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Willowbrook, Il, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Technical project manager responsible for managing multiple simultaneous projects that deliver end-to-end solutions involving cross-functional teams across the organization. Manage all programs to an allocated budget and timeline to meet the agreed to scope. Report status to senior leadership. Evaluate multiple vendors through a RFP process to select the best possible solution that meets the requirements. Request engineering resources in a matrix environment to deliver on commitments. Conduct process improvement and lessons learned activities.

Chicago, Il, Us

Led innovation activities for organization to directly support the CTO ’s innovation framework (Discover and Define)• Received 2012 Innovation Champion of Year award by CTO for adopting 5 ideas into product, such as “Base Site RF Scanner”: Repurposing Base Radio into RF scanner to measure unwanted interfering signals at cell towers, received financial awards.• Administered 3rd party innovation tool to manage ideas, conducting directed innovation sessions, reaching 50% participation levels.• Evaluated tech start-up companies for possible venture capital investment, scrutinizing roadmap, vision, and product viability.• Invented Push-to-Talk (PTT) performance measurement system, using existing equipment, characterizing Motorola and competing PTT products employing non-intrusive methods.• Utilized sound-proof chambers and tools for measuring PESQ and audio levels for all PTT products, implementing PTT Audio Quality laboratory.• Designed custom Innovation t-shirt, commemorating 20-years of innovation and boosting morale.

Chicago, Il, Us

Performed and reported on project related activities for team of 10-12 local and global engineers to develop wireless base-station software features. Created project schedules, management plans, metrics, risk assessments, test plans, continuous improvement actions, and customer documentation. (Deliver)• Delivered the first-ever nationwide cellular Push-to-Talk network for Nextel, later managed by Sprint• Managed all issues and communicated status to upper management, exposing risks earlier and reducing escaped defects, lowering cost of poor quality.• Led Process Improvement through phase analysis metrics and project post-mortem exercise with team, increasing defect-phase containment.• Conducted innovation session with team for developing 12 new feature candidates, presenting to customer executives, resulted in $4.95M contract to deliver iDEN network performance improvements.• Facilitated customer support on field issues, driving team to root-cause and resolution, reducing down-time, received Customer Satisfaction Award• Led customer training sessions on new software features, delighting customers.• Managed on-site software and hardware deployments to customer test lab, acceptance testing and FOA, guaranteeing contract-milestones signoff and payment.• Contributed as systems engineer, defining new features, documenting system requirements and architecture documents for project teams, using waterfall or Agile methods.

Chicago, Il, Us

Owner of the software process and quality for the organization and responsible for executing, monitoring, and improving the process• Achieved CMM SEI Level 5 certification • Conducted CMM review of other organizations• Enforced Formal Technical Review (FTR) process• Administered Root Cause Analysis sessions• Analyzed project metrics with control limits to indentify violations• Chaired Process Improvement Committee (PIC) to evaluate product and process improvement ideas from phase analysis and project post-mortems

Falls Church, Va, Us

TRW is a systems integrator for Department of Defense projects, in the Washington DC area. Member of Technical Staff II:- Software engineer supporting a contract with the U.S. Army, to deliver a command, control, communications (C3) system- Performed SCM builds/testing/product tape generation to deliver software products to Army installation sites- Participated in formal technical review processes within the team and with the customer- Supported Quality Management team by reporting metrics and process compliance- Required Secret clearance