Rand

Rand was an international consulting company specializing in software for the IBM Mainframe. Clients included several Fortune 500 companies.

Manager

Had primary project responsibility from planning stage through implementation.

Worked with client's management and technical staffs to define the scope, schedule, deliverables and responsibilities for the project. Developed fixed-price, fixed-schedule proposal. Defined the in-house tasks, scheduled those tasks, developed staffing requirements and detailed financial projections.

Managed ongoing projects. Directly responsible for profitability of each project. Provided client with a timely and high quality product. Evaluated staff performance; made promotion, retention and salary decisions.

Particularly strong in planning and scheduling. Developed models for projecting costs and schedule. Earned the company an unprecedented sixty-nine thousand dollar early completion bonus. Projects planned and managed were finished within ten percent of the bid. Established a prototype planning document which became a standard.

Managed up to seven projects concurrently with individual contracts up to one million dollars. Projects involved as many as twenty direct programmers on four separate project teams plus support staff.

Project Leader

In this Supervisory and Senior Technical position, was responsible for the day-to-day operation of the project. Responsibilities included supervision of design, coding and testing of large development and conversion projects. Defined system architecture, developed skeleton programs, wrote module specifications, conducted walk-throughs, code reviews, installation, and sign-off. Supervised software development, established programming standards. Made programming assignments, wrote performance reviews. Particular strengths as a Project Leader included technical background and the ability to proceduralize and automate tasks.

Evenings, taught "Structured ANSI COBOL" at the University of California, Berkeley.