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Advise and provide project coordination and management for ITS (Intelligent Transportation Services) inititives pertaining to local ART service and regional WMATA services.

Supported VP of Maintenance and Operations in increasing location operational efficiency and improving fiscal results.• Decreased early morning accident rate at Philadelphia Airport Shuttle from 3 in the preceding 6 months to 0 in the following 6 months saving $45K by designing a driver work schedule that eliminated over night split shifts and split days off while complying with contractual service agreement and Union CBA.• Decreased mileage, fuel consumption and maintenance costs of BWI Airport Shuttle 28% by developing driver work rosters that continued to exceed client’s hourly requirements while eliminating repetitive runs.• Simplified transition to web based payroll program by advising vendor in modification of program to meet First Transit’s business model.• Provided regional and corporate staff with ability to view current payroll obligations by facilitating transition to web-based payroll program and providing remote training/end-user support for the roll out of the program to 74 locations. Continued to monitor and improve coding standards.

Assisted VP of Information Technology in management of corporate infrastructure, developing new systems and modifying existing systems to increase efficiency.• Chosen as only US recipient of the FIS (First, PLC Information Services) Service Award out of worldwide IT employee pool for Outstanding Customer Service, as voted by peers and customers and supported by the management team. • Saved company $27K in direct payroll costs by developing a program that converted a 45-minute, error prone data entry process into a 5-minute, error free automated process. This saved 2,500 labor hours per year in gained efficiency.• Led project that increased bandwidth and availability of WAN to over 400 remote locations by coordinating actions involving software VPN (Virtual Private Network), modifications to Phoenix Data Center infrastructure, and conversion of firewall policies to new Internet provider.• Decreased manual processing on location level and fulfilled contractual requirement with DHL for service data by designing Access database reports

Developed software in VB 6, oversaw purchase of 1.5M in computers, supported location payroll programs, desktop computer support.

Bachelors Of Science, Computer Information Systems

Intensive evening and weekend program over an 11 month period. Final project deliverable was an order program written in VB 6 for a parts.

Bachelors Of Art, Biology And Psychology