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and quality oriented professional with over 19 years of experience in
Information Technology including technical
management, application development,
e-business infrastructure and security. Technical, as well as
technical consulting experience in many industries, including
aerospace and defense, e-commerce, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, healthcare,
government and corporate enterprise initiatives. Experienced working in highly volatile environments demonstrating
key competencies of strategic leadership,
adaptability, forward thinking and business
innovation. Efforts have focused on
improving the quality of the products and services delivered, with regard to
the cost of implementation and the impact on the execution of World-Class
principles.
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Software Development
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Unified Modeling
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Rational Unified
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Six-Sigma |
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Project Management |
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Risk Management |
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Total Quality
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Pratt & Whitney, United Technologies
Corporation, CT 4/01 – Present
Principal
Consultant / IT, Shop Floor Execution 9/03 – Present
Responsible for customer support and portfolio management
of an outsourced applications development and maintenance organization. Primary tasks include budget planning and
monitoring for $2M+ in new development and $8M+ in production support;
coordination of user requirements, demand management and engagement of IT
business functions including Enterprise Architecture, IT Security, Quality
Assurance and IT Compliance, Financial and Procurement.
Achievements
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Principle architect of the reengineering of the IT Software Development
Life-Cycle based on ISO/IEC 12207 Software Life-Cycle Processes and Rational
Unified Process (RUP) including definition of standard procedures.
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Technical Management of the integration the SAP R/3 Production Planning
and Execution implementation with iBASEt Solumina Shop Floor Execution and
Quality Management system using SeeBeyond ICAN 5.0 EAI software tools.
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Managed the requirements to upgrade PCs running Windows NT 4.0 to the
latest Windows 2000 operating system to mitigate security concerns in the
manufacturing environment.
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Managed the replacement of an obsolete Direct Numerical Control (DNC)
system that is responsible for the communication link between 800+ CNC/NC
machine tools with the central library management system.
Principal
Consultant / IT, e-Business Program 4/01
– 9/03
Responsible for providing technical management and
direction for solution providers of e-Business projects. Primary tasks include management and
coordination of solution development teams including internal IT staff,
outsourcing service providers and contract personnel; worked with internal and
external customers to understand business requirements and provide strategic
planning and coordination of technical infrastructure projects.
Achievements
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Implementation of the Plumtree Portal solution for the launch of the JSF
Enterprise Network (JEN) as a collaboration platform for Pratt & Whitney
and its partners on the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program.
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Provided coordination between corporate infrastructure team, software
development provider, internal architecture team and e-Business infrastructure
team in the deployment and continuous support of a Documentum based solution
for data exchange between partners on the JSF Program.
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Evaluated and implemented an automated load testing tool for the
production qualification of web based e-Business solutions. Use to identify
performance constraints and eventually demonstrated that a key strategic
project was capable of exceeding load requirements prior to production
deployment.
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Responsible for the development of an Information Assurance Plan for the
protection of proprietary information and protection under US International
Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR).
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Responsible for the continuous oversight of the Help Desk and Production
Support function and overall quality assurance for the JSF Enterprise Network
(JEN). Coordinate change management activities of corporate and business unit
IT organization as they impact the JSF Enterprise Network (JEN).
Command
Systems, Inc., Farmington, CT 6/98-4/01
Practice
Manager / Professional Services, e-Business
11/99 – 4/01
Project
Manager / Professional Services 6/98 – 11/99
Responsible for leading small application development
teams in the delivery of Internet-based solutions to many external clients and
internal customers. Primary tasks including establishing technical and
marketing direction for the Web Technology practice, partnering with sales team
in the preparation and presentation of solution proposals, cost, schedule and
quality management for consulting projects and technical development and
mentoring of development staff.
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Involved with the management team in the establishment of the technical
direction for Internet technology and client/server projects, including the
development of technical, management and cost proposals for potential client
projects.
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Working closely with the Sales Organization, developed and presented
several winning proposals for potential and existing clients suggesting
innovative and technical sound solutions using Internet.
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Managed and delivered Internet-based Physician Referral System for
private Health Maintenance Organization in 4 months. Implemented using Windows
DNA architecture on Windows 2000 using Rational Rose, Visual Basic and Visual
InterDev, custom COM+ components and SQL Server 7.0.
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Managed and delivered a Lobbyist Information Management System for the
Connecticut State Ethics Commission to comply with state regulations to allow
online registration of lobbyists and reporting of financial statements with the
state. Technologies used include Visual InterDev, Active Server Pages,
Microsoft ODBC, IBM Universal Database (UDB) and CyberCash CashRegister.
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Managed the cost, schedule and technical architecture for many Intranet
application projects for a large pharmaceutical company using Netscape
Navigator, Perl, Apache Web Server and Oracle. Project work for this client
including the development of new applications; maintain and support existing
applications and completing Year 2000 certification for existing applications.
Pratt & Whitney, United Technologies
Corporation, CT 7/86 – 6/98
Technical
Project Manager / ERP Program Office 6/97
– 6/98
Responsible for leading the ERP Program Software
Management, Data Management and Technical Implementation Projects; providing
technical support to Group Financial and Supply Chain launch projects of Oracle
Applications. Primary tasks focus on software installation, configuration
management and application testing procedures and tools; qualification test
environment and procedures; production transition and migration; and
post-installation patch and upgrade management.
