Bruce Robin Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

I started Applied Project Leadership to assist start-up, small, and medium sized companies to add project discipline to their organizations. To discuss your unique operational needs, contact Bruce Robin, MBA, PMP at bruce.robin.pmp@gmail.com or at 301-456-6792

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

As Program Manager for the Applied Project Management group, I participate in supported functions including servicing as a Chapter liaison to PMI Special Interest Groups (SIGs), PMI Colleges, other professional organizations, and non-profit organizations. 2017 Love Where You Live project - Plano TX neighborhood improvement project to be held on September 16, 2017. Coordination of volunteers and demonstrating project management techniques.- Wrote Statement of Work, Bill of… Show more As Program Manager for the Applied Project Management group, I participate in supported functions including servicing as a Chapter liaison to PMI Special Interest Groups (SIGs), PMI Colleges, other professional organizations, and non-profit organizations. 2017 Love Where You Live project - Plano TX neighborhood improvement project to be held on September 16, 2017. Coordination of volunteers and demonstrating project management techniques.- Wrote Statement of Work, Bill of Materials for purchased materials, and resource plan for volunteers- Led Kick-off meet for volunteers- Worked with four volunteers from Habitat for Humanity, six volunteers from Dallas PMI, and 25 volunteers from State Farm.- Repaired and painted a home in Plano, TX.2018 Group Planning - one sponsored activity planned for each quarter. Show less

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Responsible for all projects associated with the company’s Contract Research business, Business Development, PMO, Marketing, and Quality Assurance departments.• Managed internal and client projects using the SDLC methodology; vendor relations, budget management• Lead business development activities for the contract research business.• Collaborated in the development of business plan for research programs.• Lead PMO activities included writing the SOP and support… Show more Responsible for all projects associated with the company’s Contract Research business, Business Development, PMO, Marketing, and Quality Assurance departments.• Managed internal and client projects using the SDLC methodology; vendor relations, budget management• Lead business development activities for the contract research business.• Collaborated in the development of business plan for research programs.• Lead PMO activities included writing the SOP and support documentation of the managing contract research program; managed and updated the SOPs for document control and management of project portfolio program.• Managed the Program Portfolio, budget, assessed priorities.Project Leadership / Program management / Project management / Portfolio management / PMO / Lean / Process improvement / Project Mentoring / Team leader / SDLC / Conflict resolution / Metrics analysis / Reporting / Business development / Negotiations / Contract management / Customer management / Vendor management Show less

Vernon Hills, Il

Consultant working with TekSystemsResponsible for program oversight of site separation of AbbVie network from the Abbott network; assigned 11 projects with CAPEX budgets ranging from $500K to $900K each project. • Managed the site separation including working with technical project managers, site contacts, and vendors to build new communication rooms, install network equipment, and migrate servers and applications.• Completed site separation in Bogota, Columbia; Guatemala City… Show more Consultant working with TekSystemsResponsible for program oversight of site separation of AbbVie network from the Abbott network; assigned 11 projects with CAPEX budgets ranging from $500K to $900K each project. • Managed the site separation including working with technical project managers, site contacts, and vendors to build new communication rooms, install network equipment, and migrate servers and applications.• Completed site separation in Bogota, Columbia; Guatemala City, Guatemala; Montevideo, Uruguay; Sao Palo, Brazil.• Scheduled site separation in Mexico City, Mexico; Lima, Peru; Quito, Ecuador; Santiago, Chile; Tunis, Tunisia; Zagreb, Croatia; Ljubljana, Slovenia; completion dates occurred soon after leaving the team.Project Leadership / Program management / Project management / Project Mentoring / Team leader / Conflict resolution / Risk management / CAPEX / Metrics analysis / Reporting / SDLC Show less

Chicago, Il

Consultant working with DivIHN Solutions.Responsible for full project life cycle for IT technical projects including project plan, budget, and resource plans at Evraz NA. Assisted in the capital expense planning, project budget managing and quality improvement activities associated with infrastructure gaps and managing maintenance tasks • Managed the successful completion of seventeen Capital Expenditure projects with over $2.5M in hardware, software and vendor contract costs, and… Show more Consultant working with DivIHN Solutions.Responsible for full project life cycle for IT technical projects including project plan, budget, and resource plans at Evraz NA. Assisted in the capital expense planning, project budget managing and quality improvement activities associated with infrastructure gaps and managing maintenance tasks • Managed the successful completion of seventeen Capital Expenditure projects with over $2.5M in hardware, software and vendor contract costs, and $1.1M in internal resource costs; 17 months.• Completed eleven Capital Expenditure projects (2014) that included installation of network core & access switches, improved communication services, new storage area networks, new data storage backup initiatives, software upgrades, and cabling/termination. Other projects included Citrix Farm upgrade, Window 7 upgrade, asset management optimization (Footprints), and a wireless network upgrade.• Completed six Capital Expenditure projects (4Q2013) that included deployment of a new backup standard with a NetBackup solution with new storage and DataDomains, improved communication services, network upgrades with cabling/termination, deploying a new anti-virus standard, and a new VPN solution.• Managed budgets and vendor relations; participated in PMO process improvement activities.Project Leadership / Program management / Project management / SDLC / Portfolio management / PMO / Process improvement / Project Mentoring / Team leader / Conflict resolution / Metrics analysis / Reporting / CAPEX / Contract management / Vendor management Show less

