Peter Lyn René, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas Area

The Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public AffairsPrepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as classical political thought, international relations, and democracy and citizenship. Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction. Advise students on academic and vocational curricula and on career issues. Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers. Prepare course materials such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts. Develop instructional materials. Guide, Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions. Compile, administer, and grade examinations. Conduct research in area of expertise and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media. Utilize Blackboard for online teaching, learning and to supplement traditional face-to-face courses. Provide additional resources for students such PowerPoint presentation, Captivate, video, audio, animation, and other applications to enhance both in-class and online learning.

Houston, Texas Area

Design and develop web applications and its approach. Plan, facilitate and recorded meetings minutes with clients; create business and requirement functional specification documents. Communicate effectively with external clients and internal teams to deliver product’s functional requirements like screen, interface, and GUI designs. Advise and make recommendation to clients about software packages, perform hardware and software installation. Develop and maintain project plan. Develop a business approved project requirements document with clear definition of business deliverables. Create and maintain the strategic partnership between Business needs and Technology development environment. Develops and manages a SharePoint project website for project team.

Houston, Texas Area

Business Analyst for SharePoint Migration Project upgrading to SharePoint 2013. Was responsible for working with Stakeholders to update SharePoint sites. Created Requirements documents by conducting requirements workshops, As-Is and To-Be work flow analysis, surveys, use cases and scenarios. Created and replaced 20 sites created in previous versions with new SharePoint 2013 sites, including creating Showcase Titles, Quick Picks, adding Resources and Webparts. Proactively communicated and collaborated with project team members to analyze business needs and deliver the following artifacts as needed: (Business Requirements Document, Use Cases, and Quick User Guide).

Spring, Texas

Business Analyst for Track & Trace Team on a Project to develop Use Cases, business and functional requirements, with asset management software processing for OverVu 2.0 software to the next revision of 2.5. The goal of the project is the installation of Input/output devices capable of monitoring pump performance, pressure, temperature, flow rate and other various points, both onsite and remotely, determine necessary for local operations to monitor and track job performance, provide customer with job reporting and ability to monitor performance and to provide management with valuable data that can be viewed by their preference with the ability to sort data by job, region, customer, job type and operator.Swire Oilfield Services has long been at the forefront of track and trace technology, and this pioneering approach continues today. As a leading provider of products and services to the global oil & gas industry, Swire Oilfield Services has developed an innovative solution to achieve automated track and trace of materials and equipment, from suppliers to production sites. Swire offers both GPS and RFID based solutions that allow customers to monitor the location and compliance status of both rented and customer owned assets. Utilized project information in Scrumwise for creating Use Cases. Create Use Cases for Onshore water monitoring system at Fracking Sites (FRAC) which included: Pond Monitoring, Water Transfer Monitoring, and Tank Level Monitoring.

Houston, Texas, Downtown

Smart Manufacturing is robust global standard work processes enabled by enterprise-wide technologies and tools to drive operational excellence and improve decision support capability in order to accelerate the journey to sustainable top quartile performance. Smart Manufacturing’s initial focus is Proactive Technical Monitoring (PTM). As Template Business Lead (Business Analyst) focus on development of detailed PTM templates and monitoring plan updates by supporting Programme Manager, Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts, and Data Analysts on the Project. Created project Issues Tracking and Resolution site in Microsoft SharePoint 2010.Recommend technology solution/approach to improve data standardization progress, create data statistics and execute data cleansing activities. Data Management with ability of performing full/partial Database loads. Create queries (or views) based on business logic rules Experience with Shell’s Project Delivery Framework (PDF) standard. Business process flowcharting, analysis and development standard work procedures and processes; requirements gathering, documentation and Technical Writing.

Houston, Texas Area

Use knowledge of database structures and report production to review and analyze database and validate reporting criteria. Responsible for documenting the 'As Is' processes and gather user requirements to document and propose the 'To Be' processes. Responsible for gathering, developing, and documenting functional specifications and business requirements; identified and reported on trends and patterns found within the data and making recommendations for business and process improvement based on those findings. Worked with business users to understand requirements and expectations for reporting needed. Solved business problems by performing business analysis, preparing specifications, and provide process modifications and/or application or database enhancements and recommended technical and business process improvements. Coordinated and conducted functional application testing and user testing sessions.

Facilitated and managed the planning, development, testing, implementation and support of all Critical Business Systems (CBS) Metronetworks projects and applications as assigned. Worked closely with user group to define new application requirements, issues that need resolution and continually ensured that existing applications and systems were functioning properly per specifications; maintained all required SOX Change Control documentation and met all IT standards and Industry standards; requirements gathering and documentation for all projects. Defined, prioritized, scheduled, and monitored multiple CBS application development projects, developed and maintained comprehensive project plans/schedules. Collected and analyzed the project’s business requirements and transferred the same knowledge to development team. Provided suggestions to the development team during the development stage of product to meet the client’s business needs.Documented the acquired results of analysis and workflows as well as obtaining sign-off from the appropriate internal customers. Designed and executed the test scripts and test scenarios; Coordinated with groups who tested, validated, evaluated new applications and functions, and determined issues in services and software.

Manage development projects. Work with Development and Engineering Teams to produce project cost estimates. Work with Airport Services to pursue Funding Expenditure (FE) for creation and approval for new projects; work with the Business Sponsor to monitor and communicate spending against existing FE's; work with the User to define the scope of each project based on the business need; ensures Business requirements are complete, concise and approved by the business unit and project sponsors.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Law And Public Policy

Activities and Societies: Pi Alpha Alpha

Master'S Law And Public Policy, Law And Public Policy

Activities and Societies: Pi Alpha Alpha

Graduate Certificate, Homeland Security

Social Science, Political Science/Pre Law