Project Manager Quality Assurance

Resume: William A. Pedersen

Project/Program Manager – Business Development/Marketing

Information Systems Consultant

• Over 35 years experience diverse areas: sciences, technology, business and hospitality

• Technology and marketing are keys to business development

• Strong analytical skill and keen sense of direction to drive projects to success

Project Management ● Technical Consulting ● Business Development

Marketing (Online and Traditional) ● Negotiations ● Client Relations

Disaster Recovery ● Operations, Financial Management

September 1984 to Present:

CCSS – Computer Consulting System Services. OpenVMS emphasis with expertise in Windows,

Unix, Linux and other operating environments. Project management, systems management, web

development, ecommerce implementations, systems and application programming, operations

management, disaster recovery planning and execution, on-call support – all part of the offerings

delivered to clients in California, New England, the Carolinas, world wide. Responsible for financial

and operational management of company: P/L, AP, AR, Balance sheet, hiring and firing. Company

had up to a dozen employees and consultants with 3 to 6 people on any project.

Projects and accomplishments include:

Designed and implemented a web-based self-paced training for OpenVMS integrating LAMP

environment of training and testing with OpenVMS lab and development system

Implemented 13 acre campus wide WiFi and other radio experience

Design and implementation of web sites, some with real-time ecommerce support

Designed and developed an active remote monitoring system using the Internet, Unix based

version was spun-off as a separate company

Disaster Recovery Planning and Testing

Consulting and Hardware maintenance and support – sales, management, delivery

Custom systems software development including system monitors, device drivers, command

interpreter extensions among others

Custom applications software development including EDI translators and data capture tools

Server migration / consolidation from of DEC hardware to Wintel-based hardware emulators

World-wide 24/7 customer support and call dispatching to users of OpenVMS MRP system and

network for a Fortune 1000 company

Product development support (design and development of software components)

DECnet interface for Ross Systems

Server-side DB accessing dynamic HTML extensions, WYSIWYG editor for Globalink

CTERM protocol stack on MVS for Interlink Computer Sciences

Remote Printer Queue Support for Interlink Computer Sciences

Security System for VAX/VMS for Dial-Guard

Systems management and operations support including DBA for Oracle DBMS

Y2K Transition Projects for hospital and semiconductor manufacturer – no interruption in

operations, remotely supported (UK/California)

211 Ruth Drive, Gaffney, South Carolina 29341

Telephone: 864-***-**** • F ax: 866-***-****

Resume: William A. Pedersen

Skills include:

Project management, distributed applications, network applications, peer to peer, client-server,

web-based applications, ecommerce, disaster recovery, business continuity, system

management, database administration, performance tuning and management, cluster

management, systems programming, application programming, networks, device drivers

OpenVMS, Unix, Linux, Solaris, Windows, IAS, RSX-11M, RT-11, MVS, DECnet, TCP/IP, Java,

DCL, HTML, ODBC, PHP, MySQL, LAMP, VAMP, Oracle Codaysl DBMS, Dreamweaver

UltraDev, osCommerce, JavaScript, MS Office, MS Project, Visio, Photoshop, VMS Clusters,

FORTRAN, C, Macro-11, Macro-32, BASIC, COBOL, Algol, Pascal, Visio, Photoshop, MS Project

VAX, Alpha, Integrity, Itanium, Intel-based white-box systems, Macintosh, Sun, PDP-11, WiFi,

radio communications, Ethernet, networks, serial communications, Internet

Customers over the years have included:

ADAC Laboratories Interlink Computer Sciences San Mateo County

AEHR Test Systems International Imaging Systems San Mateo County General

Hospital

Altera Corporation Lawrence Livermore National

Labs Santa Clara County

AMPEX Corporation

Litton Advanced Systems Santa Rosa County

Analog Devices Corporation

Loral Space&Ranges Systems Semiconductor Solutions, Inc

Avnet Computer

LSI Logic Sierra Semiconductor

Base Line Engineering

McDonnell Douglas SRI International

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NASA Ames Research Center Stanford University

City of Berkeley

Naval Post-Graduate School Stanford University Bookstore

City of Sunnyvale

NET.COM TeleSensory Systems

Commerce Clearing House

Raytheon Aircraft Company TIW Systems

Dial-Guard Inc.

