Kirk Risinger

564 Pittsburgh Road                          412.663.0055                      risinger@umich.edu       

Rochester, PA 15074

 

Qualifications and Objective:

 

Seeking a project management position.  Desire to share my project management, software engineering, team building and analytical skills to help lead my employer to stronger results-profits through improved project performance. Will contribute innovative & creative solutions using the following skills:

 

 

Professional experience:

 

NetTec Services, Churchill, PA                                                         2005 - 2006

Product Manager     

v      Responsible for systems monitoring product that monitored infrastructure 24/7 of approximately 250 nodes and 900+ services on those nodes.

Ø       Managed, designed and coded monitoring product enhancements.

Ø       Managed, designed and coded monitoring product version that customers could configure and use directly.  Direct support of these customers.

Ø       Managed, designed and coded an in-house inventory system.

o        Built from requirements through closing.

o        Completed ahead of schedule and within budget.

o        Enabled nearly 100% just-in-time buys and eliminated accidental double buys for customer’s project equipment.

                              

Symbol Technologies, Inc., Warrendale, PA                                                2001 - 2004

Senior Software Engineer

v      Responsible for designing, developing, maintaining, and supporting mobile computer applications and wireless network manager products.

Ø       Products enabled hundreds of millions of hardware sales.

o        Directly credited with major role in $20M sell.

Ø       Engineering in Pittsburgh and liaison to San Jose, New York and India engineering offices.

Ø       Design, development, maintenance, and Level 4 support for four major software versions.

Ø       Mobile VT220 emulation

Ø       Palm OS customer application

Ø       WinCE project start up

 

Risinger Software Co., Sewickley, PA                                              1999 – 2001

Owner

v      Managed own benefits and contract to Symbol Technologies as a Senior Software Engineer.

Ø       Resolved existing product issues on mobile computers.

Ø       Added specific features to their wireless mobile terminal.

Ø       Designed and developed portions of their wireless network manager product.

Ø       Provided customer and pre-sales support.

 

Futuristics Labs, Inc., Wexford, PA                                                  1999 – 1999

Senior Software Engineer

v      Responsible for analyzing web portal use patterns.

Ø       System enabled web portals to direct their sales of ad space throughout their web page hierarchy.

 

Logica, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA                                                              1996 – 1998

Senior Software Engineer

v      Responsible for designing, developing, debugging and maintaining a propriety diagnostic tool.

Ø       This product led to improved customer satisfaction.

o        Clients were able to capture and automate domain knowledge.

o        Clients were able to automatically diagnose problems.

o        Provided initial diagnosis to technician.

 

Risinger Software Co., Sewickley, PA                                              1980 - 1996

Owner

v      Responsible for selling, managing, designing, and developing software products.

Ø       Major Manufacturing Client

o        Improved the accuracy, reliability and speed of a final assembly process, achieving “batch of one” build flexibility.

o        Implemented client’s first use of barcode.

o        Implemented client’s first factory automation on this assembly line.

Ø       Windows customer

o        Improved data manipulation and transfer among his three office locations for Excel and Lotus 1-2-3 financial applications.

v      Responsible for selling, managing, and engineering environmental projects.

Ø       Environmental customer

o        Completed various environmental engineering contracts mostly for Michael Baker Jr., Inc.

 

Green International, Inc., Sewickley, Pa                                          1977 - 1980

Environmental Engineer

v      Responsible for engineering projects and managing six professionals.

Ø       Acquired Pennsylvania Professional Engineer registration, Civil

Ø       Led a team of engineers and planners on various consulting projects.

Ø       Designed and performed computer simulations

Ø       Conducted feasibility studies for water quality, drainage and landfill remediation projects.  

 

References Upon Request

 

Education and Memberships:        

v      Bachelor of Science Engineering, University of Michigan Engineering College, Ann Arbor, MI. Environmental Sciences Engineering degree with Civil Engineering emphasis.

v      Project Management Institute member.  Working toward Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.

v      PAPEN

v      Completed various C++, C# and Java courses.

 

Tools:  MS Office - Project, Word, Excel, Visio,

                Languages and Design – C, Perl, C++, Tcl/TK, Python, XML, HTML, DevStudio, gcc, gdb

                Code Versioning – SourceSafe, CVS, RCS, PVCS

                Platforms – Windows, Linux, various Unixes, OS/2, WinCE