Bill Kassler 
    - Senior Project Manager        [Resume]


Bill has professionally established himself in the areas of I/T Project Management, Test Leadership and Organizational Development.
He blends Christian ethics into his business dealings world wide. [Resume]
Bill has an ability to interpret business requirements and see the big picture.  He can take your business issues and create solutions using process modeling, team building, reduced time to market, budget control, problem solving and risk-mitigated schedules and accurate estimates.

Bill's Primary experience is in:

• Software Requirement Definition
• Software Development
• Team Preparedness
• Function Verification
• Systems Integration
• User Acceptance

Bill has managed projects using these methodologies:

• Waterfall Development
• Integrated Product Development
• Agile Development
• Iterative Development
• PMI Methods

Bill has practical understanding in:

• Supply Chain
• Order Process
• Warehouse
• Manufacturing
• Shipping
• Education

Bill's SME and Analyst expertise is in many areas:

• Test Architecture
• Hardware Development
• System Design and Verification
• Intrinsic System Timing
• Performance Testing
• Automation testing
• Capacity & Stress Testing
• Functional Verification
• Recovery Testing
• Boundary Testing
• Y2K
• Sysplex Timer Testing
• System Clocking
• Phase Analysis

Bill has served as a primary Analyst for functions and applications:

• Logical Partitioning                                 [1]
• Y2K - Mainframe
• Sysplex Timer                                         [1]
• 64 Bit Cryptology                                    [1]
• SCPM (Supply Chain Process Manager)  [1]
• FLE (IBM Custom Application)

Bill developed strong project management skills in:

• business requirements gathering and analysis
• gap analysis
• planning and scheduling
• code development
• test planning & execution
• quality analysis
• technical writing
• defect management
• change management
• code deployment
• financial management

Creative Problem Solutions that made a difference:

• Designed “lean” test process that saved IBM Supply Chain $2 million
   
• Conceived / developed EZVIEW that saved  than $1 million annually
   
• Created go-forward test plan in 3 weeks for a new technology application.  By creating the strategy, documentation and plan I saved the project. (Typical planning is 3 to 4 months.)
   
• Utilized Wiki technology for education, daily updates increasing project communications and global follow-the-sun effectiveness.
   
• Lead the Mainframe Y2K Testing for IBM Corporation

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Email me at: bill@billkassler.info