Project Manager Engineer
Resume:
DAVID A. COPPERMAN
Highland Park, NJ 08904
H: 732-***-**** **************@*******.**
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SUMMARY
Systems / Business Analyst, Project Manager, and former developer, with
more than fifteen years experience. Expertise in requirements and process
development, and in full product life cycle and project management (SDLC),
from conception and requirements through implementation, delivery, and
maintenance. Team leader on small and large projects in diverse
technologies and applications. Extensive customer-facing experience;
excellent communications, organization, and documentation skills. Expert in
Microsoft Office applications. Related experience includes community
college teaching and board of education membership (current). Course work
completed for Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
NCS TECHNOLOGIES, Piscataway, NJ 2008 - 2009
Analyst
Developing lead requirements for Operational Data Store of the new Special
Education Student Information System for the New York City Department of
Education.
. Establish data discovery methodology on current, highly distributed and
undocumented legacy systems and databases.
. Shift to integrated ODS data model, lay out requirements for data
migration and school-by-school cutover to new system.
ALK TECHNOLOGIES, Princeton, NJ 2007 - 2008
A software company for the transportation and travel sectors.
Senior Product Manager
. Delivered first release of next generation CoPilot personal routing and
mapping product for U.S. truck and auto sectors on new software
architecture.
. Delivered custom version of next generation CoPilot application in
parallel for multinational truck manufacturer.
PORTICO, Princeton, NJ 2004 - 2007
A non-profit initiative of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
in digital preservation of academic content.
Lead Systems Analyst and Project Manager
. Established scope, developed requirements and preservation procedures for
first release of the Portico content preparation and archive systems.
. Set up liaison to sister organization JSTOR to establish joint delivery
of archived materials to end users. Wrote the requirements for the user
access system and content interface from the archive.
. Led procedures development for newly established operations department.
NCS TECHNOLOGIES, Piscataway, NJ 2002 - 2004
Analyst / Project Manager
Delivered client projects on time and with profit margins that exceeded
targets:
. AT&T Small Business - Developed full requirements and train-the-trainer
manual for long distance account third-party verification system
(regulatory requirement).
. Aventis Pharmaceuticals - Specified Human Resources web-based "knowledge
system" requirements and logical user interface, managed development and
test.
. Novartis Pharmaceuticals - Wrote requirements for new trials management,
assay tracking, e-marketing, and data warehouse systems, managed two of
these projects.
. Toms River School System - Analyzed and documented Video on Demand system
for on-line help via reverse engineering in self-managed project.
. JSTOR - Consulted on plans to migrate scholarly journal delivery site,
storage systems, and production applications to new platforms.
Documented scope, requirements, and migration plan.
BELL LABORATORIES, several locations in New Jersey; 1983 - 2001
Systems Engineer, Project Manager, Developer
. Mobile Internet Gateway - Lead systems engineer for wireless network
mediation platform providing subscriber location and "presence" from TDMA
and CDMA networks to Mobile Internet applications. Wrote systems
requirements; worked as liaison to Mobile Switching Center product group;
developed feasibility studies for Mobile Commerce payment processing
gateway product.
TDMA Wireless Handsets - Systems engineering team lead for next generation
handset suite development. Developed requirements in several functional
areas for multiple handsets, including network signaling, product
operations and administration, and private systems support.
MX1000 Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Switch - Systems engineer for
Operations, Administration, and Maintenance, responsible for requirements
and functional test plans. Developed requirements and test plans in
services related areas, including ATM-standard Private Network-Network
Interface (PNNI) routing, and system security (based on SNMP).
Sandia Environmental Decision Support System (SEDSS) - Architect and sole
programmer for graphical workstation application platform for Sandia
National Laboratory hydrologists to provide decision support in
environmental remediation, in C++ using Interviews graphical object system.
Integrated public domain Geographical Information System into solution.
Enhanced Modular Signal Processor (EMSP) - Systems engineer for application
generation for a U.S. Navy signal processing computer. Wrote requirements
for compilation software running on support machines, and run-time
distribution and execution software within multivariate processors on
signal processing computer. Managed development by two subcontractors.
Developed the first prototype compiler for the application language.
Operations Support Systems (OSS) Provided analysis and requirements for OSS
clients.
- System suite for Pacific Bell broadband hybrid fiber-coax networks.
- Verizon long distance operations support in ATM provisioning, Access
Service Requests (ASR), and customer record management.
- Multi-client distributed Field Access system for dispatched field
craft activity and craft access to multiple operations support
systems. Led development team in applications for terminal and user
emulation.
EDUCATION
MS, Computer Information/Control Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, MI
BA, Geography, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Introduction to Programming (C Middlesex Community College (2002)
COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP
Board of Education, Highland Park, N.J. (2004 - Present)
(Publicly elected; currently in second three year term)
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