P E Program Manager

Cherry A. H. Tugle, P.E., EMBA, PMP, CISSP

Aurora, IL.,60504 630-***-****

*****************@*****.*** LinkedIn: Cherry A. H. Tugle, P.E., EMBA, PMP, CISSP SR. PROGRAM DELIVERY MANAGEMENT LEADER

SUMMARY

A Sr visionary IT & Business leader with over 20+ years of demonstrated excellence in driving large complex business driven IT programs with budgets managed exceeding $250M. Recognized for successfully delivering $2.3B+ revenue growth transformational programs. Business -savvy combines business, technical, strategic planning, budgeting and forecasting, and management acumen to deliver high quality program client solutions from inception to realization. Proven track record of managing cross-functional teams in matrixed environments resulting in enhanced synergy, team effectiveness, and influence successful business buy-in to ensure seamless operations, coordinate key initiatives, and manage organizational change.

Professional Experience: Select Accomplishments

Sr. Client Program Management Delivery Consultant: NOLA Associates, Baton Rouge, LA Feb 2023 Current Confidential industry Clients: Lead assigned strategic enterprise-wide business driven IT programs to support the largest LOB (line of business) group product with revenue growth more than $100M for assigned clients. Continually managed $150M + assigned parallel IT projects including growth/strategy/, business transformation, technology enablement, client business performance turnaround, and product solution implementation. Provided clear direction, leadership and motivation to direct/ indirect reports, project stakeholders, IT, business partners, and cross functional teams in a matrixed environment. Accountable for end-to-end delivery of program deliverables and business outcomes, manage program -level scope, cost/budget, integrated schedule, dependencies, resource management, quality and risk management.

• Provide executive financial reporting to C-level on portfolio health resource utilization, budget spends, YTD forecast, Over/Under budget trend, and business benefit trends.

• Oversight management to program financials with hands-on management and guidance on PPM tools Clarity, projects ETCs, variance, forecasting, burn rate, invoices, SOW, and total usage.

• Manage vendor relationships with strategic outsource provider management teams. Oversight to vendor RFP, selection and negotiation process, financial reviews and contract change

• Ownership to executives of risk and issues threatening program delivery, provide assessment, consultation, mitigation, and resolution

Sr. Client Program Manager: assigned parallel projects in several U.S. states, 4 Canadian provinces, Australia, Angola, and Brazil, totaling over $485 million in revenue on critical path projects in the following industries: Utilities (Electric, Water, and Gas), Petroleum: Oil & Gas, Chemical, Power, Waste to Energy, and Healthcare.

• Reported to client IT divisional VP and owned program relationship with C-level leadership. Provided insight to client stakeholder executives for the magnitude of risks and issues for any project delay. Provided issue assessment and worked with client senior VPs to identify action plans to get project expeditiously back on track.

• Successfully directed individual projects (20+): $380M with peak crew of 125 personnel (contractors and client personnel) in 2024. Sr. SAP S/4HANA – Client Practice Manager: Coached & Instructed business development & Leadership Classes at confidential client sites (Three (3) assigned client locations) 20+ C-Suite client professionals, $120M Budget Sr. SAP S4/HANA MM/ Procure-to-Pay & Logistics Sr. Program Manager Consultant (Energy Utility Client): Successfully led overall assigned client solution design and configuration of the SAP Source/Procure-to-Pay (Materials Management and Logistics in SAP S/4 HANA Release. $85M Budget

Sr. Program/ Project Manager Consultant: Smart Grid/ Smart Metering/AMI: Member of assigned the client core leadership onsite team responsible for planning and coordinating several project teams and associated budgets that were converging towards the defined strategic solutions, business requirements and hardware/ firmware/software grid modernization implementation for a successful Smart Grid/Smart Metering/ AMI program. Worked closely with assigned client to collect, share and research energy consumption in homes and worked with client to better understand how energy is being used and best to influence behavioral energy usage changes. Sr. Program/ Project Manager Infrastructure Consultant: Smart Grid/ Smart Metering/AMI: Lead an infrastructure team that designed, developed, and implemented a new 20M Ventyx Service Suites workforce architecture/infrastructure hardware/system that successfully integrated to the existing legacy systems (SAP, CC&B, OMB, GIS, EI, Data Marts, etc). Responsibilities included assembling the solution project team, used cost and scheduling tools to define the project scope, budget resources needs, and to control other project variables. Function as the liaison between IT, Data Center, and cross functional management teams. This position is part of the client Work and Resource Management/ Mobile Systems group, which supported the Electric, Gas and the Customer Care lines of the client business by enabling field users to leverage (confidential client) enterprise systems via mobile technologies and by providing business work managers/dispatchers the visibility they need to ensure the effective execution of the work.

