Project Manager Certified Instructor
Mr. O’Connor has over thirty years of professional and managerial experience with high technology firms such as Xerox, Harris, and Bausch & Lomb.
He has managed major global projects over a thirteen-year period involving construction and start-up of health care products manufacturing throughout the Asia/Pacific region. This included leading a large multinational project team to successfully complete facility construction, technology transfer and plant start-up of a new manufacturing facility on the Rajasthan desert in India. He also managed facility expansion and technology transfer projects in China, Korea, Japan and Indonesia for the manufacture of health care products.
As Corporate Program Manager for Bausch & Lomb, he led the $65M Year 2000 global compliance program to a successful conclusion and managed the global implementation of a phase-gate methodology for IT-related projects for 800 IT professionals.
Since 1995, Mr. O’Connor has served as an adjunct graduate business faculty member of St. John Fisher College, Rochester Institute of Technology, Nazareth College of Rochester and University of Phoenix where he teaches courses in project management and international business. He has lectured internationally on practical business applications of project management. Mr. O’Connor developed and taught a practitioner-oriented project management certificate course for SUNY Brockport.
He holds a BME degree from Clarkson University and an MBA from Rochester Institute of Technology. He is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and has published technical papers on project management for three PMI annual symposiums and for the 1995 INTERNET Symposium in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 2001 he spoke to the Project World symposium in Boston on essentials for business case development and was featured in the April, 2001 issue of Projects@Work magazine.
In 2001, Mr. O’Connor relocated to Phoenix, AZ where he continues to develop and teach project management courses for several Fortune 1000 clients.