Brian Jones Email & Phone Number

Coraopolis, Pa, Us

Smithfield, Virginia, Us

Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, Us

During my stint here, I display program leadership over team of five project managers for supermarket retail, supply chain, merchandising, and marketing systems.My responsibilities include administering deal management enhancement projects, while adopting and utilizing agile principles and ceremonies. Implement multiple software releases projects to ensure compliance with state liquor control during modernization.My duties comprise of implementing IT resource tool and reviewing cycle to ensure appropriate staffing levels to facilitate prioritized projects.Also, I serve as senior contributor to IT PMO re-build project to provide consistent project execution by project management peers and increase business benefits from IT projects to all business lines.Moreover, I perform portfolio-level resource management assignment tracking improvements.Below listed are some of my achievements till date:► Spearheaded cross-functional team to recoup $0.5M in subscription fees by analyzing underperforming analytics partner.► Led project to migrate legacy purchasing system from mainframe to Linux, saving $1M+ in annual expenses.► Automated grocery supplier charge back by leading enhancement project to recoup store reset team labor fees.► Oversaw Oracle data integration development team, including 6+ resources from India that contained 7 weeks of 70-95-hour weeks without extension of time.► Delivered number of technical software releases to improve deal management in grocery and convenience store channels.► Stabilized platform and enhanced analyst productivity by directing project to upgrade fragile planogram application.► Directed data conversion and integration phases of item and pricing functions for enterprise implementation of Oracle Product Data Hub, Merchandising Foundation Cloud Services, and Retail Pricing Cloud Services for supermarkets.

Coraopolis, Pa, Us

Within this job role, I managed replacement of outdated project and portfolio management system with market-leading SaaS vendor in order to better supervise resource capacity and utilization for 300+ resource IT department of employees and contractors.Also, I entailed operations team with emphasize on problem, change, and configuration management ITIL disciplines.Here are some of my potential workings in this job:► Led two-year IT expense optimization program to save $14M+ in recurring expenses.► Directed annual capital budget process to prioritize portfolio assets on basis of business value, while staying within financial constraints, resulting in decreasing initial portfolio by 50-60% through governance process and prioritization.

Coraopolis, Pa, Us

During my stint here, I managed and mentored team of up to seven project managers to optimize and execute technical project portfolio.I was tasked with executing financial controls to combine infrastructure project costs from business projects to establish anticipated financial opportunities for sizable infrastructure purchases that took advantage of vendor volume discounts.I was entrusted in developing and managing program for technology architects to facilitate software development teams with enterprise architecture.I was responsible for creating and managing detailed roadmap development procedure for infrastructure processes and services, including current state details, goals, upcoming purchases, and five-year feature delivery plans.Furthermore, I published roadmaps to provide visibility into multi-year technical plans and long-term budget needs.Following were my pivotal duties in this role:► Liaised with resource managers to determine, prioritize, and resolve project/portfolio resource gaps by securing funding and onboarding external resources, decreasing time to fill resource gaps by as much as 50%.► Established and led infrastructure advisory board, enhancing communication between software development teams and infrastructure engineers to improve quality from project conception to rollout.► Delivered capital expenditures forecasting improvements to cut monthly variances to 2%.► Optimized short-term capital needs with three-year capital expenditure plan by enhancing financial accountability of infrastructure capital budgets.► Served as project and program direction for project managers, overseeing 700+ store network replacements, data center moves, platform upgrades, call center expansions, and eCommerce platform expansions.Additional Experience as IT Project Manager & Senior Project Manager of Human Resources & Payroll Systems at Dick’s Sporting Goods, Pittsburgh, PA

Bs, Computer Science

Masters Certificate, Project Management