Candidates About

Gregg Benson Gurnett

SUMMARY

·         PMP Certified Project Management Professional and CSM Certified ScrumMaster.

·         Goal-Oriented Project Manager/Analyst with extensive experience at Fortune 500 companies in the design, development, and maintenance of software applications for a variety of business systems. Recommendations are available on LinkedIn.

·         Highly experienced providing project budget management and delivers projects on time and within budget.

·         Combine project management methodologies with excellent skills to manage unique application portfolios.

·         Known for being a tech and business oriented Subject Matter Expert well-versed in SDLC software development life cycle practices and project management methodologies.

·         Experienced creating training documents and facilitating the training of an offshore team in Ireland.

·         Experienced with Microsoft Office.

·         Able to proficiently manage multiple critical path complex projects at a single time.

·         Experienced with vendor and supply chain management as well as process improvement methodologies.

·         Able to work in multiple technical environments and known for being a self-sufficient leader who takes stock in his team and mentors them to make sure that they are performing at peak levels.

·         Knowledge of BSA deliverables – Preparing Business Requirement Documents (BRDs), Functional Requirement Documents (FRDs), Deliverables and Test cases.

·         Work closely with the Project teams assist to with project planning. Assist with project planning by providing ROM estimates for BSA deliverables, identify stakeholders/impacted groups, contribute to implementation planning, product demonstration, and coordinate change control.

·         Expertise in creating standard BSA artifacts like context diagrams, system flowcharts, screen specifications, screen-mock-ups, Interface specifications, forms/report specifications.

·         Strong analytical skills to understand the business needs and define functional requirements. Conduct functional analysis of existing systems – identify and recommend functional enhancements (As-is and To-be process).

·         Excellent communication skills along with ability to facilitate meetings with Business and IT stakeholders.

·         Experience conducting walkthroughs and brand brainstorming sessions.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

·         TSO/SPF, COBOL, Oracle, MS Excel, FOCUS, OS/JCL, PRISM 4.4, OS/MVS, MS Project, MS Word, Vision Data, CULPRIT, Control, MS Power Point, Visual Basic, Visio, HTML Editor, Microsoft Windows, FoxPro 2.5, DBASE III, Standard Irma Script Language, CMM/Catalyst, IBM 3090, IBM 3084, IBM 4341, IBM 3081, IBM/PC Windows XP, combination of UNIX and Windows servers, HP mid-frame, SAP, PRISM, PeopleSoft, TOAD, Citrix

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS

·         Master of Business Administration from Graziadio School of Business and Management, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA (Graduated)

·         Bachelor of Science degree in Business Information Systems from California State University in Los Angeles, CA (Graduated)

·         Associate of Arts degree from Pasadena City College in Pasadena, CA  (Graduated)

·         PMP – Active – Certification # 512851- (Verified on PMI website)

·         CSM – Active – Certification # 000305830- (Verified on Scrum Alliance website)

·         CBEST – Active – Certification # 41785544- (Verified via Commission on Teacher Credentialing)

EXPERIENCE

DBA Gurnett Consulting, Project Manager/Analyst Consultant, Los Angeles, CA                                                               May 2014 – Present

Project Manager/Analyst actively pursuing consulting opportunities in the Greater Los Angeles Area.

Currently working for the State of California EDD EU-GLAPROS Canoga Park Chapter as their Training Committee Chairman.

• Also, working as the Canoga Park EDD project manager of record in conjunction with multiple EDD chapters to migrate existing EDD protocol documentation per a state wide initiative under the guidance of Governor Brown. Used a traditional waterfall framework to manage this effort.

• Additionally, worked as the Canoga Park EDD Scrums Master of record per an EU-GLAPROS website maintenance effort. Used an Agile Scrums approach to manage this project.

Employer: Computer Sciences Corporation; Client: Raytheon, contractor, El Segundo, CA

Jan. 2000 - Apr. 2013

Project Manager/Analyst/Technical SME

·         Delivered multiple project administration, implementation timelines & deployment, qualitative and strategic thinking, troubleshooting & problem-solving technical team leader & management liaison, training & development process improvement, budget management.

