Non-Destructive Testing and Evaluation - SUPERSTRUCTURES Director, Field Testing, In-House Training, NDT&E Quality Management System, R&D Lab
		Homeland Security - TBTA World's First Virtual Traffic Management Center	Military - NAVAIR Hawkeye AWACS Experimental shock absorber
		Aviation - RAYTHEON Beechcraft Premier I Rear stabilizer de-icing system	Banking - Chemical Bank World's First Touchscreen Banking Machine
		Medical - Sienna Biotech (start-up) COPALIS Multi-assay flow cytometer	Dental - PERSPECTIVE Intra-oral camera Most Successful Product Launch in the history of Dentsply International
		Telecommunications - TBTA CCTV/Fiber Optic All-facility upgrade	Teaching - TCI Manhattan College College instructor
Resume - Project list - Fact sheet - Brochure

Barry Drogin is a diversely talented and experienced NYC-based Project/Product Professional.

• Manage projects and products; supervise local offices, start-ups, and national teams.
• Design and build prototypes; provide systems and value engineering services.
• Write proposals and procedures; create technical and contractual documents.
• Train and lead workshops; teach practical lessons learned in numerous areas of expertise.
• Evaluated bids and negotiated and managed Intelligent Transportation Systems contracts worth over $25M.
• Quick learner, comfortable with public speaking, computers, team leadership and creative out-of-the-box brainstorming.
• Experience in government, academia, manufacturing, construction, and transportation.
• Experience on civil engineering projects, medical and dental products, and aviation and banking products, too.
• Proficient with CADD, PM, math and office software.
• Can work on several contracts simultaneously as an independent consultant.
• Bachelors and Masters degrees in Engineering from The Cooper Union on full-tuition scholarships.
• One of two national Tau Beta Pi Laureate award winners for his diverse achievements in music and journalism.
• A generalist, a renaissance man, a communicator, a professional, and an advocate.
• In six recent independent reactions from six separate company presidents and vice presidents, Barry Drogin's resume was referred to as "impressive."

Sample Writings/Interviews on important engineering topics

• Experience
• Nerd Management
• Homeland Security (Economist essay competition)
• Involving Users (ICDN interview)
• New Ideas (ITS America published paper)

Notes and Links

• My resume can be downloaded on-line - there is no need to call or write to me asking for my resume. I may consider such a request as spam.
• I am a member of RILEM Technical Committee 216-SAM and ACI Technical Committee 228.
• I'm active in Ryze, GISMO, and the ITE Traffic Incident Management Leadership Committee. I was active on the Electronic National Dialogue on Transportation Operations and recently served on the EPAD Transportation Working Group, both now dormant. For years I was an ex officio member of the superceded AASHTO Highway Subcommittee on Advanced Transportation Systems.
• I attend these trade shows: Interop New York, Maritime Security Expo, and Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) East, as well as New York conventions of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), the Audio Engineering Society (AES), and the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB). I attended CeBit America, TechXNY and C3Expo, and Electro before it moved to Boston.
• On my regular reading list: Desktop Engineering, Communications News, Security Technology & Design, Homeland Defense Journal, U.S. Tech, Electronic Design, Network Computing, ITS International, Television Broadcast, Government Video.
• On-line, I receive, read and post to the Transportation Communications Newsletter, Taub Urban Research Center's CATCOMM and Urban Technology & Telecommunications Digests, NTOC's ITS Technology Forum and Talking Operations Forum Digests, GISMONYC's Digest, DomPrep.com's iNewsletter, the Homeland Security Training Network's Homeland Responder Video Briefs, and Sam Schwartz LLC's TransCentral newsletter.
• If you are a friend or close colleague, please click here. You may also click here if you want to know how the kids are.
• I can work from my home office (or your office) in Manhattan, use public transportation to on-site work in Queens (esp. 11101) and Brooklyn (esp. 11201) and limited locales near PATH stops (esp. 07310), and rent a car on an as-needed basis.
  • I can "tele-commute" anywhere in the US or the world.
  • Please do not approach me for "full-time" on-site work outside of Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, or PATH (not NJ Transit train or bus) Northeastern NJ locations!
  • Please do not approach me for work that requires too much travel.
  Thank you for your understanding.
• At MTA, my entire division was moved from the Engineering & Construction Department to the Information Technology Department.
  • I am a communications engineer and I am current in the field, but do not have any IT, broadcast or telecommunications certifications.
  • Although I have an EIT, I have decided to not obtain my PE license.
  • I have also decided to not obtain PMI certification, although I am thoroughly familiar with PMBOK.
  • Any bar on my participating in MTA Bridges & Tunnels (TBTA) projects has expired.
  • I have recently worked on MTA Long Island Bus and NYSDOT projects.
  • I work at the client, systems, project, contract and manager level.
  • Okay, I'll draw electrical schematics and write program code, too!
  • I will segment my hourly rate if appropriate.
• Wow, are you still reading? Get off this page, click on something else! Or respond below!

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Last Updated: June 26, 2009

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