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    • About Project Studio Consulting

      Project Studio is a boutique consulting firm offering tailored project management solutions to a varied client
      portfolio across the government, public and private sectors.

      As PMI globally certified Project Management Professionals (PMP), our consultants provide client-side project management for organisations worldwide, adding value with our business process, change management and technical systems expertise.

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      Our services include, but are not limited, to project management, change management, business process integration, documentation, publishing, and web development in the areas of:

          Software and Systems Development
          Risk Analysis and Management
          Business Continuity Planning / Disaster Recovery
          Business Process Integration
          Enterprise Content Management Systems (CMS)
          Electronic Document and Record Management Systems (EDRMS)
          Optical, Industrial, Mechanical, and Electrical Engineering
          Fibreoptics and Telecommunications
          SCADA Manufacturing and CNC Machining

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    • Professional Profile - Michael Charles Gorman BSc PMP

      I have been consulting in project environments for most of my career. I started as a software tester and technical writer for CAD/CAM software development projects in the late eighties, and soon after became involved with opto-mechanical mechanical and DSP based electronic engineering projects. By the mid nineties, I had begun working with project teams creating multi-tier and distributed systems for financial applications development, banks and a supply chain consortium. My role expanded from that of a technical writer to a knowledge-base developer, web publisher, data and business analyst.

      After the dot com bubble burst, I consulted with GE Industrial Systems as a business analyst and technical consultant, developing an XML/XSLT toolkit for translating automobile order forms and completing the process design for order sequencing software controling on Land Rover's assembly line. I consulted with Charles River Consultants in New York, working with its CEO on developing formal project proposals, managing web development projects, developing telecommunication service offerings, and writing RFTs to outsourcing software development for companies/products that organisation had acquired.

      I moved to Australia in early 2005 and was engaged as a consultant mananging software development projects for the Nurses Board of Victoria (continued..)
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      Project Studio Consulting
      AMP Tower, Level 28
      140 St George’s Terrace
      Perth, WA 6000 Australia

      Michael Gorman BSc PMP
      Project Management Consultant
      Mobile: +61 (0) 423 045 892
      projectstudio@swanriver.com.au ( email us...)
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Portfolio - Michael Charles Gorman BSc PMP

On the web pages referenced below, you can see the projects I have been involved with. The products produced have lasting value, and the community continues to benefit from the good work done. All credit to the splendid professional teams which I am proud to have been a member of.

 

Editure Technology, Melbourne VIC

http://www.editure.com/et/my-personal-learning-space/

Project managed development of Stargate/Huxley education portal (MyPLS) based on customised Liferay Enterprise platform. This AGILE project extended Liferay for the education market space, providing scoping of communities to organisations and moderation of collaboration features. Also managed development of identity management system integrated with the portal through JBOSS Enterprise Service Bus with XML-based business process management (workflow), email/calendar (Zimbra) and reporting service based on open source Jasper Reports

 

Nurses Board of Victoria, Melbourne VIC

http://www.nbv.org.au/

Initially engaged as a consultant through Entity Solutions Pty Ltd. Was sponsored for immigration, gained Australian permanency and became a valued employee of the Nurses Board and after two years of consulting.

Project manager, business analyst and requirements writer for web-based REX Victorian nurse registration system. Initially this was client-side contract management of an external vendor as well as issues, stakeholder and UAT management. I was brought on during a a troubled stage to assist the original project manager because of vendor non compliance and the likelihood of non-delivery as the UAT was in serious jeapardy. Became sole project manager for development group (AGILE based) when the vendors were dismissed and work was brought in-house for completion and to implement new statuatory requirements as well as BPM enhancements. Documented change control and configuration management for this system. Disseminated lessons learned. Completed future stage plan for distributed enterprise system to serve as a national registration system

Project manager for development of external Liferay web portal, design of internal IT knowlegebase, and helpdesk portal. Managed User tests, gained sign-off and closed projects. Setup MS Project Server with Share Point MOSS and maintained MS Projects.

Project manager and business analyst for business continuity and disaster recovery planning for the entire organisation. Included development of business impact analysis, process definition, and risk assessment. Engaged external vendor for offsite IT backup and recovery. Managed their contract obligations to completion.

Project manager for implementation of Electronic Documentation and Records Management System (EDRMS). Conducted feasibility study, managed stakeholders, engaged vendors. Completed formal project initiation/startup documents (PMBOK/Prince-2).

Project manager for feasibility study, planning and implementation of electronic document and record management system. This project created a formal project plan, a formal request for tender, implementation plan, functional specification, phase breakdown, and stage plan for execution. Project was formally closed due to the pending COAG-NRAIP registration scheme now subsuming all state health practitioner boards nationally.

Wrote and revised complete IT system documentation for a Windows-Linux network and server environment. This environment included VMware Virtual Infrastructure, Active Directory 2008, Exchange, DB-2 v9, SAN, MSSQL 2005, Cisco switches and firewall. Included setup, configuration, backup and disaster recovery procedures for Active Directory, Exchange and DB2.

Wrote procedures for migrating from Lotus/Windows 2000 environment to /Windows AD 2003/Exchange 2003/ environment.

