John Goodpasture

Current

Managing Principal at Square Peg Consulting

Past

OneSystem Program Office at Ricoh America Corp
Vice President, Programs & Process at Lanier Professional Services
Director, Project Office at Lanier Worldwide

Director Program Management & Systems Engineering at Harris Corporation

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Education

University of Maryland College Park
Georgia Institute of Technology

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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John Goodpasture’s Summary

Google me at John C Goodpasture Project Manager
Certified PMP by PMI

Blog with me at 'http://johngoodpasture.com

Expert practitioner, coach, author, and consulting manager for technology projects. Experience developing the business case, fashioning the program plan, and executing the project plans for a project portfolio, especially adept at: traditional IT, defense systems, and technical intelligence systems.

Proven application skills to the entire project life cycle: opportunity identification, goal alignment and strategy development, technology selection and tradeoffs, project planning, work-package estimation, critical path scheduling, earned value delivery and rollout, operations, and retirement.

Accomplished quantitative risk manager, and practitioner of quality problem solving methods as given in TQM and Six Sigma protocols. Expert cost/schedule estimating, contract and subcontract management.

Strong communication skills as demonstrated in multiple papers, magazine articles, and books authored in the field of project management.

Proven organizational skills as applied to Work Breakdown Structure [WBS] and Resource Assignment Matrix [RAM].

Demonstrated ability to consult with other professionals and to convey program and project management concepts.

John Goodpasture’s Specialties:

Project manager, portfolio management, risk management, earned value manager, subcontract and contracts manager, team coach, team mentor, author, trainer, teacher, RFP and proposal manager

John Goodpasture’s Experience

Managing Principal

Square Peg Consulting

(Information Services industry)

2000 — Present (9 years )

Managing Principal providing program management and coaching of project teams engaged with technology and business improvement
OneSystem Program Office

Ricoh America Corp

(Business Supplies and Equipment industry)

June 2004 — June 2008 (4 years 1 month)

Managed project test and data conversion for a very large scale Oracle business systems deployment with business partner Accenture
Vice President, Programs & Process

Lanier Professional Services

(Public Company; Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)

January 1999 — January 2000 (1 year 1 month)

Manage and international workforce of 800 in IT [information technology], application development, and data scanning and indexing
Director, Project Office

Lanier Worldwide

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Business Supplies and Equipment industry)

January 1997 — January 1999 (2 years 1 month)

Managed a project office portfolio of more than a dozen projects of strategic impact to Lanier Worldwide
Director Program Management & Systems Engineering

Harris Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HRS; Defense & Space industry)

1984 — 1997 (13 years )

John Goodpasture’s Education

University of Maryland College Park

MSEE , Electrical Engineering , 1966 — 1968
Georgia Institute of Technology

BEE , Electrical Engineering , 1961 — 1966