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Summary of Richard Tesmer's Project/Portfolio Management Skills

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Strategic Project/Program Planning

  • Created measurable KPIs for the accountability of the enterprise programs for SAP, Salesforce, and SAP eWMS to drive decisions, exceeding budget targets by 20%.
  • Documentation of management strategy through SWOT and GAP analysis.
  • Support the creation of the project or program charter, project initiation documentation, project planning documents, and business processes aligned with expectations.
  • Skills in talent management through recruitment and strong relationships with developers (on and offshore), IT professionals, security specialists, logistics, and procurement resulting in teams with the lowest turn over rates in the companies history.

Budget Management and Cost Reduction

  • Expertise in increasing sales targets by 10-20% through creating and using collaboration platforms.
  • Managed five major programs simultaneously, ensuring all deliverables met timelines and quality
  • standards; established effective feedback loops with clients, improving project alignment within
  • strategic direction by over 30%.
  • Highly skilled at managing active projects portfolio valued at $15M annually, with medium ($500K
  • to $1.5M) to large-sized projects/programs ($1.5M to $5M).

Team Leadership and Development

  • My plan to overcome resistance to Agile, was overcome by creating a hybrid approach called ScrumFall. This allowed an iterative approach while working within the project's triple constraints.
  • I am a specialist at implementing new technologies, improving projects, automation, customer engagement, customer relationship management, and performance.
  • I lead local and global project teams as shepherd leader, a servant leader, and a mentor.
  • I have built PMO teams of twelve senior-level project managers, paired with six junior project managers, four business analysts, and onshore/offshore development teams, elastically sized to high of 90 programming resources.
  • I excel at leading self-organized, agile, high-performing teams with a hands-on approach to building relationships, supporting end-to-end customer success stories, and resolving real-time issues.

Silos and Collaboration

  • With technology changing so quickly, Agile's use of Kanban and Scrum was added to replace most Waterfall projects, which led to smoother collaboration between matrixed teams.
  • I take pride in the development of global multicultural staffing of project resources with a high cultural empathy and sensitivity, which contributed to a 90% year-over-year retention rate of clients.
  • Through the combination, I was able to lead the combined efforts of Professional Services with Project Management teams. Resulting in an improved environment for custom applications, business units breaking down silos, and collaborating for improvement in communication.

Change Management

  • Custom solutions using COTS and/or customized Power Apps for data warehousing, defining and executing infrastructure plans, and working with projects leads to controlling scope and maintaining business priorities.
  • I place emphasis from day one on a project that Project Sponsors and stakeholders will need to create a Change Control Committee.

Risk Management

  • Balanced all project crises and, as needed, escalate executive leadership.
  • Using historical data analysis, complex project risk registers are part of project coordination, management, data integrity, directory services, business processes, mitigation strategies, and escalation points.

Stakeholder Management

  • As a leader filled with intellectual curiosity, on top of customer risk management, I led the teams to keep all project timelines under control.
  • Meeting business needs with solid customer feedback loops to build upon user experience and create alignment with strategic direction.
  • Managed teams in a matrixed environment using cross-functional collaboration to build and maintain various projects and technologies.

Center of Excellence

  • I dealt with daily prioritization by monitoring the PMO dashboard: a pipeline of 300 NGO, NPO, and For-Profit clients with an average of 65 active projects.
  • I ensured all team members, especially project managers, continue developing skills with additional training.
  • I analyzed workflows and established priorities for daily operations.
  • Commercial software such as Nintex Workflow and Microsoft Power Platform tools in Microsoft 365 are used for continuous improvement and future-proofing.

Richard Tesmer's Resume

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Start Date:  1989

End Date:  1993

No scholarship for school.

He gave up a lucrative position with Burger King because he couldn't shake the reputation of being the "French Fry" boy, and he felt that too many people had no respect for the skills he brought.

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Mr. Richard Tesmer

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Richard Tesmer's Services

  • Consulting Services

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  • Coaching Services

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  • Speaking Engagements

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My Professional Timeline

1997

Road Rescue / Road Rescue Merrimac / Asurion:  Application Development Manager

2001

RTAZ Consulting Services:  Owner / Applicaiton Development Manager

2006

Astoundry:  Senior Project Manager & Consultant

2010

MadWolf Technologies:  Director of Project Management Office

2022

Anew Technology Partners:  Vice President of Project and Program Management and Professional Services

2024

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What are all those letters after your name?

PMP? From the Project Management Institute (PMI), I was awarded the coveted and difficult-to-achieve PMP certification (Project Management Professional).

Master of Science degree from University of Southern California in Project Management.  MSPM

Leading SAFe Agilist 6.0 (Scaled Agile) Exam Notes - Coding N Concepts

SAFe is a very popular brand of Agile Project Management.

You can view and download an official copy of my resume.

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