Robert Austin *** Hadnot Creek Rd., Swansboro, NC 28584 941-***-****

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Qualifications

Seasoned Manager with sound leadership, marketing, analytical and technical capabilities. Responsible for fiscal, strategic and operations leadership for many diverse multi-million dollar programs. Proven success in setting objectives, making decisions, initiating and managing actions required to accomplish tasks and meet goals. Managed multi-discipline system engineering teams to integrate a wide variety of equipments and software. Responsible for make or buy decisions and management of internal and external sourcing. Effective in summarizing and organizing information for presentation to management and customers. Experienced in design and implementation of all types of controls [embedded, distributed, PC, PLC], related software platforms and wired/wireless/distributed I/O including real time applications. Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, Visio and Project, QuickBooks, SimCad Pro Process Simulator and can work well within various CAD, TQM, ERP, SCADA and other applications. Currently I am a contractor embedded with the OICC at Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune, NC and hold a Navy security clearance with unclassified computer access.

Strategic Vision/Mission Planning/Alliances Profitability & Cost Analysis/BOM/EAC/ETC

Marketing Leadership/Competitive Analysis Work Breakdown/Scheduling/Resource Mgmt

Risk Management/Pricing Structures Change Management/Configuration Controls

FAR, DCAA & SBA Audit, SBA Loan Government/DOD Compliance

Safety NFPA70E, EM385, AHA WBDG, UFC’s, UFGS, LEED, RS Means

Professional Experience

MacDonald-Bedford LLC, Alameda, California 2008-Present

Electrical Design Manager-Officer in Charge of Construction-Camp Lejeune

Contractor assigned to assist the OICC with an unprecedented 4 billion dollars of new construction at Camp Lejeune over 4 years funded through BRAC, GTF and ARRA. Facilities include enlisted quarters, Dining, Fitness Centers, Child Care, Water Towers, base utilities and communications, new base entry gates, maintenance/ops, rifle ranges, 400 HZ trailer pads, Armory, Telex, Hospital, Detainee, etc. Responsible for ensuring Gold & Silver LEED points accepted.

Manage the design, procurement, installation and test/commissioning of Camp Lejeune energy initiatives including 6 MW of photovoltaic panels (farms, parking canopy and roof top), LED road, parking and building lighting (new and retrofit) and landfill gas (LFG) power and heating.

Extensive knowledge of latest LEED requirements, sustainable design, LID and erosion control.

Perform constructability reviews of contract documents including basis of design, specifications and drawings for hundreds of new and retrofitted buildings of all types as well as tactical training ranges through all stages of the design build and design bid build process and represented the OICC for electrical design at various design Charrettes.

Responded to contractor Requests for Information (RFI’s) and reviewed/commented/approved contractor technical submittals.

Provide NFPA 70E electrical safety guidance especially for energized work including arc flash analysis. Responsible for briefing the Navy’s MIDLANT Norfolk CO on all energized work permits to obtain approval. Developed energized work procedures and forms which have been adopted across Navy MIDLANT operations. Coordinated electrical outages across the base. Reviewed protective relay coordination studies using various applications such as easypower.com and etap.com. Incorporated additional redundancy and switching into electrical designs to eliminate future energized work.

Systems worked include base medium voltage distribution both overhead and underground, pad and pole transformers, diesel generators, UPS, all types of lighting, building power distribution, telephone and fiber communication, CATV, SCADA, fire detection and alarm/mass notification, lightning protection, etc.

Developed estimates for all types of change orders using RS Means, web information and independent contractor quotes. Negotiated change orders.

Tasked with developing over 200 DD1354 property records for new and existing construction which requires extensive use of various Navy electronic tools such as ieFacman, inFads, eFiles and local “access” files, interface with public works, research within the project technical and contractual documents and learning the latest DD1354 requirements both national and local.

Proficient with use of Whole Building Design Guide, UFC’s, UFGS and Navy Design Build Master.

