Calvin Firestone, MBA, PMP

2922 W. 34th St. • W., Layton, Utah 84045 • H (801) 555-2922 •  Cell 801-555-7709

firestcal2@msn.com

OBJECTIVE

Project/Program Manager

UNIQUE SELLING PROPOSITION

Seasoned Project Manager whose strengths in identifying and solving problems have saved my employers over $10 Million while completing over $35 Million worth of projects during the past 9 years.

KEYWORD COMPETENCIES

Project manager, PEMBOK, COBOL, VAX, MS Visual Basic, problem-solving/decision making, leadership, oral/written communications, team-building, performance and productivity improvement, project management professional, PMP, ANSI, PMI, Scrum, Agile Project Management, APM, eXtreme Programming, XP, SCRUM, Feature Driven Development, FDD, Rational Unified Process, RUP, Object Management Technique, OMT, Function Point Analysis, FPA, Three Tier Client Server Systems, Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, MS Access, MS Visual Studio.NET, PHP, MySQL/SQL, PL/SQL, SQL*Plus, HTML, PHP, Macromedia Dreamweaver, MS Office, MS PowerPoint, Visio, Project Workbench Manager, MS Project, AutoCAD 2005.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Ultra Tech, Inc                                                                                                                                                                  2003 to Present

Project Director

My major roles here were Problem Solver, Diplomat/Leader and Project Professional.

ACHIEVEMENTS & RESULTS

¨Provided key leadership to drive $31M worth of projects to finish on time and under budget by my ability to identify problems early.

¨Saved $17M project by winning over key staff to the project methodology

¨Reversed an adversarial situation with the central project office by providing strong project management knowledge and skills and a confident close working relationship.

OTHER DUTIES

¨Project Manager of a 2-year, $14M software implementation project to implement an Off-The-Shelf tax management product to manage the taxes for an entire state.  Provide project management, leadership, training and guidance for the state's personnel and tax department. 

¨Independent project manager responsible for success of a $17M software installation that eventually employed more than 50 personnel. Project was completed and was delivered on time, within budget and exceeding the contractual requirements and scope.

¨Provide unbiased and neutral oversight of project activities directly to agency executive committee.

¨Lead efforts during a 2-month period to overcome opposition identified within the project structure that had cost more than 1200 man-hours of time through meetings, discussions and wasted effort. 

¨Identified problems in software installation and business issues that saved thousands of man-hours to fix had they occurred.

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Alto Technology Inc.                                                                                                                                                        2001 to 2003

Software Engineer III

ACHIEVEMENTS & RESULTS

¨Found solutions to "impossible" tasks permitting the on time completion of multiple projects.

¨Lead discussions with offices across 5 countries resulting in a design consensus for a complex application which all participants would be required to use.

¨Guided and encouraged software developers helping them create breakthrough solutions they had previously believed were impossible.

OTHER DUTIES

¨ As Project Manager for a web based event reporting system eliminating redundant data entry in 10 programs based on VAX and other platforms with a 60% savings in the man-hours per week.

¨As Project Lead on a system tracking over 3000 detailed transactions per day of workload and inventory movement in a clean-room laundry with a multi million dollar yearly budget.  This also permitted extensive reporting while cutting data entry time by 40%.

¨As Developer, eliminated 80% of the items on a problem list of over 100 required software fixes and upgrades over a 6-month period. 

Tri-State Consulting                                                                                                                                                             1997 to 2001

Senior Associate

ACHIEVEMENTS & RESULTS

¨Provide a solution and manage a software development project that had previously been considered impossible, saving approximately 1000 person hours per year.

¨Successfully manage a complex project with concurrent work on 7 large software solutions and 5000 hardware systems.

¨Lead a large diverse team completing a $5M, time-critical project on time.

Semden Corp.                                                                                                                                                                          1995 - 1997

Systems Support Manager

ACHIEVEMENTS & RESULTS

¨Lead development automating Accounts Receivable that decreased outstanding AR by 60%.

¨Lead and participated in support for 60 clients in 15 states processing over ten thousand mortgages per year and using over 800 different documents while decreasing customer help desk calls 15%.

Ultramast Products, Inc.                                                                                                                                                        1994 - 1995

Information Systems Manager

ACHIEVEMENTS & RESULTS

¨Reduced network down time by over 80% by instituting changes and upgrades to current systems and customer support methods. 

Intermountain Access Corp.                                                                                                                                                 1991 - 1994

Information Systems Manager

ACHIEVEMENTS & RESULTS

¨ Drive development of cradle-to-grave business support system integrating laboratory, accounting, and contracting packages that saved 4 man-years of administrative time and decreased data entry errors 30% over 2 years.

¨Identified and suggested procedural changes in contract payments for production division saving over $100,000 in 1993 and $600,000 projected over 3 years. This represented 2% of the total corporate budget.

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration, 2003, University of Phoenix

Bachelor of Science, 1991, Creighton University

CERTIFICATIONS & AWARDS

Project Management Professional (PMP) an ANSI standard, through Project Management Institute.