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Apex, North Carolina, United States

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Founder CEO and COO of laser R&D Corporation to leverage laser light technology in developing solutions to everyday problems. Using unique characteristics of laser light to provide approachable, safe, innovative and well-designed laser-based marketable products.- Handle company financial activities, contract design engineering and coordination of R&D.

Diversified general contractor providing Engineering, Procurement, Fabrication and construction in Oil & Gas, Refineries, Petrochemical, Industrial Plants, Power, IT, Communication, Infrastructure and other industrial sectors. IT infrastructure liaison and planning for Global Sources companies and director of business development to oversee IT and SAP ERP.

Saudi Arabia, Dammam

• Freelance projects contractor via Arabian Global Sources
• Building companies for Arabian Global Sources by building project teams and moral, establishing order and developing and simplifying procedures, reorganizing, managing tasks and delivery, and finding innovative and.
• Program Manager Saudi Electricity Company EPR Restructuring to unbundle the company.
• Project Manager for developing PMO for Saudi Electric Company IT/SAP projects to develop framework model, hiring staff, developing policy and procedures for consistently managing projects through a standard methodology.
• Project Management/Review/Business Case development: SAP Productivity Pak (RWD), PM Transmission, SAP Talent Management, SAP EHP5 upgrade, SAP Solution Manager renovation/implementation, PM Transmission/Generation.
• Developing contract scope of work for SAP systems integrator (Change Management, Training, Phases, Support and Maintenance, milestones, specific instructions to bidders, etc.).

Program Manager SAP and IT infrastructure for Yanbu Export Refinery Project (YERP) in capacity as IT Manager for setup and readiness of company formation to identify, develop, and implement the necessary computing infrastructure and applications for deployment after formation day of the joint venture as a legal entity and future operations as well as.

Dhahran Al-Janoub Governorate, Saudi Arabia

Technical advisor reporting to Director (700 staff) to lead and troubleshoot special projects. Developed Corporate 3-year $100M UNIX systems purchase agreement requirements and technical review specifications of vendor bids; Lead Production Migration Team; Performed Enterprise Operations Center Assessment for corporate UNIX systems for total cost of.

Manager and technical lead to reorganize (42 staff) corporate IT and SAP computer systems operations in a 24x7 Sun Solaris OS high availability production environment built on Oracle 8i, J2EE, WebMethods, Documentum, Netscape, SIMS, Veritas, NetBackup, and SAP R/3. Responsible for systems management in an environment consisting of 200+ servers composed of.

Technical advisor reporting to department Manager to provide support for all divisions under SAP Computer Center with the purpose of managing systems and operations integration, independent review, and troubleshooting for UNIX Operating System/Applications. Interviewed UNIX system administrator candidates for hire; reviewed operations and provided.

Project Head SAP Complementary Software Division (17-22 staff) for complex integrations, migrations, upgrades, administration, and solutions involving UNIX support servers (i.e., Documentum, Oracle, Marcator, GE ES EDI, webMethods, MySap.com, Dazel, DiscArchiver, e-banking, LDAP, Web servers, Xerox DocuPrint, etc.) to support SAP R3. Manage several teams.

Lead SAP R3 Basis Administration Team and Unix Systems Computer Center (10 staff). Provided systems operations support that focuses on the SAP R/3 set of programs and tools which interfaces with the computer operating system, the underlying database, the communication protocols to ensure availability of SAP/R3 application and guard against situations that.

Initial SRI contract consultant to management later converting to an employee for Unix client-server architecture, distributed computing, and network simulation technologies. Member of planning, integration, and management group for updating network infrastructure, technical consultation, and equipment acquisition to support future client-server Unix.

Architect (5 staff) of graphics simulation code generator using OPNET virtual interrupt machine of discrete events environment. The design dramatically changed the way the US Army performed simulations while leveraging the OPNET library facility. Lead R&D for US Army Tactical Logistics communications project

Programmer/systems administrator for Distributed Interactive Simulations (DIS) applications and network communication connections/processing; time and space coherent synthetic representation of world environments designed for linking the interactive, free play activities of people in operational exercises. Coded DIS graphic user interface socket and RPC.

Corporate Controller to established computer automation of firm for manufacturing operations and integration with successful Chapter 11 reorganization. Establish Transaction Voucher System for collecting accounting information at the source of production of equipment and delivery of services. The system was modeled after Bell Technical Labs. Rebuilt A/R.