Summary of Qualifications

• Green Building, Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy consultant for commercial, government, and residential customers, helping to administer Energy Efficiency programs with Austin Energy, Oncor, CPS, Xcel, and other utility companies in TX, CO, GA, SC, and FL, based on rebates and legislation
• Trained in Smart Grid concepts to manage distributed sources of power load, generation and storage
• Seven years of construction project management experience, negotiating contracts, then managing employees, contractors, budgets, resources, and timelines for successful on-time project completion
• Product management experience in IT hardware / software applications development / systems integration, Web 2.0, rich media; product life-cycle management, MRD & PRD development
• Four years experience in financial management, consulting with businesses to develop financial and budgeting processes, expenditures forecasting, online billing and electronic payment processing

Professional Experience

Energy Efficiency Consultant

• Consulting with residential, commercial, and government customers to determine and implement the most appropriate Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy solutions providing the highest ROI.  Coordinating rebate programs with Austin Energy, Oncor, CPS, Xcel, & other electric utilities.
• Working closely with engineering and design teams to determine specific bill of materials and complete system pricing for custom-designed solutions to meet the customers’ objectives.
• Gained experience in Demand Side Management & Smart Grid Technology for integrating alternative energy sources and web-enabled electric usage control devices, providing peak usage leveling.
• Developing expertise in residential & commercial Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy solutions, including HVAC, Lighting, Insulation, Ducting, Energy Audits, Energy Efficiency Diagnostic Testing, Solar Power, Wind Power, Solar Thermal Water, Solar Pool Heating, Energy Star, and Green Building.

Senior Project Manager

• Managed the highest complexity projects, overseeing timelines, engineering design, CAD detailing, customers’ needs, and overall project scope, while verifying estimates, purchase orders, and building materials, to assure best final profit margins for the company per project.
• Negotiated the compromise between customers’ goals, architectural objectives, and structural limitations, to derive in an overall high quality solution satisfying the needs of all stakeholders.
• Managed individually or as a team projects from $200,000 to $23,000,000 in budget.

Project Manager / Business Consultant

• International Business Development & Project Management, negotiating contracts with WalMart, Lowe’s, Home Depot,  Scomi Oil, US Marines, Anheuser-Busch, International Paper, etc., to facilitate expansion of their facilities; then managing employees, contractors, manufacturers, distributors, and vendors to provide deliverables and assure project completion on-time and within budget.
• Managed Commercial Greenhouse projects, installing solar curtain arrays, weather stations, wind, light, heat, humidity, water and air flow control equipment, designed to reduce energy costs, reduce overall operational costs, and increase crop yield & quality through climate control automation.
• Directing project teams based on architectural plans, blue prints, engineering drawings, and CAD designs, assuring final quality levels are within industry tolerances and specifications.
• Business consulting for IBM & other clients, integrating financial management, CRM, eMarketing, eCommerce applications and Web 2.0 website design, including online customer database management, information sharing, rich media, and search engine optimization (SEO).
• Subject Matter Expert (SME), co-developing e-learning programs in Product Management, for the following companies: InfoPro, Hurix, and Thomson Netg (bought by Skillsoft).

International Product Manager

• Aggressively deployed new Internet Streaming Media and Content Distribution products & services in Asian and US markets.
• Market research and analysis, developing Market Requirements Documents (MRDs), collaborating with key executive decision makers to assure buy-in on strategy and direction.
• Drove product release requirements, and managed international teams’ product activities for marketing, sales, engineering, and network operations to assure successful launches in the market.
• Conducted presentations for executive briefings, product demonstrations, strategic planning sessions, and sales training, in America, Japan, and Taiwan; managed marketing events.
• Negotiated alliance deals, together with the Director of Business Development, establishing alliances with Akamai and other vendors, to provide a total network delivery solution to our customers.
• Secured a team to meet with Sony Japan and Sony Taiwan, brokering a deal to use our streaming media solutions, and uniting the forces to make it happen.

Marketing Partner Manager

• Multi-tier international business partner management, maintaining all relationships with software and hardware vendors while facilitating sales and engineering’s relationships with OEMs.
• Trained in Emergency Preparedness Plan. Co-authored ISO 9000 business practices document.
• Co-leader of international marketing, internet design and advertising team, developing messaging and positioning for all products sold in America, while coordinating our product launches and packaging across key country markets.
• Co-managed product life-cycle from implementation to end-of-life, providing go-to-market plan, product announcement details, marketing collateral updates, promotion planning, customer / vendor briefings, sales / channel training, scripted product demos, tradeshow management, and coordination with sales, engineering, and our international counterparts.
• Negotiated deals with vendors & OEMS to provide total solutions through partnering, resulting in ELSA being the number one graphics board solution with DELL, IBM, Compaq, HP, and Gateway.
• Liaison between partner engineering teams, across countries, co-planning our future S/W & H/W product capabilities.  Acted as escalation point for tier 1 relationships, resolving critical conflicts.

