JOHN BROCK
IT Program/Project Manager
Innovative PMP and PSM certified, IT Program/Project Manager specializing in leading IT software development and implementation teams to successful on-time, on-budget go-lives in complex global/multi-cultural environments.
Experienced in highly regulated industries such as pharma, aerospace, chemical manufacturing and nuclear energy.
Project management expertise is leveraged utilizing extensive experience in operations management roles.
Project Portfolio
- Global ERP: Program Manager for business support & change management for 18 successful go-lives of a global Enterprise Resource Planning system in 7 countries
- CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Mgmt System): Successfully implemented a new CMMS for a large, heavily regulated manufacturing plant with over 10K pieces of equipment and 100+ member maintenance organization
- Digital Twin Process Modeling: Program Manager for 2 implementations of digital-twin process modeling and advanced scheduling software.
- LIMS (Lab Information Mgmt System): Implemented new LIMS in 2 large, heavily regulated manufacturing plants.
- ETL and Data Visualization: Various data migration projects using extract, transform and load techniques
- Engineering Configuration Change Management System: Upgraded change control system using Dassault Enovia to manage configuration control in a regulated manufacturing operation
- Learning Management System: Provided PM support for the testing and startup of a learning management system for a large national restaurant chain headquarters. The system is used by over 1700 restaurants and 5000+ learners
- Warehouse Mgmt System: Led development and deployment project for a mobilized WMS
- Oracle Primavera P6 Rollout: Directed configuration, change management and rollout of Primavera P6 project scheduling and work management system
- Work Management Reorg: PM and SME for a large maintenance and work management organizational design and reorg project
- Engineering Reorg: PM and SME for a large engineering and design department organizational design and reorg project
- Capital expansions: Project Manager for three separate major manufacturing capital expansions and start-ups averaging $40M each
- Lean Projects: Developed and implemented 6 bottom-to-top reengineering projects to deliver capacity increases of 60% - 100%. Techniques included Kaizen, 5S, and other Lean tools
Project Management Skills
- Agile Frameworks
- Scrum Master (PSM certification)
- Rolling Wave, Waterfall, Agile Hybrid methods
- Integral Change Management support
- Project Management Toolsets
- Jira
- Teams
- Trello
- MS Project On-line
- Oracle Primavera P6
- SharePoint
- Office 365
- All remote team comm tools
Professional Qualifications
- 12 years in IT Program/Project Management
- 17 years as plant/site/general manager for 5 separate manufacturing facilities with up to 1000 employees and $1.5B annual throughput.
- 15 years as Mechanical & Systems Engineer
- BS Mechanical Engineering, Masters in Business Administration - Information Systems Focus
- PMP Project Management Professional certification
- PSM Professional Scrum Master certification
- Master of Managed Change, LaMarsh Global
- Manchester Pro Coaching Executive Leadership graduate
- Leadership Development Program (LDP)®, Center for Creative Leadership
- Lean Engineering/Manufacturing Leader/Yellow Belt certification
Systems Experience
- SAP
- Oracle/SQL
- Microsoft Dynamics
- Linux
- Full stack web development
- Python, data analysis
- Simio digital twin process modeling
- RF Smart WMS
- MS Office 365
- Access
- SharePoint
- WordPress
- Dassault Enovia
- Maximo
- Docebo LMS
Contact Info
John O. Brock
PMP, PSM, MBA, BSME
Principal Consultant, Better Squared LLC
Email: John.Brock@BetterSquared.com
Phone: +1-864-372-9644
Detailed resume available on request
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/johnobrock