Software Development Manager / Senior Consultant seeking a leadership position in technical project management or application development. Extensive experience with large scale technical projects, design and development of strategic applications utilizing client/server or groupware architectures, graphical user interfaces, and object oriented methodologies. Highly effective at managing groups, able to grasp and model complex relationships rapidly, very technically oriented, proven ability to thrive in dynamic and results oriented environments.

General Electric Corp. ITS - Crum & Forster Insurance - Project Manager and technical lead for a high profile enterprise wide Lotus Notes platform upgrade from R3.2 to R4.6a at 31 sites nationwide. Directed the upgrade of 2000+ client workstations and 30 Notes servers. Responsible for project leadership; project planning, scheduling, and budget; management of scope and client expectations; identification and resolution of technical issues; deployment coordination; project documentation. Key project goals included an aggressive planning and deployment schedule (deployment spanned five weeks) with minimal impact to the enterprise; introduction of a standard desktop with custom email template and infrastructure changes (switch to LAN-based client running TCP/IP); and thorough integration testing.

International Business Machines - Global Information Systems / Advantis - Technical lead in setting up a new Lotus Notes development competency center in Advantis as it rejoins the IBM organization. Roles included project leadership and mentoring of IBM developers on Lotus Notes and Notes Domino (Internet and Intranet) application development projects.

The Prudential Insurance Company of America - Individual Insurance Group - Project leader and principal developer responsible for business analysis, design specification, development, implementation, and technical oversight for groupware development. Responsible for the creation of several Lotus Notes tracking, discussion, and reference applications to support internal IIG departments including; Market Research Publications, Unclaimed Funds Rules, SQA Acceptance Tracking, QAMIS Issue Tracking. Utilized ViP 2.0 and LotusScript to develop a utility that supports Prudential’s Year-2000 Project Planning repository. Worked with Lextyle Publisher and Lotus Notes Domino in building a Commission Rules database to be accessed via both Lotus Notes and Prudential’s Intranet. Provided system design input and implementation support on an Applications Quality Management System, which is a client/server based system built using Visual Basic 4.0 and MS SQL Server.

Vice President - Consulting - Manager of all consulting activities and projects for a growing consulting firm located in New York specializing in contact management and sales force automation projects. Developed the consulting portion of the business from 10% of total revenue to the current level of 75% of revenue. Managed over $2.1 million in consulting services related billing on projects for 60+ clients. Responsibilities include: management of client relationships; staffing and organization of consulting teams; technical oversight and/or detailed technical design on projects; adherence to schedules and budgets; management of internal file server, Lotus Notes servers, and network infrastructure; creation and maintenance of corporate World Wide Web site on the Internet. Selected projects are listed below.

Digital Equipment Corp. - Designed and developed a custom account management solution, used by 50 sales reps, integrating information from mainframe and VAX computers with ACT! on a MS Win NT based network. The application was developed using Visual Basic, and was one of the first to utilize an ACTAPI allowing management of the proprietary ACT! database structure without corruption of the index and structures. A separate module was developed in Visual Basic to redistribute contacts between the sales force based on a reassignment listing prepared centrally. The utility archives the contact in the original salespersons database, notes whom the new account manager will be, adds the contact to the new salespersons database, and notes the former account manager. A full accounting of each move was recorded in a transaction log file for data restoration purposes.

Cargill Fertilizer - Managed and participated as principal designer in the development of a very complex, monthly sales forecasting application using Visual Basic, MS Jet database engine, and Crystal Reports. This application sends and receives updates from the central AS/400 based system to track and compare forecast and actual monthly and annual sales of each product to each customer and included and "End of Year" rollover of information. The central update module is a separate Visual Basic application that utilizes the Lotus VIM API for cc:Mail and Lotus Notes as the e-mail transport mechanism.

Johnson & Johnson Professionals - Managed a team of developers who designed and implemented a competitive tracking system in Lotus Notes. This systems is used by a sales force of 40, responsible for maintaining orthopedic medical product in hospitals. A second component of this project was to design, develop and deliver a competitive quoting system using MS Access, Visual Basic, and Crystal Reports to build comparative bids for client using competitors products. The system provides cross reference information on over 400 Johnson & Johnson products and 2500 competitor’s products.

Pierce Leahy Archives - Managed a team of developers and trainers that substantially customized a Lotus Notes based, opportunity management product, IntellAgent Control, to suit the requirements of a national sales force of 5 regional managers and 25 salespeople. The Lotus Notes modifications adapted the package to the sales model and tracking requirements and provided reporting on the sales activities that were not possible prior to the deployment. Trained the entire sales force in a series of intensive training sessions over a two week period.

Harrah’s New Orleans - Designed, developed, and implemented a sales and reservation tracking system based on ACT! integrated with AS/400 databases. This system integrated network ACT! databases with a MS Access database and a nightly extraction of data from the AS/400 databases to create custom performance reports using Visual Basic and Crystal reports. The network environment was Windows NT with Windows 3.11 clients. A related project with this client was the development of a utility to integrate ACT! with an AS/400 based player tracking system using Visual Basic and APPC API’s by RUMBA. The system allows the currently displayed contact in ACT! to automatically be used in the selection criteria when switching to the AS/400 based system to access additional player statistics and credit information.

Hewlett Packard - Netherlands - Designed and developed a utility to consolidate data from remote ACT! database and distribute prospects from a centralized database without user interaction. The application was developed in Visual Basic using MS Jet database engine, and API’s to compress, uuencode/uudecode, and to transfer the updates via Internet based e-mail.