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Prepared and conducted interviews and recommended candidates for the ERP
Program Office Technical Staff.
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Preparation the Scope and Definition document for the Software
Management Project to the ERP Program Office; Created and Manage the Project
Plans for the Software Management and Data Management Projects
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Provided Technical Support for the installation and deployment of an
Oracle Applications Development Environment.
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Participate as a Technical Advisor to the Application and Technical
Architecture, Application Configuration and Extension, and Conversion &
Interfaces teams for the ERP project.
Application
Development Team Leader / MIS, North Haven, CT 6/96 – 6/97
Responsible for the direction and technical
leadership of an application development team; including the development and
coordination of MIS Strategic Projects within the product center,
prioritization of projects and tasks, the allocation of resources to
development activities and the professional and technical development of team
members.
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Participant on a Senior MIS team to evaluate the technical capabilities
of ERP software packages, SAP/R3 and Oracle Applications; by interviewing
hardware and software solution providers and presenting the evaluation to the
Selection Committee.
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Provided direction and assistance to Turbine Airfoils MIS organization
to prepare for and pass the Pratt & Whitney ISO9000 Registration Audit.
Received Pratt & Whitney Eagle Award for effort.
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Participant and key contributor to a technical MIS team to investigate
and implement a project plan to upgrade all of the Pratt & Whitney CONNOPS
OpenVMS Systems and Layered Products to the latest supported revision.
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Implemented a Client / Server software solution to assist in the
deployment of the Procurement Card Program within the Turbine Airfoils Product
Center.
Technology
Integration Specialist / MIS, North Haven, CT 6/92 - 6/96
Served as a technical resource and consultant to
the Turbine Airfoils MIS staff; primarily in Client / Server design, data
modeling and database design, software configuration management and the
Software Life Cycle standards. Also provided technical assistance to internal
customers regarding End-User Computing; including Microsoft Access, digital
imaging, Intranet and HTML, and using PC desktop software to access legacy system
information.
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Working with a representative Product Center team; implemented a Client
/ Server application to display manufacturing performance metrics for the
Turbine Airfoils Product Center organization.
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Lead a team to investigate the Six-Sigma Quality Improvement method and
to analyze, design and implement a software quality improvement process based
on this method.
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Implemented a software application to assist with the collection of
production software defects to support the Six-Sigma Quality Initiative
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Participant on a continuous improvement team to improve the quality of
the Data Center Operations support for Digital OpenVMS applications, utilizing
automated monitoring tools and improved procedures.
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Participant on a cross-functional advisory committee to develop a
strategic plan for the implementation of Client / Server technologies and the
development of an Application Design Review Standard.
Sr. Computer Systems
Programmer/Analyst / MIS, North Haven, CT 6/88 - 6/92
Computer Systems
Programmer/Analyst / MIS, East Hartford, CT
6/86 - 6/88
Education
Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, Hartford, CT 5/90
Master's Degree,
Operations Management
Worcester Polytechnic
Institute Worcester, MA 5/86
Bachelor's Degree, Electrical
Engineering
Technical:
PLUMTREE
PORTAL, SEEBEYOND, DOCUMENTUM, WEBLOGIC APPLICATION SERVER, NETEGRITY
SITEMINDER, LDAP, LOTUS SAMETIME, MICROSOFT NETMEETING, OPENSTA, MICROSOFT
PROJECT, ABT PROJECT WORKBENCH, VISUAL BASIC, VISUAL C++, VISUAL INTERDEV,
HTML, UML, RATIONAL ROSE, VISIO, MICROSOFT SQL SERVER, ORACLE RDB/SQL, IBM UDB,
MICROSOFT ACCESS, INTERNET INFORMATION SERVER, APACHE WEB SERVER, JAVASCRIPT,
PERL, PL/I, EIFFEL, FORTRAN, C, COBOL, CDD/REPOSITORY, DECSET,
DECWINDOWS/MOTIF, DECFORMS, DEC ACMS, DEC FMS, DEC TDMS, DEC DBMS, MICROSOFT
OFFICE SUITE, NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR, INTERNET EXPLORER, MICROSOFT ODBC,
DECMESSAGEQ, DEC OPENVMS, MICROSOFT WINDOWS 95/98, 2000, NT, SUN SOLARIS, UNIX,
LINUX
Skills:
WORK
RELATED TRAINING AND SKILLS
Professional:
Pratt & Whitney ACE Pilot Training, Negotiation Skills Workshop, Total
Quality Management (TQM), Project Management and Control, Business Professional
Ethics Curriculum (BPEC)
Technical:
Weblogic for Developers, Rational Unified Process, Rational Rose98, Systems
Testing and Quality Assurance, VMS Internals for System Managers, Managing the
Migration to Client / Server Applications, Structured Analysis & Design,
Advanced Rdb/SQL, Object-Oriented Analysis & Design, C++ for the
Experienced C programmer, Migration to DEC Alpha