Aaron Reece Seemungal

Industrial and Systems Engineer (MBSE)

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Summary

Where Systems thinking meets Design thinking. Aaron Reece Seemungal is a distinguished Industrial and Systems Engineer with over 8 years of expertise in Digital Transformation, Technology Project Managment, Data & Analytics and User Experience.

Experience

CBRE Inc.

May 2022 - Present

Technology Consultant

  • Project managing the implementation of a cloud HSE technology platform, involving vendor management, nurturing key stakeholder relations, providing guidance on solution architecture decisions and the deployment of an AI chatbot on GCP.
  • Constructed several integrated SmartSheet PMO Dashboards across 5 interdependent projects and the crafting of a Data Governance Policy based on DAMA standards.
  • Coordinated Regional Facility Managers, Field Team Agents, and Client Location Managers on cost and energy savings associated with special projects valued at over $400,000 annually. Automated the savings intake request work flow and facilitated customer validation review sessions.
  • Supervised a strategic initiative to implement a QR tracking system across 150 sites, estimated at over $40,000. Development of the associated business case included vendor market research, requirements elicitation, use-case development, publishing of an RFI, evaluation of vendor live demos, and the creation of a scoring mechanism, all the while providing adequate consideration to risk management procedures.
  • Created an interactive Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) using Smartsheets and Tableau to meet the disaster recovery needs of a critical work system failure. The ad hoc system captured an excess of 4,000 temporary work orders valued at over $4,000,000 in Not-To-Exceed (NTE) amounts.
  • Designed an integrated suite of 50+ Tableau dashboards using a variety of data sources and ETL tools (Alteryx & Power Query) to streamline high-level reporting for the Finance, Operations, and Procurement departments.

GTRI Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory

January 2023 - August 2023

Applied Systems Engineer

  • Created a reference framework and Multi Tactical Architecture (MTA) Model-Based System Engineering (MBSE) artifacts for a flexible, extendible, and modular tool that leverages best practices of existing and/or future network modeling tools.
  • Resulted in $80,000 in funding for subsequent research and further development of the MTA tool.
  • The project involved requirements elicitation incorporating SMART criteria framework, the MoSCoW method and Analytical Hierarchy process for requirements prioritization.
  • Conducted a comprehensive market survey for Solution Alternatives including 3rd party plugins, direct API Connections, Generative AI and custom software solutions.
  • Generated a business case and delivered a comprehensive Manpower Analysis involving PERT analysis, Work Breakdown Structures, Critical Path Analysis and Critical Chain Analysis.
  • Creation of CONOPs for MTA Tool including comprehensive Risk Management plan and relevant system MOEs and MOSs.
  • Drove project management activities for the course of project delivery including stakeholder management via weekly standups and product demonstrations.
  • Modeled Conceptual and Logical Architecture in MagicDraw. Used various Systems Modeling Language diagrams including usecase, sequence, and block diagrams to model system structure, behavior, and function.

KPMG LLP

March 2021 - April 2022

Boost Performance Center Analyst

  • Coordinate a Jira Service Desk involving the assignment of tasks/work packages to a team of 10 analysts as well as review Analyst submissions for quality.
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for junior Analysts, working in tandem to test and document key business and IT controls.
  • Coach for junior staff in the form of walkthroughs, shadowing and personalized feedback to help them develop professional skepticism, technical capabilities and confidence as it relates to technology and business consulting.
  • Develop and facilitate live training sessions for the departmental sub-service line as a technical training lead. Further coached junior staff on delivering effective trainings.
  • Trained 3 junior analysts to review over 100 Freddie Mac consolidated loan deals for multi-family residential properties.
  • Program Management of a SOX Internal Audit for a global Market Intelligence organization, delivering report and relevant findings before the agreed deadline. This initiative involved coordination with External Audit and several offshore IT professionals across multiple time zones.

