International Liaison/Media Advisor (Sr. Project Mgt./Professorship) at Daytona State College
August 2006 - August 2011
Appointed to implement personal projects of the President of Daytona State College, established branch campuses, certificate departments and training programs for government officials and annual participants, two years (split residence in U.S. and Dominican Republic) four years (travel to Ireland) in Tyrone-Donegal Partnership, and two years "teaching-out" a Digital Media program at the Advanced Technology College.
Key Achievements:
- Appointed, two years media projects advisor to President Leonel Fernandez' Funglode.
- Appointed, four years coordinating program to Tyrone-Donegal Partnership, Omagh.
- Promoted two years, Program and Projects Manager overseeing International Projects.
- Five annual media professorships in Digital Media, Photography, Computer Science.
- Advised, taught 30 media and IT topics: video, photo, CAD/3D, anim, print, database.
- Over 150 articles, news releases, advertisements, photographed, written, published.
Program Lead/National Program (Washington Regional Coor./Instructor) at Penn State University
June 2003 - August 2006
Managed $1.2 million Congressional Children Youth Families At-Risk (CYFAR), Youth Engaged in Technology (YET), Washington and state-wide in Potter and State College.
Key Achievements:
- Assigned, four years advisor/liaison to district superintendent. Travel to three states.
- Established web, video, imaging, robotics, nanotechnology programs in Washington.
- Honored by mayor, commissioners, governing assembly. Recognition in publications.
- Recipient of coveted Superintendent's "Educator of the Year" award. Other awards.
- Cooperated, generating $120,000 in grants/donations paid into charitable programs.
- Over 50 articles published, dozens of covers. Mentioned in 30 additional articles.
- Created, implemented, trained, certified dozens of at-risk youth in digital media.
Partner/Client Partner (Ohio Valley Region) at Novell/Cambridge Technology Partners
February 2000 - June 2002
Managed multiple concurrent $1 million+ high profile online media projects, human resource, architecture, technical, creative and content development for a variety of financial institution's corporate online projects targeting high net worth clients.
Key Achievements:
- Appointed, one year, advisor/speaker for Senator Rockefeller Technology Corridor.
- Commended, two years, managing/delivery of Mellon Labs, Federated PayVest, PNC.
- Conceived, promoted, implemented popular "Many Facets of Business Conference."
- Speaker/expert on UX design, HCI, function, where technology and creative overlap.
- Project Management methodology advisor to Fortune executives, PNC, Mellon, Dick's.
Director of e-Commerce (Corporate Headquarters) at Dick's Sporting Goods
November 1998 - February 2000
Responsible direct to President/CEO for majority percentage of $30+ million initiated investment, technology, creative, information systems, customer service, imaging studios, 53 employees, executed first-time launch of e-Commerce online super-store.
Key Achievements:
- Advanced technology developed, captured 20K images, 40K SKU's, in record 9 months.
- Saved investors $8 million, reducing avg. per image handling $75 to $5.80/image.
- Established two studios, 23 employees, in-store Pgh, PA, in-warehouse Columbus, OH.
- Certified management in personally derived USWeb PMI /CSI methods derivative.
- Trained/certified employees in proven Project Management lifecycle methodology.
Sr. Account Operations/Management (National Digital Media Practice) at USWeb/CKS MarchFirst
June 1997 - November 1998
Personal advisor to President/CEO Dick's, managed technology, creative, content, first-ever online (www.dickssportinggoods.com), initiated/built first-ever online sites for Bayer, PNC Training, Carrier (www.carrier.com), and CENTRIA (www.centria.com).
Key Achievements:
- Managed global Internet strategy for Bayer, Polymer's (USA) & Bayer, AG (Germany).
- Merged first-ever, global combined strategy, Polymer's with AG (travel to Leverkusen).
- International recognized, created USWeb corporate e-Projects Mgt. methodology.
- Appointed to rollout PMI/CSI based, new methodology to 54 USWeb offices.
Business Development Director (Key Accounts/Projects Management) at InVenture Group, Inc.
February 1995 - June 1997
Directed key accounts, technology, information, creative to produce publications, marketing, multimedia, info-bases, video/audio production for IBM, FedEx, USWeb.
Key Achievements:
- Invented, designed, manufactured sensor activated, in-store, audio P.O.P. shelf units.
- Invested, patented, managed spin-off P.O.P. entity, as SMG (Sound Marketing Group).
- Coordinated, managed relationships with nine IBM Software labs, worldwide.
- Developed initial $1.5 million IBM "BESTeam" software re-seller channel program.
- Architected, managed 14 CD sets, cataloguing IBM's 250 full-line of software products.
- Managed channel projects: Industrial Electronics (IE), FedEx Ground (RPS), EI/USWeb.
- Managed training/speaking: ATT Multi-Source (MSFS), Training Dev. Rsrcs. (TDR).
Multimedia Manager (e-Sourcing Fisher Catalog) at Thermo Fisher Scientific
August 1992 - February 1995
Assembled, hired, managed team of five, Fisher's first electronic media department to become Fisher Technology Group, responsibilities also included ProcureNet, e-Sourcing.
Key Achievements:
- Initiated, architected, implemented Fisher's first-ever $2 million e-Commerce catalog.
- Developed process, converted 2,600 pages, 11,000 images and 180,000 product SKU's.
- Partnership to ProcureNet's e-supply chain, IBM's OS/2 & TV/2 Software Lab, Virginia.
Digital Media/Production/Program Management at Barton James
January 1992
Support new media projects/production/entrepreneurship providing business solutions with proven project methods. Digital imaging specialist certified in Adobe Suite of products.
Key Achievements:
- Current clients: Daytona State, Holiday Inn, Aztec 48, and regional food/hospitality.
- Previous clients: Penn State, Novell/Cambridge, Dick's, USWeb, IBM, Fisher, others.
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