Evansville thankfully continues to grow under the leadership of Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel. I look froward to talk with your company as it expands in this area.

Click the link below for my skills, education, work, history, foreign language and travel experience.

http://eemgmtpurch.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/hello-world/

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Management, Project Management, Estimator & Commissioning roles:

Leadership and “Coaching” roles:
- process manager for a finishing area process
- team leader of multi-discipline team (device implementation)
- interface/liaison to project vendors/sub-suppliers
- mentor, coach and advisor
- vacation fill-in for Supervisors/Managers

Team member roles:
- safety committees
- representative to company’s external customers

Technical roles:
- assisting electricians in process and PLC troubleshooting
- designing product prototype, software and hardware

Language and Travel Experience:
- Travel experience in Chile, Perú, Mexico and Jamaica
- Spanish (7 classes), French (2), German (1), Japanese (2)

Other responsibilities:
- entrusted with facility keys and project budgets

EDUCATION:
May 2001 MBA, University of Southern Indiana, USI
GPA: 3.333 / 4.0 Grad.
GPA: 3.578 / 4.0 UGrad.

May 1989 MSEE, University of Kentucky, UK
GPA: 3.88 / 4.0

May 1987 BSEE, University of Evansville, UE
GPA: 3.32 / 4.0

WORK EXPERIENCE (1986 to Present):
May 1986 General Electric (A&ES) – EE Intern

May 1988 Moisture Control Systems
EE Intern

Aug. 1989- Aluminum Company of America
Feb. 1994 Warrick Oper., Electrical Engineer

Aug. 1994 – University of Kentucky, HCC
June 1997 Prog. Coordinator, Asst. Professor
Electrical Engineering Technology

June 1997- Siemens Energy & Automation
June 1998 Field Service Engineer
Performed engineering and
commissioning at Plant startup

July 1998 – Flanders Electric (Engineering Div.)
July 1999 Systems Engineer
Performed instruction, engineering
& phone product support

June 2000 – Lowe’s Companies, Incorporated
Aug. 2001 Sales Associate(part-time during MBA)
Special Orders & Installed Sales

Aug. 2001 – University of Southern Indiana
Aug. 2003 Instructor of Computer Science
(VB6, SQL, VB.NET, Java,
HTML, JavaScript & PERL)

Mar 2004 – RadioShack Corporation
Aug 2006 Manager

VOLUNTEER WORK EXPERIENCE:
Habitat for Humanity, Evansville, Indiana 1993, 1995, 2000
Daviess County Tornado Relief 2000

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION:
Engineer-in-Training Certification 1987

PUBLICATIONS: Proceedings of the Society for the Advancement of Information Systems (2003)

OTHER SKILLS:
Mutual fund and online stock portfolio management

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING:
Managing Diversity Training
Professional Recruiting Seminar
World Trade Seminar–Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development

TECHNICAL TRAINING:
Siemens: S5, (S7 –some), -also IEC 1131 Seminar
Graph5 (Grafcett) Auto sequence lang.–Seminar & OJT
Simadyn D Distributed Control Systems
Profibus Network, H1 Ethernet – OJT
OP25 HMI/MMI interface- OJT
6RA24 DC Drive, 6SE70 (CU2) AC Drive, (CUVC) – OJT
Intellution: Fix32 Ver. 6.15 FIX204 Training
Reliance: Automax DCS, Distributed Control System Training
Automate 40 PLC Training
Allen Bradley: PLC 3 Training
Taught Introduction to SLC 500
DEC/BEA Sys.: MessageQ Ver 4.0 for WinNT some – OJT

Quality: Basic Statistical Process Control (SPC) Training
Basic Design of Experiments (DOX / DOE) Training
Networks: Ethernet TCP/IP Training & WinNT 4.0 some – OJT
Programming: Visual Basic 6 – OJT/Self Study / CIS 288, CIS 388
Taught VB6 CIS 288, CIS 388, VB.NET CIS 288
Web page design (some HTML, Animated GIF creation,
Java Script, Java Applet development), Flash 5 – self study
Assembly Language 8085, 8051
Perl – OJT, C++ – self study
Mechanical: Introduction to Hydraulics, HVAC & Welding

FOREIGN LANGUAGES:
Spanish – intermediate level (written), functional level (oral)
French, German, Japanese – novice level (all)

FOREIGN TRAVEL EXPERIENCE:
Kingston, Jamaica 1990, 1991
Oracabessa, Jamaica 2002
Lima, Perú 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2003
Mérida, Mexico 1997
Santiago de Chile 1993, 1997

ACTIVITIES:
Memberships Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 1984 – 1997
Eta Kappa Nu (Engineering Honor Society) 1987 – Present
Association of Information Technology Professionals 2002 – 2003

Hobbies:
Tennis, basketball, cycling, ipod, computer graphics, home and car audio equipment