Ron Holohan, MBA PMP

Current

Director of Program Management at Shure Incorporated
Chief Project Officer at The pm411.org Project Management Podcast

Past

Program Manager at Shure, Inc.
Project Manager at Shure, Inc.
Manager – Electronic Product Support at Emerson Electric White-Rodgers Div.

Manager – International Products and Customers at Emerson Electric White-Rodgers Div.
Account Engineering Specialist at Emerson Electric White-Rodgers Div.
Project Engineer – Levels I and II at Emerson Electric White-Rodgers Div.
Development Engineer at Emerson Electric White-Rodgers Div.

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Education

Webster University
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Illinois Central College

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Industry

Consumer Electronics

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Ron Holohan, MBA PMP’s Summary

Director of Program Management involved in project management for over 14 years, currently with 5 direct Project Manager reports focused on new product development in the consumer industry. Prior to holding Director and Program Manager positions, I was a project manager on over 15 different new product development teams varying in size from 7 to over 30 full time team members.

In addition, I host a weekly project management internet radio show called The pm411.org Project Management Podcast (www.pm411.org). This show has been consistently been in the top 4 project management podcasts listed in iTunes. The mission of the show is to provide listeners and readers up to date best practices and tools in the field of project management.

Ron Holohan, MBA PMP’s Specialties:

Project management, product development, schedule, budget, functional management, organizational communication, contract negotiation, meeting schedule metrics, meeting budget metrics, meeting product cost metrics, leadership, project management best practices, teamwork, training, critical chain, theory of constraints, earned value management, overcoming challenges, monitoring and controlling, podcasts, audio mastering, internet marketing, program director, program management, thought leadership

Ron Holohan, MBA PMP’s Experience

Director of Program Management

Shure Incorporated

(Privately Held; Consumer Electronics industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

- Responsible for managing high profile earphone and cellular new product development project teams utilizing 3rd party business alliances.
- Responsible for coaching, leading, and directing 6 Project Manager direct reports that manage new product and Life Cycle Management project teams.
- Responsible for communicating weekly status of all Personal Listening projects to the Senior Program Director, Operations, Marketing Business Units, and Executive Staff
- Responsible for strategic budgetary, resource, and roadmap planning for my department
- Leader of the Shure Product Development Process Process Team
Chief Project Officer

The pm411.org Project Management Podcast

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Management Consulting industry)

February 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

http://www.pm411.org

Collaborative website and Internet Radio Show to those in the Project Management profession based on my own personal professional experience and the project management experience shared by others.
- Responsible for content development, web site traffic growth, web site and podcast UI and advertising revenue.
- Responsible for brand strategy and statistic tracking systems.
- Responsible for guest interviews and show production/hosting
Program Manager

Shure, Inc.

(Consumer Goods industry)

January 2006 — January 2008 (2 years 1 month)

- Responsible for managing high profile earphone and cellular new product development project teams utilizing 3rd party business alliances that generate over $75 annually.
- Responsible for coaching, leading, and directing 5 Project Manager direct reports that manage new product and LCM project teams.
- Responsible for communicating weekly status of all Personal Audio projects to the Senior Program Director, Operations, Marketing Business Units, and Executive Staff
- Responsible for strategic budgetary, resource, and roadmap planning for my department
- Leader of the Shure Development Process Team
Project Manager

Shure, Inc.

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)

October 2000 — January 2006 (5 years 4 months)

- 4+ years of directly leading and managing various audio New Product teams at Shure
- Experience managing professional and consumer earphone, wireless microphone, and accessory project teams
- Managed and worked closely with co-dev suppliers
- Accountable for managing multiple teams simultanously to contracted schedules, budgets, and product costs
- Focused on reducing development cycle times within Shure while staying within project budget and product cost metrics
Manager – Electronic Product Support

Emerson Electric White-Rodgers Div.

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; EMR; Consumer Goods industry)

July 2000 — October 2000 (4 months)

- Managed a sustaining engineering group of 4 for Electronic Ignition Controls
- Managed a group of engineers focused on cost reductions, Mexican plant support, and micro-projects
Manager – International Products and Customers

Emerson Electric White-Rodgers Div.

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; EMR; Consumer Goods industry)

November 1998 — July 2000 (1 year 9 months)

- Responsible for supervising a department for international gas and electronic ignition products
- Responsible for project management tracking, weekly project communication, and project resource planning for three new product development projects
- Responsible for product support on over 100 international product type variations
Account Engineering Specialist

Emerson Electric White-Rodgers Div.

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; EMR; Consumer Goods industry)

April 1997 — November 1998 (1 year 8 months)

- Position focused on the technical sales functions of several microprocessor-based gas-furnace ignition products sold to a single account.
- Responsible for supervising engineering support for two new ignition control introductions whose combined yearly sales was $2.8 million.
Project Engineer – Levels I and II

Emerson Electric White-Rodgers Div.

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; EMR; Consumer Goods industry)

September 1993 — April 1997 (3 years 8 months)

- Designed and managed microcomputer-based hot surface ignition systems for use in European and domestic OEM furnace, dryer, and boiler applications.
- Traveled to major OEM customers as the engineering support for new product production startups.
- Managed and coordinated efforts between Marketing, Manufacturing, and Engineering for Engineering Pilot Production runs.
Development Engineer

Emerson Electric White-Rodgers Div.

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; EMR; Consumer Goods industry)

November 1992 — August 1993 (10 months)

- Designed products that complied with North American and European EMC directives.

Ron Holohan, MBA PMP’s Education

Webster University

MBA , Management , 1993 — 1997

- Management and business classes taken at night while working focused on the application of class theory to real workplace experience.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1989 — 1992
Illinois Central College

Assoc of Arts and Science , Engineering , 1987 — 1989

- Classes focused on Engineering theory, lab work, as well as arts, social science and humanities.

Activities and Societies:

- Member of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society

Additional Information

Ron Holohan, MBA PMP’s Websites:

Ron Holohan, MBA PMP’s Interests:

Program and Project Management, training, new technologies, personal productivity, software application productivity, music, podcasting, Toastmasters International, podcasts, guitar, recording, leadership books, process improvement

Ron Holohan, MBA PMP’s Groups:

Project Management Institute (PMI), Toastmasters International, Chicagoland Chapter of PMI, PMI New Product Development SIG, PMI College of Performance Management