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Golden, Colorado

• Manage a geographically-dispersed team of professionals that execute Manufacturing Systems projects across the USA.
• Develop requirements, ensure quality and customer satisfaction on system implementations.
• Program Manager for projects implementing GE Proficy based MES systems.
• Implemented data mining and modeling tools to improve brewing efficiency.
• Program Manager for installation/upgrade of Gebo “Efficiency Improvement Tool” (EIT) across all eight USA based breweries to optimize packaging.
• Project Manager for “Visual Performance Management” (VPM) system for packaging performance improvement. Design based upon concepts of World Class Manufacturing (WCM) methodology by CCI.

• Responsible for project management of Cornerstone shop floor, including R/F infrastructure, lift-truck computers, automated label applicators, hi-reliability networking, SAP Console, and WITS-SAP interface. Concurrent.
• Responsible for administration of project managers and SAP subject-matter experts.
• Responsible for overall project execution of all centralized MES projects.

• Conceptualized, designed and developed a "process data center" for a fortune 500 company that collects, stores, monitors, reports and alarms thousands of key manufacturing parameters from plants located throughout the.
• Developed formal and informal training programs in the areas of software engineering, software design, artificial neural networks, process modeling, and information flow topics such as MES.
• Project manager for a SAP implementation for a new bulk pharmaceutical facility in Taiwan. Virtually all SAP 4.0B functionality was implemented, including FI/CO, MM, PP/PI, HR, PM, QM, TMS and DMS. (FDA, cGMP facility)
• Initiated and implemented the use of a secure, Internet "project web site" for client/team communication.
• Developed large-scale data collection and data mining effort for manufacturing facility.
• Designed and implemented an on-line, adapting (self-learning) process optimization model that reduced the standard deviation of key process operating parameters in half. Nine more models were installed on similar.

• First professional hired in U.S. Responsible for all technical and project management related aspects of this expansion office. Recommended hiring and managed all technical staff.
• Managed multiple projects in the areas of shop floor information systems, pipeline SCADA systems, and industrial automation, including a project that earned the "Outstanding Contractor Award" from a Coastal Corporation.
• Responsible for 1/3 of the sales and marketing effort including "cold calls" and show "booth duty."
• "Unofficial" duties included everything necessary to get a new office running, including designing a 401K plan.

Master, Computer Information Systems

Activities and Societies: Leave of absence from the job.... Full time attendanceFocus on Project Management and Software Engineering

Bs, Electrical Engineering Technology

Activities and Societies: Triangle Fraternity Student Resident Assistant

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