DENNIS B. WIGGINS

GE FMP, PMP & LSSBB

Schenectady, NY 12303 404-***-**** adycsw@r.postjobfree.com Leadership, Team Player, Self-Starter, and Reliable Page 1 of 5

AREAS OF EXPERTISE PRODUCT

Financial Statements Operations Project Management Clarity – Project Portfolio Management PMO Leadership Risk Management (L/M/H) Microsoft Project – Project Integration Project Portfolio Management Budgeting / Balanced Scorecard Microsoft – Excel, Word, PowerPoint Product Portfolio Management Business Transformation Microsoft Visio –Reengineer Processes Strategic Roadmap Vs Tactical Execution Vendor Management SharePoint – Central Communication Capacity Planning RFP / RFI Balanced Scorecard - Dashboards DMAIC Process Improvement Training Instructor (PMP/LSS) Jira – Quality Assurance RACI Communication Planning Agile (Scrum) / SAFe / Kanban Confluence STRATEGIC PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT HIGHLIGHTS

An accomplished expert with over 25 years of work experience in the Project Portfolio Management (PPM) discipline including Big 4 Consulting.

A graduate of a world-renowned Financial Management Program (FMP) with General Electric.

Lead Network Services PMO with a dedicated staff of five (5) for BellSouth contracted through Accenture (Big 4) Consulting. The portfolio valuation was $250 million dollars comprised of approximately 120 Project/Program Managers working towards the Big Picture Initiative for multiple business units and contracted vendors.

Streamlined reporting from the PMO to the Executive Team by leading team in the design and development of a PPM Tool in SharePoint. This resulted in a reduction in cycle time from 45 days to 5 days (velocity 9 turns) by developing training manuals for Project & Program Managers. By launching this SharePoint PPM Tool this provided real time visibility to the Executive Team for AIR Log resolution eliminating costly process bottlenecks, resulting in improvement of approximately 40% projects/programs achieving baselined targets.

Merger acquisition by Barclays required a PMO be set-up for the consolidation of 75 applications from the Lehman Brothers platform. This was coordinating with domestic and international cross-functional team members tasks required for the Front, Middle & Back offices. The value proposition of the consolidation of the two (2) platforms resulted in an approximate productivity improvement to Barclays of $30 million dollars by sunset of IBM Servers on Lehman Brothers platform.

Managed multiple subsidiaries for the Bank of New York as a Senior Budget & Cost Analyst to track budgeted vs actual performance for corporate headquarters at 48 Wall Street, acting as liaison with Controller tracking monthly variances with explanations. Plus worked as an Accountant, Auditor and Mortgage Assistant Manager in banking.

Partner PMO Leader in the design and development of a new Strategic Portfolio Management Tool which integrates the following: Project Management & Operations Project Management by integrating the accounting, finance, project management and operations disciplines in the Balanced Scorecard. DENNIS B. WIGGINS

GE FMP, PMP & LSSBB

Schenectady, NY 12303 404-***-**** adycsw@r.postjobfree.com Leadership, Team Player, Self-Starter, and Reliable Page 2 of 5

EXPERIENCE

10/2022 - Present

04/2022 – 10/2022

02/2018 to 03/2022

Strategic Program Manager

Amazon Partner w/Analytics Plus PPM2, LLC

Partnered with Amazon to build corporate website to promote the sale of a variety of products for “A+PPM2 Top Performers – Team Rewards” for Corporations and Project Management Offices (PMO’s). Developed A+PPM2 Project Plan to build website managing the timely execution of work breakdown structure (WBS). Develop process flow diagrams for the Amazon sale and the Client Drop Shipment. This required negotiating with vendors for products for resale, pricing products for sale domestically and internationally, building cost models to ensure profitability. Trained on multiple in-house distribution applications used by Amazon.

Strategic Program Manager

AT&T / DTV Incorporated, Duluth, GA

Responsible for interim solutions pertinent to Video Engineering (VE) for DirecTV divesture from AT&T. Primary responsibilities coordinating with Executive Team for activities to transition vendor contracts from AT&T to DirecTV. Prepare project plans to track activities responsible software licenses, decommissioned servers, and AT&T applications. Tracked activities for multiple project work-streams under the SAFe methodology for sprints and program increments under the VIPER Program bridging to Executive Waterfall reporting. Reengineered business process and created excel model to report divesture savings in the Strategic Program Office (SPO) to ensure the accuracy to Senior Executive Leadership by establishing Executive Team to review and validate products and savings activity for network, storage, circuits and servers. PPM Team Lead

ANALYTICS PLUS PPM2, LLC Schenectady, NY

Lead partner team in the design of a Project Portfolio Management (PPM) Tool in the Balanced Scorecard to bridge the gap between the Strategic Roadmap (Top Down) and Tactical Execution

(Bottom Up) by standardizing the cross-functional KPI metrics. This required knowledge of the following disciplines: accounting, finance, project management and lean six sigma. The quality DENNIS B. WIGGINS

GE FMP, PMP & LSSBB

Schenectady, NY 12303 404-***-**** adycsw@r.postjobfree.com Leadership, Team Player, Self-Starter, and Reliable Page 3 of 5

improvement productivity resulted in automated: dashboards, exception reports, dynamic project status reports and centralized collaboration. The productivity gain is benchmarked between 40 to 60%.

