Christopher Chua Email & Phone Number

---◉---VALUED EXPERTISEAs a senior technology leader, I have led cross-functional, complex technical programs with multimillion-dollar budgets, accelerating strategy to execute projects, on time and budget.Throughout my progressive career, my achievements have demonstrated success building large-scale infrastructure and distributed systems, showcasing expertise in software and system design & development methodologies, including Agile.Known for cultivating strategic relationships, creating honest and trusting partnerships, and communicating and collaborating, I am skilled at conveying complex ideas and concepts to both technical and non-technical team members. I leverage my prowess in analysis to dive deep into metrics and data, providing evidence for informed decision-making.I build and shape elite teams of technical program managers and system engineers, empowering teams to develop unique approaches to deliver projects with no high-severity issues.Among my strengths is identifying and mitigating risk early, building strategic partnerships with leaders and vendors, and rapidly learning the nuances of new technical domains. I embrace diverse projects and leverage relationships to achieve results.---◉---CAREER CAPSTONES➞ Turned around a $4.5M program plagued by turnover and vendor issues, negotiating with the vendor to prevent an ~$300K cost overrun.➞ Program leader for a $22M GapTech/Microsoft partnership, developing a new cloud-based platform for the GapTech product development organization.➞ Spearheaded migration of 40K+ mailboxes from Office 365-D to the vNext platform with minimal impact to users.➞ Slashed cloud expenses by $12M a year, steering a $2M program to cut spending on cloud provider resources.➞ Drove the Agile transformation of GapTech’s infrastructure organization.---◉---LEADERSHIP STRENGTHS◉ Agile Methodologies | Cost Controls | Cross-Functional Team Leadership | Enterprise Architecture◉ IT Infrastructure Management & Operations | IT Service Management | Negotiation◉ People Management | PMO / Portfolio Operations | Process Improvement◉ Program & Project Management | Resource Management | Software/System Design & Development◉ Strategic Planning | Vendor Management---◉---TECHNICAL SNAPSHOT◉ Waterfall | Agile/Scrum | Lean/Kanban | Jira | Confluence | Smartsheets | MSProject | Java | Azure◉ Javascript | PERL | Python | Linux | Windows | Oracle | MS SQL | MySQL | Oracle Cloud (IaaS/PaaS)To learn more about my experience as a director of technical program management, contact me at cdchua@gmail.com.

Listed skills include Integration, Program Management, Enterprise Software, Vendor Management, and 34 others.