Chris Elrod, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Greenville, South Carolina, United States

Lead team of Product Managers, Portfolio Managers, and Product Managers• Setup and staffed a Project Management Office (PMO) and Product Management Teams.• Aligned IT and the various Business Units by implementing a formal project review and approval process.• Develop long range Business and Technology Roadmaps.• Implemented a Portfolio Management practice as part of the PMO.• Represent and present new projects and portfolio status in the monthly CEO direct reports meeting.• Developed Project Managers and Product Managers with certifications (e.g. PMI).

Greenville, South Carolina Area

Lead senior team of IT Professionals on IT Strategy, Architecture, and Compliance• Developed a formal global IT Strategy to align with the corporate business strategy.• Designed architecture to integrate SAP, Salesforce, Azure and On-Prem systems.• Lead IT teams from On-Prem monolithic design to Azure cloud-based Microservices architecture (Containers, Kubernetes, Azure Functions, etc).• Transition IT department to Azure DevOps.• Established architecture reliability and scalability design patterns such as Retry, Competing Consumers messaging, etc.• Established development architecture patterns such as Dependency Injection, Repository, Unit of Work, etc.• Evaluated System Architecture of potential company acquisitions.• Developed and monitored system Security and Compliance standards.

Greenville, South Carolina Area

Lead team of .Net Application Developers, Project Managers, and B2B Developers• Developed and deployed global eCommerce application for North American, Latin American, and EU customers. • Developed and deployed several .Net internal applications such as Sales Commissions, Customer Promotions Tracking, Product Configuration Management, Customer Contract Management, etc.• Integrated Customers and Suppliers with EDI using IBM’s Sterling Integrator (SI).• Integrated internal applications with SAP using SAP’s Process Integration (PI) tool.• Developed a library of API’s for real-time integration with customers and suppliers.• Built a Project Management Office team and guided Project Managers to PMI’s PMP certifications.• Negotiate supplier implementation contracts and Master Service Agreements.• Developed requirements and managed RFQ process for the selection of a global ERP system (SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft).• Managed the Implementation of Riversand’s Product Information Management System (PIM).• Managed the Implementation of Yantra’s Warehouse Management System (WMS) for large high-volume distribution center.• Managed the Implementation of Microsoft’s Dynamics AX Financials for LA and EU business units.• Managed the Implementation of Cognos’ BI for corporate reporting.• Managed the Implementation of Oracle’s Hyperion Financial Consolidation system.• Managed the Implementation of enterprise Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system.

Greenville, South Carolina Area

Manage a staff of 75+ IT professionals responsible for Enterprise Applications (ERP, CRM, WMS, etc), Application Development, Telecommunications (Voice, Data, & Video), Storage, Servers, Databases, Networks, and Helpdesk.• Managed day-to-day IT operations, reliability, and escalations.• Represented IT at corporate Executive Team meetings.• Presented IT topics to company’s Board of Directors and Executive Team.• Managed $20MM global IT budget. • Set the corporate strategy for production data centers and disaster recovery sites.• Developed and implement Sarbanes Oxley and PCI Policies.

Greenville, South Carolina Area

Certified Project Manager working with Telecom Sales Reps to develop formal project plans, build project teams, and manage large telecommunication voice and data implementations. Projects included several thousand node frame relay/ATM wide area networks, international voice and data networks, and web hosting projects for MCI Worldcom’s largest customers. Followed PMI standards when developing project plans to include scope, staffing, communication, procurement, and change management plans. • Planned, staffed and managed the implementation of very large wide-area-network for Wells Fargo, IKON, and other MCI Worldcom customers.• Worked closely with IT Executives and managed the implementation of domestic and international voice and data services for Tech Data.• Managed the implementation of an international dialing and voice plan for Milliken.• Implemented web hosting services for Michelin.• Present Project Management program to customers during Sales presentations.• Manage design and implementation of in-house software projects.