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Your projects.
Under control.

Clear priorities. Accountable owners.
Practical progress on the work that matters.

Get experienced leadership for critical projects, smoother operations, and AI initiatives that need a path from idea to everyday use.

Based in the Austin area · Working with teams remotely

Support for your priorities

Important work.
Practical support.

A critical rollout. A process that takes too much effort. An AI idea that needs a plan. Start with the problem, then put the right support around it.

Lead the project.

Project leadership & PMO consulting

Bring people, priorities, and commitments into one coordinated plan. Get the visibility to make decisions and the follow-through to keep delivery moving.

What that looks like
  • Clear scope, delivery plans, risks, and accountable owners
  • Coordination across teams, vendors, and stakeholders
  • Portfolio priorities, governance, and reporting that supports decisions
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Make the work flow.

Operations & process improvement

Fix the handoffs, repeated tasks, and unclear responsibilities that slow your business down. Build a process your people can use and your tools can support.

What that looks like
  • Process mapping, clear ownership, and practical improvements
  • Workflow tools and automation to reduce manual work
  • Useful metrics, training, adoption, and operational handover
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Put AI to work.

AI implementation & adoption

Turn promising AI ideas into work your team can actually use. Choose valuable use cases, coordinate implementation, and build adoption into the plan from the start.

What that looks like
  • Use-case priorities, requirements, and clear success measures
  • Delivery coordination, governance, testing, and human review
  • Training, feedback, adoption tracking, and ongoing ownership
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The level of support your business needs. A portion of your week, a defined project, or a focused consulting engagement. We agree on the work, the time commitment, and what success looks like.

Examples from client work

See the work
behind the words.

Practical work begins with a specific problem. These examples show the planning and coordination behind AI delivery and a clearer operating process.

AI program coordination

Give AI initiatives
a delivery rhythm.

Support for an organization moving AI ideas through a shared delivery process, with attention to governance, rollout, and adoption.

  • Use-case backlog discipline and requirements
  • Coordination across delivery workstreams and stakeholders
  • Adoption tracking and feedback to inform the next steps
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Contractor onboarding / Design & proof of concept

Make onboarding
easier to own.

A contractor onboarding workflow design that connects required information, people, tools, and completion criteria in a shared process.

  • Defined inputs, outputs, and accountable ownership
  • A visible sequence of onboarding activities
  • Feedback built into the mechanism so it can improve
Read the onboarding example

The approach

Define success.
Then work backward.

Good delivery starts with a clear problem. From there, we build a practical plan, get the right people aligned, and keep attention on the outcome.

  1. 01

    Get clear.

    Define the business problem, the desired outcome, and the constraints that matter.

  2. 02

    Get aligned.

    Agree on scope, responsibilities, decisions, and a realistic delivery plan.

  3. 03

    Get moving.

    Track commitments, surface risks early, and help the team work through obstacles.

  4. 04

    Make it stick.

    Prepare people for the change and make sure someone owns the process after launch.

Meet Tedd

Experience you
can put to work.

Tedd Shimp, founder of TRS Planning
Tedd Shimp, PMP®

Founder, TRS Planning
Your direct point of accountability.

Work directly with an experienced project leader who stays close to the work. Tedd is a former Marine Corps officer and certified Project Management Professional with more than two decades of experience planning and delivering services.

When the engagement needs additional skills, Tedd brings in specialists to support the agreed scope.

More about Tedd & TRS Planning Connect on LinkedIn
20+ years of experiencePMP® certifiedVeteran owned

Experience across industries

  • IT & software
  • Financial services
  • Automotive
  • Faith-based nonprofits
  • Texas electricity markets

Let’s talk

What needs
to move forward?

Tell me what you’re trying to accomplish and where the work is getting stuck. We’ll discuss whether TRS Planning is a good fit.