Don Rogers
1309 NW 119th St. Vancouver, WA 98685
(425) 260-3929
Professional Objective
A position as a business process analyst or as a project manager or team lead, specializing in developing (modeling) or documenting sustaining processes. I have strong experience documenting, leaning-out, and integrating the processes of large organizations and portfolios, such as in human resources, engineering process modeling governance, information technology, and mergers and acquisitions. My process documentation experience is extremely extensive and is in direct relationship with my education. My long-term goal is to obtain a senior position in continuous process improvement.
Employment History
The Boeing Company
Business Process Analyst
Boeing Defense and Space (BDS), Integrated Process Framework
2009 - Present
Programmer/Analyst Boeing IT, Multimedia, Imaging and Information Retrieval Systems (MIIRS) 2002 – 2009
Systems Analyst Boeing Shared Service Group (SSG) Software Engineering 1997 – 2002 (Contractor)
- Developed and implemented a key support model to gather information – via a SME questionnaire -- to help integrate the ES SSG process around mergers and acquisitions (M&A). All deliverables were completed on schedule, and within budget, while performing under extreme pressure. The model will directly support future M&A activities and build stronger business partner and stakeholder relationships and increased overall satisfaction.
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The BDS primary focal on the Enterprise Engineering Process Modeling Governance (EPMG) Initiative developing meta-model deliverables, and defining the meta-model viewer’s functional requirements. This position required a technical acumen of the Boeing enterprise architecture, as well as advanced negotiation and teaming skills with executive leadership, and utilizing Teamcenter for community collaboration and engineering process management.
- Lead the effort to become the first IT organization in The Boeing Company to achieve CMMI Level 3, and the only organization validated as such without findings or recommendations – as the process improvement (i.e., the SEPG) project manager, measures focal, and change agent for an organization of 140 individuals. This project included developing and implementing software configuration management common- and best-practices.
- Project manager for all aspects of Boeing’s Year 2000 (Y2k) Supplier Continuity Initiative: Queried 30,000 of Boeing’s most critical suppliers, while directly coordinating, responding to, and charging input from a wide-range of Boeing specialists, including attorneys, statisticians, cognitive physiologists, test engineers, and a multitude of supplier management focals and leaders throughout the global company. While in this position, I served a dual role as the lead architect of the associated application used by suppliers.
- Application developer for more than 30 production applications, including many enterprise-wide applications, in addition to numerous prototypes. These projects utilized my proficiency in numerous software methodologies (i.e., Macroscope, Boehm-Spiral, Scrum, Agile) and multiple technologies – WebSphere Process Server, ColdFusion, CATIA, C++, VB, ASP, .NET, Java, JavaScript, and SQL Server. (see also Technical Skills section, further below)
- Mastered high proficiency in Lean Six Sigma, through working on Six Sigma projects (e.g., Effort and Schedule Variance), and earning a Masters’ Certificate in Six Sigma from Villanova University.
- Lead all aspects of the organization’s Application Recovery Planning Program, involving over 400 production applications.
GTE Government Systems
Software Test Engineer 1995 – 1997
- Designed and executed usability test cases, capturing test results and status reporting for International telecommunications software and asset tracking and management products, which involved the UNIX environment and OSI Management Framework.
- Responsible for all test script process documentation.
Eye Health Care Industry
District Manager Technical Training Manager Regional Manager 1983 – 1991
- Successful multi-branch and technical training manager for companies such as LensCrafters, achieving many awards prior to leaving the industry and entering the University of Washington in 1991.
Education
University of Washington (Seattle, WA) College of Engineering B.S. in Technical Communication, 1995
Villanova University (Villanova, PA) Masters’ Certificate in Six Sigma – Information Technology, 2008 – 2009
Bellevue Community College (Bellevue, WA) Foreign Language (Advanced Certificate): Mandarin, 2000 Foreign Language (Advanced Certificate): Thai, 2001
Technical Skills
| Development |
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Tools |
| .NET Framework |
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Adobe Photoshop CS4 |
| Active Server Pages (ASP) |
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Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 |
| Architecture |
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Microsoft Access 2007 |
| C++ |
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Microsoft Office 2007 |
| CATIA |
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Microsoft Project 2007 |
| CGI |
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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 |
| ColdFusion 8 |
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Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 |
| Configuration Management |
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Microsoft Visio 2007 |
| Functional Analysis |
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Minitab 15 |
| Functional Testing |
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Subversion |
| HTML |
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Visual Studio 2008 |
| IIS |
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Visual SourceSafe |
| JAVA |
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| JavaScript |
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Process Management |
| Load/Stress(RadView) |
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Agile |
| NT |
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Application Development and Sustaining (AD&S) Process Model |
| Microsoft Virtual Server |
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CMMI |
| Oracle |
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DMAIC |
| Perl |
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Kaizen (The 5S’s) |
| Project Management |
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Lean+ |
| Requirements Analysis |
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Macroscope |
| Search Engines (Verity) |
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P+ Methodology |
| Software Configuration Management |
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Process Characterization |
| Software Design |
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Value Steam Mapping |
| System (Software) Development Lifecycle (SDLC) |
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| Software Testing |
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Statistical |
| SQL Server |
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7M Tools |
| Teamcenter |
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EMP Studies |
| Technical Writing |
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Failure Modes and Effect Analysis (FMEA) |
| Telerik RadControls |
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Full Factorial Designs |
| UNIX |
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Six Sigma |
| Usability Testing |
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Six Sigma Black Belt |
| User Interface Design |
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Taguchi Design |
| Visual Basic |
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| Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) |
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| XML |
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