Project Manager Management

STEPHEN J. PROCOPIO

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Rochester, NY 14612

Cell (585) 410 - 1431

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Objective: Seeking a Director or Manager of Engineering position in

embedded system product development.

Personal Profile: Engineering Manager with significant experience in

commercialization of embedded systems. Significant experience in process

improvement initiatives to a CMM Level 5 including system and hardware

development methodologies.

Security Access: Secret Clearance January 2008

Single Source Background Investigation (SSBI), Background Investigation

Date: 3/10/03

EDUCATION

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York

Masters of Science Degree, Software Development and Management 2001

Highest honors, GPA 4.00/4.00

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York

Bachelor of Science Degree, Electrical Engineering, 1990

Highest honors, Scholar Award, Top 2% of class, GPA 3.91/4.00

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Leadership: Director of Engineering, Department Head, Senior Design

Management, Engineering Project Management, Customer Interface, Chief

engineering, CMM Process Improvement Deployment...

Software Design: Embedded C, C++; Borland and Visual Studio, C#, JAVA,

Basic, Assembl, Windows and Mac environments, PSOS RTOS. DCOM, Corba,

Digital Design: TI C52 DSP, TI C82 Integrated DSP with RISC Processor,

Power PC 8245, TI 6X DSP, Microprocessor Design; Motorola 68302 Controller,

8051, etc., Stepper motor control, Xilinx and Actel FPGA (APR) and CPLD

designs, PAL, Discrete digital logic, State Machine, RS232, IEEE1394,

IEEE1284, PALASM, CUPL...

Analog Design: Video Design, Phase Locked Loop design.. Video OpAmp,

Discrete Analog amplifier and filtering design.. Video clamp circuitry..

NTSC encoding and decoding design.. Video sync circuitry.. A/D and D/A

design.. Logic Analyzers.. Oscilloscopes.. Spectrum analyzers, and various

types of test equipment.. Macintosh.. IBM PC.. SUN/Unix...

Board Schematic and Layout: Mentor Graphics, Orcad, Express PCB, Design for

EMI; Line

Termination, Power Puddles; Shielding, Trace Placement, etc

Requirements Management: DOORS, Requisite Pro...

PDM/PLM Tools: Windchill, Agile, TeamCenter...

Process: EVM (Earned Value Management) Level 3 Certified through Raytheon.

CMM Level 5 (Capability Maturity Model, EPCIM (Electronic Products Computer

Integrated Manufacturing), Parametric and Wide Band Delphi Software

Estimation. Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRPII). Design of experiments

using Taguchi methods.. Quality Function Deployment..

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

General Electric Company 2/2010 - Present

Engineering Program Manager (Transportation - Erie, Pa.)

Engineering Program Management and System Engineering for International

Locomotive Systems. Responsible for ensuring proper resources are provided

to drive project related initiatives, Tracking financials and schedule

related activities and reporting status to upper level management, Working

with vendors in producing appropriate sub-systems for delivered product as

well as Interfacing with customers in understanding and executing

requirements

Senior Hardware Systems Manager/Project Manager (Aviation System - Pinellas

Park, FL)

Systems Engineering and Project management responsibilities for multiple

Avionics programs. System engineering management overseeing a team of

engineers working on a military program for a display unit.

Responsibilities in managing daily activities driving metrics while

utilizing EVMS (Earned Value) philosophies. Budget derivation and control

for a new project working with Program Management to achieve. Involved in

driving requirements validation and verification activities for the present

display project. Responsible for assisting in deriving and scaling the

appropriate process for the department and utilizing them on projects.

Involved in providing hardware systems estimates for multiple proposals as

well.

Senior Software Manager/Project Manager (Aviation System - Grand Rapids,

MI)

Functional and Project management responsibilities for a group of 12

Software Engineers and Technical Leads in the Military area of Avionics. My

project responsibilities included segmenting Cost Accounts allowing Metrics

to be accurately reported for major initiatives on the program. Weekly

tracking of metrics and driving the team to meet cost and schedule targets

on an on going basis. I was also responsible for reporting team status and

initiatives to program management in monthly reviews.

Functional responsibilities included mentoring and growing people towards

new opportunities as well as measuring their performance. Other

responsibilities included getting individuals engaged in activities outside

their normal program related activities with the intent of motivating and

growing them. Recruiting new talent into the coming was and important part

of the role as well. I have just completed my Green Belt training and am

presently working on a lean event to find a common approach to feature use

in the Avionics environment.

