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DIRECTOR - GLOBAL TELEMATICS
Executive Summary
Project Manager professional with 17 years of experience in design, development, and application of wireless technology in manufacturing, consulting, and government. Extensive experience in Telematics, program management, customer relations, IoT, technology transfer, solutions engineering, and business planning.
Core Qualifications
  • Telematics / IoT
  • Cross-functional team management
  • Budget management
  • Risk and feasibility analysis
  • Project / Program management
  • Product Development
  • Complex problem solving
  • Client and vendor relations
Professional Experience
Director - Global Telematics
May 2008 to April 2016The Manitowoc Company, Inc. － Manitowoc, Wisconsin
  • Global lead for development, application, and introduction of Telematics, Wireless Sensors, and Remote Diagnostics capability on Manitowoc cranes.
  • Maintained strategic road map for Telematics considering the state of the market, VOC (Voice of Customer) and available internal / external resources.
  • Initiated project to reduce cost of Telematics hardware resulting in production approval in 3 months that led to $20,000 in savings in the first year.
  • Led cross-functional team to engineer, develop and implement Telematics products globally.
  • Served as director of Innovation Center in New Port Richey, FL. focused on HiL (Hardware In the Loop) software testing for Global Engineering.  
  • Negotiated vendor contracts for software development, hardware supply, wireless connectivity and specialized contract services.
  • Provided business case, budgets and project time lines to construct a state of the art data warehouse and data analytics system to store and process data.
  • Identified methods to reduce complexity and increase scalability of Telematics system resulting in optimized system performance and tiered product offerings for profit generation.
  • Responsible for reporting to all stakeholders including senior management to provide program status, schedule time lines and costs.
Co-Owner / Principal
October 2006 to April 2008Arêtec, Inc － Charleston, SC
  • Technical and Management consultant for development and commercialization of  WiFi, WiMax, Active RFID (HSS / DSSS / Zigbee / Bluetooth), and Wireless Sensor technologies from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
  • Evaluation and testing of satellite and cellular communication technologies (GSM / CDMA / GPRS / Iridium SBD and LBT / GlobalStar / OrbComm) for tracking and monitoring of remote land and air based assets.
  • Identification, Testing, and Evaluation of terrestrial and satellite communication technologies for tracking and monitoring of sleds in the Iditarod Sled Dog Race and Trans-Pacific Gas Balloon flight.
  • Provide technical and cost proposals on behalf of clients.
  • Actively manage technical aspects of clients operations. 
  • Assist with client fund raising, operations, and strategic planning. 
  • Report to board members, organization officials, and staff members to discuss issues, coordinate activities, and resolve problems. 
Program Manager
January 2002 to September 2006Navigational Sciences, Inc － Charleston, SC
  • Responsible for the management of $10+ Million CRADA (Cooperative Research And Development Agreement) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to develop RF devices for tracking and monitoring
  • Lead Engineer for development of GSM / GPRS / GPS Tracking devices and AMR product lines.
  • Developed GIS software backend for web-based asset tracking site.
  • Established  departmental responsibilities, and coordinate functions among departments and sites. 
  • Implemented  corrective action plans to solve organizational or departmental problems. 
  • Coordinated on the negotiation and approval of contracts and agreements with suppliers, distributors and federal and state agencies. 
  • Planned and formulated aspects of research and development proposals.
Co-Owner / Principal
January 1999 to December 2001STARRS, LLC － Charleston, SC
  • Provided IT and Satellite Communication expertise to NBC and GE CRD as part of a project with WNI to provide weather data to all 13 owned and operated NBC stations.
  • Technical consultant to the Weather Department at WRC-TV (NBC4) in the areas of Remote Sensing, GIS, Image Processing, Computer Service / Repair, and Satellite Communications.
  • Installed  and tested prototype equipment in 5 NBC stations to expand and enhance gathering and processing data for weather segment production.
  • Engineered various systems to allow clients to transfer vital remote environmental data via satellite.
Education
MBA : Finance, 2018Lakeland College － Sheboygan, WisconsinFinance
BS : Physics, 1998The College of Charleston － Charleston, South CarolinaPhysics
Accomplishments
  • Led the development of The Manitowoc Company's Telematics system, CraneSTAR from start to production.
  • Collaborated on the development and presentation of plans for an innovative inter-modal shipping container tracking product, securing +$2M in private placement capital funding.
Patents
Marine Asset Security and Tracking (MAST), Granted July 2008, G.R. Hanson, M.R. Moore, S.F. Smith of ORNL and E.L. Dobson, J.S. Blair and C.A. Duncan of Navigational Sciences, Inc., and D. Maxwell of Tarallax Wireless, Inc.
Remote Diagnostics System Incorporating Hardware In The Loop (HIL) Software Regression Tests, Pending, Application #: 14/590608. James A. Alger, Jeffrey S. Blair, Matthew T. Oswald.
Crane Monitoring System, Pending, Application #: 14/399766. James A. Alger, Brian G. Bilke, Jeffrey S. Blair, Matthew T. Oswald.
Skills
animation, art, broadcast, budgets, budget, business case, business development, Hardware, consulting, clients, data warehouse, engineer, senior management, functional, GIS, government, Innovation, director, managing, marketing, market, access, profit, quality, Research, safety, Sales, shipping, software testing, strategy, strategic, unique
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Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

  • The Manitowoc Company, Inc.
  • Arêtec, Inc
  • Navigational Sciences, Inc
  • STARRS, LLC

School Attended

  • Lakeland College
  • The College of Charleston

Job Titles Held:

  • Director - Global Telematics
  • Co-Owner / Principal
  • Program Manager

Degrees

  • MBA : Finance , 2018
    BS : Physics , 1998

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