Rubicon Associates is a minority-owned and operated business, certified as Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) by National Minority Supplier Development Council.
Rubicon Associates is a minority-owned and operated business, certified as Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) by National Minority Supplier Development Council.
Our offerings include a variety of solutions and services incorporating full cycle system development and implementation, business case preparation and investment justification, staff augmentation and providing additional, flexible bench strength, vendor oversight and management for various organizations.
Assist energy companies of various sizes and types attain productivity improvements by increasing efficiency of the workforce, implementing process automation, and optimizing expenditures. Perform risk avoidance and proactive management in addressing financial, reputational, regulatory, and operational risks. Benchmarking against similar organizations and adapting lessons learned and best practices.
Develop overall project implementation strategy and execution plan providing overview, scope, stakeholder goals and expectations, high level schedule with milestones, team structure and RACI matrix, risks, and project governance. Manage cross-functional teams consisting of business and IT resources, intra-departmental members and 3rd party vendors. Perform status checks and reporting to project stakeholders, proactively identify risks and escalate to the corresponding owners, and define and execute mitigation strategies. Perform Change Management duties such as stakeholder communications, business and IT user training, and develop standard operating procedures and job-aids for new solution.
Lead business and technical requirement assessments, and RFI/RFQ/RFP development and vendor evaluation. Assist with evaluation of vendor responses and demonstrations, and provide quantitative comparisons of their strengths and weaknesses utilizing our standardized scoring framework. Perform comprehensive fit/gap analysis for the selected vendor’s capabilities against client’s forward-looking business and technical requirements and provide recommendations to bridge the gap.
Augment commercial Off-the-Shelf applications with tailor-made functional modules and additional capabilities. System integration, data conversion, communication and information exchange, and process automation such as interfacing with CIS, MDM, ETRM, ISO/RTO and other systems. Application extensions, workflow setup and modifications, process auditing, and enhanced reporting such as SOX compliance.
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