CERTIFIED PROJECT MANAGER
Contributes significant strategic value to an organization’s profit objectives through the effective transformation, development and deployment of Global Mission Critical Enterprise Solutions
Created program and project plans with defined budgets and measurable deliverables for managed services.
Management of international teams and deliverables.
Managed IT for mergers, acquisitions, startups, upgrades, and IT outsourcing.
Implemented Oracle 11i upgrade at Texas Instruments, on time and $1 million under budget.
Implementation/integration SAP; AMR HR, Payroll and Pension, 3Com global pilot, EDS integration
Implementation of emerging technologies in all areas of business production, change management focus.
Largest budget was $400m with global impact to all facets of the technology.
SOX, HIPPA, ISO, SOC, NIST, EU GDPR compliant projects as well as internal security and compliance criteria.
Vendor management with assignment of legal team for collaboration of deliverables and contract negotiation.
Best P/L margin producer for all engagements during one year at Fujitsu/ICL.
Definition of FTE and material resources for new implementations or change related to project teams.
Demonstrated ability to translate strategic direction, C-level or CIO, into deliverables meeting client expectations.
Requirements gathering, prioritization and dissemination for business process reengineering.
Global patents for printing on Textiles.
PMO and Portfolio setup, audit, education and mentor.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Altor – CEO 2020-Present
Certino – CTO formerly Current Innovation Consultant 2017-Present
Data Morphology Group (DMG), Dallas, Tx 1997-Present
Independent Consultant to multi-billion-dollar global organizations and small startups covering a diverse range of industries; advertising, OEM, transportation, manufacturing, software, telecom, insurance, financial, medical, etc.
Company Contracts: Altor, Certino, T-Systems/Thyssenkrupp, TIG, Raytheon, ATT, Caterpillar, Baker Hughes, Inc., Pioneer Natural Resources, Essilor, Ericsson, Fannie Mae, AHMSI, HP, Combustion Media, Inc., Alliance Data Systems (ADS), Blue Cross Blue Shield Tx, EDS (3), HP, 7-Eleven, Texas Instruments, ACS (2), Corning, Digital Convergence, Fujitsu-ICL, Organic/Viacom/BlockBuster, Sprint, GTE, American Airlines/Sabre, ERI/Cisco, Epic/3Com, Federal Home Loan Bank.
Industries: Airlines, Telecom, Outsource, Consulting Firms, Insurance, Retail, Advertising, Media, Banking, Technology Manufacturing (OEM), Oil and Gas, Automotive, Biotech, Advertising, Fiber Optics, Semi-conductor
Titles: VP Technology, Portfolio Manager, Director Data Warehouse, Sr. Program Manager, Sr. Project Manager, Mentor, Consultant, Trainer, Adjunct Professor, Mechanical Engineer, Design Engineer
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Management Criteria - Client Facing, working in sales team for successful down select, issue resolution, decision making, Vendor and Contract Management, SOW, deliverables, legal, gold partner, SLAs, sub-contractor deliverables, KPIs, Business Intelligence (BI) KPIs, risk mitigation, Functional Manager best practices,
Scale - Program/Portfolio/Project/PMO Tools, schedules to integrate 16 department deliverables to bid one job yielding a contract of $400m, release management for multiple environments (9),
Methodologies - PMO, governance, translation, portfolio reporting KPIs, PMBOK, EVM,, ITIL, TOGAF, OBASHI framework, IDABC, Agile full lifecycles, iRAD, SCRUM, Kanban, Agile, Cloud Dev/Ops tool pipelines
Resource Impact - justification, termination, forecasting, re-training/assignment, hiring, selecting, defining skills, user interfaces from 5100 to 180,000 and defined delivery process, infrastructure implementations
Communications - C-level, global regional teams, RFP generation and in other roles proposal writing, steering committees external/internal, advertizing/marketing, negotiations, management of change control boards, virtual teams, feed back performance loops from Operational Support Systems (OSS) to regional global heads, metric definition, reporting, and, selection
Orchestration – Workflow analysis, data feeds, Weblogic, SOA, customer feedback loops, change based on metrics, Roles and Responsibilities, team dynamics and definition, root cause analysis, COTS w/modifications,
Financials - Budget, P/L accountability, CERs (capital expenditure requests), ROI, cost benefit analysis
Data Management - AC Nielsen POS data analysis, cross platform, system of record, Data Warehouse migration
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Tx 2002-2006
School of Engineering and Applied Science, Masters Level
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR
Instruction in project management yielding 72 credit hours per student.
Instruction for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences masters Program.
Instructor on all PMI topics found in the PMBOK including Earned Value Methods (EVM)
Topics covered included PMI standards, PMO, Portfolio Management.
Additional substitute work at Amberton and other corporate clients.
Levi Strauss and Company (LS&CO) Richardson, Tx 1989-1997
Global manufacturer of men’s, women’s and children’s apparel employing 180,000 yielding revenue in the billions.
R&D PROJECT ENGINEER – Emerging Technology
Sole inventor of US and European systems saving LS&Co $3b annually.
Negotiation of legal contracts for various vendor contributions with assigned legal team.
Managed internal and/or external projects, 3rd party vendors to plan and SOW.
Managed creation and analysis of cumulative trauma database for repetitive injuries; carpal tunnel syndrome.
Managed program for medical study with the Dean of Medicine at Vermont Medical School, Burlington Vermont former World Health Organization Chairman, the Dean of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University for studies in muscle atrophy and associated data, Doctors from Harvard Medical for data review, plant nurses, and the Liberty Mutual database for comparison.
