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Greater Seattle Area

1. Specific skills include Project Manager for large-scale projects, characterized by massive challenges, competing and changing priorities, and the need to prevent problems from beginning to end. 2. Business consulting, coaching, finding solutions, systems thinking, project definition and management, database design, application design and development, writing and teaching are key strengths. 3. Programmer at Washington Mutual Savings Loan. Responsible for Mortgage systems for 3 Savings & Loan Banks.4. System Programmer Airborne Freight. Responsible for accounting systems.5. QA Manager for product development of Advanced Revelation. A PICK System database system predating SQL.6. Consultant & System Developer. William Mercer Inc. Responsible for designing, programming, implementing systems to perform HR & Pension related tasks.7. Created first PC Division within the company. Consulted with many Fortune 500 clients concerning Human Resource, Qualified and Unqualified Pension systems.8. Consulted, Designed and Developed a University Physical Plant System. Utah State University. Later sold to other Universities and modified for other applications.9. Utah State University Physical Plant assigned me to transform USU operations from a hodge-podge of unrelated ad hoc programs, spreadsheets, and individually managed departments to a unified organization-wide design, including more than 10 major departments. The objective was to ensure finances, labor and materials were being managed according to upper management’s unified plans & policies. Required proper accounting for 3 major funding sources and how those resources were allocated according to their legal & policy requirements which was nearly impossible until this project was complete.

Greater Seattle Area

10. Wrote an accounting system that fed into the main University system. Payroll data collection, customer response/repair ticket system, Inventory management including project allocation & control, fixed assets and a preventative maintenance system, purchasing, vendor tracking/management, grounds maintenance and control, building management and PM system to create a comprehensive system that achieved all goals.11. Result was optimized data collection was easily integrated into the financial model and insights were available on any employee, building, task, project, or sector at all levels allowing summaries of costs, resources and other allocations. This system handled millions of dollars of resources and saved USU incredible amounts of labor, inventory and other resources. 12. Invited to join the University physical plant team at a symposium of Universities from across the country, USU was the keynote presenter, and the system I had designed and developed for them, along with some of the advanced ideas & principles we had incorporated into the system became the basis of their presentation.13. Increased staff to 10 professionals during the USU project. 14. Consulting, System Development Cargo Allocation System. Sunmar Shipping.15. Consulted, Designed and Developed comprehensive oil pipeline management system, including accounting, controlling the SCADA inputs, managing customer orders and receipts. Parts of this system were implemented throughout the BP oil transportation system.16. Later a version of the oil pipeline management system I created was sold and modified for the Columbian Oil Ministry as part of their transformation from a state-controlled to a market driven oil transportation system.

Greater Seattle Area

27. Created a Secondary Market Inventory management, and Trading tool, that could handle $3-$5M in inventory, tracking it by serial number, tracking the market and marketing of the product, supporting operations w standard inventory processes, while managing the complexity of individual pieces of inventory having various values based upon condition, market conditions & availability.

Greater Seattle Area

17. Many other clients and projects including hospitals, medical equipment providers, home health care, full accounting systems, small business job control, secondary market inventory systems, designing, consulting with small business web development and marketing, sales support CMS systems (SalesForce) and more.18. Self-motivated & self-taught mastering complex technical and workflow processes to improve delivery systems. 19. Assess project needs; identify technical requirements needed by programmers to develop applications to provide solutions for end users.20. Health Care experience includes: Insurance claims & interface with physician’s, Home Health Care, HMO, Children’s Hospital, major records collection and management & as part of Mercer, consulted & implemented systems to manage health care plans.21. Human Resources: Implemented HR systems that later were taken over by much larger systems such as PeopleSoft. 22. Finance / Accounting: Wrote a full accounting system including GL, AR, AP, Inventory, Employee management/payroll interface. Two large companies used the system to interface with their mainframe systems. Objective was to push information and data functions to the desktop and out of the mainframe world. Fixed asset management & major construction project accounting.23. Oil Transportation system I developed was later implemented in Columbia. An international project requiring an implementation of a language translation on screen depending on user parameters. The system was used by the Oil Ministry as a way to change their basic business practice from a “Command” system where the government told the various oil shippers what they were going to get to a “Demand” system, where the primary users & customers of the pipeline system in Columbia ordered what they needed.

