Christopher Dale Chris Peterman

About Christopher Dale Chris Peterman

Project Manager | Financial Services Expert | Technology Implementation & Business TransformationI am an experienced Project Manager with nearly a decade of success leading and delivering complex, enterprise-level initiatives within the financial services sector. My background spans technology implementation, process optimization, and cross-functional leadership, consistently driving measurable results across both retail and wholesale banking environments.With a Bachelor of Arts in Organizational Management and a strong foundation in project and program management, I bring a strategic, outcomes-driven approach to solving business challenges. I have partnered directly with C-suite executives and senior leaders to lead transformative initiatives that enhance operational efficiency, strengthen governance, and modernize technology capabilities.Key Accomplishments & Experience • Enterprise Project Leadership: Led multi-million-dollar enterprise programs across retail and wholesale banking, delivering large-scale technology integrations, platform enhancements, and operational transformation initiatives. • Consulting Expertise: Over 2 years of consulting experience with NTT Data Services, serving as a Business Project Manager for top national financial institutions, delivering strategic solutions, improving processes, and supporting regulatory and operational objectives. • C-Suite Collaboration: 4+ years of direct engagement with executive leadership, translating strategic vision into executable roadmaps and ensuring alignment with enterprise goals and long-term business strategy. • Project & Program Leadership: 7+ years of hands-on project management experience specializing in technology modernization, process improvement, and enterprise program development within financial services. • People & Team Leadership: 10+ years of experience leading, mentoring, and coordinating cross-functional teams, fostering collaboration, accountability, and consistent delivery of results.I am passionate about leveraging technology and data-driven insights to drive innovation, operational excellence, and sustainable business outcomes. I thrive in fast-paced, highly visible environments where strategic thinking, strong communication, and leadership are critical to success.

Experience

1. Vice President, Senior Change Delivery Lead

   Truist

   Jul 2025 — Present · Charlotte, NC, US

   Responsible for delivering complex projects that support the overall enterprise strategic goals• Managing the intake, planning, business readiness, and execution of assigned initiatives• Leading and influencing cross functional teams to effectively deliver project objectives including a successful communication and training plan• Providing leadership in managing high-risk projects by facilitating project charter, vision/objectives, financials, scope, metrics, quality, schedule, resourcing, vendor management, dependencies, risks, status reporting, stakeholder engagement, business readiness/organizational change management, value realization, objectives, and value• Managing projects throughout the project lifecycle• Evaluating progress and quality, managing issue resolution process and taking corrective action, as necessary• Overseeing and/or preparing and maintaining necessary project materials • Ensuring project documentation has appropriate level of traceability, tracking all impacts to completion and knowledge delivery to impacted audiences• Systematically reviewing components of processes/programs to identify potential areas of improvement based on cost/benefit analysis, client impact and/or regulatory requirement• Identifying and systematizing best practices to reduce unneeded process variation and improve service quality/efficiency• Establishing and maintaining relationships with all stakeholders ensuring coordination across cross-functional teams and obtains leadership support of delivery plan• Serving as an individual contributor with ownership of multiple complex project portfolios and having indirect leadership of junior level internal and external resources, directing their day-to-day project activities, and reviewing their work including providing project-related performance reviews to their direct leader• Managing a project team providing a cohesive, inclusive, team-oriented culture aligned with the Truist purpose, mission, and values

Education

• The University of Arizona Global Campus

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Organizational Management

  2015 — 2017

• Bob Jones University

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science and Government

  2006 — 2009

• Bob Jones University

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science and Government

  2011 — 2012

• Community Christian School

  High School Diploma, College/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program

  1994 — 2006