Robert J Szpila, PMP

IT Management and Consulting: Applications Development, Project Management, PMO Leader

• PMP Certified Leader: Experienced using Project Management methodologies such as PMBOK & PPM Tools
• MBA + Business Operations Experience
• End-to-End Project Life Cycle Management - Local and Global Teams
• Knowledge of IT System Environments/Platforms, infrastructure and Development Tools
• Proven track record of successfully supporting large, complex, and diverse programs/projects in varied industries

Professional Experience

INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC. Union Beach, NJ (2011 - Present)

$5 B Market capital company creating and supplying flavors and fragrances in more than 100 countries
IT PMO Senior Project Manager

• Successfully deliver multiple high impact global project in all functional areas - Finanace, Operations, IT Infrastructure, Service Desk. Responsible for Managing all project aspects, including development and training.
• The SOAP project aligned Sales and Operations Planning using new SAP and BW application development to deliver a 15% improvement in on time delivery for first time orders.
• Implemented a global Telecommunications Expense Management solution which delivered 2015 savings in excess of $500K.
• Delivered 10 year savings of $6MM by implementing a Contact Manufacturing Process for our manufacturing site in Turkey utilizing modifications to SAP.
• Rolled out a cloud based contact center management system to our four global Service Desk locations. In addition to improved customer service the project will deliver annual productivity savings of $150K.
• Collaboratively developed and rolled out a Resource Management (RM) process supported by the Planview PPM tool. Successfully upgraded to the current version on Planview to increase usability and user acceptance.
• Led project to migrate from legacy Lotus Notes environment to a hosted Exchange/Outlook/Lync environment. Project successfully went live across 4,500 users in a single go live within 4 months of contract signing with external hosting company. Included Infrastructure, Training and Support.

RJSZPILA LLC, Fairfield, NJ (2010 - 2011)

Privately Held Consulting Company providing Program and Project Management services.
Principal

Pfizer Incorporated

• Project Manager for a global ITIL Service Request Management integration project with a $1.7 MM Budget

Wyndham Worldwide

• Project Manager for 3 concurrent, multi-site, Infrastructure and Security projects including data center infrastructure upgrade; process improvements and two factor authentication. Budget in excess of $4MM.

DELTA CORPORATE SERVICES, INC., Parsippany, NJ (2000 - 2010)

$30MM Consulting Company serving private industry and government clients
Associate Principal (Started as Senior Consultant)

Director of Software Development, Delta Governement Solutions Group (2007 - 2010)

• As Project Manager, delivered all enhancement releases on time and under budget while exceeding client's SLAs (service level agreements) Real estate inventory management---legacy application to web enabled platform
• Program Manager for staff of 3 Project Managers and 30 Business Analysts and Developers delivering an average 3 major application releases per year for our client, the General Services Administration Public Building Services (GSA PBS). Developed and reported performance metrics and KPI's.
• Provided operating management and technical direction for this CMM Level 3 defined organization.
• Functional leader and project manager for a process redesign effort to support a CMM (Capability Maturity Model) implementation. Developed and implemented new development processes for Inspections, Risk Management and defect tracking and analysis. Achieved the CMM Level 3, Defined classification.

Project Manager/Senior Consultant (2000 - 2007)

Project Manager, Novartis

• Developed global adverse event tracking custom web application from design to full deployment in 9 months- requirements, implementation and roll out. Ensured that PMO standards, tools, and processes were followed
• Managed budget of more than $1MM. Led team of more than 20 business, IT and external contractors to design, develop and deploy SINA, a fully validated and CFR Part 11 compliant Web application in more than 15 countries. Created RFP and managed vendor selection. JAVA and the RATIONAL SUITE of products were used.
• Led joint business and IT global team to develop a recommended path to replace the existing Clinical Logistics application. Evaluated existing application and developed alternative recommendations in a 3-month period.
• Project managed global team to implement a major upgrade to a vendor package used for adverse event tracking and reporting. Upgrade addressed 70 user issues, included an ORACLE upgrade and was accomplished within the planned business downtime.

ENGELHARD CORPORATION, Iselin, NJ (1989 - 2000)

Manager Business Process and Systems (1999 - 2000)

Directed staff of 11 full time, 32 part time team members, and 3 site project managers with a project budget of $14MM for a multi site, global ERP implementation

Manager of Business Technology (1997 - 1998)

Directed day-to-day IT support and strategic IT direction, business process redesign and ERP implementation with project budget of $7MM and an operating budget of $3MM. Supported 100 local and remote users with staff of 5 and 32 part time team members.

Manager of Logistics Planning (1989 - 1996)

Managed Customer Support, Order Entry, and Distribution functions. Managed 7 regional distribution centers with $10MM of inventory and a $1.3MM annual budget.

Prior Experience 

Education/Recognition

• MBA, Rutgers Graduate School of Business Administration
• BS, Chemical Engineering, Newark College of Engineering
  
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• PMP Project Management Professional, Project Management Institute
• ITIL v3.0 Foundation Certification - EXIN
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• Introduction to CMMI Version 1.2 - Lumark Technologies, Inc
• CMM - Based Appraisal for Internal Process Improvement (CBA IPI) Training - STT
• Practical SOA for the Federal Government - ZapThink
• Delta Corporate Services 2006 Consultant of the Year Award
• Leadership Development Program, Center for Creative Leadership

Summary of Technical Experience

MobileIron, Planview, SOA (Software Oriented Architecture), MS Outlook, MS Exchange, Lync,
JAVA, JSF, TopLink, Rational, Oracle, Oracle Portal, Sybase,
Tuxedo, Gupta, MS Office, MS Project, Lotus Notes, Windows, Mainframe, Client Server, Internet/Intranet
development, CA Clarity PPM (Project & Portfolio Manager),
HP PPM (Project and Portfolio Management Center), Microsoft SharePoint, Open Workbench