Christopher Skapyak Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Contract Negotiations, Enterprise Agreements, Managing Vendor Performance and Compliance, Legal Compliance in support of IT Operations.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Judicial System: ITIL Lead, Technical Change Manager, CAB Leader, Process Engineering and documentation, IT Service Management software, Lean Events and applying best practice Continuous Improvement tools to realize exceptional efficiency gains for internal and external clients. Change Management utilizing ADKAR.

United States

Leading a diverse base of customers including Mass Media, Aerospace Engineering, and IT. Introducing ITIL discipline and documentation, ServiceNow Implementation and capability extensions, Additional work with Oracle Implementation, Strategic Planning, and organizational change. Select high profile Lean events and transformations including new platforms and major technical enhancements.

Global

Vice President of Global Change and Process Excellence (GCPE) responsible for coordinating/managing key initiatives in the areas of process improvement and change management with a global focus. Conducting and resourcing rapid improvement events utilizing Lean, Six Sigma, and other CI methodologies. Orchestrated change management activities utilizing ADKAR and other change management tools. Started a corporate Data Governance function and actively worked with and promoted Agile development practices.

Bloomington, Minnesota

Oversaw all quality and continuous improvement operations for Pearson Assessments Division.• Led Lean & Six Sigma implementation across all business units and trained 600+ Green Belts.• Developed comprehensive Value Stream Mapping to build and execute improvement plans. • Authored organizational Lean Sigma training materials and delivered certification program.• Drove software development and testing, establishing black-box testing environments and conducting audits and assessments to determine system performance and mitigate security issues.

Bloomington, Mn And Iowa City, Ia

Vice President of Quality Assurance and Process Engineering responsible for all quality related initiatives across the Pearson A &I businesses. Responsible for leading Lean and Six Sigma Implementation across A&I. Developed Corporate continuous improvement training materials. Staff of 70+ in multiple states. Responsible for conducting on-site and virtual kaizen improvement events. Management and Team Leader training. Value Stream Mapping and analysis. Mentoring Six Sigma Greenbelts on all active projects. Responsible for meeting corporate financial objectives through process improvement activities. Responsible for the integrity of customer information validated through software product testing and validation. ISO Certification and compliance.

Eagan, Mn

Conducting Continuous Improvement events across Pearson in North Americas. Setting up a ISO compliant Quality Management System. Creating and reporting against KPI's agreed upon by the executive team. Leading strategic planning efforts for the executive team.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Commercial Aerospace, Defense, and Medical Precision Manufacturing. Working with customers and employees in the areas of design for manufacturing, IT, and cost savings. Leading operations and reporting financial and performance results. Capital equipment analysis and selection. Implementing Lean and CI efforts across the organization. Partnering with HR on personnel decisions.

Master'S Degree, Business Administration And Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Management And Communications

Activities and Societies: Summa Cum Laude

Mini Mba-Certification, Business And Finance

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