Program Management

Tusar Dash, MBA, MS, PMP, CSM

303-***-**** Denver, CO ******.****@*****.*** linkedin.com/in/tusardash

Career Summary

•Executive Technology PMO Leader with a background concerning accelerated digital transformations and modernizations, leveraging 20+ years of global team leadership, governance, program/portfolio,/enterprise PMO management, and technical expertise to achieve measurable results, revenue growth, and advance organizations to the next level

•Led a team of 300 in the transformation of the global delivery organization and end-to-end project and service delivery at Sun Microsystems/Oracle and receiving recognition for excellence in Forbes

•Empowered a staff of 300 and managed budgets ranging from $20M to $200M, delivering comprehensive modernization projects encompassing system upgrades, ERP implementations, data center consolidations, governance transformation, and strategic outsourcing of non-core functions to achieve high-performing technology organization

•Played a pivotal role in the migration of business data from the legacy system to the cloud and automation platform, striving to complete the project within 2 years and generate $28M in business savings

•Led a team of 50 professionals in a $6M modernization and transformation initiative to upgrade and streamline ERP, Quality, Compliance, Manufacturing, and BI/Analytics systems at Medtronic, enhancing efficiency and performance while driving $2M in cost savings

•As a trusted executive leader, charged with navigating Marathon Petroleum through a $15B complex acquisition and merger while simultaneously strengthening the new company’s network security and operations cyber security posture

•Acted as Deputy CIO in the absence of a formal role, mentored directly by Global CIO and consistently excelled, earning Employee of the Quarter for 5 consecutive quarters

Professional Work Experience

CVS Health

Digital Transformation and Automation PMO Executive 2022 – 2023

•Expertly managed a team of 30 advisors, PMs, and business relationship managers as well as a $25M budget, focusing on exceptional pharmacy system management digital transformation and automation

•Forged strong relationships across cross-functional teams encompassing engineering, R&D, design, audit, legal, finance, analytics, sales, and testing to facilitate the achievement of organizational goals

•Contributed leadership and technical expertise to strategic planning, hybrid waterfall/agile environment program management, change management, and vendor management, demonstrating the ability to manage multi-faceted duties concurrently

•Played a pivotal role in the migration of business data from the legacy system to the cloud and automation platform, striving to complete the project within 2 years and generate $28M in business savings

•Spearheaded automation to streamline the onboarding of existing clients to the cloud platform, leading to increased quality, speed, and efficiency

•Optimized automation strategy, business processes, advisory services, proof of concepts, compliance, and operations to ensure best-in-class performance and deliver technology and financial success

Horizontal/Lewis Fowler

TPM Consultant to CIO/SVP 2016 – 2022

•Leveraged top-notch executive advisory services, providing multi-faceted technical guidance and strategic direction to $5M-$15M projects and leading teams of 50-150 staff for prominent clients, including Medtronic, Charter Communications, Tristate Generation and Transmission, and Marathon Petroleum, meeting, or exceeding client expectations consistently

•Steered the strategy, innovation, process optimization, and delivery of multi-year automation at surgical manufacturing plants for Medtronic, elevating operational efficiency by 20% through Cloud MES implementation

•Led a team of 50 professionals in a $6M modernization and transformation initiative to upgrade and streamline all verticals and IT systems at Medtronic including ERP and Engineering systems, enhancing efficiency and performance while driving $2M in cost savings

•Directed a 150-person team at Charter Communications and oversaw a $10M project budget, successfully launching cutting-edge Wi-Fi products and positioning the company as a leader in technical innovation

•Significantly expanded support services to 20M+ households with Charter Communications by facilitating an extensive scaling of the platform

•Provided exceptional leadership to PMO, product strategy, and cross-functional teams at Charter Communications to optimize privacy, security, compliance, release management, and QBR, utilizing agile/SAFe and DevOps/CI/CD to achieve desired results

•Managed the migration of Oracle ERP to Cloud at Tristate Generation and Transmission, overseeing the entire project lifecycle, including assessment, strategy development, case and business requirements, vendor management, statement of work, contract management, and implementation to deliver a seamless transition

