Christopher Smith

About Christopher Smith

20+ years of experience driving strategic initiatives, managing complex projects, and…

Experience

1. IT Project Manager

   CAS

   Feb 2019 — Present

   Project Manager / Delivery Lead (STNext): Overseeing planning and collaboration between development teams, Product Management, Technical Product Lead, UX Designer and other roles relating to CAS’ STNext Intellectual Property product. Ensuring quarterly product roadmap milestones are successfully met. Coaching and advising development staff on Agile best practices. Representing product line to leadership teams and other business units.* Project Manager / Delivery Lead (SciFinder-n & Retrosynthesis): Oversaw planning and collaboration between development teams, Product Management, Technical Product Lead, UX Designer and other roles relating to CAS’ SciFinder-n and Retrosynthesis products. Ensured quarterly product roadmap milestones were successfully met. Coached and advised development staff on Agile best practices. Represented product line to leadership teams and other business units.* Project Manager (Infrastructure & Info Sec): Planned and lead infrastructure and information security projects including but not limited to SACM, database upgrades, printer optimization, and various information security initiatives. Lead joint meetings of IT leadership between CAS and its parent organization – the American Chemical Society.* Project Manager (Company Events): Planned and Lead enterprise-wide DEIR events including annual Asian Festival, Diwali and Lunar New Year celebrations. Assisted with planning and execution of annual Tech Day event for Technology (IT) division.* Agility Center of Excellence Member: Providing leadership, education and mentorship throughout the CAS enterprise regarding Agile principles, values and best practices.* Technology Change Agent Network Member: Collaborate with PROSCI-certified change agents from other areas of CAS’ Technology (IT) division and leadership team members to facilitate the successful and efficient execution of a broad variety of organizational change initiatives.

Skills

• Employee Learning & Development
• Budget Maintenance
• Business Development
• Schedule Management
• Cost Reduction
• Design and Implementation
• Business Process Improvement
• Training
• Program Management
• Leadership
• Strategic Planning
• Relationship Building
• Process Improvement
• Performance Management
• Requirements Analysis
• Saas
• Management
• Client Relationship Management
• Enterprise Software
• Vendor Management
• Integration
• Enterprise Architecture
• Sharepoint
• Requirements Gathering
• Pmp
• Business Process
• Cloud Computing
• Project Management
• Software Project Management
• Edi
• Business Analysis