Director QA; Program Manager; Project Manager

RONALD C. HART, Ph.D.

**** ***** *****

Cincinnati, Ohio 45242

(513) 891‑3526 (home)

(513) 253‑7570 (cell)

SUMMARY

Enthusiastic leader with more than 30 years experience successfully managing the implementation of software engineering, software process definition, decision support projects, project planning, quality, testing, and state‑of‑the‑art computer technologies in software development, legacy system migration, quality assurance, test automated tool evaluation, and technology assessment in aerospace, defense, academic, communications, pharmaceuticals, financial, software, and scientific applications.

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Siemens PLM Software – Milford, Ohio (aka UGS, EDS, SDRC) 1996 to 2009

Senior Technical Manager, Enterprise Test Organization

Leader in the development of new enterprise wide test organization to include standardized methods and tools across all divisions. Established new business and customers with the internal divisions. Set up pilot projects in various and then monitored pilots against planned schedules, establishing problem resolution with chief vendors and defined mitigation of technical issues, schedule, and cost as required. Led the evaluation of wide range of automation tools with focus on technical reviews, requirements gathering, and test automation. Implemented new generation of automated test tools into organizations with successfully concluded pilots.

Directed organization for the evaluation and qualification of commercial software for e-business collaboration solutions, providing Business-to-Business and Internet-based solutions, with offerings in Product Knowledge Management, Collaborative Product Commerce, CAD Integrations, and e-Design Automation. Organization includes six managers and team that covered eleven states and three foreign countries. Served on corporate Software Engineering and Quality Assurance task forces.

Responsible for the successful and timely completion of all projects conducted by project leads within organization. All projects were defined based on customer requirements, with schedules and budgets tied to business objectives, with all projects monitored and managed for risk, adherence to schedule and cost, as well as quality of the deliverable. Risk mitigation reviews and post delivery reviews were managed and reviewed with senior management and customers along with project metrics for satisfactorily meeting expectations. Recommendations for future projects and changes to processes made as part of the final project reviews.

Successfully managed departments with more than 130 staff, contract employees, and consultants assigned software development, engineering application, quality assurance, research, technical support, customer support, and software release management functions. Departments were in multiple locations around the world. Responsible for all aspects of hiring, staffing, budgeting, and maintaining cost control. Created process improvement team for Process Definition and common enterprise processes to cover ISO and customer audits, as well as related agency audits.

Started an off shore technical organization and coordinated multi-location quality organization to support evaluation of Product Lifecycle Management products. Start up included the recruiting and hiring of teams from individual contributors to managers. It required training and ramp up of knowledge on current product lines so that some functions and responsibilities could be transferred to new site.

Led evaluation of test automation tools. Resultant selection provided for a greater than 80% reduction in test execution turn around. Object based screen capture integrated with Java applications, legacy interfaces, Web Application servers, and databases. Evaluation for another division led to selection of screen capture tools with a major reduction in test turn around.

Manage capital planning and acquisition for division including the specifications for test and integration environments. Responsible for the environment teams to install, maintain, and troubleshoot environments in support of development and test teams to develop and validate products. Determine hardware and software requirements to include vendors, virtual machine utilization, memory and machine sizing, and future planning. Maintain computerized records of hardware, software, and inventory. Prepare tax information for division hardware.

MTC International ‑ Dayton, Ohio 1995 to 1996

Principle Information Engineer & Program Manager

Chief Engineer assigned for review of DOD projects to migrate legacy finance and inventory systems, including infrastructure development, systems integration, middleware implementation, data integrity, contract preparation, and document review. Met with individual contractor staff members to resolve conflicts with specifications and ensure full compliance. Provided direction and clarification on deliverable requirements and specifications. Led the quarterly program reviews and provided evaluations and technical opinions for the General (and later Admiral) and staff for their review, consideration, decision, and action. Evaluations included adherence to schedule, conformance to standards, and success of technical delivery.

