Syed Ansari
Managing Partner
Manufacturing Consulting Business Tata Consulting Services
755 W Big Beaver Suite 800
Troy Michigan 48084
Tel-248-227-3423
s.anaari@tcs.com
s.ansario@gmail.com
Ray worked for me for a short time on a highly volatile project with GM. He was able in
his short time to developed a detailed project plan for an enterprise wide Software
deployment where the software vendor can in with no technical support or IP to assist or
the team of 6 people he was coordinating to deploy the project. Ray was immediately
able to find large technical gaps with the software and the deployment readiness, much
the concern of the end customer and was sub sequentially released from the role.
Rajan Ranganathan
SAP ISU CR&B Portfolio Manager at HCL AXON
517 748 3620
rajan.ranganathan@gmail.com
I reported to Ray for almost 4 months. The passion, customer focus, attention to detail
and responsiveness Ray demonstrated during my association with him were truly
admirable. Ray is a leader who believes in empowering his team to deliver excellence
while holding them accountable. He has been one of the major factors in helping me
grow into a leadership role. Ray believes in leading by example and his enthusiasm and
positive energy is infectious. In addition to being a great boss, Ray was a friend, mentor
and guide to his team always willing to help out in any situation (personal or
professional). Ray will be an asset to any organization he works for less.
Raman Metha
CIO Chief Process Architect
1099 Highland Drive Suite D
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108
Cell 248-981-6119
Phone 734-922-6117
rmetha@ewie.com
“ I was introduce to Ray though a contracting house for an immediate need we had for
Launching New Business of our product line and services at Caterpillar and TRW and
with our existing long term customer Ford Motor Company. Ray role and responsibility
varied from gathering the information on our new customer SAP 6.0 ECC Solution and
the functionality of its MM, PP, WM Modules, writing the work instruction that where
needed by our team to perform the transactions in the SAP applications to manage the
business. Ray’s role grew in that not all EWIE customer plants where working on SAP
but on other ERP systems such as a legacy Mainframe ERP Epicor WX Solution and
QAD Mfg Pro 10.0 solutions. Additionally Ray was responsible for the launch and
enhancement of various web based .Net and Client Server MS SQL server projects for
in house developed applications we use to manage the unique elements our business.
In addition Ray was tasked with performing an Assessment of Organization Security
practices and generating the needed organizational policies, procedures and artifacts
needed for the Enterprise to ensure our company was in compliance with these
standards. The approval allowed our company to be able get our customer approval to
directly access their applications and database and to serve as a hosting site of a
critical applications needed to help manage their Non Production materials. I have found
Ray to be very reliable, to have a broad depth of knowledge across EDI practices,
Networks, Databases, Applications and Application Coding and has innovative ideas to
improve Business Processes to help manage our business. Unfortunately our business
with our new customers did not grow at the rate of speed we had thought was going to
occur and being a smaller privately held business we had let Ray go as we were not
obtaining the needed revenues to sustain his employment with the type of skill sets he
provides.
Dr. Earl Robinson Jr.
Chief Executive Officer and Majority Owner Lean Transformations L.L.C.
Ph-313-492-0845
E-Mail: earlpower1@yahoo.com
"Ray and I first met through the University of Phoenix MBA program as one of Ray’s
University Professors. I found through this experience that Ray retains a very unique
skill set and through understanding of business enterprises and operational
improvement from both a transactional and physical change perspective. Jointly we
started a small consulting firm with the main emphasis on helping minority organizations
to improve the operational effectiveness. We developed an enterprise hybrid
improvement business model that uses Lean Six Sigma practices and tools for
improving not only the physical operational environment of our clients, but also the
combining the use of these LSS tools and practices by applying them to the
organizations IT Business Enterprise Solutions and Product development and
engineering organizations. Our model helped clients establish a three pronged Change
Management approach that included optimization of the Product Change Management,
(An area of a organization that typically governs the rate of change), the Physical
Operational Effectiveness Change Management (the area of the company where people
touch the product) and the Transactional Operational Effectiveness Change
Management (the area of the company where peoples communicate and share
information throughout the enterprise that relate to the product or service they are
managing). Although Ray and I chose different career paths after having success with
the company, I would highly recommend him for any level of an organization in nearly
any role due to his diverse product, process and industry exposure” January, 2010
Bruce C. Van Horn
Delphi IT Program Manager
E-Mail- bruce.c.vanhorn@delphi.com
Work Ph 248-8134875/Cell Ph 248-709-8370
bruce.c.van.horn@delphi.com
Bruce C. Van Horn
11447 Canterbury Drive
Sterling Heights, MI 48312-2905
(586) 939-4316
bcvh@comcast.net
Ray Poirier joined Delphi about four months ago to help us with developing a "Future
State Vision" for transitioning our legacy SAP 3.1 and 4.6 as well as QAD 9.0 and all
there sub modules into a single SAP ECC 6.0 solution. There are over 160
manufacturing locations and 250 locations worldwide. Our ERP environments included
added complexity of numerous customizations and bolt-on applications that interface
with the ERP environments for managing different parts of our business. Ray's role was
to collect the current state of information for these systems and to work with our
consultants Deloitte and Cap-Gemmi to assist them in developing a future state
environment. Ray also successfully assisted with defining and coordinating the ERP
Transition Planning of a recently purchased MVL business unit with over 20 locations
including manufacturing, engineering, and office buildings across the globe. Ray
provided his vast PM expertise to follow-on with an enterprise infrastructure project to
properly align appropriate resources necessary to complete the transition of Delphi's email messaging systems to Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) and the
integration with Delphi's Data Loss Prevention (DLP) environment. This highly technical
environment utilized Ray's technical skills as well as his program management
techniques to pull together the correct resources to push to conclusion. Ray also helped
in identifying and providing solutions to overcome some key improvements needed in
our existing PMO process/procedures to assist us in complying with ITIL standards.