07/2012 to 02/2018 PMO Team Lead

EXECUTIVE PROGRAM MANAGEMENT DASHBOARDS, LLC Norcross, GA Managed PMO Partner Team in the design & development in creating a Reporting Dashboard in SharePoint for Executive Team, this resulted in cycle time reduction from 4 weeks to 1 week for escalation of AIR Log. Lead initiative to integrate Analytics as a single application to create automatic dashboards, briefing books and dynamic project status reports. Also, trained candidates for PMP, LSSGB & LSSBB Certifications ranging from 5 to 35 students. 11/2011 to 05/2012 Program Manager

ING INCORPORATED Marietta, GA

Managed Program comprised of integrating multiple projects which had dependency constraints. Developed Project Plan for $750K budget in MS Project for Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Milestones & Tollgates. Lead cross-functional team members throughout the process while maintaining costs and due date. Applied Agile methodology to Sprint Teams with burn down charts for cross-functional team comprised of approximately 15 members. Effectively and honestly communicated the Project Status to Steering Committee, Sponsors, and Stakeholders. 04/2011 to 09/2011 Six Sigma Program Manager

HEWLETT PACKARD Lawrenceville, GA

Operational Program Manager required to increase efficiency within Hewlett Packard standardization of servers (small, medium & large) across regions domestically and internationally. This was achieved by applying the Lean Six Sigma Methodology for improvement. Developed MS Project Plan using the DMAIC Phases to Design, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control the business goal. The productivity gain from this Initiative was benchmarked to reduce the sales cycle time by approximately 40% in comparison to Make to Oder (MTO). This resulted in customer Server discounting ranging from 25% to 35%. 05/2009 to 11/2009 PMO Consultant

BARCLAY'S CAPITAL Jersey City, NJ

Managed PMO Team in the consolidation of Barclays Bank and Lehman Brothers for the Front DENNIS B. WIGGINS

GE FMP, PMP & LSSBB

Schenectady, NY 12303 404-***-**** adycsw@r.postjobfree.com Leadership, Team Player, Self-Starter, and Reliable Page 4 of 5

Office, Middle Office & Back Office for security transactions. Effective presented Communication Plans and Weekly Status Reports to approximately 75 members worldwide. The productivity gain was projected to be approximately $30 million through the sunset of IBM Servers. 03/2008 to 01/2009 PMP Instructor

SELF EMPLOYED Lawrenceville, GA

Trained candidates for Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification. Class size range from 5 to 10 students.

04/2007 to 02/2008 Program Manager

AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER Columbus, OH

Lead Lotus Notes Program integrating multiple projects. Prepared and integrated Project Plans and held week team meetings for status updates while assigning upcoming tasks for 2 weeks. Delivered Weekly Status Meetings to Executives, Sponsors and Stakeholders. The productivity gain resulting from automation was the reassignment of approximately 7 full time resources in the business unit.

08/2006 to 02/2007 Senior Project Manager

NATIONWIDE INSURANCE Columbus, OH

Managed ECIF Project for Sponsor and Stakeholders. Developed MS Project Plan and baselined delivery date and costs. Designed an effective Communication Plan to reduce emails. Presented Weekly Status Reports to Executive Team. The standardization of technology across the Nationwide platform was projected to save the company between 5 to 7 million dollars. 01/2004 to 07/2006 Senior Program Manager

BELLSOUTH / ACCENTURE (BIG 4) Atlanta, GA

PMO Governance Leader contracted through Accenture (Big 4) Consulting for BellSouth Network Services; a $250 million-dollar portfolio with 100 to 120 Project / Program Managers. Reduced Project Portfolio Management (PPM) cycle time reporting in a matrix structure for Executives from 1.5 months to 1 week. This resulted in a significant reduction in costs resulting from timely, escalation and delivery of projects. Presented PMO Portfolio Status to Vice President, and multiple Directors on a monthly basis.

DENNIS B. WIGGINS

GE FMP, PMP & LSSBB

Schenectady, NY 12303 404-***-**** adycsw@r.postjobfree.com Leadership, Team Player, Self-Starter, and Reliable Page 5 of 5

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

12/1986

BS DEGREE: Business Management & Finance

STATE UNIVERSITY AT OLD WESTBURY COLLEGE Old Westbury, NY 06/1993 GE Financial Management Program (GE - FMP): Corporate Financial Management General Electric Schenectady, NY

07/2006 Project Management Professional (PMP): Technology Project Management Institute (PMI) Pennsylvania, PA 12/2008 Lean Six Sigma Black Belt: Operational Project Management Institute of Industrial Engineering (IIE) Duluth, GA ACTIVITIES AND HONORS

Recipient of the 2013 Project of the Year Award from the PMI Atlanta Chapter (2nd largest in US & 3rd largest worldwide).

PUBLICATIONS

PM World Journal

Trifecta PPM Methodology: https://pmworldjournal.com/article/trifecta-ppm2- methodology

ISE Magazine

Divorced Bed KPI Metrics: https://isemag.com/2021/05/telecom-2021-project- management-education-software/

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