Director Product Lifecycle Management (Plm)
Houston, Texas, United States
Coordinated with multi site, virtual and cross functional teams to develop strategy, roadmap and execution to drive business and digital transformation process. Led Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) implementation resulting in 58% reduction in engineering cycle times and annual cost savings of $6M/product line.• Product Owner, functional lead, business partner of complex PLM implementation responsible for budgets, requirements, risk management, test, deploy and hyper-care support.• Ensured robust business requirements capture, formalization and mapping to solutions by collaborating with key stakeholders and closing the gap between business and IT reassuring that the development strategy was moving in the right direction.• Contributed in leveraging technology/business process expertise and managing complex interfaces across multiple business units and functional areas/departments resulting in positive user acceptance.• Performed business analysis to translate business needs into an effective agile plan & development of a strategic roadmap which helped hit program’s “Go live” target dates. • Conducted program reviews for internal multi discipline teams and suppliers offering timely updates on cost, schedule and risks which provided an opportunity to adjust as needed on a fast pace environment. • Managed stakeholder engagement through frequent coordination with business, IT, legal, IP and export control functions, capable of influencing stakeholders up to executive level management.• Interacted daily with development team to ensure progress continued to be acceptable to all stakeholders and to frequently revisit task priorities. • Created business justification, KPI's and ROI for the PLM implementation.• Ability to demonstrate simplified soft and hard benefits to key business stakeholder thus improving the acceptance and adoption of revised business processes.