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Manager Program

Location:
Brentwood, TN
Posted:
April 03, 2020

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Peter G. Stavros II

**** ****** ****

Nashville, TN 37211

312-***-****

adcmms@r.postjobfree.com

Summary – Results driven senior level IT professional, with extensive management experience successfully providing leadership across the full SDLC, in various roles. Exceptional delivery skills with an emphasis on the ability to support technology and business partners and continually drive the creation of business value and overall project success in the form of high value, high quality working software. Strong servant leader with excellent communication and organizational skills, noted for history of driving both business innovation and execution in a timely manner, while cutting IT costs.

Accomplishments

Dedicated team leader with a proven track record of effectively coordinating and driving programs of varying sizes to successful conclusions.

Successfully managed client projects in 18 different countries

Managed and deployed complex cloud applications for Big 4 audit practice

Built the entire ecommerce platform for Staples Europe that has resulted in a 260% local revenue growth

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Nissan, Franklin, Tennessee 10/19-Current

Senior Program Manager

Accountable and responsible for the end-to-end delivery of CCPA project for Nissan Digital

Lead core scrum ceremonies and coach the team on foundational and advanced agile concepts such as the daily standup, backlog grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, user story mapping and hypothesis validation

Managed multiple workgroups on the project and tracked and obtained daily status from each

Manage the overall relationship between IT and several major business areas.

Reported status to IT PMO and C level executives

Deloitte, Nashville, Tennessee 8/18-10/19

Engagement Manager

Accountable and responsible for the end-to-end delivery of application technology solutions in line with strategic business objectives

Ensured that the business needs are clearly understood and the technology implemented meets the needs and expectations of the business

Worked with channel leadership to budget and prioritize planned and unplanned development and maintenance project engagements.

Oversaw product planning, delivery, release management, and deployment to ensure technology standards and business needs were met

Worked with channel and business leadership to develop a strategy for execution of product roadmaps

Developed strategies to reduce application related costs and increase efficiencies of applications in production

Integrated the business strategy and knowledge of software capabilities (current and future) into vision and direction for all channel-related products

Managed teams based in Ukraine, Columbia, India and multiple US locations

Lead collaboration with senior business managers and technical teams to globalize applications and move to Azure

Environment: Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Angular framework, MS VSTS\TFS, Power BI, Tableau, Service Now,

Lexmark, Lexington, Kentucky 3/18- 8/18

Senior Project Manager

Sr. Project Manager responsible Advanced Analytics and IoT work streams as part of a Microsoft Dynamics 365 implementation

Proactively managed and removed impediments and risks to ensure the team could focus on delivering incremental business value, while working to establish the team's baseline velocity, sprint cadence and release plan

Oversaw the reporting environment design

Lead change management process with systems integration vendor

Tracked vendor invoices and reconciled and discrepancies

Documented and tracked multiple risks\dependencies and reported status to CIO

Environment: Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power BI, Amazon Redshift, AWS, SAP BW, Salesforce, Siebel, Service Now,

Hu-Friedy Manufacturing, Chicago, Illinois 1/18- 3/18

Senior Project Manager

Sr. Project Manager responsible for leading the effort to provide visibility to dealer provided SAP transactional data in Salesforce.

Lead the program strategy development

Reported team progress, highlight risks/returns, clarify issues, suggest recommendations, and present next stage Project plan

Responsible for budgeting and billing process

Coordinated the reporting process

Created timelines and reported status to C level executives

Documented and tracked multiple risks\dependencies

Environment: Microsoft Azure, SAP ECC, SAP BW, Informatica Cloud, Salesforce CRM, SharePoint, MS Project, Monday.com

Options Clearing Corporation, Chicago, Illinois 12/16-12/17

Senior Program Manager

Sr. Program Manager responsible for leading the remediation effort for an SEC audit which included both application development and infrastructure work streams

Develop, foster and maintain effective relationships with all key customer points of contact

Reported status to IT PMO and C level executives

Documented and tracked multiple risks\dependencies

Maintained project artifacts to comply with SEC requirements

Created WBS and managed to it on a daily basis

Environment: Amazon Web Services, SAP ERP, Java, HR Workday, ETL Tools, Encore Transaction System (custom software), SharePoint, MS Project Server, JIRA, Enterprise Data Warehouses, Journyx Time Entry System

Optum Rx, Schaumburg, Illinois 7/16-12/16

Senior Program Manager

Cross application program manager responsible for leading the development and implementation of multiple subprojects of an enterprise level pharmacy benefits management system program

Managed both application development and infrastructure work streams

Generate analyses of timeline, resource, and budget information

Drive processes for assigning budget and resources to programs/projects; tracking program/project performance against plan

Managed and coordinated multiple project releases

Project team of 25 including multiple vendors; on-site and off-site resources and a project budget of $20MM

Environment: SQL Server, .NET, LAN/WAN, Service Now, Quality Center, ETL Tools, Custom Software, SharePoint, JIRA, MS Project, Clarity, Enterprise Data Warehouses

Leo Burnett, Chicago, Illinois 10/15-7/16

Senior Program Manager

Managed development and implementation of a cloud-based talent management application

Responsible for planning, execution and day to day management of all program activities Program activities included scope management, requirements documentation, schedule development, Risks\dependencies log and project planning

Responsible for developing KPI's that will drive value to the customer

Reported project status to Directors, Vice Presidents, EVP and C level executives at weekly management review meeting

Developed and managed all testing plans, ensuring that all UAT/Usability/Usefulness testing criteria are satisfied

Responsible for risk management and mitigation

Project team of 15; project budget of $2.5MM

Environment: Microsoft Azure Cloud services, .NET, SQL Server, ETL Tools, Custom Software, SharePoint, MS Project, SAP ERP

Volkswagen Credit, Libertyville, Illinois 4/15-9/15

Senior Program Manager

Responsible for managing the development and implementation of an enterprise wide back office hosted solution.

