Ronald W. Lowe, Master Of Engineering Management (Mem) Email & Phone Number

Dayton, Tn, Us

Continuing to add-value part-time while semi-retired. Impacting the lives of young adults. Also, actively volunteering thru my Church 1) security team 2) teach at elementary after school "Good News Club" and 3) other tasks as needed.

Managing Acquisitions & Merger integrations of data center infrastructure. Managed upgrade of Home Delivery Pharmacy infrastructure. Established routine vendor patching of infrastructure for critical applications. Created DR systems for existing infrastructure and established routine switchover verification. Several Bravo awards. Initially worked in Schaumburg office, moved to permanent work-from-status March 2020. Worked remote from Tennessee since March 2021. Worked as contractor 1 year, then employee for over 5 years. Laid-off April 2023.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Implemented Cisco OpenDNS and McAfee Advance Threat Defense, Threat Intelligence Exchange, and Data Exchange Layer in U.S. & U.K. data centers.

I sought new opportunity as infrastructure or application project manager. Took training while In Transition.

Irving, Texas, Us

New Enterprise Architecture group defining its role and influence in IT. Managed project defining PaaS/On Premise hybrid solution to provide a single Data Hub for all applications, based on selection of vendors with current Big Data & Cloud products. Project defined follow-on Program to implement Data Hub. Short contract due to contractor reduction preceding employee lay-off.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Managed numerous projects to build out IT environments for banking and investment applications in U.S. and U.K. Planned, cost estimated, executed, managed change, migrated to Production and closed over 80 projects and assisted in over 40 others - varying from months to several years and up to $3+ million cost. Managed up to 12 small projects simultaneously. Contractor 1 year, then employee for 7 years. Laid-off• Program manager of six PMs to decommission backlog of infrastructure. • Managed team defining an Enterprise-wide Data Warehouse solution for numerous applications.

Dallas, Tx, Us

At AT&T, led US, Israel, and India team thru testing and final release of Order Management System.Earlier at Allstate, managed five projects for AML application. Then is a second contract, led creation of new physical test environments.

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Created separate subnets of servers for phased software development. IVR update with new recordings. Merged two, multi-terabyte Oracle databases which supported two different versions of major application. Laid-off.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

As Program Manager, managed $25 million program (of a $64 million GSM/GPRS cell phone network product major release) through five program gates. Guided 2 Project Managers and team of 150 staff in US, UK, China, Spain, and Argentina. Two Bravo awards. Laid-off.Earlier, Software Development Manager, led cell phone network test simulator software development team (which previously delivered all releases late) to deliver 5 on time, then 4 early releases. Moved team from custom language to Java.

Staffed and managed contractors and client employees creating a tool to assist client company to develop a combined GSM cell phone and VOIP product. Wrote the product specification, project plan, & led group to create Local Maintenance Terminal to install, provision, and diagnose product,

Dublin, Ie

Member of executive board defining corporate strategy to meet payroll, to develop new products and licensable Intellectual Property, and to gain investment capital. Asia economic collapse in Sep 1998, led to company failure.Managed all software development for custom semi-conductor design Corporation. Developed compression, encryption, error correction, and image processing algorithms. Won a USAF research grant for electronic reconfiguration software, then subsequently led this research effort.Led development and operation of ecommerce website to market manufacturing partner’s full catalog of semiconductors.PREVIOUS RELEVANT EXPERIENCEAt Storage Technology Corp., in Longmont, CO as SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER, Led tape product embedded software development, 28 engineers (direct reports). Took over leadership of team when software was one year behind schedule. Used Agile Extreme Programming techniques to deliver most critical software for product within six months and subsequently produced more software functionality than scheduled fifteen months after hire.At Digital Equipment Corp., Storage Design, in Colorado Springs, CO promoted to SOFTWARE ENGINEERING MANAGER, I assumed lead of Design Engineering test software development team that had no working test software when the product was halfway through testing phase. Succeeded in testing product for market. Lead numerous benchmark studies of other companies’ best practices in software development. Co-creator of corporate-wide "Six-Sigma for Software" program.

Master’S Degree, Engineering Management

Information Technologymanagement

Bachelor'S Degree, Astronomy