Senior Information Technology Program Manager
CurrentResponsible for management of IT components for the Future Sales Model program which delivered new capabilities to Sales and Marketing unit within Volkswagen of America (VWGoA). Had overall responsibility to ensure delivery of the IT projects which corresponded to the VWGoA’s launch of the new electric vehicle, ID.4. Responsible for all phases of the program including planning, estimating, initiation, execution, deployment and transition to operations. The projects delivered new capabilities for the potential customers to configure, enter a reservation for the new ID.4. The systems also required the customer to create a portal ID to track the status of the order through the lifecycle of manufacturing to delivery. Responsible for working with multiple stakeholders on each project. Worked directly with the business leadership and senior IT leadership to review status, execute steering committee meetings and review the financials for each of the projects within the program. Required to work with Business Facing leadership, Development leadership, Testing leadership and Operational leadership to ensure all requirements were met to successfully deploy the products to production. Backfilled the RTE (Release Train Engineer) position on our program. Responsible for ensuring current projects are efficiently executing. Facilitated the Product Iteration meeting with ninety cross team participants and ensuring the plans were created to be completed within the 12 week iteration. Ensuring the projects were executing to the plans during the iteration.