John Cuozzo

John Cuozzo

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Wells, Maine, United States
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About

Provide top quality business and process analysis, writing, editing, and management consulting services, meeting technical, marketing, and proposal needs to help for-profit and non-profit organizations increase revenues, decrease operating expenses, enhance customer service and loyalty, and obtain higher ROI on documentation and Internet investments. Specialize in identifying and analyzing client needs and developing/acquiring, implementing, and supporting targeted solutions.

Experienced business and organizational developer, with MBA in International Honorary Business Society. Persistent, diplomatic; able to grasp the big picture, handle the details, and communicate effectively, using quick wit when appropriate. Creatively use available resources while seeking to meet every project need and exceed expectations.

Experience

  • CACI International Inc Graphic

    Technical Writer & Editor

    CACI International Inc

    - Present 1 year 4 months

    Improving customer technical documentation to support critical client needs.

  • Division Staff Officer & Flotilla Staff Officer - Vessel Examinations

    U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary

    - Present 6 years 2 months

    South Portland, ME

    As an Instructor Specialist and flotilla Staff Officer, responsible to train, schedule, and coordinate over 20 Vessel Exam team members to perform Vessel Safety Checks and promote Recreational Boating Safety with boaters at over 14 local marinas, boat clubs, yacht clubs, and, in coordination with the Maine Warden Service, at large area lakes.

    As Division Staff Officer - Vessel Examinations, developing enhanced team approach to meet area-wide attention to Recreational Boating Safety and…

    As an Instructor Specialist and flotilla Staff Officer, responsible to train, schedule, and coordinate over 20 Vessel Exam team members to perform Vessel Safety Checks and promote Recreational Boating Safety with boaters at over 14 local marinas, boat clubs, yacht clubs, and, in coordination with the Maine Warden Service, at large area lakes.

    As Division Staff Officer - Vessel Examinations, developing enhanced team approach to meet area-wide attention to Recreational Boating Safety and meet demand for Vessel Safety Checks.

  • Centric Consulting Graphic

    Senior Technical Writer/Business Analyst

    Centric Consulting

    - 3 months

    Boston, MA & Remote from Belfast, ME

    For leading Investment services firm's Managerial Finance organization, analyzed and documented BMC Control-M workflow automation and Oracle Business Information (OBI) data flow processes in conjunction with client's Data Hub to provide unified documentation to support business and technical support groups' system troubleshooting and employee training.

  • TeraDiode, Inc. Graphic

    Senior Consultant

    TeraDiode, Inc.

    - 2 months

    Wilmington, MA & Remote from Belfast, ME

    Analyzed user documentation needs, identifying product user information requirements and creating FrameMaker 2015 templates to facilitate future creation of documentation set.

  • Centric Consulting Graphic

    Business Analyst, Procedure Developer

    Centric Consulting

    - 3 months

    Cambridge, MA

    Provided leading global high tech client with expert work flow analysis, developing and documenting procedures to streamline, upgrade and implement global procurement process for Oracle ERP R12 conversion for the Procure-to-Pay organization within the Supply Chain.

  • Senior Consultant

    Health Tech Solutions, LLC

    - 6 months

    Remote from Belfast, ME

    Provided expert analysis, writing, and editing solutions to client for health care technical, business, and proposal needs.

  • Candela Corporation

    Candela Corporation

    1 year 8 months

    • Consultant - Analyst/Technical Writer

      Candela Corporation

      - 1 year 8 months

      Wayland, MA

      Hired for multiple contracts. Created and updated medical laser system Operator's Manual and facilitated localization of a second medical laser system Operator's Manual. Assisted Clinical Support team to analyze and create Clinical In-Service/Companion Manuals for two medical laser systems.

    • Consultant - Analyst/Technical Writer

      Candela Corporation

      - 2 months

      Wayland, Massachusetts

      Analyzed, revised and upgraded medical laser system GentleLASE PRO Operator’s Manual.

  • General Dynamics Graphic

    Senior Technical Editor

    General Dynamics

    - 5 months

    Needham, MA

    Edited several dozen U.S. Air Force technical orders (manuals) to ensure completeness, clarity, and structural integrity to meet military specifications and standards, ultimately converting these from MS-Word to Arbortext SGML. Mentored Subject Matter Experts in use of Microsoft Word 2010. (Temporary position.)

