Professional Background
Ducks In A Row Consulting Services Inc provides consultants with full product and project life cycle experience in the design, development, testing, implementation and support of business software including desktop, web and mobile applications. Consultants have a diverse background and proven skills in business analysis, project management, data modeling, SQL queries, SQL scripting, software development and systems analysis.
Our credentials include:
- Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering: With an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, the assigned analyst to your project has the ability to understand and solve anything from the simplest to the most complex problems. This foundational training assures that sound, logical reasoning and principles will be used to solve any problem encountered on your project.
- Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering: With a graduate degree in Mechanical Engineering and specialty in the thermal and fluid sciences from NYU Poly, Brooklyn, NY your analyst has more than 10 years of experience working in the aerospace field applying scientific concepts to custom computer code. This includes modeling of fluid flows for predicting characteristics of designs. Though someone on your team may say "It's not rocket science", it might be nice to have an ex rocket scientist on your staff in case a deep dive into the complex or custom analytics is needed. Publications include:
- Multi-nozzle Plume Flow field Features (JANNAF Exhaust Plume Technology Subcommittee, a paper on computational results and conclusions)
- Grumman Prototype SERS Thermal Testbed Results (AIAA)
- Computerized Approach to Bridge Foundation Inspection (Public Works)
- Performance Results of Grumman Prototype SERS Ground Test Articles (SWE)
- Performance Evaluation of the Grumman Prototype Space Erectable Radiator System (SERS) (AIAA)
- PMP Certification: Analyst has been trained as a Project Management Professional (PMP) at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY. Certification was originally achieved in 2009. This certification assures that best practices of project management are applied to your projects. The analyst has over 10 years of experience managing projects. PMP certification focuses on Waterfall project management methodology. However this analyst also has training in the Agile approach as demonstrated through the use of Computer Associate's Agile Central software.
- AWS Cloud Practitioner: Analyst is currently training to take the AWS Cloud Practitioner certification exam and learning Amazon Web Service offerings to best leverage cloud resources for projects.
- Data Science: Analyst is currently training on techniques used to find correlations in large data sets to provide insights into trends within data. Learning R and reviewing MATLAB programming to create analyses and data manipulations on large datasets.
- Programming Experience: More than 15 years in a programming role at Symbol Technologies Inc/Motorola Inc, Greenman Pedersen (Babylon NY), Northrop Grumman (Research Center). This programming background provides the ability to create computer programs in Visual Basic, C sharp, Java, FORTRAN, SQL Scripting to do very specific analyses.
- Business Analyst Experience: More than 10 years in a Business Analyst role
- Data Analyst Experience: More than 10 years collective experience in a Data Analyst role
- Project Management Experience: More than 10 years collective experience in a Project Management role