Ray Morrison, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

Dallas/Ft Worth Area

Private systems integration consulting firm - responsible for proposal development, sales, vendor management, consulting talent acquisition, and project/program management. In addition to the more detailed descriptions included separately, other descriptions of client engagements are:Change Management Lead for an HR/Payroll implementation to integrate.

San Luis Obispo, California Area

• Retained by multiple California State University campuses to provide project advisory services for implementation of the PageUp People recruiting solution for faculty, staff, and student. Primary responsibilities.
• Definition and development of numerous project deliverables such as: Project Governance model including clearly defined roles & responsibilities, Project Charter, Stakeholder Register and Assessment Matrix, Resource.
• Providing PMO foundational templates, processes, standards, and strategies such as: Stakeholder Engagement Strategy, Test Strategy, Communications Strategy, Training Approach Document, Risk & Issue Management.
• Providing PMO and project management direction for campus specific implementation needs

Long Beach, CA

Program Director for a mult-year, multi-million dollar HR transformation initiative and PeopleSoft HCM 9.2 Upgrade. Impacting the entire 23 campus system and Chancellor's Office. Interacting with the Executive Steering Committee for program governance, directing efforts of project teams ensuring integration of activities and tracking dependencies across.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Retained by client to oversee technical program management for the overall workplan and areas of infrastructure, workload automation, and technology deployment.

Omaha

Supporting Creighton Business Institute in business leadership training, specializing in Project Management concepts and PMP certification training.

Omaha

Retained as consultant to lead crucial enterprise projects. DIrected recovery efforts for a strategic initiative leading to successful implementation.

Omaha, NE

• Retained as Vice President for the enterprise application development & support organization for West Corporation. The department is responsible for all enterprise-wide development initiatives and application support.
• Department Management – the organization includes 2 directors and more than 40 managers and staff with overall responsibility for employee development, financial management, and day to day department responsibilities
• Oversight of the program and plan management activities in support of corporate applications projects including schedule, budget, scope, and resource management with dotted-line reporting from program & project managers
• Executive Reporting – program progress and department financials and forecasting
• Governance – ensuring processes in place for proper governance of application development activities including new projects as well as triage and resolution of problem tickets
• Production Support – direct engagement with responsible leaders which led to a 50% reduction in ticket backlog

• Retained as Senior Program Manager for the Kaiser Permanente (KP) OneLink multi-year program. Responsible for the $30M delivery of the OneLink Pharmacy solution utilizing PeopleSoft 9.1 Supply Chain modules (INV & PO).
• Managing the overall activities of more than 50 resources for successful delivery of the OneLink solution for KP’s Pharmacy business
• Ensuring dependencies across multiple verticals are defined, tracked, and met
• Progress communication within the program team and to the OneLink and Pharmacy business executive leadership
• Managing the governance and change control processes
• Managing the issue resolution and risk mitigation processes with escalation as required

• As Director of the Program Management Office (PMO), responsible for the Global PMO to lead Textron in the program execution of the infrastructure outsourcing agreement with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). The.
• Leadership in the global Infrastructure Center of Excellence with responsibility to establish the PMO.
• Execution of a global 25M Infrastructure Transformation Program (ITP) spanning the areas of Networks, Midrange, Mainframe, Workstations, Service Desk, and Security. This program is transforming the Textron.
• Establishment of processes, program and project management tools, and methodologies for the execution and governance of the Transformation Program with 400+ projects globally. The creation and direction of the.
• Management and oversight of a PMO Coordinator, a Program Manager and 6 Project Managers responsible for the governance of the program as well as for on-going infrastructure projects in the global environment.
• Outside of the ITP, responsibility for governance of the more than 275 active global infrastructure projects necessary to support the Textron business units in normal activities and growth.

• Managed a development team responsible for implementing, enhancing and supporting enterprise-wide infrastructure systems for a multi-billion dollar startup.
• Managed a department budget of $5.5 million, hiring a staff of 6 employees and 20 contractors
• Managed relationship with multiple vendors including TSW, PeopleSoft, Andersen Worldwide, and IBM.
• Coordinated project priorities with the CIO and all IT Directors.
• Performed a key role in the organization and direction setting of the Information Technology group (first permanent staff hired out of 150).
• Administered career development plans and performance appraisals.

• Project managed the IS efforts in ERP (Financial and HR/Payroll Systems) implementations and support. Responsibility for hardware service contracts and annual budgeting. Efforts included Project Management, Risk &.
• Coordinating project priorities with the IT Director and Sr Mgmnt at North American operations.
• All projects included efforts in organizational change management with respect to affected departments.
• Lead software and hardware projects affecting four operating companies in six locations. Complete design and implementation of numerous systems (some listed below) Managed vendor relationship with third party vendors.

• Directed on-going analysis/design of Treasury Management System including major system enhancements.
• Project Leader on several projects through all phases of System Life-Cycle.
• Directed functional and technical aspects of the development, including requirements gathering, creation of technical standards, and development of project controls.
• Lead Production Support efforts with new releases.
• Complex programming including code for virtual screens and memory management.
• 3COM network administration responsible for solving in-house hardware / software problems.