John W. Scott

Senior Program Manager

PROFILE Senior Program Manager with a verifiable track record of successfully developing individuals and building and directing global teams to maximize performance, promote continuous improvement and enhance organizational growth. Throughout my career I have consistently been recognized for my ability to meet and exceed established goals under deadline-driven conditions, proactively identify and resolve issues/roadblocks, and provide creative solutions to new challenges. PROFESSIONAL

SKILLS

Expert in Agile/Waterfall Project Management

Over fourteen years of increasing responsibility leading highly complex hardware and software development, innovation, and implementation projects. Expert in the concurrent management of both waterfall and Agile methodologies.

Cross-Functional Leadership, Team Building, and Mentoring

Thirty years leadership experience of cross-functional and globally diverse hardware and software development teams. Assigned as Lead Project Manager to provide leadership, guidance, and training to junior through senior project managers. Customer Relationship Management

Considerable success in developing, maintaining, and correcting customer relationships. Business Strategy, Planning and Continuous Improvement

Over 10 years of leadership experience developing/executing long term incremental plan for improvement of our application platform offering.

New Business Acquisition Integration Management experience

Extensive experience successfully leading the integration of new business acquisitions such as; 3PAR, Autonomy, EDS, and most recently SGI.

Crisis Management, Problem Solving, and Risk Mitigation

Assigned to the most difficult, time critical, at-risk projects to solve all roadblocks, determine correct risk mitigation, get the projects back on track, and deliver on time within scope. Vendor Negotiation, and Management

Extensive experience with IT and development application vendor selection, negotiation, and management as part of the business acquisition projects. Extensive enterprise application and server technical support background

Over 15 years of experience supporting mission critical development and IT applications, mainframe server support, and Windows NT server support, both internally and as an external customer support engineer.

WORK

HISTORY

MASTER PROGRAM MANAGER, HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE SEPT/2006 - CURRENT

Management and delivery of multi-million dollar global IT hardware and software engineering application innovation projects and new business acquisition integration projects. Provide weekly progress status to management and stakeholders including action plans for addressing risks/issues/changes. Coordinate quality reviews of deliverables. Serve as a liaison between Business and IT management, assuring adherence to delivery schedules, budget, and delivery quality.

New Business Acquisitions: Successfully integrated numerous new HP business acquisitions,

(3PAR, Autonomy, EDS, SGI, etc.) resulting in millions of dollars in consolidation synergies related to portfolio streamlining and reduced support costs. Phone: 512-***-**** Email: ac0hyx@r.postjobfree.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/john-scott-868a96/ Address: 1005 Sussex Way, Round Rock, Texas, 78665

Business relationship transformation: Transformed many adversarial customer relationships into a true partnerships through increased and timely communication, enhanced reporting, and improved responsiveness to issues.

Crisis Management: Successful on time delivery of numerous at-risk critical global IT projects through improved communication, refined prioritization, enhanced risk mitigation, improved resource allocation, and elimination of scope creep.

Leadership and mentoring skills: Successfully managed multiple cross-functional globally diverse teams of software engineers, analysts/architects through collaborative, servant leadership style.

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER, HEWLETT PACKARD

JULY/2003- SEPT/2006

Management of the delivery of innovative software application solutions to HP global development partners. Managed multiple concurrent teams of up to 20 resources, along with additional contractors and vendors. Developed detailed requirements documentation and functional specifications. Monitored capital expenditures for all phases of projects. Reviewed the release of vendor deliverables using quality control techniques.

Enhanced Risk Mitigation: Pioneered a project phase review process that enabled enhanced project governance which resulted in improved delivery quality.

Continuous Improvement: Reduced millions of dollars in operational support costs through the creation of long term application portfolio rationalization that resulted in a streamlined portfolio and centralized infrastructure management. SENIOR TECHNICAL ANALYST/PROJECT MANAGER, HEWLETT PACKARD JAN/1999 - JULY/2003

Senior Technical Analyst/Project Manager for Hewlett Packard’s Enterprise Systems Division Product Generation Solutions group. Responsibilities include project management and application support and administration of Nonstop Enterprise Division’s source code management applications. Primary focus in Rational ClearCase administration for SCM environments in California, Texas, and India.

Risk Mitigation and Cost Reduction: Successfully planned and implemented the migration all CM Synergy databases and users to HP ClearCase SCM archive eliminating risk of unstable, unsupported environment, and saving $1.2m in annual support and maintenance costs.

Continuous Improvement: Developed and executed a multi-year SCM consolidation plan that resulted in centralization and stabilization of company source code, minimization of SCM footprint, and over $20M in in annual support and maintenance costs. EDUCATION MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA)

University of Phoenix

Major: Technology Management

San Jose, California, August 31, 2003

GPA: 4.0, Honors: Summa cum laude

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (BS)

University of New York Regents College

Major: Business Administration

San Jose, California, December 15, 2000

GPA: 3.87, Honors: Magna cum laude

ASSOCIATE OF ARTS (AA)

San Jose City College

Major: Computer Systems

San Jose, California, June 4, 1999

GPA: 3.9, Honors: Phi Theta Kappa

ADDITIONAL

INFORMATION

APPLICATIONS/TOOLS:

MS Project, MS Project Server (MSPS), MS PowerPoint, OneNote, HP Agile Manager (AGM), HP Quality Center (requirements/test management), Project and Portfolio Management Center (PPM)

Microsoft Office 2010/2013, Office 365, SharePoint, Outlook, Skype, Flowdock

Visio, Adobe Photoshop, Paintshop PRO, MS Paint

Rational ClearCase Source Code Management

CERTIFICATIONS:

Current:

PMP - Project Management Professional, #1364047

CSM – Certified Scrum Master

Older:

MCSE - Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer Win NT 4.0 (MCSE# 1168085)

MCP + I- Microsoft Certified Product Specialist + Internet

MCT - Microsoft Certified Trainer

US MILITARY BACKGROUND:

7 Year Enlistment United States Navy, Honorable discharge

Rate: Aviation Electronics Technician, final rank E5 (AT2)

Training:

o Boot camp, NTC Orlando, FL

o BE&E, AFTA (Advanced First Term Avionics School), NAS Memphis, TN

(2 years basic to engineering level electronics training) o 18 months Aviation FRAMP school, NAS Moffett Field, Ca

(Aircraft specific (P3B/C) electronic systems training)

Deployments:

o NAS Barbers Pt., Hawaii – Secret Security Clearance

Responsible for maintenance and support of all mission/aircraft electronics systems

Assigned to elite special projects unit - VPU-2

Deployment locations in western Pacific; Philippines, Guam, Japan o NAS North Island, San Diego, Ca

Managed a micro-miniature electronics repair facility & 8 repair technicians HOBBIES:

Learning about new technology, Marine Reef Aquariums and Coral husbandry, collecting and restoration of antiques, freshwater fishing, and scuba diving. WORK ELIGIBILITY:

Eligible to work in the U.S. with no restrictions

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