Ryan Plester Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Ab, Ca

As Principal Consultant for White Room Automation, I provide consulting services for Wonderware products and OPC technology

• Responsible for management of five engineers• Responsible for project management of all services projects including large, multi-year projects• Responsible for developing proposals• Responsible for defining policies and procedures for project execution.• Design and maintain pre-sales support system to ensure prompt responses for the global customer base• Responsible for design and administration of SharePoint for Sales and Services• Provided pre-sales support for the global sales team as well as customers globally

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Helped drive 67% product growth for FY11, and overall revenue growth year after year.• Provide Global OPC Connectivity Technical Support that include/not limited to: definingtechnical customer requirements, architect Connectivity solutions for a variety of differentVendor Systems, Product Sales Training• Conduct Presentations, and client facing presentations- presenting at several Vendor UsersGroups• Responsible for MatrikonOPC Product Board Meetings, and helping with Honeywell OPCProduct Board Meetings.• Design and Maintain MatrikonOPC’s Global Pre-Sales support system to ensure timelyresponses to internal and external customers• Work on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiablefactors• Understand, develop and deliver systems/applications solutions to customers' business,information, technical and educational needs• Responsible for evaluating competitive situations and solutions to differentiate MatrikonOPCapart, and help with Product Positioning• Established Business Unit Sales training programs• Create and conduct proposal presentations and RFP responses in conjunction with Sales,Marketing and Account Executives• Responsible to provide technical direction for the development, design, and systemsintegration for client engagement from definition phase through implementation.• Apply significant knowledge of industry trends and developments to improve service to ourclients.• Responsible to recognize system deficiencies and implements effective solutions.• Creates and executes development plans and revises as appropriate to meet changingneeds and requirements.• Deliver introductory product training both internally and externally• Provide market feedback and recommendations for improvement on deliverables• Maintain and Owned MatrikonOPC intranet Product webpage/SharePoint to ensure allstakeholders in the organization had accurate/up to date product, sales, and technicalinformation.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Manage and direct a team of 7 developers and Quality Assurance testers• Transition of the development team from project based development to development of offthe shelf products• Designing of OPC servers for various industrial protocols• Analysis of potential OEM development projects, and technical requirements• Project management of OEM development projects• Responsible to recognize system deficiencies and implementation of effective solutions.• Creates and executes development/requirements plans and revises as appropriate to meetchanging needs and requirements.• Keep all stakeholders well informed of status of development effort and serve as liaisonbetween development staff, sales teams and clients• Ensure technical teams are contributing to MatrikonOPC’s code library.• Owned the development lifecycle and responsible for managing technical risks throughoutthe project.• Communicate and enforce coding and testing standards• Performs code reviews and mentor/coach developers.• Manages technical resources within budget and project schedule.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Accountable for project scope, deliverables, cost, profitability, schedule, quality andresources that support business goals/objectives.• Exercise overall change control across the project by: Identifying project risks, anddeveloping risk responses, devise contingency plans that maximize opportunities,minimize threats.• Responsible to define technical requirements, and estimates on all project activities, andsequence them appropriately.• Responsible and accountable to maintain control over the schedule to deliver the projectas promised.• Identifies relevant quality standards and applies them to the project.• Evaluate overall project performance to ensure customer expectations are met orexceeded.• Direct and manage project development from beginning to end including controls• Develop full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.• Communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely andclear fashion.• Where required, negotiate with other department managers for the acquisition of requiredpersonnel from within the company.• Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and otherstakeholders.• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, andpresentations.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Design and deployment of systems at customer sites on variety of vendor system: Emerson,ABB, Invensys, Honeywell, GE, Rockwell, Siemens, Subsea systems, Leak detectionsystems etc…• Design and implementation of test plans for systems• Troubleshooting of issues in production systems, network Management, connectivity,Network Management with Windows 2000 Server, Active Directory Configuration andMaintenance, Hard drive configuration, RAID, disk stripping, mirroring analyze and designcircuits, Network setup, DHCP setup, TCP/IP configuration, Computer trouble shooting andrepair etc…• Understanding of complex systems to provide full support for systems in remote locationsMaintenance and enhancements for Matrikon’s OPC productsDevelopment in Windows, Solaris, Alpha and VAX environmentsDevelopment in production environments at customer sitesDevelopment of drivers for various industrial protocolsFront line support for OPC drivers and productsCode changes for bug fixes and enhancementsWriting and maintaining utilities for internal useWriting and maintaining Support and On-site Engineering proceduresResponsible for controlling product distribution and product shipmentDatabase maintenance, and development for MatrikonOPC Support