Arthur E. Bodiker34 W. McPherson St, Dayton, Ohio 45405

(937) 367-7506     abodiker@aol.com

 

Summary:

The last twenty years have been devoted to creating, maintaining, retiring, and the health of detailed schedules and Integrated Master Schedules (IMS), critical path analysis, resource loading and leveling, metric generation and reporting, risk definition and mitigation, and earned value management utilizing CMMI, RUP, PMBOK, ISO, and spiral methodologies. The scheduling experiences have encompassed all phases of the project lifecycle process from very large contracts (> $500M) to small contracts (< $250K). The fifteen previous years were dedicated to software engineering, systems engineering, quality, maintainability, reliability, training, and a touch of hardware experience. Specialized experience in analysis and design of complex applications and systems was developed and refined.

 

Objective:

To apply all my Planning, Engineering, and Program Management talents and experiences to help an organization reach its desired goals.

 

Education:

BS Mathematics/Computer Science 1987 Roger Williams College Bristol, RI

MS Management 2011 Thomas Edison State College Trenton, NJ

 

Skills and Certifications:

Active Security Clearance

Program Management Professional (PMP) earned 2011

MS Project (Expert skill level versions 4.0, 4.1, 98, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013)

MS Project Server (versions 2002, 2003, and 2007)

Earned Value Management

 

Professional Experience:

MacAulay-Brown, Dayton, Ohio8/14 – Present

Master Planner (Subject Matter Expert)

Providing scheduling expertise on 20 fixed wing (C-130 aircraft) schedules to Special Operations Forces (SOF) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

 

Quviant, Aberdeen, Maryland1/14 – 8/14

Director of Program & Manufacturing Management, PME

Contracted to Alstom to provide Program Management and scheduling expertise to Light Rail Vehicle train car overhauls. The scheduling support utilized Microsoft Project. This support was specifically for engineering tasks which later was translated and coordinated with the contract schedule done in Primavera. The program management support was in assisting the program manager with communication between multiple corporate functions and in coordinating detailed tasking between engineering and manufacturing.

Contracted to Unison to provide scheduling expertise to GE Engine construction. In addition to tracking parts and production manufacturing, I am the liaison for local Quviant employees and the home office. I am instrumental in communicating corporate policies and procedures, providing technical expertise, and I am the interface to the customer.

 

Serco, Dayton, Ohio6/12 – 1/14

Senior Acquisition Manager

Provides program management, schedule analysis, and master scheduling support using Microsoft Project for the AC-130J Gunship. The AC-130J Gunship program consists of five major Air Force commands and five major contractors. All the individual schedules are connected forming a very large and complex Integrated Master Schedule (IMS). This program is subject to Earned Value Management by DoD requirement. The schedule analysis is performed using a software tool I authored. The analysis tool assesses the construct of the schedule and the use of generally accepted scheduling practices, policies, and procedures. My background as an acknowledged Microsoft Project Subject Matter Expert (SME) is often consulted by other schedulers from multiple Air Force directorates to assist in solving scheduling issues. I taught the scheduling portion of the PMP preparation course offered by PMI.

 

MacAulay-Brown, Dayton, Ohio8/10 – 6/12

Senior Acquisition Manager

Provides program management and master scheduling support using Microsoft Project for the JPATS T-6, the T-X replacement aircraft, and the Agile Combat Systems directorate project control function. The project control function entailed the schedule health analysis of contractor and government schedules, instructing program managers on proper scheduling techniques, the standing up, population, and administration of a Microsoft Project server, and the training required by the users of the server. I wrote, tested, and deployed an extensive schedule health software program designed to replace the DCMA 14 Point schedule health software program. This was all performed without additional help or budget. Currently providing scheduling expertise on two Source Selection projects. Developing a comprehensive IMS for the T-6A and B aircraft, which will enable the US Air Force and US Navy to track T-6 programmatic milestones and significant events.  Supports government and vendor sub-system project managers in gathering, formatting, and analyzing input data for the IMS.  I have continually trained the vendor on the use of MS Project and its server, the importance of Data Item Description (DID) DI-MGMT-81650 IMS requirements, and basic planner skills. Built a software toolbox containing basic schedule diagnostic routines to detect errors. Assisted Air Force Acquisition Excellence and Configuration Office (SAF/AECO) with Program Management Forum.

 

PESystems, Dayton, Ohio3/09 – 7/10

Senior Acquisition Manager

Same exact job as MacAulay-Brown. MacAulay-Brown won a contract recompete.