This helped our projects run more smoothly and improved the level of technical data
needed to transition our ERP environment to newer technology. Ray has shown that he
has both high level competency and very detailed knowledge of both the QAD and SAP
ERP systems as well as EDI interfaces. Ray worked well with our program management
team members, business interface partners and Delphi service support suppliers. His
ability to work from a big picture enterprise view was much needed as we collected
information to develop our future state plans. August , 2013
Hemanth Kumar
(CEO MProi
Ph-248-982-5954
E-Mail: hemanth@mproi.com
"Ray served as the developed and delivery manager to educate a company on SAP, its
core Modules and an array of sub modules for a Planned ERP implement at Ray
Connect. He also developed an presented a wide arrangement of content of Program
Management, Change Management and Software development methodologies
including Waterfall, Agile, etc..
Corey Nykamp
Consumers Power CRB and WAM Application Lead.
Ph: 517-768-3279
Cell:517-262-9200
E-Mail: corey.nykamp@cmsenergy.com
"Ray served as the Consumers Power CRB Applications Portfolio lead for HCL America
that was under contract to Consumers Energy for the Daily maintenance and
enhancement of Consumers CR&B SAP Applications including CRM, Device
Management, Billing, Rate and FICA work streams. Ray team also supported various
other applications including our Genesys IVR call management systems and a wide
array of other support applications. Ray took over the portfolio with no structure to the
team and an inability of HCL to performed and delivery work to our applications in an
organized or effective manner. Ray’s organization and stream lining of the processes,
identification and plugging of resources gaps based on the technology and in educating
our organization into the ticket management and prioritization process was instrumental
in making the CRB Portfolio from a underperforming Portfolio to the most effective
portfolio with the largest work load within Consumers Power. October 2012
Wissam Jouny
Chief Financial Officer SAP (Middle East)
Mobile: 00966 50 2911921
Office: 00966 1 2938200 x 116
PO box: 3723, riyadh 12274
Work email: wissam.jouny@sap.com
Personal email: jouny_wissam@yahoo.com
“I worked with Ray during the establishment of a new Distribution & Retail Joint Venture.
Ray was a powerful influence in helping us establish our business model, joint venture
strategy, marketing plan and establishment of our IT infrastructure and ERP system
requirement for the consolidation of nine telecommunication companies into a single
entity with combined start-up sales of over 4.0B USD. Ray’s primary responsibilities
included define the requirements, specifications and procurement of an Oracle or SAP
Business ERP system and Enterprise IT infrastructure that included Core Modules for
Organizational Financial Management, Human Capital management, Material Control
Management, Customer Relationship Management, Fleet Management, Cash
Management, Learning Management, Procurement Management, Quality Management,
Continuous Improvement Management, into a single inter-connective enterprise
solution” while at the same time insuring that these IT infrastructure systems were being
planned under solid Lean and Six Sigma organization operation best
practices.” October , 2007
Major Steven Gavin
(Client/Supervisor) who worked directly with you in DOD assignment
Ph-586-215-6077
E-Mail: steven.gavin1@us.army.mil
“Ray has been a critical member of the US Army MRAP Ground Combat vehicle
organization. His diverse skill set and knowledge allow us to task Ray with various task
across functional organization and disciplines when we were developing and
establishing a staff for the engineering and logistical support of the MRAP program.
Activities that Ray has been involved in include, Establishment of all Organizational
change management systems and processes, the development of various strategies
and writing of SOW language for establishing vehicle IDIQ contracts, STS Contracts,
Component Repair Contracts, Contractor Logistics Support Contracts and Joint
Logistical Support Contracts. In addition Ray has been the lead in standing up the US
Army first deployment of a 3D Modeling PLM system and its associated business
processes that connect to many other agencies, organizations within the DOD”
November, 2009
Sebastian Inovinniti
Peer Work Colleague
Ph-248-656-6867
E-Mail: seba3147@gmail.com
“Ray has served as an excellent mentor and coach in our effort to stand-up an
enterprise Change Management and Product Lifecycle Management system for the US
Army Ground Combat System organization. His extensive knowledge and his ability to
access an organizations weakness, strengths and outline and implement an
improvement strategy-plan are excellent. Ray’s strong operational level and knowledge
of all functional areas of an organization and his ability to tie these activities into
enterprise wide integrated level Information Technology solution while applying lean and
six sigma concepts and practices at both the operational and in conjunction with an IT
optimization solution is nothing short of world class” April, 2009