Randal Taira, PMP

Experience

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  Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

  Dec 1997 - Mar 2014

  • Managed the development of an integrated modeling and data management system for King County client ($1.66M). Responsible for technical leadership, client interaction, managing 8 member team, tracking scope, budget, and schedule.• Led technology field deployments for use by Federal Government end users (multiple totaling >$2M). Responsible for executing complex scope within rigid time schedules.• Managed external stakeholder relationships through maintaining contacts, developing trust, understanding customer needs and environment, and communicating issues both ways. Developed plans that included compromises but ultimately achieved buy-in from all parties.• Developed system requirements that adequately address the needs of multiple stakeholders.• Analyzed operational systems and processes to assess how emerging technologies can be inserted to provide efficiency and valuable new capability. Show less • Integral member of a team that developed three environmental software products for federal clients (DOE, EPA, DoD, and NRC).• Software QA/QC lead, Requirements development, test development, test execution, documentation.• Software UI design, helped to make data input more intuitive for the user, user advocate.• Performed numerous contaminant transport and human health risk assessments across the U.S. and in Mexico employing semi-analytical and stochastic models developed by the team.• Led workshops for new users of software developed by my team.• Provided technical support to software users across the U.S. Show less

  • Senior Engineer

    Dec 2004 - Mar 2014

  • Engineer

    Dec 1997 - Dec 2004
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  Sila Solutions Group

  Mar 2014 - now

  Sr. Project Management Consultant

  • Manage agile software development and implementation projects at customer locations with resources from different organizations and located across the U.S. and offshore.• Led Integrated Design Team that developed and evaluated alternatives for a project including technical evaluations, business cases and solution concepts.• Develop project plans including system requirements, scope, budget, resource needs, and schedule.• Proactively navigate through ambiguous business environments to accomplish project scope and meet stakeholder needs.• Successfully launched a new software application into a business and was instrumental in gaining user acceptance through clear communication and close customer support.• Managed a distributed service validation test team that exposed technology integration issues, process and data gaps, and exercised processes from end to end in order to demonstrate service readiness for the launch of a new customer system. • Established and managed an operational team that successfully burned down an extensive backlog of system errors while also performing root cause analysis that led to corrective actions that were implemented• Skilled at working with stakeholders to define and document complex interdisciplinary business processes Show less