A driven, motivated Technical Systems Consultant and Project Leader with
comprehensive experience leading high impact pre-sales project and technical teams. Adept at building project management, technical and pre-sales skills within an organization. Excellent conflict and problem resolution skills and known for growing people and building strong customer relationships within an organization. Goal A desire to be successful creating or rolling out the next technical innovative solution designed to be helpful to serving the public and the corporation it is produced from. Areas of Expertise include: Project Management PMP 1571016 Wireless Networking Integration and Deployment of Mobility Solutions Agile Project Management (SCRUM) Miller Heiman Sales Techniques Change Management Enterprise Application Requirements RFID Engineering and Gen 2 Concepts RF Theory and Applications Certified Wireless Admin and Security Microsoft Project Server Primavera Motorola Lan Planner POS and Barcode Symbologies
Experience BCRO, Bentonville, AR President ; 2013-Present Executive not-for-profit leadership for community involvement. Involves the administration of volunteer certification, training and management of disaster response using analog and digital radio communications for use in Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) activities. Motorola Solutions Inc., Bentonville, AR Professional Project Manager; 2011-2013 Involving project management for technical projects and their contributors for mobility devices for use in Walmart Stores world-wide. Worked with expert technical advisors and stakeholders to form high performance and diverse teams for the design, rollout and support of high visibility projects, both hardware and software; for implementations involving retail users world-wide. Led technical design and replacement team for new warehouse forklift terminals for Walmart Stores Inc. targeting an upgrade 50,000 devices Managed teams for replacement of customer service manager wireless work terminals affecting over 2000 locations and pharmacies in North America for Walmart. Project Manager for support of the 1 st Walmart tablet implementation targeting 5000+ locations. Instilled Teamwork for the design and replacement of customer floor price verifiers/kiosks for over 50,000 WLAN devices world-wide for Walmart Stores Inc. Led technical project teams for development and testing of replacement VOIP/data wireless terminals designed for the entire footprint of Lowes Stores Inc.
Loren R. Lawrence, PMP Systems Technical Architect and Project Manager
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Managed weekly change controls and procedures for successful customer implementations within Walmart Stores on a worldwide basis . Senior Presales Technical Architect; 2007-2011 Developed and executed new technology strategies with minimal input from management. Responsibilities included the promotion and creation of solutions encompassing a wide range of products or service and technologies for Walmart Stores as a customer. Often required leveraging relationships with other businesses or external partners to deliver unique and untried solutions. Designed weekly technical presentations and met with key decision makers for the implementation, testing and support at the customer business environment and home office in Bentonville. Contributed and received 2 U.S. patents for Motorola in the area of wireless mobility/RFID knowledge space. A third patent applied for. Conceived and designed the first use of Lan Planner RF heat mapping software suite for Walmart stores and warehouses, This predicted WLAN radio placement resulting in labor cost savings by preventing future WLAN weakness and determining effectiveness; even on buildings not yet constructed for the most cost effective analysis saving an estimated 200K per site over time. Invented new concept for high density/small cellular WLAN design for new store implementations and trained the use of advanced Lan-Planner wireless mapping to implement this world-wide to save customer CAPEX. Technical management and knowledge contributions resulting in the first Walmart Stores Inc. deployment of RFID portable multi-use data terminals resulting in a potential labor savings of millions of employee hours. Set up of local labs for testing and statistical verification of Motorola RF and RFID technology. Contributed Motorola company white paper for RF best practices in the Data/VOIP environment Contributor for University of Arkansas RFID lab testing for Motorola Gen 2 Protocol readers. Symbol Corporation, Bentonville, AR Senior Presales Technical Consultant; 2000-2007 Acquisition by Symbol Corporation: Gained new role