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Florida, United States

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Halocline Solutions (pronounced HAY-low-cline) is focused on bringing IT clarity to small businesses that want to be bigger and better tomorrow than they are today. We leverage years of technical and process experience to provide back-office solutions that help propel businesses toward success.Halocline's services include➨ Custom application development and support➨ Off-the-shelf application installation, configuration, and maintenance➨ Infrastructure architecture and management➨ Business process analysis and optimization

Greater Chicago Area

Note: HR Job Title is Chief Engineer, Specifications ManagementDirected 45-member, multi-level, globally-distributed department composed of managers, employees, and consultants. Mentored engineers on use of rules-based product configuration system. Audited engineering changes for compliance with developed data quality standards and best practices.* Transformed "after the fact" quality inspection team into in-process consulting group providing real-time guidance to engineering design work. Marketed previously-underused body of knowledge and skill to engineering organization, causing 20% efficiency improvement across all activities where process was implemented.* Drove adoption of lean principles within department. Guided identification and execution of waste-eliminating projects that resulted in enough quality improvement to eliminate redundant 12-person secondary inspection department.* Developed management team into effective team of leaders through mentoring, positive feedback, and education opportunities. Increased employee satisfaction by 50% and employee retention by 10%.

Greater Chicago Area

Note: HR Job Title is IT Senior Group LeaderManaged team of 6 Information Technology professionals. Led development and delivery of custom-built and vendor applications supporting product development activities. Managed vendor development and testing efforts. Coordinated vendor and in-house deliverables across entire software development life cycle (SDLC).* Led development and implementation of several enterprise-scale IT systems. Drove 267% improvement in user base's productivity through targeted application redesign and consolidation. Achieved 90% reduction in maintenance and support costs by leveraging existing corporate infrastructure and technologies.* Established partnership with offshore development organization to provide application development and long-term support services, resulting in 300% group-wide capacity increase with no increase in cost.* Developed employees into productive team members having strategic skill sets through active engagement, targeted education opportunities, and hands-on training.

Greater Chicago Area

Led team of 4 Information Technology professionals. Drove development and maintenance of business-critical product development application suite. Provided 24x7 application support to product development organization.* Drove development and delivery of business-critical product configuration system that directly enabled company's market differentiation strategy, eliminating 95% of infrastructure costs while providing for near-infinite future growth.* Established ongoing service providing business intelligence to engineering. Developed guidelines and processes for service operation. Maintained satisfactory level of service throughout all business conditions.

Greater Chicago Area

Served as lead business analyst for IT Development team. Gathered requirements and provided documentation to development team. Designed and executed acceptance tests for developed applications. Provided 24x7 application support to product development organization.* Took initiative to self-train as backup support specialist for business-critical application suite with 24x7 uptime requirement, enabling temporary transition of off-hours support duties when needed.* Developed and implemented a series of tactical "quick win" application patches and interfaces that collectively drove a 40% increase in data integrity between applications.* Built relationship with previously-underserved segment of user community. Provided focused training and communication of application updates and best practices, resulting in 30% increase in user productivity and 50% decrease in helpdesk service requests.

Springfield, Oh

Dayton, Oh

Master'S Degree, Master Of Science, Computer Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Bachelor Of Science, Mechanical Engineering