Tim Carter, PMP, CFC, CHS IV

4680 Gilhams Road, Suite 110, Roswell, GA s 770.649.7733 s timcarter@ieee.org

Summary

• 20⁺ years of technology & business experience

• 50⁺ (often multiple, simultaneous) projects

• Firm foundation in architecture/methodology

• Strong business, technology, and financial skills

• Turnarounds and complex problems a specialty

Communicating effectively with stakeholders, analyzing the facts, identifying the critical issues, synthesizing solutions, and implementing on-time and on-budget are the keystones of my delivery success. I get the job done effectively and efficiently across a wide range of disciplines and industries by taking the time to really listen to what clients have to say and being able understand their unique needs.

Consulting Expertise

Sample Project Highlights

Applications

• Major energy retailer – Delivered mission critical, high transaction-volume EAI solution on-time & budget. Developed flexible architecture that provided immediate cost reductions (over 70% for some processes), increased data quality, reduced operational risk, and millions of dollars of TCO savings.
• Shared services organization – Negotiated and developed project charter for this implementation of PeopleSoft Financials v8.0. across four diversified subsidiaries. Developed detailed plans, risk management, change control. Identified inter-company G/L reconciliation issues. Developed technical architecture to support the PS applications, geographically dispersed organizations, and unique business requirements
• High-tech software firm – Managed the migration of this firm to Oracle Web-based Financials from a custom legacy application. On-time, seamless cut-over was achieved by identifying and resolving G/L conversion issues, predicting organizational issues , developing proactive mitigation strategies, and delivering proper training to the financial organization.
• $1.1 billion services firm – Led the 25+ person team through a PeopleSoft Payroll/HR/Ben Admin implementation supporting over 200,000 employees that required changes to virtually every fundamental assumption of the package. Guided the architectural team through the difficult decisions required to meet the business needs while maintaining the integrity of the PS product. Hired, mentored and fused a collection of independent developers into a cohesive, highly productive team while meeting extremely tight deadlines.
• International hydroelectric consortium - Led the development of architecture and specification for this commercial product for hydro power plants. Defined functional, technical, and data requirements for this product that interacts with a variety of analog and digital sensing devices. Following completion, prepared the RFP, consulted in the selection of a vendor for development of the product, and assisted the client in successful negotiations with a joint venture partner.
• Large transportation authority - Managed this project, successfully developing and deploying a integrated workforce automation solution for the Southeast’s largest public transportation authority. This mobile application completely eliminated paper work orders for this workforce. In its first months of operation, the system increased productive maintenance time by over 50%.

Strategy/Process/Methods

• “Top ten” energy retailer - Mapped, assessed, and engineered the key business processes required for this retail energy company to increase its competitive position. This project required managing the activities of key personnel from all functional areas of the business, as well as interacting with, and managing the expectations of, the “C-level” executives. Our “quick hit” tactical plan delivered immediate operational risk reduction. Heretofore undetected unprofitable products and customers have been discovered in just the first phase of the strategic implementation.
• Northeastern energy retailer - Prepared a systems integration strategy. Addressed business and technical risks, schedule, and resource requirements related to the integration of various systems/outsourcing arrangements to handle the business requirements of the deregulated sub focusing on capturing market share in the initial rounds of Pennsylvania’s retail wheeling pilot. Included financials, customer care, call center, acquisition management, database marketing, and billing.
• Lighting services supplier - Assessed and engineered business processes. Identified key business technology needs, evaluated build vs buy, prepared vendor assessment criteria, managed vendor selection process, and prepared system implementation plan.
• Southeastern natural gas distributor - Conducted the assessment of the status of the gas utility’s activity-based management program. Prepared and developed direction recommendations for senior management, based on review of ABM best-practices both internal and external to the utilities industry. This resulted in a significant research effort to identify the top vendors and prepare a group for final selection by senior executives. Once the vendor was selected, led the ABM project team in activity design and organizational re-engineering, cross-allocations to FERC GL, and integration into current systems.
• Commercial real estate firm - Prepared a strategic information plan for this commercial real estate development and leasing firm. Conducted vendor negotiations resulting in immediate operating cost savings were over 75%.

Infrastructure & Communications

• Large North African Nation – Developed an integrated communications architecture that supports the current and future needs of the electric ministry in moving to a more “intelligent grid” environment. Combined optical, wireless, and PLC technologies to meet the unique challenges and opportunities of this environment to provide the client with $25+ million immediate hardware savings, $100's million of TCO savings over the life of the assets, and a quantum leap in capabilities.
• Major Pharmaceutical company - Managed complete redesign of computing infrastructure for this firm’s R&D division. Required understanding business, complex scientific (drug modeling, clinical trial, etc.), and regulatory (FDA) system requirements and interactions and developing an new architecture to support these processes.
• International energy consulting firm - Managed the re-engineering of the internal IT function of a consulting organization to supply improved service and decreased cost for this 250-person operation with offices throughout the US and in the UK. This involved developing an integrated team approach, creating a compatible technical infrastructure between companies and offices, and providing more effective technology for both users and the technical team. Implemented new worldwide WAN infrastructure, migrated to web-enable financial systems, and rolled-out Lotus Notes-based sales management system. Managed day-to-day operations for this group for nine months
• International government consulting firm - Managed all technical and physical infrastructure change requirements generated by the acquisition of a deregulated energy subsidiary, which provides complex energy billing and retail settlement services. Involved platform assessment, network migration, analysis and negotiation of both customer and vendor service agreements, and application migration and certification.