• Successfully managed the platform/hardware/infrastructure client implementation, which included Ventyx Service Suite (VSS) 8.1/9.1/9.9/9.3, Service Oriented Integration (SOI), AIX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 5.8 &6.4) on VMware, Oracle 11g, Mobile Connect Afaria, APL, Docsysnc, Netmotion VPN (MXE)

• Conducted IT readiness assessments and post-implementation support focusing on risk remediation, Certifications and Release process and procedural improvements.

Select Accomplishments:

Continuous Improvement: Spearheaded the deployment of six sigma deployment methodologies across various client site internal depar tments, reducing process wastage by 30%. Collaborated with several cross functional client teams to drive continuous improvement initiatives

, increasing overall productivity by 15%. Led several parallel projects that optimized client supply chain logistics, achieving 25% reduction in solution lead times. Facilitated over 40 Kaizen client events, contributing to a resource productivity boost of 20% within manufacturing operations. WORK HISTORY SUMMARY

NOLA ASSOCIATES, Baton Rouge LA, Sr, Client Program Manager (Consultant) 2023 Cur COMTECH SOLUTION, Dallas, TX, Sr. Program Manager (Consultant) 2022 2023 MESA ASSOCIATES, Madison, AL, Sr. Client Program Manager 2019 2022 NAKAR CONSULTANTS, Boston, MA, Sr. Program/Project Manager, Sr Cybersecurity (Consultant)…….2004 2008 UNITED STATES ARMY CORP of ENGINEERS, FT. SILL OKLOHOMA, LAWTON, OK, 1984 1990

• Ended Term of Service (ETS) Honorable Discharge, Rank of Major: Counterintelligence & Cybersecurity Officer

• Active Top Secret and SCI Clearances) Prior Full Scope Polygraph, Awarded: Army Achievement Medal (2), Good Conduct Medal

• Successfully managed a $225M integrated classified space program; award fee score averaged 99% over five years EDUCATION

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Executive Master of Business Administration, Concentration in Technology Operations and Strategy Minor: Financial Management

Dean’s Scholarship

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Dual Master of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Dean’s Scholarship

Washington University, St. Louis, MO

Dual Bachelor of Science Degree(s) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science McKelvey School of Engineering/Alexander S. Langsdorf Fellowship/ Langsdorf Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa LICENSURE

State of Georgia Professional Engineer, License Washington State Professional Engineer, License State of Florida Professional Engineer, License State of South Carolina Professional Engineer, License Certifications

PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) Project Management Professional (PMP) SAP S/4 HANA Materials Management Certification Master Project Manager (MPM) SAP S/4 HANA Best Practices Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB) Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) Governance, Risk and Compliance (CGRC) ITIL V4 Master Certified information Management Professional (CIMP) (PMI-ACP) Certified Project Director (CPD) Snapshot of Client Experience

Oil, Gas, & Chemical: BP (Cherry Point, Decatur, Whiting), Chevron (El Segundo, Richmond),, Kansas City, KA, Duke Energy Charlotte, NC), Entergy (New Orleans, LA), ConEd (New York, NY), City of Detroit Gas (Detroit, MI)),Marathon (Carson, Nova Scotia Power, PetroCanada, Premcor, Shell Oil, Styropek, Tesoro, Tosco, Valero (Benicia, Wilmington)

Pharma: Abbott Labs, AbbVie, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Takeda, Moderna, Novartis

Utility: Detroit Edison, Detroit Water, Duke Energy, Dynergy, GenOn Energy, Georgia Power (Bowen, Oliver Dam, McDonough, Scherer, Yates), Great River Energy, Gulf Power, Minnkota, Northern Indiana Public Service, Southern CA Edison, Public Service of New Mexico, Santee Cooper, SaskPower, Seminole Electric, Tampa Electric (Big Bend), WE Energies, City of Dallas Electric & Water (Dallas, TX), City of Philadelphia Electric & Water

(Philadelphia, PA.

SNAPSHOT SUMMARY OF TECHNICAL SKILLS

SAP, S4 HANA, SAS, SAP Business One, SAP Modules: ABAP, PP, FICO, BIW, PP. CRM, Oracle Cloud Solutions, PeopleSoft, Oracle, EBS, Salesforce, Microsoft Power BI, Domo, SAP Crystal Reports Proficiency: Security Group AWS Management, IAM Management, CloudFormation / CloudWatch, Primavera P6, MSOffice Suite, AutoCAD Land Desktop, AutoCAD Civil 3D

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