Tracy L. DeGarmo
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tracylynn@degarmo.net www.degarmo.net
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FORD MOTOR COMPANY
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1/2003-Present
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Business Analyst
North America Education, Training & Development - IT Team
Dearborn, MI
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- Manage requirements and overall support for the Ford Learning
Enterprise Systems interface and Web-Based Training hosting.
Establish strategy, establish support processes, manage and launch
release process, manage requests/issues
- Manage the support of static websites for the NA ET&D:
Establish support process, manage and launch release schedule,
manage requests/issues, provide consultation for design, usability,
and internal marketing, direct develoment work.
- Manage the support of the Ford Supplier Learning Institute.
- Manage the support of the Ford/UAW Apprentice Tracking Application.
- Continue developmental support of Ford's Professional Women's
Network website and Policy Deployment & Balanced Scorecard
website.
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12/2001-12/2002
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Webmaster
North America Education, Training & Development - IT Team
Dearborn, MI
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- Design, build and maintain websites for the New Employee Orientation,
REV, and University Programs Group.
- Manage a project to centralize all the North American training
websites.
- Design, build and maintain the Leadership website. Migrate
the website to a new location. Responsible for developing a vision
for the website for future development and enhancements.
- Work with the HR group to implement the Balanced Scorecard
and SMART Objectives website.
- Webmaster as a volunteer position for the Professional Women's
Network, an Employee Resource Group.
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LOGIC SOLUTIONS, INC.
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11/2000-10/2001
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Webmaster
Leadership Development Center
Ford Motor Company
Dearborn, MI
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Responsible for managing the development and maintenance of the
Leadership Development Center website at Ford Motor Company.
- Interface with the development vendor (Logic Solutions)
- Work with various programs for managing and coding their updates
- Work on marketing the site internally
- Design future development phase plan
- Design and code an online self-paced tutorial about eTools
- Teach eTools courses at the residential session
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01/2000-11/2000
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Web Producer/Project Manager
Project Management
Ann Arbor, MI
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Managed various web page design or redesign projects for internet,
intranet, and extranet applications for other companies.
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CLARK-MXR, INC.
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1998-2000
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Communications Manager
Sales and Marketing Department
Dexter, MI
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The first three months in this position resulted in a complete
make-over of the company web site that involved adding all new
content, redesign of all the graphics, and working with engineers
and scientists to obtain technical data on current and new products.
Also was responsible for corporate Internet accounts, web searches
for new sales leads, LISTSERV development for company e-newsletter,
planning the development of a micromachining e-discussion list,
and committee participation for product development.
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1997-1998
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Technical Support Administrator
Engineering and Production Department
Dexter, MI
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All contact with the customers after the initial sale of the laser
products are conducted through the office of the Technical Support
Administrator. This contact included interacting with the purchasing
department of the customer to finalize the purchase order details
for the sale, setting up the installation of the laser, troubleshooting
problems throughout ownership of the laser, scheduling and planning
service visits, and processing orders for replacement parts. Other
responsibilities included taking over the web page maintenance,
e-mail accounts maintenance for company's corporate account, trade
show preparation, making travel arrangements for engineers, creating
and maintaining the customer database, maintaining the customer
files, and managing the creation and updates to technical manuals.
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GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION
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1986
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Project Engineer
Electrical Engineering Center, CEMSS
GM Technical Center, Warren, MI
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Responsibilities included designing, planning, and analyzing major
projects, maintaining computer programs for department, providing
technical direction to laboratory personnel, completing departmental
short-range projects, and promoting improvements by introducing
appropriate technology to suppliers and vehicle groups.
Accomplishments
- Coordinated the development of an expert system for relay failure
analysis. Introduced concepts to management, built a prototype
expert system, obtained project status and cost estimate from
Electronic Data Systems (EDS) for an enhanced system.
- Successfully organized a technical seminar in the measurement
of light and color. Developed core outline, obtained commitments
from instructors and exhibitors, arranged for facilities and
attendance. Attended by over 200 GM engineers and technicians.
- Assisted in planning department budget.
- Acted as a liaison between the department and EDS.
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1985-1986
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Associate Engineer
Electrical Engineering Center, CEMSS
GM Technical Center, Warren, MI
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Primary duties included developing software for basic laboratory
tests, set-up and operation of test equipment, analysis of test
data, and report preparation.
Accomplishments
- Developed programs for use in the laboratory to perform pull-in
and drop-out voltage test on relays; calculate contact force,
air gap, and over-travel from force-displacement curves; computerized
the laboratory's report filing system.
- Successfully fulfilled the requirements of the American Society
for Quality Control to be recognized as a Certified Quality Engineer
in Training.
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1980-1985
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Cooperative Education Student
Milford Proving Ground
Milford, MI
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Completed work assignments in several departments while fulfilling
the requirements of a Bachelor of Science Degree.
