Pete Arnold

About Pete Arnold

Highly experienced leader with 15+ years of proven experience driving a variety of highly visible and challenging organizations, programs and projects. Exceptional business case development and financial management skills. Focus on organizational improvement, driving cost savings and revenue opportunities and providing first class service. Excellent relationship, people, and vendor management skills. Outstanding executive-level presentation and communication skills.

Experience

1. IT Program Manager IT Product Manager

   Prologis

   Dec 2017 — Present · Denver, CO, US

   Added role as Product Manager for O365 services, managing development and deployment of features and solutions across the O365 office suite and managing off-shore and on-shore architecture, development and support teams.Deployed first smart building solution on behalf of a customer in company\'s history, driving an additional $600k in gross revenue and creating a model to apply across our entire inventory.Migrated our accounting system from hosted data center environment to AWS, including ancillary solutions that had never previously been deployed in a cloud-based infrastructure. Transitioned support from multiple vendors to a single vendor. Saved $1.4M annually.Migrated support for AWS environments from external party to internal infrastructure teams while setting up AWS Organizations in support of new customer-facing, revenue-generating mobile applications. Delivered a new DaaS solution to support PeopleSoft/nVision virtual desktop platform used by accounting team for month, quarter and year end close processes.Created intake and delivery processes for the IT infrastructure portion of worldwide office moves, including network, telephony, end user computing, and video conferencing.As Global IT Platform Systems Manager:Managed relationships with our infrastructure platform services vendors and ensuring delivery for contracted services and goods. Served as liaison between IT vendors and the business to ensure business needs were being met and customer satisfaction was continually improving.Built a conferencing solution roadmap for the next 2 years that included migration of 615 users to a new tool.Worked with Marketing and Internal Communications to develop a digital signage strategy and implementation plan for offices around the world, with intent to deliver targeted up-to-date metrics, regional news and weather, and company information to employees in all 80+ Prologis offices.

Education

• DePaul University College of Law

  J.D., General

  1991 — 1994

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  B.A., Political Science

  1986 — 1989

Skills

• IT Governance
• Process Improvement
• Team Building
• Software Project Management
• Management Consulting
• Earned Value Management
• Business Management
• Telecommunications
• Vendor Management
• Project Portfolio Management
• Project Implementation
• Ms Project
• Negotiation
• Requirements Analysis
• Business Process
• Information Management
• Budgeting
• Sap
• Account Management
• Change Management
• Business Intelligence
• Microsoft Office
• Organizational Leadership
• Resource Management
• Pmo
• Pmp
• Strategic Leadership
• Strategic Planning
• Agile
• Process Engineering
• Business Analysis
• Six Sigma
• Risk Management
• Communications Strategy
• Sdlc
• Mining
• Team Leadership
• Erp
• Healthcare IT
• Business Strategy