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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
In the Job Market - Process and/or Project Management
Experience: Extensive domestic and international business process improvement, project and multi-project management, operations, and industrial engineering, experience; internally in internet marketing, telecommunications, food, pharmaceutical, and cosmetics industries, and as an external consultant to various manufacturing, new product development, financial services, R&D and IT/IS operations.
Strengths: Assessing, setting up and improving business processes for optimum performance of disparate resources in support of larger organizational objectives, often implemented via innovative and effective project and multi-project management processes.
Bottom line, my strengths are in helping other people leverage their operational capabilities for improved performance and organizational growth.
Attitude: Insists on driving improvements in terms of whole system performance, stepping beyond organizational silos and avoiding local optimization that threatens to sub-optimize global performance.
Ideal Position: In order to prepare for and achieve growth, every organization needs a position that can step back from the day-to-day pressures and assess the bigger process picture that spans multiple functional departments. My ideal position is one in which I help develop strategies at the organization level, and support the team in the definition and implementation of functional or process tactics necessary to achieve them.
Think of it as "a project manager for the company's strategy".
Recognizing that the "ideal" is often just that and may not fit perfectly on current organization charts, other positions that my experience would warrant would include Business Process Management and Improvement, PMO leadership, or management of a Project Management group.
Would like to keep things simple, geographically, and stay in New Jersey or NYC, but as they say, for the right position...
(Also, my wife would kill me if I didn't express an interest in a position in Hong Kong. So much for geographical simplicity.)
I can be reached at f p a t r i c k at g m a i l d o t c o m (close up the spaces and replace the at and the dot).
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