- listening carefully - to understand customer needs - across functions - from CEO to custodian.
- an engineering management and business background - to understand your business and its implications.
- unusual ability to see how business functions and systems fit together.
consistently smiling customers
Smiling customers abound in many industries - from expectations exceeded! This hasn't happened by accident. Long before current programming practices, like "Agile" and "Scrum" development, were conceived and named, Mike has been practicing these appoaches with great success. Mike is naturally responsive in dynamic environments where requirements and priorities are quickly changing.Biography
As President of Data-based-Systems.com, Michael Coughlin guides clients, designs, builds and integrates business systems for Conoco-duPont, GE Capital, Allied Signal, Delta-Surprenant Cable, Ball Aerospace, Barrett Oil & Gas and The Paragon.When Conoco-duPont executives discovered Coughlin's ability to see complex systemic relationships, they named him Director, Management Systems, North American Exploration, where he designed and managed building their bidding, capital budgeting & forecasting systems for nine divisions. Previously, Coughlin was asked to run Hughes Aircraft's long-range data processing planning, culminating in a U.S. Air Force corporate commendation for "Best long-range data-processing plans in the defense industry".
Before graduate school for an MBA at U. of Denver (3.9/4.0 GPA), Coughlin worked as a manufacturing and operations analyst, was trained and licensed for estate & business financial planning and went through a bank management training program. He holds a B.S. in Industrial Management from U. of Lowell (formerly Lowell Technological Institute).
Coughlin resume.doc
