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 government and commercial clients. Continued to build satisfied client base and win follow on work. Progressive 16-year career managing the software development for scientific and engineering applications.

Dynamic leader and mentor, 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. Keen, in-depth understanding of IT tools, languages, techniques, methods, and policies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Northrop Grumman TRW Inc. Systems & Information Technology Group, Tulsa, OK

Senior Manager, Planning and Analysis – 6/97 - Present

Responsible for scientific and administrative software development in FoxPro, Visual Basic, Java, Fortran, and C. Includes development, enhancement, and maintenance of oil reservoir and economic simulation models. Manage 25 staff in two locations. Responsible for development of program metrics Section also responsible for analytical studies and planning activities for $80 million/year research program.

· Lead team that designed and implemented a network application in Visual Basic that collected and helps quantify the benefits of an Oil and Gas Research program. Results were critical in obtaining research funding.

· Increased profitability of business unit by obtaining higher margin work and controlling cost.

· Managed development of a neural network application.

· Coordinated computer model development to evaluate oil and gas policy and incentive issues impacting domestic oil production.

TRW/BDM-Oklahoma - National Institute for Petroleum and Energy Research, Bartlesville, OK

Director, Planning and Analysis - 10/93 – 5/97

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 the content of Homepage design, and committee. Used Homepage 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.

BDM International, Germantown, MD

Manager, Systems Development - 2/88 - 9/93

Product management 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 across the country. 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.

· Product manager for a Windows development effort using Powerbuilder & Visual Basic/SQL Server.

· Developed a planning, budgeting, and tracking system of the Department Energy Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Program (a $6 billion/year program). Included all HQ (Washington D.C.) analysis and support as well as coordination with field offices. Application was a DOS Clipper based system and was distributed at over 50 locations.

· Coordinated several enterprise architecture studies/activities. Developed Information System Plans for several organizations. Developed Compendium of System for EM organization to surveys existing systems and make recommendations for integration of future systems.

BDM International, McLean, VA

Manager, Geotechnical Support - 5/86 - 1/88

Directed a $1 million/year project that was a 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. Maintained well database and performed analyses.

· Developed an analytical approach that related gas production to geophysical velocity logs. 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. Directed in-house and contract landmen for acquisition of prospect acreage. Coordinated efforts of drilling contractors and service companies necessary to drill and complete a 6,000 foot well.

· Developed a decline curve analysis program that used simplex-fit to find a hyperbolic decline for oil and gas wells. 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.

EDUCATION

Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX M.S. System Engineering/Software Engineering December, 1997

University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH B.S. Geology 1981, and M.S. Geology/Sedimentology 1985

Courses in C++ programming and Java Programming to develop a better understanding of object-oriented development. Classes in Information System Planning, Oracle, and Visual Basic.

Adjunct Professor at the University of Phoenix teaching Information Technology and Decision Sciences and Software Engineering