JAMES BARLOW

**** **** ** #***, *******, FL *****

Ph: 561-***-****(H) 561-***-****(C)

acz1fo@r.postjobfree.com

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

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