Raytheon 10/2007 - 2/2010

Senior Software Manager (St. Petersburg, FL)

Functional management for 32 Software Engineers on Border Security, AITG

(Airborne Integrated Terminal Group) and JTT (Joint Tactical Terminals)

Radio groups in a CMMi Level 5 Organization. Management responsibilities

include career development and guidance, recruiting, individual performance

management and providing critical staff to programs. Project Management

responsibilities include CAM (Cost Account Management) utilizing EVM

(Earned Value Management) practices overseeing and driving technical

initiatives, schedules, metrics and delivering of Software for Radio

Programs. Monthly reporting of staffing plan, metrics, program status and

six sigma initiatives to senior management. Software process improvement

initiatives for better utilization of CMM framework. High Level

Architecture and Design for the improvement in areas of User Interface,

Control Applications, etc., for radio program initiatives. Leading and

writing proposals to win future business in the Radio solution area.

CME (Custom Manufacturing and Engineering) 4/2007 - 10/2007

Director of Engineering (St. Petersburg, FL)

Directing a team of 30 Electrical, Software and Mechanical engineers

including two Senior Managers in the development of Power and Sensor

products for Government and Commercial applications. Project

responsibilities around Gate Process definition and CMM processes to

deployment. Customer Interface to present and potential customers and

vendors. Technical oversight for sensor system definition and application.

Technical interface to customers providing solutions in bringing prototype

solutions into manufacturing; product commercialization. Responsible for

recruiting, providing career development and appropriate training for

employees. Responsible for overseeing and approving design approaches and

methodologies. High level design for sensor system solutions for specific

government military applications.

JABIL CIRCUIT INC. 4/2005 - 4/2007

Senior Design Manager (St. Petersburg, FL)

Management of 27 Electrical and Embedded Software engineers in Electronic

Product Design of various technologies for numerous customers in a Design

Services Organization. Design areas include Datacom, Network, Server,

Computer, Video Displays, RF and High End Hand Held Consumer electronics.

Driving and participating in product proposals. Interfacing with customers

on technical and project related activities. Responsible for design process

improvement initiatives and infrastructure, overseeing and providing

guidance on technical project initiatives. Implementation of appropriate

Requirements Management and Configuration Management processes and tools;

Requisite Pro and ClearCase, for global utilization. Involved in extensive

Requirements Analysis to produce better products for customers. Also drove

initiatives to improve testability in board design for production support.

Responsible for improving board layout and signal integrity by recruiting

the appropriate resources and utilizing state of the art tools like

Synopsis and Mentor Hyperlyx for server design. Process improvement in area

of Software and Electrical Design Estimation techniques utilizing

parametric weighting and Wide Band Delphi techniques. High level design for

various consumer based electronics initiative.

EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY/ ITT INDUSTRIES 6/1981 - 4/2005

Senior Software Engineer Manager/Project Manager (Space System Division

Rochester, NY)

Functional Management of 26 software engineers in the Aerospace government

and commercial product development activities in a CMM Level 3

organization. Responsibilities include management in the Aerospace sector

of flight and ground embedded software activities, management of test set

software activities, tracking financials, project leadership as well as

providing technical guidance on other various projects. Responsible for

driving initiatives for new business opportunities preparing proposals and

other related activities.

Project Manager leading a team of 10 in the implementation of a PLM/PDM

(Product Life Cycle Management/Product Data Management) tool for the

division of 1100 people with a budget of $4,000,000. Responsibilities

included driving the team to CMM Level 3 processes including Requirements

Management, Configuration Management, Project Tracking and Oversight,

Conducting Peer Reviews, Subcontract Manager to external vendors, Deriving

and Maintaining Complex Schedules, Financials and working with various

Technical units in training and awareness of the tool value.

Department Head/Director of Engineering (Output Systems Division Rochester,

NY)

Management of 75 engineers and 5 managers coordinating technical direction

and providing appropriate resources for multiple Dye Sublimation Printer

Electronics projects through out the company. Coordination of training

curriculums for career development. Responsible for departmental budgets

and coordinating design activities over multiple projects amongst various

business organizations. Investigation of new technologies and coordinating

advance development prototyping activities around concepts and technologies

that would potentially be viable solutions and fit into particular business

unit's product roadmap. Hardware and Software Architecture and Design of

Engine Controller Electronics using Power PC 8240 and multiple TI C6X DSPs

for high speed, high productivity printer for Retail and Wholesale

Photofinishing Business.