Vice President - Product Development - Conceived, designed and developed an expense logging and tracking system that tightly integrated with Symantec's ACT! for Windows contact management product. The application allows expense tracking on either a personal or project basis, with links to the contact records in any ACT! database. Several standard reports were available that present the information selected and sorted by Contact, Date, Expense Type, Amount, Payment Method, YTD Totals, etc. The application was commercially marketed for eighteen months, selling several thousand units, and was ultimately used as the basis for custom development projects. Development was primarily in Visual Basic and Crystal Reports.

Pitney Bowes - PB Account Management System - Designed and developed a custom account management extension to Symantec's ACT! for Windows contact management product. The system allows the sales force at Pitney Bowes to use ACT! for their normal contact information management and to access related account data in external databases from within ACT! The related information is presented on additional screens that preserve the ACT! application interface. Two extraction and merge programs were developed to manage the bi-directional transfer of updates between the individual sales databases and their mainframe databases. The system requires no explicit action by the user to perform transfers or updates. Pitney Bowes' existing electronic mail capabilities are utilized as the transport facility for the data transfers. A database creation tool was also built to perform the conversion of existing mainframe data into the remote account database. All of the applications were developed with Visual Basic and Q+E/VB utilizing DDE and API functions. The system was developed with a modular approach in anticipation of connecting to ODBC databases in future network implementations.

Chemical Information System (CIS) - Managed a team in the design and development of a real-time data acquisition and monitoring system used at each of Con Edison's power generating plants. Boiler water and other plant chemical analysis from the in-line process monitors is captured using Transition Technologies analog to digital interface on a PC. The data capture application updates a SQL Server database across the LAN. A separate application connects to the SQL-Server and presents the information in a graphical interface that was developed using Visual Basic and ODBC. The presentation client component of CIS is used by control room personnel, plant management, and system engineering (across the corporate WAN) to view real-time information and system trends. Early prototypes of the CIS presentation system revealed a strong client response to a control panel metaphor using gauge objects and resulted in a highly configurable and customizable user interface. CIS is one of the first successful client/server systems at Con Edison and received critical recognition as a finalist in the Windows World Open Competition (Spring '93).

Indian Point Office (IPO) Prototype - Principal designer on a work flow re-engineering effort using object-oriented analysis and design for the Indian Point Work Management System. The system replaces the work order planner's manual documentation package assembly tools with a file cabinet/folder and desktop metaphor. The system accesses local (Sybase) and existing mainframe data sources (DB2 via MDI gateway) and provides hooks to routing and messaging technology for package approval, scheduling, and assignment. The client application was implemented in Visual Basic 3.0 using ODBC and Q+E MultiLink/VB for database access.

VISON Project - Senior Systems Specialist responsible for developing a detailed and comprehensive specification for a UNIX based, graphically oriented, electrical facility mapping and geographical information system (GIS). The system allows CAD manipulation of the systems model representing Con Edison's underground and overhead facilities and allows access to related technical and customer service data stored in distributed ORACLE databases. Responsible for client review sessions, supervision of technical analysts, technical research, application design, system modeling and prototypes, and presentations to company executives. The initial draft of the specification was published on target as part of an extremely aggressive project schedule and is considered the most comprehensive specification ever received by the vendor (Intergraph).

Shift Technical Advisor (STA) - Indian Point Nuclear Power Generating Station - Unit 2. Independent technical consultant for plant control room activities. Objectively analyzed all plant system transitions to assure nuclear safety is properly considered. Reviewed performance of procedures and tests to prevent the implementation of conflicting or unanalyzed plant configurations. Developed several PC based applications for routine control room functions. The Reactor Quadrant Power Tilt Calculation application was developed using Borland C and assures that the power distribution across the reactor core is balanced and within limits. The Safety Evaluation Tracking system was built with Foxbase+ to manage STA control room documentation.

Major Projects Supervisor - Responsible for planning, scheduling and management of all short and long duration plant outages (maintenance shutdowns) using PREMIS scheduling software on an IBM 3390. Largest supervised shutdown was the 1987 Refueling Outage; $35 million in expense work and $40 million in capital work in project. Directed staff that supported micro and mainframe users in several station departments.

Project Manager - Steam Generators, 1986 Refueling Outage. Total project management responsibility including; detailed logistical planning and scheduling, budget development and control ($7.5 million), administration of contracts, presentations to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), coordination of work forces, completion of controlled legal documentation.

Languages & Development - Lotus Notes (v3.0 - v4.6), LotusScript, ViP, Visual Basic, Crystal Reports, MS Access, HTML, Windows API’s, C, C++, Objective C, Java, JavaScript, SQL Windows, BASIC, FORTRAN, PL/I, Pascal, UNIX shell scripts, various macro languages (MS Word, Excel, Lotus-123, ProComm Plus)

Client/Server & DBMS - MS SQL Server, Sybase, ORACLE, SQL Windows, PowerBuilder, ODBC, Q+E MultiLink, Gateways (MDI, Gupta) MS Access, Visual FoxPro, Paradox, Crystal Reports, dBase III & IV

Operating Systems - Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 3.1, MS-DOS, UNIX, OS/2, Novell Netware, NeXTStep, Mac System 7, DEC Pathworks

Applications - Lotus Notes, MS Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint), MS Project, Netscape Navigator, Lextyle Publisher, Lotus SmartSuite (Lotus 123, AMI Pro, cc:Mail), ACT! for Windows, ProComm Plus, Data Junction, Word Perfect, Micrografix Designer

Certificates - Certified Lotus Professional / Lotus Notes Consultant, Symantec Certified Consultant

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Bachelor of Science in Engineering, June 1980
Concentration in Nuclear Engineering, Computer Analysis, Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics