors, regulators, transformers, lights and meters
• Underground equipment such as padmounts, vaults, junction boxes, cabinets, pedestals, and switchgears
• Collect/verify attribute data specific to project requirements including:
• Pole attributes such as height, class, manufacture date, treatment type, treatment date, etc.
• Equipment attributes such as type, KVA, wattage, amperage, and winding connection.
• Meter attributes such as class, amps, form, meter number, and serial number
• Collect/verify RUS or REA specification assemblies, as needed
• Identify and maintain proper phase and phase orientation of all wires and equipment throughout the feeder
• Collect/verify wire size and material for spans and guys
• Identify and collect joint use attachment information such as owner, attachment type, and quantity
• Check, fix and report on the data collected by other field technicians on the project
• Achieved the highest quality and production rates out of all crew members on each project worked

Confidential, Boston, MA

Research Technician

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for assisting researchers with their experiments and grants, training new researchers on animal care, performing most genotyping for the laboratory and managing all research animals for the laboratory.
• Managed all aspects of the Pandolfi lab mouse colony at BIDMC including ordering, importing and exporting, health assessment, and served as the liaison between the lab and the animal care staff and IACUC
• Trained lab members on aspects of animal handling, breeding, and multiple procedures including tagging and tailing, injections, surgery, etc.
• Assisted in writing a NIH grant that was approved and provided $225,000 in funding for the lab over the course of three years.
• Wrote an IACUC-approved animal protocol for the Pandolfi lab.

Research Technician

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for genotyping and managing all research animals for the laboratory.
• Performed DNA extraction and purification
• Performed genotyping on DNA samples
• Performed RNA extraction and purification
• Performed RT-PCR on RNA samples
• Performed some cloning including maxi preps, mini preps, transformations, digestions and DNA purification.
• Monitored research animal health and condition
• Ordered animals from vendors and collaborators
• Maintained and repaired lab equipment
• Was able to perform highly accurate and efficient genotyping averaging about 500 samples per week.
• RT-PCR results were included in at least two publications for the lab.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Faculty Aid

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for assisting researchers with implementing GIS software and tools in the research
• Assisted several professors with applying ArcGIS tools to old maps to help with the research including georeferencing maps and conformations.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Animal Care Technician

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the daily care, health and observation of the research mice being used for medical research in our facility.
• Performed cage changing, feeding and watering using Full Sterile Technique
• Performed animal health care monitoring and administered routine medical treatment to research animals.
• Was recognized for the quality and efficiency of animal care provided and recommended to a premiere laboratory as a Research Technician.

Confidential, Jenison, MI

Veterinary Assistant/Technician

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for assisting with the medical treatment of animal patients
• Assisted with restraining animals, drawing blood, administering vaccines, treating wounds, performing dental prophy, taking radiographs, placing IVs, prepping for surgery and assisting in surgery
• Assisted with laboratory services by prepping samples for Fine Needle Aspirates, Ear Swab Cytologies, Gram stains, urinalysis, fecal tests, SNAP tests, and blood CBCs and chemistries.
• Assisted with office operations by checking customers in, maintain inventory of supplies, answering phone calls, general facilities maintenance and cleaning.
• Started at the company with no prior experience and had learned all the roles, functions and procedures of a full Veterinary Technician within the first year.
• Was operating as the sole or lead Veterinary Technician at the clinic several days each week after only one year on the job.