Our Founders
Howie McDonell
Howie co-founded the SkeensMcDonell™ Consulting Group.
Before retiring as an executive from Bell Laboratories in 2012, Howie and his project management teams led global R&D projects which introduced the 2G, 3G, and 4G-LTE Wireless technologies to Alcatel-Lucent's wireless infrastructure customers world-wide. He was on the faculty for Lucent's New Managers Workshop and led various Program Assessment teams. He is very pleased to be able to share lessons learned from those endeavors (and smaller projects) with SkeensMcDonell’s clients.
Howie has been a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute (PMI) and holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Arizona and a BS in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin.
Bill Skeens
Bill co-founded the SkeensMcDonell™ Consulting Group.
Bill served as an Executive with Alcatel-Lucent and Motorola Mobility, where he managed large teams located in the United States, Europe, and Korea. These teams developed large complex infrastructure and consumer products for wireless telecommunication customers. Prior to co-founding SkeensMcDonell™, he was the founder of Skeens Consulting which provided Business Development consulting for small companies. During his career, Bill often served as a guest speaker in managerial training courses and led several assessment teams.
Bill holds an MS in Computer Science from Northwestern University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Marquette University.