 

Manpower, Dayton, Ohio6/06 – 3/09

Planner/Scheduler/Program Management

Contracted to Honeywell to supply scheduling expertise, earned value analysis, critical path analysis, and lifecycle process assistance on aircraft lighting contracts. Scheduling uses the Microsoft Project 2003 application and Microsoft Project 2003 server, which I assisted in the administration. I provided monthly reports of earned value, resource allocation, budgetary information, and milestone metrics on nine of the thirty five resource loaded schedules I managed. These reports contain SPI, CPI, EAC, ETC, variance analysis and other financial tracking metric information as requested. The remaining twenty six schedules I provided consulting assistance to the program managers in whatever capacity they required.

 

Self-Employed, Dayton, Ohio10/04 – 6/06

Planner/Scheduler, Risk Management, CMMI Process Engineer, and Program Manager

Contracted to Houston Associates, Inc to supply scheduling expertise on Data Warehouse, NETCOP, Enterprise to Enterprise, and Enrollment Broker contracts. Was tasked to create and maintain resource loaded schedules for each contract, create CMMI compliant procedures and processes for project planning and project monitoring and control, and automate schedule status and weekly metrics reporting for each contract’s resource loaded schedule. Scheduling uses the Microsoft Project 2003 tool. Output reports and chart information were generated from Project through a series Visual Basic macros that independently manipulated Word, Excel, or PowerPoint automatically. Consulted with personnel in charge of CMMI SCAMPI prior to assessment. Under contract to continue CMMI consulting while pursuing level 3 certification. Additional tasks including automated corporate business metric reporting (custom software), project risk analysis (Risk Radar) and oversight, schedule resource leveling, and earned value reporting. This position is 90% telecommuted from Dayton, Ohio to Washington DC.

 

Aries Group, Oak Ridge, Tennessee11/03 – 7/04

Planner/Scheduler

Contracted to Remotec (a subsidiary of Northrup Grumman) to supply scheduling expertise on multiple ISO compliant ANDROS robotic vehicle contracts. Put together and automated an extensive resource loaded IMS using Microsoft Project 2003 that tracked customer, local, and remote facility resources and activities. Provided earned value metrics by developing an automated process to download and format DelTek financial data for integration with schedule data. The DelTek system contained the actual work reported for payroll purposes. This data had to be extracted and applied as actual work within Microsoft Project. After the actuals were applied SPI and CPI were computed and reported on a weekly basis.

 

AllStates Technical, Dayton, Ohio5/03 – 10/03

Planner/Scheduler and Systems Engineer

Contracted to Intergraph Solutions to supply system engineering, requirements gathering, and scheduling expertise on the Air Force ETIMS contract. A RUP methodology was followed throughout requirements gathering with Subject Matter Experts and Joint Application Design sessions. Authored, maintained, and automated an extensive spiral oriented integrated master schedule.

 

DCR, Dayton, Ohio9/02 – 2/03

Planner/Scheduler

Contracted to Lockheed Martin to supply scheduling, planning, earned value management, and process expertise on the AFEMS software development and maintenance Air Force contract. Implemented and utilized the Microsoft Project 2002 Web Server application on a Windows 2000 platform in order to facilitate and share multiple resource loaded schedules between the PMO customer and internal management. The web server was not fully implemented to automatically collect and apply actual work. Therefore, a manual process was devised to input actual work information into each schedule so that SPI and CPI could be computed and tracked. SPI and CPI were reported to the customer each month.

 

EPCOM Corporation, Troy, Michigan9/01 – 9/02

Chief Integration Engineer

Provide program management, financial, earned value management, scheduling, and software vendor management skills to General Dynamics Land Systems on the Army Stryker Tank acquisition and development contract.  Coordinated and integrated hardware, software, laboratory, vendor, and offsite production on a day-to-day basis.  Provided financial metrics on a $13M budget while coordinating the activities of twenty seven Cost Account Managers. Those metrics included SPI, CPI, EAC, ETC, and variance resolution. I coordinated and facilitated the transfer of information between the CAMs, scheduling, and finance on a weekly basis. I was the primary interface to finance for all variance and budget issues. Resolved scheduling, resource, and financial conflicts by designing and automating the schedule status process using Visual Basic macros and Microsoft Project 2000.  Facilitated communication between procurement, subcontracts, multiple engineering disciplines, and vendors to successfully produce the Stryker tank on a very aggressive schedule.

 

Maxim Group, Dayton, Ohio12/00 – 3/01

E-commerce web software test engineer

Provided new design and maintenance testing of all web based software components. Supplied system error analysis and software problem report metrics. Directed and mentored the project planner and process improvement employees on software process principles and methodologies.

