Art Kinsella, PMP
**** * ******* *** **********, CO 80111
***********@*******.***
http://www.linkedin.com/in/artkinsella
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