BRIAN KELTCH 5916 N. Country Club Blvd. Little Rock, AR 72207 c- 501-580-8906 h- 501-661-1614 bwkswk@yahoo.com	Skills Summary Program Management / Software Engineering / Modeling & Simulation IT Systems Development & Engineering / Strategic Planning & Execution Proven track record in planning, building, and launching successful software products. Profit center and line management for multi-million dollar contract activities for commercial and government clients. Continued to build satisfied client base and win follow on work. Progressive 22-year career managing the software development for administrative, scientific, and engineering applications. Strong leadership skills, able to build team cohesion and inspire individuals to strive toward higher levels of achievement. Exceptional client relationship and management skill; relate and interface easily with upper level decision makers. In-depth understanding of IT tools, languages, techniques, methods, and policies.
	Employment History
	Program Manager 12/04 – Present Northrop Grumman, Little Rock, AR Senior manager on the Arkansas project site responsible for the overall management and delivery of quality information technology products and services to the State of Arkansas Department of Human Services. Responsibilities include overall program management, budgeting, staffing, management of contracts, managing client expectations, overseeing management of projects and project status tracking and reporting, and contract negotiations. § Program Manager for 85+ staff and $13million/year contract. § Lead on successful 2006 seven year $91million rebid effort. § Lead advance data warehousing, decision support, business intelligence, and master data management activities. § Lead improved service delivery initiatives such as online benefits screening and online application processes.
	Senior Manager 6/97 – 11/04 Northrop Grumman (TRW), Tulsa OK Responsible for scientific and administrative software development in FoxPro, Visual Basic, Java, Fortran, and C. Included development, enhancement, and maintenance of oil reservoir and economic simulation models. Managed 25 staff in two locations. Section also responsible for analytical studies and planning activities for $80 million/year research program. § Lead team that designed and implemented a Visual Basic application that collected and helped quantify the benefits of an Oil and Gas Research program critical for obtaining research funding. § Increased profitability by obtaining higher margin work and controlling cost. § Managed development of a neural network application.
	Director Planning and Analysis 10/93 – 5/97, Northrop Grumman (TRW/BDM-Oklahoma) - National Institute for Petroleum and Energy Research, Bartlesville, OK Responsible for information technology for 150 person research facility, including LAN/WAN, Televideo, Internet Web Server, and scientific computing. Helped create business entity (BDM-Oklahoma, a wholly owned subsidiary). Provided analysis of the impact of new technologies from oil and gas research. § Developed long range Information Technology Plans that included detailed architecture. Resulted in approval of $750,000 site upgrade § Managed homepage design and implementation. Used as an effective outreach tool - guest book, downloadable software, documents/technical reports § Managed the development of Windows front-end interfaces developed in FoxPro for Fortran based oil recovery predictive models
	Manager, Systems Development 2/88 - 9/93 Northrop Grumman (BDM), Germantown, MD Responsible for client-server database systems developed using Powerbuilder & Visual Basic/SQL Server. Managed system implementation at ten major client field offices with over 125 users throughout the US. Played lead role in marketing and expanding project effort from small Clipper standalone development effort of three staff to large WAN development project with over 90 staff and annual revenues of $9 million/year. Performed in requirements analysis, training, development, and documentation roles. § Developed a planning, budgeting, and tracking system of the Department Energy Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Program (a $6 billion/year program). § Coordinated several enterprise architecture studies/activities. Developed Information System Plans for several organizations and implemented systems integration projects.
	Education / Certifications
	M.S. System Engineering/Software Engineering 1997 Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX M.S. Geology/Sedimentology 1985 University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH B.S. Geology 1981 § Project Management Professional Certification (PMP) 02/06 § ITIL v3 Foundations Certification 01/09 Courses in C++ programming and Java Programming. Training classes in Information System Planning, IT Management, Leadership Training Darden School of Business, Oracle, and Visual Basic. Adjunct Professor at the University of Phoenix teaching Information Technology and Decision Sciences and Software Engineering
	Other Experience
	BDM International, McLean, VA Manager, Geotechnical Support - 5/86 - 1/88 Directed a $1 million/year project that included database development of a large on-line (VAX-Datatreive) database containing detailed reservoir and production information from 2000 Devonian Shale wells in the Appalachian Basin. Responsible for program management, direction of data collection, statistical and analytical analysis of well data, and system documentation and reporting. Consolidated Southern Corporation, Houston, TX Exploration Geologist - 5/85 - 4/86 Developed natural gas prospects in South Texas. Duties included structure mapping and stratigraphic analysis. In charge of seismic stratigraphy inversion re-processing of more than 70 miles of data integrated with petrophysical log analysis. Developed a program in C that used geophysical log data and identified rock transit time changes that correlated to highly productive gas wells. Consolidated Resources of America, Inc. Cincinnati, OH Development Geologist - 6/83 - 4/85 (part-time 8/80 - 5/83 during graduate school) Responsible for generating developmental oil and gas prospects in the Appalachian Basin. Work included construction of isopach maps, log analysis, cutting examinations, production testing and analysis, and general drafting. Developed a decline curve analysis program that used simplex-fit to find a hyperbolic decline for oil and gas wells which was used for company reserve estimation. H.C. Nutting Company Cincinnati, OH Soils Technician - Summers ‘78 and ‘79 Field geotechnical work involving soil density testing, soil mechanics, and slope stability analysis at construction sites.
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