Ivy Rassart
Principal Consultant, Project Manager
Gainesville, Georgia
Ivy is a Principal Consultant for Blackstone+Cullen Inc., a company focused on providing highly experienced analytics and development teams that solve complex business problems, simplify smart solutions, and provide on-time, on-budget delivery.
ABOUT IVY
Ivy has worked 23+ years in a variety of industries that include Manufacturing, Distribution, Healthcare, and IT Technology. She has been part of small projects as well as major implementations. Some of her various job responsibilities have included:
- Analyzing user requirements and managing the project and validation of a global regulatory publishing tool for a large pharmaceutical firm.
- Analyzing and testing Partner Management Framework, an internally used Microsoft tool
- Managing over ten projects simultaneously for a large healthcare firm
- Developing, executing, and managing the Program Quality Management plan for a $X million dollar controls system upgrade for a leading pipeline company
- Managing CHEP’s strategic alignment initiative as well as participating in the discovery sessions to help understand and analyze overall pallet management processes and identify areas of improvement that enhance overall strategic alignment
- Developing, executing, and validating the order decision engine related to capacity planning and delivery messages for one of the largest equipment rental companies in North America
In addition to being a Principal Consultant, Ivy spends her time working on do-it-yourself projects with her husband. She also enjoys exercising, but her passion in life is spending quality time with her family
PROFESSIONAL AND INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
- Sunbelt Rentals: QA Software Validation - Working as part of Blackstone+Cullen's Principal Consultant Team, developed the procedures for the verification and validation of Chronos and related tools. Oversaw and participated in execution of validation activities to ensure successful release and rollout
- Rayonier Advanced Materials (RYAM): Project Manager – Managed the Rayonier Advanced Materials Global Payroll, Time and Attendance, and Benefits vendor selection project
- International Hotel Group (IHG): Project Manager – Managed the IHG SharePoint discovery project that was executed to determine the best approach to use their existing SharePoint system
- Colonial Pipeline: Project Manager – Managed the Disaster Recovery Process development for the Colonial Pipeline legacy controls systems
- Colonial Pipeline: Program Quality Manager – Developed and executed the iDOT Program Quality Management Plan to ensure proper execution through business process optimization. Provided oversight of the development, coordination, and execution of the various program / project technical and operational test cases. Managed lessons learned, change management, training, test environments, test case development and execution, etc
EDUCATION, LICENSES, CERTIFICATIONS, & MEMBERSHIPS
University of Georgia
Undergraduate
Kennesaw State University
Business
Six Sigma
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Functional/Operational
- Program/Project Management
