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•Lead projects for new systems orders involving equipment and firmware/software development for light directed inventory picking and replenishment processes.•Perform Engineering analysis and specify system design.•Main contact for customer from receipt of order through installation and start up.•Authored operations procedures for production order processing, inventory control and project management .

•Established PC game center: 18 MS Windows XP-based, high-powered PCs designed for video games running on an Ethernet LAN with Windows Server 2003 server and DSL Internet connection.•Developed financial plan; operational plan and business model; perform all accounting/ payroll

•Created consulting partnership that provided business and technology services; developed and marketed customer sales lead data base; VAR for remote video management solutions.•Wrote and negotiated distributor agreements; developed marketing strategy and proposals.

•Directed IT efforts for 300-employee, non-profit organization with 12 metropolitan sites.•Responsible for projects, planning, budgeting, desktop computing resources, IT infrastructure, Rolm telecommunication resources, and all voice and data staff training/support activities.•Authored IT strategy/procedures for PC, e-mail, Internet use, and network topology standards.•Created emergency response/disaster recovery IT plan for business continuity.•Steered projects: Help Desk function implementation; and Call Center capacity expansion.

•Program manager for IT projects in a global, Swedish-based, company involved in Engineering and manufacturing of minerals processing and infrastructure building equipment and systems.•Email Network Implementation - 2,300 users (49 locations in western hemisphere).•Wide-Area Network Implementation - interconnected 32 western hemisphere locations in a wide-area network using AT&T frame relay technology.•Sales/Distribution System - Connected 14 companies to a PC-based, central ERP system.

Functional IS department head and served as project manager for IS projects as highlighted below:•Word Processing Consolidation – 4-member team; 6 discrete systems replaced with one central system; doubled capacity and decreased expenses.•Productivity Improvement – 6-member team; reduced drawing costs and drawing lead-time with a $350,000 average annual savings.•ERP Implementation – 12-member team; procured and implemented JD Edwards ERP system, including IBM AS/400 supporting platform.•Telecomm Implementation – 7-member team; evaluated telecommunication needs, procured, implemented and then administered a Rolm PBX system.•CAE System Implementation – 9-member team; combined CAD system and Engineering system into a central CAE system.•Served as staff engineer on product design and business process reengineering projects.

M.S.M.E., Systems Engineering

B.S.M.E., Mechanical Engineering