Mark Entrekin, MA/OM

My Mission Statement...

...is to live life as completely, honestly and compassionately as possible with consistent doses of reality mixed with
the imagination and dreams that all things are possible as long as I set my mind to creating solutions through
listening, understanding, planning and follow-through.

My experience and background are very diverse. I continually increase my education through corporate training
internet, books and magazines to ensure that I stay on top of changing trends that allow me to improve
personally and professionally.

I am a driver; strong toward completing the goals that we agree on. I am very self-motivated and dedicated to the
corporate Executives as well as the corporation.

I understand there are times when we must temporarily jump through hoops for funding and budgets; sometimes we
have to hurry up and wait, start then stop but we always stay focused on our goals. I feel that achieving the goals that
we set is our top priority.

I am great working with people and understanding their needs. I earn their trust and belief. There are times where
we can follow a methodology to the “T” and many times where we have to learn the hard way, sort of school of
hard knocks but, again, we stay focused on our goals - continually learning, continually improving.

I work toward following all defined actions, processes and procedures, when possible, so that they can be utilized in
the most effective and efficient manner.

I personally and professionally enjoy tracking goals, tasks and accomplishments on consistent, timely and on-going basis.

I drive teams in Agile environments with incrementally measured successes. My broad background promotes success in
multiple methodologies chosen by the corporation. I believe it is very beneficial to maintain accurate cost and schedule
estimates with quick end-result identification to management, sponsors and end-users.

My approach to accomplishment is fairly well defined through consistent personal and team communication, based on
the methodology utilized, so issues and risks can be identified and resolved as soon as possible.

I am passionate about what I do so I work to maintain strong communication toward continued success, to be on time,
under budget, within scope and continually monitoring Quality Assurance (QA) metrics throughout the process.

I am a strong planner and stress that a documented plan is followed or we initiate some defined or recognized change
control process so we can validate any/all modifications.

On the personal side:

a) Enjoy working or volunteering with National, State and Local transportation/development projects
b) Enjoy tasting and appreciating wines from local or international wineries
c) Constantly improving at golf and tennis
d) Enjoy travel and my passport is up-to-date and ready to fly personally or professionally!

Resume:

Mark Entrekin is a very positive, self-motivated, solutions driven leader with extensive experience in completing
goals by establishing a climate that creates desire, commitment and motivation to succeed. He dedicates his strong,
diversified experience to complete goals on time, within budget and to specification. He is a fast thinker, learns
quickly and a very successful communicator.

Primary Technologies / Methodologies

Agile/Scrum Integration Management Performance Improvement SDLC
Business Analysis MS Project Project Management SharePoint
Configuration Management MS Suite, Outlook Quality Assurance (QA) SQL
Infrastructure Management PMI/PMP candidate Rational Unified Process Test plans/execution

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE / ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Contract Business Analyst to United Launch Alliance through The Innovar Group - 2008 - 2009

Agilysys, Inc.                                                                                                                   2007 – 2008

Manager, Development Solutions

Contract Consultant as a Project Manager to Multiple Companies - 1999 through 2007

Level 3 Corporation, Broomfield, CO through Harvey Nash Consulting

Current, Inc., Colorado Springs, CO through TekSystems Consulting

MCI/Verizon Business, Colorado Springs, CO through Comsys Consulting

ECHENT, LLC, Consulting, Colorado Springs, CO

DeVry University, Colorado Springs, CO, Instructor – Adjunct/Part-time

·         Instructor for the following  courses:

ü       BUSN-115 - Introduction to Business and Technology        BSOP-206 - Operations Management

ü       BUSN-460 & CIS433 - Senior Capstone Courses             MGMT-303 - Principles of Management

ü       ECOM-210 - Fundamentals of E-Commerce                      SOCS-185 - Essentials of Sociology

 

WorldCom, Colorado Springs, QA/Test Manager through Comsys Consulting

Rhythms NetConnections, Inc., Project Engineer through Modis Consulting

MCI, Colorado Springs, CO                                                                                                            1994 - 1998

Project Manager (Contract to Permanent)

Additional career positions in prior organizations

Instrumental in programming and Project Management for the AT&T/US West diversification, Fitzsimmons Army
Medical Center/CDSI conversion, Texas Tech Health Sciences Center, Pace Warehouse, American Management
Systems (Sprint), American Television and Communications Corporation, Storage Technology, Oppenheimer Asset
Management and Diners Club.

Professional Leadership and Affiliations

Project Management Institute, Denver, CO

SQuAD (Software Quality Association Denver)

Collegiate Advisor - DeVry University, Colorado Springs

Vice-Chair, El Paso County Highway and Traffic Commission

Commencement Speaker, DeVry University, 2003 Graduating Class

Colorado Coordinator, The Best Parent is Both Parents, Children’s Rights Council

Steering Committee/Board Member - Pikes Peak Regional Transportation Authority

Chair, Pikes Peak Regional Transportation Authority - Citizen's Advisory Committee

Education

MA/Organizational Management - 1999, University of Phoenix, Colorado Springs, CO

BS/Business Information Systems - 1997, University of Phoenix, Colorado Springs, CO

Studies in Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

 

 

To contact Mark Entrekin, please call (303) 681-9463.