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Ronald Francek is a seasoned project management professional with extensive experience in IT project management, risk management, and team leadership. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Natural Resources Management from Michigan State University and is certified by PMI. With over 27 years of experience in various industries, including automotive and defense, he has developed expertise in project planning, execution, and delivery. He has managed large-scale IT projects, including server migrations, software upgrades, and hardware installations. His skills include project management, risk management, issue management, requirements analysis, software documentation, security, team leadership, testing, and Unix.

Credentials

  • PMI
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Experience

    • United Kingdom
    • Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Senior Information Technology Project Manager
      • May 2018 - Oct 2019

    • Senior Project Manager
      • Apr 2018 - Oct 2019

      Member of the Project Management team creating the server environment to facilitate the split of Delphi systems into the Aptiv and Delphi Technologies domains. Approximately 1200 servers required to be built and brought into production. Heavily utilized ServiceNow for the build and direction of server tasks. MSProject, Microsoft Office Excel, Word, Visio, and Sharepoint usage.Managed the project to provide server security to 359 servers that were assimilated into the DT environment without the necessary security Symantec CCS applicationManaged the project to provide the server monitoring functionality for the new DT server community. This interum solution was required to fill a time period prior to the proposed PlatformDXC monitoring solution implementation.

  • DXC Technology - Delphi Technologies
    • Auburn Hills, Michigan, United States
    • Senior Information Technology Project Manager
      • May 2018 - Oct 2019
      • Auburn Hills, Michigan, United States

      Managed project to bring newly assimilated servers security compliant. (1800)Managed project to create a server monitoring environment for the new environment ( Nagios ) .

    • Senior Project Manager
      • May 2017 - Apr 2018
  • Beaumont Health
    • Royal Oak, Michigan, United States
    • Senior Project Manager at Beaumont Hospital
      • Apr 2017 - Apr 2018
      • Royal Oak, Michigan, United States
    • Senior IT Project Manager
      • Dec 2013 - Dec 2014
      • Lansing, Michigan

      Senior IT Project Manager for the Michigan Department of Community Health, as well as, the Department of Environmental Quality, Department of Natural Resources, and the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

    • Senior Project Manager
      • Jan 2009 - Sep 2012

      Subject Matter Expert, GM Hardware Insertion and Driver Updates. Hewlett-Packard Project Management OfficeCreated and managed Hardware Insertion and Driver Update schedules for General Motors Design and Engineering communities. Managed End of Life replacement hardware globally for over 25,000 de...

    • Project Manager
      • Feb 2009 - Aug 2012

      Small Site Architecture, Emergency Patch Deployment, 1999-2003and Program Release CycleManaged the entry point for 19 GM Assembly Plants (small sites) to be included in the automated software delivery strategy used by the Design and Engineering communities. I managed and tracked the installm...

    • Project Manager
      • 1985 - 2012

      Managed medium to large scale Information technology projects for General Motors Globally.

    • Project Team Manager
      • Jan 2008 - Jan 2009

      Provided project team lead direction and reporting for WAVE 1 software upgrade for over 100,000 GM notebook and desktop devices for the GMOnline program. Maintained all PreSage reporting, MSPS project tracking, and GAD QMS documentation. Interfaced with corporate auditors, addressed non-conform...

    • EDS Project Manager, Server
      • Jan 2007 - Jan 2008

      Created and managed the schedule to move the Troy Onstar Call center to Pontiac, Michigan. 13 large scale HP servers and backup devices were systematically shutdown, moved, and refreshed with zero downtime for the 750 ONstar call advisors. Managed a refresh of a server cluster in Toluca, Mexic...

    • EDS Project Manager
      • Jan 2005 - Jan 2007

      Tracked progress for three testing labs, (Service Assurance, Value Add, and Vehicle Order Management). Provided project management expertise to project leads. Managed the move of the three labs from Troy to Auburn Hills, Michigan with zero downtime experienced.

    • EDS Project Manager, Global Server Standards
      • Jan 2003 - Jan 2005

      Tracked compliance and server standards upgrade for over 500 UNIX based servers for the GM Design and Engineering, Product Development global community. Produced delivery schedules for testing, pre-production deployment and production deployments. Interfaced with GM upper management for report...

    • EDS Project Manager
      • Jan 1999 - Jan 2000

      Managed a team of two EDS team leaders and 40 Honeywell technicians to remediate over 10,000 servers, printers, desktops, and laptops in use on the GM Warren Tech center. This project was completed by June 1999, in preparation for the year 2000 change over. No issues were reported. EDS Project...

    • Egypt
    • Information Technology & Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • EDS UNIX Systems Administrator
      • Jan 1991 - Jan 1994

      Back up restore responsibilities for Design and Engineering UNIX workstations. Responsible for license management, Automount issues, and Move/Add/Change requests.

    • EDS Supervisor
      • Jan 1987 - Jan 1991

      Personnel management, performance reviews, recognition and salary P&L for 12 person group. Supported CGS, CATIA, and CADAM Applications. Utilized MVS/JCL, Assembler, Clist, and ACF2 security applications. Supported license management, CAE software support, and contract administration support.

    • EDS Systems Engineer
      • Jan 1985 - Jan 1987

      Migrated DASD storage systems from Warren, Michigan to Plano, Texas. Utilized Easytrieve and Panvelet utility languages. Primary role was Run Time Improvement strategies for the People and Warranty groups.

  • Department of Defense, Defense Logistics Agency
    • Defense Construction Supply Center, Columbus, Ohio
    • Systems Programmer
      • Jan 1982 - Apr 1985
      • Defense Construction Supply Center, Columbus, Ohio

      Evaluated new hardware. Utilized Cobol and Assembler languages.

Education

  • 1976 - 1979
    Michigan State University
  • 1976 - 1979
    Michigan State University

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