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Geoffrey B. Cox 21975
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(703) 444-3252 SUMMARY Program & Product Manager with more than 10 years of management experience, and more than 20 years of product design, development, and marketing. Experienced in all phases of program management and quality processes. Global marketing experience includes strategic and business planning, customer requirements research and market analysis. Customer focused, with strong written and verbal communication skills including technical writing and documentation for product development, design and marketing collateral. Extensive software development and digital hardware design skills. Highly proficient with PCs including the Microsoft suite of applications. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Internet Service and Web Content. Senior Technical Project Manager, Internet Services 2004-present Project management of multiple software application / web products for internal AOL and Time Warner customers.
Xerox
Engineering Systems, Digital Document Systems (scanning, printing, copying) for the wide-format Engineering Market. Director, Software Applications and Finishing Products, Herndon Site Manager 2001-2002 Project management of multiple software application product programs and finishing product programs, including all phases of project management and product launch. Site manager for XES Herndon operations, managing sales trainers, senior design engineers, test technicians, system and web site administrators, technical support hotline and administration staff. Build vendor relationships.
Director, Current Product Quality 1997-2001 Expansion of the Current Engineering Manager position to include problem tracking and resolution and feature enhancement for all of the company’s current and legacy products, in all locations worldwide. Managed team developing software for wide-carriage digital printers and scanners used in the engineering marketplace. Controller firmware included communications/networking, user interface, image format interpretation, compression/ decompression, graphic rendering, and queue management. Client software included document submission and retrieval tools, and printer drivers. Team duties included product enhancement of legacy products, and 3rd tier technical support for customers, dealers, field analysts, and technical support departments.
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2 Eurotherm Controls Inc, Industrial Controls including Temperature Controls for the Plastics Industry. Project Manager, Lead Design Engineer 1993-1997 Managed the development of a new series of discrete temperature control products, including temperature controllers, valve position controllers, and process indicators. Recruited and led a team of hardware, software, and mechanical engineers, engineering technicians, and contractors; coordinated Research and Development with Drawing Office, Marketing, Purchasing, Literature, Quality, Manufacturing, and Test departments; directed all phases of hardware, software, and mechanics design. This product continues to be sold worldwide.
System Architect, Design Engineer 1985-1993 Developed modules for networked process control systems implemented with IEC65A Function Block Architecture. Spearheaded the development of an entirely new line of process control modules, including product specification, design, documentation, manufacture, and test. Managed a team of hardware and software engineers, and engineering technicians. Order book closed on this product in 1999.
M/A COM DCC, Telecommunications Equipment. Senior Electronic Engineering Technician Participated in 1020 TDMA Satellite Earth Station project. Designed circuit and software for hitless switchover between redundant earth stations. Designed error correction system for highly robust utility TTY communications between earth stations. Input
Business Machines, Inc. Frederick, MD 1979-1982 Optical Character Recognition Equipment. Electronic Engineering Technician Introduced microprocessor control to what was previously an all discrete logic OCR solution. Designed software for Passport Print Quality Control passport reader, and implemented quality control solution in State Department passport printing office. EDUCATION MBA, Virginia Polytechnical Institute and
BS,
Electrical Engineering, Associate's
Certificate in Project Management , ASSOCIATIONS American Mensa, Metropolitan Society of Plastics
Engineers HONORS & AWARDS Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society for AACSB
Accredited Business Programs Eta Kappa Nu Electrical
Engineering Honor Society Golden Key National Honor Society TRAINING, SKILLS & SEMINARS Risk Management ~ ESI / George
Washington University Managing IT Projects ~ Project Management / Project Leadership, A Comprehensive Seminar ~ Strategic Management Group, Inc. Presenting Data and Information (Edward Tufte) ~ Graphics Press Leadership, the
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David Kingsland Xerox Engineering Systems (0086) 13812650483 ( |
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James E. Dunne Blackbird Technologies Phone - 703-796-1443 Fax - 703-464-9381 |
Bill Perry Eurotherm
Controls Inc (Invensys PLC) 741F (703) 443-0000 |
John Houldsworth Power Precise
Solutions (703) 627-8379
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Residential and Industrial Automation 703-430-9739 |
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Eastergate Tel: +44 (0) 1243 543410 Mob: +44 (0) 7808 493692 Fax: +44 (0) 8700 547932 |
Dr. George Turnbull Open
Automation and Control Ferring, Home - 01903 507080 Office - 01621 840505 |