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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Huttig Building Products – Auburn, WA
August 2008 to 2010
v Estimation and Design Services (ESP) Manager
§ Sole responsibility for assessment, planning, and
implementation of new estimation services system for the company.
§ Supervision of three product specialists/designers in
local Auburn office.
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Additional
direction of three additional staff members located in separate branch offices
(Portland, Oregon and Phoenix, Arizona).
§ Customization of Autodesk AMEP 2010
(AutoCAD/Architecture) to work in conjunction with Microsoft Excel, Access, and
Microsoft SQL Server/Express 2008R2.
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Initiation of
standards and practices to produce hyper-accurate documentation
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Whole house list
of building materials
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Fabrication
diagrams (framing drawings/plans)
§ Specification, testing, and usage of a custom private-public
web-based portal
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The “Project”
site for public/external/customer
ü Site is based on IIS6.0, Microsoft SQL Server 2008,
and Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5.
ü Site features
ü Customer submission
ü File storage and version management
ü Status and tracking with notifications
ü Storage and cataloging of past projects
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The
“Collaboration” site for private/internal/employee
ü Site is based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
(MOSS) 2007 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
ü Site features
ü Team member, branch, customer and contact based status
ü Prioritization of customers, projects, and locations
ü Tendering and reuse of project designs and files to
common projects but uncommon customers
ü Key performance indicators (KPI’s) and reporting
ü Storage of additional project life cycle data linked
to but separate from customer available project data
§ Other responsibilities included
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Discovery and
testing of software packages
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Development of
usage techniques to reduce design and material estimate production time
§ The result of the tremendous amount of effort and time
spent analyzing POS/PDM internal systems, our customers’ business models, and
how to best implement the new system, to work with each.
March 2002 to May 2004
v Engineered Wood Products Design Technician
§ Production design of floor system placement diagrams
and member size calculation
§ Working with customers (lumber yard salesmen and
contractors) to find cost effective solutions to their framing problems
(“Value-Engineering”, actually re-engineering).
§ Other duties included
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Blueprint reading
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Creation of
material quotes
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Beta testing and
software development
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Computer
maintenance
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Contacting
architects and engineers to resolve blue print and site issues
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Occasional
delivery of materials to customers’ locations or sites
A.C. Houston Lumber (Sales) – North Las
Vegas, NV
February 2007 to July 2008
v Engineered and Manufactured Products Salesman
§ Field sales of high higher value, manufactured
products
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Metal-plated wood
floor and roof trusses
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Prefabricated
stick framed wall panels
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Engineered wood;
I-joists, LVL, Glulam
§ Additional duties included
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Review of design
calculations and shop drawings against original blueprints
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Material
estimation and quotation from customer provided blueprints.
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General sales
development of cold-calling, product sourcing, and problem solving.
July 2004 to May 2006
v Wall Panel Design Manager
§ Wall panel placement plan design and detailing
§ Creation of material quotes
§ Contacting customers, architects and engineers to
resolve design issues.
§ Other duties included
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Software package
review
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Configuration,
and use, internal billing and quoting processes
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System and
procedure training of staff members.
May 2004 to February 2005
v Engineered Wood Products Specialist
§ Floor and roof system design
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Production of
placement diagrams
ü Sizing and specification of structural framing members
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Working with
project design professionals to reduce site, day of installation problems and
delays, to streamline the design build cycle.
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Contacting
General contractors, owners, and developers in addition to architects and
engineers to substitute products, resolve blue print and site issues
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Quoting, and
pricing of projects in addition to sourcing of necessary materials
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Selling and cold
calling customers (mainly framing sub-contractors), and arranging of material
orders and deliveries.
A.C. Houston Lumber (IT) – North Las Vegas,
NV
October 2004 to September 2007
v Information Systems and Technology Administrator
(Truss Division)
§ Wall Panel Design and Production Modernization
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Established a
physical connection between the sales office and the production facility more
than ¼ mile away.
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Configuration of
a workgroup database and application server, with Microsoft SQL Server 2000,
and Windows Server 2003 with Terminal Services.
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Replaced WalsPlus
design and production software with MiTek eFrame and ShopNet
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Upgraded of
VirTek LaserMC saw stations with domain capable solution
§ Deployment of MiTek Software Suite via Terminal
Services
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Major transition
of 5 truss and 3 wall panel fabrication facilities, with 85 users of MiTek’s
software suite.
