SUMMARY:

• Effective, agile leader who engages as engineer, software developer, and project manager to align GIS and database systems and resulting analysis.
• Bridge the gap between organizational objectives, engineering requirements, and software functionality.
• Navigate the most complicated challenges to align all resources behind shared goals.
• Client - oriented, develop relevant software solutions and user interfaces, advancing technical sales, and acting as project manager and point person to government and commercial customers from states.
• Re-engineered the HPMS data gathering/submittal process and assisted in establishing standards for quality control of Roadway Characteristics Inventory.
• Member of the consultant team that established the Strategic Intermodal System (SIS) and assisted in the transition to the SIS with Systems Planning and Transportation Statistics.
• Investigated and published the GIS transition plan for the Confidential .
• Researched and published strategies for Confidential.
• Created and published reports for private firms and non-profit groups.
• Designed and developed a system for the Confidential .
• Designed and developed CAD pipe layout system.
• This design allowed engineers from around the country to work on a large-scale project and continuously share information.
• Project manager and designer for GIS application products, including the Selection Manager, Entity Manager, and Tabular Reporter.
• These products were built using Objective C, C++, GDS/GIS, ORACLE, SYBASE, and DEC RDB.
• Designed and implemented a Facilities Management application for tracking the internal and external data networks of the Confidential.
• Consulting responsibilities included conducting studies of client requirements, writing specifications, programming, software quality assurance, demonstrations, and customizing products for major clients.
• Designed and developed a graphics based vertical coordinate geometry (COGO) and Linear Referencing application by civil engineering clients.
• Taught classes to clients on using and customizing GIS. Classes included programming, customizing (Menus, macros, and setup) and specialized courses.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Business Leadership: P&L Project Management Technical Sales Team Leadership Culture Change Operations Project Prioritization Mechanical Engineering Database Management Data Analysis

Technical Expertise: Esri ArcGIS Products Oracle DBMS DBA, Database Design, PL/SQL Programming Web Design .Net Programming

EXPERIENCE IN DETAIL:

Confidential, Tallahassee, FL

Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Combined GIS, database, web interface, and .net architecture to analyze and score projects based on 6 goals: mobility, intermodal connectivity, environmental stewardship, safety, livable communities, and economic competitiveness.
• Enabled nuanced adjustment of system’s analysis based on completion of current work plan and other factors.
• Set new industry standard with Confidential by speaking to other organizations about it.
• Confidential automated and centralized a process that had been siloed as well as largely analog and subjective.
• Used GIS and database software to plan routes for athletes, support teams, attendees, and residents.
• Played key role in making traffic a complete non-issue for the duration of the Games.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Completed audit of all Confidential groups’ collection and communication of data and where GIS could be used.
• Documentation included needs and benefits that could be met with GIS in general and specific circumstances.
• Played key role in vendor selection, with assessments and recommendations becoming foundation of RFP, which resulted in the creation of a systemwide network surveillance tool featured on Esri website.
• Upgraded statewide system to Esri technology, drawing on understanding of GDS, Esri, and GIS systems in the context of transportation departments, taking into account thousands of critical, often regulated, variables.
• Instrumental in moving Confidential from hand-crafted route mapping to ArcGIS mapping capabilities.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Automated process with solution that collects and formats GIS and tabular data from across Confidential departments.
• Saved man-months of labor each year, enabling update and resubmission in hours instead of weeks.

Confidential, St. Louis, MO & Tallahassee, FL

Project Manager/Engineering Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led small team of software developers in developing CAD, COGO, Linear Referencing System, and Confidential and serving as a translator of engineer’s needs to road and pipeline software functionality.
• Built software for US market and adapted key products for global markets.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Co-developed software used to track and assess damage of Kuwaiti oil well fires started by retreating Iraqi military.
• Hired by Confidential to educate their IT developers on Confidential development.
• Ensured success of flagship client for transportation software, Confidential .
• Moved to Florida and worked closely with client on rollout and management of their new GIS system.
• Helped establish Confidential as a leader in state DOT GIS mapping.
• Presented new developments at multiple national symposiums.

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Project Manager & Engineering Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Hired as mechanical engineer to coordinate efforts of software developers and mechanical engineers in the CAD Development group.
• Supported HEATTRAN (heat transfer) programs and the DOE thermal analysis software as well as the CAD system.
• Helped existing and potential clients launch and optimize software in their operations.
• Learned programming and joined software development team.
• Augmented technical skills with an understanding of business strategy and drivers.

Software Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Earned rapid promotions from mechanical engineer to software developer and client consultant, earning security clearance, contributing to flagship products, and gaining international experience.
• Built reputation for building effective multinational user interfaces, incorporating multiple languages and accommodating diverse client concerns in the capabilities—e.g., some agencies favored road quality while some favored cost savings.
• Collaborated on first-ever integration standards of GIS with an Oracle database in cooperation with Confidential .