Ken Adams

Background

About Ken Adams

Accomplishments: • Senior Business Analyst for NOV’s largest global software endeavors, encompassing: product cost estimate / pricing; scheduling of manufacturing and delivery; sales quotation profit / risk analysis; quotation production and tracking; warranty tracking; service scheduling & resolution tracking; repairs process; spares inventory; and logistics. • Business Process Reengineering (BPR) that aligned a major multinational corporation’s product cost estimating / pricing processes between the U.S. & Norway. • Co-Founder of the Business Analyst Center of Excellence (COE) for NOV that established best practices for: requirements elicitation; functional requirement specifications; stakeholder collaboration; and Scrum (Agile). • Senior Business Analyst for a global Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE) management system. Performed discovery process to define: scope context; future state process flows; data-flows between associated systems; and functional requirements. Leading implementation phase to ensure delivery of functionality required by business stakeholders across the globe. • Managed database driven enterprise-wide consulting projects for: Dow Chemical; Rohm & Haas; Chevron; & Shell. Integrated document management and automated workflow solutions between engineering, operations, safety, and maintenance sectors of the petrochemical and refining industries. • Designed, managed the development, and launch of an eCommerce system that was 2 years ahead of competitors. The system integrated with an ERP system that spanned 4 profit centers with over products and an inventory of over 1 million items. • Elicited, analyzed, and documented the business process requirements for an enterprise-wide ERP system encompassing procurement, inventory control, manufacturing, transportation, customer service, finance, sales, & HR. • Consistently converted client’s “scope creep” into up-selling opportunities, increasing consulting revenues an average of 23%.