Responsible for achieving CMM level 2 for the organization - Coordinated

and formulated teams of process agents to work with engineers to derive and

leverage processes and procedures in achieving our goals. very proactive in

various Key Process Areas (KPA) of CMM and especially in the Requirements

Management area where I derived a standardized change control procedures

used across the organization. Other responsibilities included intimate

involvement with multiple commercialization projects overseeing design

activities. Key individual and decision maker on technical directions,

process improvement initiatives, people resources, gate reviews and project

progress as well as project and technology funding issues. Daily

involvement responsibilities in multiple project meetings.

Manager of Systems Engineering Group/Project Lead (Output Systems Division

Rochester, NY)

Management of 26 people Software Engineering in a Host Design Group

including 4 managers looking across the organization for common image

manipulation software architectures, printer calibration schemes. The

systems engineering work entailed formulating and coordinating groups into

discussions on design and implementation issues while looking across the

organization to find what common approaches could be implemented for image

manipulation and common printer calibration architectures. This activity

provided an opportunity to reduce the number of architectures utilized in

various products across the organization and to use a common single

architecture approach. Management responsibilities also included

coordination of technical direction as well as intimate involvement with

various projects relative to project management responsibilities;

processes, technical issues, etc.

Project Lead responsibilities for a newly innovated display system for

multiple customers. I set up the project management infrastructure;

Requirements management, schedule, documentation management, etc., as well

as coordinated various meeting and coordinated technical activities through

out the project life cycle.

Embedded Systems Manager / Software Process Improvement Agent (Thermal

Printing Systems Rochester, NY)

Responsible for managing a group of five software engineers, four hardware

engineers, five technicians and three chief engineers, providing support to

various projects. Also a member and key contributor on strategic teams

slated to implement software and hardware development processes; for

software I am involved with various SPI driving teams to derive and deploy

CMM processes to design teams. For hardware I am on the strategic EPCIM

committee team with the responsibility to derive processes for hardware

development.

Hardware and Embedded Software Manager / Hardware Design Architect /Chief

Engineer (Thermal Printing Systems Rochester, NY)

Hardware and Embedded Software Manager Responsibilities were in leading a

core design team consisting of five electrical hardware engineers, two

hardware chief engineers, four software engineers and five technicians,

working on various projects. I also took on chief engineering and project

architect responsibilities for the thermal printer electrical/software

design activities. Other responsibilities included coordinating and

deriving software and electrical hardware workflow processes like CMM

(Capability Maturity Model) for software and EPCIM (Electronic Design

Practices) for electrical hardware as well as deriving and coordinating

schedule activities. Design responsibilities include designing new

architectures for a follow on thermal printers using a Texas Instrument C82

DSP and NEC 78070A micro controller. The design integrated front end and

engine control electronics.

Thermal Printing Systems 1/94 - 2/96

Group Leader / Design Engineer/Embedded Software Engineer

Group leader responsibilities as well as taking on responsibilities for

current engineering and product programming (C and C++ language) on a

thermal printer engine controller board that I had recently designed. Have

also done an initial object oriented programming software design using C++

programming for a new thermal printer project.

Thermal Printing Systems 3/90 - 1/94

Hardware and Embedded Software Design Engineer

Responsible for the hardware thermal printer electronics design with C

language programming involvement. Designs included DSP hardware

architecture using a TI TMS320C52, motor and peripheral control on a

Motorola 68302 microprocessor. Responsible for functional/reliability test

fixture hardware and software planning and design. Designs included C

programming in the PC environment; controlling I/O cards used to run test

fixtures. Programmed printer engine controller boards (C language) for

printer self-testing applications. Responsible for writing formal

documentation, presentation and design modification of data communication

schemes used between a Sun based CPU common platform and engine controller

board. Designed a PC card incorporating interface scheme used to

communicate with the print engine controller board Designed a printer

control panel consisting of dome switches, LEDs and an LCD display module.

Had system administration responsibilities for the general

Macintosh/Localtalk/Ethernet community.

Electronic Photographic Division 6/85 - 3/90

Developer/Programmer

Optimized a DCT compression kernel algorithm for the 68000 Intel

microprocessor based Macintosh computer programming in C and assembly

language. Designed analog (video) to digital image processing board

synchronization interface for Color Video Printer and Still Video

Transceiver. Designed Phase Locked Loop frequency multiplying circuitry;

deriving digital system clock from NTSC horizontal sync, sync generation

circuitry, sync separation and clamping circuitry, video amplifier design,

and NTSC encoding and decoding circuitry.

Consumer Products Advance Development Division 6/81 - 6/85

Developer

Designed analog front-end electronics for prototype stand-alone video frame-

store unit; analog video amplifiers, filters, NTSC encoding and decoding,

clamping circuitry, Phase Locked Looped NTSC designs, etc.

References Available Upon Request

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