GARY CROW

10795 Woodbine St, #204
Los Angeles, CA  90034

Phone: (310) 202-0792

E-Mail: gary1@gary-crow.com
Web Site: http://gary-crow.com/

CAREER FOCUS
Gary’s focus is to coordinate the initiation, development, and / or implementation of computerized business systems as a project manager, or define the needs and structure of projects as a business systems analyst. 
PROFESSIONAL OVERVIEW
Project Manager Role
•	Planned projects defining goals, schedule, scope / deliverables, and budget with values to $4 million 
•	Coordinated cross-functional teams up to a size of 15 in acquiring software and hardware resources, monitoring status, and controlling project changes 
•	Coordinated outside vendors and contracts 
•	Project experience controlling analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation phases	Business Systems Analyst Role
•	Defined functional and technical requirements, modeled business processes while applying structured and object-oriented analytic techniques
•	Created system proposals, feasibility / alternative analyses with software and hardware selections, and performance and transaction analyses
•	Applied formal methods such as Rational Unified Process over full System Development Lifecycle	
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Project Lead / Analyst                                                                                       Applicast, 2001-2002
Defined customer business needs and produced systems requirements documents with respect to marketing and material management applications for an Internet services company.                                Contract Work
Project Lead                                                                                                            PlanB, 2000-2001
Coordinated an effort to automate control of warehouse logistics processes for a marketing services company.  This entailed defining business requirements, the survey of off-the-shelf third party solutions, and monitoring the implementation of a systems solution by a vendor / service provider.                Contract Work
Project Manager                                                                                               Webvision, 1999-2000
Supervised construction of Internet web sites for automobile retailing, electronics distribution, and a business products exchange for an e-commerce and site hosting company. Project values were in excess of $4 million.  Forbes magazine designated an automobile exchange Gary coordinated a "Best of the Web".  In addition, application analysts were supervised in pre-sales assessments of business and technical resources required for projects in customer proposals, and in post-contract business and system analysis processes.

Coordinated software engineers in development and integrating vendors products and services, and network engineers in providing the underlying server and network LAN / WAN infrastructure.  Customized application development involved Java, SQL, XML, WebLogic / Websphere, DB2, Oracle; and integrating packaged software such as Great Plains, Webtrends, and credit card payment under Solaris, AIX, and Windows NT environments.  Defined a bank’s requirements for intranet-oriented portal software.                 Contract Work                                                                                 
Project Manager / Systems Engineer                                                      First American, 1997-1999
Coordinated portions of development on systems applications that comprised in excess of 50% of company revenues, providing real estate, legal, and financial data to customers.  Responsible for software, server, and network hardware acquisition.  Defined management and customer requirements, assessed technology alternatives, and produced project plans during development. 

The systems have three-tier client / server architectures with information from a 20+ Terabyte digital image data warehouse delivered to customers over a nation-wide extranet and the Internet.  Software technology includes Java, C++, CORBA, and Oracle.                                                                                 Contract Work
Lead Systems Analyst                                                                                                 Experian, 1997
Defined requirements and design for bank credit applications to reduce fulfillment time by 2/3 for client’s custom data needs.  Three-level client/server technology was used in conjunction with back-end IBM mainframe legacy applications.                                                                                                 Contract Work
Project Coordinator / Systems Engineer                                             Lockheed Martin, 1996-1997
Defined high-level design of systems that controlled $1+ billion toll road constructed in Orange County, CA.  Communicated three-tier distributed system architecture to government agency, consultants, software engineers, and operations management.  Reviewed systems implementation to comply with RFP and plans.  Applications included financial management, equipment maintenance, customer service, ticketing, and traffic and systems management.                                                                                             Contract Work
Project Leader / Analyst                                             Computer Sciences Corporation, 1994-1995
Determined management needs with respect to personnel and document management / mailing applications.  Defined development plans, including tasks, budgets, and client / server system designs.  Supervised programmers in implementing systems.                                                                 Contract Work

Gary was also associated with Hughes Electronics and Delphi Systems as a project manager / leader, business systems analyst, and software developer. 

EDUCATION & AFFILIATIONS 

•	MBA, Finance / Marketing, California State University
•	BA, Economics, University of California Los Angeles 
•	CDP Systems Certification, ICCP
•	Project Management Institute, Member
•	30+ Professional Management & Systems Development Courses

INDUSTRY & PROCESS EXPOSURE
•	Internet / E-Commerce	•	Real Estate Services	•	Electronics 	
•	Banking / Insurance Services	•	Automobile Distribution	•	Transportation	
•	Warehouse / Logistics	•	Marketing / Sales Services 	•	Legal Services	
•	Accounting / Finance	•	Human Resources	•	Digital Imaging	
•	Entertainment / Distribution 	•	Utilities Services	•	Document Management	
SOFTWARE EXPOSURE
•	Microsoft Project	•	Windows 2000	•	Microsoft Visio	•	Adobe GoLive	
•	Primavera Project Planner	•	UNIX	•	Microsoft Excel	•	Adobe Illustrator	
•	Rational RequisitePro	•	IBM OS/390	•	Microsoft Access	•	Adobe Photoshop	
•	Rational Rose	•	IBM VM/CMS	•	Microsoft Powerpoint		
•	Rational ClearQuest	•	Empirix e-Test Suite 	•	Microsoft Word		
•	Embarcadero ER/Studio	•	Crystal Reports	•	SQL		
PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS
•	Well able to deal with either high-level business issues or technical details 	•	Creative, analytic problem solver that views issues from multiple angles 	
•	Can mesh well within team-oriented or independent work environments 	•	Customer service-oriented 	
•	Active explorer of new alternatives and promoter of experimentation	•	Strong belief in value of on-going staff training, education, and mentoring	
CURRENT COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP
Toastmasters:	Served in several officer roles in organization dedicated to improving public communications and leadership skills
Sierra Club:	Continuing leader of organized outdoor events / trips