Chris Lee

About Chris Lee

Professional Overview Seasoned and infinitely curious technical project manager with record of leadership excellence; diverse background in IT (T-Mobile, Providence Health), Telecom (AT & T, T-Mobile, Lucent Technologies), and Cybersecurity (Providence, T-Mobile). Known as a driven, committed director of business-critical initiatives for multi-billion dollar enterprise organizations; a skilled communicator with exceptional interpersonal skills—works cross-functionally and motivates with humble presence, builds consensus, and inspires a collective “owner’s interest” in results. Expertise in Wireless Telecom includes extensive cell site construction and procurement/vendor management. IT infrastructure projects include new server builds, decomms, application migrations, data center decomms, privacy, compliance, and cybersecurity. Pragmatic and methodical, yet engaging, enthusiastic, and resourceful. Value Offered: • Project management, manufacturing, and engineering background: PMP and CSM certified, with strong experience in contractor and vendor coordination, materials management, engineering/construction management, and network operations. Encourages partners to drive scope; helps less-experienced professionals expand skill sets. • Big picture strategist: Brings a sense for which technical implementations will impact an organization’s ability to expand capacity, grow revenue, and mitigate costs. Strong record defining strategic and tactical plans collaboratively at the departmental, divisional, and corporate levels. • Understands operations and business: Business-savvy; holds an MBA. Demonstrated ability to step back, calmly assess, and then lead process changes resulting in greater efficiency and measurable cost savings. Holistic understanding of operations; matches project governance with the organizational need.

Experience

1. Cybersecurity Program Manager

   Providence

   Jan 2021 — Present · Renton, WA, US

   Managed multiple strategic cybersecurity projects including a $8M Managed Medical Device Program (Medical IoT) deploying packet broker and collection servers to 60 hospitals and data centers to discover, secure, and provide utilization metrics for medical devices.* Email security migration project to promote $2M+ annual cost savings- management of supporting teams- O365 admin/operations, DLP, GSOC, software/cloud security, and vendors. Included post-migration gap analysis with vendor.* Support for leadership and executive presentations.

Education

• Project Management Institute (PMI)

  Project Management Professional (PMP)

• Seattle University

  Master of Business Administration (MBA), Business Administration, Management and Operations

• University of Alaska Fairbanks

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering

• University of Washington

  Certificate, Project Management