Germantown, Md

Working as a consultant.SuperNova is a venture spin-off of Mosaigen; an early commercial stage diagnostics company with a proprietary diagnostics platform that greatly enables point-of-care in human health and point-of-use for non-human health applications. Responsible for project oversight on numerous activities associated with commercialization of a new diagnostic detection technology. - Project managed separate research projects including development of a research… Show more Working as a consultant.SuperNova is a venture spin-off of Mosaigen; an early commercial stage diagnostics company with a proprietary diagnostics platform that greatly enables point-of-care in human health and point-of-use for non-human health applications. Responsible for project oversight on numerous activities associated with commercialization of a new diagnostic detection technology. - Project managed separate research projects including development of a research instrument, proprietary polymers, and immunoassay and molecular biology assays. Responsible for budgets, project documentation, and presentations to customers. Worked with different research teams in Maryland, Connecticut, California, Ohio, Missouri, and the Netherlands.- Developed Quality Management System including manuals, policies, SOP(s) and project document templates; supporting System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and waterfall methodologies to manage CRO, internal development, and collaborative development projects.- Managed business development initiatives for contract research services.- Launched SharePoint site to share project documents with staff, collaborators, and consultants.Project Leadership / Project management / SDLC / PMO / Process development / Project Mentoring / Team leader / Conflict resolution / Metrics analysis / Reporting / Contract management / Vendor management Show less

United States

• Responsible for oversight on numerous activities associated with commercialization of a new diagnostic detection technology. Product development included the development of a research instrument /software, proprietary polymers, immunoassay and molecular biology assays. Program canceled due to funding. (Start-up company.)• Responsible for program oversight for the development and deployment of a new cellular device; design through ship acceptance (SA). Product was deployed.•… Show more • Responsible for oversight on numerous activities associated with commercialization of a new diagnostic detection technology. Product development included the development of a research instrument /software, proprietary polymers, immunoassay and molecular biology assays. Program canceled due to funding. (Start-up company.)• Responsible for program oversight for the development and deployment of a new cellular device; design through ship acceptance (SA). Product was deployed.• Responsible for development and deployment of a new data warehouse for a consulting company. • Responsible for technical assessment of a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) product for document re-classification program. Product canceled at the proof of concept stage.• Responsible for project planning of development for a new hand-held medical diagnostic device product for POC (point of care) testing. Developing instrument, disposable test cartridges, telecommunication ability to connect to hospital network. Product canceled due to funding. (Start-up company.)• Responsible for developing and deploying custom data warehouse / relational database to combine flat files in the Technology Transfer department to improve interdepartmental communication and management. Product was deployed. Show less

Bowie, Md

Consultant working with Applied Systems Development Corp. Work focused on supporting the IT Directorate.Responsible for developing governance, policies, processes and standards for a newly formed PMO; train Census Bureau employees, mentor on-going project activities. Assigned to work on several large IT projects.• Managed a troubled multi-year hardware re-fresh program over two years late in delivery to a successful completion.• Managed a second hardware refresh program… Show more Consultant working with Applied Systems Development Corp. Work focused on supporting the IT Directorate.Responsible for developing governance, policies, processes and standards for a newly formed PMO; train Census Bureau employees, mentor on-going project activities. Assigned to work on several large IT projects.• Managed a troubled multi-year hardware re-fresh program over two years late in delivery to a successful completion.• Managed a second hardware refresh program including the replacement of aging legacy Blade and other server infrastructure, Storage-area-networks (SAN) to new VMware environments; included data migration.• Developed organizational governance, policies, processes and standards for a newly formed PMO.Project Leadership / Program management / Project management / Portfolio management / PMO / Process development / Project Mentoring / Team leader / SDLC / Conflict resolution / Metrics analysis / Reporting / Negotiations / Contract management / Customer management / Vendor management Show less

