Senior Technical Project Manager Resume
Chicago, IL
SUMMARY:
A results - oriented leader with an engineering background who works well under pressure, has strong communication skills, and enjoys a fast-paced environment. Strengths include project management, time management, strategic planning, telecom technology, and a proven ability to bridge gaps between technology systems resulting in measurable cost savings and profitability.
COMPUTER EXPERIENCE:
ACAD Drawing Experience: ACAD 12 / ACAD 13, Microsoft Project, Word, Excel, Access, Explorer
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
Confidential - Chicago, IL
Senior Technical Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Coordinates departmental or cross-functional teams, focused on delivering new or upgrading existing products
- Manage the development and implementation process of a company's products and services.
- Plan and manage company resources to execute development project or project components from design phase through implementation
- Reporting and metrics from multiple order entry, workflow and inventory systems as well as support data marts / databases supporting internal and external customers
- Organizes cross-functional activities, ensuring completion of the project i.e. product on schedule and within budget constraints.
- Identify and communicate project scope and ensures program milestones and objectives are met
- Project manager for complete nationwide network build out (legacy Wiltel identification of switches, costing, ordering and tracking)
- Integration of networks by managing capacity and migrating Customer circuits to end state equipment (TDM/PRI to VoIP)
- Monitor network to ensure that network performance meets expected service levels for customers
- Utilized trending data to determine network growth and appropriate costing data to initiate network capacity augmentation, grooming and disconnection
- Worked with Customer to develop a plan for new product promotional launch based on three and six month forecasting, identifying calling areas of interest, and tariff cost savings
- Created maintenance and operating procedures for engineering and provisioning teams
- Analyze and provide feedback on forecasts from customers
Confidential - Decatur, IL
Supervisor/ Engineering Change Control
Responsibilities:
- Managed engineering change control (ECC) team with the focus on engineering bill of material changes, effective dates, and sourcing of products to enhance implementation of new product introduction
- Member of the total productive maintenance team which helped prevent, predict and minimize machine failures
- Interviewed, selected, and trained new personnel through a 40% turnover in the department
- Member of resource strategy team to implement the transition of modular builds to outside suppliers in order to reduce cost
- Developed and executed a transition plan to relocate the ECC group from Joliet, IL to Decatur, IL
- Coordinated a project of rework through the ECC area for cell ISO 9001
Confidential - Bradley, IL
Project Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Designed and installed an automatic depalletizing and conveying system to reduce head count by one person per shift on labor intensive line
- Scheduled and tracked multiple project timelines to ensure deliverables remained on time and on budget.
- Using AutoCad, created USDA approval drawings for the Automated & Dry Mix facility
- Managed outside contractors on installations for projects and facility upgrades (i.e. heat exchangers, roofs, RxR spurs, tanks, dock levelers, boilers)
- Designed automatic oil delivery system from outside tank farm to the inside tank farm
- Increased safety of railcar bulk unloading through new catwalks and jib design
- Instituted tracking system of cans for tracing defects of packaging materials through system so items could be recalled out of the warehouse
Confidential, - Lombard, IL
Packaging Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Developed proposals for packaging and processing systems by costing, specifying, and detailing layouts of equipment.
- Implemented the projects on schedule and within cost target of Confidential .
- Liaison between corporate head quarters and bakery personnel for $ 4.5 million dollar packaging project
- Specified and installed upgrades to Doy pouch maker to increase machine efficiency by 40 % by eliminating film jams, bad pouches, and feed problems
- Optimized and installed a metal detecting reject system on product line, increasing operator safety and reducing bad rejects
- Responsible for the relocation and layout of packaging lines to reduce head count of three people per shift with a savings of $ 150,000 annually
- Member of a safety team responsible for developing a lock out tag out procedure of equipment for bakery personnel
- Developed a bulk product delivery system to packaging lines to reduce down time
- Coordinated Eddy current analysis on a chiller to determine the condition of tubes as a part of a preventive maintenance program for heat exchangers in the bakery
