Project Manager Management

Christopher Ball 586-***-****

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PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Certified Project Management Professional with more than 15 years

experience in an assortment of progressive, challenging assignments.

Significant and diverse skill set in a variety of environments. Highly

motivated, with excellent inter-personal skills and ability to lead.

. Project Management

. Energy Management

. Facility Operations

. Cost Containment

. Team Building & Development

. Budgeting & Contract Negotiations

. Interpersonal Relations

. Crisis Resolution

. I.T. Implementation

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS

. Energy Manager for a highly successful energy management program in

the 2nd largest school district in Michigan. Highlights of the program

include:

o Achieved increased savings and reduction in utility consumption

for each year of the energy program, culminating with 32% cost

avoidance in 2010 fiscal year and 26% cost avoidance for entire

duration of the program.

o Reduction of energy budget from over $7M in 2005 to $5.5M in

2009.

o Certified 32 buildings as Energy Star award winners.

o Developed strong working relationships with administration,

operations, and teaching staff comprising of 1600+ employees.

Encouraged energy conservation through presentations, reporting

of energy data, frequent energy audits at each location, and

personal interaction with staff members.

. Project manager for large automotive organization. Projects include:

multi-million dollar corporate-wide active directory segmentation,

implementation of software package for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)

compliance, online systems catalog for internal applications, backup

and recovery for critical applications, and corporate-wide hardware

replacement.

. Project manager for the planning, implementation and launch of new

telecommunication carrier for 50-site network. Managed all vendor

relationships and updated design plan of VOIP network. Planned and

executed all phases of the transfer without any interruption of

service.

. Site Support Manager for IT consulting firm. Manager for

hardware/software department consisting of 5 computer technicians.

Member of four person project team which successfully negotiated

contracts with ATT, Dell and IBM.

. Telecommunications Manager for a large financial institution. Provided

technical and administrative support for 105 branch and operations

offices. Obtained over $400,000 in yearly savings in just a six-month

period through billing audits based on corporate expenditures of over

$2.8 million annually for telecom.

. Lead for project design team responsible for the planning and

implementation of wide-area PBX network for 10 remote offices around

the country. Managed relationships between PBX vendors,

telecommunications carriers, and all stakeholders within the company.

. Network planning, design and implementation of wide-area VOIP and T1-

based telecommunications networks for numerous clients around the

state of Michigan

. Successfully negotiated numerous telecommunications and software

support contracts with various vendors.

Christopher Ball 586-***-****

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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Energy Manager April 2008 - Present

Utica Community Schools, Sterling Heights, MI

Project Manager July 2007 to April 2008

Computer Consultants of America, Southfield, MI

Telecommunications Jan 2004 to June 2007

Utica Community Schools, Sterling Heights, MI

Telecommunications Consultant Dec 2002 to Jan 2004

Suntel Services, Auburn Hills, MI

Site Support Manager May 2002 to Dec 2002

Superior Consultant, Southfield, MI

Telecommunications Manager Oct 2001 to May 2002

Republic Bank, Farmington Hills, MI

Site Support Manager Dec 1997 to Oct 2001

Superior Consultant, Southfield, MI

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

. Charter Oak State College - New Britain, Connecticut

Bachelors of Science (Business Concentration - with Honors)

. PMI Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)

. German and Russian Language Studies

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