PAUL CARROL

8709 Susanna Lane, Chevy Chase, MD 20815 | Paul.Carroll@yahoo.com |301-785-0337

Senior Project Manager

 A smart, savvy and personable leader, fluent in many technology arenas and business
disciplines, whose leadership enables teams to be successful in solving complex
technical challenges under difficult deadlines and financial constraints.
 Thrives on client-facing interaction and helping engineer solutions to meet emerging
business opportunities and customer needs, all while driving towards the bottom line.
 Maintaining the status quo insufficient, he would always rather be finding new ways to
help the business excel.

Languages & Other Skills

 English & German
 C++
 Embedded processor development–PIC, AVR and Arduino
 AutoCAD and Solidworks CAD

Professional Experience
 Senior Project Manager, NRECA/CRN contractor
Self-Employed Independent Consultant
(October 2009 – Present)

 Promoted to be the project manager for the National Rural Electric Cooperative
Association’s (NRECA’S) DOE grant-funded SUNDA project, a four-plus (4+) year
renewable energy project to help reduce the barriers to entry and soft-costs for co-
op utilities interested in pursuing utility-scale, utility-owned, PV solar energy
systems. I provided leadership to this $125M project that enabled utilities to
evaluate solar from both a technical and business perspective, and successfully plan
their approach to deploy more than 60MW of PV generation at 17 co-ops in 14
states. Completed on-schedule and under-budget, it is in the top 5% of all projects
by DOE’s value/performance metrics.
 Wrote a winning $68M grant proposal for NRECA under DOE’s Smart Grid
Demonstration Grant funding opportunity. I served as project manager on this effort
in the rural utility energy sector to define, select and deploy more than 250,000
smart grid components at 23 co-op electric utilities across the Nation. With my
leadership, the project met every budgetary and performance deadline and has
been touted as one of the most successful DOE grant projects.

 Director of Development / Senior Technologist

Aguru Images, Rockville, MD
(May 2007 – July 2009)

 Co-founded a technology-based business, developing technology for innovative,

ultra-high resolution, facial capture and scanning equipment and services to the
Hollywood film special effects and computer gaming industries.
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 Business Consultant / Technology Transfer Engineer

National Technology Transfer Center, Alexandria, VA
(May 2004 – May 2007)

 Organized and hosted business growth workshops for small technology companies
providing access to world-class Board of Directors for a day.
 Provided growth-oriented consulting services to dozens of small and start-up high
technology businesses, bridging the gap between pure technology research and real-
world business.

 Knowledge Management Specialist & Consultant

PEC Solutions, Fairfax, VA
(August 2003 – May 2004)

 Developed detailed system requirements, rollout plans, business rules and standard
operating procedures to ensure smooth deployment in the DHS multi-agency legacy
environment.
 Performed in-depth COTS applications market analysis to determine best-of-breed
collaborative business applications consistent with the budget, security needs and
system limitations of the client.

 Senior Knowledge Officer

Dimension Data (formerly Proxicom, Inc.), Reston, VA
(August 1999 – April 2003)

 Founded Knowledge Management and Collaborative Systems business unit to

provide consulting services to Fortune 500 companies and managed departmental
annual budget of $1.1M.
 Provided pre-sales consulting services resulting in two Fortune 50 contracts
 Implemented global knowledge management system supporting thousands of
international users.

 Director of Engineering
Dewert Motorized Systems, Frederick, MD
(September 1994 – July 1997)

 As founding team member grew US division of multinational corporation from

startup to $4.5M in sales in year one and $9M in sales, positive cash flow, and
profitability in year two.
 Led $1.2M annual technical/prototype sales campaign for Start-up Company.
 Assisted in successful multi-million dollar, and 70% profit margin, contract
negotiations.
 Designed & implemented a manufacturing facility to assemble 100,000+ motor
systems per year.
 Managed logistics and located new sources of supply resulting in an 11.5% cost
reduction.
 Managed development and certification of microprocessor-based motor control
systems and application specific software for medical uses.
 Structured financial planning, budgeting and scheduling to drive cost-competitive,
quality products and services delivered to customers in a timely fashion.
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 Lead Engineer
Krug Life Sciences, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
(April 1992 – June 1994)

 Managed fifteen engineers, contractors and technicians for $18 million NASA
biotechnology R&D project.
 Led team to design, fabricate and test the Space Station’s Biotechnology Research
Module to completion 57% ahead of schedule and 60% faster than comparable
NASA projects.

Education & Training

 MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
(Finance & Entrepreneurship), May 1999
Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

 BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
(Mechanical Engineering), May 1991
Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

 BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
(Physics), May 1990
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C

Character References
Available upon request