Greater Seattle Area

24. Employee & Pension Systems, developed systems to collect the relevant data from client companies and develop the full range of products from retirement planning, 401k management, and employee compensation packages. Mergers & Acquisitions & Company spin offs had a built-in challenge. A major part of managing the process of large companies purchasing other companies or spinning off divisions is the employee benefit packages. These are complex, unique, projects that require a great deal of legal, actuarial, financial planning & employee tracking. I wrote many systems that organized all this data and made it available in useful form that facilitated these M&A events. Using these systems, many millions of $$ and many months of time was saved or better used.25. Construction includes; General Construction Seattle. The main project was developing a complex system to manage all the equipment in terms of location, preventive maintenance, project assignment, planning future availability, skills and certifications required to operate and the employees who were authorized for equipment that required these certifications. 26. Shipping Transportation Highlights, specifically worked on Alaska Fishing boats to manage the project of managing the ships both maintenance of the boats coming in from months of fishing, and the stores, supplies needed to outfit for the next outing, worked with Sunmar Shipping to design a system managing the containers. A complex system considering weight, loading order, ownership, unloading at ports of call and equipment & personnel needed to be available to unload at each and worked with MacMillan Piper to handle the complex problem of tracking containers after being offloaded from the ship, to a holding place where the container was matched to the inventory content, ownership, next location destination payload, & how to get it there in the most efficient way.

Renton, Washington

Designed and programmed computer systems.1. Manage the orders and distribution of finished products through the pipeline. 2. Interfaces with the Scada Control system3. Manage the entire customer accounting & billing.Business and Technical Management Consulting.1. Design and implement policies. Some were adopted by BP USA pipeline systems. 2. Assist with legal issues for 2 years. Especially data analysis and technical requirements. 3. Initiated implimentation of the OSISoft PI Data Collection system. 4. Assist Operations in developing training & implementation of mandated training systems.

Logan, Utah

Designed and implemented a comprehensive Physical Plant Management System. The system integrated the entire Physical Plant Operation providing every person working in the Physical Plant department the information needed to perform their jobs. The system was designed to manage every aspect of the Physical Plant including theFinancial, Employee, Inventory, Special Projects, Building Management, Preventive Maintenance System, Fixed Assets, Customer Ticket Management, Vehicles, and Purchasing, in addition to a number of smaller departments like Key Management. The system was implemented in a PC version of the Pick Database System. It was used for 14 years before being updated to an Oracle data base system.

Greater Seattle Area

The Seattle office of Mercer was a leader in technical innovations for their clients. Eventually, the effort was picked up and implemented as a company wide initiative. I worked as a consultant for 2 years. As an employee for 3 years followed by another 2 years as a consultant. In this position I worked with many of the top companies in the Fortune 500, often working directly with upper management at the CIO, CFO, HR and occasionally the CEO level. These were the days when sophisticated database systems were becoming viable on the PC platform. To implement the complex Human Resource systems Mercer was offering to its clients it required collaboration between the client's HR department, the client's Information Services for data and Mercer. These systems were implemented in a number of large companies. (Details on request)Designed & Implemented a Pension calculation system that was installed on customer computers. This was a new innovation at the time, moving the task of calculating benefits to the company HR department. Designed & implemented a 401k system. This system collected all relevant data via payroll records and provided up to date reporting and on-demand valuation statements. This required developing data exchange interfaces working with the client IS department that would be accurate and easy to use by non technical staff.Designed and developed interfaces to ADP payroll systems. Designed a complete Accounting system. This was before Quickbooks or any other system was available on the PC platform. Including GL, AR, AP, Inventory, Personal systems, skills database, Time Collection systems used by employees that fed the ADP payroll system. Consulted and implemented ad hoc HR and Payroll department information requests.

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