Technical Partner Manager

• Managed the technical relationship between Compaq and partner vendors in the Digital Content Creation (DCC) business segment.
• Coordinated in team with Segment Marketing, Worldwide Sales, and key S/W & H/W partners, meeting joint sales targets, supporting product line positioning, co-planning events, and satisfying the requirements and objectives of high-end customers, such as DreamWorks and Disney.
• Frequently met with solutions partners, in America, Canada, England, The Netherlands, and Germany, assuring partner satisfaction with workstation products.
• Worked with trade magazine editors to publish highest benchmark scores, collaborating with applications partners and engineers to push product capabilities to the extreme.
• Led engineers in the requirements analysis, design, testing, and implementation of multiple vendor hardware & software / multiple operating environment SANs & parallel processing high performance computing systems.
• Co-developed the fastest non-linear video editing solution available, supporting the Softimage XSI platform, using Compaq servers with Cisco networking equipment, utilizing simultaneous 1394 data transfers and Fibre Channel RAID configurations.
• Engaged in product demos, white paper development, executive presentations, field sales training.

Proprietor of Business

• Supervised graphics team, inspiring them to provide high-quality, accurate and convincing 3D & 2D graphics, animation, TV & PC video, and internet web design within budget and on-time.
• Corporate marketing & training videos, architectural walk-through simulations.  Consultant for video teleconferencing, distance learning, and telemedicine.  Attorney Litigation support through precise computerized accident reconstruction.  Project manager for children’s educational entertainment game development and production.
• Marketing and website development for DWANGO, a founder in online network multiplayer gaming. Managed the promotion of online multiplayer games: DOOM, Duke Nukem, Terminal Velocity.
• Completed key graphical user interface (GUI) and data display programs for Shell Oil research facility seismic data visualization application.
• Developed complex 3D geographical world model, for data throughput optimization research on IBM 3090 computer arrays.

Graphics Systems Specialist

• Lead programmer for several user interface and 3D graphics projects, requiring very high accuracy and attention to detail, supporting the NASA space shuttle program; satellite deployment simulations.
• Designed integrated graphics and CAD systems for Federal and Enterprise Corporate clients.
• Maintained rigorous software coding standards and documentation, with appropriate project management to support resolution for DRs (Discrepancy Reports) and CRs (Change Requests).
• Trained in Emergency Management Plan for company, coordinating with NASA and vendors.
• Multi-million dollar federal government and corporate contract proposal writing, presentations expert.

Additional Experience

• Streaming media, HTML programming, web design, 3D animation: Alias | Wavefront Maya, Softimage XSI, 3D Studio MAX, TOPAS,  2D design, video & audio non-linear editing, multimedia authoring, Corel Draw, Adobe Photoshop, Premier, Acrobat, AfterEffects, RIO, Inscriber, Macromedia Director, Fractal Design Painter, CAD/CAM systems design, , CADAM, CAEDS, CATIA, Autocad
• Programmed in C++, C, Visual Basic, Microsoft Windows, X-Windows, Pascal, PHIGS, GKS; in UNIX, OS/2, DOS, and VM environments.  DOS – UNIX integration, IBM PCs, Apple Macintosh, SUN, Silicon Graphics, RS / 6000, IBM 3090, Apollo, Tektronix, Masscomp.

Honors and Activities

• Training for Certified Energy Manager (CEM)
• Prof Member: Association of Energy Engineers
• Prof Member: ICC International Code Council
• Prof Member: CSI Construction Spec Institute
• CA Div of State Architect Assistant Inspector
• Spanish speaking, limited German speaking
• NASA Excellence Award
• Best Software Lab IBM US
• Private Aircraft Pilot
• Volunteer entertainer for disabled children

Education

The University of Texas at Austin – Master of Arts in Advertising

The University of Texas at Austin – Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science

Coursework included: electrical engineering, physics, computer programming, -architecture, -networking, marketing research & analysis, business administration, creative advertising, computer art and animation.  Thesis on computer simulation for package design.

GPA 3.8 out of 4.0     Trustee Scholarship Award     Dean’s List     Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

References Available Upon Request