JAMES BARLOW
**** **** ** #***, *******, FL *****
Ph: 561-***-****(H) 561-***-****(C)
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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
Accomplished and energetic Business and Engineering Manager with a solid history of achievement in Product and software development and manufacturing. Motivated leader with strong organizational and prioritization abilities. Direct and coordinate activities of businesses or departments concerned with the production, pricing, sales, supply chain, or distribution of products. Manage staff, preparing work schedules and assigning specific duties. Areas of expertise include: Software, Automation and Manufacturing.
SKILLS:
Production design
Software design
Plant layout
Six sigma optimization
financial analysis
Business Leadership
large project sales
EXPERIENCE:
Financial Analyst Jan 2015 Present
Client Services Buffalo Grove, Il
Analyze financial data for 15 to 20 clients per day, gathered and develop solutions or alternative methods of proceeding.
Confer with personnel concerned to ensure successful functioning of newly
Implemented systems or procedures.
Review forms and reports and confer with management and users about format,
distribution, and purpose, and to identify problems and improvements.
Founder, President and Chairman
WESTERN RESERVE CONTROLS (WRC) Akron, OH
Founded and developed profitable technology start-up specializing in the design, manufacture and distribution of Smart solid-state controls and
automation systems based on embedded software and microprocessors, usually including
real-time communications, Had primary responsibility for manufacturing, product and process
design, sales, marketing, finance, and communicating with regulators, tax authorities and
investors Laid out factory facilities and production flow. Hired and trained laborers
with no electronics experience to produce quality product in moderately high volume factory meeting UL and CSA standards. Implemented manufacturing with MAS90 integrated accounting system software
Using Six Sigma techniques, optimized production enabling WRC to triple production without increaseing labor and continuing t0 reduce rework and warranty expenses.
Designed and authored communications including management reports, team member reports, investor reports, technical articles, newsletters and website. Grew WRC from two to thirty-five employees
Overcame losses in the first few years to grow to profitability by year 3and a 10-fold
Increase in revenues relative to year 1 by year 9. Projects involved automation,
Systems requiring a centralized database, remote data gathering, data security
access security, multiple viewpoints or dashboards Representative projects include:
Created six brand-labeled integrated products enhancing communications and system functionality for Rockwell Automation.
Acted as electronics department for design, prototyping, qualification and ongoing production for two aerospace suppliers two valve manufacturers and several start-ups
Performed conceptual software design and hardware production of an intelligent product for a start-up home fire safety firm.
Created remote intelligence system for a trash collector to optimize their pick-up routing and scheduling.
Performed conceptual design and prototyping of an intelligent sampling system for analytical gas and fluid applications sponsored by the American Gas Association significantly lowering costs compared to then-current costs .
Established technology growth blueprint including advanced controls, software agents and lean manufacturing integrated into an open architecture environment. Conducted extensive business dealings on five continents.
Reserve Controls include:
SBIR Research Grant from U.S. Department of Energy to research techniques to improve industrial boiler efficiency
Western Reserve Controls Day" awarded by the Mayor of Akron, Ohio for our
contribution as a technology company to the City of Akron.
Recognized as one of the
fastest growing small businesses in northeast Ohio by Case Western Reserve
University Business School.
Direct and coordinate activities of the business concerned with the
production, pricing, sales, or distribution of products.
Systems Engineering Manager
ALLEN BRADLEY COMPANY (Rockwell Automation)
Established systems architecture awareness among all 15 divisions
Coordinated systems designs between 15 divisions.
Managed first joint international product development with Nippondenso Corporation
Manager: Advanced Architecture: leading to a product line architecture adopted by all
divisions of the Company resulting in the main focus of Corporate Marketing. Led multiple teams in high-tech software and hardware development spanning
multiple continents, countries and languages..
EDUCATION:
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
Master of Science: Industrial Engineering, with a focus on engineering management and
software Jan 1986 GPA: 3.7
Amherst, MA
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY (Syracuse NY) dual degree
Bachelor of Arts: Math Jun 1967
Bachelor of Science: Industrial Engineering Jun 1968
Industrial Engineering included all engineering disciplines while focusing on manufacturing
Technologies; Inducted into Alpha Pi Mu, National Industrial Engineering Honors Society
Paid for all of own education through athletic scholarships, summer jobs and employment during school
COMMUNITY SERVICE:
Volunteer Tutor, El Sol Community Organization, 2006-2010,
Math Tutor, Place of Hope, 2011-2012
Meals volunteer, Place of Hope, 2006-present
Tutored reading one-on-one to second grade Student who improved his reading level from low first-grade level to mid third-grade level
tutored statistics to college freshman
Tutored reading to teenage prisoners
PUBLICATIONS:
History of Power Plant Computers," presented to IEEE in N.Y.C.
Enhanced Coordinated Combustion Control," presented to Instrument Society of America Power Industry Division in New Orleans
Advances in Automation Software using IEC 61499," presented to Cleveland Software Society in Cleveland
Techniques for Agile Manufacturing and Mass Customization, presented to Instrument Society of America in Orlando
Software and Computers:
oWindows(XP,7,8,NT):
oMicrosoft Office (Word, EXcel, Publish, Powerpoint, Outlook:
oMAS90(GL,PR,AP,AR,INV,BOM,MRP,SO,FA,CRM,PO,ERP)
oMicrosoft Project:
oPascal
oJava
oPython
oDjango
oNetbeans
oBasic
oFortran
oC++
oApple OS
oLinux
oMySQL