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| Manager |
Hands-on manager. Full staff and budgetary control on last jobs.
Began central budgeting for utility for IS needs, saving considerable
money, effort and waste. Have been able to save or generate my
salary in last jobs. Developed and implemented project, strategic,
contingency and disaster plans. Wrote Policies and Procedures
manual. Cut lead-time on projects significantly in last four jobs.
Increased System Availability for electric utility from 95.6%
to 99.9%. Have made presentations to employees, managers, board
members, community organizations, and technical user groups. Excellent
people skills and facilitator. Good working relations with all
members of organization and with vendors. Extensive client contact.
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Project Manager
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Project Manager for hardware (installs and conversions) and software
(system design, development, installs and conversions). Most projects
finished on time and within budget. Led interdepartmental Year
2000 Team for electric utility and made presentations to board
of Commissioners and top community organizations. Cut lead-time
of projects at utility from months to two or three weeks. System
availability went from 95.6% to 99.9%. Project manager for Internet
web site. Led installation of web server in-house. Wrote Project,
Strategic, contingency and disaster plans. Project manager for
conversion of software and hardware in five Branch offices of
advertising agency. Completed in two months with no down time
to the offices in spite of losing key members of team. Negotiated
all computer purchases. Extensive Client contacts.
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| Webmaster |
Building websites since 1994. First webmaster for
Mason County PUD #3. Built the Website and the Intranet for the
utility. Handled all phases of the Web site development. Trained
the current Web Master in HTML, JavaScript and other Web technologies.
Built commercial sites since 1996. Used to working on tight deadlines
and manage time well. Trained others in HTML with the 'notepad'
and FrontPage editor's in building commercial sites. Trained in
Macromedia DreamWeaver, Corel Webmaster, Microsoft FrontPage, Hotmetal,
and other editors. The links to the WebPages that I have built,
along with an on-line resume, are at http://www.bowlan.com
. You can see a dummy Intranet site I built at http://www.bowlan.com/intranet
. In order to learn Active Server Pages I am putting together a
site on the history of the Washington State Ferry Fleet. I have
had to move the site to an ISP that supports ASP, so that site will
be at http://pacific.telebyte.com/~bowlan/ferry/
shortly, if it is not there already. |
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I.S. Manager
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1994 - 1999 |
Mason County PUD 3 |
Shelton, WA |
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Manager for electric utility running
Windows NT workstations and printers on TCP/IP connected to an IBM
AS/400. Two remote sites connected to the LAN using Frame Relay
(with voice over data) and we have dial in capabilities to either
the network or the AS/400 and we are connected to the Internet with
an ISDN line. |
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| D.P. Manager |
1993 - 1994 |
Parker Truck Lines |
Seattle, WA |
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Manager for Interstate truck lines running
IBM and Texas Instrument minicomputers and PC's with a LAN. |
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| D.P. Manager |
1992 - 1993 |
The Squire Shop, Inc. |
Tacoma, WA |
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Handled all aspects of Data Processing.
Company running IBM System/36 computer and IBM PC's. |
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| VP of M.I.S. |
1985 -1992 |
Evans Comm., Inc. |
Salt Lake City and Seattle
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Responsible for all I.S. functions for
corporation with seven offices throughout the west. All offices
Used IBM System/36 computers and extensive network of IBM and Apple
PC's. Two offices ran DEC MicroVAX for office automation. All offices
connected by dial-up lines. |
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| Skills |
Management, Project Management, Internet
and Intranet, Budgeting, IS Operations, Systems Analysis and Design,
Strategic and contingency plans |
| Software |
RPG, HTML, JavaScript, Visual RPG, SQL,
CL, OCL, Dreamweaver |
| Hardware |
IBM AS/400, IBM System 36, DEC Micro VAX,
Servers, and PC's |
| Industries |
Utility, Retail, Government, Manufacturing,
Advertising, Trucking |
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| Education |
Will receive Bachelor of Arts with an
emphasis in I.S. Management in December, 1999 from The Evergreen
State College, Olympia, WA. Completed 24 unit, yearlong course in
Management in an Information Society. (Organizational Behavior,
Analysis and Development) Courses in Intranet and Internet development
JavaScript, HTML, Web Development and I.S. Management. |
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