Experience

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  Mathnasium - The Math Learning Center

  • Zionsville/Carmel, Indiana

  • Lead Math Instructor

    • Nov 2015 - Present
    • Zionsville/Carmel, Indiana

    I was initially accepted as an instructor at the Zionsville, Indiana Mathnasium Learning Center and stayed there until October 2016, at which time I relocated to the Carmel, Indiana location in order to experience additional responsibilities and a shorter commute. I have immensely enjoyed working for Mathnasium, as it taps my desire to teach kids math in a one on one role rather than in an entire classroom. This gives me much more flexibility in how I relate to each student and it has been very gratifying. In my new position, I have also been given many more responsibilities with the promise of more leadership roles in the future. This job is truly a dream come true and, for the foreseeable future, I am no longer in the new employment search market.

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  Home

  • Self Employed

    • Dec 2012 - Oct 2015

    I was primarily responsible in this timeframe with updating and renovating my previous home to prepare it for sale. That house sold in less than two weeks. After June 2013, I was primarily responsible with completely updating and renovating our current, older home while supporting my wife while she transitioned into her new career position. We determined before this family transition that her move would require my support at home for the first couple of years in order for her focus to be primarily on her new senior role and not distracted with home renovations. Most major renovations were completed by end of July 2016, just in time for the first of two children's weddings in early August.

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  St. Joseph - Hessen Cassel Catholic School

  • Fort Wayne, Indiana

  • Middle School Math Teacher

    • Aug 2011 - Dec 2012
    • Fort Wayne, Indiana

    After a one year Transition to Teaching Certificate program at IPFW, I taught middle school math up through Algebra 1. I developed lesson plans, homework assignments and tests for grades 6 - 8. I also prepared the students for standardized statewide tests, including the important Algebra end of course assessment for my eighth grade algebra students. As an assessment of my first year teaching effectiveness, my students' average score on these tests was at or above their previous year's scores. I also received very positive feedback from a large majority of parents of my students, indicating their students' appreciation of my teaching style and openness with them in class and in other school activities. I supported the student council activities as a faculty advisor and the school's annual fundraising carnival. My teaching experience was very humbling and instructive for me in that it allowed me to expand my job related training experiences to include children, who have a much higher activity level and lower threshold for boredom, which made my job of presentation and explanation of new topics much more challenging. I believe many of the techniques I used to engage my students would be applicable to adults in a workplace setting, especially those with lower levels of academic and professional education. I left this position mid-year in my second year due to family transition needs and job relocation of my wife.

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  ITT

  • Fort Wayne, Indiana

  • Cost Estimator/Scheduler/Cost Analyst and Manufacturing Process Engineer

    • Aug 1998 - Jun 2009
    • Fort Wayne, Indiana

    In support of new contract negotiations, I collected information detailing the contract proposal and, using historical data and industrial engineering estimation techniques, determined the engineering, manufacturing, and support function labor requirements. Using Excel spreadsheets, I supported my team in combining these labor estimates with material and other cost estimates into a consolidated cost estimate that our team provided the cost accounting group for final contract proposal consolidation and submittal to the customer. In support of existing contract manufacturing operations, I conducted process improvement studies on various areas of the assembly floor, from circuit card assembly to module and final unit assembly. As part of the implementation of these studies into the assembly operations, I conducted training of shop floor assembly operators and support staff in these new processes. In my final few years, I developed schedules for existing contracts for two years before transitioning into contract cost analysis. I accepted these final two positions as part of a company sponsored job rotation program intended to broaden the experience for all personnel within the financial cost accounting and estimating areas of the business. Although my position was eliminated at the end of my rotation, I did gain a much wider perspective of the entire contract acquisition, administration and control processes.

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  Boeing Company

  • St. Louis, Missouri

  • Labor Cost Estimator and Statistical Process Control Analyst

    • Jun 1995 - Aug 1998
    • St. Louis, Missouri

    As a member of the contract proposal team, I used Industrial Engineering manpower estimation techniques and historical data to develop engineering labor requirements for contract proposals, including two of the largest foreign sales contracts for the F-15 fighter aircraft up to that time. These two major contracts required significant negotiations and estimate updates due to the complex set of engineered systems in this aircraft. My final year, I transitioned to the F-18 assembly support area to improve the quality and performance of the aircraft through manufacturing process improvements, to include reduction of foreign objects and debris (FOD), which is of critical concern in high performance aircraft, and reduction of incorrect rivet insertion in final assembly operations. These efforts both increased the safety and reduced the cost of final assembly of this aircraft.

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  U. S. Air Force

  • Multiple locations throughout the United States of America

  • Engineering Officer / Manpower & Organization Specialist

    • Jan 1983 - Nov 1994
    • Multiple locations throughout the United States of America

    My first two years were as an Industrial Engineer supporting a base level Civil Engineering unit, in support of all infrastructure at a large Air Force installation. The role of my section, of which I was supervisor and sole engineer, was to develop and update manpower standards for the entire Civil Engineering Squadron, with over 200 personnel, to ensure all sections had the manpower resources needed to effectively complete their responsible assignments across the base. I also conducted improvement studies as I received approval for self-generated studies or direct assignment to address more time-critical needs from the Squadron Commander. Through these efforts, I assisted the commander in improving efficiency in several of the operational sections by over 10% at a time when manpower reductions were being required from higher levels and ensured the squadron could still effectively accomplish its overall mission. I applied for and was accepted into a prestigious USAF sponsored master's degree program via universities. I earned my Master of Engineering in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University in December 1986 and spent the remainder of my nearly 12 year Air Force career in manpower and organization studies and support at command and staff levels. Our organizations determined manpower staffing and organizational changes requirements and justified funding for these requirements for several key functional areas throughout the Air Force. In my final two years, I supported the transition of all organizational and manpower elements from one major command into the remaining two major commands in the largest ever organizational change within the Air Force.