Erick Smith

Experience

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  Entergy

  Jan 1981 - Jan 1995

  • Managed Engineering and Construction Management projects for equipment retrofits to fossil and hydroelectric power plant facilities, including annual planned maintenance outages.• Conducted finite element stress and erosion analysis for power plant high energy piping systems.• Conducted power plant fuel inventory study resulting in the reduction of on-site inventory by approximately 50%.• Total Quality Management facilitator working with power plan staffs to develop improved business and operational processes. Show less

  • Supervisor, Technology Development

    Jan 1994 - Jan 1995

  • Supervisor, Project Controls

    Jan 1992 - Jan 1994

  • Senior Production Engineer

    Jan 1981 - Jan 1994
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  Raytheon Engineers & Constructors

  Jan 1995 - Jan 1996

  Engineering Project Manager

  • Engineering Project Manager, responsible for providing design engineering services to local industrial clients.• Served as Total Quality Management lead facilitator for 100+ person office.

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  DELL, Inc.

  Dec 1997 - Jun 2016

  • Successful record of managing IT projects supporting development for new and legacy applications utilizing SDLC with waterfall and Agile/Scrum software development methodologies. Coordinated scope, schedule, and budget across 5-15 development and support teams across 3 global regions. Managed scope included working with Systems Engineers, DBAs and Network Engineers to define, procure, install, configure, test and release infrastructure solutions for the project. • Instrumental in planning and executing a major upgrade to a global Product Lifecycle Management software involving a change from client-based to web-based interface and migration of data to a new database structure. Work included developing the SOW and PO for support by the third party software vendor. Delivered project on-time and on budget, exceeding customer expectations overcoming significant customer apprehension with the transition to web-based functionality.• Skilled and insightful at managing large project portfolios through analysis and regular performance reviews. Responsible for project oversight of two large IT segments, managing a portfolio of 150 IT projects with an $80M annual budget.• Served as IT Portfolio Management Office Governance Portfolio Lead, responsible for two business segments managing a portfolio of 150 IT development projects with an annual budget of $80M. Conducted regular portfolio management reviews. • Led development of the $400M+ annual IT budget with business PMO partners, including intake of requests, IT project sizing, and resource leveling activities. • Astute analysis of project schedule, budget and resource performance, utilizing MS Excel functions, pivot tables and charting, resulting in meaningful, actionable project and resource recommendations. Show less • Results-driven Platform Development Project Manager for new generations of server platforms, coordinating the efforts of ~40 hardware and software teams across three international design centers. In addition to utilizing MS Project to build, communicate and track schedule progress, I utilized Oracle Agile PLM modules to manage product bill of materials as well as defect tracking. • Led server development lifecycle program reducing the typical development cycle from 11 to 9 months. • Recognized with internal Change Agent award on several occasions for leadership in developingand implementing significant improvements to organization processes and tools.• Mentored new project managers in Austin, Taiwan and Bangalore, including 5-week trip to Asia in 2007 to support server development projects and mentor PMs in the regional design centers.• Led cross-functional team in the evaluation and implementation of third party software defect tracking application. Developed internal processes and training materials to implement the new software tool. Trained 150 employees in the process changes, software functionality and usage. Show less

  • IT Program Manager

    Jun 2007 - Jun 2016

  • Product Development Project Manager

    Dec 1997 - Jun 2007
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  Well Aware Nonprofit

  Feb 2017 - May 2017

  Volunteer Project Management Advisor

  Volunteer member of the technical team recommending which water solution is best for each community in Kenya and implementing these solutions.

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  Texas Mutual Insurance Company

  May 2017 - Oct 2019

  Sr. IT Program Manager

  • Worked directly with IT Management and Agile development teams as Program Manager, managing initiatives to improve the large and complex portfolio of legacy systems through application retirements, upgrades, major transitions and database migrations. • Managed project to redefine IT guidelines for evaluating candidate cloud-based software solutions.• Served as Scrum Master to a team responsible for development of a new enterprise content management system. Facilitated Scrum events including daily stand-ups, sprint planning and review sessions as well as crafting sprint retrospectives to help the team grow.• Led new Agile teams through team formation activities to develop team vision statements, success measures, and team agreements.• Coached teams on Agile principles and provided guidance on the Scrum Framework and Kanban methodologies.• Work with IT software development and infrastructure teams to reduce technical debt.• Removed impediments such as unplanned work, and resolving dependencies with Infrastructure teams.• Facilitated weekly Agile Continuous Improvement Community of Practice meeting to foster problem solving and continual learning of Agile practitioners. Show less

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  Itron, Inc.

  Oct 2019 - now

  R&D Program Manager responsible for implementing enterprise Product Lifecycle Management Cloud solution, migrating data and transitioning over 1000 users from 5 different regional PLM legacy systems.

  • Industrialization Project Manager

    Feb 2022 - now

  • R&D Program Manager

    Oct 2019 - Feb 2022