Robert Simmons Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Us

Informal mentor and advisor for former clients and employees. PM Now is also my certification vehicle to pursue continuous learning opportunities in Microsoft technologies, ServiceNow, Generative AI, and Process Improvement.

Vienna, Va, Us

>Delivery Transformation Champion- Guide various team members and leaders in their adoption of Lean Agile practices through Thinking-Doing-Being advisory.>Azure DevOps Architect- Reorganized 1000’s of work items (sourced from Jira, Asana, Workfront and unstructured stores) to align with a tailored 4-dimensional design in Azure DevOps across three newly formed ART’s with a total of 12 delivery squads.>Portfolio Management Lead- Designed and deployed an Ideation-to-Feature process that utilized ServiceNow, SharePoint, and Azure DevOps. This resulted not only in portfolio-level visibility of work, but also a reduction in average lead time of Idea-to-Ready-for-Work of more than 24 months down to less than 4 months. Configured Budgeting Guardrails as a strategic tool for portfolio scenario planning.

Seattle, Wa, Us

As a senior consultant I interviewed dozens of potential new hires, contributed to proposals and deal discussions, and took on client engagements that represented the highest risk and/or ambiguity within the delivery practice.Clients included:>Chevron- Program Advisor and Product Owner for a 300k+ well inventory/analytics Enterprise Self-Service BI Program.>McDermott- Divestiture Management Office launch and project lead for two initial readiness projects.>Venture Global LNG- Engagement program lead and PMO architect for operations launch. Implemented automated intake system, PPM system that allowed our team of 6 to select more than 50 solutions, and stage another 70 in the intake pipeline.>T-Mobile- Program transition role for 5G Home Internet Rollout.>Peloton- Portfolio and delivery management PPM Toolset Rationalization.>BP Low Carbon Business- Portfolio Build-out in Azure DevOps.>Accelerant Insurance- Product Management Coach; developed a tailored process and Miro templates for adopting a formal discipline.

>Reduced case resolution times by 80% and enabled self-service online support by implemented integrated processes and services.>Optimized professional services utilization with a kanban-based approach for managing engagements.>Developed a 20% cost savings plan through a modernization of development/delivery processes and back-office integrations.

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Sungard IFAS to PeopleSoft ERP transformation for the largest county in the United States. Worked with expense teams in Payroll and Accounts Payable to prepare for the migration by analyzing current processes and ways-of-working.>Coordinated and trained teams on Business Process Mapping to identify current state diagrams (DFD's and activity-based). More than two dozen processes were mapped and used to validate a list of 100's of improvement opportunities.>Trained teams on Kanban work processing techniques and introduced cue-driven execution.>Introduced Kaizen and prepared standard templates for performing process improvement bursts. Led first project using this approach.

Houston, Us

Seeing the opportunity to extend my experiences in leading departments and organizations through significant change, I founded my own consulting firm with an intent to share my methods/tools/templates with additional associates through an affiliate model.Clients included:>BG Group (Shell)- Global Program Manager for IT Infrastructure where I built out a SharePoint based dashboard that rolled-up periodic reports for my team of 15 Project Managers around the globe. Managed a total budget in excess of $220MM.>Halliburton Energy Services- M&A Program Manager and Senior Project Manager for key Day 1 projects in a planned merger of energy giants. Integration plans for 180,000 users and synergy model for hundreds of systems.>FMC (TechnipFMC)- Enterprise Integration Program Manager.>Harris County Auditor’s Office- converted to FTE on department request.

Pompano Beach, Fl, Us

Short-term engagement as a business advisor.Build and troubleshoot integration instances hosted on IBM's Cast Iron platform. Data orchestration projects are designed for NetSuite customers based on their requirements for integration with other systems or services. The types of data may be transactional (such as sales orders), standard records (such as catalog items), or custom records unique to the customer business processes.Extrapolate this hands-on experience into an ongoing business model for Integration as a core capability and catalog of services. Build the financial model and demonstrate paths of business feasibility.

Austin, Texas, Us

As the IT practice lead for the Houston office, worked with the local managing director and IT practice partner to engage prospects for new business as well as independently chase new leads. Managed client projects and provided technical advisory to senior managers and executives.Programs and Projects>Infrastructure migration for a company undergoing a combination spin-off and merge. Included subprojects for infrastructure, application and storage arrays.>SSAE 16 readiness project for a company undergoing significant organic and acquisition-driven growth. Included IT policy revisions, operational changes with tool recommendations, and a rapid-deploy subproject for data classification.>Infrastructure, systems and software review for an industrial tool sales/rental company expanding into new locations. Deliverables included a technology roadmap with 3 alternatives highlighting the recommended path.IT Advisory>Staffing recommendations and departmental org chart designs.>Vendor/services scorecarding for WAN, Telephony, computing hardware, switches/routers, data storage, enterprise software, and IT systems management.>Mentor client IT staff as during projects as well as support in the transition to operations.>Build financial models and business risk/justification for major IT acquisitions, including TCO and build-vs-rent-vs-buy analysis.

Houston, Tx, Us

Guided the efforts of 15 MIS and IT professionals in 3 global regions while stewarding an annual budget focused 60% on projects and 40% on operations. Drove continuing improvement in the quality and scope of IT service offerings while ensuring their strategic alignment with the needs of the business. Temporary department head for Product Quality Assurance overseeing 6 product releases through 2 separate offshore vendor QA teams.>Implemented a new ERP system using NetSuite.>Updated the Unified Communications system to Cisco-based and managed the development of custom wallboards for Sales and Support.>Implemented an ITSM system and chaired the Change Approval Board.>Managed all vendor relationships and contracts including Microsoft Gold Partnership.>Prepared the organization to shift from on-premise software selling to subscription sales.>Technology due diligence M&A lead and integration/disposition program manager for all post-deal activities.

Bachelor'S Degree, Biochemical Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics