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<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#0000ff" vlink="#800080" alink="#ff0000"> <font face="Arial"> <TABLE width="95%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1"> <TR><TD width="70%" colspan="2" ><p>Tap into a career that has provided a wide variety of projects / assignments which cover the complete product life cycle, from cradle to grave. This includes: <ul> <li><p style="margin-top: -15">Product inception and initial project startup;</li> <li>Requirements elicitation (both technical and operational);</li> <li>Product development, manufacturing, installation and rollout;</li> <li>"Tech Eval" and "Op Evals" to prove the viability of the system;</li> <li>Reliability, logistics and maintenance; and</li> <li>Product / system replacement.</li> </ul> <p>Experience in developing "hard real time", high reliability systems, both as a manager of a project and as a developer in a project. These "hard real time" systems included cockpit avionics, satellite and military shipboard communications. I have purchased integrated and set-to-work COTS tools in an integrated support environment. I know the issues facing both systems' suppliers and the customer who must make the systems work in an operational context. Customers include: <ul> <li><p style="margin-top: -15">Canadian Armed Forces (Air and Maritime elements),</li> <li>Transport Canada and the United States Flight Aviation Authority (FAA),</li> <li>The United States Department of Defense (DOD),</li> <li>NASA, and</li> <li>The British Ministry of Defence (MOD).</li> </ul> <p> The mix of solid management practices, leadership, product development and project experience together with the understanding of available technologies in several domains including military and commercial allows a rich set of skills which can be drawn upon to achieve organizational goals.</TD></TR> <TR> <TD width="70%" ><h2><font face="Arial">Skills Summary</font></h2></TD> <TD width="25%" ><h2><font face="Arial"><b> </b></font></h2></TD> </TR> <TR><TD width="70%" colspan="2" > <p><b>Management Practices</b> <ul> <li>Project management (planning and estimating, coordination, communication, tracking, reporting, team leadership), particularly for military and/or aerospace applications</li> <li>Requirements management, risk management, cost/schedule status, earned value methods of small, medium and large projects</li> <li>Contracting / subcontracting, competitive procurement</li> <li>Product development / product delivery / post delivery Life Cycle Management</li> <li>Development strategy and direction</li> <li>Technology change management, COTS acquisition / integration</li> <li>Real time software methodologies</li> <li>Project, management and process training</li> <li>Business Process Re-engineering, continuity planning, process improvement and change management</li> <li>Strategic reuse / Components Based Engineering</li> <li>Several military and commercial standards including ISO 9001, ISO 12207, MIL-STD-2167A/2168, MIL-STD-498, IEEE/EIA J-STD-016, RTCA-DO-178B</li> <li>SEI's Capability Maturity Model and corresponding process assessment</li> </ul> <font face="Arial"><p><b>Development Methodologies/Tools</b></font> <ul> <li>Object Oriented Design, data encapsulation, multi-tasking/multi-threaded design</li> <li>Buhr, Booch, UML, Yourdon, Ward-Mellor</li> <li>DOORS, Teamwork and other CASE tools, various editors, configuration management tools, compilers, linkers, In-Circuit Emulators, and debuggers</li> <li>MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access), Wordperfect, Lotus 123, MS Project, Timeline, QSM SLIM / SLIM Control, Interleaf, various graphics and presentation tools</li> </ul> <p><b>Languages / Databases</b> <ul> <li>Ada, CGI, HTML, C, Fortran, Pascal, Basic and various assembly languages</li> <li>ORACLE, MySQL, E-commerce</li> </ul> <p><b>Operating Systems</b> <ul> <li>Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS)</li> <li>MS Windows (95/98, NT), Sun Solaris (UNIX), MS DOS, VAX/VMS</li> </ul> <p><b>Systems</b> <ul> <li>Multi-processor, multi-platform real-time systems development</li> <li>Data integration, A/D and D/A conversion, data compression and storage</li> <li>MIL-STD-1553B, ARINC-429 avionics databuses</li> <li>Flight, Radio and Navigation interfaces, aircraft navigation systems and cockpit integration</li> <li>PCs, Sun, VAX, HP</li> </ul></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD width="70%" ><h2><b>Kotick Consulting Inc.</b></h2></TD> <TD width="25%" ><h2><font face="Arial"><b>Sep 1998 - present</b></font></h2></TD> </TR> <TR><TD width="70%" colspan="2" > <p><font face="Arial">Management Consultant specializing in software project management, process improvement, and technology change management in a rapidly changing environment. Currently assisting clients in growth and operational issues relating to software and business processes, organizational development and risk management. Clients and accomplishments include:</font></p> <p style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Arial"><b> CMC Electronics (formerly BAE Systems Canada / Canadian Marconi Company)</b></font> <ul> <li> <p style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Arial"><b>CP-140 Aurora Incremental Modernization Program, <br> Communications Management System Proposal – Subcontract Manager: </b></font> <ul> <li> <p style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Arial"> Managed the CMC Electronics RFP process to all CMC Subcontractors </font> <ul> <li> <p style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Arial" size="2"> Transformed the Crown's Statement Of Work (SOW) into separate SOWs for each of the Subcontractors, combined them with respective Functional Performance Specifications and a flowdown of PWGSC's Terms and Conditions, and managed the RFP process to the Subcontractors (3 multi-million dollar Subcontracts, 3-5 other);</font></li> <li> <p style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Arial" size="2">Reviewed and analyzed supplier proposals with respect to compliance to the RFP. In turn, the subcontracted subsystems' functionality and compliance had to be flowed up into the response to the Crown to ensure all subcontracted items were appropriately represented;</font></li> </ul> </li> <li> <p style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Arial">Assessed project risk to CMC and to DND;</font></li> <li> <p style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Arial">Negotiated and managed requirements and scope changes to reduce overall project risk; and</font></li> <li> <p style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Arial">Participated in the authorship, review and production of the proposal to the Crown.