Engineer, Manager, Project Manager, Program Manager, Software, SAP
Resume:
GERALD L. FERGUSON
Georgetown, Kentucky 40324
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OBJECTIVE:
To fully utilize the skill sets and broad expertise I have acquired through-out my career in Technical and Business fields; as a manager, director, program/project manager or Technical Lead, that will be mutually beneficial to my employer as well as myself. ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
- Discovery of over $500K of financial improprieties in the accounting and records of a Private Manufacturer. Resulted in legal action and criminal investigation of one of the Corporate Members.
- Balanced and maintained engineering budgets for three divisions of a large Fortune 500 company during the most difficult past 6 years of recession.
- Recognized as Departmental Expert in select modules of SAP. Served as a trainer, trouble-shooter, and ‘go-to’ person on-site which effectively enabled faster resolution of problems resulting in improved efficiencies for the company.
- Many successful designs, implementations and commissionings of machine controls in manufacturing and R&D environments.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
January 2011 to Present Private Manufacturer, Dayton, OH 45439 Supplier to Automotive industry of machined wheel hubs and drum assemblies. Advisor to President: (Consultant)
- Directly accountable to Company President, empowered through Limited Power of Attorney.
- Review and advise on all company matters including (but not limited to): Executive management
Accounting and Finance: Quickbooks, Fishbowl (Inventory, WMS) Legal Matters, Asset protection
Organizational structure and strategic direction, Equipment acquisition PLC system design/programming/consulting
September 1999 to June 2016 Lexmark International, Lexington, KY 40550 Program / Project Manager:
- Program / Project Management responsibilities for multi-year new program development cycles. Oversee program from concept to start-of-production of laser printers and peripheral equipment programs.
- Facilitator of Cross Functional Team for program teams.
- Served as primary departmental interface to Lexmark’s OEM groups assuring that OEM requirements were implemented during the project development process.
- Interface to Acquisition Partners, Marketing, Finance, Legal, other business units.
- SAP department expert. Purchasing, Budget/Finance, cost reduction, bill of material.
- Far East travel (Japan).
Budget Coordinator: (2009 to 2016)
- Managed Engineering Budget for Digital Office Division ($21M annual)
- Managed Engineering Budget for Monochrome Laser Division. ($15M annual)
- Managed Engineering Budget for Solutions Enablement Division ($500K annual)
- Responsibilities include annual planning, loading into SAP Project Systems, monthly analysis of actual program spends vs budget outlook, monthly reviews with and formal reporting to Upper Management / Finance / Program Managers. Empowered to adjust budget loadings/outlooks to maintain monthly / quarterly / and annual budget targets. Manage headcounts within SAP Project Systems. September 1998 to September 1999 Software Team Lead: General Electric, Erie, PA
Transportation Systems division of General Electric Corporation. World-leading manufacturer of Locomotives and Train-control systems.
- Promoted from Senior Software Engineer to Software Team Lead after 4 months of service at GE.
- Led a team of 5 full-time and contract engineers.
- Responsible for design and test of Control software for Locomotive sub-systems.
- Primary interface to upper levels of management and other business units.
- Responsibility for Y2K readiness project for GE’s latest Diesel-Electric Locomotives.
June 1991 to August 1998 Supervisor of Embedded Software Development Premark International (Hobart Corporation), Troy, OH World leading manufacturer of Food Equipment. Weighing and Wrapping Division.
- Supervisor of a department of 11 embedded firmware engineers functionally divided into three groups (Development, Maintenance, and International).
- Recruiting / Hiring / Firing / Promoting responsibilities.
- Responsible for employee performance evaluations.
- Implementation of employee mentoring / training programs.
- Software schedule accountability for all development programs.
- Served as Supervisor of SW maintenance and International development groups prior to promotion to SW Department Supervisor.
- International exposure (Europe, Mexico, South America). June 1990 to June 1991 Embedded Software Engineer: Monarch Marking Systems (Pitney Bowes)
Miamisburg, OH
Manufacturer of Printing systems.
- Embedded Software Engineer working on advanced thermal printing systems for Monarch’s product line.
- Research, development and testing of real-time embedded software systems and Operating systems.
June 1987 to June 1990 Embedded Software Engineer: Hobart Corporation, Food Equipment Group
Troy, OH
World leading manufacturer of Food Equipment. Weighing and Wrapping Division.
- Development of embedded software for electronic scales and thermal printing systems.
- Research and development of graphics, data compression, closed-loop control systems.
June 1984 to June 1987 Manufacturing Automation Engineer: A.O. Smith Electric Motor Company
Tipp City, OH
Manufacturer of electric motors.
- Responsible for automating manufacturing lines through the use of embedded control systems, robotics, and programmable logic controllers.
- Development of hardware and software control systems for both new and refurbished manufacturing machinery. Software maintenance of all systems.
- Programming of Industrial Robotics (Cincinnati Milacron 3/4/6 axis). Design and implementation of electrical and software controls for internally designed pick-and- place robots.
- Responsible for keeping machines / automation lines up and running in a high- volume production environment.
- Experienced on a multitude of industrial processes and machinery (robotics, multi- axis turning machine centers, Die Casting, Friction Welding, Winding, Parts Transfer, Machining), Stamping
- Electro-deposition chemical paint line responsibility. June 1982 to June 1984 Chemist, Research Associate: Brehm Research Laboratory
Dayton, OH
Chemical / Biological Laboratory researching / analysing toxic compounds.
- Responsible for operation of a mini-computer controlled Gas-Chromatograph-Mass- Spectrometer conducting analysis of environmental/biological samples for trace levels of priority pollutants and toxins.
- Compilation, interpretation, and reporting of data.
- Wet-lab preparation of samples for analysis utilizing a gamut of chemical instrumentation and methods including (distillation, titration, solvent extraction, centrifuge separation and other processes). Work was performed in highly isolated
‘clean rooms’ due to extreme toxicity and sample purity required for trace-level analysis. Practice and enforcement of strict adherence to all Safety requirements. EDUCATION:
BS/BS- Computer Science / Chemistry (dual major), Wright State University, Dayton, OH June 1983
SKILLS / TRAINING:
Program / Project Management, Robotics, Automation, PLC, HMI, SAP (BI, ECC, BW HANA, AFO, Project Systems), Six Sigma (Green Belt level), ISO, Seven Habits, Supervisor, Manager, Coaching, Team leadership, Software Engineering, Software Testing, SDLC, Waterfall, SCRUM, Agile, Visual Basic, C, PLM, Scientific Fortran, HDL, FPGA, SQL, MicroSoft Office Project, Powerpoint, Excel, Word, PMP, EVM, QuickBooks, Fishbowl (Inventory, Warehouse Management System), 5S, 8D, TPS, Lean, Kaizen, SPC, AutoCad, Visio REFERENCES:
Available upon request.
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