Project Management Program

Michael L. Barnard, MBA

Cincinnati, OH – 317-***-**** – ************@*****.***

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-barnard-mba-15bb92169/

Program Management Professional & IT Executive

Achievement-oriented professional with extensive experience in program management, project management, global team leadership, and strategic planning. Proven track record of directing global implementations of IT infrastructure for manufacturing facilities and offices. Demonstrates program and project management success spanning entire project lifecycle from determination to delivery. Consistently identifies opportunities for advancing business objectives while implementing best practices for process improvement. Value-centric leader who thrives in fast-paced environments delivering both forward-thinking and professionalism. Experience in managing both Agile, Waterfall, SCRUM development Azure Dev Ops

Core Competencies

Merger/ Acquisition/ Divestiture

Business Analysis

Global Team Leadership

System Integration

IT Strategy & Security

Vendor Management

Agile, Waterfall and SCRUM Methodologies

P&L Responsibility

IT Portfolio Management/ Governance

Strategic Planning and Delivery

Product Development

Program / Project Management

Domestic and International

Change Management

Infrastructure & Application

Cloud: SaaS-PaaS-IaaS

Professional Experience

Diaconia LLC Dayton, Ohio November 2023 - present

Client: United States Air force: Supporting the development, production and deployment of the next generation advanced jet trainer

Senior Acquisition Program Manager

Support key acquisition events and reviews as needed such as system requirement reviews, preliminary design reviews, technical coordination reviews and production readiness reviews.

Drive integration of intelligence information and infrastructure to ensure cross-enterprise capabilities planning and system integration.

Develop, analyze, report and maintain schedules and metrics that are required to track program status.

Provide support for all aspects of program costs, schedule, and performance.

Provide technical support, planning for coordinating and leading integrated program reviews and conferences for executive, readiness, technical and budget reviews.

CBTS: Cincinnati, April 2023- September 2023

Client: janSan hygiene products and services

Sr Project Manager: Migration from Web-Methods to OIC (Oracle Integrated Cloud)

Leading the planning, coordination, and execution of the migration from legacy Web Methods to OIC for integrations, extensions and certain applications supported by multiple protocol technologies and web services.

Authoring weekly, monthly, and executive project summary documents for team distribution.

Facilitating open communication channels between the business sector and technical teams.

Managing a team of 26 support staff: project managers, architects, business analysts as well 7 offshore development resources

Creating, maintaining, and publishing Ms Project and Smart Sheet work plans as well as executive reporting summaries.

Moderating daily project team “standup” sessions to monitor workstream progress and interdependencies.

TEKsystems: Cincinnati, Ohio November 2022-March 2023

Client: Cardinal Health : Columbus, Ohio (annual sales $160 B)

Senior project Manager: Migration to SAP S4 Hana

Responsible for the planning, coordination, and execution of the $22mm migration from legacy software to SAP S4 Hana: focusing on integrations, middleware (MS Biz Talk), interfaces, IT infrastructure, applications, server environment build, financial and other “workstreams.”

Authors weekly, monthly, and executive project summary documents.

Manages a team of 24 support staff: project managers, business analysts, IT support (both on and offshore resources.

Creates, maintains, and publishes Ms Project work plans and monthly executive reporting.

Moderates daily project team “standup” sessions to monitor workstream progress and interdependencies.

Vaco, Inc. Cincinnati, Ohio February 2021 – October 2022

Client: First Transit, Inc.

Senior Program Manager: Transition Execution Management Office: $1.3 BB business divestiture

May 2022 – October 2022

Led the planning and coordination of the subsidiary divestiture: HRIS, IT infrastructure and applications, financial and other “workstreams.”

Authored weekly, monthly, and executive project summary documents.

Managed a team of 10 support staff: project managers, business analysts, IT support

Coordinated terms of TSA (Transition Services Agreement) between seller and buyer

Belcan : LLC

Client: Hillenbrand Industries: Batesville, Indiana

Senior Program Manager; Lead the Merger and ACQUISITION OFFICE for large, Cincinnati-based manufacturing Concern’s $.9 BB acquisition of Cincinnati Milacron

Feb 2021 – April 2022

Led the planning, coordinating, and executing M&A/integration process: HR, Legal, Manufacturing, Procurement, Sales, Information Technology and other “workstreams.”

Identifies and manages synergy realization strategies: $80mm financial synergies and dis-synergies for P&L reporting.

Lead the integration of the HR applications of the newly created organization.

Authors and presents monthly C-Level project integration reviews.

Drives team progress via weekly by chairing project “pulse” sessions.

Responsible for common integration cost management (consultants, contractors, software licenses, and software modifications in key systems (ERP, CRM HRIS) to support the new business

Affinity

Client: General Electric, Co

Sr Project Manager: Client Delivery and Engagement

Feb 2020-DEC 2020

Responsible for all aspects of Affinity’s relationship with major engine manufacturer based in Cincinnati, Ohio. This includes all client communication, planning, reporting and SOW generation. Full P&L responsibility.

Managed a team of 16 project managers, engineers, and business analysts on a multi-million, multi-year contract.

Identified potential cost-out projects to reduce the client’s cash spend on IT capability using 6-Sigma techniques.

Partnered with other 3rd party providers to coordinate complex delivery projects efficiently.

Formulated data migration plans to reduce data storage costs: on-prem, cloud, tiered storage etc.

Developed quarterly and annual plans for infrastructure deployment, communication, security, and networking capability.

Managed contract for hardware, software, and cloud procurement and services.

Oversaw on-site, remote/ telecommuting, and offshore located project teams.

Performed Business Analyst duties to gather and analyze company data to identify needs and recommend solutions.

