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Michael Orr,
Pandemic 101™ Certified Consultant
 

Formation. B. 1976, Toronto. B.A.Sc.-Chemical Engineering, Biochemical Specialization (UW, Waterloo), P.M.P. (2005), MBA (Rotman, Toronto - expected 2009).

Project Manager leading teams engaged in enterprise project management, process engineering and design, regulatory compliance, pandemic and business continuity planning, scorecard implementation, technology assessments, tool and system development, software selection, and vendor management with clients such as- Rogers Cable, Rogers Communications, RBC Centura, RBC Financial Group, Hudson's Bay Company, Zellers, the Bay, Sears, The Beer Store, Nortel.

Completion of numerous decision support engagements including- strategic planning, environmental scans, market assessments, change management, and competitive intelligence with clients such as- Chubb Security Systems, Maritime Life Assurance, Sun Microsystems, CAE, TD Bank Financial Group.

Positions held within over 15 engineering engagements as a Project Lead / Lead Analyst primarily in implementation, quality management, system development, and productivity improvement. Over 10 years of industrial engineering, project management, and management consulting experience. Bulk of previous efforts in manufacturing and petrochemical industries- Procter & Gamble, Imperial Oil, Petro-Canada.

Representative Engagements. Over 25 projects, including-

  • Project Management of a Field Service optimization and dispatch application implementation and business process transformation
  • Pandemic plan development for a major telecom
  • Project Management, process engineering, and software selection for a $100M Sarbanes-Oxley compliance effort
  • Project planning support for a major bank's Sarbanes-Oxley compliance effort
  • IT Controls documentation and assessment for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance
  • Multi-million dollar custom supply chain decision support software development and implementation
  • Process mapping for an Oracle ERP implementation in the Finance department of a major retailer
  • Dependency Management process development and software selection for a $50M banking project
  • Loan origination, adjudication, and servicing software selection for a regional US bank
  • Desktop Application Development and Implementation for major retailers-Assortment Planning, Allocation Management, Flyer Distribution Pattern Analysis
  • Market assessment of new security technology in the public transportation sector
  • White Paper on Customer-centric process and organization design for a major retailer
  • Major account selling strategy for an international hardware provider
  • Competitive intelligence on secure extranet services
  • Organizational Design of the Corporate Security function at a major bank
  • Market study of an evolutionary step in security technology.

Interests. Golf, Hockey, Film, Music.

Memberships. Project Management Institute (PMI), Certified Pandemic Planner