Established PMO, KPIs and governance for R&D pilots and production handoff.
Generated white papers and ROIs for projects selected by board for initiation.
Defined workflow gaps, provided restructure, developed documentation.
Re-engineering of Supply Chain Logistics in Cut, Sew, Finish through logistics of Distribution facilities via RFID.
Developed and delivered training programs for emerging technology application programs.
Developed and implemented intranet utilized by 180,000 resources including network changes.
Application and development of emerging technologies to operations, IT, marketing, sales, credit, legal and C level departments.
Installed barcode, RFID and other technologies to automate operations resulting in 80% headcount reduction.
PREVIOUS EMPLOYERS
Judge Catherine Crier, Dallas, Tx PROMOTIONS MANAGER
Shearson, Lehman, Hutton/Dean Witter, Tx and NY BROKERAGE LIAISON
Varo Semi-Conductor, Inc., Garland, Tx PROJECT ENGINEER
Pengo Equipment – Tension Stringing, Grand Prairie, Tx HEAD ENGINEER
Victor Equipment Company/NASA, Denton, Tx PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER
Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Milwaukee, WI PRODUCT DESIGNER
Koehring Company/Husco, Pewaukee, WI PRODUCT DESIGNER
Tenneco/J.I. Case Company, Burlington, Iowa ENGINEERING STUDENT CO-OP
PL Biochemicals, Milwaukee, WI PEPTIDE INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
SKILLS
Applications – MSProject, SharePoint, MSOffice, Visio, Access, Dynamics AX, WorkBench, Primavera, Clarity, Niku, Planview, LiveLink, Novell, Oracle 11i, Kanban, PeopleSoft, Epicor, ERP, Weblogic, SAP, WM, MM, SD, PP, APO modules, Lawson, JDEdwards, Solomon now MSDynamics, Siebel, Salesforce.com Admin and Configuration, Axapta, CRM, Tibco, SOA, Great Plains, .ASP, Subversion, Filezilla, Helm, Rally, Saba, Remedy/BMC, AHD/CA, SMS, MicroStrategy, Great Plains, Business Objects, Cognos, PeopleSoft, MVS, Jira, HP Mercury, Erwin, P3e, VMWare, COTS, Kronos, MDM, MSAzure, SAP GT&A, WorkForce, Microservices, Ximarian, GIT
Architecture, Method, Process – SOA, Cloud integration, ITIL,, RUP, SDLC, Kanban, hosting, eCommerce, Agile/Scrum, Rally, JIRA, ETL, BI
Hardware/Network – RFID, Bar Codes, 2D, Sun, Dell, various Main Frames, Networking, SAN, Virtualization, Load Balancing, Tandem, Cisco,
Languages – VBScript, SQL, J2EE, .NET, SVB, C, C#, Basic, Fortran, ABAP, Java, CORBA, HTML, UML
Platforms – Unix, Linux, MS Windows NT, XP, Vista, Tandem, Networking, AS400, mainframe, Sun
Standards – ISO, PMBOK, PMP, ITIL, TOGAF, OBASHI framework, IDABC, EDS, Agilent, MYP, ES, Evolve, GPMA, PM2, EVMS, GSMS, ROI, Cost Benefit Analysis, SEI-CMM 1, 2, 3, Green Belt, Black Belt, OPM3, process definition/analysis, COBIT, SOX
Departments with Projects – Purchasing/Procurement, IT, Operations, Finance, Legal, Administrative, NOC, Engineering, OSS, HR, MDM
Other – Series 7, 3, 63, 22, PMP, CPhT, migrations, upgrades, transformations, configurations, integrations
Project/Team Locations – Canada, Ireland, England, Israel, Singapore, Australia, Japan, US; Texas, Iowa, Wisconsin, New York, Boston, MA, Vermont, many CA cities, India, Dubai, China
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Scrum Foundation Certification 2014
Collin County Community College Plano, Tx Life Science Credits Support of effort toward PhD in Pharmacology 2002-2006
Certificate of Appreciation for Extraordinary Leadership creating EDS Supply Chain Management's PMO 2005
Certified Pharmacy Technician Federal, Texas Registered Since 2004
PMI – Dallas Chapter Dallas, Tx - VP EDUCATION/FORUM CHAIRMAN 2002-2003
Development of continuing PDU Forum.
Selection of speakers for 6 Forums of six speakers each per year.
Coordination of logistics.
Insured compliance of materials and intellectual property integrity.
Conducted/presented presentations to incoming PMPs for examination reviews.
Supported the effort to maintain the Chapter as the worlds largest.
PMI – Special Interest Group ITT North America – MIS MANAGER 2002-2003
Conducted audits of monthly data updates from PMI headquarters.
Management of global membership data for the Telco Specific Interest Group.
Automated notification system for monthly news letters.
Managed communication updates to membership for events.
PMI Dallas Chapter Recognition Award - For significant contributions to the chapter's new PMP Forums 2002
European Patent International Shade Marking Patent #077****-****
US Patent Federal Shade Marking Patent #579-****-****
US Patent Federal Motorized Cutting Torch Appl. S/N DF-418
Project Management Institute PMP Certification Since 1998
Republican Convention Dallas, TX - Assistant to Chairman Lee Atwater White House Advance Team Liaison 1984
Brookhaven, UTA, Loma Linda, various courses, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, WI Engineering BSME