·         Project Manager/ Analyst/ Subject Matter Expert: Interfaced Raytheon Corporation’s El Segundo corridor Low Value   Inventory and Supplier Managed Inventory IBM legacy pool allocations with their SAP and PRISM enterprise development efforts using traditional waterfall framework.

·         Additional responsibilities including Technical lead for Raytheon’s SAS Control/Excel application which is an Oracle application used for budgeting, forecasting, planning and rate development. Reverse engineering analysis was used to determine backlog items to be worked. Meta data and raw data were required to be mapped from SAP and PeopleSoft into Oracle as per back office data modeling requirements. Oracle SQL and Control SQL scripts were used to accomplish required tasks. The business unit owners used a modified Agile Scrum approach to accomplish the migration from a legacy environment to an Oracle environment. The following was accomplished as a team:

1) The team level process and decisions were made by the team.

2)  Barriers to delivery were reduced due to increased cooperation between the team, product owners and stakeholders.

3)  Daily status and productivity metrics were posted and made available.

4)  Dependencies were managed via inspect and adapt loops throughout the effort.

5)  Product backlog/Sprint backlog items were groomed/enhanced throughout the effort.

6)  Short and long term goals were accomplished in record time.

·         Radar Communication Systems Open Shop Financial Applications project: Managed an annual maintenance budget of $180,416.00, overseeing the management and training of a programming team in Derry Ireland. Provided communication and coordination between project team members and management. Also acted as a workflow coordinator to ensure resources were being optimally utilized.

·         Raytheon Year 2000 Conversion project: Managed Open Shop Financial Application legacy year conversions from 2 digit year to 4 digit year. Extensive analysis was required to identify and determine application impact.

Employer: Computer Sciences Corporation; Client: Raytheon/GM Hughes Electronics, contractor, El Segundo, CA

Jan. 1995 - Jan. 2000

Jr. Project Manager/Analyst/Technical SME

·         Delivered multiple project administration, implementation timelines & deployment, qualitative and strategic thinking, troubleshooting & problem-solving technical team leader & management liaison, training & development process improvement, budget management.

·         FPS/GSA Open Shop Interface Production Project: Managed the conversion of Raytheon’s FPS/GSA open shop interface application environment into a CA7 production environment. Completed formal Configuration Management Baseline documentation as part of the required critical design. A traditional waterfall framework was used. Also, managed a programming team as a technical lead on the project. Interfaced extensively with Raytheon I.T. stakeholders per concurrent implementation activities which were prioritized.

·         SCS Transition effort: Managed the RCS Average Labor Pricing System and Management/Secretary Pool Allocation systems to accommodate/include EOS. A traditional waterfall framework was used effectively modifying an expansion of processes and programs for all assigned areas of this expansion. Due to Sarbanes Oxley legal requirements, simultaneous organizational projects, issues and risks were required to be addressed.

·         Responsible for creating and maintaining high level, project related documentation for presentation to key stakeholders.

·         Experienced planning and leading project oriented meetings to brainstorm project objectives and process improvement measures.

·         Radar Communication Systems Open Shop Financial Applications project: Managed an annual maintenance budget of $180,416.00, overseeing the management and training of a programming team in Derry Ireland. Provided communication and coordination between project team members and management. Also acted as a workflow coordinator to ensure resources were being optimally utilized.

Employer: GM/Hughes Electronics Corporation, El Segundo, CA

Jan. 1985 – Dec. 1994

Programmer Analyst

·         Computer Programmer Analyst responsibilities include: implementation timelines & deployment, qualitative and strategic thinking, troubleshooting & problem-solving technical team member/leader.

·         Recipient of the Hughes High Achiever award: Honored for contributions to the group

       improvement programs; Accomplished completion of 85 RCS process enhancement projects

       resulting in a cost savings of $287,235.00

·         Production Support Pool re-engineering project lead: Remodeled an existing pool allocation system from a year to date base to a weekly base, thus reducing allocations to contract closure and the number of allocation and relief transactions to Work-In-Process.

·         Production Factor Pool Reallocation Project Lead: Automated a year-to-date manual allocation process, thus saving Hughes $36,545.00 annually.

·         Sensors and Electronics Segment Consolidation OSPF interface project: Lead for re-engineering group unique applications into common business segments.