Program Project Manager Mba resume

1. Program/Project Manager, MBA
GARRY WOOD
Cell 214-693-5597 Garrywood_8@msn.com linkedin.com/in/garrywoodpm
VALUE OFFER
Program andProject Manager individual contributor leading and supporting cross functionalteams with turnaround
situations, enterprise project management (EPM), cost control, solution architecting, IT delivery, risk management,
continuous improvementand operations project management in services, distribution, logistics and technology
industries.Additional expertise in key productivity indicators (KPI’s), application support, deployment, business
process management and enterprise content management projects
ACHIEVEMENT PREVIEW
Oil and Gas transportation safety and telecom program manager for cross functional teams for largest crude oil
transport firm in North America. Projects (75 completed between 10/10 and 12/11) include:
o support of Shell oil compliance initiatives (turned around the relationship with Taylor’s largest customer)
o logistics analysis
o safety policy creation and analytics
o vendor management, sourcing, negotiations - domestic and international
o engineering solutions
o oil tanker retrofit and compliance management
o in-vehiclewireless telecom solutions. Supporting the largest client in new initiatives
o quality improvement
Collaborative project team leader supporting ERP, POS, operational solutions with many successes grossing
several million dollars in savings and sales.
My experience at Rexel supporting enterprise-wide cost cutting, including performing operational assessments;
training and performance support across a 735 person, $880m division, covering 5 states
My experience in workflow improvement and risk management (DRP, BCP, IDM, security solution and services
architecting, business analysis, management advising) in financial services, manufacturing and technology covers
more than 10 years at dozens of firms
Manage key productivity indicators (KPI) for $880M divisionwhere weaknesses identified, lead resolution plan and
delivered many high impact projects with millions of dollars of savings in 18 months
Oracle Regis ERP delivery, project work breakdown user requirements and training for enhancements.
Established the cost benefit analysis (CBA) measurements for enhancements and fixes frequently resulting in
$100,000+ returns on investment (ROI’s).
Ensure project schedules are integrated with the Program Plan by working with a project coordinator to:
o Create Work Breakdown Structure WBS, Project Plans, Charters, Task Schedules, Risk Tracking,
Business Requirements, Technical Requirements, Stakeholder Communications, Support Plans,
Transition Documentation
o Provide project management administrative and coordination support to the project managers throughout
all phases of the transition projects
o Maintaining the baseline scope, schedule and resources using the established transition
processes Document what specific Roles/Responsibilities the Scheduler will have associated to
the Enterprise Project Server (EPS), responsible for loading project schedule, cross-project
linking of all schedules, creation and maintenance of schedules, 1st level EPS support, clarifying
schedule reporting requirements
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Taylor Companies, LLC (subsidiary of Gibson Oil) 9/2010 to present, Consultant/Program Manager/Safety
Projects in support of Taylor’s largest client Shell Oil Mesquite, Texas
Projects include:
In Vehicle Monitoring System for Safety analytics, implementation of telecom devices, journey management,
policy development, implementation, enforcement
Asset management projects including under run deflection guards, rollover stabilization units, overfill gauges and

