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���� Jay A. Peat * San Jose, CA 95124 * 408-265-8951 * [email protected] * http://www.geocities.com/Jay_Peat



CAREER OBJECTIVE


A technical leadership position developing customer friendly, effective infrastructure and work environments for technical support staff. Where I can develop business solutions that increase productivity and lower operating costs.


EXPERIENCE SUMMARY


A technical manager with over 20 year�s experience that includes: positions from senior engineer to functional manager in software engineering and electronic maintenance. Experience covers a wide range of application areas and includes data communication, systems hardware/software engineering, quality control, process engineering, task automation, network configuration, network management, maintenance, test and evaluation, system analysis, system design, programming, customization, systems administration, computer operations, web site design, graphics design, web site usability, recruiting and training.


UNIQUE SKILLS


* Customer Focus: Develop an ongoing process to identify customer needs and create unique business models to deliver cost effective solutions to meet those needs.

* Coaching and Mentoring: Able to identify the strengths an individual possesses and help the individual build on those strengths to be more productive and achieve higher levels of contribution.

* Program Management: Plan, manage and implement complex projects and multidisciplinary teams to deliver strategic solutions on schedule and under budget.

* Technology Management: Understand both hardware and software technologies to create development milestones and processes to manage them to develop cost effective solutions.

* Organizational Effectiveness and Communications: Utilize personal coaching, collaboration tools and the web to effectively collaborate across a broad range of functional and organizational levels to deliver measurable results.

* Problem Solving: Ability to develop practical and cost effective solutions by reviewing specifications, assessing options, interviewing customers and developers to achieve the best win-win solution for effective outcomes

* Quality Processes: Expert in the use of SEI CMM, ISO9000, and total quality management practices to insure high quality in all deliverables.


TECHNICAL SKILLS


* Programming: Can read and understand other peoples code, suggest improvements and best practices.

* Architecting: Provided engineering for large complex computing environments.

* Networking Design: Designed complex networking environments using many different networking protocols.

* Storage Area Networks: Have designed and implemented large SAN and NAS environments.

* PC Applications: Familiar with a wide range of best of breed PC applications and how they can be used to meet business needs.

* Operating Systems: MPE/iX, UNIX, LINUX, DOS, Windows 98, NT, 2000


EXPERIENCE


Hewlett-Packard������������������������������



DIRECTOR, ENGINEERING SERVICES PROGRAMS�����������������������������������������

* Managed all aspects of the installation of $10M-$20M new, large computer resources each year without the need for additional space or any effect on R&D development activities or schedules. This included: determined specifications, coordinated space, power, air conditioning, networking, negotiated with suppliers, ordered equipment, deployed prototype and released hardware, prepared engineering drawings for the layout of computer systems, peripherals and infrastructure equipment into software R&D test and development environments.

* Put processes in place to remove/re-deploy equipment saving space and $300,000 annually.

* Initiated and managed a $860,000 per year outsourcing contract for Move/Ad/Change activities which improved service levels and reduced costs by $500,000 per year.

* Developed and deployed a web site for the dissemination of planning and scheduling information to the R&D community to improve organizational communications.�������������������


MANAGER, TEST ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT �������������������������������������������

* Built and coached a team of 15 engineers and technicians who produced outstanding results in software testing, equipment ordering, asset tracking, and computer system maintenance. Resulting in our continually expanding charter from supporting one R&D lab to eventually supporting seven R&D labs. With a customer satisfaction survey return rate of 70% achieved an extremely satisfied ranking on 70-90%.

* Reduced a $3.6M Budget for computer room resources and their associated infrastructure, space utilization, moves, installs, and changes to software R&D computer environments by 10% per year for three years ($2.6M) without effecting service levels.

* Achieved 98% customer satisfaction providing support for the installation and maintenance of 5000 large UNIX server computer systems, peripherals and the related infrastructure in seven UNIX R&D software development and testing labs.

* Developed standardized life cycle documentation templates to increase the quality and reduce the time required in generating documentation by 30% and costs by 10%.

* Developed and deployed a web site for the management of testing resources and displaying test results information to the R&D community this reduced defect resolution times from weeks to days.


NETWORK DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER������������������������������������������������������

* Identified and then cleared software defects during final UNIX testing prior to product shipment.By organizing, planning, and systematically tracking all defects accelerated final system validation and shipped on schedule the final product to protect critical business objectives.Established a process of early testing, which prevented last-minute surprises and shipment delays.


SENIOR NETWORK QUALITY ENGINEER������������������������������������������������������

* Accelerated complete automatic regression testing reducing time from four weeks to 24 Hrs and time required for reliability testing from 120 Hrs to 72 Hrs.

* Established division-wide quality standards for new products, mentored teams in meeting quality goals through the use of bench checks and code inspections, resulting in drastic reduction in defects.


United States Air Force


DEPARTMENT FUNCTIONAL MANAGER������������������������������������������������������

* Led 24/7 electronic maintenance and quality control on highly complex, mission-critical systems.


EDUCATION


Bachelor of Science in Computer Science ���������� California State University, Sacramento���


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