Project Manager Management

Charles Daniel “Dan” Summitt

**** ******* ******, *** *******, Louisiana 70118

Mobile: 318-***-****, Evening Phone: 504-***-****, Evening Phone: 504-***-****, Email:

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Financial and Administrative Management

MBA, Tulane University with many years managing all aspects of financial and administrative

management with technology based companies

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Financial Management:

Managed a multimillion dollar operating budget for a Fortune 500 company, (Freeport Minerals

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Sulphur Division)

Managed budgets for two fifty million dollar projects (American MetroComm and Shell Offshore

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Services)

Managed the operating budget for a Marine Corps Battalion (successfully supported two long

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range deployment exercises)

Served as Regional Financial Manager for a publicly traded construction company (enhanced

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several features of the regional reporting system)

New Project Management Consulting:

Managed over three hundred small and medium sized business consulting projects in a ten year

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period. Project results produced over 6 million dollars loaned and invested and created or saved

in excess of six hundred jobs for client companies. Services covered all aspects of financial and

administrative management, financial operations upgrades, organization restructuring and loan

packaging. (In respect to client privacy, examples of work will be provided upon request.)

Recipient of the National Association of Management and Technical Assistance Centers Project

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of the Year Award for the establishment of a regional venture capital network

Recipient of two innovation awards from Control Data Corporation for the proposal of a

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nationwide strategic alliance and for the enhancement of the financial management software

application delivered to client companies. Ranked second and first in the national client services

network for 1981 and 1982.

Management:

Served as Executive Director of the St Bernard Parish Economic Development Commission

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(Initiated a partnership with Entergy Economic Development to upgrade economic development

services to the parish business sector.)

Served as Chair of Nunez College Division of Business and Technology (secured the division’s

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accreditation)

Commanded a Marine Corps Unit (Received two letters of appreciation from the commanding

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general)

Taught several college level courses in management and new venture development (Ranked in

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the top 10% of Tulane University College Faculty)

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

HOUSERAISING, INC.

Regional Financial Manager, New Orleans, LA 2006-2008 (public company ceased operations in 2008)

INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT

New Orleans, LA 2000-2005 (projects completed)

SHELL OFFSHORE SERVICES

Project Manager, New Orleans, LA 1999-2000 (project completed)

AMERICAN METROCOMM, INC.

Project Manager, New Orleans, LA 1998-1999 (project completed)

ST BERNARD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION

Executive Director, Chalmette, LA 1995-1997 (end of term)

NUNEZ COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Chalmette, LA 1993-1994 (end of term)

Chair, Division of Business and Technology

UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS

Coordinator, Center for Economic Development, New Orleans, LA 1984-1992 (grant ended for my

services)

CONTROL DATA CORPORATION

Marketing and Management Specialist, Control Data Business Centers, Inc., New Orleans, LA 1981-1983

(This division of Control Data was shut down)

FREEPORT MINERALS, INC

Profit Planning and Budgeting Sulphur Division, New Orleans, LA 1979-1981 (company merged with

McMoran Oil Exploration)

EDUCATION

TULANE UNIVERSITY, A.B. Freeman School of Business; New Orleans, Louisiana

Master of Business Administration

HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE, Hampden-Sydney, Virginia

Bachelor of Arts

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