Resume: Belinda Dowdy, BSEE, CPCC

Coaching and Consulting

Objective

Consult with corporations and individuals using strengths in communicating, problem-solving, and brainstorming to enhance productivity and fulfillment.

Summary

Enthusiastic, results-oriented coach, consultant, engineer, trainer, and writer. Work with people and organizations to make changes effectively and complete projects. Proven expertise includes:

• Career Transition and Career Management
• Productivity Coaching
• Professional Development Training
• Engineering Design for Multimillion Dollar Projects
• Working with Project Teams
• Excellent Verbal and Written Presentation Skills

Professional Experience

Coaching and Consulting, Chapel Hill, NC 1997-Present

Coach and Consultant to individuals and organizations in leadership, career management and transition, project management, writing, and personal/professional development.

• Career Management Consultant delivering outplacement training and coaching for Right Management Consultants.
• Coach and consult with individual clients to successfully manage and change careers, write dissertations and books, and bring new businesses to profitability.
• Coach project teams to effectively produce high-quality products.
• Teach workshops on productivity, career management and transition, and writing.

Technical Training and Writing, Chapel Hill, NC 1995-1998

Trainer, Course Developer, and Technical Writer (Consultant)

Clients include:

• Global Knowledge Network - Provided technical expertise for and developed web-based telecommunications essentials training.
• BroadBand Technologies - Designed, developed, and presented telecommunications training.
• Nortel - Wrote technical training materials: Switch training, telephone features, ISDN.
• TRA - Chosen as top presenter of data communications training to AT&T sales engineers.

General Dynamics, Research Triangle Park, NC 1989-1995

(formerly GTE Government Systems)

Member of Technical Staff

Systems Engineer designing and developing network management systems, software, and training simulators for large military cellular telephone systems.

• Successfully planned and led transfer of network control center development from France to US.
• Recognized for leadership and initiative in developing large simulator-based training for communications network while working across four sites in two countries.

Wandel & Goltermann, 1987-1989

(Research Triangle Park, NC and Eningen u. A. West Germany)

System Development Engineer

• First American sent to Germany.
• Worked with international team to develop protocol analyzer software.

Philips Home Interactive Systems, Knoxville, TN 1985-1986

Senior Development Engineer

Technology for Energy Corporation, Knoxville, TN 1983-1985

Systems Engineer

Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, TN 1980-1983

Instrument Engineer

Sperry Microwave Electronics, Clearwater, FL 1979-1980

Engineer

Sangamo Weston Sarasota, Sarasota, FL 1979

(formerly EMR Telemetry)

Engineer

Education

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE), University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1978

Professional Development

• TRA Instructor Training
• Coaches Training Institute (CTI) (116 hours)
• CTI Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), 2000
• Satir System Training: Theory and Practice (12 hours), Congruent Leadership (24 hours)
• REAL Entrepreneurship (39 hours)

Professional Organizations

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• North Carolina Writers' Network (NCWN)
• International Coach Federation (ICF)
• North Carolina Association of Personal and Business Coaches (NCAPBC)
• ASTD (Training and Development)