John L. Leavenworth

adx0yj@r.postjobfree.com 972-***-**** Updated: May 2023

Skills

Project management of

engagements spanning multiple countries, staff skillsets & languages, and budgets averaging 1 million dollars

MS Office including Visio & Project

SOW & Contract review

Agile and Waterfall project management experience

Education

Southeastern Oklahoma State University:

B.S. Mathematics & Computer Science 1991

Amazon Web Services

AWS Cloud Practitioner certification

Currently pursuing Scrum Master Certification

References

will be provided

on request

Objective

Mr. Leavenworth is seeking to further his people and engagement management skills in a technical environment. Currently, his focus is Business Analysis and engagement management with international responsibility for delivery within the Professional Services group. Prior work experience includes Business Analyst and Engagement Management for Cloud migration projects in several cities in the U.S. He is willing to travel up to 90% from his home base in Dallas, TX. All projects were completed on time and under budget.

Experience

Engagement Management

RC Solutions July 2017 – September 2022

Flowserve

This role required Mr. Leavenworth to manage projects for the IT Finance department that has global oversite of new projects related to finance, tax, legal, and Health, Safety & Environment (HSE).

The finance landscape consists of

2 SAP S/4 instances

4 SAP ECC instances

5 Oracle R12 instances

Variety of smaller BAAN and Great Plains implementations.

Responsibilities included SOW/Contract review, budget management, and managing project engineers in India, the US, the UK, and the Netherlands.

Environment, Safety, and Governance (ESG) – a SaaS implementation of new software from Cority called WeSustain for the purpose of tracking and reporting emissions set forth by the Security & Exchange Commission (SEC) starting 2023. This project affected all 55 sites globally.

Supply Chain Finance (SCF) – implement a creditor program from Citi in order to generate $5 million working capital efficiencies for suppliers and for Flowserve and improve the return on cash for Citi. This was accomplished by extending payment terms while offering suppliers the option to be paid early through Citi. This project targeted all of the SAP and Oracle systems, typically only 1 or 2 sites per ERP except for the US where 5 sites were targeted. Currencies involved were USD, EUR, GBP, and INR.

PCard & VAT reclamation – define and deploy templates for iExpense, separate from existing Travel/Expense templates, onto a single Oracle instance in English, French, Spanish, and German. Then coordinate the export of information from the PCard expense reports out to a 3rd party VAT reclamation company and its response file information into all SAP and Oracle instances.

Other Clients

Carrier (California) – refactoring and improving their refrigerated container software, location tracking, device provisioning, and remote control

TEVA Health Systems (Israel) – adding AI to their existing patient and medical condition database, including enrichment from 3rd party sources such as weather conditions.

VoltaGrid (Texas) - writing custom software to remotely control their electrical power generation trailers used to supplement utility-provided power for operating oil fracking equipment

Twenty three customers doing migrations to Microsoft 365 from various email and document management platforms for customer companies in United States, approximately 5,000 mailboxes for this small & medium customer base

Project Manager

Workflow Studios October 2014 – July 2020

Not full time, concurrent with RC Solutions, above

This role required Mr. Leavenworth to manage a wide variety of projects starting from the time the SOW is signed and following through until the projects are documented and sign-off obtained from customer representatives. He also contributed to sales efforts once a lead was produced.

Example Projects

Migration to Amazon Web Services (AWS)

LogistiCorp A U.S. company handling logistics for cell tower maintenance of AT&T carrier networks. Based in Grapevine, TX.

Migration from on-prem data center

Windows 2003 servers to Windows 2016 server EC2 instances

SQL 2000 to AWS RDS SQL 2016

Lift and shift of existing .NET applications to a new GitHub repository

Established separate dev environment and DevOps process

Implemented Palo Alto network firewalls

Made infrastructure scalable and fault-tolerant

Migrations to IBM Smart Cloud

Sava Senior Care A US company providing health care and assisted living to senior citizens throughout the US. Based in Houston, TX

On-premises Lotus Notes to hybrid Smart Cloud

All English

Software Development

Albemarle A U.S. company focused on the production of various industrial chemicals (not petroleum). Based in Baton Rouge, LA.

