Ron Guerin
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Project Manager, Collabera at JP Morgan Chase
Lawrence, KS
Senior Level Certified Project Management Professional degreed in Accounting, Finance, and Management Information Systems. Broad and extensive experience in IT Systems and Telecommunications network infrastructure, Manufacturing, Distribution, and Government. Recognized for strong organizational skills focusing on risk management, change management, and critical path management. Strong track record enhancing profitability of operations while driving business and technology development projects to successful closure on time and within budget. Experienced in small, medium, and large sized companies of all life cycles (start up, growth, decline, and bankruptcy).
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Certified Project Management Professional degreed in Accounting, Finance, and Management Information Systems. Broad and extensive experience in IT, Telecommunications, Manufacturing, Distribution, and Government. Recognized for strong organizational skills focusing on risk management, change management, and critical path management. Proven success enhancing profitability of operations while driving business and technology development projects to successful closure on time and within budget. Experienced in small, medium, and large sized companies of all life cycles (start up, growth, decline, and bankruptcy).
Expertise includes:
• Critical Path and Change Management • Staff Development, Recruiting, and Training
• Productivity and Profit Improvement • MS Office Suite and MS Project
• Risk Management and Financial Acumen • Scope, Budget, and Timeline Management
• Customer Requirements Management • Software Development Life Cycle
• Operational Planning and Control • Enterprise Systems Integration
• Budget Planning and Control • Complex Problem Solving
Expertise includes:
• Critical Path and Change Management • Staff Development, Recruiting, and Training
• Productivity and Profit Improvement • MS Office Suite and MS Project
• Risk Management and Financial Acumen • Scope, Budget, and Timeline Management
• Customer Requirements Management • Software Development Life Cycle
• Operational Planning and Control • Enterprise Systems Integration
• Budget Planning and Control • Complex Problem Solving
Work/Education
Work Experience
Sprint Nextel
/ Senior Level Systems Integrator
2004 -
2009
Led the $39M multi-vendor Enterprise effort to deliver the Group List Management / Synchronization / Address Book functionality and Web interfaces to support the $1.6B High Performance Push-to-Talk product on CDMA Program, thereby providing product parity with the iDEN PTT product offering on the CDMA network in order to support the customer retention objective (10M).
• Recognized with a promotion after minimizing delay due to late delivery of interdependent system components by outlining the critical path tasks and the risk mitigation plan, enabling test phase completion prior to market launch.
• Allowed program trials to occur before Product Launch by developing a custom Web Portal solution so limited lab testing could occur in spite of vendor schedule delay.
• Identified and resolved resource gaps, scope and timeline changes, while breaking out the various deliveries in two phases, improving timeliness of program trials.
• Created and communicated a schedule recovery plan to customers and Executives that overcame impacts to network integration and test deliveries due to dependency resulting from development not being properly synchronized.
• Earned an Excellence Award for leading the research and design effort for an implementation plan advocating the joint use of the Systems Engineering and Project Management disciplines as a way to reduce time to market, project implementation cost, and customer churn.
• Built and led a team to create the Best in Class Change Management Process for Network Services, which was eventually accepted by Best in Class Steering Committee and its Governing Board.
• Recognized with a promotion after minimizing delay due to late delivery of interdependent system components by outlining the critical path tasks and the risk mitigation plan, enabling test phase completion prior to market launch.
• Allowed program trials to occur before Product Launch by developing a custom Web Portal solution so limited lab testing could occur in spite of vendor schedule delay.
• Identified and resolved resource gaps, scope and timeline changes, while breaking out the various deliveries in two phases, improving timeliness of program trials.
• Created and communicated a schedule recovery plan to customers and Executives that overcame impacts to network integration and test deliveries due to dependency resulting from development not being properly synchronized.
• Earned an Excellence Award for leading the research and design effort for an implementation plan advocating the joint use of the Systems Engineering and Project Management disciplines as a way to reduce time to market, project implementation cost, and customer churn.
• Built and led a team to create the Best in Class Change Management Process for Network Services, which was eventually accepted by Best in Class Steering Committee and its Governing Board.
MIDWEST CONSULTING GROUP
/ Senior Level Project Management Office for Sprint
1998 -
2004
PMO support team leader for Sprint Corporation, leading the project management effort in support of the enterprise-wide PeopleSoft accounting, budgeting, and supply chain suite development life cycle (from Business Case to Production Implementation); 5 Enterprise implementations ($100M) between PeopleSoft 6.11 – 8.8 with over 100 employee and contractor resources.