 

Lockheed Martin, Dayton, Ohio6/95 – 9/00

Project Manager/Planner for multiple DoD, Government, and Commercial clients

Planned an INS intranet software development, redesigned database, and mainframe software maintenance contract.  Provided resource loaded schedules, staffing profiles, and financial metrics. Those EV metrics were limited to SPI and CPI since finance reported budget, EAC, and ETC. Aided and mentored design engineers with engineering lifecycle development, contract deliverables, and process control. Used Microsoft Project 98 to track and maintain schedules. Interfaced with MPM and Cobra financial systems.

Installed a new Cobra financial reporting system.

Performed the system integration and test of a child support collection system in Tallahassee, Florida.

As a project manager I coordinated the software version release, testing, and hardware repair of a security project at the George Washington Bridge, Holland and Lincoln tunnels in New York City. I collaborated extensively with executive level management, the Port Authority of New York client, and an international software vendor in Toronto Canada to successfully implement the system in 15 months.

Managed coordination and implementation of a new custom hardware/software system for the White House. Prepared project schedules with Project 98, tested software, negotiated contractual agreements, acted as an independent consultant representing the customers’ interests, managed customer and Lockheed Martin personnel.

Managed the development, status, and maintenance of all software and technical risks and metrics on the US Navy NSIPS contract using SEI CMM methodologies. Microsoft Excel and Word were used extensively to track and log all program risk and metric activity. I presented and defended the risk and metric philosophy to the Arlie Council, which is made up of fifteen to twenty world renowned experts in software risk and metrics, to show that sound process practice was employed and followed.

Developed and maintained the master schedule for the DEIS I and II DoD process improvement contracts.  The master schedule used Project 4.1 and was designed in a master/subproject fashion. The schedule contained information for the local office and five subprojects for each offsite office throughout the United States.

 

Manpower, Inc., Dayton, Ohio10/94 – 6/95

Planner

Planned the efforts of four concurrent contractual changes to the AFEMS Air Force software program. Designed, developed, programmed, and implemented a Graphic User Interface to automate a program library.

 

Rockwell International, Anaheim, Ca and Newport, RI9/79 – 2/94

Engineer

I have analyzed anomalous behavior of computer to computer simulation software, computer to computer primary software, and hardware to computer interface software.  Designed algorithms for programs utilizing shared instruction sets, shared data sets, and unshared data sets running on multiple Central Processing Units.

I have directed and performed problem analysis, problem resolution, and software maintenance of real time software. This software included Kalman filtering, satellite position fixing (GPS predecessor), polar coordinate conversion, and inertial and dead reckoning position and velocity computation.

 

I was responsible for problem analysis and software maintenance of submarine inertial navigation software.  This real time software is resident in the central computer of a submarine combat system or the simulation computer that feeds the combat system in the laboratory. Problem analysis and resolution encompasses the entire simulation and tactical combat system, not just the navigation software.  This requires an in-depth knowledge of the UNISYS built AN/UYK-7 computer architecture, MIL-STD-1397A Input/Output protocol, the CMS-2Y high level and assembly programming language and MIL-STD-3560.1, MIL-STD-1679 and MIL-STD-2167 documentation standards.  Performed daily technical communication with the customer, other companies and/or government personnel.

 

I have installed software and provided expert technical assistance globally.  Service included demonstration of software capabilities, hardware operation, hardware testing, error analysis techniques, and hardware maintenance.

 

I have authored many types of technical documentation, e.g., detailed hardware fault isolation procedures from schematic drawings, user friendly hardware and software operating procedures, explicit system level test procedures involving indications on multiple pieces of hardware, stringent design requirements for software systems, and detailed requirements for hardware to computer interface program and Input/Output Controller chains. Additionally, I authored various operating and test procedures, design specifications, and technical manuals.

 

I have taught the following mathematics, programming, and science subjects: differential calculus, integral calculus, calculus of several variables, differential equations, complex variables, and discrete/combinatorial mathematics, PASCAL programming, C programming, data structures, programming techniques, and maintenance programming, Physics and motion.  I also taught hands on inertial system theory, design, concept, inertial instruments, i.e., accelerometers and gyroscopes, and hardware operation.

 

Performed reliability, maintainability, and quality engineering on new production, spare assets, and repair of guidance, navigation, instrumentation, flight control, and communication equipment aboard the Space Shuttle.

 

US Navy, San Diego, Ca7/73 – 7/79

Electronics Technician Submarine Qualified

Managed technicians, spares, and maintenance of all assigned submarine electronic equipment.