Senior Program Manager - PMO & Transformation Leader

ROBERT LAWTON

Hillsborough, NJ *****

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SUMMARY

• Strategy & Tactical Execution, Restructuring, Transformation, Turnarounds, Mergers & Acquisitions

• Portfolio, PMO, Program & Project Management, Change Management, budgets of $2 billion.

• Team Building, Coaching & Leadership, Best Practices, managed direct reports and global matrix teams.

• Business Process Outsourcing, Re-engineering - Process Improvement in Complex Global Environments

• Managed profit - loss, governance, compliance, risk mitigation, outsourcing and business architecture.

• Data Governance, Business Change & Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Business Analysis

• Business Architecture, Management & Technical Consulting, Project Saves, Profit & Loss Management

• Systems Integration and Implementation, Supply Chain & Procurement, Finance, and corporate business PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Program - Executive 01/2024 – 2025

IBM, Paramus, NJ

• Directed enterprise PMO and managed a portfolio of large-scale, complex projects, overseeing the end-to-end project management lifecycle for SAP S/4HANA implementations ensuring project alignment with strategic goals.

• Directed the deployment of SAP solutions and cybersecurity analysis that resulted in productivity improvement, managing all project phases from scope definition to successful execution.

• Took full accountability for P&L management, project budgets, resource allocation, and risk mitigation across multiple concurrent projects for life sciences, transportation and utility clients.

• Conducted stakeholder communication, proposal development, ensuring alignment with business goals and successful outcomes while navigating vendor and partner relations.

• Delivered project milestones on time and within budget, using agile, waterfall and hybrid methodologies to adapt and meet evolving business needs. Senior Program Manager 01/2022 – 12/2023

Consultant at Johnson and Johnson, Bridgewater, NJ

• Directed two supply chain programs and teams of project managers, analysts, technical leads and business stakeholders managing the delivery of complex technology projects to move manufacturing from Europe to Mexico.

• Led global cross-functional teams in the successful delivery of multiple projects simultaneously, ERP integration, master data migration MDM (S/4 Hana – JDE One World), infrastructure, facilities and process improvements.

• Managed stakeholder expectations and developed milestones, project plans – road maps, tracked budgets, and managed project risks and issues throughout the project lifecycle. ROBERT LAWTON

Hillsborough, NJ 08844

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Senior Program Manager 01/2020 –12/2021

Consultant at Bristol Meyers Squibb/Celgene, New Brunswick, NJ

• Managed 12 projects for the merger of two-billion-dollar oncology pharmaceuticals supporting business, product, and information technology (SAP S/4Hana, JDE), 6 global manufacturing sites and 3 contract manufacturers - CMOs.

• Lead business process change and delivery of digital transformation solutions for global serialization (Tracelink – ATTP). Managed country teams to enable identification of MDM data needed for compliance and regulatory needs.

• Partnered with functional leaders to support accelerated delivery times, issue resolution and risk mitigation. Associate Partner – Complex Program Delivery 04/2017 – 01/2020 IBM Services, Piscataway, NJ

• Lead global architect team in the development of hybrid cloud – IOT/AI solution to analyze data and revolutionize safety - maintenance of equipment 24/7. Directed data and business teams to find relevant data, analyze and metrics which resulted in reduced downtime, improve delivery and supply chain efficiency.

• Directed the global delivery of complex programs supporting multiple projects and complex solutions for hybrid cloud, MDM, AI, IoT (Internet of Things), ERP, Azure, business process improvement and transformation projects.

• Managed the Project Management Office with over 1,000 projects with contract revenues of $2.5 Billion in communication, finance - banking, life sciences, public and federal government sectors.

• Risk management review, directing client teams in the sales cycle to improve solutions, reduce program risk, improve gross profit sustainability, prevent net loss and improve delivery.

• Directed the PMO Team at a global financial client supporting an $85M SAP S/4 Hana program; key transformation included maximization of core platforms, business process improvements, and improve workflow delivery.

