David [LION] Richardson,PMP (daver@dermanagement.com)

Current

Sr. IT Project Manager - Consulting to BP Pipelines and Logistics at DER Management
Independent Consultant at DER Management, Inc. (Self-employed)

Past

Independent IT Project Manager at DER Management (Self-employed)
Project Manager at Entex Information Systems
Business Analyst at Nalco Chemical Corp

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Education

Benedictine University
Millikin University
Hinsdale Central High School

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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David [LION] Richardson,PMP (daver@dermanagement.com)’s Summary

Sr. IT Project Manager with 18 years IT experience and 11+ years consulting experience. Worked in a variety of industries and technologies in the Chicago metro area.

Firms:

Abbott Labs
ABN AMRO
AON Insurance (Risk Services)
BP, plc
Baker & McKenzie, LLP
McDonald's Corporation
Nalco Chemical Corp.
R.E. Davis Chemical Corp.
S&T Internet Services Inc.

David [LION] Richardson,PMP (daver@dermanagement.com)’s Specialties:

Application deployment, offshore contractor management, business continuity and disaster planning, requirements gathering, needs assessment, application development management, infrastructure planning and implementation, linux OS.

David [LION] Richardson,PMP (daver@dermanagement.com)’s Experience

Sr. IT Project Manager - Consulting to BP Pipelines and Logistics

DER Management

(Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2000 — Present (8 years 8 months)

Sr. IT Project Manager working at BP in Warrenville/Naperville Illinois.

Managed projects in areas:
-- Upgrade to national truck logistics scheduling software and hardware/architecture
-- Multi-environment rehosting build for national GIS solution using ESRI tools, highly available solution, scalable design
-- Large .NET-based financial reporting engine,
-- Windows Server based SOX compliance tool for management of Treasury team's application entitlements.
-- Business Objects installation for Business Intelligence reporting against an Enterprise Health and Safety system
-- Production and Disaster Recovery environments built for two different MS Sharepoint 2003 environments, development inter-continental failover model
-- Disaster recovery solution for Tax documents to provide greatly improved availability of business critical electronic documents.
-- Worked in BP DCT, BP IT&S, Functions Segment, R&M Refining and Marketing Segment, USPL US Pipelines and Logistics BU
Independent Consultant
DER Management, Inc. (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2000 — Present (8 years 9 months)

Independent PMO, Project and Management consultant. Certified PMP, ITIL Foundation Certificate holder. Added bonus, highly skilled in Linux and qmail/vpopmail solutions.
Independent IT Project Manager
DER Management (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 1998 — May 2000 (1 year 10 months)

Work at Baker & McKenzie in Chicago. ERP project management, largely on the time-and-billing transfer process - including currency conversion
Project Manager

Entex Information Systems

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

April 1996 — September 1998 (2 years 6 months)

Project Manager for a variety of technology refreshes, hardware rollouts, and application installs for local firms:
-- McDonald's corporation
-- AON Insurance
-- Nalco Chemical
-- Abbott Labs
-- ABN AMRO
Business Analyst

Nalco Chemical Corp

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Chemicals industry)

April 1991 — April 1996 (5 years 1 month)

Business Analyst and Project Manager

Implemented global cc:Mail and Lotus Notes, including custom programming.
Took over operation of existing Unisys EDI solution.
Provided overall technical coordination for sales force automation laptop configuration.

David [LION] Richardson,PMP (daver@dermanagement.com)’s Education

Benedictine University

MBA , Business , 1993 — 1995
Millikin University

Business Administration , 1986 — 1990
Hinsdale Central High School

1983 — 1986

Additional Information

David [LION] Richardson,PMP (daver@dermanagement.com)’s Websites:

David [LION] Richardson,PMP (daver@dermanagement.com)’s Interests:

Family, golf, Chicago Cubs baseball, great food, good friends. Hinsdale Central High School. Open Networker LinkedIn LION

David [LION] Richardson,PMP (daver@dermanagement.com)’s Groups:

Project Management Institute - I hold the PMP certification.

Chicagoland PMI Chapter member

PMI Consulting SIG Chapter member

EXIN - Certificate in ITIL Foundation.

Chicago District Golf Association