Kenneth Rummel

• Comprehensive planning and management between internal and external stakeholders pertaining to project scope, actions, risks, timeline, budget, and resource allocations
• Ensure successful delivery of new business implementations and projects across Contract Logistics
• Manage existing business transformations and ad hoc strategic projects of different size and complexities
• Develop project controls to track and report status and progress vs plan while adjusting project plan to suit any last-minute changes or project delays
• Follow ZDS / CPM methodology in maintaining correct structures to control and monitor project deliverables
• Monitor and manage changing scope and communicate any changes to the key stakeholder group as required
• Manage suppliers and subcontractors on key deliverables through project lifecycle, via project team meetings and system project planners
• Engage and effectively manage customer relations and expectations of all stakeholders (internal and external) while resolving issues prior to any escalations
• Effectively communicate and mitigate conflicting priorities, issues and risk to the project with appropriate escalation to (internal and external) senior project stakeholders for decisions and resolution
• Manage project implementation budget in line with approved budget for the project
• Ensure compliance with company policies, ISO guidelines and other legal or regulatory requirements related to the project.

• Supporting the planning and organization of client projects
• Managing small teams (internal and/or client stakeholders) during engagement
• Leading teams and supporting high levels of performance and conducting work efforts as needed
• Managing project financials-budget, timeline, expenses, staffing
• Developing and managing the project schedule
• Supporting the delivery of solutions including existing distribution center redesign and retrofit projects
• Managing project level client relationships and overall project efforts
• Writing and delivering high quality documentation and analysis
• Leading the development portion of client deliverables and presentations
• Developing project schedules that are built from ground up; meeting with departmental managers to review client requirements and critical milestones
• Ensuring the appropriate meetings are held to keep the project on track, to keep team members informed, to anticipate possible problems and to learn from prior projects
• Translating, analyzing, and simplifying requirements to align with standard products and best practices
• Providing relevant comparisons of conveyor concepts with similar operational environments supported by company’s conveyor hardware/software solutions
• Maintaining high quality project and software design documentation and analysis

• Manages multiple teams. Management responsibilities include, but are not limited to, hiring, coaching, skills development, recognition and rewards, staff productivity and performance management to include disciplinary actions up to and including termination.

• Plans, organizes, staffs, directs and controls the day-to-day operations of the department; develops and implements policies and programs as necessary.

• Develops and manages the department budget, ensures compliance and addresses variances as well as other budget concerns.

• Acts as the primary IT relationship owner for operations and client leadership.

• Interacts with internal and external clients on all levels to help resolve IT-related issues and provides answers in a timely manner.

• Responsible for maintaining Manhattan WM, COFE, IT Systems.

• Monitors tracking and documentation of user requests, engaging appropriate site/corporate/client/vendor resources to support the operation and timely closing of support service requests.

• Performs and provides analysis to the leadership for enhancements and improvements.

• Works as the primary vendor designate in resolving and prioritizing defects and incidents.

• Develops and maintains tracking tools for support service requests.

• Engages appropriate expert resources when complex support issues arise outside of the WMS and other application.

• Works with clients and vendors to escalate and manage incidents and problems.

• Request for proposal process

• Utilizing pre-site questionnaire and self-created hardware list template

• Customer management meetings once business was awarded to determine the project requirements, and scope of what the customer was looking for me to deliver

• Creation of (SOW) Statement of Work to show detailed scope, hardware, resources and budgeting numbers for the customer.

• Hardware list finalization from self-made formula driven template

• Project planning within MS Project

• Budget planning via Mariner based on hardware and resources required for the project

• Weekly reporting of hours from all teams and performing budget to actual analysis to ensure we stayed on track and within budget.

• Designed change order process for hardware and onsite changes by customer and contractors

• Tracked all change orders in Mariner and Team Track for budget analysis and review

• Assembled project team including persons with expertise in the hardware being utilized:

o Database

• Procurement of hardware and resource allocation for configuration with distinct timelines for completion.

• Pre-Site visit with contractors and customers.

• Coordination of all sub team meetings with project deliverables

• Bid out to contractors for Infrastructure Wiring, VOIP, Paging, Communication lines o Conduct Wiring Design Meeting with contractor, operations and customer to establish all requirements that needed to be obtained.

• Schedule and coordinate installation teams for IT Hardware o Installations kick off meeting with for installation team checklist and requirements.

o Onsite inspection of installation.

• Project testing requirements and turnover documents to customer and operations.

• Final project budget vs actual billable hours to the customer.

• (Lessons Learned with entire project team) o Project review to determine process improvements for next project including budgeting, hours.

• Retail, Consumer, Government, Healthcare, Reverse Logistics
• Request for proposal process
• Utilizing pre-site questionnaire and self-created hardware list template
• Customer management meetings once business was awarded to determine the project requirements, and scope of what the customer was looking for me to deliver
• Creation of (SOW) Statement of Work to show detailed scope, hardware, resources and budgeting numbers for the customer
• Hardware list finalization from self-made formula driven template
• Project planning within MS Project
• Budget planning via Mariner based on hardware and resources required for the project
• Weekly reporting of hours from all teams and performing budget to actual analysis to ensure we stayed on track and within budget
• Designed change order process for hardware and onsite changes by customer and contractors
• Tracked all change orders in Mariner and Team Track for budget analysis and review
• Assembled project team including persons with expertise in the hardware being utilized:
• Database
• Procurement of hardware and resource allocation for configuration with distinct timelines for completion
• Pre-Site visit with contractors and customers
• Coordination of all sub team meetings with project deliverables
• Bid out to contractors for Infrastructure Wiring, VOIP, Paging, Communication lines
• Conduct Wiring Design Meeting with contractor, operations and customer to establish all requirements that needed to be obtained
• Schedule and coordinate installation teams for IT Hardware
• Installations kick off meeting with for installation team checklist and requirements
• Onsite inspection of installation
• Project testing requirements and turnover documents to customer and operations
• Final project budget vs actual billable hours to the customer
• (Lessons Learned with entire project team)
• Project review to determine process improvements for next project including budgeting, hours.