Mark Anderson

Current

• MDL Project Engineer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Owner at MJ Anderson Photography (Sole Proprietorship)

Past

• Consultant at Northeastern Association of the Blind at Albany
• Manager, Product Data Management at General Electric
• Manager, Machine Tool Business Segment at General Electric

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Education

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Recommended

2 people have recommended Mark

Connections

146 connections

Industry

Photography

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog
• My Portfolio

Mark Anderson’s Summary

After many years in the engineering field, I changed career paths and started my own photography business! I also do web design work as well as graphics design for print or on-line usage.


Keeping my hand in the technical / engineering side, I also do some consulting for select clients.

And, starting in June 2008, I re-vitalized my engineering side by going to work for my alma mater, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)!

Mark Anderson’s Specialties:

> Client-server, Internet, TCP/IP, computer networking, factory automation,
human-machine interface, CNC/NC, programmable logic controllers, business process re-engineering
> Project / program mgmt, budgeting, scheduling (Gantt/Pert)
> Microsoft Office suite
> Photoshop, Dreamweaver / Front Page / HTML / Java / PHP
> UNIX, Windows, LINUX
> Creative Writing: Press releases, brochures, web content, training materials

Mark Anderson’s Experience

• MDL Project Engineer

  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

  Working with students on industrially sponsored projects, my role is to mentor them to a successful completion! Projects involve students from multiple majors who pool their skills to solve the sponsor's target project.

• Owner

  MJ Anderson Photography (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Photography industry)

  January 2001 — Present (8 years 11 months)

  I do weddings, senior / family / children's portraits, models, performers, business & commercial phots - and more!

• Consultant

  Northeastern Association of the Blind at Albany

  (Management Consulting industry)

  2004 — May 2008 (4 years )

  > Created cash flow models and projections and supporting tools for managing cash flow.
  > Implemented the Purchase Order, Shipping, Inventory Management and Bill of Materials modules in MAS-90 (Enterprise Resource Planning / financial management software)
   Introduced statistical quality control to the staff.
   Provided new product development and research to identify and create new opportunities for increasing the products made by the blind and visually impaired workforce. Developed cost analyses associated with these new products and prepared the submittals for the NYS OGS.
   Provided manufacturing engineering support to identify / modify fixturing to permit blind or visually impaired workers to operate machinery and perform various manufacturing operations.
   Developed enhancements to a client tracking database application in Microsoft Access.
   Provided general IT support for applications, networking, printing, server configurations, etc.

• Manager, Product Data Management

  General Electric

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GE; Machinery industry)

  2000 — 2001 (1 year )

  I was in charge of our global efforts to develop an object oriented database to manage and control all of the data associated with our turbines & generators - throughout the entire life cycle from initial manufacturing, through installation and on through customer support, repairs and upgrades.

• Manager, Machine Tool Business Segment

  General Electric

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GE; Machinery industry)

  1998 — 2000 (2 years )

  Responsible for leading this $12MM segment: identifying business opportunities, managing 6 field located proposal/application engineers, providing overall direction to 30+ field engineers working on the repair and upgrade of computer numerical controls. Responsible for coordination with Sales Managers and local/regional Engineering Managers for proposals and resource delivery/project execution.

Mark Anderson’s Education

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  1975 — 1980

Additional Information

Mark Anderson’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog
• My Portfolio

Mark Anderson’s Groups:

•    Rensselaer Alumni Association (RPI)
•    Rensselaer Society Of Engineers
•    Class of 1979

Mark Anderson’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch