Eric Veal

Current

• Project Manager at BluWater Consulting
• Managing Member at EfficiTrends

Past

• Sr. Consultant at REC ASA
• Marketing Program Manager at Microsoft via Xtreme Consulting
• Sr. Business Analyst at Microsoft via BluWater Consulting

• Sr. Business Analyst at Nordstrom
• Project and Program Manager, Business Process Engineer, BA, Database and Web Developer at Siemens Medical
• President, Founder, Chief Software Architect at CollegeUnderground
• Software Developer at theWirks Network
• Technology Consultant at The Computer Dude

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Education

• University of Washington
• University of Washington
• Western Washington University

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Management Consulting

Websites

• My Blog

Eric Veal’s Summary

15 years experience producing and implementing consumer-grade technology products from web sites to enterprise-class production systems.

My goals are to be independent, have fun, work with talented people and help others grow their personal brands and businesses.

Eric Veal’s Specialties:

Agile/Scrum project management, business process engineering, requirements analysis, project and program management, software development and implementation, compliance, quality, continuous improvement systems, marketing and human factors, employee training and internal communications.

Eric Veal’s Experience

• Project Manager

  BluWater Consulting

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2009 — Present (6 months)

  ScrumMaster for multiple software development projects.

• Managing Member

  EfficiTrends

  (Management Consulting industry)

  August 2007 — Present (2 years)

  Brand development and operations at small consulting firm.

• Sr. Consultant

  REC ASA

  (Public Company; Renewables & Environment industry)

  May 2008 — January 2009 (9 months)

  Led successful implementation of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) as intranet and collaborative extranet for 750-person publicly-traded company. Established governance structure and operations team, as well as custom applications for Legal Contract Management and Employee On-Boarding.

• Marketing Program Manager

  Microsoft via Xtreme Consulting

  (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  March 2008 — April 2008 (2 months)

  Planned and oversaw launch of WindowsMobileConnection.com, an online community for mobile industry professionals.

• Sr. Business Analyst

  Microsoft via BluWater Consulting

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2007 — January 2008 (3 months)

  Developed migration strategy to replace several antiquated online publishing systems with a more efficient MOSS- and XML-based system.

• Sr. Business Analyst

  Nordstrom

  (Public Company; JWN; Retail industry)

  July 2007 — November 2007 (5 months)

  Supported launch of $5M capital upgrade project to Norstrom's online store. Assisted with definition and recommendation of strategy to improve key supply chain sourcing process for Nordstrom Direct and stores.

• Project and Program Manager, Business Process Engineer, BA, Database and Web Developer

  Siemens Medical

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; SI; Medical Devices industry)

  April 2001 — July 2007 (6 years 4 months)

  Lead program to reduce division's non-conformance costs by target of $6.22M in engineering, manufacturing, and customer service. Defined and implemented process to further gain from re-use of successfully implemented project ideas. Implemented IIS, SharePoint Team Services (collaboration), CaliberRM (product and project requirements), ARIS (business processes), and global employee training system to improve process efficiency and effectiveness. Created open intranet platform to help improve cross-campus communication within Siemens Ultrasound Division.

• President, Founder, Chief Software Architect

  CollegeUnderground

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Higher Education industry)

  June 1999 — April 2001 (1 year 11 months)

  Built a business that offered information services to college communities. Developed markets and received thousands of contributions from customers at University of WA, Western WA University, and WA State University.

• Software Developer

  theWirks Network

  (Information Services industry)

  June 2000 — September 2000 (4 months)

  Developed and supported custom web applications as front-end to large-scale relational database system.

• Technology Consultant

  The Computer Dude

  (Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Services industry)

  June 1996 — September 1998 (2 years 4 months)

  Provided technical care to individual and business computer users.

Eric Veal’s Education

• University of Washington

  Master of Business Administration , 2004 — 2006

• University of Washington

  Master of Science in Information Systems , 2004 — 2005

• Western Washington University

  Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration , Management Information Systems , September 1995 — March 2000

Additional Information

Eric Veal’s Websites:

• My Blog

Eric Veal’s Interests:

Information technology, databases, people, organizations, business, snowboarding, outdoor recreation, process, efficiency, performance, productivity, governance, replicating systems.

Eric Veal’s Groups:

NW Entrepreneurs Network. Project Management Institute. Project Management Professional (PMP), MIT Enterprise Forum

•    Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MOSS (3,500+ members)
•    Sharepoint Experts
•    SIEMENS-World-Wide Network [14,250+ Members]
•    SIEMENS CORPORATION
•    University of Washington - Foster School of Business MBA Program
•    PMI Information Systems Specific Interest Group (PMI-ISSIG)

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