  • Principal

    Web Profitability Solutions

    - 3 years

    Wakefield, MA

    Provided AIS Media web solutions and managed services to B2C and B2B enterprises and non-profit organizations to harness the viral power of the Internet, generating and converting increased leads, driving revenues, maintaining/cutting expenses and increasing organizational productivity.

    Certified eBusiness Solutions Provider, partnered with AIS Media’s award-winning team of experts in web design, development, eCommerce, eMarketing, and supporting services. Our services provided online…

    Provided AIS Media web solutions and managed services to B2C and B2B enterprises and non-profit organizations to harness the viral power of the Internet, generating and converting increased leads, driving revenues, maintaining/cutting expenses and increasing organizational productivity.

    Certified eBusiness Solutions Provider, partnered with AIS Media’s award-winning team of experts in web design, development, eCommerce, eMarketing, and supporting services. Our services provided online lead generation and reputation management, Social Media Marketing, enhanced Search Engine Optimization, E-mail Marketing, eCommerce, and website design/development/ maintenance, outstanding managed hosting and technical support.

    Supplemental services included content creation and editing, including creation of on-line store.

    A portion of our proceeds went to Habitat for Humanity to provide to those in need affordable, sustainable housing, at cost and on a no-interest basis.

  • Consultant

    Proctor & Gamble Gillette Company

    - 5 months

    South Boston, Massachusetts

    For variety of in-house manufacturing systems, captured technician and supervisor expert knowledge to create 500 pages of manufacturing systems step-by-step maintenance and repair procedures, including digital photography.

  • Group Leader/Principal Technical Writer

    GSI Group Corporation (Novanta)

    - 11 years 4 months

    MA: Arlington, Wilmington, Bedford

    Analyzed, planned, developed, and maintained customer documentation for several laser systems. Edited source writings from subject matter experts and manuals written by writing team. Hired permanent and contract writing team; led, coached, and supervised writers during transition from traditional FrameMaker to competitor's SGML/XML.
    For most recent 5½ years, served as the sole technical writer and editor to create and/or maintain customer site preparation, operator, and service manuals for…

    Analyzed, planned, developed, and maintained customer documentation for several laser systems. Edited source writings from subject matter experts and manuals written by writing team. Hired permanent and contract writing team; led, coached, and supervised writers during transition from traditional FrameMaker to competitor's SGML/XML.
    For most recent 5½ years, served as the sole technical writer and editor to create and/or maintain customer site preparation, operator, and service manuals for five product lines simultaneously, restructuring manuals into topic-based chapters, managing all localization needs, and balancing the workload.

  • Consultant - Technical Writer/Analyst

    JC Consulting

    - 2 years

    Financial Services: Analyzed and documented Private Asset Management system; Documented Trust Accounting Product Reference, Tax, and Report Guides; Investment Remote Access User’s Guide; Converted documentation from Series II to Trustware II for Trust Accounting, Personal Accounting, and Pension Payment/Reporting products.

    Medical: For major medical facility, designed and developed "Applications Interface Gateway (AIG) Operator’s Guide" and “Applications and Support DataGate AIG…

    Financial Services: Analyzed and documented Private Asset Management system; Documented Trust Accounting Product Reference, Tax, and Report Guides; Investment Remote Access User’s Guide; Converted documentation from Series II to Trustware II for Trust Accounting, Personal Accounting, and Pension Payment/Reporting products.

    Medical: For major medical facility, designed and developed "Applications Interface Gateway (AIG) Operator’s Guide" and “Applications and Support DataGate AIG Programmer’s Guide” to facilitate transfer of patient medical data between ancillary and mainframe systems.

    Non-Profit: As Operations Manager, administered commercial line of credit processing and all fiscal matters, including Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance contract and fiscal program reporting to state, HUD, and city funders to support and advocate for 12 Boston area adult homeless shelters; supervised administrative and fiscal staff. Converted computer system from outdated Macintosh to state-of-art PC Windows technology.

  • Parametric Technology Corporation Graphic

    Senior Technical Writer

    Parametric Technology Corporation

    - 2 years

    Waltham, MA

    For mechanical CAD vendor, using Framemaker and UNIX utilities, tagged for on-line documentation and for hard copy, restructured and maintained core application Part Modeling User’s Guide, Assembly Modeling User’s Guide, and Fundamentals manual. Maintained related training guides, edited and coordinated release notes, and assisted junior writers.

  • JC Consulting

    JC Consulting

    6 years

    • JC Consulting Graphic

      Consultant

      JC Consulting

      - 3 years

      Various

      Federal/state RFP Proposal Development - Health Care and U.S. Postal Service: As proposal team member, developed proposals in CO, GA, KY, MA, NY, VA and WI.

