Ed Kozak Email & Phone Number

Lincolnshire, Illinois

Lisle, IL

Overseas instructor in Project Management through Benedictine University's Asia Program to Vietnam University (Hanoi), Binh Duong University (Binh Duong, Vietnam) and Shenyang Jianzhu University (Shenyang, China).

Based In Chicago Area But We Consult Globally

• A project management consulting company providing clients with project management process improvement and project management office (PMO) Implementations. Best Practice Applications:
• Development of long-term strategies to create program management processes that will support the business systems requirements of companies.
• Building of first class program management organizations that result in a more rapid introduction of high quality client implementations.
• Directing the development of large programs, taking into consideration: the unique needs and timing requirements of the diverse customer groups, the opportunities for corporate-wide resource leveraging and the.
• Driving and maintaining the resource allocation process. Integrate sales strategies and priorities with IT Capacity so as to influence the corporate direction and the corresponding resource allocations.
• Developing, implementing, and tracking budgets and plans for the PMO.

Lincolnshire, IL

Senior Faculty at the graduate school level teaching project management and business classes.

Oak Brook, IL

Intermediaries for divestitures and acquisitions of businesses with revenues less than $10 million in sectors such as transportation, manufacturing, and construction through debt and equity financing. Developed, implemented and managed corporate strategic plans, sales goals, and marketing strategies; built and strengthened company's referral network.

• Performed project management and software engineering of HR System integration from decentralized, legacy or in-house developed systems where vendor support and/or client employee expertise no longer existed to.
• Business development activities
• Oversight of all implementation projects of the company--monitored contract progress and project risk and communicated status with multiple levels of clients and end users; managed client expectations, issues, and/or.
• Direct project management of specific high-value, high-visibility client projects--upon starting, took corrective action on project slippage on a multi-year, highly visible project and successfully completed it within.
• Development and cost estimating of all proposals
• Building/Maintaining/Mentoring of company’s project management team

• Performed business development in a contract-based R&D environment to maintain the billability levels required for my staff and me, including gathering competitive information with respect to capabilities and overhead.
• Wrote technical, cost, and management proposals in response to Department of Defense (DoD), and created innovative solutions addressing problem areas
• Set up project teams, performed bid/no-bid analyses, determined project objectives, developed scope statements, program requirements and specifications, estimated resource requirements, determined role and.
• Managed and coordinated a staff of over 20 multi-disciplined engineers, technicians, and admin staff, working concurrently on multi-year, large-scale projects for the DoD
• Maintained extensive contact to communicate status and risk to commercial and Gov’t clients at all levels and across multiple departments
• Managed Enterprise Program Managent Offices (EPMO) of multi-year, multi-million dollar, highly visible Dod-funded programs.

Mba, Finance, Business Strategy

M.S., Electro-Optic Engineering

Activities and Societies: Sigma Xi, IEEE, Optical Society of America, AIAA, Sigma Pi Sigma

B.S., Physics

Activities and Societies: Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society