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Project Engineer

Location:
Englewood, CO, 80111
Posted:
April 29, 2010

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Resume:

Art Kinsella, PMP

**** * ******* *** **********, CO 80111

***********@*******.***

http://www.linkedin.com/in/artkinsella

720-***-****

Summary - Accomplished IT leader and manager; experienced in IT Project

Management, Software Development, and IT Functional Management. Reputation

for building high performance virtual teams, with proven success managing

projects which added organizational value and delighted customers.

Leadership and management skills include:

- Collaboration, Facilitation, Delegation

- Creativity, Problem Solving

- Efficiently bridging together People, Processes & Technology (i.e.

workflow automation)

- Explaining technology in non-technical terms

- Intuitive understanding of complex situations

- Leading & Motivating

- Managing virtual teams

- Project Management expertise

- Values: Respect, Reputation building, Integrity, Honesty, &

Accountability

Professional Experience

Raytheon, 1998-2010

A leading aerospace technology company.

Manager II - Information Systems Technology, (2005-2010)

Provided functional, project, and operational management to a

geographically dispersed virtual team of IT software development and

operations professionals. Performed strategic planning and organizational

risk management.

- Successfully completed four business unit wide projects supporting 9000

employees.

- Initiated and achieved sponsorship for a million dollar project to

modernize and automate Facilities organizational processes.

- Volunteered and led an organization wide team which improved the employee

opinion measurement of Accountability and Ethical Behavior by 7%.

Manager I - Computer Systems Analysis, (2003 - 2005)

Responsible for leading teams working in the following disciplines: web

application development, graphic arts, audio visual equipment and event

productions, Windows systems administration, and enterprise application

administration. Controlled functional budget with project approval and

sponsorship authority.

- Grew team from 12 to 30 people in 18 months during the largest growth

phase in the organizations' history.

- Successfully started 5 year project with the objective to control the use

of free and open source software. Resulted in generating company wide

policy and significantly reducing the company's risk to loss of

intellectual property.

- Proposed and designed 4 leading edge customer demonstration centers.

Wrote RFP's, evaluated bidders, negotiated terms and conditions, and

hired vendors for build-outs. These started out as a single project,

after executive management experienced the first, they asked for more!

Team Lead II - Computer Systems Analysis, Sr. Systems Engineer, (1998-2003)

Led Unix & network system administration projects.

- Managed project which designed, built, and successfully deployed to

international customer sites, 3 independent test labs consisting of 50+

hardware components including Unix servers, workstations, network

devices, and custom hardware components.

- Helped design and build new technology infrastructure for company program

which generated $200M sales.

Hughes Aircraft Company, 1994-1998

A leading aircraft and aerospace technology company which merged with

Raytheon in 1998.

Sr. Systems Engineer, Sr. Software Engineer

Led software and system design sub-projects. Helped modernize project

management for programs I was assigned to support. Performed scope, design,

and requirements analysis. Programmed C++ and Java software on Oracle

databases.

- Got my first taste of professional leadership experience and knew it was

for me.

- Asked to evaluate project management software for program use. This

project led to my appreciation of project management and concluded with a

make-buy decision for executive management. Management's acceptance of

the project recommendations, led to the creation of a new project to

replace the existing antiquated project management system.

Education & Professional Development

B.S. Computer Science Engineering - University of Colorado Denver

- PMP Certified

- ITIL ITSM foundation certified

- Advanced Facilitation

- Diversity Case 2015 - workplace diversity

- Leading for Value - Communicating to Succeed

- Making Change Work

- Microinequities - diversity training

- Myers Briggs Type Indicator

- Personalysis

- Six Sigma specialist

- Ethics Connection Leadership Module

Technology Experience

- Archibus 14.1-18.2

- BMC Remedy 4-7.5, ITSM suite

- ClearCase, MS Visual Source Safe, Subversion, Star Team, ClearQuest,

BugZilla, JIRA

- Development methodologies: IPDS, Stage-gate, Waterfall, Incremental,

Spiral, Rapid, Agile, RUP, CASE

- Trade Studies, Kepner-Tregoe analysis

- Microsoft .Net frameworks 1.x-3.5, MS Visual Studio 2003-2008, C#, C++,

Java, Shell scripting (csh, bsh, ksh, tcsh)

- Microsoft SharePoint Server, MOSS

- MS Project, MS Visio, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Word, Frame Maker,

RoboHelp

- Networking & Storage - DNS, NIS, NFS, TCP/IP, Sendmail/SMTP, SAN, MS

- Web Application Development, Wireframe, mockups, Apache, MS IIS

- WebEX, SameTime, MS Netmeeting

- Windows (most versions), Unix (Solaris 2.5-10 & Redhat Linux



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