<br> <font size="2">(the technical and management part of the proposal was 11 volumes totaling several thousand pages)</font></font></li> </ul> </li> <li> <p style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 10; margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Arial"><b>CP-140 Aurora Incremental Modernization Program, Subcontract Management Consultant</b> - assisted the Navigation and Flight Instrument Subcontract Manager in starting and monitoring the project's subcontracts to major suppliers;</font></li> <li> <p style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 10; margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Arial">Responded to RFPs (design architecture, work breakdown structure and project estimates for various systems and products on behalf of CMC Electronics;</font></li> <li> <p style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 10; margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Arial">Performed Tradeoff Studies on approaches and strategies to be taken with respect to product capabilities and features;</font></li> <li> <p style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 10; margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Arial">Providing consulting services relating software process improvement meeting the Company's business objectives. Advising on optimal methods for improvement given the current organizational practices;</font></li> </ul> <p style="word-spacing: 0; text-indent: -25; margin-left: 25; margin-top: 10; margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Arial"><b>Department of National Defence (Land Forces) Operation Readiness Program</b> - set planning and validation procedures in anticipation of issues relating to the Year 2000 problem. Wrote the Level 1 Business Continuity Plan (risk mitigation, contingency and business resumption planning) for the Chief of the Land Staff at National Defence Headquarters. Conducted validation visits to each of the Land Force Area Headquarters to assure continuity of operations through the turn of the century.</font></p> <p style="word-spacing: 0; text-indent: -25; margin-left: 25; margin-top: 10; margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Arial"><b>Gelcote International Ltd.</b> - providing consulting in the development of a B2B and B2C E-commerce website to a leading provider of fiberglass epoxy resin repair kits for boating, recreational and hot tub products.</font></p> <p style="word-spacing: 0; text-indent: -25; margin-left: 25; margin-top: 10; margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Arial"><b>CyberBlitz Trade and Services Inc.</b> - provided management coaching, enterprise development and business planning to an E-commerce company specializing in B2C and B2B.</font></p> <p style="word-spacing: 0; text-indent: -25; margin-left: 25; margin-top: 10; margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Arial"><b>Guildline Instruments Inc.</b> - Provided an assessment of its management and software development activities to the high precision instrumentation and test equipment company.</font></p> <p style="word-spacing: 0; text-indent: -25; margin-left: 25; margin-top: 10; margin-bottom: 0"><font face="Arial"><b>Inetcable.com Inc.</b> - Planned and managed the conversion of the IT infrastructure to support secure Internet services and to allow for video streaming and Web-based media multicast services.</font></p></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD width="70%" ><h2 style="margin-top: 12"><b>CANADIAN MARCONI COMPANY</b></h2></TD> <TD width="25%" ><h2 style="margin-top: 12"><font face="Arial"><b>1988 - 1998</b></font></h2></TD> </TR> <TR><TD width="70%" colspan="2" > <p><font face="Arial" >Positions Held - Software Engineering Manager, Software Technology Leader (Kanata), Data Interface Unit (DIU) Software Lead Engineer, Senior Systems Designer</font></p> <ul> <li> <p style="margin-top: 10"><font face="Arial">Worked / communicated with senior management and other levels of management to best determine the appropriate strategies and organizational goals.</font></li> <li> <p style="margin-top: 10"><font face="Arial">Budgeted, planned, staffed and managed the improvement program to make Canadian Marconi more effective in delivering products and services to its customers. The improvement program affecting over 100 staff in three vertical markets and centered around the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI's) Capability Maturity Model (CMM) for software and ISO 9001. This is the same framework on which the Treasury Board Secretariat's (TBS) Enhanced Management Framework (EMF) is based. The EMF is the framework for managing government projects of significant size.</font></li> <li> <p style="margin-top: 10"><font face="Arial">Strategically improved the development environment / infrastructure (H/W platforms, tools, etc.) to support the above.</font></li> <li> <p style="margin-top: 10"><font face="Arial">Staffed and managed software support personnel (Software Quality Assurance, Configuration Management, and tool support personnel) for the control and improvement of the R&D part of the business.