Thomas Jackson

About Thomas Jackson

I\'m a collaborative senior leader, a strategic program manager who enjoys creating or innovating processes while driving product innovation & maturity. Learned adaptability in start-ups (3), standards and controls in Fortune 100 companies and a keen understanding to quickly build effective teams while objectively leading as a management consultant for industry leaders in Financial Services, Pharma, Retail, and Federal & State government. In the late 1990\'s I started my career in system & network engineering finding a passion for designing and implementing large scale virtualized architectures. This career experience is exemplified in my approaches to life-cycle management, a long-term technology acumen extending from distributed computing to cloud, recognizing opportunities to improve and a proven ability to collaborate with others at any level. I enjoy and I am very knowledgeable about.Leading enterprise IT application development & infrastructure programs spanning the organization; managing aggregated performance baselines and communicating with everyone.Developing high performing teams, centralized PMOs, standards, monitors & controls, and driving with metrics Road mapping portfolios, prioritizing based on business drivers and refining to development ready requirementsConducting collaborative big room sessions, workshops and trainingQuality Assurance, IT Change Control, Release Management practices Removing waste by measuring processes and outlining continuous improvement opportunitiesDefining and executing against a Change Management plan

Experience

1. Head of Pmo (Product Delivery, Agile, Release Mgmt)

   MHK

   Jun 2016 — Present · Tampa/St. Petersburg, FL, US

Education

• Tulane University

  BA, Communication

  1992 — 1997

Skills

• Vmware
• Software Development
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Software Project Management
• Itil
• Disaster Recovery
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Business Process
• Project Management Office (Pmo)
• Virtualization
• Information Security
• IT Strategy
• Networking
• Business Intelligence
• Management
• Data Center
• Pmbok
• IT Management
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Vmware Vcp
• Integration
• Project Portfolio Management
• Business Analysis
• Project Management
• Information Technology
• Visio
• Governance
• Business Process Improvement
• Infrastructure
• Itil V3
• Analysis
• Vendor Management
• IT Service Management
• Program Management
• IT Operations
• Requirements Gathering