Project Manager Engineer

ALEX MATULICH, MBA, PMP

408-***-**** abpoc5@r.postjobfree.com

ENGINEERING PROJECT MANAGER

Professional manager of future technology research and development projects related to hardware

subsystems and software applications in large global organizations and entrepreneurial start-ups. Over 15

years experience in engineer supervision, earned value management, subcontract management, analytical

research, modeling, simulation, test and evaluation. Project management skills highlights:

Communication: Comfortable speaking before customer / management audiences. Numerous

briefings to customers, management, and project stakeholders. Created and taught numerous

technical training courses. Published in academic journals.

Leadership / Teamwork: Proven track record as team leader; led multimillion dollar future

technology project including multi-organization distributed team; managed engineering group.

Analytical: Directed modeling, simulation, research and development efforts. Designed and created

analytical tools for designing materials with classified performance properties.

International: Technical consultant on export-sensitive data exchange projects with personnel in the

United Kingdom and Australia. Team lead for material maturation effort involving travel to Sweden.

Technical proficiency: PHP, C, C++, C#, VBA, JavaScript, HTML, MySQL. Unix, CMMI familiar.

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Achieved cost performance index (CPI) of 99% and schedule performance index (SPI) of 92% in

managing $16M government program. Saved $100K through negotiation with customer and

contractors to substitute higher-risk analysis and simulation in place of testing.

Obtained congressional funding as a result of conducting a year-long feasibility study.

Wrote official Navy policy on construction of future vessels having stealth features after successfully

coordinating numerous diverse organizations at the Pentagon.

Launched education database website with participation from hundreds of universities.

Sole developer of employer s radar-imaging acquisition and analysis system; in use for ten years.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2010 present

CONSULTANT, Mountain View, CA

Private large-scale trader: Developed real-time financial analysis algorithms, working in C#.

Saab Barracuda USA LLC: Performed market environmental analysis and wrote white paper

exploring potential for the company s military camouflage materials.

Guidepoint Global: Provided information to clients about hybrid electric propulsion systems.

10/2010 6/2011

API DEVELOPER / EVANGELIST, EventRadar LLC, Sunnyvale, CA

Led design and development of mobile applications for location-based services.

Represented company at Sprint Mobile Developer Conference 2010 and SVForum.

Presented app prototype at Wireless Communications Alliance Location-Based Services SIG.

Affirmed corporate mission and direction by creating the company business plan.

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Developed server-side API and documentation for server-side MySQL interaction.

Created prototype for family of mobile web apps using HTML5 / JavaScript / PHP / MySQL.

Established relationships with external data suppliers and coordinated with mobile advertisers.

1/2010 10/2010

CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER, Arcadia Research Labs, Gardnerville, NV

Developed proprietary prediction algorithms for stochastic time series analysis.

Launched corporate web site including mathematics blog.

2001 2009

PROJECT MANAGER (Engineer Sr Staff) BAE US Combat Systems, Santa Clara, CA

Duties: Product engineering and management, project lead, personnel manager.

Led the Future Combat Systems Manned Ground Vehicles (FCS MGV) stealth technology project

team that included membership from multiple companies and government organizations. Planned and

executed full-scale vehicle field test events. Directed modeling and simulation of vehicle designs.

Proactively managed resources, schedule, requirements, risk, cost, and R&D subcontracts.

Placed subordinates in positions to enhance company value and professional growth in role as

supervisor of Thermal Architecture and Signature Management engineering group.

Enhanced employer credibility with customers by exercising technical authority within the company

for stealth technology, and leading classified material maturation efforts (including international).

Educated new mechanical engineers as developer and instructor of vehicle survivability training.

Achieved commonality and synergy between stealth and other subsystems through creative work with

other teams during development of stealth technology best technical approach for FCS MGV.

Balanced focus on technology with maintainability, producibility, and cost through Systems

Engineering to decompose technical requirements to subsystem level; negotiated decomposition

process with customers. Used DOORS software to track requirements.

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER (GS-0850-13; Systems Planning, Research, Development, and Engineering)

1999 2001

Naval Surface Warfare Center / Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, DC

Duties: Project management, signature reduction programs for various Navy ships, technical instructor.

Obtained congressional funding by executing a year-long feasibility study for construction of a new

coastal patrol ship having stealth features. Led subsequent technology installation and support effort.

Wrote official Navy policy on signature control for surface ships and craft after successfully

coordinating numerous diverse organizations at the Pentagon.

Invented classified corner treatment with ATK Mission Research during execution of radar cross-

section reduction project for the Advanced Enclosed Mast/Sensor System.

Developed analysis, CAD, CAE tools as a result of annual proposals and subcontract management.

Ensured shipbuilder met design requirements as on-site government representative for stealth.

Enhanced combat survivability by measurements analysis to identify features with high signatures.

Created test plans and conducted test and evaluation of stealth properties of warships.

Conducted over 30 formal technical training classes in passive countermeasure system configuration

management to ship-force personnel around the world, as part of ship life cycle support.

Consulted for future aircraft carriers and international stealth technology data exchange programs,

involving teams consisting of technical personnel for the US military, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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1994 present

DIRECTOR R&D, Unicorn Research Corporation, Orlando, FL (part time)

Continued part-time involvement in product development.

Designed, created, and launched the Official MBA Guide website, a PHP/MySQL search engine for

MBA programs with participation from hundreds of universities.

Developed financial software for trading professionals: customized trading strategies, Monte Carlo

position sizing tool for professional traders, modeling and simulation of investment portfolios.

Authored a commercial precision real-time video subtitling application that became a standard among

the professional/hobbyist video subtitling community in the 1990s.

Consulting projects, including graphics for a televised game show, 3-D simulations of optimal golf

putts and terrain as special effects for televised tournaments.

Prior experience: Engineer Senior at Lockheed-Martin Fort Worth Division

Obtained funding and executed own research projects in stealth technology development.

Developed new material characterization methods to support classified stealth aircraft projects.

Designed and developed a complete three-dimensional inverse synthetic aperture radar target imaging

and mapping system for radar signature tests of targets in an anechoic chamber, which dramatically

enhanced the company s analytical radar measurement capability. Remained in use for 10 years.

Wrote test and evaluation specifications for stealth properties on the A-12 Navy attack aircraft.

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.

Master of Business Administration. Rollins College, Winter Park, FL.

Department of Defense Acquisitions Scholarship recipient (10 awarded per year nationwide).

Bachelor of Science Magna cum Laude. (Physics/Math) Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX.

Level III certification (highest level) in Systems Planning, Research, Development and Engineering

under the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA).

Level II certification in Test and Evaluation under DAWIA.

PUBLICATIONS

Mulhern M., Anderson A., Macander A., Matulich A., Quillen T., Torfin S., Walls R. (September

1998). DeckOps 2020: A Vision of Future Deck Operations. Proceedings From Research To

Reality in Ship Systems Engineering Symposium, American Society of Navy Engineers (ASNE),

Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME).

Chief of Naval Operations (December 1996). OPNAVINST 9070.2: Signature Control Policy for

Ships and Craft of the U.S. Navy.

Worrell G., Matulich A., Miller B. (1993). Dynamics in a discontinuous field: The smooth Fermi

piston. Chaos 3 (3).

Matulich A. & Miller B. (1986). Gravity in 1 dimension: stability of a 3-particle system. Celestial

Mechanics 39. Presented at American Physical Society Symposium in 1984.

INTERESTS

Technical financial analysis algorithms, private pilot (certified in airplane, glider, ultralight), Wikipedia

administrator, anime, science fiction, parenting

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