Executive Leadership
cPrime Means Great Project Leadership
Zubin D. Irani, PMP, CSM, ITIL, Managing Director & CEO
Zubin Irani has over 11 years experience managing complex IT implementations. Zubin has managed a wide variety of application deployments with tight back-end integration, on projects ranging from 5 to 400 team members and budgets ranging in size from $100K to $120 million. He has managed projects for Deloitte Consulting, AT&T Wireless, VISA, HP, DirecTV, Agilent Technologies, Walt Disney (Stores and Theme parks), Pacific Life, and JP Morgan Chase.
Zubin’s technical experience covers J2EE, .NET, Siebel, Oracle, SAP, Retek, SeeBeyond, Vitria, ATG Commerce, Interwoven, CA User Provisioning/ServiceDesk, Compuware VantageAnalzyer, and Mercury Monitoring Suite. He has a tremendous amount of experience working on projects that cover a variety of business functions across the various business lines, Order Management, e-Commerce, Supply-Chain, Marketing, Sales, Legal, and Customer Service.
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V. Chris Holbrook, MBA, PMP, SCPM, CSM, Practice Director
Von Christopher Holbrook “Chris” is a Project Management Professional PMP with over 15 years experience managing large projects and programs. Chris has managed a bevy of projects from IT infrastructure rollouts, facilities and datacenter builds, application development to enterprise software rollout projects ranging in size from $1 to $100 million dollars. He has managed projects for HP, Electronic Arts, Polycom, Siebel/Oracle, CNET, Unisys, SAP and Visa to name a few.
Chris’s education includes a double bachelor’s degree in English and Economics, a certificate in project management from the University of California, Irvine, an advanced certificate in project management (SCPM) from Stanford University and is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM). Additionally, Chris has a MBA from both Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and Columbia Business School in New York
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Michael Sodano, PMP, CSM, CSG, VP of Consulting
Michael Sodano has spent the last 15 years focusing on delivering technology to drive business results. A leader at Deloitte Consulting, his customer experience practice and clients included, Apple, HP, Kaiser, AT&T, Lucent, WellPoint, and Toyota. As a Senior Director at TeleTech Inc., Michael was responsible for creating global contact center solutions to serve the needs of Fortune 500 companies. Most recently Michael was the Director of Global Shared Services at Apple, Inc where he was responsible for program management, business process reengineering, training, coaching and communications for Apple’s Online Store, Sales & Service Division.
Michael is a former Marine Officer with extensive international experience. As the Vice President of Consulting Services, Michael is responsible for overall quality and ensuring that cPrime understands and solves the entirety of our client’s needs. He is educated at both Boston University and the Marine Corps University in Quantico, VA.
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Kimberly Yang, CSM, Vice President
Kimberly Yang has 10 years experience in IT staffing and has been acknowledged for her outstanding performance at top IT staffing companies such as TEKsystems, Robert Half International and Kforce. As the #1 recruiter at TEKsystems, she cultivated relationships with customers such as Verizon, T-Mobile, Williams-Sonoma and Nextel on her way to multi-million dollar gross margin growth.
As a Managing Director at Kforce, Kimberly spearheaded new business at clients such as DirecTV, Wilshire Media Group, Farmers Insurance, CBS Radio and NBC Universal. Kimberly inspired her teams to further growth under recessionary conditions, and led her teams to win national recognition by Kforce North America.
Kimberly graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a BA in Mass Communication in 2000.
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Brandon Huff, PMP, CSM, Practice Director
Brandon Huff has almost 10 years of experience managing large application, infrastructure, and process development/improvement projects for companies like Cisco, PayPal, Align Technology, and Hitachi. He has managed projects over $10 million dollars and programs over $100 million dollars . He has experience successfully developing PMOs including process development around change management (CMDB), project prioritization/approval, procurement, asset management, and resource management.
Brandon earned his bachelor's degree in Business Administration from University of the Pacific. He is a Certified ScrumMaster and has mentored project managers in multiple organizations.
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Chris R. Marr, PMP, CSM, PgMP, ITIL, Practice Director
Chris Marr is a leader with over 10 years experience managing large Weblogic and Comergent projects and programs to support convergence, process engineering, outsourcing, and business continuity to a multitude of vertical markets including Technology, Retail, Financial Services, Healthcare and many more. Chris has also successfully led a $150M PMO in Europe.
Chris’s technical experience covers VoIP, IP Telephony, call & contact centers, LAN/WAN technologies and facilities. Chris was educated in Electronic Engineering in Southampton, England and was certified PMP in 2003.
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Michael McAlpin, Engagement Director
Michael McAlpin has over 11 years experience managing complex systems, architectures, and vendors. Michael has managed data center builds, call center moves, and application deployments. Michael’s projects have ranged in size from $50K to $200 million and have been executed for a number of Fortune 500 companies including Accenture, Verizon Advanced Data, HP, T-Mobile, DirecTV, Amdocs, Masco, News Corp, Convergys, Walt Disney International, Washington Mutual, and Oracle. Michael has managed and directed application support teams, development teams, systems administrators, reporting teams, Project Management teams, change control committees, reporting teams, and support teams. Michael has a particular strength in managing vendor relationships, budgets, and expectations. Michael has implemented ITIL in multiple organizations to bring metrics and process to operational management teams as it relates to vendor management, change control, contract management, issues management and problem management. Michael is a graduate of Brigham Young University with a degree in Management Information Systems.
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The cPrime Team
cPrime is not your typical project management consulting company. We are a team of highly skilled, highly experienced, highly valued project managers. When you work with a cPrime project manager you not only get an expert in project management, you get the collective experience of all our cPrime team members.
A few fun & interesting facts about our cPrime Team:
- Advanced Degrees (MBA, MS, MA) - 71%
- PMP Certified - 91%
- Passion for Project Management - 100%
We couldn’t think of a more powerful way of communicating the unique value our company brings to the table than having our team communicate it themselves, so we asked some cPrime team members to respond to the most commonly asked questions we get from clients.
What makes the cPrime Team so different & great?
"I look forward to coming to work.
I'm constantly learning.
I'm constantly challenged.
We have a lot of fun and can be silly.
We all have our own unique niche and personality.
I’m reminded there are no “I don't knows” - we always find an answer.
At cPrime everyone is so resourceful, and we help each other out. All of us are given the opportunity to make a difference, both personally and professionally, and we strive to be better, to do better.”"
Why would you use cPrime over other competing project staffing companies?
Projects can be stressful and extremely time consuming. What makes cPrime so unique is that we can leverage the support of our cPrime team members for advice and motivation. The cPrime team understands that one of the skills that make a project manager successful is the ability to prioritize. Focusing on what is important within our projects could mean the difference in finishing ahead of schedule and finishing late.”
