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Denver, Co, Us

Denver, Co, Us

United States

Teach graduate and undergraduate students online for the MBA program.Develop curriculum for graduate and undergraduate courses.Courses taught: 1. Enterprise Agile Management 2. Business Analysis

United States

• Manage risk and resolves issues that affect release scope, schedule, and quality• Communicate all key project plans, commitments, and changes including requirements, QA plans, schedule, and scope changes• Weekly Release Reporting• Maintained the release schedule for all core services and ensure alignment across key partners and vendors.• Produced Deployment, Run Books and Implementation Plans

Westminster, Co

I started helping family and friends put together business plans and after a decade some are still running profitably after a decade. Let me help you put together a plan or help you grow beyond the business that is more like a job you cannot be fired from. Get the passion back in your business!Leading owners of small business to achieve the strategic company goals for over 10 years. Quality minded, customer focused, and focused on delivering the product or service to… Show more I started helping family and friends put together business plans and after a decade some are still running profitably after a decade. Let me help you put together a plan or help you grow beyond the business that is more like a job you cannot be fired from. Get the passion back in your business!Leading owners of small business to achieve the strategic company goals for over 10 years. Quality minded, customer focused, and focused on delivering the product or service to stakeholders. I excel at learning the business, the product, and the customer to achieve a synthesis of the three. Creating revenue-generating products that over deliver in expectation, easy for customers to use, and is the lowest possible cost to produce. Show less

Superior, Co

(Merged with Echostar in 2016)Selected to manage the daily work execution of 6 teams encompassing 45 developers and 10 quality personnel for the full stack consumer video streaming website and mobile applications. Ensuring the integrity and smooth running of the video streaming website program. Defined the various stages of the program, ensuring that it was in line with the overall vision of a company and organization. I was also involved in the conceptual planning and design of the new… Show more (Merged with Echostar in 2016)Selected to manage the daily work execution of 6 teams encompassing 45 developers and 10 quality personnel for the full stack consumer video streaming website and mobile applications. Ensuring the integrity and smooth running of the video streaming website program. Defined the various stages of the program, ensuring that it was in line with the overall vision of a company and organization. I was also involved in the conceptual planning and design of the new UI/UX. Proactively monitoring its execution and stepping in to resolve any issues or difficulties that arose. Controlled risks, hired new personnel, contracted extra staff, and ensured that project costs stayed within the agreed budget. Supplied regular reports to the director, executives, board members, and stakeholders. Initiated processes that boosted efficiency or plugged gaps harming the program.• Offshored half the workload to Ukraine within 2 months for development cost savings of 28%.• Reduced testing time from 2 weeks to eighteen hours by automating the CI processes. • Created new process for idea to market schedule of 45-days for saving over $500K annually.• Saved $400K by looking at recurring expenditures and stopping activities with low ROI.• Increased throughput by 39% by training and mentoring product owners in personnel and project management skills.• Trained, mentored, and guided team members resulting in the promotion of two quality engineers to software development, one to database administration, and four to management within 4 years. Show less

Englewood, Co

Moved to sister company to manage the test program for the Video streaming full stack website and mobile application testing for DISH Network. Created an Agile development environment like that used by development to handle the speed and integration between teams. Implemented test reporting changes to assure fast and accurate data that served management decision making. Additionally, tasked with coordinating set-top-box software releases across multiple systems, teams, and platforms. Delivered… Show more Moved to sister company to manage the test program for the Video streaming full stack website and mobile application testing for DISH Network. Created an Agile development environment like that used by development to handle the speed and integration between teams. Implemented test reporting changes to assure fast and accurate data that served management decision making. Additionally, tasked with coordinating set-top-box software releases across multiple systems, teams, and platforms. Delivered on multiple complex software development programs on time and on budget. Per PMI protocols created project plans, tracked progress, executed critical path analysis, kept project schedules from proposal to completion, and supplied prompt reports to upper management. Communicating risks, updates, and meeting minutes and consistently recognized for showing excellent communication, collaboration, and influence skills. • Completed 5 software development projects in one year on time, on budget, and with high quality.• Introduced Agile Scrum methods to quality engineering teams that created test automation and produced results within 30 days.• Improved test coverage by over 30% by converting procedural testing to Agile “user test cases” based on requirements.• Successfully deployed 22 releases, in a single year, of a streaming video website on time and without incident.• Reduced "hotfixes" by over 35% in the first year by using a risk-based reporting system for management.• Successfully negotiated, managed, and integrated into production an outsourced test development project from an overseas vendor. Show less

