Nick Peters nick@nickpeters.org | ||
S u m m a r y |
High-energy professional offering over 15 years experience of
continuous contribution and achievement. Driving force behind on-time, on-budget delivery of
large-scale projects and programs within defined standards of quality. Big picture view of program,
budget, and process management to build value in diverse organizations. Results driven
problem-solver with the ability to innovate compelling, win-win solutions to complex situations.
Exceptional relationship building skills, fostering teams and organization across all levels of
staff, customers, vendors, and business groups. | |
E x p e r i e n c e |
Intellectual Ventures Sr. Technical Trainer : 5/09-Present Responsible for coordinating, designing and delivering technical training at Intellectual Ventures. | |
Intellectual Ventures Business Systems Analyst : 7/08 - 5/09
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Virtuoso Technology Business Analyst : 06 - 08 Manage and coordinate requirements definition + project development for member, staff and consumer facing web sites for Virtuoso, a leader in the luxury travel market. Used Agile development methodologies with a distributed workforce (New Zealand, Ft. Worth, Seattle) to deliver a custom content management system. Extensive use of TFS + Microsoft products for project management tools. | ||
Escapia Software Project Manager : 04 - 06 Schedule and manage product lifecycle for a startup in the vacation rental industry. Primary focus is management of the Escapia Vacation Rental Suite software package. This suite is comprised of an online reservations system, CRM, comprehensive accounting package, service order management and other tools for the vacation rental market. Work closely with all departments at Escapia to coordinate work and releases and manage customer expectations. | ||
Vulcan Inc. Program Manager Technology Group : 02 - 04 Directed project scope, scheduling and budgeting, communication, risk management, vendor contact and contracts. Primary focus was management of an international multimillion-dollar scientific technology development project and software for museum exhibits. Also instrumental in the evaluation and implementation strategy of a department-wide program management tool (eProject). | ||
Apex Learning, Inc. Senior Product Manager : 98 - 01 Responsible for the design, development and deployment of AP Exam Review, a site for Advanced Placement high school students to study for their exams and for ClassTools, a Codie winning in-class tool to help classroom teachers present online content. I am experienced at defining product requirements, researching competition, coordinating content and technical development with external partners and internal departments. This position required a great understanding of web technologies and an instinct for balancing user needs with team capabilities. Also: instructor and mentor training, writing and analyzing student questionnaires, product evangelism, technical writing, information design, tracking server statistics and troubleshooting registration systems. sites: apexlearning.com, UCCP Virtual High School + others | ||
USWeb Seattle (now marchFIRST) Quality Assurance Manager : 97 - 98 Responsible for quality assurance on all products. Tested commercial Internet and Intranet sites. Wrote test plans and tested web sites: front to backend components. Co-developed and maintained a bug tracking system. Worked closely with engineering, design, production and development departments to improve overall product quality. Clients: HorizonAir, Hewlett-Packard, Airgroup Express, Emeritus.com, Entertainment Tonight Online, DeathTax.com, ATL Ultrasound, Kavu + others. | ||
Consultant QA Engineer + other technology positions : 95 - 97
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Blood Island- The
Movie Jack of all : Winter 94 - 95 As a local consultant working with an aspiring action filmmaker on the island of Roatan in Honduras, I helped schedule, coordinate, cast, write, film and act in this $10,000 16-mm extravaganza. The working title, "Blood island". Experience with 16-mm camera, screen writing, animal handling (tarantulas, snakes, monkeys and small apes) also location scouting and working in unusual locales (coral reefs and nasty swamps). | ||
Microsoft
Corportation Redmond, WA Tech Support Engineer : 93 - 94 Provided end users with technical support in the Macintosh, Windows and DOS environments for all Consumer Division Graphics (CDG) products, including MS Works (3.0), Powerpoint, FlightSim, Publisher 1.0, Creative Writer, Fine Artist, multimedia CD-ROMs (Schubert, Beethoven), and others. Mentored other CDG Engineers for Macintosh system issues. Wrote, edited and commented articles for the CDG issues database. Received a Product Support Services Excellence Award for superior customer service. | ||
United States
Information Agency Ottawa, Canada Public Affairs Intern : 91 Tracked Canadian press reaction to the North American Free Trade Agreement for US Department of State while working at the US Embassy in Ottawa. Position also involved researching and responding to inquiries made by Canadian government officials to the U.S.I.A. Library. | ||
S k i l l s | Program
and Product management, budgeting time and money, delivering customer/employee/user training, great
eye for quality issues and project risks, writing, editing, information and web design Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Project Server, eProject, Microsoft CRM, Microsoft Sharepoint, Visio and Visual SourceSafe. Adobe PhotoShop, BBEdit, HTML, Acrobat and PageMaker. Macintosh and Windows. | |
E d u c a t i o n |
Antioch University Seattle, WA Whole System Design Focus on epistemology, adult education and general systems theory. | |
The Evergreen State
College Olympia, WA Bachelor of Art Emphasis on managment in the public interest, propaganda and persuasion elementary + middle + high schools: Taipei American School, Taiwan Inglemoor High School, WA American Cooperative School of Tunis, Tunisia Ecole Belge a Kigali, Rwanda American International School of Bamako, Mali Walnut Creek Elementary, CA | ||
o t h e r w i s e |
Family, sailing, exploring,the intraweb, Africa
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