Rodney Yoder Email & Phone Number

Manage Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software implementation and deployment for major customers in the Americas

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Smarsh acquired Digital Safe business from Micro Focus on February 1, 2022.Manager in project management function within Solutions Delivery organization, leading team of project managers on-boarding clients in.
• Achieved Q1 stretch goals in February-March 2022 of $500K revenue and $100K bookings, pulling in upside of $136K revenue and $35K bookings through weekly meetings to close deals and complete deliveries.
• Accomplished Q2 team goal of delivering method, procedure, and training to forecast resource utilization for projects using Clarizen.
• Presented analytical framework on using Jira, instead of Clarizen, for project management functionality
• Documented end-to-end process for requesting Statements of Work for professional services via Salesforce
• Reported resource utilization of team and professional services revenue on weekly basis

Cambridge, Massachusetts

• Micro Focus merged with Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s software division on September 1, 2017, acquiring the Digital Safe business. Managed SaaS Services Project Management Office, global team of senior project managers.
• Promoted to PMO Manager after three years
• Expanded PMO charter to include scoping, quoting, and generating statements of work for projects
• Developed process for estimating project costs and durations
• Designed Jira workflow for scoping requests to track requests for quotes for services
• Automated measurement, alerting, and reporting of turnaround time

Greater Boston Area

• Led cross-functional implementation team in deployment of Digital Safe, an enterprise information archiving system, in the banking and insurance industries
• Customer-facing project manager
• Led cross-functional projects for international banking clients to:o Deploy networking bridge and storage and migrate 24 TB of data from Japan to US data centerso Migrate 148 TB of data from end-of-life archiving.
• Drove cross-functional trouble-shooting task force to methodically resolve server packet loss issue.
• Developed project requirements questionnaire for data migration projects

Andover, MA

• Led cross-functional implementation team in deployment of Digital Safe, an enterprise information archiving system, in the banking industry
• Customer-facing project manager
• Led team in deploying hardware replacements of servers, storage, and switches, without service impact in four data centers for major national bank, meeting strict deadline
• Led team in expanding storage and switching capacity for large Digital Safe banking client to meet growing demand within sixty days

• Directed deployments of telecommunications systems, hardware and software, to broad range of service-providers, from start-ups to Tier-1 carriers, including Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, Bell Mobility, and KDDI
• Expanded Visual Voice Mail capacity at T-Mobile by 80% on schedule without service impact.
• Achieved increase in T-Mobile’s vendor scorecard rating from 34 (poor) to 78 (good) within 12 months.
• Rated by two customers 10 on scale of 1 to 10 for communications skills and ability to track and resolve problems, after driving projects in crisis to completion and stability.
• Delivered rapid expansion of hosted Mobile Internet Gateway for TracFone, and integration with third party content provider, Motricity, to meet projected growth in demand before Christmas sales.
• Managed cross-functional cost estimation and planning process to support bid responses and proposals.

Mba, General Management

- Marketing, Finance, and International business - Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship for Japanese and Chinese language study

Ba Magna Cum Laude, East Asian Studies

Activities and Societies: Center for International Affairs and Japan Institute summer research awards

Japanese Studies

- Studied Japanese language and culture in Kyoto