M&A/Turnarounds/Financial Analysis

• High-tech software company – Led the transmission analysis software division of this company company back to profitability. Identified opportunities for restructuring and process engineering that resulted in a greater than $2 million dollar operating profit in the first six months. Coached line managers to help them reach their targets. Developed strategic and tactical plans for marketing, sales, and international software development to enhance ongoing profitability and revenue growth.
• Energy consulting firm - Worked extensively with this well-respected management consulting firm to initiate and develop an information technology division after their IPO, focused on service to the leading firms in the energy industry. LOB’s were: IT Strategy, Business Intelligence, Packaged Software Implementation, and Operations & Field Systems. Developed partnerships with world-class technical providers e.g. SAP, Arbor Software, Mincom, etc.. Moved from $0 to a run rate of $200k/month in under six months.
• Textile manufacturer - Developed the financial models for the acquisition of this manufacturing operation. Assessed all physical plant at all factory and corporate locations, confirmed MAI real estate valuations and valued all intangibles (IP, trademarks, licensing agreements, customer lists)for this transaction.
• High-tech manufacturer - Worked with the C-level executives of this holding corporation and all its subsidiaries to develop a model for creating a master limited partnership. Work closely with corporate counsel and external corporate and tax attorneys to craft this entity. Its execution resulted in several million dollars in initial tax savings, as well as ongoing operational savings.
• Credit card processor - Assessed all assets and operations of the credit-card processing company. Established values for all hard assets and developed models to support the valuation of depreciable intangibles such as customer lists, etc. Valuation provided strong contribution to immediate profitability.
• Paper manufacturer - Led team valuing this merger transaction in excess of $1 billion. Derived final valuation which modeled all tangible and intangible assets to arrive at fair market value for this sucessful transaction.
• Regional construction company - Conducted a stock recapitalization for this closely-held firm. Developed all financial analyses and worked closely with tax attorneys to ensure transaction was properly structured and valued.

Industry Expertise

Sample Client List

Technical Expertise

Methods: Zachman Framework, MDA, SOA, PMBOK, SEI/CMMI, Agile, Method/1, SDM, RUP/UML/Use Case, JAR/JAD, LBMS, Yourdan-DeMarco, Gane-Sarsen, Warnier-Orr, COSO, COBIT, SWOT, PEST, 5 Forces Model

Tools: Enterprise Architect, System Architect, PMW, Primavera, Artemis, Auto Method/1, MS Project, IEW, ERWin, PAC-II, Clear, PVCS, CVS, SourceSafe

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, AIX, SCO Unix, HPUnix, MVS/XA, VM/SP, VMS, DOS/VSE

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, My SQL, DB2, IMS, Access, Xbase

Business Intelligence/Analytics: Cognos, SAS, Hyperion, Essbase, Wired for OLAP, Monarch, FileAid

EAI: Tibco, Sonic MQ, IBM WebSphere, CIM (CCAPI), UIB

Applications: PeopleSoft (Financials, HR, Payroll, BenAdmin), Oracle Financials, GEAC Financials (MSA & M&D), ARCview, Smallworld, Customer/1, CIS, Ross HRM, Telcom OSS (various),

Languages: Java, VB, XML, HTML, APL, LabView, MATLab, ANSI SQL, PL/SQL, COBOL, CICS, JCL, REXX

Open Source: LAMP stack,STRUTS

Communications: TCP/IP, PLC, BPL, ATM, SONET/SDH, FDDI, Frame Relay, TDMA, CDMA, GSM, 802.11 (Wi-FI), 802.16 (WiMax), SCADA

Employment

Synergy, Atlanta, Georgia, President, 1995 – Present

PAD Systems, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, President, 1993 – 1995

Decision Resources, Inc., Marietta, Georgia, CFO, 1987 – 1993

Arthur Andersen & Co, Atlanta, Georgia, Senior Consultant, 1985 – 1987

Education

Master of Business Administration, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia

Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia – National Merit Scholar

Professional

Associations

Certified Project Management Professional(PMP), Project Management Institute

Practicing Member, Worldwide Institute of Software Architects, (WWISA)

Member, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Member, IEEE Computer Society

Association for Corporate Growth

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