Resume: Project Manager, Software Development or IT

Position Level:

Manager

Describe Your Ideal Job:

Project Manager in a Software Application or IT department, or

Sales in IT (Award winning public speaker)

I speak geek to the IT folks, and ROI to the MBAs, bridging a communication gap in your company

Experienced Project Manager, Software Engineer, and Communicator

I am PMP Certified, with several years experience as a Professor in computer science.

With this background, I bring technical depth to any IT sales team or project manager position.

Will provide one hour of consulting in exchange for a Starbucks beverage of my choice, and a linked in connection to the first 20 people who request it.

See me on linked in:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/cgunderson

gundersonemail@aol.com

713 435 9393

Experience:

7 years in IT Management, including project management for a 40 terabyte data center move, and managing offshore resources as the Manager of Software Development in an ERP System, in a blended simulation environment

Team size: 20-40 Software Developers, Business Analysts, and QA resources

Certified PMP Project Management Professional from PMI International

Training Expertise: 5 years experience as a university professor, leading more than 900 training sessions, coordinating workshops. Excellent communication skills

Software Application Development: 7 years application development and use of development tools (Java, C++, Oracle, MySQL Databases)

Manager of the software development resources and projects

Production experience: Managed related ERP software issues for 200 globally diverse clients in varied production environments

Full project lifecycle experience: from initiation, specification, proposal contracting, implementation, delivery, and roll out planning, including migrating data and business processes from legacy systems. Simulation environments used

Quarterly releases went out on time and within budget

Transition manager and Offshore vendor experience: Facilitated our transition to a new offshore software vendor (Wipro in Kolkata), including establishing the SOW (statement of work), SLAs, KPIs, and strategic project planning with key stakeholders

Software Process Manager Epoch Well Services Nov 2005 – Nov 2006

Epoch Well Services, (now Canrig) is a drilling technology company providing a diverse product line to the global energy industry, including ERP software applications featuring real time web based oil and gas drilling information via a portal

Managed team of 20 - 40 resources, onshore and offshore

Hired, trained, supervised, and evaluated software developers and business analysts

Created new business processes for the software development teams, including the software build process, the version control process, and issue traceability processes

Tools: RUP (Rational Unified Process), Scrum processes, Agile development

Conflict resolution: Integrated methods from several acquired software development teams

Department Chairman: Head of the Computer Information Systems Department

DeVry University 2004 - 2005

Department Chairman: Manager of the CIS faculty, resource planning, hiring, training, course assignment, and curricula development

Software Lab Manager: Supervised software lab resources. These included Microsoft Labs (C++) , Oracle 9i Database labs, and IBM’s Rational Rose software design suite labs

Presentation expertise: Topics: software design, databases(Oracle), operating systems (Linux, Windows), and software development (Microsoft C++), Systems Analysis

Workshop facilitation: Project planning and resource coordination

Professor and Computer Lab Coordinator Abilene Christian University 2003-2004

Lab Supervisor: Supervised software lab resources

Technical planning for the Operating Systems, Networking, and Java labs

Expertise at Presentation skills: Topics: Software development(Java), Operating Systems (Linux and Windows), and Computer Networking

Professor and Computer Lab Coordinator Southern Methodist University

Professor University of California- Bakersfield

Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant Tulane University

Summary of University Training given:900 technical presentations, including all courses at various universities

Topics: Operating Systems(Linux, Windows), Systems Analysis, Networking, Computer program design, Databases, Computer programming(Java, C++), Introduction to Computers, Statistics

Previous projects included these application areas:

Artificial intelligence, natural language processing, graphic feature labeling, building a compiler for a new computer language, software metrics

Skills:

PMP Certified Project Manager

PhD in Computer Science

Award winning public speaker

Education:

PhD

Fields of Expertise:

Project Management, Software Engineering, R and D

Certifications:

PMP Certified Project Manager

Preferred Work Schedule:

days

Desired Compensation:

Willing To Relocate: Yes - I am willing to relocate.

Duration Options: Full Time

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