Accomplishments
- Completed fifth-year thesis to determine the feasibility of
artificial intelligence techniques to update Computerized Automotive
Maintenance System programs.
- Obtained hardware experience with IBM mainframes and personal
computers.
- Obtained experience with various software packages including
Lotus 1-2-3 and dBase III.
- Developed programming language experience with SAS, Fortran,
Basic, PL/1, and Lisp.
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Education
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2003 |
How to Gather and Document User
Requirements, ESI International |
1999 |
Certified Web Page Author, Center for Corporate
and Professional Development, University of Michigan, Dearborn, Michigan |
1999 |
Certified HTML Programmer, Center for Corporate
and Professional Development, University of Michigan, Dearborn, Michigan |
1985 |
Bachelor of
Science, Mechanical Engineering, General Motors Institute, Flint,
Michigan (Kettering University) |
1979 |
Graduate, Milford
High School, Milford, Michigan |
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Volunteer Experience
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2001-Present |
SISTER CITY ASSOCIATION
OF CHELSEA, MI |
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Responsible
for designing and maintaining the website for the Chelsea-Shimizu Exchange
Program. |
2002- Present |
CHELSEA MUSIC BOOSTERS, CHELSEA, MI |
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Set up, design, and maintain website for a year; transition
to other volunteers. |
2000 |
PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE |
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VP Webmaster, Women
in Project Management Specific Interest Group |
1997-1999 |
AMERICA ONLINE
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Community Leader, VirtuaLeader
Academy
The VirtuaLeader Academy was a group of 50 dedicated
individuals that volunteered many hours a week to the online education
of AOL internal employees and the remote community leaders. The VLA
Cadre, who spent time developing virtual courses, teaching the 'cadets'
who
walked
the virtual-halls, and countless hours answering the questions of the
students, were also seen as the 'cream of the crop' of the AOL volunteer
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- Team Leader for the New Message
Board Tutorial Team. Responsibilities included managing a team
of volunteers, teaching, updating course materials as needed, managing
student files, collaborating with colleagues on how to best serve
other remote staff, answering members' questions (both in e-mail and
in Instant Messages) regarding class material and other general AOL
and VLA topics.
- Designed a self-paced online tutorial
for the creation and maintenance of LISTSERV electronic mailing lists. Sole writer
and RAINMAN coder for the development of the tutorial.
- RAINMAN Coder. Assisted other
teams in the VLA with RAINMAN coding projects. "RAINMAN" is the scripting
language used by AOL for the programming of the AOL screens.
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Community Leader, Amazing
Instant Novelist
An online forum where writers gather and interact
with one another through the various message boards, contests, chat room,
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- Message Board Manager within the forum.
- RAINMAN Coder for the forum.
- LISTSERV Manager.
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1993-1999 |
STENCIL ARTISANS LEAGUE,
INC. (SALI) |
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- National Board of Directors (1997),
Chapter Affiliation Representative and Web Page Committee Chair
- Founding President of the Rock River
Valley Stencilers Chapter of SALI
- Founding President of the Stenciling
Roundtable Online Chapter of SALI
- LISTSERV Manager
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1996-Present |
SOCIETY FOR CREATIVE
ANACHRONISM (SCA) |
1996-1999 |
- Minister of Arts and Sciences for the
Ann Arbor chapter
- Deputy Seneschal for the Ann Arbor
chapter
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Computer Skills,
Equipment & Tools
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- Dell Dimension 8200, Pentium IV, 1.9GHz, 1G RAM, 18G HD
- HP cp1700 Color Ink Jet Printer
- HP LasetJet 6L Laser Printer
- HP ScanJet 4570c Flatbed Scanner
- Sony Mavica MVC-FD88 digital camera
- Work within Win'98, Win 2k, and Win XP Pro
- MS Office Professional 2000, Office XP
- HTML 4.0
- Dreamweaver MX 2004 (HTML Editor by
Macromedia)
- HoTMetaL 6.0 (HTML Editor by SoftQuad
Software, Inc.)
- Homesite 4.5 (HTML editor by Macromedia)
- LISTSERV (e-mailing list management
by L-Soft International, Inc.)
- created and managed six lists over the past several years
- JavaScript (limited)
- Perl (limited)
- CorelDraw 8, PhotoPaint 8, Dream 3D
(samples)
- Adobe Photoshop 6.0, Illustrator 8.0,
ImageReady 3.0, Acrobat 5.0
- Macromedia Flash 5, Flash 4 (samples)
- eRoom 6 (virtual collaboration tool by eRoom)
- MS NetMeeting
3.1
- Instant Messaging
Software: ICQ, AIM, Lotus Sametime Connect
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Affiliations and Memberships
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- Project Management
Institute (Link)
- Society for Creative Anachronism (Link)
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