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Portland, OR, US

Portland, Oregon, United States

• Filmed, edited and produced many video projects for clients, including music videos, political and informational clips, and social media promotions
• Facilitated and produced multiple “virtual” events and live-sound productions for a local non-profit client
• Built a recording studio with live-streaming and video production capability
• Produced multiple in-studio live-streams for local bands

Portland, Oregon, United States

• Set/strike audio/visual equipment, lighting and scenic elements for multiple daily events in hotel ballrooms and conference rooms
• Operate sound and video equipment during larger scale events
• Represent Encore global in a customer service capacity, ensuring client satisfaction during all scheduled events

Portland, OR

• Provided Business Process Analysis and I.T. Project Management to enhance and maintain software applications related to company operations:
• Worked with internal stakeholders of various business functions to understand weaknesses and problem areas. Recommend technology approaches for business process improvement
• Hired and manage contract staff in the development of new technology products such as databases, web applications and tracking systems used to facilitate business data gathering, management and reporting.
• Conducted regular project tracking meetings and summarize statuses for key stakeholders.
• Designed and maintained back-end databases for business critical data storage purposes.
• Tested and evaluated the work of contracted development staff, maintain code and track progress vs. budgets, continuously looking for ways to keep costs down without sacrificing project business objectives.

Beaverton, OR

• Served as Engineering Point-of-Contact during the Alpha and Beta stages for new software products and version upgrades. Performed development tasks, met with key stakeholders, and worked closely with other project team.
• Led regular meetings with clients to understand business needs and understand how new products would be used from the customer perspective. Provided feature training and made recommendations for new business processes.
• Documented and reviewed requirements for changes to business systems and add-ons to existing systems. Evaluated impacts to existing code and risks involved with performing modifications, recommending alternatives where.
• Managed relationships with third-party vendors and coordinated efforts for integrating and incorporating multi-vendor solutions into software offerings.
• Led and coordinated agile engineering projects, providing timely response to issues affecting worldwide customer base.
• Prototyped and developed new system modules using VB.Net and performed general maintenance of legacy VB code used for managing large-scale mission critical operations.

Oregon

• Acted as business process specialist to collaborate with business users, stakeholders and executive leadership to translate goals and objectives into solutions and deliverables.
• Documented business requirements, functional specifications and transition management deliverables.
• Contract with Nike-IHM: Provided IT Application development and support for multiple HR and production reporting applications.
• Contract with Fred Meyer Corporation: Assisted with the conversion of an existing application, SQL Server database/stored procedures and a set of reports to cooperate with new data sources.

Vancouver, WA

Architected and developed commercial software applications using VB.Net and SQL Server, for use within the door, window and cabinet industry for job bidding, maintaining inventory and product pricing data, and managing customers, invoices, purchase orders and other related information.

Oregon

• Designed and developed a complete product inventory tracking and reporting system for a Portland based lumber brokerage business.
• Programmed and implemented an automated reporting system, used to save time and effort required by employees in various divisions of a growing Southern Oregon Forest Products Company.
• Analyzed customer reporting needs and developed a variety of custom inventory, financial and manufacturing performance reports using Crystal Reports and ODBC.

Hillsboro, OR

• Designed, developed, and supported software applications for lumber mill work-in-process tracking, inventory management, and data storage and forwarding.
• Took charge of client integration projects and designed and recommended systems which utilized hardware such as RF and cabled network equipment, barcode devices and other data-collection equipment, touch screen.
• Traveled to customer locations across the U.S to meet with customers, analyze requirements, perform product installations, and train users.
• Acted as a primary contact person for many of the company accounts, ensuring that clients were properly supported and that company provided solutions were effectively meeting customer needs.
• Managed development and integration projects from start to finish, preparing estimates and monitoring tasks to ensure progress stayed on track with budgeted time and dollars.

Mba, Sustainable Business

• Finalist: 2011 Schulich International Business Case Competition for MBA Students • Published in the journal for the International.

B.S., Business And Leadership

Activities and Societies: Sigma Beta Delta: International Honor Society in Business, Management and Administration MU Omega: Marylhurst.

Certificate, Business Management

Certificate, Project Management

A.A.S., Computer Science