Englewood, Co

Line manager reporting to Director of Engineering for the failure analysis department of DISH. Analyzed hardware that included receivers, accessories and supporting equipment for DISH from concept development, deployment, to service returns. Subject matter expert on hardware/software functionality, operation, system architecture, integration, and field performance analysis. Closely interacted with equipment vendors to understand the function of current and planned equipment and gave performance… Show more Line manager reporting to Director of Engineering for the failure analysis department of DISH. Analyzed hardware that included receivers, accessories and supporting equipment for DISH from concept development, deployment, to service returns. Subject matter expert on hardware/software functionality, operation, system architecture, integration, and field performance analysis. Closely interacted with equipment vendors to understand the function of current and planned equipment and gave performance analysis data weekly. Served as the technical resource for all other divisions within DISH such as R&D, legal, marketing, sales, customer service, and field technicians.• Developed technical hardware testing parameters for 25 existing receivers and 6 new product releases encompassing satellite receivers and broadband internet to Placeshifting technology.• Improved department metrics by over 180% in three years by training, mentoring and establishing processes. • Saved the company over $2.3 Million in retest annually using Sixth Sigma methods.• Saved $125K by not filling two vacant positions for over a year.• Saved $5M by testing company equipment and finding customer damage claims to be unfounded.• Promoted two directs to test platform development with coaching and professional mentoring. Show less

Broomfield, Co

Performed calculations, wrote specifications, prepared bids, reviewed equipment proposals and evaluated selected equipment. Created drawings such as electrical, piping and instrumentation, physical layouts and other drawings used in design and construction. Scheduled, prepared, pre-planned and conducted resource forecasting for engineering and other technical activities relating to the project. Also, in charge of performance management of vendors. Assured the accuracy of financial forecasts… Show more Performed calculations, wrote specifications, prepared bids, reviewed equipment proposals and evaluated selected equipment. Created drawings such as electrical, piping and instrumentation, physical layouts and other drawings used in design and construction. Scheduled, prepared, pre-planned and conducted resource forecasting for engineering and other technical activities relating to the project. Also, in charge of performance management of vendors. Assured the accuracy of financial forecasts, which tied-in to project schedules. Managed project team resources that provided me with my initial project training and developed extensive project management experience and expertise. Coordinated activities with project managers to assure that the requirements of the project were satisfied. Maintained awareness of details of the project and recognized when technical problems were developing in the various disciplines, electrical, mechanical, structural, and one occasion civil and initiating proper corrective actions. Traveled up to 75% of the time both nationally and internationally.• Completed 5-capital investment projects in a year totaling $140M.• Regained 5 weeks of a 6-week schedule slip by making a new project schedule with international contractors. • Recovered $180K by performing a line by line audit of the previous year’s project purchases and finding errors in billing.• Developed new manufacturing 'theory of operation' for a production line that lowered the accordion effect and stops in machinery by 12%, increasing production output from 3,000 cans/minute to 5,000 with no added investments in machinery. Show less

Maintained the CH-47D "Chinook" helicopter. Performed all in flight duties and was a recognized part of the flight crew. Managed all loads, internal and external, personnel, and other crew members.

Mba, Project Management And Finance, 3.46

• Completed Coursework while working full time as an Engineering Manager. • Completed 132 Project over 100 man hours each, on time, scope.

Bachelor Of Applied Science, Electronic Engineering Technology

• Completed Coursework while working full time as an electronics technician. • Built and maintained 25 prototype BioTechnical devices.