CELLULAR ONE ‑ Columbus, Ohio 1994 to 1995

Senior Program Manager

Program Manager and chief architect for system design to migrate legacy systems to distributed software architecture, positioning company for future incremental move in client/server direction. Managed six organizations covering real time systems interface, retail POS, credit evaluation, back end data management, and distributed data base implementation in communications industry. Coordinated search for design and development tools in support of application development. Introduced object-oriented processes and development (using C++ and Forte) to the members of the development organization. Responsible for all phases of program from inception. Responsible for vendor and subsystem contracts along with their delivery and costs. Team included marketing, sales, contract vendors, and senior management to ensure all stake holders had commitment and there was a smooth transition of live retail system. System went live during holiday season of highest usage with no identified errors.

Led program to integrate utility and application software and test configuration of engineering design and graphics software packages. Provided agents, daemons, and servers to replace antiquated batch operations. Supervised porting and upgrading of UNIX, MVS, and DOS software applications, variety of DBMS packages (Oracle, Progress, Sybase), and migrated internally developed software to new hardware platforms.

GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Aircraft Engines Business ‑ Cincinnati, Ohio 1989 to 1993

Senior Project Leader

Provide Program Management support for products used by more than 3,000 engineers. Managed the development of hot line, database, and technical support functions. Coordinated software specifications, developed bid specifications, and reviewed submissions. Led team that included engineers from various functions, engineering management, and vendors to ensure fully functioning delivery.

Led evaluation and qualification of broad range of engineering applications on multiple platforms: UNIX and DOS based client/server distributed workstation environment, using Motif, C, and LISP. Benchmarked performance on HP, DEC, SUN, IBM, NT, and SGI.

Wrote specifications, designed and implemented computer systems, and tested requirements on mainframe, mini-computers, and workstations, using C, C++, Fortran, Cobol, and Ada in support of a federal contract. Developed and implemented software quality assurance and certification procedures.

OTHER

Older professional history is available upon request.

INTERPERSONAL SKILLS

Enthusiastic proponent of high quality software. Diplomatic negotiator remaining broad minded and adaptable to new ideas.

Dependable and creative leader who is people oriented, motivates members of the team, and constructively reviews work.

Resourceful and cost‑conscious professional, capable of selling difficult concepts to senior management and outside resources. Cost effectively led multiple projects simultaneously with strong performance of concluding on or under budget and often ahead of schedule.

EDUCATION

Cincinnati Center for Management and Executive Development Program – Innovation and Management of Changing Technology in the 21st Century, College of Business Administration, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

Ph.D., Computer Science, KWU College of Engineering and Computer Science. Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Sunil Hazari, University of Maryland. Dissertation: Application of Message Queuing Middleware and Intelligent Agents for Incremental Migration of Mission Critical Legacy Systems.

Business Administration Certification, Miles Education (company sponsored MBA style program with Indiana University), Elkhart, IN.

M.S., Computational Chemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN.

B.S., Physics and Mathematics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

Member of Review Committee for Software Engineering Body of Knowledge for IEEE Computer Society and ACM.

Senior Member of IEEE. Senior Member of ACM. Member of Software Engineering Standards Committee of the IEEE. Member of the IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering.

Adjunct Faculty appointments: Assistant Professor of Information Engineering Technology at University of Cincinnati: taught Software Engineering, Project Management, Data Structures, and Neural Networks; Vice Chairman of the Computer Sciences Advisory Board as industry liaison and Adjunct Instructor for IVY Tech, Elkhart, IN.

ACHIEVEMENTS

Publications and presentations, including seven books and videos, and one memo of invention.

Held Secret Clearance and Top Secret Clearance (currently inactive). Confidential Clearance is current.

Recognized with numerous citations by Corporate and Department Managers, recognizing contributions made to businesses.

Received Miles Laboratories Science and Technology Award and the General Electric Phillipi Award nomination.

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