Cris Rogers

Current

US IT Functional Lead - EMS Project at PricewaterhouseCoopers
Owner at RPMC, LLC

Past

Project Manager at Red Hat
Consultant at Resolvit Resources
Project Manager at Tekelec

Project Manager (Contract) at Bank of America
Project Manager (Contract) at Wachovia
Implementation Manager at GE IT Solutions
Business Development Manager at MicroAge
System Engineer at XLConnect

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Education

Middle Tennessee State University

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Industry

Management Consulting

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Cris Rogers’s Summary

Certified Professional Project Manager and Quality Improvement Consultant (PMP and Six Sigma Black Belt) - also Certified ScrumMaster and a Certified Clarity Functional Consultant

My primary mission in serving my customers is simple: Exceed their expectations and deliver results that help improve their business and bolster their reputation.

I have significant experience delivering the following types of solutions:
Process Improvement engagements - from discovery to control measures to maintain improvements
Project & Program Management of mission critical initiatives where business goals and drivers were the primary objective (in lieu of technology refresh for functionality); Network, infrastructure, application delivery, application development and telephony projects are the high level project types I have led.

The mix of depth and breadth of engagements and skills provides my customers with an unique perspective and vast amounts of knowledge regarding what works and what does not.

Project execution is driven by the ability to save money or make money; the blend of Improvement/BPR methods and PM structure can generate significant benefits to companies. I have saved well over $25MM in hard dollar saves over the years, $220MM in soft dollar. Each unimproved process can yield as much as 80% wasted time in the effort; that time equals money and I have reduced cycle time in a variety of processes and organizations.

My goals are:
To continue to learn and grow as an individual and professional
To support and enhance my customers business and quality of professional life
To help companies and/or processes that are struggling perform and reform the business to success.

Cris Rogers’s Specialties:

Project Management, Management Consulting, Process Improvement, Business Process Reengineering, general Consulting, team facilitation and brainstorming, vendor management, outsourcing engagements, merger transition, network migration, data center move, server architecture and implementation, software development projects.
Sectors: Banking, Insurance, High Tech, Telephony, Networking, Manufacturing, general business.

Cris Rogers’s Experience

US IT Functional Lead - EMS Project

PricewaterhouseCoopers

(Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; PwC; Accounting industry)

May 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

Supporting a Clarity implementation for PwC as the Functional IT Lead for the effort.
Owner

RPMC, LLC

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

February 2004 — Present (5 years 6 months)

Managing Partner for a management consulting partnership aligned with the delivery of Project Management, Six Sigma/Quality Improvement efforts and general consulting around getting the most from technology and systems integration with a business.

Currently delivering solutions for Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) solutions, including Clarity, for clients.
Project Manager

Red Hat

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RHT; Computer Software industry)

August 2007 — February 2008 (7 months)

Contract through The Brokers Group - support projects related to the delivery of infrastructure and support mechanisms for Red Hat and its customers. Delivered Clarity r8.1 while at Red Hat; from functional architecture to deployment and consulting.
Consultant

Resolvit Resources

(Management Consulting industry)

2006 — 2007 (1 year)
Project Manager

Tekelec

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TKLC; Telecommunications industry)

October 2006 — August 2007 (11 months)

On contract at Tekelec (via Resolvit Resources and RPMC) supporting the deployment of a Project Management solution based on Clarity (CA) and Oracle Projects. Supporting other projects as well, along with the delivery of specific duties and tasks aligned with a growing PMO.
Project Manager (Contract)

Bank of America

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BOA; Banking industry)

February 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 11 months)

PM for the Network refresh project and Program Manager for the VoIP implementation. Transform all Banking Centers, offices and enterprise level locations to updated network solutions and VoIP telephony. Served as governance PgM with EDS, SBC and a variety of other vendors as well as internal clients.
Project Manager (Contract)

Wachovia

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)

April 2002 — October 2003 (1 year 7 months)

Deployed network transformations in large corporate sites that replaced aging network infrastructure. Served as PM and Program Mgr for engagement; developed standards and methodologies for project delivery.
Implementation Manager

GE IT Solutions

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; GE; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2000 — January 2002 (1 year 6 months)

Provided Project Recovery services to clients in order to pull troubled projects back into a managable state. Developed process and procedures to implement contractual services engagements reproducibly and reliably in order to provide cost saves and faster revenue recognition.
Generated, negotiated and implemented contracts and statements of work (SOW) for comprehensive engagements and outsourcing services to clients.
Implemented Clarify CRM Solution as the process owner - trained, developed process for and supported sales & sales support groups to a successful product launch of Clarify.
Business Development Manager

MicroAge

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1997 — 1999 (2 years)
System Engineer

XLConnect

(Management Consulting industry)

1995 — 1997 (2 years)

Cris Rogers’s Education

Middle Tennessee State University

none , IT , 1991 — 1992

Life interrupted education; I was always much better with self directed learning as well - so I taught myself and learned from the best the most effective way I know for me - failure and growth from it.

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Cris Rogers’s Interests:

Professionally, reading and management/quality seminars exploring new ways to do business better, faster and cheaper. Personally, wood carving and other wood working, cigars and big dogs are a few of the varied interests I have (Mastiffs & Goldens)