Deleon Bennett, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas Area

Equipping teams to excelBennett Management Solutions is a minority owned professional services firm specializing in building long term relationships while driving projects to successful completion. Our staff has over 20 years of service in program management, project management, and systems engineering. Our services make projects more efficient and our team has a proven track record of controlling costs, schedules and work scope while maintaining uncompromised quality. We have extensive experience assessing and delivering on the complex needs of a diverse customer base and our team has been designing, deploying, and upgrading live systems for decades. Ethics, integrity, and delivery on commitment are the pillars of our corporation. Bennett Management Solutions equips teams to exceed the goals of our clients’ projects and the needs of our client base.

Houston, Texas Area

• Managed scope, quality, resources, risk, budget, communications, and deliverables associated with staging the City of New York $100M+ Emergency Communications Transformation Program Phase 2 (ECTP2) procurement.• Managed relationship between system consultant integrator, integrator’s customer, end users, and numerous vendors. • Managed build, configuration, validation, and factory acceptance tests across seven overlapping staging projects within the Program at multiple locations in Texas, South Carolina, and Illinois.• Coordinated contract modifications and minimized scope creep associated with the removal of Program integrator. Investigations spearheaded by the Mayor’s Office on cost overrun and Program delays precluded the integrator’s continued participation. • Ensured staging projects operated below original budget despite major challenges including software overhauls with multiple vendors, integrated systems design changes, and vendor deliverable conflicts.• Facilitated root cause analysis and resolution of numerous hardware and software defects within multiple suppliers with interconnecting processes and equipment. Identified, engaged, and leveraged key stakeholders from multiple entities to address identified issues. Developed solutions to remedy the numerous issues revealed. Initiated and facilitated executive staff level escalation calls with vendors' 3rd party suppliers to address delivery issues affecting schedule. • Managed quality issues across multiple vendors precluding system's ability to deliver contracted functionality. • Developed relationships with stakeholders and project teams to manage personality conflicts, fostering synergies to resolve constituent priority divergences. Mentored multiple project team members to ensure agreement on project principles and framework.• Audited vendor procurement processes and drove corrective results on critical path.

Houston, Texas Area

• Managed engineering budget, resources, and deliverables associated with $100M+ mission critical first responder ASTRO25 Phase II communication system for the City of Houston, Texas. Engineering team operated under original budget despite significant project scope creep.• Managed proposal generation, oral presentations, design review and contract negotiations; provided oversight of system staging, civil construction, equipment installation, factory and field acceptance testing, subscriber fleetmap, user cutover, and change orders.• Interfaced with and directed multiple disciplines including project managers, account managers, construction managers, services representatives, system technologists, customer technicians, public safety end users (Houston Police Dept. and Fire Dept.), subsystem vendors, and customer consultants.•Coordinated quality, procurement, product development, and product engineering groups for delivery of contract scope including new required system features, on time delivery of road mapped features, and issue characterization and resolution on delivered products.• Managed 3rd party vendors including microwave equipment supplier, customer software developers, engineering firms, installation shops, and civil firms.• Maintained communication with management and senior executive staff to ensure awareness of critical needs including engagement opportunities to address project and customer requirements. Equipped executive staff with pertinent information required to negotiate effectively with customer. Briefed customer executive staff on difficult issues and ensured acceptable customer temperament, while maintaining forward progress on the project.

Houston, Texas Area

Managed geographically diverse group of engineers with a budget of approximately $1.2M+, consisting of payroll, expenses, and sold services income. Provided engineering resources to support annual post-sale System Integration revenue plans totaling $90M.Participated in multiple Request for Proposal responses for voice and mobile data systems, dealing with consultants such as RCC and Trott.Maintained responsibilities for personal project load while serving as Group Leader.Interfaced with account managers to evaluate business opportunities and assign engineering resources.Assisted with contract negotiations throughout the contract award process. Maintained quality and accuracy in system design and implementation cost estimates.Interfaced with account managers and pre-sale business managers to refined pre-sale processes by reducing cycle time and improving quality of proposals.Interfaced with post-sale resource managers to align the engineering staff with awarded contracts. Secured outsourced resources from 3rd parties to augment the engineering staff and maintain successful post sale project performance.Developed yearly performance management plans and conducted performance evaluations. Prepared annual compensation and reward packages.

Houston, Texas Area

Designed, implemented, and documented mission critical public safety radio systems to meet the needs of public safety customer base. Projects consisted of UHF, VHF, and 800 MHz Motorola infrastructure, consoles, and subscribers.Educated customer on technology to equip them to make pertinent design decisions.Generated equipment lists, coverage predictions, subscriber Fleetmaps, proposal documentation, and customer presentations.Performed functional and coverage testing to prove delivered functionality.

Bachelor Of Science, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Alpha Phi Alpha, Tau Beta Pi, IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

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