Ian J. Korman, MBA,

P.O. Box 107

Clinton, MI 49236

Phone: (734) 216-6894

Email: ian@kormanworld.net

Position Desired: Project Management, IT Versatilist or

Business Consulting and Training

Salary Desired: Negotiable (Specific to Position)

Location Desired: Open

Management Experience

- Designed, organized, supervised, and implemented both large and

small I.T. projects for MCI/WorldCom for over 6 years

- Supervised both technical troubleshooting and customer support

at MCI/WorldCom, the Drug Enforcement Agency Headquarters, and

the Office of Naval Intelligence

- Possess strong leadership abilities gained while a non-

commissioned officer(E-5) in the U.S. Navy where I managed both

I.T. facilities and personnel for 8 years

- Obtained extensive knowledge of standard management practices

including Project Management, HR, Budgeting, Statistical

Analysis, Marketing, Financial Analysis/Planning, Public

Relations, Research, and International Trade through my college

course work

- Knowledgable and experienced with various project management methodologies in addition to the standard WBS, Critical Path, Six Sigma, and PMI PMBOK such as Agile Modeling, Scrum, PRINCE, and others.

Work Experience

July 2004 to Nortel Meridian 1 PBX Project Engineer

October 2004 Ameritraining, Inc. on Contract to SBC

www.ameritraining.com - Phone: (865) 856-9470

Provided project management support, customer handling, and engineering technical support for the migration of over 10,000 telecom stations from a Meridian SL-100 to Nortel Meridian 1 Option 11 and 81C PBX’s for the University of Michigan hospital complex and remote sites.

January 1997 to Senior Internet IP and Dial Network Engineer

February 2003 UUNET, A WORLDCOM Company

880 Technology Drive

Ann Arbor, MI 48108

Senior Operations and Project Engineer of a Level 3 support team for the largest dial-up modem network in the world consisting of over 1.2 million modems. Provided 24 hour, 7 day per week pager technical support for the entire network which spanned North America, South America, Asia, Australia, and Europe. In addition to general technical support, job entailed creating and maintaining documentation, creating and conducting training, hardware upgrade project management, and mentoring junior engineers as the senior engineer in a 15 person group. Also intricately involved in the design, development, implementation, testing, and troubleshooting of new platform configurations and equipment.

A majority of the work involved in this position was project management focused to include:

- Determining business needs and proposing projects to address those needs

- Creation of the project from conception to wrap-up

- Creating and coordinating project timelines

- Utilization of afore noted PM methodologies such as Agile and WBS

- Providing email, Intranet, and conference call project status updates to both domestic and international stakeholders

- Coordinating and chairing meetings: face-to-face, conference calls or a combination

- Inter-vendor project coordination

- Project work scheduling and customer notification

- Technical coordination and supervision of project related work

- Software Worked With: Sun Sparc Solaris Unix, AFS, Kerberos, Remedy, Primavera IT Project Office (TeamPlay), Primavera IT Operations Management (Evolve), Microsoft Office Suite: MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, MS Windows/NT and HTML.

- Systems Worked With: Sun Sparc Workstations, Sun Servers, 3COM Total

Control Line of Equipment: Quad Modem Cards, T1 Cards, High Density Modem Cards, Network Interface Cards, Network Management Cards; Ascend MAX TNT, Ethernet Hubs, Cisco and Bay Routers, Telephone Switches, CSU/DSUs, DAXs, MUXs, test equipment, PC's, and external modems.

– Technologies Experienced in: DS0, DS1, DS3, T1/E1, T3, OC3, OC12, OC48, OC192, TCP/IP, SNMP, Firewall Management, Frame Relay, SONET, 10/100Mbps Ethernet, VPN, WAN, LAN, PSTN (U.S., Canada, Japan, South Korea and UK), ATM, PPP, L2TP, MPLS, SS7, VOIP, Cisco IOS.

March 1996 System Administrator

to December Computer Sciences Corporation - System Engineering Division

1996 3170 Fairview Park Drive, Falls Church, VA 22042

Managed a LAN system that was comprised of a mini-mainframe, 90+ workstations, database servers, remote bridged connections, scanners, various magnetic-media devices, and numerous types of network printers. This system was in support of a Drug Enforcement Agency classified project. Duties included management and upgrading of system software and hardware resources, maintaining system admin. scripts, formulating system upgrade purchase proposals, and system user support. Collateral duties also included contract management assistance, facilities contact, PC software and hardware management and purchasing, maintaining equipment inventory, and maintaining physical and electronic security.

- Software Worked With: HP UX 10.x, HP Openview, HP View, X-Windows, Oracle, Unix WordPerfect, FrameMaker, NetMap, and OMNIback II.

- Systems Worked With: HP 9000/800 T-500 Mini-Computer, HP 9000/700

Workstations, DAT tape drives, network printers and plotters, IBM PC's

including portables, scanners/OCR's, and bridges.

August 1988 Cryptographic Telecommunications Operations Specialist(E5)

to January U.S. Navy, Office of Naval Intelligence,

1996 4251 Suitland Road, Washington, D.C. 20395-5720

Prior Assignments: NCTAMS, Guam and SUSLAK, Korea

Manager of telecommunications operations center where I supervised and trained junior technicians. Circuits included fiber optic, T1/T3, and broadcast mediums connecting mainframes, mini-computers, terminals, live video, voice, LAN, and WAN systems.

Prior to this I worked in Guam at the Naval Communications Station that provided tactical communications to the Western Pacific and Middle East region. Served at this location during the entire Desert Storm operation.

- Equipment Experienced With: Modems, DSU/CSU's, Cesium Clocks, Fiber Optic Line Drivers, Multiplexers, Routers, Bridges, Cryptographic Gear,

Audio/Digital Patch Panels, Timeplex Link/2+, and Timeplex TX3/Superhub.

- Systems Worked With: SUN SPARCstations, Digital VAX 4000-400, AT&T

3B2/600GR, PDP-11's, IBM PC's, Printers, Fax's, and OCR's.

1987 to Metallurgical Laboratory Technician

1988 Eaton Corporation, Marshall, Michigan 49068

Worked for one year in the automotive industry providing metallurgical and chemical laboratory support to the overall operations of a major U.S. parts manufacturer.

1980 to Webmaster/Bulletin Board Administrator/IT Consultant

Present Self-Employed Independent Contractor

Provide support to commercial and non-profit entities. Manage, design, and maintain all aspects of websites. Am an experienced HTML/XHTML programmer since 1996 and have managed online bulletin boards systems since 1980. Also skilled in CSS, PHP, JAVA Script, PERL, FLASH, and Graphic Design: Adobe Photoshop, MSPaint, and more.

Education

College: MBA, Eastern Michgian University, 2005

B.S. in Business Management, University of Phoenix, 2001.

Certificate in Management, University of Maryland, 1993

Training: CCNA, CCNP, CCDP, and CCIE Coursework; U.S. Navy Telecommunications Center Operations Management Course; Timeplex Diagnostics Course; Unix Fundamentals Course; Introduction to Pascal Course; Fireberd 6000 Operations Course; HP-UX 10.0 System Administration for HP 9000 Servers; Project Management Courses; Supervisory Courses; MS Project; MS PowerPoint; MS Excel; MS Access; MS Word.

Certifications

PMP(Project Management Professional) – Project Management Institute, certification last updated December, 2004

Professional Organizations

Toastmasters International: Competent Toastmaster(CTM) and Vice President of Public Relations for the Avis Farms Toastmasters club in Ann Arbor

Clearance: Top Secret/SCI Clearance with SBI last updated on 02-May-94