Dr. Michael Charles Hitson (PMP, CompTIA Project +, ASQ CSSBB)
Drive * Noblesville, IN 46062
(c) 317-***-****, (h) 317-
***-**** ? ********@*****.***
Deeply accomplished and certified professional project manager and Six
Sigma Lean Master Black Belt with over 10 years of experience providing a
proven ability to deliver substantial revenue, productivity, and quality
improvements, through well managed, on-time projects. Personally motivated
by standards and degrees of excellence to over-achieve
expectations and objectives as an individual and team leader with first-
rate skills in directing full cycles for complex, multi-lines of business,
programs and initiatives.
High Knowledge Areas of Experience & Expertise
* Project Management (PMP) * Six Sigma / Statistics
(SSBB) * Lean
* Information Technology * Minitab & SPSS
* Virtual Teaming
* Research / Authoring * Executive
Presentations * Training / Curriculum
* Customer Service and Relations * Microsoft Office
Applications * Leadership Development
Professional Experience
Frontier / Verizon Communications, Westfield, Indiana (2000 - present day)
. Project and Program Management (Six Sigma - Lean and non-Six Sigma
founded)
Manage / support multiple simultaneous PMBOK / DMAIC / Project Process
Architecture (PPA) methodology projects across areas including information
technology application development and replacement, collection processes,
call center operations and performance, corporate curriculum development
and delivery method methodology, corporate events planning, sensitive data
protection, disaster recovery, operations transferred to 3rd party vendor,
financial tracking, and revenue assurance. Some examples include:
Six Sigma, DMAIC based Sensitive Personal Information protection (500
applications / 4 business lines)
Six Sigma, DMADV based Internet customer chat /e-mail facilitation (26,000
e-mail and chats monthly)
Six Sigma, DMAIC / Lean based call center operations improvement (400
agents - over 40,000 contacts/day)
Stand-up of IT Disaster Recovery (Business Continuity) site - greenfield /
IT founded ($14 mil. project)
Six Sigma, DMADV based customer credit verification application
development (2 systems with 1,200 users)
Corporate events planning (multiple events - inside and outside U.S.A. -
over 300 participants per event)
. Researcher and Author
Create unique content in Power Point and Word format / articles for
intranet bound IT publications; Complete executive level research and Power
Point presentation requests on IT centered topics; Coordinate the creation
of IT informative webnars, Create unique research content for academic
conferences. Event speaker / presenter. Some examples include:
. Executive corporate research: Completed over 80 executive level research
requests + presentations
. Doctoral Research: An Analysis of Leadership Methodology and Job
Satisfaction among Virtual Team Members (data from 27 nations), which was
presented at the 4th European Conference on Information Systems
Management, Leadership, and Governance, University of Reading, GB (2008).
Document published in Proquest.
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. Trainer /Curriculum Developer
Manage project, develop curriculum, and facilitate training in the areas
of IT application usage, customer service, project management, and call
center process improvement to management, associates, and new hires across
multiple lines of business. Some examples include:
Developed the program / project, constructed the curriculum, and applied
the training for corporate system education and application development
(12 department wide programs across over 600 participants each).
. Developed training, managed Six Sigma, DMADV founded project for Pivot
Table call center performance analysis training and improvement, over 300
management employees across 11 call centers
. Creator of the Knowledge Founded Virtual Self-Management Model for
virtual teaming and project management. - - Published - IARIA Life
Science Journal - 2009, vol. 1, ed. 4
. Published - Journal of the North American Management Society - 2010,
Spring - Emotional Intelligence Founded Transformational Leadership
Traits: The Impact of Gender, Tenure, and Organization Position Among
Virtual Workers
Academic and Certification History
. Baker College - Master of Science - Information Systems - In
Progress (25 hrs. complete)
. University of Phoenix - Doctor of Organizational Management
. University of Phoenix - MBA - Management
. Indiana University - Master of Science - Education / Genetics
. Ball State University - Bachelor of Science - Biology / Chemistry /
Speech Education
. Project Management Institute (PMI) - Professional Manager of
Projects (PMP) Certified
. American Society for Quality (ASQ) - Six Sigma Black Belt Certified
. CompTIA - Project + Certified
. Villanova University - Advanced Masters Certificate in Six Sigma;
Master Project
Management Certificate; Lean Six Sigma Master Black
Belt Certificate
. Verizon Communications - Information Technology Requirements Analyst
Certification
Memberships
* Project Management Institute (PMI); * Institute
of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE)
* American Society for Quality (ASQ) * Mensa
* CompTIA
{Open to relocation nationally and
internationally}
{Curriculum Vitae (CV) available upon request}