R Hoffman
Mann Creek Information Technologies, LLC

Background Summary

B.S. and M.S. in aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics.  Applied experience in agile business management, engineering, mathematics and computer-based solution techniques.  Proven business process design / redesign, modeling and analysis abilities.  Accomplished IT systems analyst with proven systems design, analysis, implementation and communication skills.  Demonstrated team and project management skills including strategic and tactical IT and business planning, budgeting, agile staff management and executive communication.  Advanced large and small computer-related application development skills, consistently meeting client requirements with on-time and on-budget implementations.  Proven stochastic and deterministic problem solving abilities, using advanced mathematical techniques.  Proven leadership in conducting informal and formal presentations at all stake holder and management levels.  Consistently promoted to positions of increasing responsibility in the energy provider industry, the materials failure analysis industry, the offshore oil drilling industry and the aerospace industry.

Selected, Specific Experience
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Web-related Application Development & Systems Management

• Oversee corporate Web strategy and tactical operations, including annual business plan and budget development, and metric tracking (including throughput analysis and followup system design/redesign). (details)
  

• Oversee daily Web site operational activities with specific attention to client and customer satisfaction, content creation, site design, secure data access, overall domain security and site maintenance. (details)
  

• Communicate corporate Web strategy between a Web Steering Committee and implementation teams, and collaborate with business leaders to prioritize, approve and assign resources to Web projects. (details)

• Hands-on, secure intranet application development to facilitate employee Web access of personal information. Used as a model for other secure intranet development. (details)

Business/Technical Process Management, Systems Modeling and Simulation

• Manage, model and simulate a known corporate Web environment; analyze for the purpose of forecasting system load and determining potential bottlenecks, based on anticipated customer load levels. (details)
  

• Model and simulate a proposed, new, mid-level business process environment; based on stochastic performance estimates from similar, existing business processes; analyze for the purpose of estimating new labor resource needs and related support costs. (details)
  

• Model, simulate and analyze a known team environment with complex member interactions and job types; optimize resource levels based on current and projected job resource costs, and estimated job wait costs. (details)
  

Document/Information Capturing, Application Development & Management (details)

• Develop the architecture and selected components of, and manage the implementation of, a multi-user software system that accomplishes and coordinates the scanning, OCRing, filtering, verification, storing and retrieval of paper, microfilm and microfiche -based information.

• Develop the architecture and implement a desktop-based full-text retrieval system for information in the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations (DFAR) manuals.
  

• Architect and implement software to scan and systematically store line drawing work sheets on CD-ROMs.  For on-demand remote retrieval, review and printing.

Structural Design/Analysis & Application Development (more)

• Manage corporate-level Integrated Design / Analysis Technology research and development project, working with visionaries to collect/analyze engineering strategies and translate them into software/hardware/labor system requirements.
  

• Two and three-dimensional structural finite element analyses of intricate thin shell / thick plate structures for domestic and international clients -- including structures with isotropic and orthotropic material properties, and structures that undergo large displacements (e.g. bifurcation buckling) .

• Develop interactive, graphical, procedure-driven finite element modeling and post-processing system software, distributed nationally by a large computer service bureau.

• Develop interactive, graphical finite element contour plotting system, with three dimensional presentation -- including contours on cuts through solid models, hidden line removal, contour annotation and perspective presentation projections.
  

• Research local (a-posteriori) finite element error measurement techniques; develop a thin shell error measure, and implement techniques for predicting the accuracy of thin shell finite element models.