About

Andrew Selman

Chesterfield, Missouri – 314-541-4961 – aselman@mac.com

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Mr. Selman is the former National Project Manager in KPMG’s Forensic(SM) Services. He currently contracts with KPMG for Sharepoint Support work.

In addition he still leads the Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities program for KPMG and is currently preparing for the large tournament of RBI kids coming to St. Louis for the All Star Game. This massive tournament will see over 250 players and coaches playing baseball over 5 days and the management of over 465 job assignments filled by 125+ volunteers. It has been a busy time with this once in a lifetime completely volunteer management role.

Drew also consults with clients to develop Social Media strategies for companies that take advantage of tools such as Twitter, Blogging, Wikis and many more.

Drew has a litigation and consulting background and can help both identify and respond to industry-specific business risks relating to legal, process, control, regulatory, information, financial and operations. His industry experience includes entertainment, financial services, manufacturing, health care, telecommunications and technology.

His industry experience includes entertainment, financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, telecommunications and technology.

Experience

Jr. RBI Classic Tournament

Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities

Major League Baseball Charities / KPMG LLP (2008 – Present) – St. Louis, MO

Mr. Selman is the St. Louis Director for the Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities program for KPMG and Major League Baseball, a role that he began at KPMG and has maintained since separating from the firm.  Currently, Mr. Selman in coordination with MLB, is leading KPMG in its management and participation of the Jr. RBI Classic Tournament being held during All Star Week.

Mr. Selman is the primary manager of all 150+ KPMG volunteers.  He is responsible for all scheduling of volunteers and the over 900+ events for which KPMG is providing volunteers.  He also developed the Sharepoint site which provides scheduling and other information to all of the events volunteers.

Mr. Selman is also acting as the lead photo editor for the event and manages a staff of photojournalists that cover the event for KPMG.

KPMG LLP (January 2006 – Present)

Manager, National Program Manager – St. Louis, MO

National Project Manager for KPMG’s Forensic^SM Services.  Supervised and ran groups program management office with a $10 million portfolio.  Responsible for all group risk management, budgets and staff sourcing.  Used litigation and consulting background he helps clients both identify and respond to industry-specific business risks relating to legal, process, control, regulatory, information, financial and operations. Industry experience includes entertainment, financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, telecommunications and technology.  Responsible for developing training programs for clients and other staff utilizing written and electronic learning.   Made use of multiple elearning authoring tools to create 15 module curriculum and elearning modules for records management training.

Representative Clients

• Financial Services – Project manager for large scale record management analysis, footprint and implementation of solution.
• REIT – Project manager for analysis and development of record program at Real Estate Investment firm with assets nation-wide.
• Consultancy – Project manager for complete overhaul of records program for Big 4 Consultancy.
• Energy – Project manager for analysis and development of record program for construction group of large regional utility.

GEICO / Embue (November 2004 – January 2006)

Manager, eLearning – Washington, DC

Senior Manager responsible for eLearning development for sales and service customer service representatives and management representatives at fourth larges automobile insurance carrier in the United States. Responsible for $2 million annual budget and matrixed staff of 20 instructional designers, developers and business analysts. As largest client of GEICO University, influenced policy and standards for all learning at GEICO.

• Revised e-learning program and improved overall quality of service through standards setting and process re-alignment
• Delivered 50 hours of elearning modules in 6 months. Multiple projects in development simultaneously.
• Responsible for multi-million dollar training budget and multiple local remote resources.
• Responsibilities included data management for both online and offline modules. Includes enterprise reporting and data standards.

Embue, Inc. (August 2001 – January 2006)

Chief Learning Officer – Tuscon, AZ

• P&L responsibility for training operations for a $6 million training and development group
• Dramatically improved overall quality of service through standards setting and process re-alignment
• Dramatically reduced costs to client companies using Six Sigma and other TQM methodologies through standardization of internal company policy and procedures.

Representative Projects

Electric and Gas Utility – Manager and lead instructional designer of elearning solution for 400+ customer service representatives on customer service software and Data warehouse solution.

Heavy Manufacturer – Manager for web-based distance learning solution with integration into HRMS.  Reduced cost of operating training program utilizing Six Sigma methodology with Master Blackbelt.

Hospital System – Manager for deployment of HIPAA web-based eLearning solution for large national hospital with integration into Lawson HR Package.

Oracle Corporation (July 2000 – August 2001)

Practice Manager – St. Louis, MO

• Project manager and quality assurance consultant for North American Business Consulting working with Fortune 100 companies to improve efficiency and reduce costs utilizing TQM methodologies.
• Created complex enterprise implementation plans that accounted for architectural strategy, technical roadmap, resource skill level and timing, and overall milestone targeting.

Representative Projects

• Music Distributor – Manager in team that completed SCM and Financial operations analysis of music distributor. Reduced operational cost to client by $13 million annually with an additional one time reduction of $5 million.

• Food Distributor – Manager for consulting review of food distributor warehouse and purchasing operations.  Reduced operational costs to client by $6 million annually with an additional one-time reduction of $2.5 million.

Whittman-Hart / MarchFirst (June 1999 – July 2000)

Project Manager – St. Louis, MO

• General project manager for Internet design firm, developing e-commerce strategy and complex websites
• Helped clients develop lean operational models for Internet operations using PMBOK management methodology and TQM methodologies.

Representative Projects

• Film Distribution Firm – Manager for web development team building extranet site for motion picture rental.  Developed operational model utilizing the Internet as sales vehicle and increased sales to firm by $1 million in year one and $1.5 million in year 2. Reduced overall operational costs by 10% using TQM.

• Clothing Manufacturer – Program manager for development of web site for private label clothing manufacturer with integration to ERP Package for SCM and Financial operations.  Improved soft goods sales by 23% through implementation of Internet channel open to secondary vendors and private purchases. Reduced operational costs by 15% through back-end integration with firm ERP package utilizing TQM.

Ernst & Young, LLP (January 1997 – June 1999)

Project Manager – St. Louis, MO

Project Manager for Big 5 consulting firm specializing in training, system integration, software development and implementation of emerging information technologies for a diverse industry mix of large-scale corporate clients.

• Responsible for project initiation and scope development, developing project work plans, conducting business impact assessments, risk mitigation planning, business workflow design, developing functional and technical requirements, defining critical paths, performing project evaluation, and customer interface and status reporting.
• Responsible for performing Subject Matter Expert duties such as Project Initiation and Scoping, Project Planning, business impact assessments, Workflow Design, Resource planning, ROI Assessments, prototyping review, staff training, meeting facilitation, creation of business metrics to track production, and post project performance tracking and issue follow-up.

Education

AIU – M.Ed.  – Adult Education, Instructional Design

Hoffman Estates, IL (10/2004 – 11/2005)

St. Louis University – J.D. – Law

St. Louis, MO (8/1989 – 5/1992)

Indiana University – B.S., Management, Journalism (minor)

Bloomington, IN (8/1985 – 5/1989)

Philanthropy

Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI) – Ongoing

Local Director of St. Louis program to bring baseball back into the lives of inner city, at risk children.  Working closely with Major League Baseball, the Cardinals and the Mathews-Dickey Boys & Girls Club, fields are repaired and rebuilt, the league is expanded, umpires trained and a major presence planned for the 2009 All Star Game

Mathews-Dickey Boys & Girls Club, Director – Ongoing

One of 3 directors managing the sports portfolio that includes all sports at the club, including football, baseball, soccer, lacrosse and softball.  Responsible for raising funds and program management

United Way – Young Leadership Council

Active group within local council that raises funds among young area professionals.