Experience

Lowell Observatory

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Public Program Educator

  • Dec 2014 - Present

  My responsibilities have shifted away from the lectures and tours that I enjoyed so much to managing the 6 state-of-the-art telescopes in the new Giovale Open Deck Observatory, a new $4M public program facility at Lowell as well as managing the new 24" Planewave for public program in the dome that used to house a 16" Bollers and Chivens scope from the 1960s.I am also on the planning team for the educational content in the planned Astronomy Discovery Center that broke ground in mid 2021. The ADC is a $40M new world-class public program visitor/educational center slated to open in 2024 at Lowell.It's the most fun I've ever had in my career.



Jim Cole Photography

• Owner

  • Jan 2001 - Mar 2014

  Fine art photography using 4x5 and 8x10 film cameras. After 2008 I shot exclusively black and white film. My prints up to 40x50" were sold through my web site and through interior designers. I shut down my print work in 2014. I still use digital equipment for travel and stock photography which is sold through photo stock libraries here in the US and worldwide. Fine art photography using 4x5 and 8x10 film cameras. After 2008 I shot exclusively black and white film. My prints up to 40x50" were sold through my web site and through interior designers. I shut down my print work in 2014. I still use digital equipment for travel and stock photography which is sold through photo stock libraries here in the US and worldwide.



SAP Campbell Software

• Custom Development Coordinator

  • Mar 1998 - Mar 1999

  Acted as liaison between the professional services group (consisting of the implementation consulting and customer support groups) and Campbell Integration Services (consisting of the integration engineering and custom development groups) to improve communication, reduce personality conflicts, improve quality of custom software releases and reduce the number of missed deadlines.Worked with integration engineering to prioritize and schedule projects needed by the consulting group for current implementation projects.Ran weekly development meetings to make sure changes to production software would not have negative effects on current users of custom versions.Used and improved the change management processes to improve control and billing accuracy.Managed the custom development group of four engineers including resource scheduling for projects.Worked with multiple large retail clients to define software business requirements for custom versions of StaffWorks and Campbell Time and Attendance. Wrote requirements documents and functional specifications for these releases.Planed and managed these custom application projects using Microsoft Project.Reviewed and modifed the consulting group’s integration requirements forms to reduce errors, client phone calls and programmer confusion.

• Implementation Consultant, Senior Consultant and Client Manager

  • Jan 1994 - Feb 1998

  Managed a team of up to four implementation consultants and performed semi-annual performance reviews.Assumed the role of senior implementation consultant and all associated responsibilities on an occasional project when there were resource issues.Owned responsibility for overall success of multiple projects including resource assignment, project hours, reviewing team project status reports, scheduling regular team meetings to stay on top of issues and ensuring project profitability.Interviewed prospective consulting candidates for open positions.Validated project labor estimates and timelines for senior consultants.Attended new project kickoff meetings with assigned team in the role of background support. Prepared findings presentations using PowerPoint for completed pilot implementations and present to client upper management to help close the sale on remaining site licenses and additional services.Trained junior and senior implementation consultants in large chain retail business issues, software configuration techniques and basic internal operational requirements.