Eric Christopher Lind

リンド、エリック

3 BOWHAY HILL RD. +1 203.687.9176  ( mobile
APT# 3 +1 203.315.0295  ( voice
STONY CREEK, CT USA 06405 Eric.Lind@Eclectricity.com   * email

Executive & Professional Awards & Associations

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Biltmore Whos Who

 

Professional Summary

Innovative Project Manager with 17 years diverse experience; 10 within AT&T's Global Business Services division.
Streamlined and developed business processes through six-sigma analysis and JIT/Kaizen techniques.
Provided logistics support and training to domestic and international co-workers; primarily in Brazil, Slovakia, and the U.K.  Interested in applying international business competencies in strategy, marketing, and operations.

 

Work Experience

  Global Network Services

May 1999 - Present

Southbury, CT & Virtual Office
   
Transport Project Manager Jun 2003 - Present
Transport Order Manager Apr 2002 - Jun 2003
Circuit Build Coordinator Nov 2001 - Apr 2002
Circuit Order Writer May 1999 - Nov 2001
 
∆ Certified Six-Sigma Green Belt
∆ Manage timely provisioning of customized multi-million data dollar networks for major international Fortune 1000 corporations.
∆ Gather and analyze in-process six-sigma data, collaborate with teams, design lean processes, measure and control for quality.
∆ Work closely with senior management to provide operational intelligence through reports of my design.

∆ Manage a team of fifty provisioning technicians and provide training support for new and existing processes.

∆ Provide regular status to project and upper management teams in Brazil, Slovakia, and the U.S.
∆ Provide regular training and support for project management teams including process design.
   
Electronics & Peripherals Inc.

Feb 1997 - May 1999

Branford, CT

Technical Service Manager
 
∆ Handled all customer service calls for a client base of Fortune 1000 companies, universities, computer resellers, and distributors.
∆ Reduced the average daily quantity of product returns by 94% through JIT control techniques.
∆ Managed new inventory, projected consumption, and reduced associated shelf-stack costs.
∆ Researched, developed, and implemented new product lines.
∆ Maintained database of products and technologies, their uses and incompatibilities. 
   
EL&A Professional Consultants

Mar 1992 - Feb 1997

Branford, CT

Computer Technician & Advertising Manager
 
∆ Maintained, upgraded, and repaired all in-house computer systems.
∆ Created print advertising and marketing materials.
∆ Maintained integrity of all electronic records and data.
∆ Trained and supported staff on key software.
 

 

 

Educational History

Quinnipiac University

January 2008

Hamden, CT

Minor: European Union Business Studies

B.S. International Business

Cumulative GPA of 3.818

Co-Authored "Emotional Intelligence and its Relationship with Marketing Ethics: An Exploratory Study Across Three Countries"
- Published in the Academy of International Business - SE Conference Proceedings and Presented 10/31/2008

Lifetime member Beta Gamma Sigma (2005)

Added to the National Dean's List for the 3rd consecutive year (2005, 2006, 2007)
Received the United States Achievement Academy's National Collegiate Business Merit Award (2005, 2006, 2007)
Awarded United States Achievement Academy's Collegiate All-American Scholar in Business (2006)
Awarded the Quinnipiac Faculty Prize for Excellence in International Business (2007)
Awarded the Quinnipiac Multi-Cultural Leadership Award 1st Tier (2007)
Active in the International Business Society (Program of the Year 2007), Rotaract, Student Diversity Board, The Albert Schweitzer Club, International Club, Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), Black Student Union, Latino Cultural Society, and others.
Albertus Magnus College

Aug 1990 - May 1992

Hamden, CT

Withdrew For Personal Family & Financial Reasons

B.A. Advertising Communications
Interacted heavily with international students on campus, exchanging cultural and linguistic knowledge.
Studied Japanese informally with students from Japan and became functionally fluent within two years.
Studied Spanish both formally and informally with students from Spanish speaking nations.
Learned about bits and pieces of other languages and cultures ranging from France, Pakistan, The United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, Morocco, Germany, Korea, Italy and several other nations.
 

Foreign Languages

Japanese       

日本語

Verbal

Intermediate Conversational

Hiragana (Written)

Mastery

ひらがな

四学期でしました。

Katakana (Written)

Mastery

カタカナ

三学期でしました。

Kanji (Written)

Basic     

漢字

一学期でしました。

   

Spanish

Español

Verbal

Intermediate Conversational

Written

Intermediate 

Conferences & Panels

A Firm and Lasting Peace in Central America Doing Business in the European Union
The Pending Agenda 20 Year's Later Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
United Nations

New York, NY.

 Omni Hotel

New Haven, CT

June 13th 2007

April 20th - 22nd 2006

Key Note Speakers:
∆ President Óscar Arias Sánchez (Costa Rica)
∆ Former President Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo (Guatemala)
∆ UN Secretary General Ban, Ki-Moon
Albert Schweitzer's Declaration of Conscience: 1st Annual Quinnipiac University
Fifty Years Later Diversity Conference
Quinnipiac University

Hamden, CT.

 Hillside Inn Resort & Conf. Ctr.

East Stroudsburg, PA

September 23rd - 28th 2007

November 10th - 12th 2006

Key Note Speakers:

 Strategic Planning Conference:
 ∆ Strategically analyzed University's inclusive environment
 ∆ Developed concrete two year plan to improve the University's multicultural environment.
 ∆ Led group discussion on the concept of idiolects, or "I-Dialects" indicative of individual's unique respective background experiences.

∆ President Jimmy Carter
∆ Kohta Kiya 木谷: Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Survivor
∆ Hirotami Yamada 山田: Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivor
 
Presented Original Work:

Thursday September 27th 2007

"PeaceGames: Nuclear War Prevention Strategic Simulation"

© 2007 Driscoll, Elahee, Lind

Rotary International Day

2nd Annual Quinnipiac University

United Nations

New York, NY

Diversity Conference

November3rd 2007

 Hillside Inn Resort & Conf. Ctr.

East Stroudsburg, PA

Key Note Speakers:

November 9th - 11th 2007

∆ Kiyotaka Akasaka: Under Secretary General for Communications & Public Information

 Strategic Planning Conference:

Academy of International Business - South East

Rotary International Day

Tradewinds Island Resort

October 29th - 31st 2008

United Nations

New York, NY

Co-Author of:

 "Emotional Intelligence and its Relationship with Marketing Ethics: An Exploratory Study Across Three Countries"

Published in the Conference Proceedings, and presented 10/31/2008

November 8th 2008

Key Note Speaker:
∆ UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon

 

Academic Awards & Associations

 

Technical Proficiencies

Microsoft Office

Adobe

Lotus Smart Suite

Access

Photoshop

WordPro

Excel

Acrobat

Lotus 123

FrontPage

Flash (Via Swish)

Freelance Graphics

InfoPath

 

 

OneNote

Others

Corel

PowerPoint

SPSS v. 12 & 14

Word Perfect

Project

 

Draw

Publisher

 

 

Visio

MS-DOS

Cisco

Word

v. 4 - 6.22

(Limited) Cisco IOS

Hardware

     

troubleshoot and repair most computer hardware at the A+ certification level.
 

Troubleshoot and repair some Apple/Mac hardware.
 

Limited exposure to Cisco Routers

and Switches