Jim Tracy

About Jim Tracy

An accomplished team and technology management leader with extensive experience in strategic project planning, life cycle risk management, operations and resource planning. This includes risk and resource planning across a wide variety of business and technology domains including life cycle cost analysis, contract development, negotiation, and implementation of both small and large opportunities with complex high visibility and challenging timing constraints maximizing value while managing risk effectively. • Exceptionally skilled at understanding interactions between product users and technology developers, allowing technology to be evolved to meet existing and future needs.• Skilled leader able to lead and coach employees, contactors and senior management with confidence. Able to build consensus amongst divergent opinion groups.• Exceptional at recognizing business opportunity and exploiting opportunity to maximum benefit for employer and customer. • Able to digest complex technical and business concepts into concise and effective guidance for senior leadership.

Experience

1. Radio Communications Technologist

   Sarpy County

   Apr 2007 — Present · Omaha, NE, US

   Manages all aspects of current and future emergency communications needs. Including all domain risk and evolving lifecycle requirements for a 24x7x365 safety of life radio communications operation. Provides direct decision making and advisory guidance to highest levels of management enabling the organization to prosecute its mission with extraordinary reliability in a cost effective and risk aware environment.Successes include development and negotiation of eight figure technology overhaul to employer’s systems with nearly zero impact to operations. Project cost estimation within 5% of actual after multiple years of deployment. Successes in product and financial awareness enabled nearly 1M in savings to be accrued that would have been lost in most cases.

Education

• Bellevue University

  Bachelor's Degree, Marketing/Marketing Management, General

  2014

Skills

• IT Infrastructure Management
• Marketing Management
• Wattmeter
• IT Governance
• Microwave
• Radio
• Microsoft Visio
• Rf Direction Finding
• IT Risk Management
• Risk Analysis
• Project Management
• Spectrum Analyzer
• Risk Management
• Disaster Response
• Risk Assessment
• Emergency Services
• Emergency Management
• Ms Project
• Government
• Nonprofits
• Public Safety
• Radio Network Planning
• Stock Market Analysis
• Comminications Service Monitor
• IT Project & Program Management
• Adobe Acrobat
• Motorola Cps (Astro 25, Apx and Legacy)
• Public Safety Systems
• Public Relations
• Media Relations
• Marketing Strategy
• Time Domain Reflectometer (Tdr)
• Land Mobile Radio
• Multimeter
• Stock Technical Analysis
• Oscilloscope
• Product Marketing
• Microsoft Office
• Public Safety Technology
• Radio Network Policy