Ron Thomas, PMP

Experience

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  InfoTech Solutions Group

  Jan 1996 - Jan 1999

  IT Director

  Responsible for managing the firm’s network and infrastructure to meet company goals and strategies. Managed the planning, purchase, implementation and deployment of technology to firm users and customer base.

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  HBR Consulting LLC | Baker Robbins

  Jan 1999 - Jan 2012

  Director | Senior IT Consultant | Senior Project Manager

  ► Program Management – Data Center & Office Relocation. Overall program manager responsible for relocating office content and technology infrastructure and related systems to new office spaces, co-lo, and data center facilities. ► Merger and Acquisition. Performed assessments for potential merger partners to determine the best approach and process to merge the firm’s disparate infrastructure, applications, systems, and software. I managed the technology merger for the primary merger partner (“the acquirer”) on several M&A engagements.► Technology Assessments. Conducted interviews and group discussions with company management and end-users regarding technology systems and IT practices to understand business and user objectives to improve enterprise-wide technology strategy. ► PM Methodology and Project Management Office Development. Developed project management training course for law firm IT departments based on PMI’s five phases of project management – initiation, planning, execution, monitoring & controlling, and closing. Provided ad-hoc mentoring for new project managers. Created the strategy to develop a project management office for a large mid-western law firm to manage enterprise-wide IT projects. ► Software Development Project Management Managed a team of developers to design and implement a web-based application to track temporary staffing requests. Application provided customers real-time access to reporting of staffing usage, billing, and requests. Show less

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  Seyfarth Shaw LLP

  Jan 2012 - Jan 2014

  Senior Project Manager | Consultant

  ► Program & Project Management. Engaged in applying project management efficiency models to the internal processes and projects of law firm practice groups, law firm clients, and business organizations using lean and agile methodologies. ► Management Consulting. Managed the implementation of a specialized sales force team in the Caribbean region for RBC Royal Bank of Trinidad & Tobago. The engagement focused on increasing auto loans, mortgages, and group banking to gain a larger market share in the region. ► Houston Office Relocation. Manage the design, build, and construction for a new office workspace that provides attorneys the ability to work anywhere within the office utilizing the latest architectural, open space, and green design to reduce environmental impact, increase technology reliance, and maximize legal team collaboration. Show less

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  Baker Hughes, Inc.

  Jan 2014 - Jan 2016

  Senior Project Manager | IT PMO | IT Sales & Marketing | IT Remote Operation Services

  Program and Project Delivery: Responsible for project and program management of large multi-million dollar oil and gas technology projects in support of the on-going customer facing operations conducted by Baker Hughes various business divisions. Responsibilities included managing projects using the BHI program delivery methodology (PDM) for executing projects with several stage gate reviews at key points during the project lifecycle. Key projects delivered:►Shopbakerhughes.com Implementation – an eCommerce amazon.com-like website for selling BHI products and services. Generated $7,000,000 for Baker Hughes in 2014 and $75,000,000 through the first half of 2015.► RAINMAKER Intranet Implementation – sales collaboration tool and website for sharing and distributing sales content, sales digital assets, proposals, and prospects. Used by BHI global sales teams. Application is expected to help generate $26,000,000 in additional revenue by the global sales team.► Media Bin Content Management System Upgrade - Replace Media Bin 4.x with Hewlett Packard’s Media Bin 8.1. The application is used by the global marketing and design division to manage digital assets for compliance, rights management, presentations, internal web, external web, ads, posters, videos, and meta data searching.► WellLink Wireline – deliver a scalable real-time monitoring and data management service to support Baker Hughes Wireline operations (reservoir development, remote operation services).► WellLink Wireline Russia BiAB – deliver a standalone data center (BEACON in a Box – BiAB) with BHI's WellLink Wireline (WLW) service and related services for a major oil producer in Russia. Show less

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  Wood Mackenzie

  Apr 2016 - Feb 2018

  Senior Director | PMO Project Manager

  Using best practice project management techniques and Agile methodologies established by the Project Management Office; managed Scrum teams and a $5M budget to ensure timely delivery of project objectives based on approved budget and scope from the investment committee. Based on the Spotfire business intelligence platform, key projects delivered:► Coaching and Mentoring for New Software Development Teams – Using Tuckman's team development model, guided new project team members through the various phases of team development ‐‐ forming, storming, norming, performing to achieve a Agile sprint cadence of two to four weeks depending scope and backlog.► Spotfire Sustained Engineering – managed a Scrum team of three database developers, two C#/.NET developers, a QA/Test lead, two Spotfire developers, and a Spotfire system administrator to provide product enhancements and updates for Wood Mackenzie's client‐ facing portal tools. The team updated 20+ applications over a 10‐month period including two major rewrites of portal software. Budget: $1.5M► North American Well Analysis Tool (NAWAT) – managed a Scrum of team developers to improve the functionality of the well analysis tool to stay ahead of our competitors and provide features based on client feedback. Major accomplishments: Delta processing of data; direct data download service. Budget: $3.5M Show less