Raymond Babbitt

About Raymond Babbitt

Helping you complete projects/contracts on time and within budget while meeting expectations: • Rescuing struggling, high profile, complex projects. • Managing budgets from $50K to $28 million. • Improving client satisfaction and contract margins by more than 100%. • Building and leading large, cross-functional, global teams on complex, challenging projects. • Implementing and supporting project management offices (PMO) and system/software development lifecycles (SDLC). • Training project management teams and coaching individuals. Projects are successful when teams work together toward a commonly understood and agreed upon goal while participating in defining the solution, determining how it will be obtained, and delivering results quickly, frequently, and with ongoing feedback. • Process Flexibility: Regardless of the methodology used the goal is finishing the project successfully. I strive to ensure process doesn’t hinder progress. • Project Planning: I pay attention to schedule details to ensure compression and validation happen and that plan quality, deadline compliance, and summary-level status data exists. This allows teams to meet expectations through focusing on individuals and interactions. • Increase Consistency: Collaborative teams identify the best process. With proper leadership teams share, agree to, adhere to, and adjust process to achieve best results. • Sanity to the Unknown: There is unknown in every project and teams need help identifying risks and mitigation strategies and a leader ensuring support exists to resolve conflicts and issues. My goal is to help you overcome difficulties and make your project a success. I identify what drives the customer and how value can be added. I share this with the team, providing a common understanding, and introduce order, allowing team members the flexibility needed to be productive. I provide management with data to make informed decisions, all while keeping stakeholders focused on the desired end goal.

Experience

1. Engagement Manager

   CampusWorks, Inc.

   Jul 2022 — Present

Education

• University of Phoenix

  BS, Business/Information Systems

  1994 — 1996

• University of Phoenix

  MBA, Technology Management

  1996 — 1997