Lotus Notes archive consolidation to regional servers

28 sites globally

Six languages: English, French, Chinese, Spanish, Italian, German

NSK Bearings A U.S. company producing industrial grade ball bearings. Based in Ann Arbor, MI.

Lotus Notes archive consolidation to US-based servers

15 sites globally

5 languages: English, French, Chinese, Spanish, Italian

Zodiac Seats The U.S. presence of a France-based company whose seats are used in Airbus, Boeing and several airlines globally. Based in Gainesville, TX.

HR open position requisition management (union and salaried)

Change Management tracking and notifications for IT systems

Outside Process “OP” Tooling requirements through finished product tracking

LEAN Assessment database

Legal team current contract repository

Electrical Manufacturer Certificate of Delivery and Notice of Change workflow

XTO Energy A U.S. energy company, subsidiary of ExxonMobil. Based in Ft. Worth TX.

Custom Lotus Script web services code to synchronize data from SQL servers to a Notes database

Project Manager

Slalom Consulting September 2012 – October 2014

This role requires Mr. Leavenworth to manage projects within the Advanced Infrastructure Solutions (AIS) group at Slalom (now called Cross-Market), starting from the time an SOW is signed and following through until the projects are documented and sign-off obtained from customer representatives.

Example Projects - Migrations from on-premises Exchange to Office 365

LSI Corporation A global designer of semiconductors and software that accelerate storage and networking in datacenters, mobile networks and client computing, headquartered in San Jose, CA

7,200 Users from Exchange 2010

235 Shared mailboxes

Matson Navigation A global logistics company headquartered in Hawaii (technical offices in Oakland, CA)

7,000 users moving from Exchange 2003 on-premises to Exchange 2010 on-premises; then Exchange 2010 on-premises to Office 365

200 Public Folders to Shared Mailboxes

100 Shared Mailboxes

Lync 2013 on-premises implementation

Exchange 2010 Unified Messaging on-premises and in Office 365

eBay & PayPal A global online auction business headquartered in San Jose, CA.

40,000 users from Exchange 2010 & Outlook 2010

2,000 Public Folders

8,000 Shared Mailboxes

Providing advice and expertise to the customer’s technical team rather than being allowed hands-on implementation

Integral operations with Microsoft leadership to ensure success

Guided the solution and proof of readiness through pilot phases, then handed over to the customer’s tech team to continue and complete the migrations.

Gensler An architecture firm with a global presence; headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

4,500 users moving from Exchange 2010 & Outlook 2007

2,000 Public Folders

350 Shared Mailboxes

Provided hand-on implementation in conjunction with advice and expertise

Project Manager

RC Solutions November 2010 – September 2012

This role required Mr. Leavenworth to manage the various projects of Flowserve Corporate Division’s IT Department called Unified Communications. The 2 groups comprising this department are Messaging (Microsoft Outlook 2010 & Office365 for email & Microsoft Lync 2010 for Instant Messaging), and Collaboration (SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Online)

General responsibilities

Implement a framework in which to manage all the projects in this group under a common standardized practice, methodology, and reporting.

Pilot the use of Microsoft Lync Mobile and Lync Translator.

November 2010 to May 2012

Lotus Notes email migration to Microsoft Office365

Implement a framework in which to manage 3 work stream pillars

upgrade end users to Office 2010

migrate email to the cloud (including adaptation of the Microsoft MODG methodology)

introduce SharePoint 2010 as a greenfield initiative

The framework’s horizontal work streams for each pillar were: technical implementation, software distribution & installation, Active Directory (AD) upgrade & enhancements, Network integration timing, Data Center readiness, end user training, end user & leadership communications, Help Desk training & transition.

The implementation targeted appx. 13,500 users in 23 countries and 7 official languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Brazilian Portuguese, and Simplified Chinese.

The position required managing the work of 8 contractors 4 different companies including burn rates and 4-week projections.

Project was featured in an article with Gartner Group May 2012 “Life on a High Wire”

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