Ernst & Young Services Limited - Digital Services

September 2018 - March 2021

Technology Consultant

  • Conducted PMO services for the implementation of a cloud-based Financial Consolidation System at a Caribbean conglomerate with over 60 subsidiaries, across 14 foreign territories. This involved the process harmonization, system requirements elicitation, creation of the RFP, evaluation framework, solution test strategy and benefits tracking for a contract valued at over $1,000,000.
  • Managed the reporting of engagement metrics and rightsized jobs based on the remaining engagement budget. Drafted pricing plans, business cases and presentations for incoming jobs. Oversaw the Risk Management procedures for several engagements. Coached junior staff on agile principles and quality, periodically performing reviews on submitted work products.
  • Developed an Organizational Change Management Strategy that included a Communication plan, Resistance Management plan, Sponsor Roadmap plan, Training plan and Coaching plan, to reduce the friction associated with the implementation of a Financial Consolidation solution. Work products were guided by the Prosci - ADKAR Model.
  • Centralized Digital solution offerings to clients across the wider Caribbean by building a Technology Center of Excellence for Digital Transformation. Projects were focused on, but not limited to the following technologies: RPA, AI (ML, OCR, Cognitive), and Data Analytics across the Financial Services and Manufacturing sectors.
  • Developed Intelligent Automation PoC’s, encompassing process automation assessments to testing and live demonstrations. Blue Prism and Automation Anywhere were used to interact with legacy systems, web apps and Windows apps. Agile methods guided the entire process.
  • Creation of several departmental work plans to prepare a Caribbean bank for the acquisition an international exiting the market. This was an integration of two banks, where only the profitable lines of business were acquired. Work plans took into consideration, all activities which needed to be organized prior to regulator approval and then up to legal day one.
  • Delivered a $35 million proposal to the Government of Trinidad and Tobago involving the project management and mock evaluation of 36 submission schedules. This collaborative effort was a consortium arrangement between 7 parties, across 4 countries.
  • Designed and performed testing of migrated financial data for a leading Telecommunications company. Verification and validation involved using SQL queries to provide reasonable assurance of data constancy across 36 distinct financial reports
  • Executed web development confidence testing for a custom shared services platform. QA procedures were facilitated using the PractiTest system.
  • Reconciled aircraft component stocking quantities to an Airline’s Inventory Management and SAP systems using rollback SQL queries. Involved a 100% physical count of a client’s Boeing and ATR inventory which exceeded 1600 parts.
  • Created current and future state process maps for clients, incorporating digital solutions to traditional business challenges while incorporating an Agile approach.
  • Led the Consulting department’s continuous improvement drive to increase Staff job satisfaction. 12 initiatives were released over a year, resulting in a perceived improvement in Staff work life integration.

Ernst & Young Services Limited - Technology Risk

March 2018 - August 2018

Technology Risk Staff

  • Performed assessments of IT General Controls for the purposes of managing system changes and system access. Testing included review of policies, processes and technical configurations for in-scope systems (Ex. network, operating systems and databases).
  • Demonstrated and applied a thorough understanding of complex Information Systems. Used knowledge of current IT environment and industry IT trends to identify the engagement and client service issues.

Ernst & Young Services Limited - Assurance

September 2017 - February 2018

Audit Staff

  • Organized, executed and delivered work on audit engagements to ensure that they were carried out effectively and within the deadlines allocated and undertaken in accordance with relevant standards and global audit methodology.
  • Participated in audit planning, review and analyses of financial and operational information, testing business processes, and the issuance and presentation of financial statements.
  • Conducted an expenditure verification exercise in collaboration with EY Belgium at the request of the European Commission for the appropriation of grant funds to a local non-profit.

Nutrien Limited

June 2016 - September 2016

Procurement Contractor

  • Reviewed stocking levels of blanket orders with local vendors. Used Economic Order Quantity principle to optimize the Max/Min quantities of over 4500 non-stock items amounting to a potential savings of over $1,000,000.
  • Performed data manipulation and analysis on flight rate information to help compare between freight forwarders, taking into account service level and company relationship.
  • Assisted in evaluating the company’s cycle-count process using ideas from SMED

Dominion Energy

August 2014 - May 2015

Engineering Contractor

  • Led a team of 8 Engineers to decide which capital investments the client should make over their 25 year planning horizon.
  • Determined the appropriate project methodology to solve the client's problem and delegated responsibilities to team members.
  • Used mean-variance portfolio optimization and expected shortfall analysis to identify optimal cost-risk trade offs for the client.
  • Project outcomes include a multibillion-dollar savings from the difference in cost between the client's initially preferred plan and our recommended plan at the same level of risk.
  • Provided analysis to the client indicating the cost of risk reduction for each type of asset.

