
Owner, RoadRunner Project Management Consultants & Executive Recruiter-wes@roadrunnerpm.com and PM at Deloitte Services
Greater Nashville Area

Owner, RoadRunner Project Management Consultants & Executive Recruiter-wes@roadrunnerpm.com and PM at Deloitte Services
Greater Nashville Area
PMP Certified Senior Project Manager; 2006 Immediate Past President, 2005 President and 2003-2004 Treasurer of PMI Phoenix Chapter, Inc., Executive Recruiter
PM Consulting & Training, Troubled Projects, PM Mentoring; Project Risk Management, PM Maturity Assessments, PMO Development, Project & Portfolio Management, OPM; Executive and Technology Recruiting and HR Services
http://roadrunnerpm.com
(Information Technology and Services industry)
Currently holds this position
(Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)
Project Manager in the ITS PMO
(Public Company; PRFT; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2006 — August 2007 (10 months)
IBM Business Partner and portal creators
(Privately Held; Broadcast Media industry)
January 2000 — December 2006 (7 years )
Wes was President for 2005, Treasurer for 2003-2004 and Programs Chair for 2000 - 2003. As Treasurer, President and now Immediate Past President (2006) he was a member of the Board of Directors. PMI Phoenix Chapter is a 2000+ member non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the profession of Project Management. Wes led the chapter through 35+ percent growth during 2005 while delivering many services to the membership.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)
March 2001 — May 2002 (1 year 3 months)
Migration of both payroll and HR services for a Seattle client to our Golden Gate integrated platform. Completed an on-time, high quality five-month customization and implementation project of the ProAIM Rapid Implementation Methodology. Project delivered a cross-organization rapid implementation methodology to shorten product and service delivery times. Developed project plans; forecast and track to budget; identify, track and resolve issues and manage tasks of sixteen team members. Performed risk identification and mitigation. Gave regular status updates and presentations to the Steering and Strategic Councils.Participated in building a Project Management Office (PMO) to support our organization and the full Software Development Life Cycle. This included creating processes, templates and procedures as well as standard project plans. Managed the delivery and implementation of a Travel & Entertainment Expense solution for InterPro that included expense report auditing workstations.
(Self-Employed; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1998 — 1999 (1 year )
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 1997 — August 1998 (1 year 7 months)
Provided Project Management and software development services to large organizations such as American Express, U-Haul, etc. Environment was IMS DB/DC, DB2 and COBOL II.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 1994 — October 1995 (1 year 1 month)
Was assigned to BellSouth in Birmingham, AL where my team provided maintenance and enhancements for their Usage Studies & Statistics applications as part of an outsourcing contract. Our staff was on call 24x7. The technical environment was IBM mainframe, COBOL II, IMS/DB and DB2. Took control of the Carrier Access (CARE) project for 3+ months while we searched for a new Project Manager. This added another team of eight developers to my span of control. Responsible for providing project planning, full life cycle software development and implementation leadership for a team of seven developers. Also responsible for all customer interaction and status reporting to both the customer and CHC management. Developed project tools using PowerBuilder 4.0 and Access 2.0. Chaired a task force that studied and implemented performance measurement metrics. Was also responsible for performing quality assurance and estimating efforts for new work requests.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1983 — 1988 (5 years )
MPM , Project Management , November 1997 — September 2001
B.S. , Business Administration , 1983 — 1987
Project Management Institute (PMI)
PMI Consulting SIG
PMI IS SIG
PMI Phoenix Chapter Inc.
Nashville PMI Chapter
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