Project Manager Management

Rick Brannon

Address: ***** *** ***. ** ( Federal Way, WA ( 98023 Phone: 253-***-****

Email: abmmv2@r.postjobfree.com

ENGINEERING/TECHNICAL/IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL

-Executive Summary-

. Project management: Offers a pragmatic Project Management Institute

methodology, homogenized with an experienced measured approach to

managing projects with over 12 years enterprise application

development environments. Waterfall, SDLC, Agile, SCRUM, experience

with product backlog and prioritization including release

environments. Expert enterprise solution design experience from

facilitating Joint Requirements Planning sessions with a focus on the

stakeholders.

. Emphasizes sound communications practices before, during and after

projects and at all levels (C level to end user). Expert defining

requirements, running requirements sessions, business process mapping,

Use case development, system analysis, modeling, assembling project

teams, identifying risk, risk mitigation planning, scheduling,

managing scope, capital planning, process generation of (RFI's,

RFQ's, RFP's), forecasts, containing costs, running multiple projects,

including concurrent projects and delivery in a timely manner.

. Management excellence: Twenty-three years combined experience as

manager of Professional engineers, Project Managers, System Analysts,

Programmers, electronic technicians and leader/builder of enterprise

cross functional project teams. Understands professionals achieve

goals by following their leader's ability to establish criteria and

methods. Knack for identifying peoples' strengths and assembling/

building great teams. Customer centric communication planning to

ensure focus of scope as a major priority to achieving success in a

variety of business environments and cultures.

. An instructor and leader: A catalyst for professional project team

development and personal growth, with 15+ years' teaching experience.

Has trained 500+ Computerized Numerical Control electronic technicians

/ engineers across numerous engineering disciplines in classroom,

factory and research lab and project team environments. Joint founder

and creator of Washington Computerized Numerical Control industrial

technician apprenticeship, still active today and a Boeing talent

feeder.

. Strong analytical abilities: Hallmark of career is an ability to take

inventory of a situation, troubleshoot using root cause analysis, and

implement solutions resulting in enhanced efficiencies and customer

cost savings. Experienced gathering and documenting business

requirements, change management for projects including organizational

change.

. Technically savvy: Decision making related to requirements, scope,

schedule and communications with all stakeholders. Continually seeks

innovative methods to apply technology and find tools to streamline

business operations. Experienced Project Management Institute

methodology release planner, evaluation of work estimates including

conversion to WBS, milestones, allocation of resources and project

control.

Streamlining Operations and Reducing Expenses

. Redirecting sunk-cost computing assets from Surplus (headed for

dispensation) to redeploy as front-end processors/file storage

devices, accomplishing two impactful outcomes: Reduction of annual

capital budgeting forecast requirement for new computing assets-and

removing need to implement a reduction in workforce. Immediate

positive impact of $1.5M from the annual budget forecast for computing

and an year over year savings of approximately $700,000.

. Mentoring teams in the meticulous, repeated analysis of internal

processes via closed loop measuring/process mapping to effectively

reduce frequency of rework. Mitigated loss of manufacturing calendar

day's substantially and greatly reduced unforeseen manufacturing,

process, server and infrastructure equipment failures.

Areas of Expertise

Strategic Planning, Forecast/Demand Planning, Application Development,

Project Management/Development, Team Building/Leadership, Relationship

Building, Multicultural Communications, Employee Development, Change

Management, Quality Control/Process Improvement, Capital Budgeting

Decisions, Request for Proposal, Request For Information/Request For

Quote Development, Leveraging Technology, Presentation Skills, Reporting

Skills, Waterfall, SDLC, Agile, Scrum, Data Modeling, WBS, Resource

Allocation, Migration of (DEC VAX, MicroVAX, DEC PDP Series) to SQL

Environments, Microsoft Project, MS Office 2000 - 2007, Project

Controls& Solutions

Career Highlights

Cross-functional Team Leadership

. Assembling and leading numerous high performance, enterprise-level

project teams of 15-30 professional engineers, engineering

technicians, project managers programmers and systems analysts to

highly-acclaimed results with multiple projects for 12+ years. Common

thread was establishing standards, maintaining document control,

performing cost benefit analysis, maintaining resource requirements

and establishing accountability requirements throughout the enterprise

project team. Experienced in the development of value-added processes,

and the development of standards documents establishing a baseline of

expected efficiencies.

