Rick Bandel, Icp-Ec, Icp-Cat, Csm Email & Phone Number

Nashville, TN, US

Greater Nashville Area, TN

• Developed Agile Transformation Offices and Centers of Excellence for a Fortune 100 Life Sciences company to support agile transformation efforts and ensure agile delivery standards.
• Partnered with executive stakeholders to develop business transformation strategies, identify transformation opportunities and prioritize transformation targets.
• Recruited, developed and supported the transformation of 24 Omnichannel expert transformation teams.
• Coaching executive leaders and key stakeholders on principles and methods for improving business agility.

Greater Nashville Area, TN

• Partnered in the development of the Agile Transformation Office to support the execution of a large-scale agile transformation of more than one hundred teams for a Fortune 50 Automotive Manufacturer.
• Created transformation execution frameworks that provided clarity of the transformation vision and maintained alignment of detailed outcome-based plans.
• Provided leadership and managed day-to-day issues for twelve agile transformation teams in the execution of transformation strategies.

Greater Nashville Area, TN

• Managed the integration of multiple agile delivery teams in a highly governed health care/financial services enterprise that consisted of five agile delivery teams and more than ten client teams.
• Managed communications with the C-Suite and other designated client executive stakeholders.

Greater Nashville Area, TN

• Led early agile transformation efforts to the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to support development of new Enterprise Application Platform.

Greater Nashville Area, TN

• Managed a portfolio of Agile development projects for Market Development and Brand Eminence channels.
• Integrated Agile delivery practices with ITS PMO governance processes.

Greater Nashville Area, TN

• Managed a portfolio of agile product development projects and technical implementations to support key client relationships with more than fifteen teams across Business Process, Technical Delivery, Infrastructure, and.
• Led efforts to integrate agile processes with traditional project delivery and governance processes.

Greater Nashville Area, TN

• Provided project management services as a professional consultant to support growth in Client IT portfolio for leading provider of handset protection and digital mobile applications.
• Recognized for successful project execution and retained as Program Manager to manage strategic project portfolio.

Greater Nashville Area, TN

• Developed prototype and positioned product to secure initial capital investment, engaging development resources and completing product development.
• Managed technology investments and created a sustainable competitive advantage through market focused feature prioritization and reduced time-to-market.
• Identified and secured strategic business relationships to provide early revenue opportunities while sales organization reached maturity and developed market presence.

Greater Nashville Area, TN

• Managed Agile development projects for the completion of major commercial software releases for emergency notification system provider.
• Managed sustained engineering efforts to support existing customer install base.
• Implemented standards for project management and issue management.
• Facilitated product teams to identify and prioritize new feature opportunities for future product versions.

Greater Nashville Area, TN

• Developed new territory for technology integrator focused on server and storage virtualization, WAN optimization, backup optimization, and email archiving and e-discovery solutions.
• Maintained executive relationships for strategic accounts, analyzing business needs, identifying technology solutions and providing detailed solutions proposals to sustain value-based relationships.

Greater Nashville Area, TN

• Managed virtual sales team, exceeding attainment goals consistently averaging 115% of quota against $13 Million annual sales revenue.
• Increased server and storage revenue on assigned accounts by 30 % quarter over quarter.
• Lead team in the qualifying, pursuit, and closing of virtualization solutions.
• Consistently exceeded goals for conversion of new lines of business in existing accounts.

Nashville

• Founded successful Internet Media Company focused on monetizing existing celebrity-fan relationships.
• Developed and executed technology plan for e-commerce and media distribution infrastructure maximizing use of limited funding available for development and implementation.
• Identified and developed strategic technology partnerships to facilitate immediate growth of technology capabilities and market penetration.

Greater Nashville Area, TN

• Managed business development efforts analyzing gaps in marketplace demand, creating comprehensive product plans, and executing product development to capture market opportunities.
• Transformed existing technology consulting resources into an effective product development organization while maintaining 100% retention of technology staff and current client base.
• Provided effective communications and business focused sales support to sales organization, supporting increased sales and ensuring client satisfaction.
• Developed line of business for transaction processing firm identifying opportunities, negotiating engagement contracts and developing solutions for large scale content management implementation projects.

Greater Nashville Area, TN

• Created research and development group focused on leveraging emerging web technologies and leading efforts to transition 60 person development organization from Lotus Notes to Microsoft development technologies.
• Managed large-scale implementation of application development and production architecture to support redesign and redeployment of firm’s web site.
• Recruited, retained and developed Internet technologists in the disciplines of web development and Internet architecture maintaining a 100% retention rate.
• Designed and implemented professional development and incentive programs for technical staff.

Austin, Texas Area

• Created and delivered nation-wide training program consisting of Professional Selling Skills, Account Development Strategies, Sales Presentation Skills as well as technical product training.
• Participated in the development of industry standards for Windows multimedia as part of company’s participation in the MPC consortium.
• Consistently recognized for exceeding sales and account development goals.