Manager Project
Resume:
MICHAEL C. SCHOMAS
Sugar Grove, IL 60554
***********@*****.***
SUMMARY
An experienced manager, practiced in operational excellence, group and team building, and organizational strategy development in growing and dynamic organizations. A proven record of success gaining operational knowledge from internal and partnering organizations, and in manufacturing environments with substantial time in project leadership and project management. A detail oriented person with an excellent ability to communicate and considerable organizational skills. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
EPLAN Software & Services,
Schaumburg, Il August 2011 – Present
Director Professional Services, Americas
Developed and drove the operational and organizational strategies for all American consulting and professional services offerings. Established methods for process delivery resulting in 300% revenue increases over the time period and immediate team efficiency improvements.
• Managing professional services engineering team with responsibilities in workload management, employee goal and metric setting and hire-fire responsibilities.
• Developed baseline services costing model, maximizing profitability on delivered services, resulting in a 50% increase in revenue in the first year alone.
• Primary point of technical contact on US based strategic global accounts resulting in over 200% revenue increases for these engagements from previous year.
• Received the annual CEO award for developing the technical pre-sales engagement and delivery strategy resulting in the single largest contract win. A 400% increase from prior.
• Awarded for North American Excellence by corporate headquarters as part of the management team driving the highest year-over-year revenue improvement worldwide at 40%.
• Responsible for addressing all major account customer concerns, drastically increasing customer satisfaction.
• Strategic identification for partnering and target organizations and industries, interfacing at the Director and President level.
• Supported over 30 tradeshow, and industry events in 2015 by identifying messaging and communication standards for the target audiences.
• Assisted in establishing the strategy resulting in a two year market share growth of 5% DELL SERVICES ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS / PEROT SYSTEMS / eSERV, Naperville & Peoria, Il January 2007 – August 2011 Engineering Manager II / Project Manager
Assisting in the development of organizational and operational strategies resulting in nearly 600% team and revenue growth, by establishing new partnerships and guidance guaranteeing project expectations are met.
• Managing Electrical and Software Engineering teams with responsibilities in workload management, employee goal and metric setting, recruitment activities and project management run rates at 7000 hours per month.
• Leading in the management for over 40 direct reports, with an additional 10 indirect reports external to the team including 2 engineering supervisors.
• Driving scope and proposal activities for project and product development consisting of embedded software, control system, black box & white box system and component specification and vehicle harnesses with current annual financial responsibilities in excess of a projected $5 Million annually.
• Assisted in new business opportunities, communicating at the Vice President level and above, internally and externally, providing project plans, and sales collateral for new and existing customers.
• Driving the roll-out of the new technology service offerings, including the Embedded Engineering competency center in Bangalore India, greatly growing organizational capabilities. NORTHROP GRUMMAN,
Rolling Meadows, IL June 2003 – January 2007
Electronics Engineer / Process Engineering Secret Clearance Held Interfaced with the customer, and secondary customers providing guidance for technical issues and development of service strategies. Led in the transition of electro-optical, automated test equipment (EOSS
+ & EO3) from development, to manufacturing, establishing test and documentation protocols, and designing software. Trained and oriented members of the team on procedures and process improvements.
• Responsible for specification, design and administration within the department for processing software used in the manufacture, calibration and testing of Automated Test Equipment including custom macro and function (Visual Basic) designs.
• Initiating process improvements by establishing measurement capabilities, reducing the need for re- test and communicating these changes to the customer resulting in an estimated savings of $30K per year.
• Designed, wrote, integrated and released several software packages and related process documentation, communicating through GPIB IEEE to the device under test and all calibration equipment.
• Completed software package modifications (Delphi 7), including algorithm optimizations, resulting in greater than 5000 lines of code, generated in a time frame 80% reduced from estimated.
• Gained experience in UV, Visible and IR sources and measurement devices, including Class IV LASERs at 1064, 1543 and 1574nm.
CTS COMMUNICATION COMPONENTS INC.,
Bloomingdale, IL August 1997 – November 2002
Senior Development Engineer / Manufacturing Process Engineer Selected to be the leader for a $29M technology transfer from Kyocera’s plant in Shiga Japan by identifying core capabilities and interfacing with all levels of the partnering organization. Led the development of quartz crystal resonators and their transition into manufacturing, giving guidance to management, customers, and manufacturing groups locally and internationally by defining process methodologies.
• Trained production supervisors and operators, established the manufacturing, process, preventative maintenance requirements, and quality standards for both U.S. and international production.
• Led a cross-functional team of eight, including lead operators and production manager, which succeeded in improving yield from 50% to greater than 90%, on a high volume product.
• Achieved time to market of less than 12 months on high volume designs, reducing an estimated 50% from plan through proper identification and allocation of resources, and development of a design process for critical design parameters.
• Acted as the project manager and received four service awards for team excellence, by leading up to three engineers and five technicians, in the completion of product sample builds.
• Initiated the design and implementation of a database, shortening the RFQ cycle time from as long as one week, to within one day, a savings of 80%.
• Assisted in the development of two product lines, by making improvements to existing designs, including sample test evaluations, and running design tests and simulations. CULLIGAN CONSUMER PRODUCTS DIVISION / EVERPURE,
Westmont, IL January 1995–August 1997
Senior Research Associate
Led various research and development teams, assisted with new product design, and on time introduction. Designed software templates for predicting life of water treatment systems.
• Tasked as the technology lead for a technology transfer partnership and interfacing with all levels of management within both organizations to facilitate these actions.
• Set up preliminary assembly line and created software design tools for streamlining new product development, shortening the design cycle time to weeks, from months.
• Developed interface and monitoring system for an ice machine water saving device adding patent claims.
EDUCATION
M.S. Operations Management 4.00 / 4.00
Illinois Institute of Technology May 2010
Graduated with Honors
B.S. Electrical Engineering 3.93 / 4.00
Illinois Institute of Technology May 2003
B.A. Physics/Mathematics 3.25 / 4.00
North Central College June 1994
President’s List: 1993-1994
Recipient: Robert H. Good Endowment for Physics (1 of 2 awarded) TECHNICAL SKILLS
Delphi 7/Pascal, MC68000 Assembler, JMP, PSpice, MATLAB, AutoCAD, Magic IC Layout Editor, Verilog VHDL, C++. Test And Measurement Equipment Including HP3577 & 5100 Network Analyzers, SR5000 Spectro Radiometers, Tektronix 3034 Scopes, Various LASER Energy Meters and Probes, PLR and APD-800 LASER Radiometers, Leica T-3000 & TM5100 Theodolites, Portable and Permanent CLASS IV LASER Sources and Supporting Equipment
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Kepner Tregoe Project Management Radar Concepts For Technical Personnel Six Sigma Green Belt Certified RF & Filter Design Fundamentals Statistical Process Control & Capability Introduction To Systems Engineering Measurement System Analysis Printed Wiring Board Design Guidelines Variance Components Analysis 1998 IEEE/UFFC Symposium Internal Auditing to ISO 9000 Cross-Functional Team Training & Problem Solving
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