Al Wieand

About Al Wieand

Application development professional with 20 years of extensive experience in managing large technology relationships to grow revenue and profits• More than 15 years of supervisory and management experience in global, fast-paced, technology-oriented environments.• More than 20 years of professional IT project management, system implementation, and operational management experience with financial ERP systems (both SAP and Oracle), modules, applications, and related teams.• Demonstrated strengths in meeting deadlines, motivating staff, leading teams and departments, evaluating resources, supervising personnel, reducing costs, and increasing revenues.• Proven ability to build strong relationships with clients, direct reports, colleagues, vendors, and executives• Excellent learner and sought-after team leader with demonstrated talent for addressing complex subjects. • Familiar with Agile project management methodology.• Specialized skills in long-range strategic IT planning, risk analysis, budgetary planning and control, project management and execution, business process re-engineering, and talent management.

Experience

1. Senior Program Manager

   Agilent Technologies

   Dec 2015 — Present · Wilmington, DE, US

   Determine program and/or project goals and priorities with project Sponsors, project teams, and stakeholders.• Managed multimillion-dollar projects in support of, and partnering with, various business units across Agilent.• Led multi-disciplinary global teams of both internal and external resources toward project goals.• Hosted regular status reporting to C-level executives and business managers to ensure there is a clear vision of the project and manage the expectations of key stakeholders.• Managed vendor relationships (onshore and offshore) for consulting and other services required during project, handling on-boarding, off-boarding.• Prepared project budgets, managed monthly actuals, and reporting project costs and forecasts on a regular basis.• Coached and mentored lower-level project managers.• Leading multimillion dollar project to implement SAP Configure, Price and Quote• Partnering with Sales organization to redefine the quoting process• Team up with customer operations to analyze their business processes, resulting in numerous projects run concurrently to implement re-engineered processes.• Lead the trade and logistics organizations through an SAP GTS implementation, replacing another global application supporting the trade compliance within the company.• Researched and led a pilot a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) process for the Service business unit to automate product introductions.• Working closely with Tax senior management to redefine the inventory structure throughout the organization in support of IRS reporting rules.• Aligned the go-live with another multimillion-dollar project to happen on day 1 of our fiscal year which occurred mid-week, with minimal downtime for the business.