Power Plant Management

Sean Keesler

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Manlius, New

York 13104

Home: 315-***-****

Email: ****@*******.***

EducationSyracuse University - Master of Science - May 2008 - Information ManagementState University of New York - College of Environmental Science and Forestry - Bachelor of Science - May 2000

- Forest Biology with a concentration in Aquatic SciencesUnited States Electronics Maintenance Supervisor School - Maintenance Supervisor - Summer 1992 - King's Bay

Georgia Submarine Maintenance FacilityUnited States Naval Nuclear Power School - Electronics Technician and Nuclear Reactor Operator Training - 1989

- Orlando, Florida & Saratoga Springs, NY

Experience

Business Analyst Feb 2011 Present

Managed RFP process for replacement of a homegrown Student Information System replacement with commercial system.Built business case for replacement of a homegrown LMS solution with commercial cloud-based offering.Created project management plan for company, which included business case analysis of the portfolio of potential projects.

Community Webmaster May 2010 Present

Provided content management support to the Sakai Foundation staff using the Drupal content management system.Respond to public requests for information about the Foundation and/or the Sakai software.

2008 Present

Formed consulting organization to deliver support services for Sakai/OSP.Managed multiple simultaneous projects with multiple vendors using waterfall and agile methods. Provide best of breed recommendations to clients based on collected functional requirements.

Independent Consultant May 2008 Present

Delivered technical and functional training on many aspects of the Open Source Portfolio software.Provided portfolio design and technical services to companies and higher education institutionsDeveloped and wrote technical documentation.

Syracuse University: The Living SchoolBook and School of Education - Project

Manager/Instructional Technology Analyst - 2000 - May 2008

Coordinated technical activities to support technology integration through creative approaches to the

integration of technology in teaching and learning.Advised faculty on systems and funding of systems for research and teaching needs.Maintained and administered Sakai learning management and portfolio system.Identified key areas for development, developed functional requirements and managed design and development

team to meet key objectives.Coordinated development and maintenance of web applications and multimedia presentations for K-12 and

higher education audiences.Trained Help Desk staff to support learning management and portfolio systems and provided just in time

support to faculty and students.

Turning Stone Casino Resort - MIS Technician - 1998 - 2000

Provided end users just in time support with computing needs as part of 24 hour help desk staff.Setup and maintained network equipment for gaming systems.Installed and maintained networking equipment and electronics related to gaming equipment.

USS Kentucky Ballistic Missile Submarine - Nuclear Reactor Operator and Maintenance Supervisor -

1991 - 1993

Operated and maintained the nuclear power plant on a submarine as member of commisioning crew during a 6

year enlistment in the US Navy.

SkillsProject Management, UX design/review and Sakai functional expertiseProject Management, Content architecture, UX design/review and Sakai functional expertiseOperating Systems: Windows XP, Apple OS X, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Various BSD sApplications: Pentaho BI Suite, Microsoft Office, Jira, Confluence, Photoshop, Microsoft Project, Subversion,

OxygenXMLServer Applications: Sakai and Open Source Portfolio, MySQL and PostgreSQL database servers, Apache and Tomcat

web serversScripting languages: Python, Perl, php, Applescript, bash

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