Tom Battisti
Mercer Island, WA 206-***-**** LinkedIn ***********@*******.***
Executive Summary
Influential IT Program Manager and Team Leader with over 17 years of
progressive experience in project budget and charter creation & overall
management, SaaS, infrastructure and Operations. Experience building and
leading successful cross-matrixed technology teams. Trusted advisor to
organizations.
Strength in Program and Cross-Team coordination - Lead successful
completion of project charter to move SaaS applications to new data
center. Passion around interpreting and implementing technology roadmaps,
using dashboards, KPIs, performing gap analysis and risk analysis as well
as fostering a pro-active forward looking team culture.
Qualifications
? Large-Scale Technology Project Management ? Change & Release
Management
? Agile/Scrum/Waterfall SDLC ? Problem & Incident Management
? Partner and Customer Support ? Cloud deployments &
optimizations
? Team Building, Mentoring & Leadership ? Enterprise SaaS Delivery /
SLA Compliance
? Data Center Migration & New Builds ? Scalable Technology & App
Deployments
Technical Expertise
Project Management: Services & Software life cycle using Waterfall, Stage-
Gate, Agile Methodologies
Software as a Service: Building, Maintaining and Streamlining SaaS
architectures and Software Releases
Operations: Passionate Partner & Customer Advocate. Synthetic and
Transactional Monitoring, Disaster Recovery Planning, Strategic Release
Planning, Operational Capacity Planning, Service Roadmap
Additional Expertise: Microsoft Office, ITIL, MOF; Planning for
Networking/Load Balancing/Firewalls, VMware, NetApp & IBM Netezza
Storage, SQL, Blades, Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence
infrastructure platforms.
Employment History & Accomplishments
Lead Technical Program Manager ProQuest, Seattle, WA 11/14 - 3/15
. PM responsible for IT/Operations data center and AWS product
deployments.
. Create, communicate and ensure Infrastructure/Ops roadmap and project
plans aligned with product management priorities.
. Build processes in support of stakeholder team's actions as well as
supported goals and objectives.
Infrastructure/Operations Program Manager Infospace, Bellevue, WA
12/11 - 11/14
. Responsible PM for deployment and maintenance of infrastructure and
systems.
. Introduced scrum methodology to new DevOps team responsible for
supporting AWS EC2 instances.
. Planned and implemented program to shift hosting of all Infospace
products and services from two data centers into anchor tenant cage in
green field data center. Managed program priorities. Coordinated cross-
team activities and communication. All internal and external SLAs were
achieved during the migration.
. Coordinate and communicate all release and change activities through
Change Advisory Board process.
. Initiate, plan and implement SaaS capacity modeling to forecast future
infrastructure requirements.
. Budgeted, scoped, planned and delivered fully upgraded systems,
storage and network platform improving data center response times from
3 to 1 millisecond.
. Blucora top 10 employee of 2013 ("he kept throwing touchdown and after
touchdown").
Program Manager TekSystems, Bellevue, WA 09/11 - 12/11
. Implementing Microsoft Corp. GNS standards and services architect's
pilot technology release roadmap.
. Ensured pilot program work-streams were clearly articulated and
appropriately resourced.
. Worked closely with GNS architects, program management, customer and
network engineers to release pilot network technology into Microsoft
cage.
Family Sabbatical Ireland
08/10 - 08/11
. Moved family to Ireland for a year of travel and adventure.
Program Manager TekSystems, Bellevue, WA 03/10 - 07/10
. Authored and tested email client migration 'how-to' document for
Microsoft's Live@edu group.
. Successfully completed pilot migration of 600,000 client mailboxes
from Hotmail to Windows Live Admin Center as well as to Outlook Live.
. Trained team on procedure to migrate 250 global Live@edu education
institutional customers. Migration process involved Microsoft
Management Console, PowerShell scripts, basic command line, Active
Directory, Firewall changes, Domain Migration Toolkit.
Senior Infrastructure/Ops Program Manager Microsoft Corp, Redmond, WA
03/03 - 09/09
. Planned and executed migration of global partners/customers data
through four consecutive major releases of Live Meeting over five year
span coordinating with Fortune 100 partner managers.
. Planned and coordinated the release of 1,200 Live Meeting hot-fixes.
. Planned and coordinated migration from Cardiff to Dublin data center;
in addition major expansions of data centers located in the US and UK;
infrastructure builds and upgrades required close coordination with
vendors, partners, vendors and stakeholder teams.
. Owner of capacity modeling, infrastructure planning, hardware life-
cycles and security acceptance of new infrastructure deployments into
4 data centers in US and EU.
. Collaborated with cross-functional groups to refine strategic service
requirements into tactical project plans delivering scalable,
integrated, SLA compliant SaaS platforms.
. Responsible for ensuring Live Meeting Operations delivered four 9's
SLA and ROI (measured in cost per minute of service delivered) for
2,700 devices deployed in seven data centers located in US, APAC and
EMEA.
. Planned and drove project to migrate critical back-end legacy services
from Unix to Windows.
Lead Program Manager Mentor Graphics Corp, San Jose, CA
06/01 - 02/03
. Responsible for leading the planning and coordination of product life
cycle activities for embedded software development kits and BSPs for
VRTX RTOS (including project initiation, requirements specification,
development, test, release acceptance, technical documentation,
launch, post-release sales &customer/partner support).
. Partner/OEM account manager responsible for delivering feature
requests through custom SDK & BSP updates.
. Prepared and managed statements of work, contracts, and budgets for
remote contract developers in India, Russia and Nordic Region.
. Managed program management team of two as well as remote contract
engineering teams.
. Project managed and drove cross-team launch, development and release
activities for OEM programs (Siemens/Philips/Alcatel/Ericsson/Nokia).
Senior Program Manager Veritas Software Corp, San Jose, CA
01/00 - 06/01
. Responsible for ensuring on-time delivery of seventeen successive
Foundation products in 18 months (Solaris and HP-UX) including
localized and internationalized versions for Asia/France.
. Managed launch phase of Veritas's v1.0 clustering product (SANPoint
Foundation Suite) from qualifying early adopters for 6 month beta
program to final Bill of Materials, license SKU's, and release to
manufacturing.
. Managed Foundation Suite beta testing, from participant qualification,
incentive program, providing initial user feedback (via a custom web
portal), analysis of beta participant results, presentation of
findings to product management and engineering.
. Created product collateral, developed two week training programs in
coordination with Veritas University for product support engineers and
sales teams.
. Received executive recognition for development and coordination of
sales training programs for Foundation product launches.
Program Manager Mentor Graphics Corp, San Jose, CA
06/96 - 01/00
. Responsible for implementing full SDLC for SDK, BSP and RTOS projects
from MRD, project initiation & review, proof of concept, engineering
requirements, design, development complete (code, test suites, code
review, unit tests to ensure functionally complete), validation
complete (integration/system tests, test results and quality bar,
release notes), RTM (release checklist, bill of materials, inspection
and final gold media), first customer ship (support & field readiness,
consulting services prepared, customer training completed). All
business unit activities were ISO9000 certified and verified as
compliant.
Education & Additional Information
Certificate in Software Engineering and Management, University of Santa
Cruz, CA 1998
MBA Business Administration, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
1992
MUP Urban and Regional Planning, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
1985
B.Ed in Educational Psychology, The Queens University of Belfast,
Northern Ireland 1975