Senior Program Manager 01/2002 – 03/2017

RoanTech, Hillsborough NJ

Pharmaceutical: Johnson & Johnson, Bristol Meyer Squibb, Merck, GE Healthcare Manufacturing, Industrials, CPG: Siemens, J&J Consumer Products Finance Clients: PHH Mortgage, CIT Bank Group

• Provided support to Executive Business Leadership (C level) in strategic change management and leading tactical initiatives for delivery of improved corporate profitability as directed by the Board of Directors.

• Directed global IT Governance (PMO) Program and Project Management Teams (US and offshore)

• Managed global Project Managers and Technical Teams of 200+ with budgets ranging from $10 – $300M.

• Managed deliverables for executive business/technical stakeholders in transformation, divestitures, acquisitions, system integrations, change management, application development, supply chain management

(Procure to Pay, Order to Cash), infrastructure, Cloud, network, warehouse, Master Data Management

• Drove enterprise standards and checked progress against the project plans.

• Managed project issues, reviewed project risks, started risk minimization actions, cutover planning and issues within various programs and projects. Collaborate with change management team to execute change requirements.

Senior Director, Chief Technology Officer 01/2000 – 01/2002 Realpulse, Inc., New York City, NY

• Supported the merger, sales, marketing and business operations for a $500 million e-commerce application service provider delivering solutions providing financial valuation and commercial property management.

• Directed development, operations, quality assurance, testing, product, partner and vendor management.

• Lead cross-functional teams, including data governance, IT, and business stakeholders, to drive the successful implementation of the MDM platform. Manage expectations and success to management.

• Managed risk and delivered resolutions between business groups, clients and technical product teams. EDUCATION

Hawthorne College: Bachelor of Science Business Administration AT&T School of Business: Six Sigma, PMI Project Management, ITIL, Validation, Compliance Education (FDA, SEC) Rutgers University: Classroom Clinician

IBM Certifications: IoT, AI, Blockchain, Data Science Foundations, Data Science for Business, Design Thinking Practitioner & Co-Creator, Innovator, Watson, Cloud, Enterprise Design, Earning Advocacy, Agile, Microservices, Cloud Security, Cognitive Practitioner, Watson IoT Services, IBM Weather Company SKILLS

Environments: Cloud, IoT (Internet of Things), SAP ECC 6.0, R3, S/4 (Hana, CRM, SOM, MDM, WM, AR, MM, SD FI, GL, CO, BW, EAI and HR), ERP, JDE One World, Azure, ADP Workforce, Amazon AWS, Google, JDE, Red Prairie, Pentaho, Tibco, IBM, Kronos, Concur, Tracelink, SAP ATTP, Manugistics, Informatica, Oracle, Hyperion, Essbase, Teradata, SharePoint, Workday, Salesforce, ADP Payroll, Tableau, Jira, Trello, Power BI, Confluence, Siebel, PeopleSoft, MS Dynamics, Solution Manager, MS Project, MS Office, Microsoft SQL Server, Ab Initio, Qlikview, Clarity, HP Quality Center. Tibco portal builder, EMC, Sun, Cisco, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Quantum Computing Processes/Methodologies: Cognitive, Enterprise Design, Agile, GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), Design Thinking, Blockchain, JAD, RAD, CMM, ISO, ITIL, PMI, UML, SDLC, Six Sigma, PMBOK, PMO IT Governance, TQM, Quality Assurance, GDPR, Data Privacy, Waterfall, Agile, Prince2, TRID (Tila-Respa Integrated Disclosure), HMDA

(Home Mortgage Disclosure Act), AML (Anti-Money Laundering), KYC (Know Your Client). Project Management Office, Portfolio Management and Governance, Program Management, Project Management, Change Management, IT Managed Services, Business Process Analysis, Stakeholder Engagement, Digital Transformation, Process Redesign, Process Improvement, Offshore Management, IT and Project Staffing, Strategic Analysis, Risk Management, Budget Management, Contract Negotiation, Vendor Management, Vendor and Product Evaluation, Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures, Post-Merger Integration, Data Governance, Business Change & Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Business Analysis, Business Architecture, Management & Technical Consulting, Project Saves, Profit & Loss Management, Systems Integration and Implementation, Supply Chain, E-commerce

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