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Anthony Araujo, PMP, P.Eng. 

1308 Quest Circle     416-659-8132

Mississauga, ON L5N 8B6       taraujo@yahoo.ca

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Objective:  Project Manager 

Key Accomplishments 

10+ years professional experience in project management and engineering using project management and software development life cycles methodologies in transportation, retail and aerospace industries

PMP, P. Eng., Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering

Managed team of up to 10 on strategic Hong Kong Disney Resort Line (DRL) project to design, build, and implement 5 km light rail transit system that helped company penetrate the Asian market and subsequently win Beijing and Shanghai urban transit contracts worth over $100M

Met Korean National Railway (KNR) project milestones and deliverables within schedule and overall budget, with first deliverable coming in 20% under budget

Managed interdepartmental relationships that facilitated identification of KNR project dependencies captured by Primavera scheduling tool resulting in 20% reduction in changes while strengthening commitment to project deliverables and enhancing team synergy

Computer Skills:  MS Office Suite, Lotus Notes, Primavera, SAP, MS Project, Visio 

Employment History 

Project Group Leader  2003 - 2008

Thales Rail Signalling Solutions Inc., Toronto, ON 

Managed team of up to 10 on strategic Hong Kong Disney Resort Line (DRL) project to design, build, and implement 5 km light rail transit system that helped company penetrate the Asian market and subsequently win Beijing and Shanghai urban transit contracts worth over $100M

Provided management with cost/benefit analysis on DRL project to accelerate delivery of target subsystem to support development and testing of over 20 new functions that led to issues being resolved within 1 day compared to historical turnaround of over 1 week

Met Korean National Railway (KNR) project milestones and deliverables within schedule and budget, with first deliverable coming in 20% under budget

Identified and registered KNR project risks, such as having target subsystem available at crucial development stages, for project team mitigation  leading to immediate mitigation of risks performed on key global project; resulted in savings of $100K over course of project

Negotiated additional out-of-scope functionality such as train synchronization with management on $10M+ DRL project that resulted in over $150K of additional budget to department

Managed interdepartmental relationships that facilitated identification of KNR project dependencies captured by Primavera scheduling tool resulting in 20% reduction in changes while strengthening commitment to project deliverables and enhancing team synergy

Assisted to attain CMM Level 3 Certification by creating new software development processes and delivering training to over 200 Engineering Department staff; met  company objective for CMM Level 3 compliance on project worth $500M+  

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Senior Software Engineer 2001

Wardrop Engineering, Mississauga, ON 

Planned, designed and developed generic user interface application and ActiveX control alarm display as an add-in to core Train Movement Manager client/server application that was projected to save an estimated 10% of customers' hardware costs and improve customer retention 

Software Engineer  1997- 1999

MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates, Brampton, ON 

Planned, converted, and modularized a complex legacy Candarm Simulator application for NASA resulting in securing subsequent enhancements worth an estimated $10M over 5 years

Implemented user interface containing 8 scientific engineering utilities to assist Controls group in analysis of Space Shuttle flight data, resulting in 200% reduction of analysis time 

Software Designer 1995 - 1997

International Verifact Inc., Toronto, ON 

Participated in planning and implementation of point-of-sale (POS) software interface, targeted to customers such as Royal Bank and Wal-mart, that allowed application designers to select generic functions to construct custom applications 200% faster and reduce size of executable by over 50% 

Technical Skills 

Methodologies: PMLC - PMBOK, SDLC, OOA/D, UML, Agile, RUP

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX

Languages: Java, Visual Basic, C, C++, HTML, Fortran, Pascal 

Education and Professional Development 

PMP Certification, Project Management Institute, Pennsylvania, PA 2009

PMP Preparatory Course, PMI-SOC, Toronto, ON 2006

Negotiation Skills, Alcatel Canada, Toronto, ON 2005

Critical Thinking, Alcatel Canada, Toronto, ON 2005

Train the Trainer, Alcatel Canada, Toronto, ON 2004

Performance Management, Alcatel Canada, Toronto, ON 2003

Management Development, Alcatel Canada, Toronto, ON 2003 

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON 1988 

Community Involvement 

Coach, North Mississauga Soccer Club, Girls and Boys House League Teams        2007 - 2009    

Interests 

Soccer, Tennis, Golf, and Reading 

References Available upon Request