Rodney Schaerer

State of California P.E. E.E. #**809

*** ***** ***.; Long Beach, CA 90802

ofwfi7@r.postjobfree.com; 562-***-****

February 10, 2012

Independent business process technical mentor

I can technically document, analyze, and modify your business process. If you want straight forward technical analysis and documentation then contact me. I love to technically document and mentor in the emerging technologies. In general, I’m looking for work around the Los Angeles/Orange County area although; I’m open to travel for the right position.

June 2011

American Radio Relay League (ARRL) seminar

Parallax Corporation; 599 Menlo Dr.; Rocklin, CA 95765

Andy Lindsay, Director of Education, 916-***-****

Became qualified in amateur/ham radio/electronics, robotics, microcontroller (PLC) devices, and associated measuring/testing equipment.

September 2009 – June 2011

California State University, Long Beach ITE Program

Instruction design, teaching strategies and timing, assessment instruments and guidance usage, education psychology, technology training in education, student motivation and monitoring, and environment & classroom management. Passed all (10) State of California CSET science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) exams.

January - September 2009

Project Management Institute Project Management Certification, PMI #57089706

CSU,DH Project Management program with Statement of Work (SOW), Risk/Organizational/Resource/&Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) Earned Value Management System (EVMS), Estimate to Complete (ETC), project scheduling baseline, and risk management plus statistical process control (SPC).

California State University, Fullerton SoCalCodeCamp

Microsoft featured lecturer on Software Project Management with Yourdon/DeMarco, Agile, Extreme Programming, Scrum, and the Rational Unified Process SDLCs.

December 2007 – September 2009

Ilog Corporation; 1195 W. Fremont Ave.; Sunnyvale, CA 94087

Ann Marx, Director of Education, 408-***-****

JRules and Rules for .NET Business Analyst (BA) and Java Developer Mentor - Independent contractor for the Business Rules Approach of the Business Rules Group with expert systems and rule engines. Mentored customers in the proprietary usage of the RETE rule engine and the associated JRules tools for business/system analysts and Java developers in business process management (BPM) and project management. Mentored customers in the functional modeling of BPM systems and their enterprise architecture/design usage with Uniform Modeling Language (UML). Captured business rules use cases and turned them into functional Java diagrams. The business rules engine is based on NASA research into predicate calculus. This French company was so successful that IBM purchased it.

February 2006 – December 2007

Sun Microsystems; 800 Royal Oaks Dr.; Monrovia, CA 91016

Karen Sutherland, Director of Education, 626-***-****

Sun Corporate Customer Technical Mentor

Mentor and train Sun customers how to use and manage Sun Java System Technology NetBean solutions and products along with project management. Java 5 E.E. Enterprise Java Beans and Standard Edition G.U.I. programming. Java Messaging Service and Message Drive Beans plus Java Naming Directory Service lookup along with Java Connectivity Architecture resource adapters. Java Server Pages and servlets in web component applications. Along with the continuation of the acquired Sun Java CAPS product suite and Business Process Modeling and Management components. Used JDBC and Hibernate with IBM DB2, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server databases. Taught file, application, and web servers client/server applications

Sun Microsystems was acquired Oracle.

April 2001 – February 2006

SeeBeyond Technology Corporation; 800 Royal Oaks Dr.; Monrovia, CA 91016

Tim Dunn, Director of Education, 626-***-****

Enterprise Integration Specialist – Mentor and train Fortune 500 companies such as Lockheed Martin, Accenture, Computer Science Corporation, Hertz, Nike, Target, Electronic Data Systems, Pfizer, Great Western, BMW, Nextel PG&E, Hewlett Packard, Philip Morris, and Blue Cross & Blue Shield. Internationally traveled to China, Philippines, and India to work with customers.

Educate customers in the use of SeeBeyond ICAN/eGate business to business enterprise integration software and project management involving Message Driven Bean design and Enterprise Java Bean messaging oriented middleware, Service Oriented Architecture and utilizing Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) workflow with XML, UML & RUP, SOA web services and Web Service Definition Language (WSDL) interfaces involving business-to-business X12 and Healthcare Level 7 (HL7) & HIPAA protocols plus data encryption and PKI framework. Worked with business process management instrumentation for key performance indicators and critical success factors in BI monitoring dashboards.

SeeBeyond was acquired by Sun Microsystems.

1996 – 2001 Self Employed; Long Beach, CA

Independent contract trainer for the dot com era.

