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Experience Professional Services: q Extensive experience in Professional Services consulting practice construction and management. Capable of building innovative professional service practices to multi-million revenue marks in short periods of time. q Evangelize metric based performance measurement such as utilization, realized rate, realization, project margin and profit. q Broad experience in client engagement (Business Development, Sales, Account Management) and follow through (Technical Services, Business Services, Project Management, Customer Support). q “Big 5” presence. Able to contact and build relationships with C level executives. Foster open dialog through honesty and emphasis on the customer’s best interest. q Excel in P&L management and optimization. Advocate conservative accounting practices. q Meticulous in budget development and adherence. Able to minimize costs while increasing value of service. q Creative force behind approach to market, sales process and delivery, business development, performance methodologies, service delivery, employee development and work management. q Fluent in contract development and negotiation. Distinct experience with writing time and materials, fixed price, not to exceed, and milestone-based engagements. My approach to management is a blend of concepts, techniques and tools derived from the Project Management Institute’s Body of Knowledge, Software Engineering Institute’s Capability Maturity Model and Software Process Framework, as well as industry best practices. Project Management: q Over 8,500 hours of project experience. q Wide variety of projects including business process engineering, software development, systems integration, and software package implementation. q Projects ranging from very small with part time matrix participants to multi million dollar with dozens of full time participants. q Certified Project Management Professional from the Project Management Institute from 1999 to 2003 I apply scientific processes to the management of work toward a determined deliverable and utilize project chartering to clearly define project scope and deliverables. I advocate Joint Application Development and Joint Requirement Development techniques to establish a specific and detailed product design and configuration. I involve stakeholder communities throughout the process to obtain buy in, funding, and best utilization of product once project completes. Consulting: q Extensive experience at the executive management level. q Specialize in business process management, technology architecture, and operations. q Defines best practices, recommendations, and alternative solutions. As an executive business consultant I facilitate agreement on current business processes and define future processes given business requirements and ensure consistency with the feature sets of solution products. I perform analysis of future processes, business environment, goals and directions to derive detailed application design and configuration elements. |