John Barnes Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, United States

Responsible for leading a team responsible for designing and innovating a global enterprise network offshore for the oil and gas industry to ensure efficiency in oil collection. My role as the product manager was the development of the Product Roadmaps and execution of those plans to meet customer commitments, neutralize competitor threats, and deliver these new, innovative, and market-leading products to become a market leader for the connected worker software category. This will include developing a systematic approach to client usability, POC's, design/development, piloting, enhancement, and product launch. Another key aspect of this role is the development of product releases processes, analytics, and metrics to operationalize the delivery of the product portfolio ensuring the development of accurate timelines and that financial objectives are met. • Worked with executives VP of Engineering, and directors in all upstream and downstream organizations to align product strategy & roadmap with Innovapptive’s Connected Worker Platform vision for Asset Intensive Industries. • Own communication of product strategy and progress across the company, ensuring all key stakeholders are sufficiently bought-in and informed as required. • Created operational vision into deployment strategies in each hemisphere, product roadmaps (Stories, Features, capabilities), and manage & validate a multi-year product roadmap with customers & sales. • Develop a prioritized feature backlog and corresponding justification for the features. • Established a clear vision of the product management organizational design, and collaborate with engineering teams to drive effective execution. • Managed budgets, forecasts, metrics, and measures associated with each release version. Monitors and evaluates the results from product deployments.Developed analytics and metrics to measure the success of the team and to monitor continued.

Maryland, United States

Responsible for implementing/upgrading multiple Motorola ASTRO25 trunking systems nationally for the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Primary responsibilities were to plan and organize the installation efforts (Construction, Equipment, and Electrical. Etc) of Subcontractor companies on behalf of the Motorola Federal division, prepare technical proposal, respond to government RFI and RFQs, develop Statements of Work (SOW), and manage and adhere to all Contract Data Requirement List (CDRL). • Simultaneously managed multiple nationwide tactical LMR system upgrades and IT infrastructure integration/development projects ranging from $500K to $15M dollars, involving simple to complex engineering, while limiting scope creep, sustaining each project profit margin, and managing all project activities to ensure strict adherence to the project schedules. • Conducted site surveys and equipment analysis to ensure engineering plans, spectrum allocations, environmental regulations, and projected equipment sites were properly addressed to ensure all contractual deliverables are meet and exceed the customer’s expectations. • Present monthly project review meeting presentation that specifies what methodology is taken to analyze project requirements, asses project profit feasibility, and how the project will be managed through the project life cycle with the other business components within Motorola. • Managed and ensure production of all project artifacts, reports, and user documentation on system as built and operational maintenance. • Manage and coordinate multiple departments employees simultaneously, per project, within the organization and external business to include but not limited to: Engineering, Sales, Training, Services, Contracting, and Vendor labors’.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Responsible for providing project oversight on a $100 Million dollar Radio Modernization Integration Program, contracted to a system integrator, and assume manage of another mid-size equipment integration project, a support project to the $100 Million dollar Radio Modernization program, and ensure both satisfying all of the USCP technical and functional requirements along with the intended business needs .. •Review subcontractors test scripts and scenarios to determine if the system and its subsystems will pass the SDLC project milestones entrance/exit criteria such as: Test Readiness Review, Deployment Readiness Review, Interoperability, Migration Readiness Review, and an Operational Readiness Review. •Facilitated the planning and distributions of user equipment and training of 2500+ users to ensure successful Deployment and user migration.Develop the Departments transitional plan (full cutover parallel with primary cutover rollout migration) and schedules to include all major control gate milestones •Implemented PMI and ITIL v.3 business methodology within the organization to lead and direct management initiatives for all major projects that managed the project SDLC model for the organization. •Managed the master schedule analysis to determine possible schedule slippages and or cost impacts. •Developed and integrated the UPS Network Management project schedules in support of the USCP Radio Modernization Project subcomponent according to the SDLC methodology. •Planned, coordinated, and lead the transition of equipment and operators to their new operating environment while overcoming unique operational obstacles, and also communicating the strategy and objectives to senior management regarding the processes.

Responsible for wireless technology projects especially focused on the homeland security, defense and civil government markets. Assisted government clients and contribute in project teams to support their program missions by applying the prevailing wireless technology and management best practices. Demonstrated the ability to execute tasks in the area of wireless management, strategic planning and analysis, requirements and technology assessments, implementation planning,and risk management.

Fort Polk, La

Supervised multiply 9 member teams tasked with set-up, operation and maintenance of all group communication systems including radio and data network infrastructures. Assemble, repair and test mobile SATCOM communication systems to include Land Mobile Radios (LMR) systems, and LAN / WAN topologies valued in 6 million dollars. Develop and implement department Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), interface with vendors to acquire resources, and perform broad range of monitoring and tracking activities to ensure assigned systems perform at optimal efficiency.