Brian Sutherland

Background

About Brian Sutherland

20+ years of Project and Product Management, Operations Management, corporate training and tech support experience working alongside business, sales and manufacturing teams to deliver complex hardware and software systems. Cost-conscious and reliable manager with a proven history of success supervising, planning, and managing one or more multifaceted public and private sector projects with multiple deliverables, complex relationships and large budgets. Excellent verbal / written communication skills: strong team focus. Communication and Goal Setting • Maximizing efficiency by nurturing relationships, setting clear expectations and proactively communicating project status, issues and risks to all stakeholders and executive management in private and public sector projects. • Negotiating successfully with clients, staff and outside vendors, ensuring objectives and clients’ desired results. • Working cooperatively with project applicants to facilitate the implementation and completion of projects. Leadership/ Project Delivery • Prioritizing tasks to ensure integrity and delivery of multiple projects with respect to time, budget, scope, changes, risk and resources to deliver solutions on time and on budget. • Directing, coaching, mentoring and motivating project teams to improve project delivery through staff development and open communication on complex projects to meet productivity, quality and customer goals. • Ability to multi-task while working on concurrent projects and meeting deadlines, adapting easily to change. • Mitigating risk by identifying, escalating and resolving issues across multiple projects and delivery groups. • Managing product integration for delivery to manufacturing and sales teams to meet monthly sales goals. • Developing and performing corporate and end-user training sessions and testing of hardware and software.