Program Mgmnt, Prof delivery services, PMO, Director-level, P&L, PMP

Randall Carlton, MBA, PMP Director, Leader, Change Agent

RANDALL CARLTON, MBA, PMP

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“Customer focused, Global in scope”

Out-front leader, PMP, executive, and veteran US Army officer in Global Fortune 500 firm with 14+ years proven experience

in project/program management, process consulting, implementing, and promoting cutting edge strategy in project

management, Program/Project Management Office (PMO), enterprise program management (EPM), standardized

methodologies, SDLC, planning, organizational design, and quality programs, such as ISO 9001 compliance; Motivating

speaker and highly effective in instructing technical topics through innovative and entertaining presentations.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE SELECTED RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Program/Project Led multiple program/project initiatives on Director and program/project level

Management providing leadership and vision to ensure successful completion on schedule,

Director-level budget, within scope, and maintain quality.

Leadership Led complete organizational re-restructuring on department-level for standardized full

PM Best practices project life cycle delivery methodology, including SDLC, based on PMI and utilizing

EPM solutions, such as Microsoft Project Server, Sharepoint, and Project Plan.

Financial analysis

Developed departmental Center of Excellence (CoE) programs for employee

training, career track, and revamped performance measurement protocols.

Provided Director-level governance and P&L responsibility for $3.3M in portfolio

deliverables and $1.1M in operation budgets and project(s) up to $7.2M.

Leadership US Army Officer; Top 10% in graduating class;

Lead by Example Global, team, or Department level to 30+ direct reports throughout most of career.

Lead from the Front Consistently placed in positions of increased responsibility or “crisis” clients/projects

Mission First, Created formal subordinate leader program at GeoFields, Inc. Enable high level

People always ethics in leadership principles within performance measurement programs and leader

“best practices”.

Objective-driven and focused, but team oriented with project and mission loyalty.

Strategy Instrumental in departmental strategic planning, both annual and 3-5 year, which

Short/Long term included growth, process optimization, and organizational design for better

Organizational competitive advantage opportunities.

Development Selected to Schneider Electric Global International Marketing Strategy Team

Internationalization Developed International Operations plan to boost channel efficiencies and

increased global market activity and capture.

Key leadership of Services team providing governance and strategic reshaping of

large enterprise acquisition.

SNAPSHOT of PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

LANDIS +GYR, INC. Senior Program/Project Manager 2014 - Present

Performs out-front program leadership for the #1 global market provider of SMART GRID and energy management IT software

solutions as the program single point of contact and leading acquisition integrator deploying professional services and projects for

global customers with portfolio ranging from 1M-3M USD. Significant responsibilities include all aspects of analytics program/project

execution, delivery, customer satisfaction, professional services, SDLC, consulting, risk management, and complete P&L accountancy

within the Program/Project Management Office (PMO) Advanced Grid Analytics (AGA) in the IT portfolio. Additional duties include new

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ground-up acquisition integration of program/project life cycle methodologies, team restructuring, and integrating legacy and

acquisition processes/procedures IAW Landis+Gyr’s established PMO playbook and program & project delivery protocols.

Key Highlights

Serve as the “go-to” SME and vanguard leader for Delivery Services and department restructuring for newly acquired

customized software package spearheading the shift in the corporation’s new strategic direction.

Personally authored and provided full financial analysis for multiple SOWs, RFPs, ROMs, and project plans ranging from

1M-2.5M USD within Advanced Grid Analytics (AGA) and IT portfolio.

Developed the program and project time reporting vehicle based on PMI principles for EVM methodologies. This effort

eventually led to an enterprise wide system still in use today and key to contractual post due-diligence reporting.

Wrote SOW, led project team, and successfully delivered first Landis+Gyr Analytics project post-acquisition with final

deliverables under schedule and under budget with a 50% margin.

Introduced and standardized requirements gathering procedures, SOW creation, analogous estimation proposals, and

revamped the SOWs deliverables based on new custom software product -delivery industry best practices.

Achieved above results in first 5 months of starting position.

US Clients include: PHI, PEPCO, DPL, ACE, SMUD, PREPA, BW&P among other IOU and private utility clients.

SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC PMO Project Manager 2011 - 2014

Total 5 years with Fortune Global 500 company with €23B 2013 revenue. Personally contacted and re-recruited by the VP of

Delivery to return to bring high level project/program level expertise to the department and new PMO. Executes primary

duties as a senior PMO project manager in energy strategy initiatives for the implementation of scalable software solutions in

the gas, electric, water, and fiber optic utility industries utilizing geospatial technologies integrated with customer syste ms.

Duties include, but not limited to, defining project requirements, customer-facing activities, managing overall budgets, project

implementation and deliverables, pre-sale activities, and resource team leadership.

Additional responsibilities include Quality Control protocols/ISO 9001 compliance, SAP financial reporting & accountancy, and

training coordination.

Key Highlights

PM responsible for strategic accounts, training delivery, ISO 9001 compliance, and financial project accounting/SAP

governance for projects ranging to $7.2M with distributed and virtual resources in Novi Sad, Serbia, Calgary,

Canada, and in the US.

Provided global consulting services to Energex in Brisbane, Australia for large utilities project.

Clients included: NSTAR, PNM, Telvent DMS, PG&E, PECO, among numerous municipalities.

Maintained 30% margin guideline policy on project financials.

Achieved International Standards Organization (ISO) 9001 compliance on projects & 2012 PMO recertification.

Selected as a PMO committee member for the International Strategy Team.

Received Global Executive MBA from top tier global program while continuing to work full-time.

GEOFIELDS Director, PMO & Professional Services Group 2009 - 2011

Executive level position leading all day to day operations of the Professional Services Group (PSG) staff, including the

Program Management Office (PMO) in Atlanta, Georgia and satellite office in Houston, Texas with oversight, P&L

responsibilities, executive KPIs, financial reporting, and strategic direction and planning for three Program Management

Office (PMO) programs and project portfolio of $3M+ in service deliverables and departmental $1.1M+ operating budget.

Led strategic global accounts projects such as Saudi Arabia’s, Saudi Aramco, the largest petroleum producing corporation

in the world and other oil and gas clients including Dow Chemical, EPCO, and NNG.

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Key Highlights

Achieved overall average 29% return on all PSG portfolio projects in first year (a 6% increase).

Established Implementation for new PMO initiative and Operational Processes.

Implemented Microsoft Project Server as key project lifecycle collaboration and reporting tool.

Grew PSG FTEs by 20% in 6 months, including organizational re-design acquiring assets under the PSG.

Established new GeoFields budgeted training program resulting in professional certifications (PMP) for project manager

and numerous technology courses per analyst career plan.

Rollout of Enterprise Project Management (EPM) solution in incorporating standardized project management life cycle

processes, utilizing Microsoft Project Server 2007 and Microsoft Project Professional 2007.

Revised statement of work and proposal formats incorporating Microsoft Project 2007 and IAW PMI.

Revitalized aging PSG performance evaluation and incentive program.

Re-certified in Microsoft Project Plan (MCTS) and advanced training in Microsoft Project Server, and Sharepoint.

KECK & WOOD ENGINEERING, INC. Senior Project Manager / Conference Speaker 2008 - 2009

Member of the firm’s management team who performed primary duties as a Project Manager in the GIS Department vertical

responsible for complete project management, procurement, RFP, resource management/allocation, and training for ESRI GIS

solution and implementation projects for a multi-disciplinary engineering firm whose client markets include US domestic

governments, utilities, and municipalities.

Key Highlights

Successfully revamped the department’s project methodology and PDLC using PMI PMBOK

techniques further program revitalization through new cost, scope, and schedule baseline procedures laying the

foundation for the Project Management Office (PMO).

Certified in Microsoft Project (MCTS)

PMP Certified

Authored and delivered multiple conference workshops and presentations on Project/Program Management

methodologies, PMI, and the benefits of a structured and standardized project delivery.

Led foundational cutting edge county enterprise implementation project for custom web-based application to allow

internal and external access to county tax assessor data via the World Wide Web with expansion plans to include county

seat and two other major county cities.

Completed major Fulton County utility project encompassing the City of Atlanta, Georgia for developing an AutoCAD

digital data submission standard with FME-based validation routines.

