Brian R Baker

Director, Digital PMO at Lenovo

Role
Director, Strategic Programs at Lenovo
Location
Raleigh, NC, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Brian R Baker

Skilled Senior Director that enjoys shifting a team’s mindset from believing an objective is “impossible” to “possible” and guides them towards that outcome. With an extensive record of success in various program management roles, key responsibilities currently being: Developing and leading an international team of eCommerce IT managers (Functional and UI Development, Automated test, Operations, Architecture, Performance & Security). Oversight of project\'s budgets; managing end to end projects in Sales and Marketing, Product development and Supply Chain. Individual responsibilities have included delivering Software & Hardware development, Agile, business transformation and merger and acquisition (M&A) type projects; including credit card processing, SAP (CRM & Hybris) and IBM Websphere commerce global deployments within the high technology industry. Core Competencies• Change Management• Global Post Merger Integration• Global Agile & Waterfall implementations• Governance and Portfolio Management• Outsourcing• Quality Assurance• SAP Implementation (CRM & Hybris)• Talent DevelopmentSpecialties: Portfolio & Program management, former Project Management Professional (PMP), process maturity, Lean Six Sigma (LSS) Green Belt and Scrum Master (Agile) certified, financial analysis, business strategy and new business development.

Experience

  1. Director, Strategic Programs

    Lenovo

    Sep 2020 — Present · NC, US

Education

  • Saint Leo University

    AA, Liberal Arts

  • University of Georgia - Terry College of Business

    BBA, Management

  • Wake Forest University School of Business

    MBA, Finance

Skills

  • Lean Six Sigma
  • Green Belt
  • Pmp
  • Pmo
  • Business Strategy
  • Financial Analysis
  • Project Portfolio Management
  • Business Process Improvement
  • Six Sigma
  • Project Management
  • Business Process Re-Engineering
  • Business Process
  • Vendor Management
  • Management
  • Program Management
  • Process Improvement
  • Outsourcing
  • Change Management
  • Crm
  • Business Intelligence
  • Cross-Functional Team Leadership
  • Leadership
  • Business Analysis
  • Cloud Computing
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Sap R/3
  • Erp
  • Integration
  • IT Management
  • Strategy
  • IT Strategy
  • Product Management
  • Software Project Management
  • Enterprise Software
  • Requirements Analysis
  • Sap
  • IT Service Management
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Team Management
  • Scrum

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