Andrew Champagne - PMP

Experience

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  Rockwell Automation

  Jan 1996 - Oct 2014

  A Senior Project Manager with progressive experience in the industrial automation industry. Known for effectively managing multiple projects while engaging stakeholders and achieving project charters. My strong leadership, mentoring and interpersonal skills enable me to successfully manage complex global projects.• Exceptional at multi-tasking, demonstrated through the management of up to 50 projects per year. Providing excellent client satisfaction, meeting/exceeding their expectations concerning deliverables, quality and scope.• Executed successfully on a range of global projects from $100k to $2 million, demonstrating strong communication skills in motivating and managing across a functional organization. While providing direction, and guidance to ensure projects were completed on time 85-90% success rate, and within budget, scope and with improved margin 1-2%.• Excelled at managing multiple projects with responsibility for scope of supply, customer witness tests, change order quoting and processing, forecasting, expediting, project schedules, and issue resolution internally and externally.• Utilized lean six sigma Green Belt training, value stream mapping, and brainstorming techniques to develop a project charter and facilitate meetings for a continuous improvement project resulting in over $100k of recovered revenue per year. Show less Responsible for the success of a team of 8 to 10 Start-up/Field Modification Project Managers/Engineering Technologists. Successful at doubling sales over the 4 year time frame.• Inspired and motivated team, set group and individual objectives and goals, trained and mentored personnel.• Identified and implemented process improvements for monitoring workload, tracking/improving quote response time, and tracking and reporting margin.• Involved in interviewing new/replacement personnel. Providing input to management on performance reviews. Developing business cases for addition of personnel.• Provided guidance to team members to help resolve issues, while managing medium voltage drive start-ups and while quoting, engineering and managing field labor for field modifications on all Rockwell Automation Medium Voltage products. Show less Responsible for managing medium voltage drive start-ups and field modifications for all medium voltage products.• Improved customer satisfaction, quality, productivity, and sales for field modification of Rockwell Automation/Allen Bradley medium voltage equipment. Accomplished this by developing and implementing a business model from the quoting stage, through order acceptance, engineering, manufacturing, shipment, to installation, including a lessons learned database. • Established trust by working directly with customers to develop scope of supply for commissioning of medium voltage drives. Identified and secured proper field resources to complete commissioning.• Responsible for reviewing field reports, developed billing summaries, and invoicing customers.• Earned the additional responsibility of managing customer service/warranty field modification projects. Show less

  • Senior Project Manager PMP

    Oct 2009 - Oct 2014

  • Team Leader/Project Manager, Support Services

    Jun 2005 - Oct 2009

  • Project Manager, Support Services

    Oct 2003 - Jun 2005

  • Canadian Product Manager/Project Co-ordinator

    May 2000 - Oct 2003

  • Marketing Representative/Manufacturing Specialist

    Jan 1996 - Apr 2000
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  Eagle's Flight

  Apr 2016 - Sept 2017

  Project Manager

  Eagle's Flight is a global leader in the development and delivery of business-relevant, experiential learning programs that achieve specific training objectives and lasting behavior change.Project manager for the creation and implementation of custom experiential training programs from $50k to $4 million for clients across many industries, including Airline, Car Rental, Food packaging, Financial, Health Care Software, Pet Food and Powertrain Manufacturing.• Successfully managed projects, meeting or exceeding client expectations, resulting in expanded business and the development of partnership relationships.• Responsible for statements of work, change requests, revenue allocations, project plans, costs, and budgets.• Increased the project management team’s level of expertise by providing MS Project training in group and individual sessions.• Mentored project managers and project coordinators, providing guidance and training on project management skills, career objectives, and interpersonal skills.• Worked in a matrix environment supporting and leading a team with developers, graphic designers, sales, facilitations, and production.• Project scope included customization of programs, pilots, train the trainers, delivery of sessions, facilitation, measurement, and reinforcement. Show less

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  Agricorp

  Oct 2018 - now

  Change Implementation Specialist

  Effectively lead and implement complex to highly complex and diverse change initiatives within the Program Delivery division to assist in improving the external customer experience.• Knowledge of many programs supported by Agricorp• Lead the planning, development and implementation of complex to highly complex and diverse change initiatives from the launch of the OBCFPP to changes in PI Plum delivery• Providing change management expertise to ensure changes align with other Program Delivery divisional activities and are implemented effectively within the division• Developing and using standardized methodology for change implementation to provide consistent success including development of an implementation plan template• Analyzing the impact of changes to the day-to-day business operations and factoring impacts into the creation of project plans• Making recommendations and executing changes in methodology for effective change management and/or implementation including creating a business case to support the use of Microsoft Project.• Consulting with Program Delivery management on change implementation priorities, ensuring consideration of timing, resource requirements, the impact to the business operation and customer experience• Ensuring effective change implementation with a focus on improving the external customer experience• Leading cross-functional teams and using project management expertise to ensure change initiatives are on time, on budget and meet stakeholder expectations• Acting as a resource for change management implementation and serving as the senior change management expert on assigned projects and initiatives, shown through the support of program delivery business planning• Coaching and mentoring Change Implementation Specialists, Operations Analysts and others involved in change implementation across the division, including introducing continuous improvement practices into team meetings and processes. Show less