About / Consultant Profiles - Max Locke

Max Locke,
locke@procept.com

Max Locke is a Senior Consultant with Procept.He has 24 years of information systems experience in a variety of sectors including telecom, manufacturing, finance, transportation, and education. Max also has more than a decade of experience in each of Project Management and Business Analysis.

As a Project Manager, Max has experience in a variety of high profile projects including some with international exposure and leading edge technology integration. He has also managed subprojects within multinational, multidisciplinary project teams. Projects have ranged from implementing new IT systems, through system upgrades and enhancement, to new product offerings to the business or consumer public.

Max has extensive experience in process methodology development and the creation and evaluation of requirements documentation and formal business cases. He has been the sole or lead Project Manager on a wide variety of projects ranging in budget from thousands of dollars into the millions and in duration from weeks to years. Max has led teams of internal resources and external vendors spanning multiple organisations and sometimes multiple countries. Max’s specialties include procurement, vendor relations, contract negotiation, process improvement, and implementation of best practices frameworks.

Max has worked as a consultant for clients such as Dofasco, KPMG, and Nortel Networks and as an employee of leading corporations such as AT&T Canada and the Greater Toronto Airports Authority. Exposure to a wide range of corporate structures and business environments has brought experience that Max has been able to employ in new environments in the pursuit of a best practices approach to business analysis, project management, and IT service management.

Max was also an instructor for five years at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York before entering the private sector. Max’s re-entry to teaching with Procept has allowed him to pursue his passion for teaching while at the same time leveraging the benefits of his years of practical industry experience. He holds a BSc, an MA, and MBA. Max is certified as a Certified Business Analyst Professional with the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), and as a Project Management Professional (PMP) with the Project Management Institute. Max is also ITIL certified in IT Service Management by the Examination Institute for Information Science (EXIN).