Rick Macguidwin Email & Phone Number

Sacramento, California, US

Capio Group is a Sacramento-based consulting firm specialized in assisting government sector clients with their IT implementations, maintenance, and project management needs. Our firm serves clients in a diverse array of projects, ranging from small-scale targeted engagements to multi-million-dollar enterprise-level IT projects.· Served as Chief Executive.

Dublin 2, IE

· Worked as a Senior Business Architect for CalPERS in Sacramento, CA owning and maintaining over 30% of the pension systemʹs application design.· Developed low effort‑hour solutions to design change requests that meet business requirements, while protecting the applicationʹs current delivery schedule.· Created and maintained business requirements and use.

Dublin 2, IE

· Staffed in Sacramento, CA; responsible for designing a $350M+ pension application.· Facilitated Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions; designing 20% of the system.· Interacted weekly with clients to clarify design and request functional changes.· Participated in system test planning and execution while offering continued support to the development.

• Facilitated customer meetings to review use cases, wire-frames, detailed design specifications, and requirements associated with the front-end web application.
• Captured the application’s data inputs in order to simplify the database design.
• Helped the team articulate the application web design components and database development specifications to our outsourced development team in India.
• Documented design deliverables for the Connected Vehicle Project including the Business Requirements Document, System Requirements Specification, Use Cases, Requirements Traceability Matrix, and Project Test Plan.

• Participated in customer interviews to uncover the details of the lack of parts reuse.
• Worked with project team members to introduce communication methods and technologies to ensure organization use of the existing parts library database.
• Determined the database lacked aesthetic value and search capabilities necessary to promote engineer and vendor use. Worked with search and application design vendors to prepare the initial design deliverables for the.
• Managed and trained two full-time offshore resources to produce design deliverables.
• Led the entire software and hardware testing process by issuing three iterative cycles of load, stress, performance, functional, and business user testing.

New York, NY, US

· Created a model in excel to determine client estate value at retirement based on discounted cash inflow from rentals, discounted cash outflow from mortgage paymentsand repairs, and average projected appreciation of the property.· Analyzed over 50 portfolios to ensure diversification and an acceptable beta value (.75).· Assembled client portfolio.

US

· Reported over 50 bugs and presented 10 enhancements for the next CrossCut release.· Created standardized testing documentation to be used when testing new releases.· Built automated test scripts to execute hundreds of analyses to improve efficiency.

Houston, Texas, US

• Participated in meetings to coordinate site launches of the enterprise-wide database.
• Worked with the customer to produce deployment procedures for three GM sites.
• Consulted a new Project Testing Manager on proper execution of system delivery and testing process in order to adhere GM’s software development standards.

• Led team meetings to discuss project issues, risks and accomplishments.
• Documented minutes and action items in meetings and tracked the issues to resolution.
• Worked with the Quality Assurance Analyst to create project deliverables in accordance with General Motors’ software delivery lifecycle process.
• Reviewed project documentation with the customer to ensure deliverable accuracy.