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| Product Development, Project Management and Business Strategy (financial district) |
| Hobbies & Kids : Radio Control |
| 03/15/06 |
Nine years experience in interactive development for large scale IT projects focusing primarily on websites and touch screen based solutions through terminals and kiosks. Duties include analysis & determination of customer requirements, product conceptualization, medium and long term strategy planning.
Product development experience throughout entire life cycle including hands-on engineering to turn product ideas into prototypes, selecting materials and suppliers, drafting patent applications for the Intellectual Property Office, and marketing to various government agencies and corporations.
Managed teams of 15 people for hardware and software development, fiberglass fabrication, and plastic injection projects.
Notable projects include introducing biometric touchscreen eVoting terminals to market in 2001, Lotto machines, Slot Machines, POS terminals for hotel, supermarket, & fastfood and restaurant industries, Bank ATMs and the Millennium Case for comics in 2005
Ryan Watkins
1867 Ygnacio Valley Rd#188
Walnut Creek, CA 94598
Cell: (925) 818-6965
ryanwatkins@hotmail.com
CAREER SUMMARY
Demonstrated accomplishments in conceptualizing, planning, designing, programming and marketing IT projects. Self-starter, computer-adept, jack-of-all-trades, innovative, creative, "out of the box” thinker, and results-oriented. US Citizen, Willing to relocate and travel (100%)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Program Manager
Millennium Storage Solutions (09 / 04 to present)
Conceptualized, developed and marketed the Mill Case (a rigid, archival protection system for comic books) Concluded an arrangement with a nationwide distributor then assembled a database of retail stores. Designed and mailed flyers to heighten product awareness. Sourced for mold fabricators & plastic injection factories in China. Developed timeline and oversaw mold fabrication and production of mill cases in Shantou. Arranged Import / Export to the distributor in Memphis. Managed ongoing marketing efforts by participating in major conventions in Orlando and San Francisco. Product delivered to market on time and within budget.
Senior Project Manager
Lava Technologies (03 / 99 to 09 / 03)
Responsible for designing & developing new products for emerging technologies which included touch screen terminals, plasma display panels (PDPs), LCDs, wireless communications and the world wide web. Developed end-to-end solutions encompassing project initiation, design and construction. My responsibilities included the writing, editing and designing of Formal Proposals and responses to RFPs/RFIs/RFQs; Planning system architecture; The designing of easy-to-understand but aesthetically pleasing Graphic User Interfaces (GUI); The marketing and formal presentation to various government agencies and large corporations; Managing Hardware and Software teams of 15 people to carry out designs offshore (Manila, The Philippines); Sourcing and purchase contract negotiation with hardware vendors based in Taiwan and South Korea.
a. Government Elections (Biometric Touchscreen Voting Terminals)
From concept to working prototype, I headed the hardware & software development for Biometric eVoting touchscreen terminals (a secure and accurate system that can easily accommodate a voting population of 80 million people.) Front-end used Macromedia Flash, Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Corel Photopaint 10, Corel Draw 10 and C, Java, MS SQL Server 2000 and MS Access as the backend. “Hands-on” systems analysis of existing procedures, the streamlining of the new design, and GUI flow.
b. Gaming Industry (Touch screen Casino Slot Machines and Lotto)
Inspired by the success of the electronic Voting project, I initiated the branch out to Touchscreen Slot Machines and Lotto Terminals. After working out the initial concept, it wasn't difficult to carry over what was previously done with the eVoting project to this new application with the additional feature of internet connectivity. With the creative use of pictures, animation, and a lush graphic background, it heralded 21st century Gaming by making it a more colorful experience.
c. Banking Industry (ATM)
In cooperation with De La Rue of the U.K. I also initiated the ATM product line of Lava Technologies.
d. Supermarket, Fast-food & Restaurant Industry (POS)
Implemented grocery Point-of-Sale systems for Shopwise supermarkets. Touchscreen Drive-Thrus and Customer-as-user POS terminals were two innovations I came up with to develop more uses for touchscreen technology.
Project Manager
START, Inc. (03 / 97 to 03 / 99)
Information Technology consultation and troubleshooting (LAN / WAN). The creation of an interactive training program (CD-Rom) that teaches Statistical Process Control. (Macromedia Authorware)
Systems Analyst
Travel Partners, Inc. (03 / 96 to 03 / 97)
Systems analysis, Forms design, Access database creation & maintenance.
EDUCATION
BS Management Information Systems 1997, Ateneo de Manila University
SKILLS & TALENTS
Technical Skills:
Internet / Web Technologies: Webmaster, Macromedia Flash 5, MX, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, CGI Scripts
Desktop Publishing / Vector: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, CorelDraw & Corel Photo-Paint 10
O/S: Mac X, Unix, DOS (A+), Microsoft Windows 3.1, 95, 98, NT4.0, ME, XP, 2000 Professional
Programming: C, Perl, HTML
4 GL Programming: Macromedia Authorware 3.5
Applications: MS Office 95, 97, 2000 (Word, PowerPoint, Access, Excel, Outlook) MS Project, Visio, Lotus Smartsuite, Corel Perfect Office (WordPerfect), Acrobat, Remedy (Help Desk) , Dameware (RAS), PCAnywhere
State-of-the-Art: Biometrics (fingerprint ID devices), Touch screen development, Wireless LAN / WAN (Radio & Microwave), VoIP, Systems Analysis & Design (SAD), PC Assembly (80x86), POS (Point-of-Sale) devices
Non-Technical Skills: Writing, Graphic Design, Drawing, Bilingual - Filipino (Tagalog), Basic Nihongo (Japanese) extensive Asian business experience (Taiwan, Philippines, South Korea, Hong Kong, China, etc.)
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