Project & Program Manager
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William H. Bolt, PMP
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Houston, Texas 77070 ********@**.******.***
SUMMARY
A highly effective Program Management Professional with a reputation for meeting challenges head-on and creating
positive change. Proven ability to provide direction while generating and delivering innovative ideas and effective
solutions in highly competitive, rapidly changing business environments. An energetic leader with a consistent track
record of success developing and leading teams to achieve outstanding results in profitability, customer service and
quality performance. Key competencies include:
Project & Program Management Portfolio Management Total Quality Management
Risk Analysis Project Office Employee Development
Strategic Planning Product Life Cycle Management P&L Management
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
ETREMA Products, Inc., Ames, Iowa 2013
Program Manager
Managed program schedule, budget, resources, and risk management for a program to develop a marine
vibrator noise source for offshore marine seismic survey systems.
• Established the detailed program schedule, budget, resource breakdown, and initiated program risk
analysis. Participated in planning for and program kickoff meeting with customer. Provided detailed
weekly financial reports, and weekly and monthly status reports. Result: Customer felt comfortable
program was under control and micromanagement was not required.
TELEDYNE GEOPHYSICAL INSTRUMENTS, Houston, TX 2011-2013
Engineering Program Manager
Led development effort for several acoustic data acquisition systems, components and collaboration
efforts with development partners, customers and suppliers.
• Coordinated proposal effort among several companies to secure an opportunity for the development
of an advanced seismic source for a major oil company consortium. Converged collaboration effort
into a final proposal format and led meetings with consortium representatives and consultants.
Result: A multiyear development contract that is scheduled for kickoff in 2013.
• Created and managed the staged development and introduction of an internal diagnostic data
acquisition tool for production and field troubleshooting and process improvement. Result:
Improvement in issue resolution time and increased manufacturing process insight and efficiency.
FOXCONN Technology Group, Longhua, China and Neihu, Taiwan 2008-2011
Director, System Development
Led system design / development effort for the outsourced manufacture of HP’s desktop and blade PC’s. Supervised
an organization consisting of 200 electrical and mechanical engineers. Developed products for various markets
including consumer products, commercial desktops, workstations, blade PC’s, and thin clients.
• Managed a development organization in a low-wage, offshore environment, with low morale and high employee
turnover. Developed a technical and project management training program to raise the skill and contribution
level of new employees; and to add value to compensate for low wages, to increase morale and reduce turnover.
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Result: Developed group into a motivated, stable and effective team, able to meet product development scope,
cost, schedule, and quality requirements, creating significant savings during development cycles, and enhancing
the organization’s reputation, which generated additional business opportunities.
• Led successful effort to gain control of product specifications and management of customer’s change requests.
Established sound communications between project management team and customer’s product marketing and
procurement organizations, and taught team how to set appropriate expectations.
Result: Created a solid development environment with predictable product development results that met and/or
exceeded customer expectations. Significantly enhanced relationship and business potential with customer.
HEWLETT-PACKARD / Compaq, Houston, TX and Taipei, Taiwan 2000 - 2008
Program Manager
• Led effort to design and develop HP/Compaq’s low-end PC product line with virtual team in Houston
that included representatives from Marketing, Product Testing, Manufacturing, Procurement, Product
Support, Logistics, and Purchasing. Also directed efforts of the Product Engineering / Design Team,
located in Taiwan.
• Managed development and offshore manufacturing of a very low cost desktop computer. Formalized
outsourced development process eventually adopted by other divisions. Assisted inexperienced
supplier in Mainland China in setting up their manufacturing line and processes.
Result: Initial product was delivered in two months. Within five years low-end product family was
generating a significant percentage of division’s total revenue.
• Provided project management discipline to a blade server development organization for an effort in
field problem resolution. Also provided project management effort to help bring discipline to
component supplier’s technical and schedule management.
Result: Significantly improved schedule integrity, validation coverage, organizational
communications, risk management, and customer satisfaction. Improvements saved tens of thousands
of dollars in missed delivery dates, rework, and field repairs.
AVEO, INC., Santa Clara, California 1999-2000
Field Application Engineer
• Provided on-site technical product support and account management of Attune preemptive software
application at large OEM accounts in U.S. and Canada, including Dell, HP, Gateway, Compaq, and
Corel.
• Installed and managed third generation software at Dell in Austin and assisted in the successful
implementation of the third generation product deployment concept .
• Result: Aveo received a significant investment and development grant from Dell.
COMPAQ, Houston, Texas 1998-1999
Software Program Manager
• Managed the development, validation and release of hard drive software images for Consumer
Division products; maintained SQL data bases.
• Developed, validated and delivered large account special images for Commercial Division.
• Increased sale of commercial desktop systems due to the availability of special images for large
accounts.
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FIREBOY-XINTEX SAFETY SYSTEMS, Grand Rapids, Michigan 1997
Chief Engineer
• Improved the manufacturing yield of gas detection safety products. Analyzed manufacturing
processes, test fixtures, as well as the product design and components.
Result: Redesigned processes and fixtures resolving issues, improving yields, and restoring
profitability.
COMPAQ, Houston, Texas 1996 - 1997
Program Manager
• Managed a group of fifteen engineers, programmers, and quality test technicians to ensure third party
applications were compatible with Compaq’s operating system and environment.
DELTA-X CORPORATION, Houston, Texas 1994 - 1996
Chief Engineer
Responsible for development of embedded microcontroller-based SCADA systems for the petroleum
industry.
• Created a process responsive to product support requirements while isolating new product
development effort.
Result: Established more proactive and organized environment, put new product development on
reliable schedules, and significantly reduced personnel turnover rate.
COULTER ELECTRONICS, Inc., Hialeah, FL 1991 - 1994
Principal Manufacturing Engineer
• Improved introduction of new products into manufacturing, by producing complete documentation
packages; establishing, communicating, and managing, aggressive introduction schedules; and
working simultaneously on the development effort with manufacturing engineers, to identify test
fixtures and unique product manufacturing requirements early in the cycle.
Result: Improved the quality of the instruments being manufactured and reduced then new product
transfer time into manufacturing by several months.
IBM, Entry Systems Division, Boca Raton, Florida 1982 - 1991
Advisory Engineer / Manager
• Designed and provided product management services for IBM’s entry system PC’s and PC
peripherals.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
Completed fifty credit hours of graduate studies in Electrical Engineering
Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
IBM Software Engineering Institute
Raleigh, North Carolina
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Advanced Master Certificate in Applied Project Management (in process)
Villanova University
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