Anthony Gadaleta resime



Professional Profile:

Accomplished executive and leader with substantial experience providing career mentoring to young adults. Successful careers in both the United Sates Navy and in the private sector. Experience as an associate department chair and instructor at a major university. Demonstrated commitment to the value of lifelong education.

Summary of Experience, Strengths, and Skills:

• Personnel management and mentoring

• Planning and executing budgets

• Experience with international organizations, team building, and managing cross functional teams

• Experience with Total Quality Management Programs

• Technical and leadership training

• Strategic planning and logistics management

• Experience teaching at the undergraduate level

Degrees and Professional Certifications Earned:

• Master of Science, Systems Analysis, Miami University

• Master of Science, Systems Management, University of Southern California

• Bachelor of Science, Biological Science, Villanova University

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, from the Project Management Institute (PMI)

Academic Experience:

Visiting Instructor, Miami University (Ohio), Department of Management

• 2006-2007: Instructor for undergraduate 3 credit hour course: Management 111, “Introduction to Business”

Associate Chair, Department of Naval Science and Executive Officer/NROTC Unit, Miami University, Oxford, OH

1996-1999: Operations coordinator, budget developer, and Associate Professor of Leadership and Management. Directed daily operations of NROTC organization, consisting of 10 instructors and supporting staff and 100 students. Managed annual $940,000 budget and inventory. Responsible for career counseling and mentoring of young women and men about to begin service as commissioned officers in the US Navy and Marine Corps.

• Implemented an aggressive recruiting program, resulting in 50 % increase in enrollment. Initiated outreach program on campus and within the Navy to improve diversity of enrolled NROTC Midshipmen. Doubled the number of minority Midshipmen.

• Initiated major upgrades to classroom facility, incorporating state of the art multi-media instructional equipment.

• Taught ‘400 level’ courses in Leadership and Management

Professional Experience:

The Cincinnati Insurance Companies/Cincinnati Financial Corporation, Fairfield, OH/ 2001-present

2001-present: Assistant Director of IT Operations

Responsible for planning and managing the delivery of IT services, and IT capacity planning.

• Planned and initiated project to consolidate 350 under-utilized ‘Intel’ servers to 20 ‘VMware’ servers. Wrote and presented business case to company senior management, and obtained approval and $2M+ project funding. In February 2006, project team began removing servers from data center. Power and heat removal savings have already been recognized, thus demonstrating early project financial return. Eventual ROI payback anticipated to be within 12-18 months.

• Initiated a successful business service management (BSM) project to improve service levels of critical customer applications.

• In conjunction with the BSM initiative, leading a project to incorporate Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework for improving the delivery of IT services to internal and external customers

IBM Global Services, Cincinnati, OH/ 1999-2001

2000-2001: Project manager for business to business e-commerce application

• Led team of 20 software engineers and Java developers through solution design, construction, testing, and deployment of an e-Marketplace for an international consortium of five corporations in the plastics industry (). This B2B e-Marketplace went live in December 2000, was highly successful, and is still in business today.

1999-2000: Information Technology Professional:

• Provided analysis and Java development support (Java, Java Server Pages, and Java Servlet programming) for two major business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) e-business initiatives in the automotive industry.

UNITED STATES NAVY

Attained rank of Commander (O-5); left active duty in 1999

Summary of Significant Assignments:

Project Manager/Planner/Shift Operations Director/on the staff of Commander, US Second Fleet, Norfolk VA

Planner for assessments of new technology in defense applications.

• Successfully managed large-scale projects involving European, Canadian, and US Naval personnel and equipment.

• Authored standard procedures in a specific warfare discipline that improved tactical operations for entire Navy.

• Shift director for fleet operations center, overseeing tactical operations of fleet operations; regularly directed actions of 10,000-member organization.

Director of Technology Development and Testing/on the staff of Commander Patrol Wings, Pacific Fleet, Mountain View, CA

Directed daily operations of 15 researchers and technicians in developing and evaluating new technologies for specific military applications.

• Planned and directed tests for large scale evaluation of a technology application involving a foreign navy submarine, a US Navy ship, 10 aircraft, and 100 support personnel. Tests completed ahead of schedule, under budget, meeting all objectives.

• Led cross functional group to re-define operational requirements for all Navy patrol squadrons. Resulted in streamlined requirements accepted by Department of the Navy.

Director of Aircraft Operations/Patrol Squadron Fifty, Mountain View, CA

Produced and executed daily, weekly, and monthly flying and ground simulator training schedules for 9 aircraft and 50 pilots and flight engineers. Supervised staff of 25. Streamlined management of annual 1.5 million-dollar fuel operating budget.

• Directed daily tactical operations for patrol squadron. Improved efficiency of scheduling operations by designing scheduling algorithm that allowed round the clock operations with minimal equipment and personnel resources.

• Planned and directed the transfer of the entire organization from a remote site in the Aleutian Islands to California and its replacement by another organization from Hawaii, moving over 360 people and 16 aircraft. Executed transfer ahead of schedule and under budget; personnel transfer plans reduced manning costs by 20 %.

Head, Aircraft Technician Training Department /Patrol Squadron Thirty One, Mountain View, CA

Supervised staff of 55 instructors in aircraft maintenance, providing classroom and on-aircraft training in aviation electronics trouble shooting and repair, turboprop engine repair, and airframe, fuel systems, and hydraulic systems repair.

• Using Total Quality methodology designed and implemented course revisions that resulted in 20 % savings in training time and costs, with improvements in trainee performance.

• Improved training completion rate from 30 % to 87.5 % in one year.

Civic Involvement:

• 2004-2007: President, Greater Cincinnati Council of the Navy League of the United States (NLUS)

• 2003-2005: President, Board of Education, Stephen T. Badin High School, Hamilton, OH

• 2001-2002: Vice President, Parish Council, St Mary’s Church and Campus Ministry, Oxford, OH

• 1999-2000: President of Parent Board, Miami Valley Aquatic Club, Oxford. OH

• 1996-1999: Member of Rotary Club, Oxford OH

Professional Training: (private sector)

Cincinnati Financial Corporation

• Property/Casualty Underwriting, 5 weeks

IBM

• Professional Consulting Workshop, 1 week

• Consulting Skills-Fundamentals & Methods, 4 weeks

• MS Project, 1 week

• Project Management, 1 week

• e-Business Development for WebSphere Application Server/Java Development Workshop, 4 weeks

Professional Training: (US Navy)

• Naval Flight Officer Training (Aerial Navigation), 1 year

• Naval Legal Officer Course, 5 weeks

• Tactical Action Officer Course, 6 weeks

U. S. Government Clearance Eligibility:

• While on active duty, eligible for Top Secret, based on Special Background Investigation; last held 1996

Professional Recognition:

• Two awards of the Navy Meritorious Service Medal

• Five awards of the Navy Commendation Medal

• Navy Leaguer of the Year, 2006-2007, for the Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey region

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