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MBA (MiTek
Business Application), 20-20 (engineering analysis), eFrame (3D modeling),
WalsPlus (wall panelization)
ü In addition to almost 20 additional applications for
design, production, administration or management.
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Complete
configuration and installation of Active Directory 2003, on redundant machines
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Database server
set up with Microsoft SQL Server 2000, and separate databases for each of the
production facilities
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File Server set
up with separate folder and file structures for each of the facilities, with
job role based security
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3 terminal
servers configured with Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, Terminal
Services, in a network pooled fashion to be load balanced and redundant.
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Tarantella TSE
(purchased by Sun, later by Oracle) was selected as a cost effective
alternative to Citrix Metaframe 4.x.
ü Web-based remotely deployed applications were
configured to aid remote sales and field repair staff members
ü Load balancing and redundancy was further enhanced from
network pooling
ü MiTek applications were deployed without having to
install software locally to the user’s desktop
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System greatly
enhanced Houston’s ability to stay current with MiTek's latest released
versions
ü Significant time was saved, not having to physically
touch the nearly 90 stations every 6 to 8 weeks.
ü All of ACH’s fabrication facilities and users were on
the same version of MiTek’s software (a company first)
ü The staff engineers were able to review and approve
the calculations created by the numerous designers, with the same data and
codes used initially
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Tested, selected,
then deployed NeoWare thin clients, to most of the PC work stations, reducing
the number of client break-fix requests
§ Cyber (AT) Remote PC Reconfiguration
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Replaced the
dated Windows 2000 Professional and Windows 98 Industrial All-In-One touch
screens for 4 stations in all.
ü New system was a company standardized Mid-Tower PC
inside of a NEMA enclosure with cooling system, sending signal to monitor using
Lon Range KVM/CAT5 technology.
§ Citrix XenApp Company-wide Deployment
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Played a major
role in moving the remaining 120-130 branch office workers and additional 8
locations into the Terminal Services system
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Assisted in the
conversion from Tarantella to Citrix Metaframe
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Actively involved
in transition from frame-relay to MPLS remote office connections, configuration
of the Compellant SAN, and relocation data to the SAN LUNs
§ Branch Office Closures
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Successfully,
removed branch office from Houston’s network, set up new domain, transitioned users,
files, and applications to create separate temporary company.
ü Sacramento and Roseville plant consolidation
ü Merged databases and files for both locations into a
single system
ü Indio joint venture with Tandem West Framing, known as
Boulders West, was successfully transitioned to BMC-Select
ü Setup of a new file and database server, 12 design and
admin client systems
ü Connected several automated saws through a new fiber
connection, and established interterm internet connection via point-to-point
wireless, allowing the entire transition to speed along in about 3 weeks.
ü Farmington New Mexico location, in addition to 3 other
facilities were transitioned successfully to Home Lumber
ü Moved user accounts, databases, and files to Home’s
Citrix/Windows Terminal Services system, which was completed in 10 days.
EXTENDED
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
1996 to 2002
Lumber and Building
Products Dealer and Distributor Roles
§ EWP Technician – Cascade Capital
§ Contractor Salesman – Bayview Building Materials
§ Contractor Sales Assistant – Lumbermen’s
§ Warehouse Manager – Westcoast Mouldings & Millwork
§ Truck Driver – Barlament & Son Trucking
§ Retail Salesman – Dunn Lumber Company
§ Stock Person – Bud’s Lumber
1993 to 1996
Fishery Management,
and Scientific Field Assistant Roles
§ Fish Hatchery Manager – Glenoma Farm
§ Field Technician (intern) – United States Army Corps
of Engineers
§ Research Assistant (intern) – United States Geological
Survey
§ Aquatic Chemical Application Specialist – Washington
State Department of Ecology
§ Fish Hatchery Worker (intern) – Washington State
Department of Fisheries
EDUCATIONAL
HISTORY
1990 to 1994
Raymond High School -
Raymond, WA
§ Primary field of study was college preparation
§ Secondary fields of interest
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Biology and life
sciences
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Industrial Arts
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Wood Working
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Drafting
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AutoCAD R10 and
R12
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Computer
Technology
1994 to 1995
Grays Harbor
Community College - Aberdeen, WA
§ Primary field of study was Fisheries and Aquatic
Sciences
§ Additional interest fields
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Computing
Technology
ü Windows 3.1
ü Office Applications
ü AutoCAD R12 and R13
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