Christopher Linde Email & Phone Number

Richmond, Va, Us

Worldwide, Oo

Leads a practice that focuses on simplifying Product Transformation for IT Organizations. Focus is on bringing IT and Business partners close together by leveraging roadmaps and short cycle wins that are paired with metrics that illuminate gaps and successes. This strategy diminishes noise and refines the aperture to precise measurable outcomes that unify client organizations. This approach has brought focus to comprehensive product and agile transformation strategies for Fortune 500 clients, resulting in a 35% increase in product delivery speed and a 40% improvement in customer satisfaction.• Manage a team of 60+ consultants and analysts in delivering innovative solutions that drive business growth and operational efficiency.• Oversee a portfolio of projects with a combined budget of $60M, ensuring alignment with client objectives and timely delivery.• Collaborate with C-suite executives to identify and prioritize technology investments, achieving a 30% reduction in IT and product development costs.• Introduced AI technologies to Product transformation to reduce delivery cycle time by 45% and increased value chain metrics transparency by 70%• Implement agile methodologies across client organizations, leading to a 50% reduction in project delivery times and a 25% increase in team productivity.• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation, resulting in the successful launch of 20+ new products annually for clients.

New York City, New York, Us

Led a practice that focuses on bringing partnerships and thought leadership for clients who want to have customer experiences optimized for digital solution. Solutions deliver streamlined customer experiences that leverage cloud based technologies to bring business agility to our customers.

Dublin 2, Ie

Created and led North America’s $210MM Agile Capability Practice with a team of 100 highly-skilled Agile professionals engaged in delivery, sales, and architecture support for digital transformation initiatives across Accenture practices and operating groups. Held direct accountability and responsibility for practice growth, resourcing, global account transformation and integration strategies, as well as the management of a $20MM practice budget.• Architected the business case and the acquisition of Solution IQ, the leading Agile transformation firm in North America; managed all aspects of corporate personnel integration into the Agile practice, as well as the establishment of SIQ as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Accenture. Currently serve as leadership team member.• Orchestrated the transition to an Agile practice, taking it from $10MM revenue in its first year to $210MM.• Spearheaded transformation of SFDC and cloud development to Agile, deploying final methodology blueprint with program-level DevOps performing 20% faster than Salesforce.com CRP methodology in time-to-market.• Grew practice and solutions portfolio to include SFDC, AWS, CRM, ERP, enterprise digital transformation solutions, DevOps roadmap maturity deployment solutions, and enterprise architecture modernization.• Re-invented and realigned 3,000 global Accenture delivery personnel into qualified Agile teams.

Dublin 2, Ie

Directed client engagements with full accountability for Agile coach leadership and development spanning large complex transformations, solution development, customer relationship management, contract management, proposal development and presentation, and pre-/post-deployment support. • Led team of 85+ Agile coaches/consultants through $16MM complex transformation focused on deploying OCM through corporate infrastructure. Completed strategy realignment that restructured the business/IT into a lean value stream infrastructure in just four months. • Proposed and won a 1.5-year, $9MM digital transformation contract to integrate business and IT for one of the world’s largest chemical manufacturers. Led a team of 50 Agile experts, OCM leads, and consultants. Deployed innovation studios to align business and IT functions with product groups. Implemented SAFe transformation plan that delivered portfolios and trains quarter by quarter.• Led $430MM solution development for a large international client seeking business inclusion and development of a large-scale Agile development factory and delivery strategy that included DevOps automation support for rapid development and complex second-level DevOps solution support integration across packaging and deployment. Built lightweight transformation strategy to deploy SAFe portfolios and programs across 4 global delivery centers. • Led all aspects of top Accenture North America client’s $300MM rapid development division, leveraging new Agile framework for the Salesforce (SFDC) solution. • Managed the development of SCRUM and SCRUM of SCRUM teams built from client and consultant team members and the rapid identification of business process optimization initiatives for client enterprise operation changes. Created the strategy for the rapid execution of six SAFe portfolios and 15 trains on an $8MM web-based customer incentive system project in a waterfall organization.

Dublin 2, Ie

Dublin 2, Ie

Glen Allen, Virginia, Us

Created and led the Agile practice and served as executive client relationship manager across all engagements. Relationship owner, delivery team and client interface, program manager for all aspects of requirements, architecture, development, QA, and production of a 15-member team.• Grew practice revenues an average of 200% year-over-year.• Created software development methodology leveraging Agile best practices and RUP approaches; included rapid software development, automation and traceability tools, and custom automated build and deployment tools.

Neubiberg, München, De

Managed the infrastructure deployment of a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) used in an automated semi-conductor fabrication plant. » Deployed 14 major subsystems in highly available UNIX and environments in two data centers.

Developed a customizable application that mined the Internet for product data and best prices. The primary architecture the eSpeed software utilized Java, Java Script, VB Script, and Java Script technologies in a client/server environment. The company now sells software and brokerage services related to high performance car parts and services a customer of approximately 300,000 entities internationally. Functioned as software developer, project manager, and analyst to develop business and create a successful venture.

Mclean, Va, Us

Senior Project Manager (2001–2002)Managed the Project Management Office (PMO) for the Banking Information Technology Department. Responsible for nine major projects with an approximate value of $18 million.Project Manager (2001–2001)Supplemented projects development team while serving as online banking Project Manager. Learned Java in one month and served as developer of middleware business logic that served to data between mainframe and web servers.IT Manager (2000–2001)Served as project manager for the implementation of J2EE middleware and VRU based account servicing systems. Functioned as primary interface to internal customers, facilitating the process of developing software requirements for the being developed. Used RUP (Rational Unified Process) and Rational Rose to capture requirements and cascade into technical design documentation facilitating traceability from the requirements to the technical code.

Us

IT Manager (1998–1999)Managed staff of 15 software developers and engineers. Led team responsible for corporate wide process re-engineering effort.Project Manager (1997–1998)Managed large, multi-vendor infrastructure project designed to outsource several IT initiatives. Negotiated vendor contracts, defined budgets and schedules, program objectives, scope, and level of effort, monitored progress against plan.Financial Analyst (1996–1997)Managed a culturally diverse team of project management, technical and non-technical staff who successfully developed Airways' first eCommerce infrastructure strategy.Network Engineer (1995–1996)Functioned as System Administrator for 16 Windows NT servers, 24 Local Area Networks, (280 PCs, OS/2, Windows 95, Windows NT)

Master'S, Information Technology

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science