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DAVID L. TERRY

resourceguy@aol.com

 

 

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER

 

Highly motivated IT / Instructional Design Lead; Personnel / Project Manager; Technical Team Lead; Test Director; Communications Facilitator; Business Information Analyst.  Career skills include:

 

Technical Abilities: Windows 95/NT/98/2000/XP, Microsoft Office Suite (all applications), MS Project, Access, Publisher, Front Page, DIAMOND 950, IQ Objects, Visio, Framemaker, Elite (legal practice management suite), Oracle-based custom program logic (US Government proprietary), HTML, GUI Design, Visual Basic (5.0), PVCS (Tracker), Rational Clear Case, Vantive, TOAD, Oracle 8.1, Peoplesoft HR suite, Macromedia Suite, learning Dreamweaver

 

 

CAREER HISTORY

 

Perot Systems Healthcare (Mar 98 – Present):  Instructional Design, Quality, Resource, and Integration Project Manager, managing all aspects of project initiation, through product development, and implementation.

 

-          Instructional Design Team Lead and Project Manager, authoring custom DIAMOND training programs, all courseware, training multi-level technical users at multiple health payer sites.   Currently migrating all materials to web-based format

-          Standardized and implemented internal DIAMOND training materials for largest corporate healthcare division; modular lessons / presentations / tools / procedures / now used throughout the division at worldwide locations

-          Business consultant to streamline internal processes, author technical requirements.  Project manager of DIAMOND QA and test activities for DIAMOND accelerated delivery option at Fortune 500 client

-          Directed / managed personnel, computer, physical resources for 120+ associates on nationwide telecom client account

-          Built 130 customer legal reports following management of aggressive test / integration project during customer re-organization, and corporate split / divestiture

 

GRCI (Sep 96 – Mar 98): Government Test Director and Manager of major command military test teams.  Planned, executed and evaluated technically complex, large scale tests of worldwide space system networks

 

-          Field test evaluation manager for first-ever mobile space tracking system within special programs division.   Authored evaluation plan for the same and executed on schedule & within resource constraints

-          Integrated previously un-testable software functions into driven tight schedules. Increased productivity by streamlining processes for maximum test effectiveness with minimum resource impact

 

US Air Force (Sep 85 – Sep 96): Software Designer / PM / Chief, Operations Training during 11 year military career, highlighted by: 

 

-          Software manager and engineer overseeing / authoring development of proprietary US Government code for low altitude space tracking system, release manager for 80+ customized software routines

-          Test Project Manager of 20-person effort in verification of over sixty government space software programs

-          Chief, Operations Training and Crew Commander, Low Altitude Space / Combined RF Surveillance & mobile platforms

-          Designed, implemented training programs for critical space systems / special operations teams on tailored systems

 

 

EDUCATION

MAED, Adult Education & Distance Learning– University of Phoenix Online, graduating June 2004

BS, Business Management - University of Phoenix, December 1997

AS, Intelligence Collection - Community College of the Air Force, October 1991

Comprehensive instruction in program management, team leadership, computer technology, electronic intelligence

TQM, quality assurance, air, land, sea, combat survival school graduate

 

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