Financial Planner
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Background in financial sales, marketing,
and management. Worked with American Express Financial Advisors
and Financial Network Investors in financial product sales. Have
Series 7 and Series 66 licenses. Experienced with financial and
retirement planning concepts and strategies. Given classes, seminars
and talks to the public on financial and technical topics. Extensive
client contact in both business and social settings. Worked with
CPA's setting up, managing and reporting on 401K, profit sharing
and other financial plans. Computerized a mortgage company, credit
union and other financial organizations. BS from The Evergreen State
College, Olympia. Active in the community.
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I.S.Manager
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Hands-on manager. Full staff and budgetary
control on last jobs. Began central budgeting for utility for IS
needs, saving considerable money, effort and waste. Have been able
to save or generate my salary in last jobs. Developed and implemented
project, strategic, contingency and disaster plans. Wrote Policies
and Procedures manual. Cut lead-time on projects significantly in
last four jobs. Increased System Availability for electric utility
from 95.6% to 99.9%. Have made presentations to employees, managers,
board members, community organizations, and technical user groups.
Excellent people skills and facilitator. Good working relations
with all members of organization and with vendors. Extensive client
contact.
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| Planning |
Prepared and sold retirement and financial
plans and implemented them with trusts and investments. Presented
budgets and strategic plans to public, staff and Board of Directors.
Conducted needs assessments, cost studies, and project and implementation
plans for many large projects. Very good attention to detail and
ability to handle multiple projects and priorities.
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| Project
Manager |
Project Manager for hardware (installs
and conversions) and software (system design, development, installs
and conversions). Most projects finished on time and within budget.
Led interdepartmental Year 2000 Team for electric utility and made
presentations to board of Commissioners and top community organizations.
Cut lead-time of projects at utility from months to two or three
weeks. System availability went from 95.6% to 99.9%. Project manager
for Internet web site. Led installation of web server in-house.
Wrote Project, Strategic, contingency and disaster plans. Project
manager for conversion of software and hardware in five Branch offices
of advertising agency. Completed in two months with no down time
to the offices in spite of losing key members of team. Negotiated
all computer purchases. Extensive Client contacts.
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Webmaster/
Web producer |
Building websites since 1994. First
webmaster for Mason County PUD #3. Built the Website and the Intranet
for the utility. Handled all phases of the Web site development.
Trained the current Web Master in HTML, JavaScript and other Web
technologies. Built commercial sites since 1996. Used to working
on tight deadlines and manage time well. Trained others in HTML
with the 'notepad' and FrontPage editor's in building commercial
sites. Trained in Macromedia DreamWeaver, Corel Webmaster, Microsoft
FrontPage, Hotmetal, and other editors. The links to the WebPages
that I have built, along with an on-line resume, are at http://www.bowlan.com
. You can see a new tourist site I am building for a Not for Profit
organization Route 6
Tourist Association. You can see a dummy
Intranet site I built. In order to learn Active Server Pages
I am putting together a site on the history of the Washington
State Ferry Fleet. There is a job
web site I helped build while at The Evergreen State College.
It is a bit dated, but it does show what can happen in a team environment.
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| Project
Manager |
2001 - 2001
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Westar Financial
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Olympia, WA
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Project manager for Auto Leasing company
running Apple Macintosh workstations and printers on TCP/IP connected
to an IBM AS/400. We are connected to the Internet with multiple
T1's.
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| Financial
Planner |
2000 - 2001
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American Express Financial Advisors
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Tacoma, WA
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Financial advisor for a large multinational
corporation. Financial planning, sales and advice to individuals.
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| I.S.
Manager |
1994 - 1999
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Mason County PUD 3
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Shelton, WA
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Manager for electric utility running
Windows NT workstations and printers on TCP/IP connected to an IBM
AS/400. Two remote sites connected to the LAN using Frame Relay
(with voice over data) and we have dial in capabilities to either
the network or the AS/400 and we are connected to the Internet with
an ISDN line.
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| I.S.
Manager |
1992 - 1994
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The Squire Shop, Inc.
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Tacoma, WA
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Handled all aspects of Data Processing.
Company running IBM System/36 computer and IBM PC's.
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| VP
of M.I.S. |
1985 -1992
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Evans Comm., Inc.
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Salt Lake City and Seattle
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Responsible for all I.S. functions
for corporation with seven offices throughout the west. All offices
Used IBM System/36 computers and extensive network of IBM and Apple
PC's. Two offices ran DEC MicroVAX for office automation. All offices
connected by dial-up lines.
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| Skills |
Management, Planning, Finance, Human
Resource, Project Management, Internet and Intranet, Budgeting,
IS Operations, Systems Analysis and Design, Strategic and Contingency
Planning
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| Software |
RPG, CL, HTML, JavaScript, ASP, JSP,
Visual RPG, SQL, OCL, Dreamweaver, PHP,
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| Hardware |
IBM AS/400, IBM System 36, DEC Micro
VAX, Servers, Apple MacIntosh and PC's
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| Industries |
Leasing, Utility, Retail, Government,
Manufacturing, Advertising, Trucking
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| Education |
Bachelor of Arts with an emphasis
in I.S. Management from The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA.
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| Training |
| 2002 |
Business Law (5 unit
college class. 4.0 grade) |
| 2002 |
Intro to Business
(5 unit college class. 4.0 grade) |
| 2002 |
Accounting (5 unit
college class. 4.0 grade) |
| 2001 |
Presenting
Data and Information (seminars and indepentant study) |
| 2000 |
Financial Analysis
and Planning (college courses) |
| 1999 |
Javascript, Web development
(college courses) |
| 1999 |
Computers,
Communities, Communications (college course) |
| 1998 |
Emergency planning
and Emergency Management (FEMA courses) |
| 1998 |
Management in an
Information Society. (Organizational Behavior, Financial Analysis
and Personel Development) 24 unit, yearlong course - The Evegreen
State College |
| 1997 |
Internet and Intranet
Development (college courses) |
| 1996 |
Computer Security
and Disaster Planning (Seminars) |
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