Back-to-Work Program Manager Resume

Robert Stackhouse: Program Manager

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Summary .

After a few years away from my career and business, taking care of an elderly and very sick parent, I’m looking to get back to work in a bit smaller capacity. I’m an experienced and seasoned business professional with many years practice holding several management, customer facing roles including Program Management, Executive Briefing Manager. Business Opportunity Manager, Client Consultant, Direct Client Sales and Business Development. As an enthusiastic and quick learner who is interested in new challenges, I enjoy working with, collaborating cross-functionally and multi-disciplinary teams to help solve challenges and build solutions for organizations who have an interest in improving business and society.

Experience .

IBM Program Manager

2014 - 2019

Program Manager of the “BlueSky Project” – a strategic multi-site/multi-city collaboration project with IBM Research and Pfizer focused on Parkinson’s Disease (PD). In addition to being the primary point of contact for all stakeholders (internal and external), I was responsible for all Program Management aspects of the project.

A partial list of responsibilities is included below:

•Managed and coordinated IBM research and non-Research Partner global resources (technical and sales)

•Managed team resource allocation

•Led Partner and internal IBM negotiations

•Organized, set agendas, Managed, and facilitated weekly Executive Project Checkpoint meetings, Data Quality/Data Management meetings for IBM Senior Management Team, Pfizer Senior Management, and Partner Management

•Senior Management, and Partner Management stakeholders resulting in 10% increase in stakeholder engagement

•Analyzed and evaluated research team’s results

•Organized and facilitated weekly Data Quality Assurance meetings

•Assist with hiring, managing, and evaluating post-docs for the project

AWARDS: IBM Research Division Award– Program Management

Customer Briefing Manager

2006 – 2014

IBM Executive Briefing Center Briefing Manager:

Responsible for all steps in the Briefing life cycle I led, developed, and hosted/facilitated over 400 results and outcome oriented high visibility customer briefings, demos and presentations for IBM Customer Executive Experiences at both the IBM Industry Solutions Lab (ISL) in Hawthorne, NY and the IBM Research THINKLab at IBM World Wide Research Headquarters for customers of IBM. Leading and working collaboratively with management, cross-functional stakeholders, and partners, adapted each experience and briefing to tailor appropriate messaging and style for different audiences to improve our business pipeline and accelerate new opportunities.

AWARDS Ovation Award

IBM Research ODIS Global Program & Opportunity Manager

2003 – 2006

Global Program & Opportunity Manager for IBM Research Global Headquarters new ‘On-Demand Innovation Services’ (ODIS) organization / Line of business providing Researchers as billable resources for IBM Client Services engagements worldwide. Below is a short list of some of my responsibilities/accomplishments:

Co-created and defined the development and implementation of IBM Research’s new ODIS program/organization, operations, and processes

Increased research knowledge sharing and information distribution by defining internal templates and documentation for cross-lab, cross-geo, and team collaboration as well as defining guidelines to improve sharing best practices

Facilitated relationships between global teams, labs, and stakeholders

Orchestrated matrixed global team by managing opportunity and sales forecasting, strategy, planning and built processes and procedures for proper resource allocation globally, connecting resources to research needs around the world

Orchestrated and led weekly Global Opportunity Status meetings with Senior IBM Research Worldwide Management team

Created and wrote case studies/articles for the IBM ODIS internal and external websites

Skills . Executive Briefing development, coordination, facilitation C-Level Executive Presentations (Business & Technical)

Manage / Facilitate Executive Meetings

Cross Functional Stakeholder relations

Program Management

Executive Management Consulting

Excellent written and verbal communications

MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Interpersonal skills and Mentoring

Honors & Awards .

IBM Research Division Award - Program Management

IBM Ovation Award

Research/Science Outreach

Created and ran a Yearly IBM Research Science Fair for students from ‘Harlem Children’s Zone’ a top-performing k-12 charter school

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