Thomas E. Stahl, MBA, PMP, SSM

Littleton, CO ****5 312-***-**** adw25v@r.postjobfree.com linkedin.com/in/4thomasstahl

TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT EXECUTIVE

Agile, high-energy, customer focused leader with MBA, PMP and CPIM credentials and extensive IT and Consumer Package Goods and Supply Chain expertise. An effective change manager and influencer who possesses a unique blend of technical and business acumen, exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with a proven track record of success. Comprehensive experience with the development of Project Management Office (PMO) practices, processes, and development of enterprise methodologies. Major contributor in the development and growth of PMO SDLC methodologies, templates, training and change management agent. Strong team leader who manages global and cross-functional teams. Manages customer expectations. Effectively communicates priorities and direction to staff. Adept in cultivating and nurturing key stakeholder and business relationships to guide and influence strategic decisions and thinking.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Team Leadership Executive Program & Project Management Business Process Improvement Operations Management Cross-Functional Team Leadership Vendor Management Vender Evolutions RFI/RFP Product Evaluation and Selection Change Management PMO Set-up Mentor and Coach Waterfall/Agile/SAFe SM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

R&D Technical Project Manager @ Clario 06/2022 – present

I lead teams of internal and 3rd party integrators to develop Greenfield ActiveDirectory environment to retire some +20 legacy domains.

Identified and developed plans for multiple enablers stories that AD was dependent on for production readiness. Created enabler stories included, but not limited to, VPN, Regional Network, DNS, DHCP, WiFi and LAN.

Identified and lead efforts to eliminate technical debt related to server patching on operating systems less than Windows 2016.

Managed several data center cage consolidation efforts to upgrade services and stability for future growth and reduced data center footprint and retire obsolete technologies.

Lead networking team to implement macro-segmentation across tier1 and tier2 datacenters.

Associate Director PM Infrastructure @ S&P Global (IHS Markit)

IHS Markit/SP Global 10/2017 - 05/2022

I managed multiple infrastructure and ERP implementations, migration to the AWS cloud and data center closures.

Worked to eliminate technical debt from our Data Centers so they could be closed. I migrated multiple systems and applications from on-premises to AWS Cloud (virtual private cloud and AWS native), on time to meet contractual obligations and cost savings.

Delivered on Tech Debt remediation by either O/S in-place upgrade or building new VM’s and move applications so the data and servers were retired, and DC closed.

Managed a program driven by InfoSec to remediate/eliminate wildcards in our domains to mitigate the impact of potential hacks, successfully removing all wildcards across all business units.

Built a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), a.k.a. a “museum” to host legacy applications which met statutory requirements for audit, compliance, and legal purposes.

Deployed Pure Storage upgrades for statutory requirements to accommodate encryption at rest.

Deployed variety of product related projects to support the multiple business lines: upgraded PSA SharpOwl time and tracking, Follow-me printing, Pitney Bowes Shipping systems, FTGA (file transfer go-anywhere) file share and customer migrations to maintain compliance for InfoSec to maintain security across the organizations systems.

Technical Project Manager @ TSYS 08/2016 - 10/2017

I managed the Visa quarterly releases, TSL upgrades and other Splunk and Infrastructure projects.

Worked to remediate SSL TSL1.2 security upgrade to maintain security and statutory compliance.

Managed development releases to maintain contractual obligations and security across our network.

Sr. Project Manager Infrastructure @ DeVry 09/2011 - 04/2016

Served as Sr. Project Manager on product/software evaluations, RFI/RFP, detailed documentation and planning skills, and Vendor and Change Management.

Proactively managed IT security initiatives which significantly reduced the risk / unauthorized access, enforced the policy, and monitored it by successful deployment of Network Access Control (NAC) and Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) SPLUNK.

Reduced datacenter footprint by 25% by successfully managing a Sun Solaris to Vblock conversion and decommissioning of Sun Solaris, which reduced Datacenter costs by $750K per annum.

Executed Business and IT strategies for multiple initiatives: VPN Upgrade, Business Continuity, MS Office Upgrades, Salesforce releases and TCPA compliance initiatives.

Experienced SDLC Project Manager fully leveraging the Waterfall methods on new application development and Agile (ALM methods) for quarterly Salesforce releases, as these are iterative in nature.

Project Manager @ McDonald’s (Glotel Consulting, Inc.) 10/2009 - 09/2011

Oversaw Enterprise Management of cross-functional teams and 3rd party Vendors to execute POC and Pilot projects. Managed projects that aligned to APMEA, Europe, and the America’s.

Concurrent support of 4 MCD Enterprise Architects and their portfolio of projects, project initiation, project scheduling, project monitoring, benchmarking, and reporting throughout the organization.

Direct reporting relationship to IT Foundation’s Chief Architect and dotted line to MCD CTO.

Project Manager Office @ Constellation Brands, Inc. 12/2006 - 05/2009

Served as Mergers and Acquisitions’ Project Manager, incorporating applications and brands into the CBI portfolio, divesting, or retiring those not needed.

Delivered $2.5MM ROI on major initiatives, e.g., eCommerce sites, Oracle Production Scheduling, PCI Compliance, ESRI Geo-mapping and Crown Management Dashboards.

Utilized expertise in customer alignment and built relationships to meet business objectives in planning, execution, and resource management. Solved ambiguous business issues and mitigated risk.

In depth knowledge in Project Management Office practices and major contributor in the development and growth of PMO SDLC methodologies, templates, training and change management agent.

Skilled in product evaluation and selection, RFI/RFP and Vendor management.

ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Project Manager @ Advance Equities, Inc. – Bridgepoint Consulting

Metadata Consultant @ HSBC - HSBC Business Analyst, Metadata Consultant

Project Manager @ Abbott Laboratories - Sapphire, Inc. - Abbott Diagnostics Division, QA/IT Group

Sr. Business Consultant @ Kraft Foods

Customer Services Representative Gate and Ticket Counter @ Simmons and Jet America Airlines; O’Hare

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

Master of Business Administration (MBA), International Business - Keller Graduate School of Management

Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Information Systems - DeVry

CPIM Certified with the American Production and Inventory Control Society

PMP Certified Project Management Professional

SSM Certified SAFe Scrum Master

TECHNICAL SKILLS

OPERATING SYSTEMS: Window, UNIX, LINUX

METHODOLOGIES: SDLC & Scaled Agile v5.1, Waterfall, Jira, and Confluence

DATABASES: Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, IMS, MS Access, Sybase

ERP/SOFTWARE: AWS VPC/AWS Native, SalesForce, Splunk, Banner, DegreeWorks, Juniper, Palo Alto, IBM MDM, MS Project, NIKU/Clairty, Daptiv, Planview, Visio, MS Office Suite, Toad, SQL, Oracle Financials, Oracle Production Scheduling, i2 and diCarta tools.

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