Experience

Project Director 

Fluor Corporation – Greenville, SC
October 2010 to August 2015 

• Broad experience managing large capital projects throughout the world. 
• Completed multiple multi-million dollar projects on time and produced better than budgeted fnancial returns. 
• Intimate knowledge of all phases of Project Management: Planning, Execution, Control & Reporting, Change Management, Risk Management, Closeout
  
• Adept at managing multiple simultaneous projects while meeting all customer and internal requirements.

Business Unit Manager 
Edwards Systems Technology – a unit of SPX Corporation – Sarasota, FL
March 1994 to September 2003 

• P&L Responsibility for two different business units.
  
• Produced compound annual sales growth of 7.3%.
  
• Conceived and executed a successful strategic marketing program to a major industry.
  
• Launched the company’s fagship product line in North America and China.
  
• Member of corporate product-planning Committee.
  
• Championed customer-driven product development and house-of-quality programs.
  
• Evaluated targeted companies for acquisition.
  

Entrepreneur / Small Business Principal
Ivanco, Inc – Ft. Walton Beach, FL
MBC Inc – Kabul, Afghanistan
Prestige Kitchens – Ft. Walton Beach, FL
September 1982 to March 1984 and October 2003 to June 2010

• Managing Partner and owner of several small businesses.
  
• Managed SB sales and marketing operations
  
• Responsible for SB accounting, HR, and IT systems and processes.
  
• Solicited, cultivated, and retained local and regional clients.
  
• Negotiated contracts throughout the US and other countries.
  
• Directed estimating, proposal writing, price negotiations, and billing activities.
  
  

Education & Professional Development 

• Project Management Bootcamp – Clemson Center for Corporate Learning – Greenville
  
• Program in Finance & Accounting – Wharton School of Business – Philadelphia
  
• Program in Business Development – Wharton School of Business – Philadelphia
  
• Credentialed Quantitative Risk Manager – Fluor Corporation – Greenville
  
• Bachelor of Arts in Humanities – University of West Florida – Pensacola
  
• (many other professional development seminars and workshops)
  
• Project Management Professional Certifcation (PMP) in process 

Other Expertise 

• Inducing production out of team members over whom I have no direct authority.
  
• Leading teams to success: especially under extreme conditions and with limited
  resources.
  
• Providing “voice of customer” input to technical teams.
  
• Decomposing written requirements into quantifable performance elements.
  
• Expert level competence in MS Offce: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio.
  
• Expert level competence in MS Project.
  
• Using various relational data bases to organize and analyze data.