• Met customer expectations for 215,000 man-hour deployment of complex enterprise ERP web-based 5-tier architecture (including BAM database server), and platform migration/upgrade by leading vendor and Sprint teams through detailed critical path schedule and scope change management.
• Delivered enhanced functionality and complex enterprise ERP web-based access for 65,000 end users by leading vendor and Sprint teams through detailed critical path schedule and scope change management during complex deployment (12 teams, $13M) of new web-based 4-tier web-app architecture with 18,000 database tables sized at 1 terabyte.
• Achieved $20M NPV and 12 month payback financial objectives, with all required functionality, by leading vendor and Sprint teams through detailed critical path schedule and scope change management during complex enterprise ERP platform deployment (12 teams, $16M) of 500GB database while managing through significant cultural differences between divisions.
• Achieved 18-month payback financial objective, with all required functionality, by leading vendor and Sprint teams through detailed critical path schedule and scope change management during complex enterprise ERP platform deployment (10 teams, $19M) of 300 GB database while reducing the user outage window from 14 days to 3 days.
• Achieved 12 month payback financial objective by leading vendor and Sprint teams through detailed critical path schedule and scope change management during complex deployment including network capacity expansions/upgrades and initial desktop deployment to 440 sites across the USA to 3,700 users.
• Met customer expectations for 215,000 man-hour deployment of complex enterprise ERP web-based 5-tier architecture (including BAM database server), and platform migration/upgrade by leading vendor and Sprint teams through detailed critical path schedule and scope change management.
• Delivered enhanced functionality and complex enterprise ERP web-based access for 65,000 end users by leading vendor and Sprint teams through detailed critical path schedule and scope change management during complex deployment (12 teams, $13M) of new web-based 4-tier web-app architecture with 18,000 database tables sized at 1 terabyte.
• Achieved $20M NPV and 12 month payback financial objectives, with all required functionality, by leading vendor and Sprint teams through detailed critical path schedule and scope change management during complex enterprise ERP platform deployment (12 teams, $16M) of 500GB database while managing through significant cultural differences between divisions.
• Achieved 18-month payback financial objective, with all required functionality, by leading vendor and Sprint teams through detailed critical path schedule and scope change management during complex enterprise ERP platform deployment (10 teams, $19M) of 300 GB database while reducing the user outage window from 14 days to 3 days.
• Achieved 12 month payback financial objective by leading vendor and Sprint teams through detailed critical path schedule and scope change management during complex deployment including network capacity expansions/upgrades and initial desktop deployment to 440 sites across the USA to 3,700 users.
Claritas
/ Assistant Vice President
1994 -
1998
Directed the operations of $39 Million, 300-employee marketing data and software provider.
• Re-organized internal manpower, recruited consulting expertise, streamlined the development process, and reduced scope to successfully fit market entry window for new product development project in multimillion-dollar start-up environment.
• Identified $1.2 million operations process cost savings through design and facilitation of a key Total Quality Initiative.
• Defined Software Product Development Process Steps and Cross-Functional Core Teams including employee role definitions and measurable deliverables thereby increasing development speed and reducing development costs.
• Re-organized internal manpower, recruited consulting expertise, streamlined the development process, and reduced scope to successfully fit market entry window for new product development project in multimillion-dollar start-up environment.
• Identified $1.2 million operations process cost savings through design and facilitation of a key Total Quality Initiative.
• Defined Software Product Development Process Steps and Cross-Functional Core Teams including employee role definitions and measurable deliverables thereby increasing development speed and reducing development costs.
Advanced Performance Solutions
/ Senior Consultant and Project Lead
1993 -
1994
Completed Quality and Productivity Improvement Consulting.
• Increased profitability by 60% through the elimination of non-value added operations time by re-engineering the Ordnance Receipt, Storage, and Issue Processes for the US Naval Sea Systems Command.
• Gained a 5 year commitment to Re-Invent Government through TQM Process Deployment after training, facilitation, and consultation with Jefferson County (WA) Commissioners.
• Increased profitability by 60% through the elimination of non-value added operations time by re-engineering the Ordnance Receipt, Storage, and Issue Processes for the US Naval Sea Systems Command.
• Gained a 5 year commitment to Re-Invent Government through TQM Process Deployment after training, facilitation, and consultation with Jefferson County (WA) Commissioners.
Education
BS Commerce, Accounting, Finance, MIS, 1978
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