Donna Ritter, PMP

Current

Owner at Ritter Consulting (Project Management and Life Coaching)
Senior Program Manager Consulting at Ritter Consulting

Past

Senior Project Manager at Medidata Solutions
PMP Consultant for Application Monitoring at Chesapeake Energy
Senior Project Manager at Personix

Product Management Consultant at SMA
Director of Product Line Management at BMC Software
Senior Program Manager at Compaq
Senior Development Manager at Digital

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Education

Project Management Institute
University of New Orleans

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17 people have recommended Donna

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Donna Ritter, PMP’s Summary

Do you know what your direction is in your life right now? Not the day to day family/career things; but your life’s purpose – what gives you passion. What makes you excited about the day and ready to do it again the next day? What do you dream of doing with your life? What do you want to be remembered for? Does your career give you this fulfillment or do you drag yourself to work each day. These are the questions we address in Life Coaching.

I have 30 years of Software Development/Project Management experience and I found what really gave me passion is to work with others to help them realize the wonderful person they are and what they can do with their lives. I have extensive experience in practical application of best industry practices with teams who must deliver quality products despite significant time, resource, and technical challenges. I have proven abilities to form and manage cross-organizational teams and programs achieving breakthrough results; so I know the pressures put on Computer professionals.

I am building my Life/Career Coaching business and invite you to contact me for a free session!

Donna Ritter, PMP’s Specialties:

Life/Spirtual/Career Coaching and Training.
Trainingi in Project/Program/Product management.
Networking, blogging and SEO,
Systems and applications, system/application/network management and distributed systems.

Donna Ritter, PMP’s Experience

Senior Project Manager

Medidata Solutions

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

August 2007 — November 2007 (4 months)

•I established consolidated project work schedule and made it available on a share. I established a Microsoft Project Server environment 2007 and SharePoint Server 2007 with calendaring, project storage and resource allocation. Project Server was used as the web interface to the project schedules as well as for the Project Managers to do resource allocation. SharePoint was used for documentation retention, team workspaces, calendaring, wikis and other forms of team collaboration.
PMP Consultant for Application Monitoring

Chesapeake Energy

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CHK; Oil & Energy industry)

March 2007 — June 2007 (4 months)

Project Management Consultant in charge of migrating servers (5000+) and network devices from legancy monitoring and notification tools to BMC and Alarm point products using Blackberries for notification devices. Manage projects to add applicaiton Monitoring for over 40 applications (such as Enertia, Active Director, Data Center, Biztalk, PeopleSoft, Artesia, Exchange) using BMC Performance Manager and Alarm Point.
Senior Project Manager

Personix

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Printing industry)

February 2007 — March 2007 (2 months)

• I specialize din reviewing and identifying the current project methodology and make suggestions for enhancements. I implement project management best practices. I designed, documented and implemented project processes and mentored the staff.
•I worked with the PMO office at this HealthCare company to add PMP processes to the implementation group utilizing a tollgate sign-off process and HP Mercury Governance Center. All projects had Microsoft project schedules loaded into Mercury which I investigated where the time from the project team could be tracked on all projects in the enterprise data center to ensure proper resource allocation. We produced as a POS for Health Care cards for major insurance carriers, giving the customer a Web user interface to make small changes on their own.
Product Management Consultant

SMA

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

June 2005 — February 2007 (1 year 9 months)

My title was Technical Product Consultant on a business process event driven automation product called OpCon/xps. OpCon/xps is a fast flexible way to automate and controls a wide range of IT & business processes. It runs on all platforms in use today. Titles rarely mean anything in small companies, so I was fortunate to do a variety of things including reverse engineering, business analysis, process definitions, functional specifications, database design and the definition of the Web User Interface for the product.
Director of Product Line Management

BMC Software

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; BMC; Computer Software industry)

August 1999 — November 2001 (2 years 4 months)

I managed a 30 person development team, and a 15 person technical documentation team with a $6 million budget. Directed programs to deliver next-generation software for $394 million PATROL product family.
I planned and managed the development, documentation and validation of PATROL Solutions across operating systems ( applications (Microsoft .net servers, BackOffice products, Lotus Domino, Java application servers, hardware OEM products, SQL Server).
I provided long term strategic leadership and product roadmap refining it as new technologies and customer requirements came in to play.
I have forecasted budget and revenue expectations and reported on the actual to this budget on a quarterly basis to the executive team. I have refined budget quarterly to reduce expenses by 25% by introducing ways to work smarter using new processes and technologies.
Senior Program Manager

Compaq

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HP; Computer Hardware industry)

November 1996 — August 1999 (2 years 10 months)

Senior Product Manager, ESSG Windows Servers Group.
I managed cross-organizational teams developing and delivering Smart Start software (out of the box configuration and set-up software for Compaq servers).
I led a project team made of engineering, marketing, QA, support, services and documentation to ensure the program success in delivering the server configuration software on the Windows, UNIX and NetWare platforms.
I cultivated and managed relationships with external vendors such as Microsoft and Intel resulting in Compaq being first to market with new Microsoft operating systems and Intel chips in our board releases. I evaluated 3rd party software to evaluate whether it would integrate with our platforms.
I drove an effort to identify and qualify outsourcing candidate companies enabling Compaq to manage resource requirements by outsourcing appropriate parts of our work. I forecasted, managed and reported on the budget for my organization.
Senior Development Manager

Digital

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HP; Computer Software industry)

January 1985 — November 1996 (11 years 11 months)

Senior Development Manager, OpenVMS Engineering Group

Directed 60 person development team delivering industry standard software (DECwindows/Motif, DCE, TCP/IP, UNIX integration, Windows integration) on the OpenVMS platform. Team was responsible for configuration management and build systems. Drove key cross-organizational projects to implement industry open standards. Managed cost center with budget of 15 million. Led Six-Sigma evaluation of core operating system.

Development Manager, ACMS Engineering Group

Directed 15 person team responsible for delivering Digital’s transaction processing software on the OpenVMS platform. Drove TPC certification for product allowing Digital to publish TPS metrics. Managed cost center with budget of 4 million.

Additional Information

Donna Ritter, PMP’s Interests:

Life/Career/Management Coaching, Computers and electronics, Network and Application Management, Technical and creative writing, PMP, PMI, Bible, Sprituality, Physics, Family, Reading, Project Management, Professional Networking, Quantam, Physics, Agile programming, Scrum, Rapid Development, Music.

Donna Ritter, PMP’s Groups:

Certified Project Management Professional, Certified Coach, Member of Project Management Institute (PMI), Memer of ASTD, Member of Coachville, Member of Association of Women in computing (former PR Director for AWC), Member WITI, Member FPHW, Member PMI North Houston Chapter, member of DallasBlue Executives.