Mike Olson

VP Project Management Office at Syntax

Role
VP Project Management Office at Syntax
Location
Aurora, IL, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers

About Mike Olson

Driven, business minded IT executive with extensive experience leading critical large-scale initiatives to successful outcomes. Key leader in helping venture-backed enterprise cloud provider through it\'s formative years having managed the global cloud platform, data centers, compliance, customer on-boarding and now strategic programs for our largest customers. Through the course of my 7+ years helping this company through explosive growth, I had the privilege of leading our PCI compliance, FedRAMP authorization, ITAR qualifications, and directly oversaw the onboarding of our largest marquee customers. During my tenure the results have been easy to measure, having helped remove 30% of our data center utility costs, having led the P&L for On-boarding exceeding revenue targets by over 80% at times and helping grow our largest customer by over 30 fold in 2 years as the primary architect and delivery executive. Key Skills:Virtualization and Cloud StrategiesPhysical to Virtual Migration ManagementEnterprise ArchitectureSAP Solutions ArchitectProject Manager for Software Implementations for 10 yearsData Center Relocation Project Manager for 2 yearsFounder, CSO for eBusiness Consulting firm AngelSharkFounder, CEO of Homebuilding Web Application BuildViewProduct Manager for Web Based ApplicationsSAP HANA Upgrade Project ManagerS/4 HANA Solution ArchitectureSpecialties: Large Program Management, Software Implementations, SAP Project Manager, SAP Upgrades, Application Design

Experience

  1. VP Project Management Office

    Syntax

    Mar 2021 — Present · Traverse City, MI, US

    Leading our PMO for the Americas, helping drive efficient and consistent project delivery for our customers and internal project stakeholders. Customer-facing projects involve leading ERP migrations and upgrades including SAP, JD Edwards, and Oracle EBS on-prem, in private clouds, and on the AWS, Azure, and OCI public clouds.Manage global public cloud professional services leading migration readiness assessments, planning, well architected reviews and architectural consulting.Responsible for the planning and execution of over 100 customer disaster recovery exercises each year.

Education

  • Saginaw Valley State University

    BS, Computer Information Systems

    1986 — 1989

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