2. related monitoring devices
Impact analysis, key customer liaison, vendor management, matrix team management, budgeting, human
resource support, asset management, IT and telecom project management
Disaster planning and testing
Project impact analysis for Shell Oil
MirGroup – 2009-2010, Contract project ManagerSolution Architect Southlake, Texas
Support Project Impact Assessment consulting solution and cloud computing assessment solution. Coach technology
leaders on how to create and run a value proposition using a structured Product Management and Go-to-Market
strategy.
Project impact assessment offering
o Delivered to 2 CEO’s for project prioritization projects
Cloud computing feasibility study offering in development
REXEL USA, Inc. – (2006-2009), Division ERP/Program Manager Dallas, Texas
$13B International Electronic Parts Supply Chain Corporation
Hands on, analytical program manager on critical projects delivering modernization. Tenacious pursuer of workflow
improvement and simplification solutions that created millions of dollars in savings and operational effectiveness.
Managed 10 or more concurrent projects and ad hoc projects.
Implementing Oracle Regis for ERP solution for inventory, POS, receiving, credit, financial systems
Creating detailed project plans to define and manage project scope, schedules, milestones, budget, and risks that
support corporate strategic requirements.
Contingency planning, risk mitigation and define implementation activities to activate contingency and mitigation
plans, root cause analysis, analytics, UAT.
Managing commodity budget of over $15M and project budgets of varying smaller scale.
Created Oracle based Cognos, Business Objects, Access and Excel pivot table reports for division management
and field to realign work processes and inventory quality resulting in several $100K improvements for
division.These enhancements included:
o Sales and margin analysis
o Inventory analysis
o Trending
o ETL (Extract, transform, load)
Designing, conducting and tracking training for branch operations staffincluding advanced computer skills, ERP
operations, barcode scanning, finance, and safety.
Saved Rexel $15 million in direct costs related to rework due to system inefficiencies leveraging ITIL standards.
Saved the organization over $400K per month by standardizing the commodities pricing model that rationalizes
13,000 items to deliver a single commodity cost for all branches on 2 different computer systems.
Saved division thousands each week by identifying root cause of branch inefficiencies through weekly branch KPI
and metric analysis.
Operations auditor in internal ITIL based program.
Hitachi ID Systems- (2002 – 2006)Frisco, Texas
Identity Management and HIPAA and SOX Compliance Software
Outsourcing/Managed Services ProviderProject Manager/Inside Sales
Global security software SaaS project manager supportingoutsourcing (MSP) clients including initiation needs
analysis and issue resolution.
The MSP business grew 50%, from $15 million to $22 million
Increasing the number of international MSP’s by $100% in Europe to 6, USA by 4
Projects were managed in general accordance with SDLC framework.
MOBILIZE INC. - (1999 – 2002)Colorado Springs, Colorado
Wireless sales force automation software development
Project Manager
Solutions architect and project management for web-based wireless sales force automation solution software
o Taking Microsoft Office-based content and automating collateral updates for mobile devices
Responsible for the growth of sales of 25% from $600k to $750k as part of the pursuit team
Responsible for marketing support of launching 3 software solutions and an application service provisioning
platform
o Marketing project management where I researched target markets and target customers but also held

3. engineering meetings to avoid gold-plating so that the launch price could be minimized. Identifying
system requirements and market need. From there I lead requirements gathering and presentation of
the results included cost benefits and anticipated sales to support the ROI.
New modules were initiated with marketing and engineering teams determining cost effective and time sensitive
applications. My role here was in approving the design phase kicked off. Managing scope creep, budgeting
enforcement and keeping to a schedule.
EDS –(1997 – 1999)Plano, Texas
Global IT and Business Process Outsourcing
Senior project manager at corporate marketing and ecommerce business unit
Corporate strategist, defining new markets globally, build business case, write the white paper, socialize with
strategic business influencers and present to senior management
Launches include global security offering (first customer was White House), eBilling presentment, fixed price
server and NOC solution which generated more than $200m globally
As a corporate strategist, my responsibilities were to define new markets globally and present these markets
to the senior management.
FMC MANAGEMENT CONSULTING –(1994 – 1997)Columbus, Ohio
Boutique Project Management Firm
Project management, delivering operational improvements and product launching
SUNGARD PLANNING SOLUTIONS –(1983 – 1994)Columbus, Ohio
Disaster Planning and Security Auditing
ProgramProject Manager
Consulting to many dozens of firms in financial services, manufacturing, technology and government
Taking the startup to IPO
EDUCATION
MBA - Ohio University
BA –Ohio University
PMP course certification Collin College
COMMUNITY SERVICE/PUBLICATIONS
Frisco Texas Public Library Board, sports coach for kids’ teams, volunteer
Using Quality to Create a Viable Disaster Plan Quality Progress, Vol. 30, No. 1, January 1997
Marketing's 4 P's and QualityThe Quality Management Forum.
Total Quality Management and Disaster Planning: A Manager's Decision
Model The Quality Management Forum.
Several Ezine articles based on change management, turnaround processes and communication improvement.