Real Life Project Managment Instructors

Leigh A. Hough is President of Mornington Consulting Partners, Inc., a consulting practice which provides strategic and management services on planning, development, deployment and integration of information technology. Her most recent projects: reorganization and management of an information technology group; the design of post implementation and benefit realization approaches for a bio-pharmaceutical company and a global software developer using SAP R/3 as their enterprise system; the analysis of requirements and design of multi-platform IT architecture for a major cruise line and a manufacturing company; and a process improvement study for the same cruise company.

Prior to founding Mornington Consulting, Leigh was Director of Business Applications at Racal Data Group, responsible for re-structuring applications support and development and for initiating the migration from mainframe applications to client/server systems. Before joining Racal, Leigh worked for W.R. Grace and Co., first in its Dewey & Almy Chemical unit, and then at its corporate headquarters in Boca Raton. Leigh implemented an MRPII package in support of manufacturing and administrative functions in the US and the UK, and was instrumental in the re-organization of sales functions in both geographies. As Corporate Financial Systems Architect, she played a key role in the selection of systems to support the company's move to shared systems and services. Leigh's last assignment at Grace was the management of corporate systems, including financial, legal and human resources applications, and the re-structuring of the information systems group.

Leigh spent eight years at Wang Laboratories, Inc. Hired as a components planner, Leigh served on a key project to implement an MRP system. Upon successful completion of this project, Leigh re-joined line management and was responsible for forecasting, production planning, procurement and shipping/receiving first for a disk assembly plant and then for Wang's largest manufacturing operation. Asked to expand the MRP system to all of Wang's domestic operations, Leigh completed the project and joined a newly-formed internal Information Technology consulting group, providing project management, analysis, project turnaround and training services to Wang locations worldwide. Leigh's last accomplishment for Wang was the replacement of their global purchasing system.

Leigh was born in Southern Ohio, holds a BA in English and History from Wellesley College in Wellesley, and an MBA from the Simmons College Graduate School of Management in Boston. Leigh is Certified in Production and Inventory Management by the American Production and Inventory Control Society.

Jean-Philippe Jomini is Vice-President of Mornington Consulting Partners, Inc. His most recent projects: the technology project management of two seed stage Internet ventures and one IPO stage high-tech company; the design of post implementation and benefit realization for a global software developer and a real estate financing company; the analysis of requirements and design of multi-platform IT architectures for two major cruise lines and a manufacturing and services company; and a business process improvement project in the real estate industry.

Prior to founding Mornington, Jean-Philippe was in charge of the worldwide deployment of enterprise application software at W.R. Grace & Co., a packaging and specialty chemicals manufacturer. He successfully directed implementations in the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. Through the creation of a global application template supported by Internet technology and the expertise of a central group, he reduced the cost of the program by $20 million.

Prior to that, Jean-Philippe reorganized the corporate headquarters reporting processes and replaced the global financial systems of Grace. In his role as assistant controller, he led the worldwide data standardization program needed for global consistency of processes. He directed the firm's accounting and policy and procedure functions. As controller of Grace's European operations, Jean-Philippe merged the financial operations of 2 divisions in Europe, resulting in major efficiencies and savings in this billion-$ business. He led the development and implementation of an in-house general ledger and management information system, unifying the systems and accounting practices of 52 corporations.

As European systems and organization audit manager he achieved: a turnaround program for an equipment division; improvement programs in logistics, manufacturing and warehousing processes at European plants and research centers; total quality management and ISO 9000 certification programs in the areas of IT and manufacturing.

Prior to joining Grace, Jean-Philippe was responsible for financial analysis at Ford Motor, and worked as planning coordinator for IBM. He started his career as international credit analyst with a leading Swiss bank. He speaks fluent English, French, German and Italian.

He holds a BA in Commerce Management from the Zurich School of Commerce, a MBA and MS in CIS from the University of Miami. He is a member of the SAP Implementation Council and of the International Society for Performance Improvement. He lectures on Strategic Information Technology and ERP's at the University of Miami.