Randy Spiess Email & Phone Number

Palatine, Il, Us

Responsibilities include:- Strategic and tactical advisor for Comdyna Inc. for EOL objective- Appointed by BOD as acting president

Riverwoods, Il, Us

Partnered with business leader to design and implement transformation to product-centric ways of working that include strategy and OKR workshops, executive training, organization health assessments, and continuous improvement backlog management. Responsibilities include designing, teaching, coaching, and facilitating product-centric ways of working with a focus on Agile and lean management principles & practices that include strategic direction (vision/strategy), developing (and using) objectives and key results, lean road maps, definition of ready/ acceptance criteria, dependency management, leader coaching, and maturity assessments.

Riverwoods, Il, Us

Responsibilities included coaching, facilitating, and training on Agile, DevOps, and lean management principles & practices.

Oakbrook Terrace, Il, Us

Randy facilitates the DevOps Academy which utilizes AWS cloud services and a Continuous Integration/ Continuous Deliver (CI/CD) tooling stack to help teams reduce project costs, improve time to market and develop features in days/ weeks vs months by utilizing DevOps, Agile, and Lean methodologies. These training sessions were hands-on learning and were presented to over 900 student employees in 36 sessions. Randy also facilitated a couple hands-on JavaScript training classes.

Developed and managed projects for an eCommerce program. Risk Placement Services (RPS) is a Managing General Agent/Underwriting Manager and nationally focused wholesale insurance broker. We have ranked in the top five in every insurance industry category and have been consistently ranked as the largest MGA in the country for several years. Headquartered in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, our organization has more than 80 branch offices and satellite locations. Randy is helping RPS develop and grow their Ecommerce and support services.Experience working with Jira, Trello, Confluence, and Sharepoint

Wilmington, De, Us

Provided consultation on early stages of the sales and business development program. Aeoflex Technology Group provides Salesforce consulting services, implementation, integration and support that has helped hundreds of businesses (e.g. Coca Cola, GE Healthcare, American Century Investments, GSA, Safelite AutoGlass).

Arlington Heights, Il, Us

Coordinate sales forecasting, planning, business development, account management, outbound marketing and inside sales to support a global sales organization selling mobile SaaS enterprise software solutions. Liaison to the organization to support and facilitate business development, revenue generation and the sales process. Sourced, developed and nurtured multiple opportunities that added $2.4M to the sales pipeline.(Specialties: Salesforce CRM administrator providing reports, automation, prospect lists, product knowledge, outbound marketing and training. Support sales efforts providing collateral, policies and procedures, product positioning, competitive analysis, quote generation, pricing, RFP/RFI support, contracts, prospect hunting, territory planning, account management, forecasting, customer presentations, strategic planning, business planning, inside sales and customer demos. )

Arlington Heights, Il, Us

Created and led the program to transform the software development methodology to Agile/ Scrum for 8 scrum teams supporting 6 products that resulted in a 3x improvement in time to market and 33% in productivity. The program impacted company values and was a major change in the way projects were planned and implemented.(Specialties: leading innovation, initiating, project planning and staffing for executive sponsored strategic projects that spanned areas of operational excellence/ improvements, requirements gathering, product management, business development, business process, quality management, marketing, strategic planning and sales.)

Arlington Heights, Il, Us

Provided defect prevention management for the ongoing root cause analysis program resulting in year over year quality improvements. Process owner for the development, test and defect prevention processes. Responsible for identifying and deployed improvements used to catch defects early and deliver higher quality. Led quality program achieving TL9000 certification 4 years in a row(Specialties: TL9000 certification activities, quality tracking/ planning, SQA for all projects, and scorecard planning/ monitoring. Quality planning and management for 26 releases with 100% meeting their quality goals for on time delivery.)

Horsham, Pennsylvania, Us

Project Manager of SDLC and agile improvement projects. Work with business leaders to implement and provide staffing for process improvements used in the software engineering that supported 400 engineer’s that focus on best practices, innovation, continuous improvement, process improvement, change management and operational excellence.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Project Manager/Servant Leader of large complex projects from scope through deployment. Managed software engineering teams and cross-functional engineering teams. My management style promotes a learning environment and continuous improvement. I worked with teams as their servant leader/ scrum master.(Specialties: collaborating with customers and SME to define project scope, line up staff, requirements management, scope changes, supply chain, deliver on budget and manage risk in line with customer expectations.)

Chicago, Illinois, Us

(Specialties: Deployed, developed, tested, and integrated mobile telephony products and working experience with a client-server telecom architecture, network management standards, third party integration practices, and service creation practices. )

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bsee, Electrical Engineering