Technical Project Manager for hire. Seeking position working with portable devices (iPhone, Android, Palm or similar), New Media (social web, podcasting, weblogging), or defense related software. Either in the development and deployment of such technology or in the employment of such in an industry that is not computer related.

• Management of software development process including bug triage and prioritization, feature vs schedule management, communicating the ongoing status across both internal and third party team members.
• Responsible for the delivery of OMA DM support (client and server) as well as PC application that synchronizes PIM data with Outlook for an Android based MID device. This includes coordination of internal and third party resources supporting initial integration of client software into the Android platform and development of the server platform for testing.
• Coordination between internal resources and three internationally located third parties in Russia, Israel and Taiwan.

• Managed numerous public works projects in support of the mission to rebuild infrastructure and capacity throughout the province of Maysan.
• Provided guidance to Iraqi civil leadership in improving governance and bureaucratic process within the province.
• Assisted military leadership of two battalions to coordinate military efforts in the province.

• Developed & maintained test plans for a number of test areas including Wi-Fi, Device Settings, & Acceptance.
• Assumed overall responsibility for Wi-Fi testing for all products coordinating certification, usability, and interoperability.
• Established ownership of testing already in progress, building a test plan that validated each component from the bottom of the architecture up.
• Coordinated efforts with customer support to provide clear explanation of resolution to known problems & detect call driving issues early to provide clear explanation of resolution and initiate a fix for future release.

• Audio & Video production using industry standard equipment; ENG video camera operation; location sound recording.
• Post-production using Final Cut Studio; video editing in Final Cut Pro; sound editing and enhancement using SoundTrack Pro, Peak Pro & Audacity.
• Release of final content through multiple venues; DVD authoring using DVD Studio Pro, iTunes and RSS podcast using XML; upload to YouTube.
• Graphic and illustration design for web site content, DVD menus, and video elements.
• Developed web sites, RSS feeds, and iTunes podcast feeds using XML, html, CSS.

• Establish and maintain radio networks used to facilitate all forms of communication used by the tactical command center for both voice and data communications
• Responsible for the security of sensitive cryptologic communication equipment and the associated key material. This includes the acquisition and destruction of key material in accordance with strict security regulations.

• Formalized and documented the iPod software development process, defining milestones and exit gates for each phase of development.
• Provided technical guidance to software development teams on requirements for making software marketable in world regional markets.
• Provided documentation, training material, tools and technical support to regional localization engineers responsible for localizing software.
• Redesigned the process by which software was posted to the web delivery system resulting in a drastic reduction in the amount of time required; from more than six months to less than two weeks.
• Revised the process of localizing a particular piece of software so that the cost of localization was drastically reduced.

• Windows 2000 Application Compatibility Test Lead for Japanese, Middle East & Thai languages responsible for the planning and execution of application compatibility testing for assigned languages with 10 test engineers reporting to me; planned and initiated coordinated cross team testing.
• Worked with Int'l subsidiaries and OEM partners to coordinate test efforts; including development of test planning to cover international features, bug tracking and regression from multiple testers and test centers, overall bug management, and coordination of bug resolution with the US team.
• Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition -- testing multi-lingual capabilities; Developed test plans and associated test cases; educated other engineers and teams in Terminal Services technology; assisted in the management of the overall test process.

• Designed, developed and maintained a complete Japanese localization for Apple's Newton operating system. This included adapting applications to Japanese use and designing a text input system to support Japanese text. This product opened the Japanese market to the Newton. Enfour's annual sales of $3 million were based largely on this product.
• Manage the development of an email client, GoFetch, and related documentation. Responsibilities include revision schedules, feature implementation, localization support, resource management and technical support/user feedback.
• Provided design, implementation and maintenance for Enfour's English language web site, Enfour's primary sales tool for products outside Japan.

• Member of a team that managed a network covering a 10 square kilometer steel manufacturing facility; 1500 computers, printers and other network devices.
• Designed and implemented a system to automate data collection, software distribution and license compliance which drastically reduced software related expenditures and the number of man hours required to manage network resources.
• Established Operating System software version standards and procedures for compliance which resulted in improved network performance and reduced the number of man hours lost to troubleshooting and user support.

• Bachelor of Arts: Asian Studies