    • Consultant

      JC Consulting

      - 3 years

      Technical Sales Support: For software vendor, wrote major account proposals, pre-sales site evaluations, analyzed system requirements, pre-qualified prospects, coordinated technical staff for benchmarks/demos, problem account recovery operations, & cut sell cycle by 25-50%. Wrote demo text file format translation programs.

      Market Research: Supervised staff daily activities during upper management change, delivering: market & product reviews/analyses, high-level strategy reviews;…

      Technical Sales Support: For software vendor, wrote major account proposals, pre-sales site evaluations, analyzed system requirements, pre-qualified prospects, coordinated technical staff for benchmarks/demos, problem account recovery operations, & cut sell cycle by 25-50%. Wrote demo text file format translation programs.

      Market Research: Supervised staff daily activities during upper management change, delivering: market & product reviews/analyses, high-level strategy reviews; tradeshow newsletters; client inquiry replies; press relations; market segmentation/forecasts; conference presentations, & session facilitation.

      Non-Profit: As Economic Development intern, co-authored proposal obtaining $1.6 million from commercial, public/quasi-public, & private sources. Promoted to interim Executive Director of multi-service Community Development Corporation.

      Co-founder/president Greater Lawrence Habitat for Humanity - Managed daily operations during construction of first 10 homes & fundraising of $500,000+.

Education

Volunteer Experience

  • United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Graphic

    Division Staff Officer & Flotilla Staff Officer - Vessel Examinations (FSO-VE); Boat Crew; Instructor Specialist

    United States Coast Guard Auxiliary

    - Present 8 years 3 months

    Education

    As FSO-VE, to ensure recreational boaters have proper safety equipment and knowledge, provide annual training (as Instructor Specialist) to over 20 VE team members, schedule and lead team to conduct vessel safety checks at over a dozen area marinas and boat clubs.

  • President of Board of Directors & Member of Seaglass Chorale

    Seaglass Performing Arts, Inc.

    - Present 3 years 4 months

    Arts and Culture

    Elected president in June, 2021, inspired and motivated board and chorale members to persevere through times of extreme uncertainty. Located new venue for rehearsals and concerts to facilitate physical distancing, enabling resumption in January 2022 of full chorale activities, including a benefit concert to provide medical supplies to Ukraine, a capella group performances at local venues, and a Spring concert. Established COVID protocol, guidelines for Board Meeting etiquette, and several…

    Elected president in June, 2021, inspired and motivated board and chorale members to persevere through times of extreme uncertainty. Located new venue for rehearsals and concerts to facilitate physical distancing, enabling resumption in January 2022 of full chorale activities, including a benefit concert to provide medical supplies to Ukraine, a capella group performances at local venues, and a Spring concert. Established COVID protocol, guidelines for Board Meeting etiquette, and several "Helper" committees to enhance organizational efficiency and productivity.

Honors & Awards

  • U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary: Sustained Auxiliary Service - Superior Performance of Duty - Second Award

    U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary

  • U.S. Coast Guard First District 2021 Boat Responsibly Award - Auxiliary Flotilla 02-01

    U.S. Coast Guard

    Issued for the pride, professionalism, and superior efforts in promoting responsible boating.

  • United States Coast Guard Flotilla Meritorious Achievement Award

    United States Coast Guard

    For Superior Performance During 2021

  • John E. Gaskill Award

    U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 013-02-01

    Awarded to the person contributing the most to the Vessel Examination (VE) Program (for 2019). The 2020 VE program was suspended due to COVID-19.

  • U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Sustained Auxiliary Service Award - Superior Performance of Duty

    U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary

  • U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Sector Northern New England Division 1 Outstanding New Auxiliarist of the Year 2017

    U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary

  • U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Sector Northern New England Outstanding New Auxiliarist of the Year 2017, Division 1

    U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, Sector Northern New England, Division 1

    In recognition of dedication and performance of duties for 2016; awarded in 2017

  • Margot Bixby Volunteer Leadership Award

    Merrimack Valley Habitat for Humanity

    As a co-founder and past board president and original vice president of Merrimack Valley Habitat, I continued to volunteer monthly with a construction team I founded after moving over 200 miles away. I always seek to bolster the esprit de corps of our team and lead by example, while providing innovative solutions using the tools and resources available. I've worked on over 30 of the 100+ homes created by the affiliate.

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • French

    Professional working proficiency

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