John Stafford

About John Stafford

Based on my experience as a Naval Officer and in Defense Information Technology, I have a broad technical background and a proven track record of results in complex, high-pressure environments. I am a certified ITIL Expert who has successfully outsourced multiple IT frameworks to CSC, Xerox, and internal shared service organizations and pivoted my residual organization into service management from service execution. I have reduced budgets by 30% in stable environments through careful management of employee expectations and service offerings, yet have increased employee counts by 25% in growth environments to deliver business value.I am proud of the teammates I have developed, with key managers and technical leaders now working throughout Raytheon IT and at Walmart.com, Bose, Fidelity, and Enernoc, My career goal is to be the CIO of a Fortune 500 company.Specialties: Information Assurance, IT Service Management, Outsourcing Contract Development, Outsourcing Transition, IT Business Analysis and Alignment, IT Strategy

Experience

1. Director of IT Business Management and Work Environments

   Raytheon

   Mar 2016 — Present · Tewksbury, MA, US

   I currently lead IT services and manufacturing/engineering specialty environments for the $6B Integrated Defense Systems division of Raytheon. My team is comprised of 73 Raytheon employees and 150+ contracted services employees with a $92M budget. We are responsible for desktops, 900 servers, and campus networks at 18 US and 7 international locations. I am also the global lead for IT in the Middle East, Canada, and Germany. My team manages a division application portfolio comprised of 120 federated or business-specific applications with $10M+ in annual run and maintain costs and $6-15M in annual projects to increase business value through new capabilities or greater business alignment. I am the IT lead for the enterprise Future Work Environments initiative to move Raytheon away from traditional single-site teams to modern workspaces and a virtual environment supportive of global teaming and execution.In 2017, I reorganized to create a new group focused on business growth, profitability, and speed to market through implementation of DEVOPS and shared computing in product and engineering environments. We funded our 2017 IT investment budget ($3M+) through savings via realignment of Cisco/Netapp/VMWare infrastructure to new IBM outsourcing contract, volume reductions, and facility consolidation.Current team initiatives include leading transition of our core product development and internal IT systems into AWS/Azure, creation of a nationwide multi-program classified cloud environment, Windows 10 deployment, deployment of advanced visualization and robotics systems in a newly-built US manufacturing facility, improving network and desktop performance in the Europe/Middle East, and deployment of an isolated wireless network in all IDS facilities globally to ensure consistent smartphone coverage.In March 2016 I presented “VDI and the Factory: A Bimodal Journey” at the Garner Enterprise IT Leaders Forum in Phoenix, Arizona.

Education

• Harvard University

  AB, Computer Science

  1992 — 1996

• U.S. Naval War College

  MA, National Security and Strategic Studies

  2001 — 2006

Skills

• IT Management
• Workplace Safety
• Outsourcing
• Export Control Compliance
• Process Improvement
• Information Technology
• Security Clearance
• Requirements Analysis
• Strategy
• Management
• Requirements Management
• Information Security
• IT Strategy
• Disaster Recovery
• Program Management
• IT Operations
• Subcontracts Management
• Business Continuity
• IT Service Management
• Information Assurance
• Security
• Enterprise Architecture
• Business Continuity Planning
• Systems Engineering
• Servers
• Itil
• Integration
• Business Analysis
• Navy
• Vendor Management