Readicare U.S. Geological Survey

Digital Equipment Corporation

Rosicruian Order University of California (UCSF)

General Dynamics/Canada

Rugged Digital Systems University of San Francisco

Gould

San Francisco Chronicle US Navy

Globalink Technologies

San Francisco Heart Institute Vertex Satcom Systems

Hewlett-Packard Company

San Mateo Community Vishay/Siliconix

HiConcepts

College

January 2004 to May 2007:

Rubigineux Saoirse, LLC dba Red Clover Inn, Mendon, Vermont. Innkeeper/Owner (with my wife Tricia

Treen Pedersen) 14-room country inn with 70+-seat fine dining restaurant. Increased inn occupancy over

100% and restaurant covers over 200%. Developed and executed a marketing plan for local, regional

and international exposure. Wine Spectator Award of Excellence annually. Managed a staff of twenty.

Wired 13 acre campus for WiFi. Developed and enhanced web site. Managed a staff of twenty.

Responsible for financial and operational management of company: P/L, AP, AR, Balance sheet, credit

card processing, hiring and firing.

July 1988 to November 1989:

Dial-Guard, Inc., Foster City, California, Director of Software Development. Responsible for engineering

of information security and computer access control systems utilized in the financial, government and

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contractor environments. Designed and developed the Security Front End Processor using Ethernet and

X.25 technologies and a secure protocol using Message Authentication Coding. Managed development

team of six.

October 1983 to August 1984:

UltiMed, Inc., Saratoga, California, Vice-President Engineering and Development. Lead engineer for a

Hospital Information System. Developed network support for terminal front-end processor. Managed a

team of ten developers and documentation specialists. Interfaced with hospital departments.

May 1978 to October 1983:

Digital Equipment Corporation, Santa Clara, California.

May 1983 to October 1983 -

Western Regional Consulting Business Manager: implemented a standard proposal style within the

Region. Developed over $2 Million of business. Region included 10 western states.

July 1982 to October 1983 -

Western Regional Consulting Coordinator: responsible for quality assurance of consulting and developing

new business. Taught project management to software specialists and consultant. Maintained project

internal scheduling application for use by in-house projects. Oversaw projects ranging in size from one to

15 man-years. Region included 10 western states.

July 1980 to July 1982 -

District Software Consultant for Northern California and Northern Nevada: responsible for new business

development and ongoing project quality assurance. Technical support for DECnet and custom

networking products.

January 1980 to July 1980 - Principal Software Specialist

April 1979 to January 1980 - Senior Software Specialist

May 1978 to April 1979 - Software Specialist

Responsible for major customers in the district, including Intel, Chevron, Stanford University, University of

California, National Forest Service, Livermore Labs, Sandia Labs, Berkley Labs, NASA Ames Research

Center. Assignments included systems consulting, specialized communications software, network

consulting, device driver development and high-level technical support to Sales.

August 1976 to May 1978:

San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, Project Manager for sea-going timeshared

computer system. Responsible for project coordination and systems support. Developed a multi-ship

time-sharing system using duplex radio transmission, specialized graphics support for user devices, and

distributed data acquisition subsystems using DECnet. Field tested DECnet Phase-II for RSX-11M and

IAS operating systems.

May 1974 to August 1976:

University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, Research Engineer in the Oceanography Department.

Developed device independent graphics software, software support for laboratory equipment and

hardware support for a sea-going time-share system.

Education:

HP OpenVMS Boot Camp – May 2008

DECnet-DOS and DECnet-Ultrix Application Seminar

IBM SNA Communications Products Technical Seminar

DIGITAL – Managing Interpersonal Relationships

DIGITAL – 3270 Protocol Emulator support training

DIGITAL – Effective Presentations

UC Santa Cruz – Summer Course: Reliable Computing

DIGITAL – Network Troubleshooting and Theory

San Francisco State University - Graduate Study Computer Science

University of Washington - Graduate Study Oceanography

University of Washington - Oceanography, BS 1974

211 Ruth Drive, Gaffney, South Carolina 29341

Telephone: 864-***-**** • F ax: 866-***-****

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