of principle architect reporting directly to regional sales manager (RSM) for development and implementation of new mobile work force technology for use in Walmart Stores Inc. Research and testing led to implementation of first WLAN switch in Walmart Stores Inc. infrastructure. Designed and programmed server software for monitoring and implementing alerts for WLAN equipment in North America for Walmart Stores Inc. installations. Managed remote software development team to design and implement new applications in the mobile environment for Walmart Stores Inc. involving over 200,000 devices. Developed RF Site survey procedures for WLAN that became implemented at Walmart Stores in their Warehouse installations. Researched and designed RF site survey kits for use by RF specialists nationwide to locate and solve issues at Symbol WLAN installations. Taught RF theory classes and use of RF Spectrum Analyzers to field mobility force to locate and mitigate RF interference for RF installations nationwide. Supported remote locations throughout the United States when a site survey or engineering level support was required. EDUCATION 1977-81 Computer Science, Undergraduate, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 2008 Bachelors Degree, Business Management Information Science, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ CERTIFICATIONS Project Management Professional (PMP), #1571016 Certified Wireless Network Administrator (CWNA) Certified Wireless Security Professional (CWSP) Radio Frequency Identification+ (RFID+) Six Sigma, Yellow Belt, (Motorola) SKILL SETS Methodologies: Agile, RF, RFID, Waterfall, TCP/IP, IEEE 802,1X, ISO2000, PMP, WLAN, RFID, WIFI, Bluetooth, PAN, SNMP, Arduino, DNS, IPAD, Android, CE, Windows, DOS Windows PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Management MS Project, Primavera, Clear Case, Word, Excel PowerPoint, Clarity Software UNIX, C, PERL, C++, TCAL, LINUX, LanPlanner, MS Suite, Forth, UBasic, Assembler, TUDM, Scripting AFFILIATIONS ARRL, ADA, IEEE, Linkedin,PMI HOBBIES Kayaking, Stained and Fused Glass Artistry, Photography and Amateur Radio Designed the first wireless customer service terminal for a touch screen device. ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE PRE - 2000 Telxon Corporation, Bentonville, AR Programmer Engineer Level III; 1996-2000 Primary responsibility was for the development of Walmart Stores Inc. specific applications for large deployments of over 100,000 devices. This included software design of several platforms that often required quick mastery of new programming software and operating systems including Windows CE. Design, programming, deployment, expansion and support of the terminal emulation application TERM that ran exclusively on TELXON 960 devices world- wide. Creation applications supporting Walmart Stores Inc. for a new hybrid Telxon/Symbol arm mounted device used in Pharmacies nationwide. Implementation of a network bootable RF infrastructure server, first of its kind, used in the Walmart Infrastructure. Technical Architect Manager; 1992-1996 Manager of 6 technical architects and consultants for the Telxon Bentonville Sales Office. This role included the interviewing, training, development, and reviews of technical consultants located in Bentonville Arkansas. This role also included being the primary technical lead and support team liaison for Walmart Stores Inc. in new designs, applications and equipment for the growing implementation of mobility devices. Designed hardware and software combination to support the first wireless customer price lookup devices used at Walmart Stores Inc. Collaborated on creation of the first wireless modem to be used on a 900MHZ backbone using the ARLAN infrastructure in Walmart Stores Inc. Designed the first Fabric Terminal and Competitive Shopper for use in Walmart Stores Inc. with Telxon RF devices. Rolled out the first wireless infrastructure for the Telxon 960 devices for Walmart Stores Inc. Technical Architect; 1986-1996 Sales support representative and field programmer for the design, creation and office in Saint Louis Missouri, transferred to Bentonville Arkansas 1989. Created mobile solutions for: McDonnell Douglas, Wetterau Foods, Snucks Grocery, Brown Shoes, Malone and Hyde, Chrysler corporation, Pitney Bowes, Kelsy Hayes, Hallmark Cards; and additional customers in the Missouri, Arkansas and Illinois sales area Relocated to Bentonville, Arkansas in 1989 to support the Walmart Account exclusively as a technical architect. 1990 Designed and supported first RF driven pseudo-terminal XTERM. 1992 First TELXON 960 mobile gun terminal sales to Walmart of $200M
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