Management Project

Brian Bulaw, ACP CSM, CSPO, PMP,

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Work is rewarding when we focus on improving customer value.

I am a leader able to articulate a project’s vision, value, risks, and constraints in the context of the

listener to accelerate the successful delivery of customer value. I am ingrained with the principals

and practices of Agile (Scrum) and Lean (Toyota Production System) through more than fifteen

years of successful project completions. My previous work as a software architect, SQL database

designer, software developer using Gupta Team Developer, and software-as-a-service (SAAS)

provider allows me to effectively communicate with technical team members across many

disciplines. My work experience applying Lean and Agile to a wide variety of projects

demonstrates that I am a quick and willing learner, can deal with all levels of management, and

can adapt to new environments and subject domains easily.

Professional Experience

Allergy Treatment Systems, Flower Mound, Texas 2012 to present

President

Allergy Treatment Systems is a company I co-founded that enables family practice physicians to

add immunotherapy allergy treatment to their practices. Our company provides Continuing

Medical Education (CME) credit training to the practice physicians and then we provide an

Internet based software system that automates most of the calculations related to allergy

treatment using immunotherapy. The software allows practices to record patient test results and

then automatically calculates individual custom compounding prescriptions for the patients. We

are integrated with compounding pharmacies so the orders can be filled and returned to the

practice for treatment. The practice then uses our software to document treatment history, and the

system automatically maintains manufacturer lot traceability for all treatments. As one of my core

strengths, I interfaced with the subject matter experts about allergy, and led the technical team to

translate those requirements into a functioning system.

The software development is now completed and the company will be switching its activities from

primarily software development to marketing.

The software was developed in 35 weeks using Scrum methodology on a one-week Scrum cycle.

The project consumed 4,300 development hours by three programmers. There are 114,600 lines

of code, 5,213 window objects, and 13,710 functions in the system. Our development speed of

4,681 lines of code per programmer month is 3.6 times above industry benchmarks because of

the high amount of code we were able to re-use from the object libraries that were developed by

Power Chord Systems.

Power Chord Systems, Plano, Texas 1987 to present

President

Power Chord Systems is a business-process improvement company that enables change through

the development of custom software to support the re-design of company processes.

Projects Include:

• Workflow management (work order system), asset tracking, and activity based cost

reporting for the entire Public Works Department for the City of McKinney, Texas. The

public works department employs about 200 workers and has an annual budget of over

$86,000,000.

• Workflow management (work order system), asset tracking, maintenance management,

production management, inventory and labor tracking, and cost reporting for the Dolet Hills

Brian Bulaw, Project Management Professional

Mining Venture. (A coal mine owned by American Electric Power that produces 3,900,000

tons of coal per year) (at $60/ton spot price = $234,000,000 annual revenue)

• Consulting work with the now vice-president of mining operations for Luminant to assist in

conversion from a public utility business model to a for-profit business model using lean

principals. I was chosen as a conversion team leader, and was the only outside consultant

on the team. I was chosen for the team because of other presentations I had made to top

leadership at Texas Utilities.

• Consulting work for General Motors to run a design of experiments to optimize the welding

parameters for the then-new aluminum tailgate of the Suburban so variation in welding

conditions would cause the minimum variation in weld quality.

• Developed a computerized data collection system for General Motors to optimize spot

welding parameters for steel body panels at the Indianapolis Truck and Bus plant.

• Developed an automated Dragline Performance Monitoring system for the Texas Utilities

Winfield North coal mine that collected data from a network interface to the programmable

logic controller (PLC) responsible for machine control.

• Developed a custom clinical laboratory information system (LIS) for Allercare Laboratories,

a national in-vitro testing laboratory. We provided custom reporting and automated data

interfaces to their Hycor test equipment.

• Developed a workflow management (work order system), asset tracking, maintenance

management, production management, dragline performance measurement, and cost

reporting for the Sandow coal mine in Rockdale, Texas. The mine was owned by Alcoa

and is now owned by Luminant. The payroll payment process computer program we

developed for Alcoa’s Sandow mine held the record as the most reliable IT process within

the entire Alcoa system.

• Developed a manufacturing production management system for a 90 employee contract

high-volume welding and heat-treating company in Chicago, Illinois. Provided consulting

during a relocation to design the plant layout to support lean manufacturing. Led a project

to implement a company-wide ISO 9001 quality management system that achieved

external certification. Provided process consulting and computer system customization to

reduce the amount of administrative effort while at the same time meeting the ISO 9001

requirements.

Education

BS, Industrial Management Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

Professional Associations & Development

Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification since 2007

Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) since 2013

Project Management certification for Certified Scrum Master (CSM) since 2010

Project Management certification for Certified Product Owner (CPO) since 2011

380+ hours of Project Management education 2002 thru 2012

MS Project Scheduler course – Collin County Community College 2006

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