Riccardo Comana Email & Phone Number

St. Louis, MO, US

St Louis

• Cargill - Sr. Program Manager / Sr. Scrum Master
• Protein Beef industry – Program manager and Sr Scrum Master on a program that is modernizing an order entry primal beef application utilized in eight primary beef facilities.
• Derivatives and Commodities compliance – Program manager on IT assessments to meet Regulatory reporting. Responsible for a team and coordinating all efforts ensuring Cargill’s “Trading Records” are properly managed to.

• Southwest Airlines – Sr Project Manager / Epic Owner - Certified Scrum Master and SAFe Agilist
• Express Scripts – Delivery Leader/ Product Owner
• Charter Communication (Denver and St. Louis) – Test Account Creation Manager
• Anheuser-Busch InBev – Program Manager IBS – DeComlpexity project, Project Manager – Data Quality Portal
• State of Missouri – Project Manager for Department of Natural Resources Parks Division
• Emerson Electric Company – Project Manager and subject matter expert for SharePoint 2003, 2007, and 2010.

Working At Fleishman Hillard

• RSM Solutions, Inc Consultant working @ Fleishman-Hillard
• Project Manager responsible for the upgrade and implementation of the Fleishman-Hillard’s Intranet to SharePoint 2010
• As subject matter expert created documentation
• Trained the portal team and help desk employees on SharePoint 2010
• Created knowledge and issue tracking databases to facilitate support and development
• Collaborated with developers managing customizations

• Performed the analysis to implement a companywide Electronic Document Retention system, with anticipated company savings on litigation discovery costs of up to $2 million
• Completed an analysis and co-led the migration of the company’s messaging and development platform from IBM’s Domino to Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint. (Project cost at $1.2 million with an expected ROI of 3 years)
• Managed, coordinated, and assisted in the development of the company’s Project Management Application which provided the automation of the company’s methodology, utilizing Microsoft SharePoint and InfoPath forms
• Created a company disaster recovery portal using SharePoint, including a mass-notification system
• Led the analysis, discovery, and implementation of a Mobile Workforce solution, allowing employees to connect to key company resources from their home computers
• Managed and coordinated the implementation of an e-mail retention solution for the company. This solution included the definition and implementation of an e-mail retention policy and a hardware and software solution to.

• Managed the activities of employees of five teams: Internet Banking, Internet Marketing Website Development, Intranet Web Development, Lotus Notes Email, and Domino Development
• Coordinated the implementation of an Internet Banking Application, registering 30,000 customers in 12 months
• Directed the implementation of the company’s marketing and on-line banking web sites
• Coordinated the creation and implementation of the company’s Intranet

• Promoted to management in recognition of successful leadership as project manager.

• Managed and coordinated activities of employees on the following teams: Internet and Intranet Web Development, Lotus Notes Email, Documentation Support, and Distributed Applications Systems.
• Implementation of Lotus Notes email to 1500 employees within headquarters and 7000 agents nationwide.
• Team leader for creating and developing company’s Intranet.
• Executive employees Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) integrated with the Lotus Notes email and calendar.

• Team leader for a major cost savings projects that included:
• Implementation Intranet based web host connectivity for over 7000 agents based worldwide.
• Migrated company email system (Lotus Notes) from OS/2 to NT.
• Developed training curriculum and trained 250 Information Technology employees on Lotus Notes.
• Coordinated the upgrade of new PCs for 115 developers in the IT department with minimal down time.

• 12/1995 - Production Services Manager - Produced monthly CDROMs shipped to customers worldwide.
• 12/1993 - Recognized as “Employee of the Year”.
• 03/1993 - PaintLogic Software Product Manager – grew customer base from 450 to over 3000 worldwide. Established a support center in Europe.
• 07/1991 - Manager of Customer Service, Installations and Training.
• 10/1990 - Systems Manager - Prepared and loaded software on all systems about to be deployed in the field.
• 08/1989 - Customer Service Representative.

• Technical Area Manager – Installed and trained new systems and customer and managed field service repairs for all customers in the greater San Diego area.
• Due to successfully managing the greater San Diego area, coverage area was expanded to assisting in the greater Los Angeles area.

• Assistant Manager – selected, purchased and installed an inventory control point of sale system.