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Szabo, Ron L. - Sr. Design & Research Engineer

Registered Consultant

Qualification Summary

Directed research, development and support of a distributed hypermedia system build on Unix, X11 and Motif.

Developed custom PC software applications to include a specialized surveying invoice system and construction calculator.

Maintained Board of Directors, managerial and supervisory positions. Responsiblities included integrating the efforts of administration, accounting, manufacturing, quality control, material control and customer service.

Managed system procedures, policy and staff training program development.

Projected organizational revenue goals and performance analysis, budget preparation, and manpower analysis.

Implemented a business accounting system and a production control department. The accounting system entailed financial statements, receivable, payables, payroll and job cost procedures. The production control department was supportive to a manufacturing facility startup operation, to achieve a $6M/month business in two years, with 63% gross profit margin and a 0.3%, lost material inventory.

Supervised principals and practices on a three shift basis, including interviewing, hiring, training, evaluating, promoting and terminating of employees.

Published - Schnase, J., Leggett, J., Hicks, D. and Szabo, R. "Semantic Data Modeling of Hypermedia Associations." ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Volume 10, Number 4, October 1992.

Employment Experience

HyperMedia Corporation, Houston, Texas - Senior Design and Research Engineer (1991-pr)

Rhodes Building Systems, Inc., Texas - Board of Directors, Accountant and Job Coordination Officer (1985-88)

NL Atlas Bradford, Houston - Bryan, Texas - Production Control Manager (1979-84)

Education/Membership

M.S. in Computer Science - Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas (in progress, 1994)

B.S. in Mathematics and Psychology - Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, Penn. (1974)

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)