Unbeatable Resumes (38 page)

Used internal development methodology based on “Waterfall” to manage up to 10 concurrent projects in various phases.

Responsible for critical path analysis, budget oversight, and reporting and risk management.

Assisted business units with needs definition as it related to overall corporate goals and mission.

Oversaw all activities in an 18-week SDLC requiring requirement negotiations, code reviews, and schedule modifications.

Managed a team of 10 project members consisting of mainframe developers, network engineers, desktop specialist, telephony engineers, and database technical and nontechnical personnel.

Managed project schedules, scope, budget, task assignments, status reporting, risk management, project documentation, resource management, vendor relationship, and project communications for moderate to highly complex projects under demanding time constraints. Managed implementation to include new development, third-party vendor solutions, and maintenance projects.

Oversaw and facilitated revision management of project plans, project artifacts, deliverables, and other project-related documentation.

Project Manager

Oversaw $30M program consisting of three concurrent projects to design and upgrade safety technology and network applications using .NET development.

Managed a team of 20 project members consisting of network, desktop, telephony, network security, database technical and nontechnical personnel, and vendor teams.

Collected and reported system /staff performance metrics, and suggested improvements to ensure customer service goals were realized and federal, state, and municipal regulations were adhered to.

Performed the following duties in gap analysis: review, analyze, and evaluate business process systems needs; formulate systems to parallel overall business strategies; write detailed description of business needs to develop, modify, or implement technology solutions.

EDUCATION

B.S., Computer Science, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas (May 1994)

MBA, Business Administration, with concentration in Information Technology, University of Maryland at Baltimore, Baltimore, MD (1998)

CERTIFICATIONS

Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI (2004)

John Edwards

Address Cell # E-mail

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Grandson Corporation, IS Civilian Systems—Plano, TX

Technologies Used: J2EE, ATG 2006.3 - 9.0 Portal & Adaptive Scenario Engine,
JBOSS 4, DAS, Perl, Oracle 10g, Rational Clearcase, BIRT 2.x, (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Developed and enhanced the NAS Adaptation Services Environment, an ATG-Portal-based system used by 4000+ users within the FAA and DoD organizations

- Developed and designed at least 30% of enhancements, features, and bug fixes in releases

- Integrated and introduced the Mootools and jQuery JavaScript frameworks to securely add AJAX capabilities to improve application responsiveness

- Redesigned the ATG Portal template to a more modern (X)HTML compliant template

Led the development effort to port an ATG 2006.3 system on DAS to ATG 2007.1 on JBOSS 4.0.5

Developed an adhoc-reporting infrastructure portlet, which communicated with the ITAM data warehouse, for the ITAM-RS portal

Integrated the BIRT reporting framework into the portal using a custom AJAX portlet

Wallis Bros Property and Casualty, Claims Field Development—Waco, TX

Technologies Used: AIX, Perl, X12 EDI, MVS, Java, JMS

Led project transition of automated claim auditing system from DEV to O&M

- Ensured remaining defects and enhancements from DEV team were closed out

- Centralized the JMS error queues in order for O&M team to quickly diagnose and reprocess messages

Provided 3rd-level support and enhancements for Unix and MVS applications used for processing auto and property claims

Managed packaging and deployment schedules for laptop applications used by claims field appraisers

Hallis Web Creations—Houston, TX

Converted a Photoshop-generated Web site (30 HTML files) to an XHTML, CSS, and JS design (2 HTML files), thereby reducing page download size by roughly 90%

University of Texas—Dallas, TX

Quantitative and Physical Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (QPSURF) Program

Improved the processing and statistical analysis of images using an extended version of ImageJ

Western Intl, Unmanned Systems—Los Angeles, CA

Assisted in managing the installation of the Rancho Bernardo branch CWIN (Cyber Warfare Integration Network) node

Researched the latest collaboration technologies in the areas of VTC, Blackberry, and data mining, which led to the installment of the Google Search Appliance