Germantown, Md

Worked as a consultant. Mosaigen, LLC was founded in 2004 as a global technology development corporation specializing in the life sciences, ICT and Cleantech industries. The company utilizes proprietary venture creation/acceleration model "reverse startup" approach combines assets, people and money into new or existing entities to develop well run, capital efficient, lower risk companies.- Worked on ad hoc projects as needed. Details can not be disclosed due to non-disclosure… Show more Worked as a consultant. Mosaigen, LLC was founded in 2004 as a global technology development corporation specializing in the life sciences, ICT and Cleantech industries. The company utilizes proprietary venture creation/acceleration model "reverse startup" approach combines assets, people and money into new or existing entities to develop well run, capital efficient, lower risk companies.- Worked on ad hoc projects as needed. Details can not be disclosed due to non-disclosure agreements. Show less

Libertyville, Il / San Diego, Ca

VE465 Cellular Phone program (http://phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=1891)Responsible for program oversight for the development and deployment of a new cellular device; from design through ship acceptance (SA) utilizing project SDLC and Milestone Gate management.• Project managed the efforts of the hardware team; 12 electrical and mechanical engineers, performance against plan. Managed the efforts of seven project managers contributing to the program representing software… Show more VE465 Cellular Phone program (http://phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=1891)Responsible for program oversight for the development and deployment of a new cellular device; from design through ship acceptance (SA) utilizing project SDLC and Milestone Gate management.• Project managed the efforts of the hardware team; 12 electrical and mechanical engineers, performance against plan. Managed the efforts of seven project managers contributing to the program representing software applications, prototyping, regulatory, product testing, market testing, procurement, and manufacturing teams. The project teams were co-located in the U.S. (California, Illinois, and New Jersey), Brazil, Korea, India, and China.• Managed the hardware budget of $8M+ including parts qualification, prototype development, and all prefactory ramp-up activities; resource budget specific for R&D staff was $5M+.Post Launch Product SupportResponsible for a variety of product support projects including hardware and software fixes and product scrap mitigation.• Managed projects for post-launch product support including qualifying secondary part vendors, electrical and mechanical part upgrades, software bug fixes, and software application upgrades.• Managed relations with part vendors for second sourcing activities, and third-party contractors to out-source product re-work to mitigate over $20M in product scrap.• Conducted and implemented Resource Capacity Modeling on a team of ~60 technical staff ($7.0M/year in operating budget) for portfolio prioritization & resource planning for 6-9-12 months; models later deployed by the PMO.Project Leadership / Program management / Project management / Portfolio management / Milestone Gate Owner / PMO / Process development / Project Mentoring / Team leader / SDLC / Conflict resolution / Resource modeling / Metrics analysis / Reporting / Negotiations / Vendor management / Material sourcing / Product rework / Software upgrades / Change control management Show less

Arlington Heights, Il

Responsible for a series of software development projects, intranet data warehouse based metrics reporting program, Six Sigma process improvement project. • Managed a series of software application projects supporting an internal dashboard program including over thirty metric reports; using Informix, Crystal Reports, JavaScript, Perl, C++, and Visual Basic.• Project managed software applications that supported new features utilized by a device (SwitchMATE) to provide a GUI interface to… Show more Responsible for a series of software development projects, intranet data warehouse based metrics reporting program, Six Sigma process improvement project. • Managed a series of software application projects supporting an internal dashboard program including over thirty metric reports; using Informix, Crystal Reports, JavaScript, Perl, C++, and Visual Basic.• Project managed software applications that supported new features utilized by a device (SwitchMATE) to provide a GUI interface to the Motorola cellular switch (EMX); three separate software releases on the SwitchMATE and three on the EMX.• Project managed the deployment of a data warehouse; standing up servers, SAN, applications and web portal.• Participated in quality process improvement projects on Six Sigma process teams (using DMAIC process); implemented project management process improvement initiatives; supervised by Black Belt manager; PMO initiative. Received extensive Green Belt training.• Developed project management training materials and trained 25 new managers in the Beijing China office.• Conducted Resource Capacity Modeling on divisional R&D staff ~900 technical staff ($120M/year R&D budget) to support R&D capability management and recommended process changes that improved R&D 6-9-12 month planning; PMO initiative. Improved R&D commitment to new projects by reducing planning waste by over 20%, $25M in first year.Project management / Software application development / Infrastructure development / Data Warehouse development / DMAIC – Six Sigma - Process improvement / Team leader / SDLC / Conflict resolution / Metrics analysis / Reporting / Training / Resource modeling Show less

Mba, Management

Bs, Biological Sciences

Green Belt Training, Six Sigma

Masters Certificate, Project Management