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions

Client: Kroger: Cincinnati, Ohio

Jan 2019 – Dec 2019

Executive Program Manager

Serves as Program Manager with Global Commerce Solutions responsible for executive communication, P&L management, and presentations of new technologies. Collaborates cross-functionally to develop, test, and deploy new software capability and hardware installation. Manages team of 39 reports, including business analysts, developers, testers, project managers, and help desk associates. Focuses on identifying opportunities and implementing practices for driving efficiency and process improvement.

Maintained responsibility for planning release schedules aligning with the company’s overall goals and objectives.

Deployd,and monitored CRM support among multiple business units and operating entities.

Formulated, organizes, and monitors projects while determining appropriate strategies to meet release schedules.

Assessed program performance, resolves complex project issues, and leads teams to maximize the program’s ROI.

Worked with various project stakeholders to plan and develop project scope, deliverables, resources, and schedules.

Developed and managed financial budgets for projects and delivers against established project goals and objectives.

Managed support staff: Help Desk, Business Analysts, New Product Engineering

Participated with development to provide capability to reduce shrink by employing artificial intelligence.

Rolls-Royce N.A. – INDIANAPOLIS, IN

Feb 2010 – Dec 2018

Global Project and Program Delivery Manager: IT Infrastructure & Applications Delivery: Civil Aerospace, Defense, Marine, Energy and Civil Nuclear business sectors

Provided leadership as Program Manager for IT Infrastructure & Applications across North and South America, Middle East and Asia Pac. Planned and delivered overall IT program for Rolls-Royce manufacturing sites and offices in the Americas, including application deployment. Maintained responsibility for developing new initiatives to support strategic direction of operations. Designed regional goals, operating plans, and funding proposals with focus on maintaining client relationships and increasing profitability.

Managed the acquisition portfolio of 6 brand new multi-million-dollar manufacturing sites across the United States, Brazil, and Canada: 2 included versions of Oracle MES (workbench/supervisor workbench and administrative. 4 deployed SAP ME.

Led 23 new office build outs and application capabilities in U.S. U.A.E, China, Belgium, Poland, and Brazil. Utilized a combination of CISCO and Juniper capabilities for routers, switches as well as network security and management, including IBM Websphere and Oracle Fusion middleware.

Delivered support for mergers and integrations from an IT perspective, including the £1.0 BB of an energy business.

Managed divestiture of a £1.6 B business sector: applications, IT infrastructure and financials: $75mm IT budget.

Deployed 4 new instances of SAP and 4 upgrades during 8+ year tenure, including S/4 Hana Cloud in MS Azure.

Developed and deployed organizational risk management plan to identify, assess, prioritize, track and implement/monitor risk.

SAP Implementation experience with Procurement integration with other SAP Modules (i.e. Inventory Management, Finance, Sales and Distribution), Data Management and Human Capital Management.

Managed development efforts using Python, JAVA, HTML and C++ language.

Deployed (Agile) global EaaS (Engine as a Service) capability for International Airline carriers with RR power plants: deployed S4 Hana in U.S., Europe, Middle East and Asia PAC with 50+ permanent and third-party resources. Deployed CRM to help 1) manage sales leads, pipeline management and workflow and automation leads.

Deployed Milestone “C” capability in RR Defense Aviation sector to progress from engineering and development to production.

Managed Deployment of OIC (Oracle Integration Cloud) to the Defense Sector Business Unit. This enabled the enterprise to migrate their mission-critical workloads to the cloud while continuing to maintain the same security posture. This also reduced the overhead of building and operating data center infrastructure without sacrificing security.

Oracle Corporation – SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Jan 1995 – Jan 2010

Consulting Projects Director - Applications Delivery

Provided leadership as Consulting Projects Director controlling Oracle APPs and JD Edwards full-suite, contracted software delivery focusing on full-suite, multi-country, and multi-currency solutions. Maintained responsibility for account management, delivery execution, and account profitability. Collaborated with sales team to expand Oracle hardware and application footprint. Provided executive oversight of project and program managers with a focus on driving efficiency and process improvements. Responsible for all project’s budget control and reporting to client and management.

Recognized for increasing Oracle’s delivery service footprint in the region from 55% to 90% for new client contracts.

Led two-year multi-country project to deploy full-suite, JD Edwards capability on a single Belgium-based instance:

oIncluding CRM, ERP and consolidated reporting- multi-currency financial: USD, BEF and CNY

Oversaw hardware, technical, and application development increasing sales from $6.8M to $9M over project timeline.

Introduced effective product development into customer organizations to consolidate business processes into core ERP oCsoftware solutions to avoid costly issues in both supply chain and teamwork flow.

Managed the deployment of ERP and CRP capability to a large Columbus-based global, integrated healthcare services and products company (Oracle MES suite) This included what is now Oracle RMS (Retail Merchandising System. This is used to execute core merchandising activities like procurement, inventory management and financial tracking.

Eagle Pitcher Industries Inc – CINCINNATI, OHIO

Oct 1979-Dec 1994

Plant Manager Eagle Pitcher Plastics -Ft. Wayne Indiana

Oversaw planning and construction of $17mm fiberglass manufacturing facility. Interviewed and hired 60 office and manufacturing staff and increased sales 46% over 4 years.

Director of Assembly- Caterpillar Heavy Equipment- Lubbock, Texas

Responsible for fabrication and assembly of 4 lines of Caterpillar’s construction and mining equipment

Operations Manager Eagle Pitcher Laminates- Los Angeles, California

Responsible for managing processes, purchasing, accounting, human resources, inventory and IT. Annual sales 17.5 MM

Education

Master of Business Administration (MBA) Minor in Finance/Accounting

Lindner College of Business

Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Finance/Accounting: Lindner College of Business

University of Cincinnati – Cincinnati, OH

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