Thomas Tj W.
Director, Operations & Product ◆ Led 200+ personnel across 11 time zones ◆ Championed $15MM investment ◆ $50MM in cost avoidance ◆ Improved feature delivery 48% ◆ Managed contracts exceeding $5MM
- Role
- Sr IT Project Manager Led 7 Global Program Increment Planning Sessions Led 200 Employees at Edward Jones
- Location
- Portland, ME, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Thomas Tj W.
As a senior project manager, I led 200 employees through program increment planning & improved feature delivery by 48% and feature output by 22%. Over my career, I developed and brought several products to market ranging from $1M to $25M at Fortune 300 companies. I SPECIALIZE IN:• PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT: Managed 3 vendor contracts, and 2 consultants through data governance implementation.• OPERATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS: Conducted time & motion studies to build investment case for $5M in cost avoidance. • LEADERSHIP: Led 17 development teams, across 11 times zones supporting 4 products. • PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: Led 3 development teams through product inception to deployment in 18 months.• CHANGE MANAGEMENT: Expertise in large-scale change in challenging environments.CAREER HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:• Generated $50M in Revenue generations and cost reduction for Fortune 300 Company• Consistently improved feature delivery over 6 quarters• Reduced operational equipment reset time by 2 months through resource optimization and critical path analysis• Stood up 7 development teams; and assisted in the development and promotion of 4 employees• Facilitated creation and memorialization of standardized remote training for • MBA, Arizona State University, W.P. Carey School of Business and Management• Bachelor of Science (BS), United States Military Academy• 6-Sigma Green Belt certification• Release Train Engineer SAFe Certification (88••••••••45)
Experience
Sr IT Project Manager Led 7 Global Program Increment Planning Sessions Led 200 Employees
May 2021 — Present · Tempe, AZ, US
As an analytics release train engineer, I oversaw strategic analytic initiatives and developed enterprise initiatives to mature agile project management.• Increased feature output 22%.• Led the establishment of 9 new teams to include the regenerative AI team.• Led the release train through migrating data from legacy systems to Azure Data Lake using Snowflake, Databricks, and MongoDB for ETL, enabling reporting with PowerBI and Tableau, and advancing machine learning models and regenerative AI tools.• Mentored 6 scrum members, expanding teams from 8 to 17 while conducting agility health assessments and Identify continuous improvement opportunities. • Reduced estimated delivery date of project by 3 months.• Managed $2.5 Million dollars in vendor contracts, and re-allocated $1.2M in remaining funds to secondary projects.Spearheaded the agile transformation for Edward Jones, to include encorporating critical metics and establishing peer collaboration mentorship programs.
Education
W. P. Carey School of Business – Arizona State University
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration, Management and Operations
2016
United States Military Academy at West Point
Bachelor's Degree, Civil Engineering Management/Terrorism Studies Minor
2005
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