•As a trusted executive leader, charged with navigating Marathon Petroleum through a $15B complex acquisition and merger while simultaneously strengthening the new company’s physical/network security and cyber security posture convergence

•Oversaw a team of 60 and a $14M project budget to execute the build-out of the Merger Integration Office (PMO) at Marathon Petroleum, skillfully leading integrations including ERP, cyber security assessment and implementation, operations data center builds, standards, and metrics implementations, and change management

Western Union

Sr. Director, Technology Transformation, Process, PMO, Architecture & Governance 2013 – 2016

•Empowered a staff of 25 and managed budget of $200M, delivering comprehensive modernization projects encompassing ERP and CRM upgrades, data center consolidations, governance transformation, strategic outsourcing of non-core functions, organizational change, and building efficiencies to achieve technology organization with a customer-centered mindset

•Under the mentorship of the CEO, directed the end-to-end lifecycle of technology demand from product groups, digital transformation, and cost optimization endeavors to accelerate technological and innovation success

•Acted as Deputy CIO in the absence of a formal role, mentored directly by the Global CIO; consistently excelled in responsibilities, earning Employee of the Quarter for 5 consecutive quarters

•Strengthened consistency and optimized operational excellence by implementing a robust hybrid project management framework

•Guided strategic compliance and data management programs, successfully preventing $25M in compliance and regulatory fines

•Joined forces with senior leadership and the Board of Directors to champion transformations, process improvements, alignment, and contract renegotiations, resulting in an impressive $20M in operational cost savings

•Headed the processes of outsourcing, product and vendor selection, transition, contract management, and transformation of IT and business applications worth $80M, ensuring effective project outcomes

•Built strategic partnerships with Accenture, Bain, McKinsey, Deloitte, TCS, and Cognizant, forging the way in technology, security, and compliance assessments and execution

DXC Technologies (Formerly CSC Corporation)

Director, Client/Vendor PMO & Strategic Technology Executive 2005 – 2013

•Managed a staff of 300 and a budget of $5M-$120M, overseeing the seamless delivery of projects, products, and services to clients

•Assumed CIO-level responsibilities, adeptly leading a team of 300 in the transformation of the global delivery organization and end-to-end project and service delivery at Sun Microsystems/Oracle and receiving recognition for excellence in Forbes

•Revitalized CSC’s project, portfolio, and solutioning processes to produce impactful outcomes for public sector and defense clients

•Navigated a complex divesture for Motorola involving data center builds of $50M in hardware and $5M of labor, effectively separating the company into 2 distinct and independent publicly traded companies

•Managed a $120M budget to construct data centers for Zurich Financial Services in North America and Farmers Insurance, enhancing the project delivery/PMO process and resulting in $25M in new business

•Introduced modern delivery organization and spearheaded strategy and tactical execution at Ingersoll Rand, delivering on $90M

•Led the extensive deployment of Oracle EBS, data warehousing, BI systems, and Voice of Customer programs to enhance business process efficiency at Sun Microsystems while supporting maintenance of existing systems and services

Additional Experience

Sun Micro Systems – Program Manager / Architect

•Selected by senior leadership to head projects and programs based on an impressive record of technical performance and dynamic leadership abilities

Education & Certifications

University of Colorado Denver – MBA, Finance & Entrepreneurship

Andhra University – MS, Computer Applications

ITIL V3 Foundation Six Sigma Brown Belt Project Management Professional (PMP)

Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) PRINCE2 Certified Leadership Certification

Tech Stack

Oracle EBS/Cloud Salesforce Workday SAP Ariba Adobe Snowflake Jira Confluence PPM Tools DevOps CI/CD AWS S3 Azure SaaS IaaS Service Mgmt Tools CSF Microservices BI/Analytics Tools Automation Data Center Build/Tools AI Mobile

Core Competencies

Hands on Technology Leadership

TPM/Portfolio/PMO Leadership

Digital Transformation & Modernization

ERP/CRM/HCM/BI Implementations

Regulatory and Compliance

Product Development & Launch

Due Diligence/Mergers & Acquisitions

Turnaround Strategist

Cost Savings/Reduction

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Technology Governance

Outsourcing and Vendor Management

Cloud & Software Engineering

Budget Management

Change Management

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