Bob Suess, PMP

Current

• Implementation Engineering Manager at Siterra Corporation

Past

• Program Director / President at SofTECH
• Project Manager at Neopost Inc.
• Senior Software Engineer at Bluefire Systems, Inc.

• Senior Software Engineer / Consultant at Petopia
• Senior Software Engineer / Consultant at Gymboree Corp.
• Technical Support Analyst at Oracle Corporation
• Software Engineer at Siemens AG

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Education

• Pennsylvania State University

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Bob Suess, PMP’s Summary

Seasoned, hands-on software professional with over 20 years experience in product and internet application design as an application manager, project manager and developer. Demonstrated experience including analysis, design, coding, database modeling and documentation. Strong analytical/problem solving, user interface design, object-oriented design and leadership experience.

Bob Suess, PMP’s Specialties:

Wireless Telecommunications
Renewable Energy -- Wind and Solar
Retail

Bob Suess, PMP’s Experience

• Implementation Engineering Manager

  Siterra Corporation

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2003 — Present (4 years 11 months)

  Manage team of Technical Project Managers for new customer launches and customer-specific product enhancements. An expert on our flagship product, interact daily with telecom clients Sprint/Nextel, AT&T, Cricket and WFI to guide and assist customers and drive revenue. Negotiate pricing, produce functional specifications/SOWs, create project plans, drive engineering efforts and user acceptance testing through to invoicing. Projects include modifications to workflows for cell tower construction and modification, including EVDO, Broadband, WiMax and process changes to E911 location-based services (LBS).

• Program Director / President

  SofTECH

  (Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2003 — July 2006 (3 years)

  Creating and planning monthly meeting topics for monthly SofTECH meetings. Capturing and managing relationships to companies, recruiting producers, moderators, panelists and planning logistics.

• Project Manager

  Neopost Inc.

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2002 — November 2003 (1 year 9 months)

  Led the integration of disparate business systems, including software interfaces to the back office financials and security systems. Recently delivered project solutions on time and on budget for two high-profile products. Projects were a result of a merger, and involved different organizations across language and cultural barriers, specifically, five hardware and software development teams from locations in the U.S. and Europe. Based on C++, COM, X.509 security, Oracle DB and SQL Server.

• Senior Software Engineer

  Bluefire Systems, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2000 — January 2002 (1 year 6 months)

  Designed and implemented new automation and administration facilities for Bluefire’s flagship decision support product. Also enhanced the SAP interface engine, played an integral role in the code conversion to Java from Visual Basic and database migration to DB2 / UDB from SQL Server. Used Java 2.0, Swing, JDBC 1.2, VB 6.0, DB2 / UDB 7.2, SQL Server 7.0.

• Senior Software Engineer / Consultant

  Petopia

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 1999 — August 2000 (11 months)

  Project manager of supply chain for E-commerce site using Tibco middleware to integrate the Web database with Peoplesoft ERP, the demand fulfillment optimization and the distribution centers. Used VB / MTS / XML / Sql Server and Rational Rose/UML. (Started as Sr. Developer, promoted to Technical Team Leader and then to Project Manager.)

• Senior Software Engineer / Consultant

  Gymboree Corp.

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 1997 — September 1999 (1 year 11 months)

• Technical Support Analyst

  Oracle Corporation

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 1989 — August 1990 (9 months)

• Software Engineer

  Siemens AG

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 1986 — September 1989 (3 years 9 months)

  Specified, designed and implemented software, written in object-oriented C ( Unix ), for an engineering department. Trained and supervised several coworkers to aid in the implementation. Documented, in German, the design and methods written for the class library. Also, enhanced the class library of an object-oriented applications framework for graphical software tools and expert system shells.

Bob Suess, PMP’s Education

• Pennsylvania State University

  B.S., Engineering Science, 1983

  Activities and Societies:

  University Scholar (Honors Program)

Additional Information

Bob Suess, PMP’s Groups:

Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, SofTECH, SDForum, PMI - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter

Bob Suess, PMP’s Honors:

Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification

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