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Redmond, Washington, Us

Provided management and consulting services for a wide range of information system technology projects. Assisted companies of all sizes with strategic planning, best practices, project management within all phases of system development. Technical expertise includes a wide range of applications, infrastructure and networks.Performed initial scoping of fifteen companies compliance to Sarbanes-Oxley within their Information Technology departments. Performed analysis of in-scope systems and identified early on the areas of concern for compliance to Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley for IT organizations.Founded and managed an Internet Hosting business. Responsible for the design and project management for a large collection of Intranet/Internet sites across a wide range of industries, hardware platforms and software development tools. Support both Microsoft Windows (IIS, SQL Server, ASP, ASP.NET) and Linux (Apache, mySQL, PHP) infrastructure technologies.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Founded and managed a real estate brokerage business for the residential market place. Business has received customer service rewards and continues to benefit home buyers and sellers in the Pacific Northwest.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Founded an accounting, tax, and bookkeeping outsourcing business for small and mid-sized companies operating in a SAAS environment. Business assisted clients in setting, maintaining, and providing accounting support in a secure and remotely accessible environment.

London, Gb

Involved with various IT related implementation projects dealing with strategic planning, design, development and implementation of mission critical systems for Fortune 500 companies. Projects included the management of the design, development and implementation of a security and accounting reconciliation system in the transportation industry, coordinated the operation of a cost accounting pilot for a Contract Inventory Accounting module, and the development of a multi user litigation support system for one of the largest law firms in Texas. Developed a long range information system plan for one of the world's largest engineering and construction firms. Activities included analyzing existing technologies for firm standards regarding hardware, local area networks, relational data bases, user interface management systems, and application programming tools. Developed technical architecture of various vendors including and extensive analysis of existing applications and plans for future development efforts were conducted.Conducted analysis of seven manufacturer's control of material from receipt to shipment of finished goods. Typically reviewed all control points and operational aspects of the process and made recommendations on how to improve data accuracy and operational efficiency.Responsible for various technical reviews, evaluations and implementation assistance relating to office technologies such as image processing, video teleconferencing and local area networks. Wrote a series of technology reports which were distributed to a Big 6 Accounting Firm's clients. Monthly issues included local area networks, video teleconferencing, retail point of sale, micro computer accounting, law firm systems and artificial intelligence.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Managed the design, development and implementation of a Just In Time inventory system with bar code interfaces. The system allowed the manufacturer to change the existing operational methodology allowing a 40% reduction in manufacturing cycle time through the shop. Responsibilities included detailed design, coordination of all development, system testing, acceptance testing, user training and procedures documentation.Assisted in the development of strategic plans for the implementation of an award winning Computer Integrated Manufacturing facility for a $1.5 billion defense contractor. Analysis included computer simulations to aid the design of an automated material distribution system, warehouse conveyors, robotic cells and PWB shop layouts. In addition, capacity specifications for a multi site communication network and a market study of CAE/CAD/CAM tools for mechanical, electrical and software engineering were developed. Developed plans for the implementation of CAE/CAD/CAM tools throughout a multi-site corporation. Addressed evaluation of solid modeling, drafting and analysis tools, networking of workstations and configuration management of all data from conceptual design through manufacturing. Primary emphasis dealt with mechanical, electrical and software engineering tools along with their integration requirements between the disciplines.

Bs Ie, Industrial Engineering

Mba Mis, Management Information Systems

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