SPATIAL ENGINEERING, INC. Contractor/ Onsite 2007 - 2008

Department of Defense SECRET position via subcontractor and US Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) - Savannah District

permanently assigned to United States Army Central Command (ARCENT) at Fort McPherson, GA as a Geographic Information

System (GIS) geospatial consultant to the program responsible for the creation, maintenance, and further development of the

classified Infrastructure Spatial Intelligence Portal (ISIP)-aka FIRESTORM program used by ARCENT, Third Army, C7 Engineers

for operations in the Middle Eastern theater of operations. Laudable efforts led to program implementing project management

processes in new marketing ventures.

SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC (formerly Telvent) Project Manager 2005 - 2007

Executes primary duties as a project manager in energy strategy initiatives for the implementation of scalable software solut ions

in the gas, electric, water, and fiber optic utility industries. Duties include, but not limited to, defining project require ments,

managing overall budgets, project implementation and deliverables, pre-sale activities, and resource team leadership. Additional

responsibilities include Quality Control protocols/ISO 9001 compliance, SAP financial reporting & accountancy, and traini ng

coordination. Delivered and performed numerous training deliveries across the continental US.

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Key Highlights

Chosen to implement new software strategy for US state client to monitor and manage their fiber optic network resulting

in a successful project on time and under budget. My project deliverables led to multiple product improvements and

enhancements.

Created automated import tool for electric utility client to facilitate the migration of field collected data via GPS systems

seamlessly imported into existing client SDE database whereby saving client hundreds of man -hours and expenses from

legacy manual importation techniques.

Coordinated and facilitated creation of the Southeastern regional Telvent Miner & Miner ArcFM training facility i n

conjunction with the University of Georgia located in Athens, GA.

PRO-FAB, INC. Process Engineer 1995 – 1998

Member of the executive management team that conducted departmental leadership and management duties including project

estimation, RFP, procurement and requisition, and process engineering of contracts for heavy metal manufacturing and specialt y

fabrication plant producing custom internal support structures for the hydrothermal-electric power producing utility industry for

major US and international clients.

Key Highlights

Led process improvement enhancements to optimize throughput for production and delivery schedules.

Completely re-built/restructured Shipping/Receiving department resulting in gains and standardized workflows.

SME certified, 1991-4.

US ARMY Army Officer 1991 - 1995

Airborne-qualified active duty US Army Officer responsible for planning, coordination, and training for Division platoon, which

provided direct support to the 1st Cavalry Division, as well as, the maintenance of its weapon platforms. Also served as

Company Executive Office (XO), Nuclear, Biological, Chemical (NBC) and Unit Status Reporting (USR) Officer. Also performed

Post Provost Marshal duties for the largest military installation in the US Army. Top 10% of all US graduating officers -1991.

Other Major Notes

Globally Seasoned Traveler - Passport/TSA Pre-Check/Global Entry/Trusted Traveler approved. Work/Live/Travel

global regions including EU: UK, Ireland (resided), Spain, numerous; APAC: Australia, Shanghai, China, and LATAM:

Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Entrepreneur – 2013 start-up digital online video streaming service with ongoing venture capital interest. Established

counseling private practice w/spouse, 2003-2008. 2014 – developing online and mobile app scheduling tool.

University Teaching – Offered Adjunct Professorship at IE Business School, Madrid Spain, MBA program for

seminars on leadership, operations, and program/project leadership.

EDUCATION

Master’s of Business Administration (MBA), IE Business School, Madrid, Spain, 2013

Voted Class Rep and inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society for academic excellence

Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute, Cert #1204890

Master ’s Degree (M.Phil), Medieval History, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Magna Cum Laude, #2 in class

Bachelor of Science (BS), Engineering/Management & Military Science (ROTC), Berry College, Rome, Georgia, USA

Top 10% of graduating class in the nation

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PRESENTATIONS / TRAINING / INSTRUCTIONAL DELIVERIES*

Over 24+ personal conference presentations and instructional training deliveries since 2005.

Conference deliveries on software, project/program management, PMI, PMO, the PMP credential, and PM best practices.

Conducted numerous client requirements workshops, GAP analyses, needs assessments, project status, issue resolution

Exceptional presenter on conference, boardroom, and C-suite levels.

HOBBIES

Anything Outdoors, trekking, Cub Scout Den Leader, Little League Baseball & Basketball Coach, Swordsmanship, 3-D printing,

Historical Studies, Woodworking.

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