Melissa A Sullivan msmam@aol.com

13262 S Wasatch StPine, CO 80470

303.748.5795

SUMMARY

Ten years experience - statistician and metallurgist at INCO Alloys International.

Became expert in SAS, Data Analysis, Program Management of large teams (100+) and Metallurgy, Telephony, and Healthcare.

Co-Inventor on four patents for alloys used in fabrication of jet aircraft engines.

PATENTS

High Strength Low Thermal Expansion Alloy

Controlled Thermal Expansion Superalloy (Two patents)

Alloy Overlay Having the Thermal Characteristics of a Substrate

KEY WORDS

Project Management, Budgeting, Cost and Schedule Estimation, Risk Management, Contingency Planning, Client Management, Management Experience (Nineteen Years), Project Budget Responsibility in excess of $25M/Annum with full Project Lifecycle responsibility (cradle-to-grave) Requirements Management, Functional Specifications, Statistical Analysis (including SAS), Data Analysis, Oracle, SAS Macros, BI, Data Modeling, executive-level communication skills (both oral and written).

WORK EXPERIENCE

Owner, Neptune Chimney Service, May 2012 – Current

Responsible for scheduling, purchasing, accounting, etc. for company with four employees.

Business is currently solvent and starting to perform profitably.

Project Manager/Development Manager, IT Organization, May 2000 – April 2012

Qwest Communications, Denver, Colorado (Formerly US West)

As Program Manager for IT programs, completed multiple projects on time or ahead of schedule, within budget while dealing with multiple budget cuts.

Accountable to the Director of IT for programs/projects in their entirety.

Responsible for staff management, project management, and technical management for project team.

Responsibilities:

- Budget Administration and Funding Activities

- Business Case Oversight

- On-Going Client Management

- Development Cost Estimation

- Project Management for all phases of projects.

- Risk Management

- Program Management

- District Configuration Management Manager

Lead Engineer/Engineer, June 1998 – May 2000

US West

Lead Engineer, responsible for the development of software that presented traffic and signaling data from network elements.

Part of the largest software development organization to achieve CMM Level 2.

Utilized all development techniques recommended by the SEI in the Capability Maturity Model.

Software Development Consultant, June 1996 – June 1998

Trilogy Consulting Corporation.

- US West, Denver, CO – Developed SAS-to-Oracle applications for users in network management facilities. These applications were capacity provisioning applications to assure that the network was functioning properly and was not over capacity.

- MCI, Colorado Springs, CO – SAS Software Developer. Developed applications to recover faulty data for the billing department to recover lost revenue.

- Rocky Mountain Life Insurance, Denver, CO – SAS Software Developer. Wrote applications that pulled life insurance data for actuarial resources. Developed Power Builder front ends for ad hoc queries against a Microsoft SQL Server database in Windows NT environment.

Data Analyst, May 1995 – June 1996, TCI, Englewood, CO

- Responsible for presentation of marketing data to executives for forecasting sales. Sybase, SQL, UNIX, and SAS.

Analyst, November 1994 – May 1995, Marathon Oil Company

- Developed SAS and Oracle applications for oil explorationists in UNIX and Windows NT environment. These applications were used to vectorize data for Cray processing.

Statistician, May 1984 – November 1994, INCO Alloys International Inc.

- Performed statistical analysis for Metallurgical Engineers in the High Performance Alloy division. Utilized SAS in VAX/VMS environment. Co-inventor on four patents for alloys used in fabrication of jet aircraft engine material. Familiar with alloying, annealing, H hardening, tensile properties, crack growth, strain, creep, fatigue resistance, corrosion, hardness, toughness, and other concepts.

EDUCATION

BS MathematicsMarshall University, Huntington, WV

MBA IT Management

Western Governors University, In Progress

REFERENCES

Available upon request.