Qualifications

Ronald J. Raumer
Management Consultant

Ronald J. Raumer has more than 20 years of management consulting and IT leadership experience. His clients range from emerging companies to global corporations and include government institutions and not-for-profits. He has practiced and consulted in more than twenty countries throughout America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Mr. Raumer’s consulting practice, Raumer & Associates, is focused on helping top IT executives solve their most difficult and pressing problems. These range from providing assistance in combining IT organizations after a merger or acquisition to developing an IT strategy to align IT with a new business direction. And they include selecting ERP systems and technology vendor partners, making outsourcing or off-shoring decisions, restructuring the IT organization, improving business processes and implementing IT governance and architectural standards.

His areas of expertise are:

• IT Strategic Planning and Execution - assisting organizations in aligning their information technology capabilities with their business direction. This consists of setting IT strategic direction and defining the technology architecture, business processes, organizational structure, staffing, governance and roadmap of projects necessary to successfully execute the strategy and close the gap between current and future IT capabilities. Mr. Raumer uses a process consulting orientation to guide clients through strategy development with extensive use of workshops. He emphasizes client participation throughout the project to promote organizational learning and build consensus and momentum toward strategy execution.
  • Experience Highlights: Mr. Raumer has developed more than twenty high-impact IT strategic plans. Clients include the worlds largest petroleum company, the worlds largest semiconductor manufacturer, a large financial institution, a major Hong Kong based international airline, a mid-sized rental company, a wireless equipment manufacturer, an energy research organization, several local governments and state agencies, an oil and gas joint venture and a not-for-profit organization.
• Change Management and Organizational Development - assisting companies in improving the organizational performance and effectiveness of their IT function. This specialty includes performing assessments of the IT function, redesigning organizational roles and responsibilities, re-engineering IT internal business processes and developing IT governance principles and architectural standards. It also includes identifying outsourcing or off-shoring strategies and opportunities, evaluating and selecting vendors, defining the processes and technology necessary for deployment and implementing solutions.
  • Experience Highlights: Mr. Raumer assisted a large Dallas-based financial credit corporation completely reorganize its’ IT department. In addition, he redesigned organizational roles and responsibilities in conjunction with most of the IT strategy projects described above. Mr. Raumer also assisted several companies in identifying outsourcing and/or off-shoring opportunities and in evaluating and selecting outsourcing/off-shoring solutions. Examples include assisting an International airline in the decision to outsource their IT operations and data center, assisting a high-technology company evaluate the IT functions to determine which areas to outsource and assisting a rental company in choosing an offshore ERP partner..
• Technology, Software Package and Vendor Selection and Deployment - assisting companies in defining their information technology requirements, and in selecting technology, software and/or vendors and then deploying the technology solution.
  • Experience Highlights: Mr. Raumer has developed RFP’s and selected technology solutions, often including vendor partners, for numerous companies. Clients include a high-technology medical equipment manufacturer, a rental company, a wireless equipment manufacturer, an Internet consulting firm, a large publisher of PC entertainment software, a local government and a not-for-profit. Software packages he has selected include SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Great Plans, RentalResults, JD Edwards and many others.
• Project Management - providing project management assistance to important projects, providing turnaround assistance to troubled projects, and serving as interim CIO.
  • Experience Highlights: Served as project manager for numerous ERP implementations often including business process improvement and other projects. Served as interim CIO for a mid-sized company in the bay area.

Previous positions held by Mr. Raumer include CIO for a high-technology manufacturer, R&D Director for an ERP software company, Consulting Director for a fast-growing Internet consulting firm and Applications Manager, based in the U.S. and later five years in Europe, for a Fortune 50 multi-national petroleum company.

Mr. Raumer has prior consulting experience with Deloitte & Touche, KPMG and The Gartner Group in assisting clients across a wide variety of industries.

Mr. Raumer is an experienced instructor and facilitator who has conducted technology seminars and workshops for client and consultant staffs.  He holds a Bachelors degree from San Francisco State University and an MBA from the University of San Francisco. He is a member of the Association of Strategic Planners.

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