Ross Taylor Email & Phone Number

Calgary

Providing project delivery or educational services to client organizations.

Calgary

• Project Manager for two concurrent initiatives:
• Enhanced 911 Remediation ($2.4M budget) - telephony and network hardware upgrades, software deployment and operational process changes
• Continental Wide Area Network (WAN) ($1.6M budget) - focused on implementing technology upgrade for the TransCanada USA network to use MPLS.Program Manager for Facility IT Service Provisioning - lead a team of IT.

Calgary, Canada Area

Managed an annual $4M program of network initiatives leading four project managers focused on annual initiatives to upgrade field-based, network technologies for various business field sites including meter stations, compressor stations, field offices and power plants.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Project Manager for two concurrent initiatives:
• A pilot effort to migrate Canadian Frame Relay networks $400K) to a managed MPLS service.
• Led a Field and Core Network Lifecycle effort ($1.5M) focused on high-priority network-improvement objectives including: replacing voice software and load-balancing hardware at the Calgary campus and upgrading field.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Managed a strategically important program of security and compliance work ($15M):
• North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Compliance program ($2.5M) focused on adhering to the regulator-defined security requirements for critical energy infrastructure
• Identity Management Program ($7.5M budget) crucial to meeting TransCanada’s regulatory requirement to separate regulated and unregulated business employees and data
• Various other security-related initiatives.

Calgary, Canada Area

Full accountability for initiating and executing the effort to replace a mission-critical volume planning system, the Mainline Capacity Allocation System ($6M), a crucial tool in the daily planning of gas pipeline capacity.Implemented a new volume-planning model on a new software technology platform (Windows/C++) with advanced capabilities for TransCanada.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Accountable to the PMO Director for stewardship of the software development tools and practices used in the TransCanada IS department which included:
• continuous improvement of guidelines for application development for business solution projects
• description and education of the software engineering practices
• application development tool standards and guidelines for use. Conducted delivery review on major projects and reported on results to project sponsors.

Calgary, Canada Area

Lead the first agile project software team at TransCanada that built an application-to-application messaging system used for distributed, multi-channel information delivery.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Held various internal consulting and leadership roles focused on improving the delivery of business solutions to internal client groups:
• Senior Leader, Application Delivery Methods (1998 – 2000) – Managed $600K annual budget and four with the accountability to improve the performance of IT business solutions projects
• Application Development Mentor (1997 – 1998) – Provided process coaching and object modeling mentoring to a variety of internal projects and assisted Project Managers to structure, plan and estimate their projects
• Database Specialist (1995 – 1997) – A role with a broad mandate to assist projects in data analysis, database design and coding, and application architecture.

Calgary, Canada Area

Provider of education and consulting services related to the use of Sybase database products including course delivery for full-range of Database topics from Logical Database Design for data analysts and Performance and Tuning.

Calgary, Canada Area

Provider of education and consulting services related to the use of Computer Automated Software Engineering tools and supporting delivery methodology, including course delivery for Business Area Analysis through to Technical Design.

Calgary, Canada Area

Progressive advancement from Programmer to Analyst, Lead Analyst and Project Lead working in a number of business domains included refinery maintenance systems, a customer database replacement and a refinery inspection system.