Marlon Buchanan
marlonbuchanan@yahoo.com
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SUMMARY
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Child welfare experience running statewide programs for
the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services responsible for
all Chafee programs and related initiatives. Ten years of experience in IT as
a software developer, college instructor, and program manager responsible for
managing cross-functional teams, customers, schedules, budgets, requirements,
and projects in the software and Internet industries. An education background
including a B.S. in computer science from M.I.T. and an MBA and Master of
Software Engineering degrees from |
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EXPERIENCE |
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2004-Present Casey Family Programs Seattle, WA Systems Improvement Specialist
Design, develop, and implement tools and services for public and private child welfare agencies. Provide technical assistance to public child welfare administrations. Responsibilities include: § Writing and publishing guides to improve outcomes for foster care youth § Partnering with government agencies, community stakeholders, and other child welfare agencies to develop programs for foster youth § Developing marketing and distribution strategies for Casey products |
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2003-2004 Department of Social and Health
Services Statewide Program Manager for Children’s Administration
Direct statewide federally funded Independent Living, Transitional Living, and Education and Training Voucher (Chafee) programs for adolescent foster care youth and former foster care youth. Maintain and enhance programs preparing youth for successful transition from care. Responsibilities include: § Writing and implementing policies for improving outcomes for adolescents in foster care § Partnering with regional offices, community stakeholders, legislators, and other state agencies to develop programs for foster youth § Developing and executing contracts with regional providers and Tribes § Fiscal management of $3 million Chafee budget § Regional, Tribal, and statewide data reporting |
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2002-2004 Everett Community College (EvCC)/ Instructor for:CP120 (EvCC) – Beginning Web Pages (Fall 2002 and Winter 2003) – HTML, CSS, JavaScript CS452 (CU) – Advanced Web Publishing (Winter/Spring/Summer 2003) – DHTML, ASP, XML CS546 (CU) – Advanced Web Publishing (Distance Learning Graduate course 2003-present) – DHTML CS356 (CU) – Web Programming Languages (Spring 2003) – Perl, HTML, XML, ASP, JavaScript, PHP CS340/CS538 (CU) – Introduction To The Internet and Web Publishing (summer 2003) – HTML, Internet I helped develop web publishing, web programming, and
Internet courses for |
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2002-2004 Buchanan Financial Consulting Financial ConsultantDirected a financial planning business targeting middle income individuals and families. Performing all business activities including business plan creation, marketing, accounting, and advising clients. Services include asset allocation, retirement planning, education expense planning, debt management, tax planning, and budgeting. |
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2000-2001 Getty Images Project ManagerOversaw successful completion of multiple projects throughout different organizations within Getty for the Technology Program Management Office. Projects included performance characterization and load testing, acquisition of customer behavior analysis tools, and consolidating the various corporate e-commerce sites ($75M/year in revenues) into one storefront. Responsibilities included: § Working with marketing, finance, and IT managers to develop requirements and build consensus § Scheduling, tracking, and managing the progress of projects from inception to release (the projects used ASP, MS SQL Server, and Oracle technologies) § Managing relationships with remote third party software providers § Communicating the status of projects to executive management using MS Project and Excel |
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1996-2000 Hewlett-Packard/DeepCanyon
Program Manager and Content Operations Producer (1999-2000) Led program to design the web market research store to generate more purchases. Supervised the operations of aggregating documents from various market research companies and placing them in DeepCanyon’s content store. Managed development of infrastructure for converting documents to XML, indexing them, and searching for them on the site. Responsibilities included: § Developing requirements and functional specifications for customer facing web applications § Doubling operating margins, quadrupling productivity, and decreasing defects § Managing document conversion processes (QA, conversion schedules, document acquisition, etc.) § Cost, effort, and productivity analysis of various operations § Directly supervising 10 employees comprised of DBAs, DBEs, technical writers, asset managers, XML/HTML experts, and software engineers Senior Software Development Engineer (1996-1998) (on fellowship at Designed, implemented, and tested software systems dealing with image processing, web site searching, and XML file filtering on Windows 95/98/NT platforms. Responsibilities included: § Software design, development, and documentation § Technical lead of a team of engineers § Technology investigations and evaluations Major technologies used were: § Oracle Database (with ConText) and Application Server § Java ( including servlets, beans, and RMI), C/C++ with MFC § XML |
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1998-1999 Seattle University Issaquah/Seattle, WA Program Manager (while on Hewlett-Packard Fellowship) 1994-1996 M.I.T. Information Systems Network &
Software Consultant 1994-1995 Lincoln
Laboratory Software Engineer |
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EDUCATION |
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§ Master of Business Administration § Master of Software Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology§ B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering with minor in African and African Diaspora Studies |
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HONORS
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§ Hewlett-Packard Fellowship Recipient |