Consulted with senior business managers to understand strategic goals and translated them into requirements Presented project estimates and plan details that lead to more informed business decisions

Responsible for planning, execution and day-to-day management of all program activities

Created functional specification documents that clearly identified all project or work order requirements

Created test data as necessary and executed detailed test plans

Project team of 40 including multiple vendors, on shore and offshore resources; project budget of $25MM

Environment: SAP ERP, Custom Software, SQL Server, IBM Mainframe, LAN/WAN, SharePoint, Service Now, Quality Center

Lions Clubs International, Oak Brook, Illinois 10/14-3/15

Senior Program Manager

Managed a portfolio of 6 projects. These consisted of a large Membership DataMart build; software enhancement, Cisc0 Switch upgrade as well as a MS Lync 2013 rollout among many others.

Utilized SAP BI toolset for developing DataMart projects

Developed and facilitated change control process & communication

Developed and maintained risk management matrixes for projects and published deliverable-based status reports every week

Project team of 10 including multiple vendors; project budget of $2MM

Environment: Oracle, SAP BI Tools, SQL Server, HP Servers, Custom Software, SharePoint, MS TFS, Basecamp, Cisco Switches

AbbVie, Abbott Park, Illinois

Senior Program Manager-Global Deployment Lead 12/13-06/14

Managed multiple program work streams: infrastructure, system and network testing, hypercare, cutover, user go-live communications, stakeholder project status reporting

Ensures that program/project governance effectively aligns with technology strategy/roadmaps and enterprise architecture plans

Ensured SLA /metrics reporting requirements are followed and met on a monthly basis. Including, but not limited to: Quarterly Governance Executive Reviews, Monthly Metrics, daily/weekly metrics reporting.

Developed change management process to gather, assess requirements to fit system into existing system design

Managed Cutover process, reporting and daily discussions with a detailed schedule and project resources via MS Project as it related to system go-live activities for deployment of CTE, Concur Travel & Expense software

Project team of 25 including multiple vendors; project budget of $5MM

Environment: SAP, Oracle DB, HP Servers, Concur Travel and Expense, SharePoint, MS Project

Quill.com, Lincolnshire, Illinois 1/13-12/13

Senior E-Commerce Program Manager

Managed full project lifecycle that included developing Project Charter, developing scope definition of work, developing and managing project plan, identifying deliverables and monitoring operational readiness, monitoring and controlling processes to insure release management gating standards are met, coordinating status update meetings and reporting updates to senior leadership

Managed Infrastructure Services outsourcing with Colt in Paris

Implemented advanced BI tools to drive sales and generate greater share of repeat business

Managed the development of the Staples UK mobile app

Travelled to Amsterdam, which is HQ of Staples Europe, to work with European project teams to ensure infrastructure project goals and timelines were met

Project team of 75 including multiple vendors and multiple teams in 3 organizations across 4 countries; project budget of $12MM

Environment: .NET, Oracle 11g, SAP, Commerce Server, SQL Server, IBM Mainframe, LAN/WAN, Custom Software, SharePoint, HP Servers

S2 Tech, Chicago, Illinois 4/12-12/12

Senior Program Manager

Managed a large database re-platforming program moving from a mainframe to a relational database for State of Iowa Medicaid MMIS

Managed full SDLC following Agile project management approach which included content migration, custom development, reporting, testing and change management separated into multiple iterations

Responsible for developing and maintaining project plans and budgets

Created detail mapping documents to convert from Mainframe COBOL system to relational data base

Managed budget of $3M and multiple teams totaling a staff of 20

Environment: Pervasive Data Integrator, MS SQL Server 2008, MS Project Server, JIRA, LAN/WAN, IBM Mainframe

Synovate Chicago, Illinois 10/11-3/12

Senior Program Manager

Led a large database re-platforming project (Oracle 2010g to Microsoft SQL Server 2008) and application migration

Managed complex application migration, data and infrastructure upgrade that included two production environments

Oversaw data mapping, testing and data migration for Oracle 10g to SQL Server 2008

Led the development of web-based application for large healthcare client

Managed development of infrastructure environment for new application being built

Managed budget of $1M and team of 8

Environment: IBM Mainframe, LAN/WAN, Oracle 10g MS SQL server 2008, PSQL, TSQL .NET, C#, MS Project

Bluegrass Consulting Group Chicago, Illinois 1994- Current

Principal

Microsoft Azure Amazon AWS Advanced Analytics

Oracle Financials Suite IoT DataMart\Data Warehouses

Systems Design and Development Data Conversion Ecommerce

Infrastructure IBM Server Migration VSTS\ TFS

Business Intelligence Tools MS Project Server Change Management

SharePoint Mobile Service Now

EDUCATION

The University of Cincinnati

Bachelor of Arts, Finance

University of Kentucky

CERTIFICATIONS

MCSE

PMP (in process)



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