 

Charles River Consultants, New York, NY

http://www.crc.net/index.htm
As an independent consultant: developed telecommunications marketing collateral and service offerings, wrote proposals and technical specifications for ERP and CRM software / web development projects; tendered projects for outsourcing; reviewed proposals, and managed outsourced vendors. Provided “As Is” business analysis and documentation for their web-enabled, EDI-based ERP and Supply Chain Management application (Eventra VendorSite), managed projects for continued development of this product for their client Denso Corporation.

 

Powerllel Corporation, New York, NY
http://www.powerllel.com/index.html
Through TexSource Consulting: Developed statement of work for project and work Installation Manual and Quick Start for their distributed parallel-processing API on Linux and Windows platforms (ASPEED Accellerant).


GE Industrial Systems Fanuc Albany, NY/Calgary, AB
http://www.gefanuc.com/products/2819
Through Proliant Consulting: Wrote online MS HTML help for industrial DCOM/SQL-based SCADA application, and XML-based order management system for the automotive industry using Robohelp X4 & Visio. Provided business analysis with use cases for assembly line sequencing and created UML diagrams for ordering system. Documented their IHistorian data collection/analysis package.

 

Connecticut Technology Products, Woodbury, CT
http://www.c2p.com
As an independent consultant: Wrote user guides, sales datasheets, online help for ESCON and Fibre Channel telecommunications fibre link-test and analysis equipment and online help for its configuration / control software over numerous contracts. Developed marketing and customer service-oriented website using Dreamweaver.

 

Ubikuity Corporation, Danbury, CT
As an independent consultant: Created online Java Help and WebHelp for UML-based graphical IDE that generated XML output deployed as J2EE applications to Weblogic or other application servers, using Robohelp. Created UML diagrams with Visio. Provided business development in the form of technical white papers, marketing collateral, online programmer references and demonstration tutorial based on Java Petstore demo for Windows and Linux platforms. Participated in software design for ERP and Supply Chain Management portals (Digital Market Space). Designed and implemented company web pages using Dreamweaver. Became an equity partner within this corporation.

 

Republic Bank/HSBC, New York, NY
Through Optimum Consulting: Created online HTML documentation for Lotus Domino and Java Help for Republic's Wisdom system within IBM's Visual Age JAVA Application Programming Interface. Created knowledge portal for Y2K readiness and disaster recovery applications for technology infrastructure management. Created data definition for Oracle 8 database. Created class library and ERD diagrams with Visio.

 

Applied 3D Software, Merrimack, NH

http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=682369

http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/blog/2004/06/applied_3d_scie.html

http://www.edgecam.com/partmodeler

As an independent consultant: Updated requirements, functional specifications, and UI specifications and created online documentation for C++ class libraries/COM/DCOM interfaces for CAD development system. Created MS Office VBA programs to extract .H and .CPP file source comments for these documents. Worked closely with QA dept. Wrote context-sensitive help and online user guide for CAD application (Paralogix).

 

CNC Software, Tolland, CT
http://www.mastercam.com/Support/Documentation/Default.aspx

As an independent consultant: Wrote MasterCAM Postprocessor Programming Guide for numeric control machinery (MP Post Processor Online Reference Guide)


Flexi International Software, Trumbull, CT

http://www.flexi.com/

Through Knowledge Transfer International Consulting: Wrote Flexi-ware C++ API documentation, SQL Database Management System reference, and application help for client/server financial applications and RDBMS suite using Word and Robohelp.

 

Gerber Optical, Inc., S. Windsor, CT

http://www.gerbercoburn.com.au/products/soft_innov.html
As an independent consultant: Designed templates, developed documentation using Word VBA applications to automate publishing. Wrote user manual, collateral, training and authored help for optical prescription management, ordering and lens manufacturing program, “Innovations.” Created ODBC Data Definition files for Btrieve. Wrote and illustrated user and service manuals for various opto-mechanical devices used in lens manufacture.

 

CMX Systems, Inc., Wallingford, CT

 

As an independent consultant: Wrote product information sheets, technical white papers, presentations for the disk drive industry, as well as mechanical assembly, testing and SOP documents. Illustrated and edited article on data storage trends published in a technical journal. Worked from engineering specifications to user documentation for laser-based positioning systems. Created illustrations and solid models to augment product literature and as an aide to prototype design. Assisted in design of Windows UI for motion control card and documented DLL toolkit for serial / ISA-bus interface.

 

CADKEY, Inc., Windsor, CT

http://www.cadkey.com/index.html

http://www.cadkey.co.uk/html/product_info.html

As an independent consultant: Senior Technical Writer for CADKEY NC, Surfaces, CAD/CAE Analysis, and Advanced Solids Modeler. Worked from Mechanical Engineering doctoral thesis to provide a conceptual explanation of Bezier and NURB-based surface modeling. Worked with start-up development team to bring new CAM product to market. Developed user-interface and functional specifications; attended trade shows, developed courses, interviewed customers and researched competition to develop product. Created an automated systematic testing program and written procedures for DOS and Unix testing.