Water and Sewage Authority of Trinidad and Tobago

July 2014 - August 2014

Corporate Services Contractor

  • Created scope of works for the redesign of an equipment counter, proposed tenders for contractors, selection of contractors, witness meetings with respective unions.
  • Assisted in developing procurement strategies, helped allocate funds of roughly $1000 towards the company’s minor contractors and the company’s pest control assets.
  • Actively maintained the company’s facilities by means of plumbing, painting, demolition and construction.

Proman Trinidad and Tobago

July 2013 - August 2013

Engineering Contractor

  • Liaised with third party contractors and senior management to assess and coordinate the business needs for the installation of a catchment pit at a demineralization plant, a project budgeted for over $20,000.
  • Overhauled the tool ticketing system involving the creation and testing an inventory tracking tool for over 2000 consumable and non-disposable tools linked to a MS Access database.
  • Verified and validated the Max/Min quantities of consumables.
  • Created proposal for rubber-flooring system, managing a budget of $10,000.
  • Generation of a Job Hazard Analysis and exposure to OSHA requirements.

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

August 2021 - August 2023

Professional Masters Applied Systems Engineering

4.00

Georgia Institute of Technology

August 2011 - May 2015

Bachelors of Science Industrial and Systems Engineering

3.49

Presentation College Chaguanas

September 2004 - May 2011

High School Diploma

4.00

Awards

Open Scholarship Winner: 2011

Government of Trinidad and Tobago

Dean's List: 2011-2014

H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering

References

I worked with Aaron for two years during our time in the Master’s Program PMASE at Georgia Tech. He is an excellent professional: very encouraging, supportive and adaptable. He is a great leader, always willing to help others with his analytical thinking and teach his skills to others. He never gives up on any project details no matter how complicated. I have no doubt in my mind that he will be a great asset to any organization. I recommend him highly.
— Fareeha Sultan - Senior Engineering Project Manager - Apple
Aaron Seemungal is very personable and easy to get along with. He has a great work ethic and works with a high sense of integrity. Not to mention that he is also very smart, a good listener, and a very quick learner. He’s well-organized and diligent. He manages projects efficiently and ensures that all tasks are executed in a timely fashion. Aaron makes complex problems look easy; he has a knack of decomposing them into simpler forms making it easy to arrive at solutions quickly. I’ve no doubt in my mind that he will be a valuable asset to any organization.
— Kwasi Darkwah - Sourcing Program Leader - GE Power & Water
Aaron is a highly intelligent individual with a thirst for knowledge. Aaron would like to merge the technical capability that he has with his ever increasing business acumen in order to provide innovative, income- generating solutions for any business. Aaron is always professional and courteous and is a team-player. He will be an excellent addition to any organization.
— Bernadette Rattan- IT Manager - ANSA McAL
Aaron is the type of pro you want in your team, highly skilled, willing to learn and passionate to get things done. I managed Aaron while building the Technology Consulting Practice @EY Caribbean and from the 1st interaction he learnt quickly and was able to combine both his technical and cross functional skills to identify client opportunities for clients and articulate technical solutions for their problems.
— Diego Arias Hidalgo - Senior Manager - Customer Engagement and Solution Hub - Kyndryl
Aaron is an Industrial and Systems Engineer and a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology after winning the prestigious honor of being awarded an Open Scholarship by the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. I had the privilege and pleasure of working with Aaron during his time at EY Trinidad where he first started in the Assurance Department. Being new to Financial Statement Audits, Aaron brought a fresh perspective and was an exceptional team player that was valued by all ranks. His critical thinking and innovative solutions fueled his move to the IT audit team and then the Consulting Department with a focus on digital transformation and automated solutions where he continued to impress . Aaron is seen as a valued advisor by his clients and a key team member by his colleagues. Simply put, I would team with Aaron again without any hesitation.
— Neil Sharma - Manager - Deloitte and Touche
Aaron has a sharp mind and shows advanced maturity relative to his peers. He demonstrated strong ability to learn quickly with enthusiasm and versatility. As someone who is always willing to help, Aaron is dependable and happy to put in the extra effort to improve the quality of work outputs. In many instances where I was not operationally involved, I learnt from the valuable insights Aaron provided from whatever he was working on, not only technically but also from the wider picture organisationally.
— Randall De Freitas - Strategy | Fintech | Markets | Risk