Bobby Parratore Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Supporting a transformational initiative

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Supporting the carve out to integration effort of Sahale Snacks from J.M. Smucker to Second Nature Brands through a 4 month TSA period

Detroit Metropolitan Area

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

West Monroe was engaged by a large healthcare plan and provider to develop a strategic for contract negotiations with their infrastructure software and hardware provider. Bobby's responsibilities included:- Identifying viable alternatives to current providers to increase negotiation leverage- Analyzing possible negotiation levers resulting in $45M of savings opportunities- Delivering tactical negotiation strategy to achieve savings

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

West Monroe was engaged by a large healthcare plan and provider to run a sourcing event for data center operations with an annual budget of nearly $100M. Bobby's responsibilities included:- Developing a request for proposal with both functional and commercial terms to streamline the evaluation process and reduce sourcing risk for the client- Analyzing RFP responses for requirement compliance, value proposition, and financial benefits compared to current state costs- Determining outsourcing strategy and transformation roadmap to achieve strategy

West Monroe was engaged by a private equity client to perform a carve out due diligence of the mining division from a large multinational construction equipment company. Bobby's responsibilities included:- Assessing current state functionality gaps of SAP ECC 6.0 - Forecasting one time and recurring cost for recommended future state enterprise application architecture - Creating multiple deployment options to minimize timeline and business impact

Chicago, Illinois, United States

West Monroe was engaged by a private-equity owned custom lighting manufacturer to evaluate their current state ERP and available options in the market. Bobby's responsibilities included:- Evaluating current on-premises ERP for functional fit to business model and technology scalability- Creating future state enterprise application architecture surrounded by the newly selected core ERP platform- Negotiating the system integrator statement of work and licensing order form on behalf of the client

Seattle, Washington, United States

WMP was engaged by a west coast healthcare payer to evaluate multiple sub-processes across the accounts payables and technology group. Bobby's responsibilities included:- Leading process mapping sessions to understand current state gaps and productivity metrics for ROI analysis- Baselining current state capabilities against industry leading best practices to determine overall maturity and degree of viable change in the process/organization - Creating a 18 month roadmap with 25+ projects to increase productivity, reduce employee frustration, and increase automation to align to P2P best practices

Basel-Town, Switzerland

WMP was engaged by a European based leader in contract research, development and manufacturing to design a complete IT platform strategy. Bobby's responsibilities included:- Facilitating remote fact finding sessions aligning key stakeholders on guiding vision and desired future state capabilities- Rationalizing 15+ applications onto a reduced common set of scalable applications to allow the business to grow and reduce manual pain points throughout core back office processes - Developing 36-month total cost of ownership across 22 projects and 4 key workstreams

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

WMP was engaged by a leading Oncology group to perform a fit-gap analysis of Workday ERP and Workday HCM Suite. Bobby's responsibilities included:- Advising on current state tools and replacement strategies, including facilitating rapid RFI - Facilitating the selection and evaluation through use of accelerators - Providing quality assurance to organizational change management workstream

Denver, Colorado, United States

WMP was engaged by a nationwide automotive and Quick lube shop to evaluate multiple Point of Sale platforms for effective deployment . Bobby's responsibilities included:- Leading discovery sessions to understand current state gaps in competing POS system in the client's environment, including multiple shop site visits- Providing full five year total cost of ownership and budget build- Designing implementation deployment schedule

Sacramento, California Area

WMP was engaged by a PE partner to assess Target’s IT systems and infrastructure in preparation for purchase and integration to other PortCo. Entities. Bobby's responsibilities include:- Evaluating ERP portfolio for best-fit ERP solution- Determining cost of ownership for go-forward ERP solution for integration company- Providing operational and technology perspective on target diligence

Greater Boston Area

WMP was engaged by an software company to help assess order to cash and revenue reporting pain points. Bobby's responsibilities include:- Leading current state discovery workshops on current order to cash processes - Developing recommendations to resolve key reporting issues out of billing platform and NetSuite ERP- Creating roadmap with effort, timeline, and dependencies for recommended projects

Greater New York City Area

WMP was engaged by an investment bank to aid in the selection of a new ERP platform for their current business of ~$800M in revenue. Bobby's responsibilities include:- Leading requirement workshops for leads to close, order to chase, and procurement functional areas- Communicating directly with vendors on key dates, client background, and objective guidance throughout the selection process- Advising client through contract negotiations with vendor of choice and preparing multiple iterations of total cost of ownership models to enhance client leverage

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

WMP was engaged by an non-profit for assistance in selecting a new ERP system focused on general ledger, multi-entity, and reporting capabilities. Bobby's responsibilities include:- Developing detailed demonstration scripts for half-day long demonstrations- Preparing functional analysis and demonstration scorecard results- Evaluating survey results related to product usability and attendee feedback on system capabilities

