Collins Peterson

About Collins Peterson

Results and integrity driven professional with a high business acumen and solid…

Experience

1. Senior Program Manager, Business Expansions

   Amazon

   Oct 2020 — Present

   Orchestrate and execute the new Amazon Expansion Point Program to support the growth into rural areas and provide a great service to customers Lead programmatic activities to deliver leases in support of site launches for an aggressively growing program by vetting opportunities against business requirementsCollaborate with cross functional teams to solve operational, technical, financial, and process-driven blockersPartnered with peers across Real Estate, Transactions, Network Planning, Construction, Finance and Startup to identify and define low-cost, preferred vendor & regional construction deployment strategiesManage the Capital Asset Request process, operational planning cycles, budget forecasting, and program budgets and spending totaling over $250 million for Amazon Rural/Super Rural ProgramWrote over 200 CARs and secured over $300 million in funding in less than 2 years as the single capital planning point of contact, including the receipt Senior Leadership approval for the first Build-to-Suit within Amazon’s rural market programResponsible for securing funding to support program process activities and site launches by presenting Capital Asset Requests (CARs) to Senior Leadership for approvalSpearhead asset expansions by coordinating real estate searches and presenting recommendations to meet business expansion goals with the best cost scenarioScale new business programs from conceptual idea to working practice by defining and enforcing standard procedure that led to acquiring new real estate and launching the first buildings of their kindCommunicate across various internal and external teams through weekly team meetings and formal email updates to track progress on long-term goals through milestones reached and impacts to launch timelines

Education

• Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University

  Bachelor's Degree, Electrical Engineering

• American InterContinental University

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Management

  2012 — 2014

• Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE

Skills

• Labview
• Testing
• Electrical Engineering
• Engineering
• Electronics
• Microsoft Excel
• Troubleshooting
• Program Management
• Integration
• Ms Project
• Systems Engineering
• Engineering Management
• Microsoft Project
• Visio
• Dod
• Microsoft Office
• Six Sigma
• Analysis