James F. Bishop
Senior Project Manager
**** ******** ****, *******, ** 44216
abkab4@r.postjobfree.com - 330-***-****
Summary Over 20 years of IT and technical experience in consulting,
designing, developing, implementing, and managing various
manufacturing computer applications, systems, and
development teams.
Has been in management positions for 9 years with a broad
range of assignments, projects, and teams. Prior to that
was involved as a software developer with technical projects
in R&D as well as production facilities. This enabled an
easy transition to being able to work with developers and
subject matter experts as a project manager, team manager,
and assistant program manager. Experience includes hiring,
planning, directing, and reporting on a team's technical
progress. Has assisted program managers with full scale
application roll-outs as well as application support
out-sourcing. Has also acted as a customer/management
liaison for a range of applications across several sites.
As a project manager, works with full project life cycle
including analysis and requirement development for
production systems, system development, system and
user-acceptance testing, and budget and resource management
and reporting.
Written/verbal communication and presentation skills are
excellent as they were honed while working as a teacher and
instructor. Has always worked with the business idea of
fast, friendly, and flexible. Has been selected for
projects because of self-motivation and attention to details
as well as organization skills.
Work SAIC eRTIS Global Environment Manager/Project Manager
Experience Independence, Ohio 2001 - Present
Manages the development of processes for release and
configuration management for a global real-time data
management application. Also involved with the Services
Oriented Architecture processes for web services.
Delivers applications for refining programs for BP.
Acts as a Global Environment Manager for BP's eRTIS (global
real-time data management) application, working with both
onshore and offshore support teams.
Responsible for the test, development, staging and
production servers on which eRTIS runs in the European Mega
Data Center.
Responsible for managing the connectivity and stability of
the eRTIS system as well as configuration management for
changes going onto the system.
Continually engaged with offshore resources to determine
best resourcing practices for projects and support.
Manages Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS)
group and acts as LIMS project manager. Directs LIMS team
personnel. Responsible for full life cycle project
management including costs, schedules, contracts, and
customer interfacing. Also responsible for hiring
contractors to work on projects. Responsible for support
team after project completion.
Project Manager for various refining projects for BP and
Marathon
Assisted in the development of Project Management
Organization processes and procedures for the Marathon Oil
account.
Customer Relationship manager for Marathon Oil account in
Findlay, Ohio
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Development Engineer - Senior
Akron, Ohio
Responsible for software development for engineering
interactive graphics applications to design tires with C++
and TCL/TK in an object oriented environment on IBM
RS6000's.
Project manager for a pilot project to reengineer a global
graphics application for tire design in Catia V5R6 on NT
workstations.
Responsible for the development of the group's first
internal web pages.
SAIC Programmer/Analyst Consultant for BP Oil Co.
Warrensville, Ohio
Produced FORTRAN and C programs for refinery simulation
models on Sun Sparcs and HP-9000 UNIX Workstations.
Developed software on Vax and Dec Alphas running open VMS
and Unix.
Developed GUI's in Visual Basic for engineering and
technical applications on PC's. Familiar with TCP/IP, HTML,
and most major Microsoft packages including MS Office,
Visual Source Safe, and MS Power Station.
Trained in Documentum document management scripting.
General Tire, Inc. Scientific Lead Programmer/Analyst
Akron, Ohio
Was responsible for developing interactive graphics tire
design software that generated models to be used in finite
element analysis.
Produced engineering software in FORTRAN, C, PHIGS,
X-windows, and Motif to run on Unix Workstations.
Developed proficiency with UIM/X GUI developer software.
Wrote Unix scripts using AWK, Perl, and Tcl/Tk.
Developed first internal web site.
Continental Tire - International Exchange Program, Hannover,
Germany
Spent 1 year in Germany on a technology exchange program
working with Continental Tire.
Served as a liaison between the U.S. and German technology
groups.
Developed graphics software on Siemens and IBM computers for
Research and Development.
Wrote data retrieval interface in SQL and FORTRAN.
General Tire Scientific Senior Programmer/Analyst, Akron,
Ohio
Designed and maintained interactive graphics software in
FORTRAN and IGL for engineering design purposes.
Designed 3-D animation software for vibration simulation.
Stark Technical College Physics Instructor North Canton,
Ohio
Taught mechanics, thermodynamics, electricity, and
electromagnetism to adult students.
Responsible for organizing and managing physics labs.
Ontario High School Mathematics and Physics Teacher Ontario,
Ohio
Taught mathematics, science, and physics classes in grades
9-12.
Coached high school basketball.
Education B.A., Mathematics (Minor in Physics)
Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio
ITIL Foundation Certification, 2006
Read and Speak German
Computer Platforms: PC; DEC Vax/Alpha; Sun Sparcs, HP 9000 and IBM
Proficiency RS6000 Unix Workstations
Software: C/C++; Visual Basic; FORTRAN; Perl; Awk; VBscript;
TCP/IP; SQL; HTML; Tcl/Tk
Applications: Catia; UIM/X; MS Office Suite; Visio, MS
Visual Source Safe