Project Manager High School
Resume:
Paul R. Laba
Dover, NH *****
603-***-**** (Home)
603-***-**** (Cell)
******@*******.***
Career Objective:
Design, develop and deploy applications, professional training and other
solutions that will help organizations or businesses improve their
technology and performance.
Summary of Qualifications:
* Skilled in the use and customization of Microsoft Office tools, including
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), a customized version of Visual Basic
geared toward Office applications.
* Expertise in the use and development of Microsoft Excel as a database,
statistical analysis tool and application engine. Personally developed
many end-user applications written exclusively in Excel and VBA.
* Extensive skills and experience in designing, developing and deploying
applications, most recently database and educational solutions designed
to track and assess student and school performance.
* Skilled presenter, able to design and present technical seminars and
workshops to train staffs in the use of existing and new applications.
* Exceptional project manager with a proven track record managing large,
distributed projects spread across multiple sites and teams.
* Extensive managerial experience directing small to moderate sized
engineering teams in developing and supporting strategic, complex
software products including embedded firmware, operating systems, device
drivers, management applications, etc.
* Strong technical writer, able to develop clear, easy-to-understand end-
user documentation and training materials for users with minimal
technical skills or experience.
* Strong analytical skills with a background in engineering, mathematics
and statistics.
* An outstanding people manager, promoting healthy and cooperative work
environments. Easy-going style and good sense of humor brings harmony
and fun to all of his projects.
Professional Experience:
Technology Consultant 2003 to 2005
SchoolWorks, LLC
Beverly, MA
. Developed an Excel-based student performance assessment and reporting
workbook application for the SUNY Charter Schools Institute (CSI), an
authorizer for many New York state charter schools. This tool allows
charter schools to enter and track their students' key performance data
across multiple years, and present that data to CSI in support of their
charter renewal application. The workbook makes extensive use of
custom menus and VBA macros, making it easy to use for school personnel
with minimal Excel experience.
. Developed an Excel-based performance analysis workbook add-in that
automatically summarizes and analyzes student performance data from a
charter school's SUNY CSI workbook. This workbook performs complex,
multi-year, true cohort statistical analysis by grade level and
subject, measuring such school performance factors as population
growth, retention effectiveness, NRT assessment gains and city/state
performance levels.
. Designed a comprehensive User's Guide for the Quality School Portfolio
(QSP), a web-based decision support tool developed by CRESST (Center
for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing). This
online PDF document, containing more than 800 pages and 250 screen
shots, provides QSP users and school administrators with detailed
information on how to set up and use QSP at the district and school
level.
. Quickly developed expertise in all aspects of QSP. Worked directly
with the QSP development team at UCLA to help identify and correct bugs
found in the product, as well as modify the product to make it easier
to use. Provided detailed recommendations to the team for the design
of several new product features.
. Developed and presented many custom seminars, including extensive
PowerPoint-based modules, to several schools, school districts and
other educational agencies in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Indiana,
Maine and New York. These seminars ranged from half-day overviews to
multi-day planning and implementation workshops.
. Developed an Excel-based workbook for use by SchoolWorks staff to
summarize and characterize teacher competencies within a school.
. Deployed and supported several new, collaborative project and work
tools at SchoolWorks, including SharePoint (documentation libraries),
Groove (project and file sharing workspaces) and GoToMeeting (online
meeting tools).
Director of Engineering 1997 to 2002
Adaptec, Inc. - Nashua Technology Center
Nashua, NH
. Directed a 35-person RAID engineering organization with $5M annual
budget and $75M in revenues. Responsible for: Engineering, Quality
Assurance, Program Management, Support, Configuration Management,
Build/Source Control and Documentation.
. Successfully led the development and delivery of firmware and software
for four new Dell RAID products, two new Hewlett-Packard RAID
firmware/software releases, and Adaptec's first high-end PCI RAID
controller.
. Worked directly with Dell Computers in designing, delivering and
supporting their new, revolutionary (at the time) RAID on Motherboard
products using NTC's RAID firmware and software, resulting in $25M
additional revenue.
. Successfully coordinated projects and resources across four different
Adaptec U.S. sites.
. In response to an executive decision to close NTC, effectively
transitioned all knowledge and resources to other Adaptec organizations
and personally helped many NTC employees secure new positions both
inside and outside the company.
Senior Engineering Manager, Digital UNIX Systems Group 1992 to 1997
Digital Equipment Corporation/Compaq
Nashua, NH
. Managed a staff of 18 senior and principal-level software engineers
responsible for development and support of drivers and subsystems for
Digital's UNIX operating system, including storage and network drivers,
communications drivers and printer drivers.
. Designed, developed and supported several new organizational management
tools, such as an Excel-based Salary Management and Tracking tool, to
help improve organizational effectiveness and productivity.
. Tracked all phases of development and deployment, using Microsoft
Project. Used Project's advanced features like Resource Leveling to
better predict resource conflicts during software development.
. Directed engineering tasks in both Nashua, NH and Palo Alto, CA,
including hardware groups and external consulting firms.
. Met all product delivery requirements, including schedule, market
requirements, and quality metrics, in spite of an aggressive schedule
and several hardware schedule slips.
Additional Relevant Experience:
. Computer Science/Mathematics Instructor, Le Moyne College, Syracuse,
NY. Taught Introduction to Computer Science, BASIC-Plus Programming
and a variety of high school Mathematics courses to incoming college
freshmen and economically disadvantaged high school students in Le
Moyne College's Upward Bound summer programs.
. Mathematics Teacher, Wellwood Jr. High School, Fayetteville, NY. Key
member of an innovative seventh grade interdisciplinary teaching team.
Personally designed and implemented several new units aimed at raising
weaker students' interest and skills in Mathematics.
. Director of Computer Services, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY.
Personally designed and developed in-house software packages, written
in Basic-Plus, for Registration, Grading, Financial Aid, Admissions,
Alumni/Development and Housing.
. Senior Software Engineer, Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua, NH.
Personally designed and developed several advanced commands and
utilities within the PDP-11 RSTS/E operating system.
. High School Library Volunteer. Trained the Merrimack, NH high School
library staff on how they could use Microsoft Word to develop web-based
student research articles and materials.
Education:
. B.A., Mathematics
Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY.
. Post-graduate courses, Mathematics and Computer Science
Le Moyne College, SUNY Oswego, SUNY Cortland
. Seminars/workshops on a variety of technical and managerial topics
Adaptec, Inc., Digital Equipment Corporation
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