Resume

Alexander Adams

Predictive Index Profile - Adapter
Myers-Briggs Personality - INTJ (Architect)
Gallup Entrepreneurial Style - Activation
Gallup Entrepreneurial Traits (BP10) - Risk Management, Knowledge, Determination, Independence
Gallup Top 5 Strengths - Learner, Analytical, Achiever, Deliberative, and Restorative

Work with clients to build testing plan for their needs including but not limited to: dynamics testing, temperature/humidity testing, dust ingress protection, water ingress protection, salt fog testing, and altitude testing per standards ASTM A380 – 06, ASTM B117 – 09, ASTM D2247 – 11, EN 50155, EN 60529, IC 60068-2-30, ISTA Package Testing, MIL-STD-167, MIL-STD-202, MIL-STD-202-103, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-883, RCA/DO-160, and SAE-AMS-STD-753.
Document tests results with calibrated test data and pictures as well as compile all information into comprehensive reports.
Provide design input back to clients to improve their device’s test performance to meet standard requirements.
Perform maintenance on various environmental test equipment.
Set up and hosted Global Approvals Seminar with partner company Approve-IT.

Coordinated both remote and onsite cross-functional engineering teams (mechanical, electrical, firmware, front-end and back-end web developers) of 10+ engineers to deliver over 40 product timelines for the production of +10k agricultural GNSS enabled IoT devices (included RTK).
Created project charters, conducted economic analysis, and generated timelines for enterprise client proposals.
Provided enterprise and small business clients with training and customer support (including root cause analysis) for +3k IoT devices and utilized user feedback to develop roadmap for autonomous support services.
Generated reports critical in generating accurate customer billing for IoT device usage.
Defined, conducted, and compiled results for field tests of IoT devices and provided recommendations for optimizing designs.
Employee of the Quarter (Q2 2018).

Provided end-to-end management from concept to production and customer support of product lines for clients.
Management of client engineering resources as well as providing engineering design services.
Most recent consulting project was for a smart automotive EV charging system.

Manage 20-30 new enterprise customer implementation projects at any given time.
Meet with enterprise clients to ensure services are delivered as expected and resolve any issues experienced by client.
Remotely manage team of over 10 Security Operations Center (SOC) engineers.
Reduced SOC team’s ticket response time by over 50% and resolution time by over 30% in first 2 months.
Analyzed and implemented processes to improve team performance, communication, and comradery during COVID lockdown.
Worked to merge engineering teams of Infogressive and Ascend Technologies, including migration of various productivity platforms (such as transitioning from ConnectWise to ServiceNow) and implementing new processes and standards.

Consulting for optimizing current operations and expansion plans (including ROI calculation on capital expenditures) for future production facilities through 2025.
Analyzing and testing different grow light options with various plant layouts to maximize yield by utilizing data from numerous research papers.
Fostered discussions with potential investors.

Developed video analysis software for athletes in rodeo and equine sports.
Tested deployment of low cost and large workspace video analysis software for other industries (worked with RaceNote to track race cars on a dirt track).
Worked with event centers and show producers to provide services at their events and venues.
Generated +250k video views.
Graduated from Straight Shot business accelerator, awarded funds from several pitch competitions, and raised venture capital.
Generated income statements, balance sheets, and pro formas.

Received funding from the US Army and NASA.
Designed, built, tested, and serviced a miniature multi-function surgical robotic forearm, which could grasp tissue, remove excess fluid, and irrigate the surgical site with a sterile solution.
Designed, built, and tested a prototype miniature multi-function surgical robotic forearm, which could sense the force the surgical robot applied to tissue.
Designed, programmed, and assembled surgical robot controls and user interface.
These surgical robots were successfully tested on both simulated and live subjects.

Productivity Software: Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Microsoft Teams, Jira, ConnectWise, ServiceNow, Zendesk, Zapier, Asana, Slack, Terra Term, and PuTTY.
Familiar Programming Languages: C++, C#, Matlab, LabVIEW, Python, HTML, and CSS.
3D Modeling: Solidworks and AutoCAD.

Designed and sent Tite Spike® to 2012 London Olympics and received international patent WO2014018879.
Former Division I Husker Athlete (Cross Country, Track & Field).
Recipient of UNL Regents, UNL College of Engineering, and Winsor Tucker Scholarships.

York Youth Soccer Association – Coach (2022)
1 Million Cups Entrepreneurship – Community Organizer (2019, 2020)
NMotion Startup Accelerator – Mentor (2019)
UNL 3-2-1 Quick Pitch Competition – Judge (2019)
Results Junkies (VC Paul Singh) – Community Ambassador (2017)
RISE (Formerly Defy Ventures) – Mentor (2017)
Pipeline Entrepreneurs – Event Volunteer (2017)
Making spicy memes for all the internet to enjoy (2014-Current)
Goodrich Middle School Afterschool Robotics Program – Instructor (2011)
Pioneers Park Clean-Up Project – Event Volunteer (2010)
If you’ve made it this far in my résumé I’ll give you one of the Bicentennial Quarters I collect (1976)