Mark Ennis Email & Phone Number

Crystal Lake, Il, Us

The SkeensMcDonell™ Consulting Group works with companies to help them excel in their product and service realization projects. The Group’s Project Review Practice can be enlisted and will utilize proven methodologies to review critical projects which will result in specific recommendations to achieve time to market, quality and expense objectives. Our review teams are typically comprised of executives, managers and Subject Matter Experts who have strong backgrounds in executing complex projects of varied sizes. The team, after conducting a series of interviews and analyzing data provided by the companies’ staff, generates a presentation and written report with detailed recommendations. These recommendations not only have impact on the reviewed project but frequently result in structural, organizational, and process changes which have lasting benefits.In addition, SkeensMcDonell™ engages with clients to develop and execute improvement and resolution plans which address assessment findings and elevate performance into the future.

Management consulting practice focused on:Organization improvement in Program, Portfolio, Product, Process and Performance managementPlanning and implementation of M&A integration and restructuringQuality and Process improvementOrganization change

Consulting for M&A integration and project management. Focus is on planning and execution to deliver on the acquisition value proposition and the achievement of the post integration run model.

Chicago, Il

- Responsible for M&A Integration planning and execution. Since 2017 completed 6 acquisition integrations usually with 2 or 3 running in parallel. Established the integration process framework and governance which can be customized and adapted by the scale of the acquisition and the target integration structure. Integration also includes the planning, implementation and reporting of synergies. Instituted post acquisition integration dashboards for each acquired company including project milestones tracking, performance against the acquisition business case, synergy completion and other integration KPIs. Instituted Lessons Learned for ongoing process improvement- Responsible for execution of product roadmaps and strategies from concept selection through successful launch. Define and execute front end product and portfolio management for a business with $300M in sales and $390M operations revenue, including business line strategies (Playbooks), product roadmaps and Stage Gates. Planned and executed a successful turn around and expansion of the India software center. - Responsible for planning and execution of all new product development programs. Program scope is diverse, including hardware development, software for new games, common platform software releases, manufacturing ramp and product approvals by stringent gaming regulators. Execution is driven by business strategy and focused on achieving business results with strong linkages between product management, development engineering and supply chain.

- Organization name was Product Management Excellence. Responsible for global product management and business operations for telecommunications products including wireless access, transport and core infrastructure equipment. Led the assessment of global product management practices, covering more than 600 people across four countries, and established program for improvement and adoption of best practices. Drove profitability improvement project in partnership with Finance, Engineering and Customer Operations. Selected by business unit heads to lead a sensitive and strategic cross business unit integration program. Planned the integration of Motorola Networks product management into NSN product management.

- Responsible for Business and Product Management Operations for Networks business including CDMA, GSM, WiMAX and LTE, driving business results and execution across product management teams and in alignment with engineering and regional business teams. Introduced business strategy practices, executed early business gates for program selection and change management of programs. - Other responsibilities included product management of the Operations and Maintenance products for Motorola's CDMA, WiMAX and LTE Radio Access Networks which involved establishing product strategy and driving product roadmaps from product launch through product retirement. Was also responsible for NMS/OSS/BSS products for Networks businesses. Responsible for the start up of product and cellular system security strategy and roadmap for Networks business.

- Managed a global product development team responsible for CDMA O&M products. 100 engineers based in US with additional 120 engineers distributed across India, Malaysia and Israel. Successfully led efforts to migrate engineering from US to new centers in India and Malaysia while at the same time maintaining schedules and improving quality. Led successful quality turn around of inherited program already in the field. Launched next generation O&M platform.

- Established and managed business and quality goals for a world wide organization via Balanced Scorecard. Achieved defect reduction goals 2 years in a row. Achieved cost of poor quality reduction in first year of program. Established sector wide product development strategy and governance structure. Planned and executed the roll out of TL9000 quality standard and metrics. Managed a team of 44 software engineers, process engineers and quality managers. Developed and delivered test management and change management tools on schedule with high quality

Mba, Operations And International Business

B.S., Computer Science