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Manage 12-person team of global program managers, IT leads of Software Engineering and QA.Relationship manager to Manufacturing, Mfg Eng, R&D, Quality & Reliability.Deliver mission-critical software solutions to enable retooling of global manufacturing for new product & process.Enabling business goals of driving down: product cost, support cost and R&D.

• Aligned $6MM Portfolio of Capital Projects with Corporate Strategic Initiatives
• MIS Relationship Manager to E-Staff (CIO, CTO, SVP of Global Ops)
• Managing team of 5 Solution Analysts & Project Managers as direct reports

• As MES Operations Change Manager & Problem Investigation (PBI) Coordinator: o Increased Change Request (CR) Throughput 100% by coordinating global team, o Established Service Level Agreements and led team to exceed.
• As Project Manager:o Eliminated #1 Customer Complaint: Achieved Zero complaints within 2 quarters, through cross-functional prevention projects delivered on aggressive timeline.o Led CTQ Finished Goods Validations for.
• As Leader for Multifunctional Operations Teams:o Reduced New Part Introduction time by 50%: engaging multidiscipline team across the enterprise to streamline workflow.o Coordinated Investigations to Assess and Handle.
• As MES Supervisor:o Strengthened high-performance customer-focused team by coaching, mentoring and culturally integrating 4 Analysts & 2 interns.

Burlington, MA, US

• Led 20-person teams across the organization as program & project mgr for plant mgr. Secured sponsorship of directors for multiple program phases, and supported programs through VP approval.
• Tapped as principal SME consultant on systems reliability & support strategy for business continuity planning on new $40MM plant expansion.
• Reduced system failure downtime 75%, thus adding 5% effective site capacity, while reducing support resources by 85% and TCO by 60%.
• Successfully migrated sites off custom MES and visualization systems onto standard systems.
• Slashed cost and timeline for a vendor new product from $603K to $230K and from 18 to 8 mos through value engineering & Product Mgt methods.
• Championed and standardized on innovative high-reliability OPC system interface architecture: Invited to present success story as a case study at industry conference.

Burlington, MA, US

• Lead site-critical systems migration strategy, deployment and support.
• Chartered by QC Mgr of $1.3B Division to convey vision of product quality visualization across supply chain as master Powerpoint diagrammer and presenter.
• Implement high-availability mission-critical systems on WTS platform.
• Site-Critical Support: Designed & implemented 7x24 local/remote site support strategy which dramatically surpassed baseline reliability metrics of MTBF, guaranteed response times & recovery.
• Developed & presented project business cases & ROIs for mgt approval, & dashboards to provide continuous visibility of status. Translated Voice of Customer to IS vision & functional rqmts.
• Master documenter & trainer of cross-functional teams.

Burlington, MA, US

• Project Mgr for Software analysis, design, development and documentation for multiple HMI, MES & mfg applications.
• Integrated multiple site process supervisory systems with reporting, corporate MES apps, & SQL DBs.
• Achieved revolutionary leap in risk reduction, disaster prevention & recovery.
• Managed Y2K contingency planning process.
• Mission-critical infrastructure: Spearheaded retirement of multiple “burning platform” systems to avert catastrophic business impact.
• Hardware & software installation: Built servers and PCs, installed, configured, administered & supported distributed SQL DB servers & multiple client/server applications, setup server-to-server backbone.

President: Consulting Mfg Engineer/Project Mgr.Applied physical science knowledge and mechanical engineering background to lay out process equipment for an array of 3M Company mfg facilities, working with a range of individuals and other consulting firms to solve site challenges with: High-pressure piping, pumps, tanks, fans, stacks, unloading, support.

Burlington, MA, US

• Extreme Material Handling, Process Improvement & Machine Design
• Solved “unsolvable” challenges of extreme material handling: high viscosity resins, powders, temp. sensitive processes.
• Designed innovative machines (qualifying for Record of Invention): product recovery without breaking line, recessless inline viscometer, recessless coating flow applicator still used in multiple plants.
• Completed projects on time through planning and management, detailed cost estimating & tracking.
• Custom fabrication design, CAD, order, layout, supervise install and testing of mfg and material handling systems.
• Successfully tackled: High pressure pumping, auto viscosity measurement and control, process temperature control, effluent pH control, product recovery systems, web handling, process piping, vessels and mix tanks.

Managed project from requirements definition through site delivery to US Govt agency (NIST) of advanced surface analysis nanoprobe.Technical instructor, awarded for outstanding contributions to Continuous Quality Improvement Education. Chair of Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools regional users' group.

built & supervised 9-person team integrating systems on aggressive timeline to deliver world's first demo of live weather processing workstation at a world conference. Established distributed software architecture for large scale app: mainframe, workstations & PCs,Led industry search and selection of hardware and software platforms for high-performance.

Lead designer and integration team leader for a PC-based image processing workstation product.

Bachelor Of Arts, Computer Studies, Physics

Certificate Of Project Management, Programming Project Management