. Leading a cross functional project team through the software

development life cycle process to develop an enterprise electronic

library application, with single sign - on and to determine the best-

fit commercial-off-the-shelf software package commensurate with

organizational business processes and goals

Strategic Vision and Communication

. Extensive experience as team's spokesperson presenting project

findings to executive management. Further experience interfacing with

C-Level executives to collaborate on strategic decisions shepherding

organizational direction.

. Most salient skill may be an ability to codify overarching corporate

vision to clear, relatable messaging, seamlessly converted to

actionable steps.

. Gathering enterprise/Organizing project data to frame for decision

making presentations based on stakeholders goals

General and Technical Process Development

. Developing a viable transition of projects from conceptual stage to

research /development to the hand off to operations

. Track record of enterprise-level process documentation including

change management documentation. Repeatedly cited for excellence in

these areas.

. Delivering and maintaining process documentation for existing and new

work flows, resulting in seamless integration of new team members,

measurement of quality, accountability, change management and quality

control with application migration.

. Leading noted and measurable improvements in application performance

metrics

. Developing requirements for the establishment of critical threshold

limits of asset components. Maintaining data via software database

with ODBC links to cross-functional analysts and managers.

General Planning and Budget Management

. Recognized for unusually strong ability to make managerial decisions

and select projects with overall growth of the business and corporate

vision in mind. History of success in requirements, present value, net

present value, internal rate of return, cash flows and capital cost

management. Experience administrating $5M budgets and the collective

throughput of 50+ employees.

. Twenty-years +, emphasizing the importance of planning before

embarking on any project. Measuring efficacy of each planning process

in every project, employing debriefing session's post-product delivery

and producing "Lessons Learned" documents to ensure best practices

going forward.

. Excellent projects controls management of financials associated with

the project, including the ability to assess the ROI of a particular

project and make suggestions to the sponsor pertaining to appropriate

funding source, when multiple funding sources are available to ensure

project financial success.

. Experienced presentation skills with all levels of achieving funding

for projects such as funding committees and internal/external funding.

Brief Synopsis of Professional Experience

Boeing Commercial Airplane Company, Seattle, WA 11/85 - 12/08

Senior Project Manager:

Spindle Test Stand (magnetic bearing) Proof of Concept Project (12/04-

12/08)

Manager CBM (Condition Based Maintenance) Group (06/00-12/04)

CNC (Electronic Technician) Machine Tool Maint; Condition Based

Maintenance Mgr. (01/95-06/00)

Individual Contributor Project Manager Technical Skills Enterprise

Industrial Computing Training (04/91-01/95)

CNC (Electronic Technician) Machine Tool Maintenance (11/85-04/91)

Computer Knowledge

Operating Systems: MS Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP & Vista, Windows 7 ( DEC

VMS, RSX- 11+, SQL, assembly language for multiple processors

Software: MS Project, MS Office Suite 2000-2007, SharePoint, Lab View

Versions 6 & 8

Tools: Trend Analysis, PERT/CPM, GANTT, Waterfall, Agile, SCRUM, JAD,

RAD, CASE, UML

Education, Training & Affiliations

( (Current), Masters, Information Systems, DeVry University, Keller

School of Mgmt., Federal Way, WA

( BSBA; Major: Project Management, DeVry University, Federal Way, WA

( Electronics Engineering Technology, DeVry University, Phoenix, AZ

I.B.E.W. Local 46, Electrician Apprenticeship Graduate

Current Member, Project Management Institute

Patent Holder: Confined Spaces Training Device (Boeing Commercial

Airplane Company)

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