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I have business experience - Having earned an MBA I can help you with the business side of projects.
I understand budgets and schedules. I understand return on investment and return on assets.
I managed a $500,000 project whose product is used in the aquarium in Genoa, Italy.
I am also the finance committee chair for a small Methodist church.
I can also help you with product management.
I was a product manager for the end of life of a product I worked on for 18 years.
I helped influence marketing and management decision makers on how to proceed with end of a product’s life.
I can also help you with product management on the front end. I have worked with product managers in the conceptual and requirements phase of products.
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I have management experience - I know project management and would manage your projects well.
I took the project management certificate course at Penn State Abington.
I know projects from both the contributor and management perspective.
I managed a $5000,000 project that was year-long, on time and on budget.
I also managed a small group of software engineers who created patches, service packs and provided upgrade services with up to $100,000 in revenue per upgrade.
I did the annual reviews for these engineers. At Spring Mountain, I am the shift supervisor for 10-20 ski patrollers.
I could lead your engineers.
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I have international experience - I could help you with international projects since I have an appreciation of the time and culture differences.
I grew up in South America and Europe and speak both Spanish and French.
I have a working knowledge of basic German.
My language skills allow me to talk to and understand foreign counterparts and colleagues.
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I have technical experience - I have 23 years experience in all phases of software development from concept to customer support.
I’ve written more than 50,000 lines of code and scripts.
I can help you take a vague concept and flesh it out by filling in the details that you have not yet thought of.
I have the experience to ask the right questions.
I have created scripts to provide tools to engineers used during configuration management, build and release.
I can help you determine what needs to be tested. I’ve done unit, integration, system, performance and customer acceptance testing;
and I’ve done these both manually and automated.
I can take your product to a customer site and help them install it and learn to use it.
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I have administrative experience - I could help keep your project processes, policies and procedures on track.
As a project manager I had to keep to a strict project process methodology.
For ten years I administered a configuration management system that provided source code and document version control and tracked problems and issues.
I administered a program to convert customer graphics from legacy formats to newer formats with up to $10,000 in revenue per order.
I also created the policies and procedures manual, a 70+ page document, for the Spring Mountain Ski Patrol.
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I have customer-facing experience - I could help you with customer relations.
I have traveled to customers to help them install hardware and software, and to diagnose problems.
I have worked on customer problems providing diagnosis and solutions.
I have experience dealing with skeptical customers and delighting them with timely quality service.
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I have training experience - I could help you with your training programs.
I have trained employees and customers in new products.
I have set up training programs for employees needing training for a new project.
I have been training new ski patrollers in Outdoor Emergency Care, a 10-12 week college level course, for seven years.
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I have excellent writing skills - I could help you with all sorts of documents.
I have written, edited, and reviewed countless documents.
I have written portions of numerous software installation and user manuals.
I was also the editor of the Texas Instruments Industrial Systems Division Technical Newsletter.
I know how to explain things in plain, understandable English.
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I have excellent oral and presentation skills - I could help you to present your ideas to others.
I have presented and spoken before countless audiences.
I presented a paper at an ISA conference.
I had to defend my Masters thesis. I am a Toastmasters Competent Communicator.
I have spoken at and led many meetings.
As a trainer I have had to make numerous Powerpoint presentations.
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I am a fast learner - I would be able to learn your systems, procedures and technologies quickly.
No new employee can be hired one day and become as productive as other long-time senior employees the next day.
It takes several months for this to happen.
I could learn what I need to do in that time.
This year I have been learning C#, Java, HTML, PHP, CSS, MySQL, and improving my knowledge of project management.
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I am an innovator - I could bring innovation to you.
When there is a an unfilled need, I find an innovative way to fill it.
In my last employment, proposals engineers and project managers in certain projects kept coming to me to evaluate the feasibility of their projects.
I would then ask them to gather certain data before I could make the evaluation.
I would have to explain how to gather this data.
I was the subject matter expert.
To make the process more efficient, I developed a document, questionnaire and software tool to allow them to gather this data before asking for my evaluation.
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