Independent Contractor – Designed, constructed, and delivered technology to companies such as Cisco, Peoplesoft, NASA JPL, Federal Express, Intel Corporation, Anderson Consulting, Marconi Electronics, Lucent Technologies, Internal Revenue Service, Social Security Administration, Rockwell International, e.Piphany and A.I.G. Worked with New Horizons, Execu Train, Anderson Networking, and For Custom Training organizations. Traveled to Europe and Saudi Arabia to work with customers.

1996 Sentinal Monitoring Corporation; Gardena, CA

Systems Engineer/Project Manager – Los Angeles County house arrest program. Maintained and managed distributed Microsoft Access database for 10,000s convicts and 100s probation officers. Installed Cisco WAN to replace computer telephone modem network. Configured and managed 250 user license Novel Netware V3.11 Intranet with ProComm+ TVI-925 terminal emulation. Worked with PacBell on ISDNs and CSU/DSUs.

1995 Hellmuth, Obata, & Kassabaum; Santa Monica, CA

Independent Contractor – Converted a WFW V3.11 shared 75 desktop network to Microsoft NT V3.51 domain with a $150K budget. Implemented central file storage with backup for $1B data store, spooled printers, international e-mail to foreign offices, and a Apple Talk marketing network.

1994 George Fisher Scientific Company; El Monte, CA

Hardware/Software Quality Testing Engineer – Responsible to evaluate and test company’s new flow meter unit for product release and production.

1994 – 1994 Summit Technologies; Encino, CA

Sales Engineer/Sales Person – Sold Optical Character Reader hardware and software by cold calling. I got the top brass of Warner Brother motion picture studio and the Los Angeles County and Orange County payroll departments to evaluate our products.

1990 -1994 Masters of Business Administration degree

Loyola Marymount University; 1 LMU Dr., #100; Los Angeles, CA 90045

Majored in Sales/Marketing and Entrepreneurship with finance and project management. Professors commented that I had an unusual ability to present complex systems to business people in understandable terms.

1984 – 1993 Hughes Aircraft Company (HAC); El Segundo, CA

Hardware/Software Engineer for Range Systems $100M DoD project. Only in-house engineer selected to go to the field and work with the customers for installation and customer training and acceptance. Designed, built, and integrated custom cross-signal correlation digital circuits. Installed and configured custom optical networks. DoD computer security officer. Responsible engineer for radar and microwave performance and monitoring system. Installed one of HAC’s first L.B. Ethernet networks with remote terminal connections and one of the first e-mail systems.

Designed and wrote Direct TV satellite ranging software for Kalman filter position system utilizing international satellite ground base stations and global network communications. Responsible for project management and final product.

Software/Microprocessor Engineer for Support Systems Organization computing center. Supervised DEC/VAX and Unix Sequent computer center and operations personnel. Purchased, configured, and maintained $150K digital circuit simulator for electronic circuit development. Installed, configured, and maintained X-25/29 PSDN PAD foreign network between U.S.A. and Ireland.

1980 – 1984 St. Mary Medical Center; Long Beach, CA

Biomedical & Clinical Engineer – Developed cardiac ultrasound medical analysis software for cardiac physicians. Evaluated medical, laboratory, and surgical equipment for medical staff. Developed business code for financial operations. Published in DECUS software journal.

Biomedical Electronic Technician – Troubleshoot, repaired, and maintained medical and laboratory equipment per hospital accreditation requirements. Became BMET certified.

1978 - 1979 Dutch Boy Paints; South Gate, CA

Customer Representative – Took customer orders by phone, entered purchase orders into computer system, and tracked orders through ordering, inventory, shipping, and invoicing. Wrote Cobol business programs to generate management reports.

1977 – 1981 B.S. Electrical Engineering with Biomedical/Clinical Engineering at California State University; Long Beach, CA

I passed the State of California E.I.T. Professional Engineer exam; PE #E11809

Published in I.E.E.E. Clinical Engineering Journal with C.S.U. L.B. professors

I still occasionally part-time teach assembly level programming and clinical/biomedical engineering for C.S.U., L.B.

1973 – 1977 U.S. Navy Corpsman

Worked in intensive patient care wards in Guam, MI and preventative medical facility at Camp Pendleton U.S. Marine Corps base. Taught scuba diving in at Camp Pendleton.

1966 - 1970

William A. Wirt High School

210 N. Grand Blvd.; Gary, IN 46403

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