Resume

George H Towers

Cell: 516 993-2872 Office: 631 828-1252

george@ghtowers.com

Executive Profile

I am a professional technical project manager with an orientation toward, but not limited to, IT projects. I am seeking short term projects on a per diem, part time, or per-project basis.

Skill Highlights

Knowledgeable in all phases of business applications, development and implementation.

Understand inventory control and production management in a manufacturing environment.

Excellent communications skills. Strong Project Management skills.

Broad technical background. Direct experience with broad range of industries.

Formal presentations. Directed and managed technical shows and seminar.

Core Accomplishments

Operations (Recent)

Managed large projects for both public and private sector organizations.

Setup, created and managed locked stores for wireless devices and accessories.

Created software and database system to maintain issue and recovery of all wireless devices.

Managed several relocations of corporate facilities.

Managed recovery of all equipment issued during 9/11.

Managed FCC audits of wireless bandwidth and transmission stations.

Business Process Design and Consulting

Trained by Sperry Univac to become a credentialed consultant to manufacturing and distribution companies. Over the course of my career applied those skills to assist and guide many firms in the use of modern technology to solve business problems.

Experience

2006 to Present

Projects:

· Market development – Servpro franchise.

Owner had not established the franchise in his territory and required full time market development effort .

· Develop kiosk applications for major Hardware store chain. Collaborated with national supplier of kiosk hardware and software applications.

· Web Site development for small independent retail establishments

Formed Modern Retail Concepts to support business activities.

Retail sales: True Value Hardware of Miller Place (part-time).

1995–2006 City of New York DOITT Brooklyn, NY

(Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications)

Managed the following projects:

Manager of Wireless Operations Business Systems – establish control of the rapidly growing inventory of cellular devices. Within 2 years this initiative yielded very substantial savings in direct and indirect savings for the City.

· Project and Operations Manager – CityAccess Kiosk Project. To place mini-City halls in frequently traveled locations throughout the City. Managed all aspects of vendor selection, installation and acceptance. Project included coordinating 10 agencies, 3 vendors, 59 locations, and 40 applications.

· Project Manager FCC audit of 640 licenses held by the City. Audit resulted in no fines or loss of licenses.

· Managed recovery of 9/11 equipment issued to first responders on emergency basis during the time following 9/11.

· Participated as a representative of the Agency during the 9/11 recovery and further OEM training and preparedness exercises. Received individual and group recognition from the Mayor’s Office and DoITT.

· Project Manager – Criminal Justice Data Sharing. This project provided a self-defining, totally self-contained method for criminal justice agencies to share data.

· Owner and contributor to several City procurement efforts; RFI, RFP, Bid Specifications, evaluation and selection committees, contract construction and negotiations.

· Received several Mayoral and Agency performance awards.

1992 to 1994

Independent Contractor

Technical and business consulting. Technical consulting to the Unisys Corporation and their customer, New York Department of Social Services, for the programming, documentation, and installation of Kiosk based applications for their clients.

Technical consulting to the Port Authority of NJ/NY to develop a specialized desktop environment for their non-technical users.

Two large state level projects requiring business process redesign and Document Image Processing solutions for vital records and correspondence control.

Prior to 1992 – Private Sector

Sperry Univac Corporation

Direct sales and technical sales support. Consultant to manufacturing and distribution companies.

Republic Aviation

Senior Management Systems Analyst – Design and implement computer based systems in support of US Air force A-10 aircraft.

Integris

Technical Sales Support Manager, NY District. Technical sales support for Integris products and services.

Honeywell Corporation

District Support Manager for sales support and systems integration

Deutsch Relays

Systems Manager in support of medium sized job oriented manufacturing company.

Capri Beachwear

Programming and systems development for apparel company. Developed material allocation for cut and sold process.

Aeroflex Laboratories

MIS director

Education

IBM advanced Systems Science Institute. Graduate school for professional IT practitioners

Courses too numerous to list here but emphasis on Computer Science and Business Management.

Taught evening and summer semesters at SUNY Farmingdale and Dowling University.

Rutgers University and University of Maryland (overseas division) Civil Engineering.

SUNY Farmingdale – All available IT and Business courses.

APICS (American Production and Inventory Control Society) Certified.

Personal

Married – 3 children

military: Honorable Discharge

Member VFW Post 6249, Rocky Point, NY

Volunteer: Long Island State Veterans Hospital, Stony Brook, NY

References and Technical Summary available upon request

Have excellent references and highly complimentary letters of appreciation.