B A S I C   R E S U M E -  P A U L   W.   D O W N I N G
paul@downing-home.com (please send an email for additional contact information)

BUSINESS OBJECTIVES:
My professional goal is to manage large departments, teams or entire corporate IT 
departments. I excel at taking a corporate vision and synthesizing that vision into IT 
realities. I have extensive experience and training in IT and Network management, 
contract negotiation, managing a large scale deployment and staff. A detailed resume can 
be found at www.downing-home.com.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS: 
People Management 		- Up to 50 direct and 100's of indirect reports
Budget and Financial Management - Up to $50 Million Annual Budgets
Network Management 		- 50 Locations in 15 Countries
Server Management 		- Enterprise and 100's of file and print servers
PC & Workstation Management 	- Up to 10,000 seats
Enterprise Deployments 		- Two ERP, Lotus Notes and other deployments

SPECIFIC TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:
Networks 	- Cisco, Bay, Cabletron, Nortel, Wellfleet, 3Com
		- GigaBit Ethernet, ATM, FDDI, Token Ring ..
Servers		- HP Unix, Sun, Compaq, DEC, IBM, Dell ...
Software	- Lotus Notes, Microsoft Office / Exchange, Dreamweaver MX, Adobe
NW OS 		- NT 2000, Novell 4.x, AIX, Linux....

WORK HISTORY:
Current				Apr 01 - Current	VP Business Dev
EDS / GM			Dec 99 - Mar 01		IT Manager
EDS / Seagate			Apr 99 - Dec 99		IT Manager
EDS / Boston Scientific		Mar 98 - Jun 99		IT & NW Manager
EDS / Peregrine			Jan 97 - Mar 98		IT & NW Manager
EDS / American Axle		Jun 95 - Jan 97		IT & NW Manager
NTT / Ford			May 94 - Jun 95		Tech Lead
Nohr & Assoc.			Sep 91 - May 94		Tech Lead
One Source Computers		Nov 87 - Sep 91		Owner
Accurate Data System		Feb 87 - Jan 89		Programmer
BITS Computers			Dec 84 - Jan 87		Programmer

Brighton, Hartland
South Lyon
HuronValley Schools		1980 - 1985		Adult Ed. Instr.
 
EDUCATION:
1984 MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, LANSING MI
Lyman Briggs Honors Science Program and Computer Science Programs - While 
attending MSU, I was also teaching 3 adult education classes. I was recruited by a firm 
that had seen some of my programming work and articles I have had nationally 
published. I left MSU to start a career in programming.

1985 EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY, YPSILANTI MI
Accounting and Computer Science - I attended EMU while working full time at BITS 
computers and teaching adult education classes. Since I was working professionally, as a 
programmer I was already advanced beyond the instructors. 

OTHER CERTIFICATIONS AND TECHNICAL TRAINING
While at Ford Motor Company, I obtained my Master Novell Certified Netware Engineer 
certification in Netware 4.x with an infrastructure specialty. This was more than a "paper" 
certification. At Ford, we were on the cutting edge of this technology working side by 
side, with some of the best engineers that worked at Novell. I also took several Unix 
Administration Classes.
While at EDS, I also attended several of the Microsoft NT Advanced Server Classes to 
learn the nuances of NT vs Novell for my role at technical lead, and IT deployment 
manager.
EDS has an extensive in house training program, and I participated in several key 
programs including; Leadership Excellence, Financial Planning, Needs Requirements 
Determination and Analysis, Product Life Cycle Management, Employee Management, 
Manufacturing Enterprise Planning, and more.

HIGH SCHOOL
1984 BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL, BRIGHTON MI
While at High School I was taking Advanced Placement course in Physics, Chemistry 
and Math. I was also teaching adult education programs in computer sciences, writing 
software on a consulting basis for several companies. I was published in two national 
publications for computer software.

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Born in the Midwest in 1966, I've lived in Michigan for most of my life. I have two 
wonderful young boys, and have been married since 1989.

HOBBIES & ACTIVITIES
We live on a lake, and enjoy all the activities associated with that. I also work on 
computers and web sites in my spare time and do a little amateur photography. We are 
active in the local church, and the cub scouts. I am the treasurer and webmaster for our 
cub scout pack. www.pack128.org