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Metro Detroit Area

Substitute teacher for public and private institutions, covering elementary, middle and high school classes. Ability to cover almost all disciplines.

Metro Detroit

Substitute teacher for public and private institutions, covering elementary, middle and high school classes. Ability to cover almost all disciplines.

Detroit, Clarkston, Rochester, Sterling Heights, Mi

First level contact with guests covering 4 popular entertainment venues. Communicate directly with event attendees to maintain a safe and enjoyable experience.• Successfully resolve any problems that occur during an event• Collaborate with team members to ensure guests receive a positive experience• Ensure complaints are handled quickly and resolved satisfactorily for all involved• Maintain safe environment for both customers and workers/performers

Auburn Hills, Clarkston, Rochester, Sterling Heights, Mi

First level contact with guests covering 4 popular entertainment venues. Communicate directly with event attendees to maintain a safe and enjoyable experience.• Successfully resolve any problems that occur during an event• Collaborate with team members to ensure guests receive a positive experience• Ensure complaints are handled quickly and resolved satisfactorily for all involved• Maintain safe environment for both customers and workers/performers

Lake Orion, Mi

Seasonal work assisting in the design and installation of large landscaping projects for homeowners. Installation of retaining walls, decorative brick patios, fire pits, trees, shrubbery, annuals and perennials. Work closely with the customer to ensure project is done correctly and to their satisfaction.

Manage Agile identify and assess project to gather requirements and solicit quotes for implementation of a Global Vehicle Distribution Solution for Ford North America. Develop product and sprint backlogs and schedule sprints and tasks. Follow Ford’s project methodology process while managing project staffing, budget, issue and risk management, and management reporting.

Warren, Mi

Manage Agile software development and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) implementation projects for General Motors Manufacturing Engineering projects. Develop product and sprint backlogs and schedule sprints and tasks. Follow GM's enABLE project methodology process while managing project staffing, budget, issue and risk management, and management reporting.

Madison Heights, Mi

Temporary employment while searching for a Project Management opportunity. Assist customers, resolve issues, increase sales. Work special projects to analyze effects of promotions on company profits.

Warren, Mi

Manage Agile development project to lead a multi-vendor team to document and validate current as-is business processes for GM’s Computer Aided Facilities Management system. Identify gaps in the process and configure and deploy a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) product that replaces the legacy system. Responsible for all reporting including presentations to upper management. Followed GM’s System Delivery Process (SDP-21).

Manage Agile software development project to develop and deploy functional enhancements to the GM Portfolio Planning Database (GM3PD) application. Responsible for team of 10 offshore and onshore resources through three-month development cycles with result in reduction of rework by GM3PD users and downstream systems. Encompassing all facets of development cycle including requirements gathering, documentation, coding, testing and deployment. Completed three deployment cycles on time and within budget while following GM’s System Delivery Process.

Manage global projects with contract value up to $500K for software development and COTS deployments. Track project execution and provide status of project to EDS and GM management; manage issues and risks. Collect and report metrics to EDS PMO; analyze and take corrective action. Adhere to GM’s SDP-21 and EDS’s GAD QMS CMMI Level 4 process. Projects consistently delivered on time and within budget. Lead technical estimates for proposed contracts; prepare GM IT Service Request responses for contract scope pricing and customer acceptance.

Responsible for wide range of support tasks for the customer’s use of the Unigraphics TeamCenter Engineering package. Software installation and configuration, system administration duties, on-site customer interaction and interact with global support teams for data sharing issue resolution.Develop C++ modules using iMAN ITDK functions to process the conversion of GM Opel's TDMF/MVS data files into the GM/iMAN database. Develop scripts to perform part file attribute corrections and migration of parts from Corporate Graphic System to General Motors/Information Manager.

Team Leader for various Corporate Graphics System (CGS) projects, including development, maintenance, performance, testing. Project Lead for the design and development of EDS Unigraphics User Functions, incorporating key CGS functionality into Unigraphics. Set team objectives, assign tasks, and conduct performance appraisals.Software development role:- Assist in the design and development of Spartacus, a client/server application that processed data and functionality requests between two applications- Develop the Automated Data Organization feature for CGS, which automated a large portion of GM’s Data Creation Standards- Gather requirements and develop high level documents for various CGS packages, and for CATIA enhancements to improve Saturn’s Body Design process- Design and construction of numerous CGS operators based on the functionality of GM’s Fisher Graphics and CADANCE systems- Support of the GM customer onsite to resolve user and software issues

Bs, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science