Assist OICC CM’s (Construction Managers) and ET’s (Engineering Technicians) in building system inspections and provide solutions to various electrical and mechanical issues. Developed and presented training classes for electrical safety and DD1354 preparation for over sixty CM’ and ET’s.

Completed Navy training such as ESAMS and Parsons SHARP (Safety Health and Risk Program Management) manual for managers.

Transport Systems, Inc., Sarasota, Florida 1998-2008

Development Manager/Engineer-Mechanical and Electrical Systems

Directed R&D efforts to develop a unique automated material handling system to sort packages of all sizes and weights for postal and commercial applications.

Succeeded in producing a mechanically simple globally competitive product with wide ranging application.

Collaborated with US Postal Service headquarters management and engineers to produce sorter system designs to meet their broad set of complex requirements.

Substantiated systems proposed were best value using ROI calculations based on US Postal Service guidelines.

Responsible for implementing postal sortation systems and meeting government requirements for OSHA compliance, ergonomics, testing, safety, training, manuals, warranty and maintenance.

Proposed, contracted and managed completion of multiple multi-million dollar commercial distribution projects in the U.S., Canada and South Africa including apparel distribution, food, parts and parcels.

Provided customers with innovative solutions to space, throughput, control and product handling issues which led to contract awards.

Hold 2 patents for complex electro-mechanical systems and software for complete package sorting systems.

Integrated Conveyance Engineering, Orlando, Florida 1994-1998

Marketing and Operations Manager

Responsible for new business pursuits including proposal generation, contract pricing and customer liaison.

Secured 54 profitable automated logistics projects in 3 years ranging in value $300K to $5M bidding against aggressive competition. Customers included DLA, Navy, AF and Marine Corps.

System installations required building modifications, office construction, mezzanines, concrete floors, electrical upgrade, fire suppression and other construction.

Performed competitive analysis and source selection which led to contract awards.

Re-engineered customer provided [RFP] designs to provide simpler solutions at lower cost with more capabilities.

Directed project managers and field supervisors during the implementation of 11 projects occurring simultaneously including locations in Japan, Portugal and Hawaii.

Harris Corporation, Orlando, FL 1989-1994

Director of Automated Material Handling Systems

Reported directly to the President as a separate profit center.

Directed 20 person software maintenance group for Naval automated material handling systems. Developed and priced software improvements which included moving mainframe based code onto distributed PC’s.

Repackaged software to create a commercial WMS for use in new business sales.

Led a separate team of 8 engineers tasked with new business pursuits, proposed and won over 75 million dollars of new business. Customers include the Defense Logistics Agency, U.S. Navy, Canadian DOD and American Airlines.

Directed in-house 3D simulation efforts to sell system designs to our customers.

Unisys Corporation, Great Neck, NY [Sperry Systems Management] 1981-1989

Manager of Automated System Design

Managed proposal efforts, design, procurement and installation of over $500M of automated material handling systems and software maintenance contracts from the Navy [NISTARS], Air Force [AWS] and Army [AOD] ranging in value from $28M to $170M.

Developed the design/layout, controls, operation and communication specifications for 25 miles of package and pallet conveyor, 100’s of fixed, mobile and hand held bar code scanners, 55 AGV’s, 38 ASRS cranes, 65 man up vehicles, 6 towline systems and over 300 PC based workstation locations.

Evaluated automation life cycle cost against lower cost alternatives which resulted in sole source contracts for automating non-mechanized areas.

Managed joint venture proposal effort with the design build supplier to produce integrated building [1.3M sq. ft.] and material handling system which resulted in $170M contract which produced a 9% profit.

Received commendation from Admiral Elliott for my efforts to complete the Navy’s automated distribution system projects [NISTARS] which included re-writing all of the software specifications, managing the coding and site tests.

Education

MS, Engineering Management

Long Island University, C. W. Post Campus, Brookville, NY

BS, Electrical Engineering

State University of New York [SUNY] at Stony Brook, NY

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