Washington D.C. Metro Area

WMP was engaged by an professional services firm to aid in the selection of a new ERP platform for their current business of ~$400M in revenue. Bobby's responsibilities include:- Evaluating longlist of seven ERP vendors, using balanced scorecard approach to recommend ERP shortlist- Developing completed requirement matrix and request for proposal in half the typical timeline for completion- Coordinating three multi-week vendor demonstrations with ERP finalists- Preparing complete ERP total cost of ownership model, system integrator evaluation, and functional analysis- Advising client through contract negotiations with vendor of choice

Southern California

WMP was engaged by an specialty contractor to aid in the selection of a new ERP platform for their current business of >$1B. Bobby's responsibilities include:- Leading requirements gathering workshops with over 35 stakeholders across procurements, billing & collections, job cost- Coordinating and engaging with five different software vendors for RFP response, product demonstration, and client discovery - Assessing best vendor fit for client software requirements and future implementation need- Preparing complete ERP total cost of ownership model

Boston, Ma & Frankfurt, Germany

WMP was engaged by an optical solutions provider to aid in the selection of a new global ERP platform for their growing business. Bobby's responsibilities include:- Leading requirements gathering workshops with over 35 stakeholders across manufacturing, warehouse, finance, and IT- Coordinating and engaging with twelve different software vendors throughout the three to four month selection effort- Assessing best vendor fit for client software requirements and future implementation needs

Greater New York City Area

WMP was engaged by a state health plan to manage the implementation of a new Health Plan platform, Guiding Care 8. Bobby’s responsibilities included:- Developed and maintained testing management process between vendor and client- Implementing a testing and defect management cadence for the client and system developer to effectively communicate critical issues and troubleshoot- Managing a team of four resources to test over 400 test cases across letters, scripts, forms, and configuration of platform- Managing a single source of truth document for all test results and status reporting- Leading daily defect management calls with offshore development team

Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore

WMP was engaged by a large utility to help streamline their operations and reporting capabilities. Bobby's responsibilities include:- Identify gaps in data collection across multiple operating companies- Document and assess value streams to provide areas of opportunities- Facilitate SLA management and change management processes

Greater Chicago Area

WMP was engaged by a large utility to manage a multi-year, multi-million dollar program. Bobby’s responsibilities included: - Managing two multi-million dollar budgets across nine projects and maintenance activities, 12 vendors, and various stakeholders- Providing guidance on program’s long range plan (LRP), as well as other program budgets- Developing financial ledgers and a waterfall excel tool to concisely summarize key program information for monthly leadership meetings- Maintaining a system of time tracking and resource management to improve project efficiency, manage over 75 resources, and address potential sources of variance- Completing transition activities of PMO responsibilities to internal resources

Greater Milwaukee Area

WMP was engaged by a Dental care payer to document business requirements, understand current process, and create an enhanced future state process to respond and win a large scale RFP. Bobby’s responsibilities included: - Creating executive summaries of requirements for business stakeholders regarding the beneficiary outreach and services functions- Creating an artifact tracker to highlight missing information needed to draft a winning response- Researching successful outreach programs put on by the client within the state of California- Developing an organizational structure while soliciting input from DentaQuest business owners- Gathering and calculating financial costs to contribute to an overall RFP bid price

Chicago, Il

WMP was engaged by a Healthcare payer to enhance their E-Commerce site to support direct integration with Healthcare.gov to administer individual product. Bobby’s responsibilities included:- Facilitating stakeholder interviews to gather business requirements for shopping experience, pricing structures, exception enrollments, administrative portal functions, general enrollment, and payment collection of E-Commerce site- Collaborating with WMP/client developers to design solutions that balanced business need with development effort- Creating use cases to design on-exchange pricing structure, administrative enhancements, payment collection, and failed enrollment processes of the E-Commerce site- Creating training documents to transition ownership of managing user permissions with the siteAfter completion of Bobby's internship, he was offered a full time role and accepted it shortly thereafter.

Champaign, Il

- Oversaw team of 15 supervisors and officials to lead open/closing of recreation center - Provide any necessary conflict resolution to ensure 250 student successfully participate in Intramural activities each night- Learned valuable people management, organization, and customer service skills

Glen Ellyn, Il.

- Worked autonomously providing full service customer assistance including reservations, paperwork processing, insurance coordination and vehicle inventory management - Focused on building relationships for customer leads and networking - Ranked 20/64 for the intern class in Sales Matrix for the 2013 Summer

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Business Process Management And Marketing, Senior

Activities and Societies: Illinois Business Council, Theta Xi Fraternity, YoungLife Ministries, Phi Eta Sigma Honor SocietyJames Scholar.

Education record

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society, Key Club, Football Captain, Basketball