Patrick J. Allen

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/pjallen/

 

Summary of Qualifications

 

10 years experience managing multi-million dollar research projects at the University of Washington: pre-award administration, post-award management, fiscal management, human resources, and web development.

 

Present Employment

 

        Assistant Director of the Turing Center & Grant and Contract Manager
University of Washington, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seattle, WA, October 2005 – Present

 

Managing the growth and operations of a new and emerging multidisciplinary research center at the University of Washington.  Program income totals $9.5 million with $5.5 million in new funding over the past 12 months.  Position milestones: large-scale award management, including the multi-million dollar Turing Center gift and two multi-million dollar DARPA contracts; recruitment and hiring of 3 Professional Staff research positions since autumn 2005 (at least 2 Post-Doc recruitments in process); running the Turing Center Distinguished Lecture Series and special events for the Center; creation and management of the Turing Center Web, http://turing.cs.washington.edu/.

 

University of Washington Employment History

 

        Grant and Contract Manager
University of Washington, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seattle, WA, Nov. 2003 – Sept. 2005

 

Operations manager for the artificial intelligence and database research clusters.  Program income totaled $7 million.  Position milestones: large-scale award management, including one multi-million dollar DARPA contract and four PI NSF grant; recruitment and hiring of 4 Professional Staff research positions.

 

        Grant and Contract Supervisor
University of Washington, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seattle, WA, April 1999 – October 2003

 

Operations manager for the artificial intelligence and database research clusters.  Program income totaled $6 million.  Position milestones: research cluster enjoyed a 100% success rate of funded proposals over an 18 month period; supervised a fulltime assistant to this position.

 

        Grant and Contract Coordinator
University of Washington, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seattle, WA, March 1996 – March 1999

 

Project and fiscal manager for the artificial intelligence, database, and software safety groups.  Program income totaled $2 million.  Position milestones: member on the UW Grant and Contract Process Enhancement Team (post-award) formed to improve electronic research administration; Chief troubleshooter for all College of Engineering Departments during the problematic introductory years of NSF’s FastLane electronic research system; Softbots research was included in “Pathbreakers: A century of excellence in science & technology at the University of Washington”.

 

        Computer Support Technician
University of Washington, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seattle, WA, May 1998 – June 2001

 

Part-time position to keep my computer skills sharp.  Primary responsibilities included web design, setup and troubleshoot software, hardware, and network problems.

 

Skills/Experience

 

·         Excellent verbal and written communication and the ability to work well individually or in teams.

·         Software:
Operating Systems: MS Windows XP, 2000, NT, 98, UNIX, DOS
Applications: MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access), Acrobat, Keynes/ADP, TeraTerm, Photoshop, Ghostview
Development: HTML, Visual InterDev, Front Page
Browsers/Email: Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Netscape, Outlook, Pine

·         10 years experience as a Web Designer, including advanced concepts such as forms, tables, and scripts.

 

Education

 

      Bachelor of Science, Environmental Policy and Assessment, Western Washington University, June 1992

      CSE 142: Computer Programming in C, University of Washington, Summer 1999

      Certificate, Network Fundamentals, Bellevue Community College, March 1996

      Certificate, Set Up/Troubleshoot PC, Bellevue Community College, February 1996

 

Microsoft Certified Curriculum Coursework

 

      1560: Updating Support Skills from Windows NT 4 to Windows 2000, July 2000

      688: Internetworking Microsoft TCP/IP on Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, May 2000

      1202: Securing Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0, February 2000

      922: Supporting Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Core Technologies, December 1999

      803: Administering Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, April 1999

      578: Networking Essentials, April 1999