MARWAN

RATEB, MBA, PMP

mrateb@gmail.com | 734.985.0622

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrateb

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER / BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION

Connecting Strategy, Execution and Technology to Achieve Breakthrough Results

Highly productive, flexible, and effective senior project
manager, executive, and facilitator capable of tackling your
organizations most challenging, multi-disciplined, siloed,
entrenched, and difficult problems and change management
undertakings.
Having worked across countless industries in domestic and
international organizations of a variety of sizes, he is able to
take on your organizations greatest challenges and multi
factorial implementations to allow you to focus on your
organization's other pressing and urgent needs.

Agile SaaS project and program management

Risk/client/change management
PMI PMP, CSM, CSPO certified
Information Technology (IT) and PMO strategy
Global implementations and team management
Executive presentations
Team and consensus building
Ideation and new Product Development
Big picture thinker while focusing on the details

Industrial Engineer, MBA and PMP with 14+ years of multi-industry high impact technology and change leadership
Marwan specializes in and has extensive experience in technology enabled transformation and change initiatives.

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CERTUS MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS LLC

2014 - Present
Principal Management Consultant




Baltimore, MD
Summary: Management consultant with P&L responsibilities leading and facilitating client organizational change projects
with emphasis on execution excellence, analytics and knowledge transfer/management in role as change agent
Led deployment engineering planning activities in preparation for $45B telecom acquisition managing 40+ contractors and
employees, establishing PMO, creating best in class project management process and policies, saving $1.5M

Managed revenue management optimization initiative for leading logistics and transportation organization leveraging
innovative technologies, change management, training and analytics to increase profitability of routes by 35%

Directed offshore software development team to build web and mobile platform for client to grow customer base by 49%

ARMATURE CORPORATION





2013
Senior Product Owner Contract





Dulles, VA
Summary: Product owner / SCRUM master / project manager managing software development (.NET) and migration to
SaaS projects in matrixed organization for national and international customers, managed all client interactions
Oversaw development of certification application system for global engineering certification body from eliciting
requirements and UI/UX, to sprints and sprint retrospectives, increasing application conversion rate and improving
usability while delivering product incrementally on time and budget

Trained leading laboratory accrediting customer in SCRUM and agile methodologies to improve their understanding and
facilitate design and delivery of $2M+ ERP/COTS accreditation management system

THE COMPASS GROUP

2012
Business Transformation Lead Project Management Consultant Contract




Toronto, ON
Summary: Internal consulting team managing CFO/COO strategic programs/projects/initiatives to grow groups
profitability through transformation of people, processes and technology
Facilitated distributer consolidation for $250M+ annual supply chain, created baseline and updated project plans,
negotiated with internal stakeholders and external partners, developed risk, contingency and mitigation plans, escalated
and resolved issues to launch on-time, on-budget ($50K) successful transition to and with minimal impact to operations

Established loss prevention department within 2000+ location retail organization, developed systems, policies, processes
and procedures with cross-functional stakeholders to identify and eliminate $1M+ organizational loss 900% ROI

Headed SAP COTS/ERP migration activities including project charter, scoping, requirements, current/future state analysis,
phasing and customization needs to reduce implementation cost/time. Developed phased approach, managed vendor RFP,
demonstrations and selection with $1M+ budget for initial phase and $50M+ budget for full project

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A.T. KEARNEY





2011
Senior Associate IT Strategy Practice Contract





Dubai, UAE
Summary: Advised clients in petrochemical, government and R&D on reorganizations, technology implementations and
strategic process redesign. Managed projects that helped to transformed organizations
Acted as change-agent within PMO facilitating design and implementation of $40M Oracle ERP/COTS (HR, finance, and
supply chain) system at government agency, led CRP and UAT sessions, consulted with business, onsite and offshore IT
staff to deploy resulting in 13% cost savings

Oversaw business intelligence (BI) dashboard development and roll-out on $100M+ SAP/COTS implementation, managed
budget and cost forecasts resulting in on-budget launch for all dashboards

Designed key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor effectiveness of data quality initiative and led education and
awareness campaign at leading petrochemical client resulting in 23% improvement

FORD MOTOR COMPANY

2002-2008
Senior Project Manager - Contract





Dearborn, MI
Summary: Directed powertrain engineering teams and suppliers for multiple vehicle programs. Responsible for managing
vehicle testing schedules and delivery of completed software for new product development
Founded and standardized PMO to manage project management activities resulting in 43% labor cost reduction and
increased customer satisfaction

Supervised projects and budgets ($1-10M) for powertrain engineering activities, including planning, tracking, forecasting
and reporting to simultaneously deliver 20+ programs on time and budget

Implemented lean manufacturing techniques as part of cross-functional team to re-engineer product development process
reducing rework by 29%, saving $19M exceeding corporate goal of $15M

ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROLS MANAGEMENT

2001
Project Manager





Ann Arbor, MI
Summary: Supported clients in automotive and construction industries by providing training, programming, estimating,
process and project management services
Guided mechanical subcontractors activities on a $1B construction project, resulted in 25% reduction in labor costs and
substantial completion one month ahead of schedule

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION

MBA (Master of Business Administration)

University of Michigan Ross School of Business
Ann Arbor

Bachelor of Science Industrial and Operations

Engineering (BSE)
University of Michigan College of Engineering
Ann Arbor

PMI Project Management Professional

Certified Scrum Master and Product Owner

U of M Certified Innovation Practitioner

Six Sigma Green Belt

NCEES Professional Engineer

INTERNATIONAL, SOFTWARE AND LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE

Lived in Bahrain, Canada, Egypt, Germany, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE, USA, UK, Fluent in Arabic, Basic French

Jira, VersionOne, MS Project, MS Office, Tableau, SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, JDE, Axure, Balsamiq

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

Automotive, Telecommunications, Food Service, Software Development, Education and Accreditation, Finance and Banking

HOBBIES AND INTERESTS

Enjoy hiking, nature photography, guitar, perl and ruby on rails programming

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