1. Dennis J. Gawera
4959 Richmond Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14219
716-822-9755
djgawera@roadrunner.com
SUMMARY
Accomplished, diversified technical leader thoroughly experienced in directing, managing and contributing to
successful research and development programs. Extensive experience in directing new product development
(hardware and software) and in managing multiple development projects.
EDUCATION
B.S.E.E. State University of New York at Buffalo
M.S.C.E. State University of New York at Buffalo
2007-2016 DuPont - Buffalo, New York
IT Services Delivery Specialist / Project Manager
Developed and maintained automated applications for control and data acquisition from production
systems.
Designed, developed and integrated air quality monitor and alarm system for control of toxic emissions.
Managed project to develop and deploy manufacturing execution and record system for production of
vinyl fluoride material used in solar panel construction.
Designed, developed, and integrated manufacturing operator interface, data acquisition, and metrics
generation for production of multiple specialized vinyl film types used in aircraft production and other
industrial applications
Served as 24/7 on-call troubleshooter for these and many other in plant IT applications.
2003-2006 LIQUID Matrix / Datatel / Elusian - BUFFALO, NEW YORK
Quality Assurance Manager / Analyst
Managed quality assurance, implementation, and deployment operations for a suite of web
based applications and web sites.
Implemented several new processes and procedures which reduced the occurrences of high severity
defects in deployed sites from 8 per site to 2.5.
Implemented configuration and change control system using StarTeam
Led project to customize and implement eFrontOffice CRM software as a client support call management
system.
2001-2002 ENTERPRISE EVALUATIONS - Princeton, New Jersey
Consultant -Technology Assessment / New Product Development
Performed technology assessment and analysis for a new line of client/server performance monitoring
and test tools. Performed technology assessment and market analysis for multi media instructional
systems.
1999-2001 MERRILL LYNCH - Princeton, New Jersey
Consultant -Technology Assessment / Performance Engineering

2. Developed optimizing simulation models for a high throughput client / server systems and distributed
toolsets.
Developed test programs for system functional and performance testing.
Analyzed and evaluated new technologies for system performance enhancement
1994-1998 CALSPAN - Buffalo, New York
Program Manager / Project Engineer
As Program Manager and project engineer for the Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS)
program (Calspan Subcontract to Lockheed-Martin), successfully conducted the system analysis, design,
integration, and test of over 50,000 lines of code in the C language. Application involved mass data
search, backup, storage and disaster recovery for a terra byte size database. Developed software utilized
multi-processing (threads) in a networked UNIX environment.
Managed Intelligent Vehicle Highway System (IVHS) Architecture Evaluation (USDOT IVHS Architecture
Development Program, Westinghouse Team).
Provided technical support to the National Advanced Driving Simulator (NADS) program.
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