</font></li> <li> <p style="margin-top: 10"><font face="Arial">Worked on two international task forces to improve the way Canadian Marconi and its sister companies develop products.</font></li> <li> <p style="margin-top: 10"><font face="Arial">Managed the software portion of contracts which required planning, analysis, design, code, and test of the software, integration of the software with the hardware, and validation of the system to military and flight safety standards. Software development followed structured methodologies using Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools. The design used an object-based language (Ada) and the documentation was written to MIL-STD-2167A.</font></li> <li> <p style="margin-top: 10"><font face="Arial">Dealt directly with senior management and external customers on all cost, schedule, requirements, design and verification issues relating to the product.</font></li> <li> <p style="margin-top: 10"><font face="Arial">Developed systems / products to meet performance and safety requirements on time and within budget. All designs used multiple processors in a master/slave configuration with object-based, multi-tasking and real-time requirements. The product consists of avionics flight units with real-time embedded software, personal computer based ground support software, and documentation to support both.</font></li> </ul> <blockquote> <p><font face="Arial">Applications include navigation, communication, flight management, cockpit integration, structural loads monitoring and / or flight data recording on the following aircraft:</font></p> <ul> <li> <p style="margin-top: -15"><font face="Arial">KC-135 Speckled Trout,</font></li> <li><font face="Arial">EH101 Merlin,</font></li> <li><font face="Arial">MH-53E Sea Stallion,</font></li> <li><font face="Arial">MH-53J PaveLow,</font></li> <li><font face="Arial">HC/KC/CC - 130 Hercules,</font> <font face="Arial">and</font></li> <li><font face="Arial">CP 140 Aurora.</font></li> <li><font face="Arial">When requested, I also assisted on the CH146 Griffon and the UH-60 Blackhawk.</font></li> </ul> </blockquote></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD width="70%" ><h2 style="margin-top: 12"><b>Spar Aerospace Ltd.</b></h2></TD> <TD width="25%" ><h2 style="margin-top: 12"><font face="Arial"><b>1984 - 1988</b></font></h2></TD> </TR> <TR><TD width="70%" colspan="2" >Supervised a manufacturing and test group responsible for producing, testing and delivering space related electronic equipment. This involved performing root cause and stress analysis for failures, solving manufacturing problems with different component and manufacturing technologies and was the direct technical contact to the customer. Applications included digital telemetry and control electronics for unmanned geostationary satellites, and the NASA Space Shuttle.</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD width="70%" ><h2 style="margin-top: 12"><b>Leigh Instruments Ltd.</b></h2></TD> <TD width="25%" ><h2 style="margin-top: 12"><font face="Arial"><b>1982 - 1984</b></font></h2></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD width="70%" colspan="2" >Specified, supervised and tested communications equipment for the Shipboard Integrated Communications system for the Canadian Patrol Frigate. </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD width="70%" ><h2 style="margin-top: 12"><b>Department of National Defence - NEU(A)</b></h2></TD> <TD width="25%" ><h2 style="margin-top: 12"><font face="Arial"><b>1978 - 1982</b></font></h2></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD width="70%" colspan="2" >As a Design Agent for the LCMM in NDHQ, managed installation and test projects for the Naval Engineering Unit Atlantic, Combat Systems Engineering Office. Conducted Tech Evals and Op Evals of selected systems. Equipment included Radar and Navigational Aids for use in Navy ships. </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD width="70%" ><h2 style="margin-top: 12"><b>Education</b></h2></TD> <TD width="25%" ><h2 style="margin-top: 12"><font face="Arial"><b> </b></font></h2></TD> </TR> <TR><TD width="70%" colspan="2" > <p style="text-indent: -55; margin-left: 55">June 1987 - M.Sc., Information Systems, Carleton University, Computer Systems Engineering<br> <font face="Arial"> Thesis topic: "The Logical Design of an Engineering Project Management Support System"</font> <p style="text-indent: -55; margin-left: 55">May 1978 - B.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics, College Militaire Royal de St. Jean. <p style="text-indent: -55; margin-left: 55">Other    Project Management (GEC Management College, Dunchurch, England)<br> <font face="Arial"> The Basics of Planning and Control (Carleton University)<br> Fundamentals of Project Management (Algonquin College)<br> Introduction to the Capability Maturity Model (Software Engineering Institute)<br> CMM Based Appraisal for Internal Process Improvement Appraiser Training (Applied Software Engineering Center - Authorized by SEI)</font> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD width="70%" ><h2 style="margin-top: 12"><b>Other Affiliations</b></h2></TD> <TD width="25%" ><h2 style="margin-top: 12"><font face="Arial"><b> </b></font></h2></TD> </TR> <TR><TD width="70%" colspan="2" > <p align="left">Member of the Programs Committee, Ottawa Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) http:www.spin.org.</p> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD width="70%" ><h2 style="margin-top: 12"><b>SECURITY CLEARANCE</b></h2></TD> <TD width="25%" ><h2 style="margin-top: 12"><font face="Arial"><b> </b></font></h2></TD> </TR> <TR><TD width="70%" colspan="2" ><b>Secret (Level 2) </b>- Kotick Consulting Inc. is a member of the Canadian Industrial Security Program <p><b>CGRP Registered </b> (No. 010954) - Kotick Consulting Inc. is registered in the Canadian Controlled Goods Registration Program </TD> </TR> </TABLE></font>