Project Manager Engineer

David K. Asano, PhD

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Easton, CT 06612-1133

Home: 203-***-****; Cell: 203-***-****

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SUMMARY Technical Manager with strong background in creating program vision

and direction. Extensive background in program/project management for

full lifecycle development. Strong delivery track record. Utilize

user centered design methodologies. Experience building physical,

service and software products.

EXPERIENCE

Pitney Bowes, CT

2007- Manager AC&T

Present (Computer Science Lab: Future Mailstream)

Manager performing a Director role for AC&T and the Future Mailstream

team. The group is chartered to investigate and develop technologies

to build innovative product concepts and business opportunities

Created vision and direction for newly established team to transform

how the company thinks about the business of mail, helping the

company to move from being manufacturing centered to a more

transactional centered business.

Developed and tested conceptual and reference prototypes (hardware

and software) that lead to new user interaction paradigms and new

standards that would enable a new market place to be developed.

Other Activities:

Created and managed distributed collaboration (video conferencing)

solution to connect disperse locations and mobile work force.

Continued to evolve solution to meet new and changing needs of the

organization.

2005- 2007 Manager

AC&T (Systems Lab)

Manager within the Systems Lab to implement user-centered methods to

test, develop and transition concepts to LOBs. Developed LOB

partnerships to build business cases and implementation plans

Managed and delivered multiple projects that leveraged expertise of

designers, developers and area experts to deliver new concepts and

test their value.

Created rapid prototypes and conducted trials to test value

propositions of new concepts that enabled Pitney Bowes to evaluate

various multi-million dollar market spaces.

Packaged, evangelized and migrated concepts that where in the lab to

the line of business. This lead to the new flag ship product that is

currently be developed - MailstreamOne

Conducted customer visitation workshops to train Product Managers on

how to observer end users and use this information to develop user

need driven product and feature concepts

Presented quarterly results to Executive Management

Managed the Smithsonian Postal Exhibit renovation - the most visited

museum "off the mall" with over 460,000 visitors that Pitney Bowes

levered for public relations and client entertaining

2002 - 2005 Project Manager - Senior Engineer

GMS - Business Manager

Project Manager for Business Manager a desktop accounting and

information management system. This system replaces existing

solutions creating cost savings for the company and is currently

generating $4.2M in revenue on an annual basis

Managed full Life Cycle from development through product launch and

deployment

Partnered with French development team. Supplemented team with

Indian offshore resources to minimize development and sustaining

costs

Provided input to process improvements that lead to fundamental

development process and system tool changes - most significantly in

the ClearCase defect tracking system

Created/managed budgets and schedules to ensue resource and time

constraints where met

Partnered with in-house departments - Product Marketing, Sales,

Manufacturing, Product Supply and Service to ensure coordination

among organizations

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Verizon, - Science and Technology White Plains, NY

2001 - 2002 e-Business Executive (Director)

Wholesale

Defined, created vision and built new organization to support the

Wholesale Access LOB

Identified business opportunities, and acquired $10 million in

funding for strategic projects

Staffed 40 person organization through direct hires, in-house

recruitment and consultants

Initiated ISO9000 compliant projects within the Wholesale Access

space

2000 - 2001 Business Analyst

e-Business Task Force

Assisted Senior Vice President to define and develop strategies and

opportunities for emerging e-Business organization.

Generated and articulated unified corporate internet/intranet

strategy

Developed conceptual prototypes for internal e-Business sales efforts

2000 - 2001 Systems Architect

Service Assurance Architecture

Mapped Operations Support Systems, identified synergies and defined

corporate wide envisioned architecture for Bell Atlantic/GTE

pre-merger activities.

Collaborated with cross-enterprise team to perform a Bell

Atlantic/GTE gap analysis infrastructures and developed a unified

strategic company wide architecture

1998 - 2001 Project Manager/Systems Engineer

Scrubber, Delphi, Netway

Led project activities for development of solutions for the

Operational Support Systems. Created organization-wide requirement

standards to support quality development and testing.

Managed project full life cycle development including test and

acceptance phases

Created Business, Functional and System Requirements that where used

for test plans/cases

Managed ISO9000 project certification

1996 - 1997 Project Leader

Telecommunity Project

Developed new application concepts by studying lead user

telecommunications needs

Lead cross-functional team to develop web application concepts and

prototypes including a functional ordering and billing system

Created partnership with the New York New Media Association and

became a lead user within this community

1992 - 1995 Mechanical Design Engineer

Autocount Project

Designed and built robotic coin box counting/processing system for

process re-engineering effort.

Designed, assembled and implemented robotic system. (obtained seven

patents)

Vendor Management

Preformed hardware and software testing.

Advanced Technology Industries, Carlstadt NJ

1989 - 1992 Chief Mechanical Engineer

Managed design of automated routers manufacturer of printed circuit

board routers.

Designed and assembled new robotic routers

Preformed hardware and software testing

Vendor Management - Negotiated with vendors and managed internal

machine shop resources

COMMUNITY Recruited and lead cross-organizational FIRST Robotics team - a

SERVICE national project that stimulates high-school students to pursue

engineering. Won 2001 Regional competition

EDUCATION Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Rhode Island

M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Rochester

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