David Edwards Email & Phone Number

Knoxville, Tn, Us

• Lead the enterprise project management office, driving projects that support organizational growth and efficiency• Oversee the entire $80 million IT capital and operational budgets, including identifying project value and realization• Establish and enforce rigorous standards and best practices for portfolio, program, and project management, significantly improving delivery timelines and success rates• Responsible for Vendor Management activities including contract management, cost drivers, and value creation• Developed training programs for project value and ROI definition, successfully adopted organization-wide• Led and managed a team of 30 project, program, portfolio managers supporting the entire IT organization

Maryville, Tennessee, Us

• Oversee $30 million budget for a $10B Berkshire Hathaway company• Vendor management lead for multiple technology vendors• Developed organizational structure for new product delivery department that combined five delivery workstreams focused on financials, retail, supply chain, manufacturing, and transportation• Lead and manage 50+ employees and 20+ contractors• Oversaw the implementation of Oracle Cloud SAAS, PAAS, and IAAS products, including Oracle Integration Cloud and Oracle Big Data Services• Coordinated successfully delivery of multi-year, enterprise-wide ERP replacement spanning 7 Scrum teams and 20+ consultants to replace legacy financials system. Replacement included complete training and change management plan for 1,000 users, 50+ custom integrations to other legacy systems, and migration of over 200 bank accounts• Implemented first RPA tool and program, including best practices for project selection and delivery• Coordinated successful design and delivery of modern planning and inventory management system including implementing Master Data Management practices.• Successfully rolled out new barcoding and perpetual inventory system for Clayton supply distribution center and two of their manufacturing facilities• Created Capability Onboarding Playbook to guide team members through new technology onboarding lifecycle• Supported creation of client and business partner relationships through careful collaboration and networking efforts• Executive sponsor of the Agilist support group. Our mission was to increase the agility of Clayton Technology

Maryville, Tennessee, Us

• Led five cross-discipline Agile teams and was responsible for overseeing $10 million budget• Optimized overall department efficiency by coaching and turning around the performance of struggling team members, developing first-time managers, and identifying/promoting top talent• Led the initiative with GCP to implement the first Data Science application for Clayton using AI and ML. Created ML-Ops pipeline to support the initiative using Jenkins• Delivered three projects in less than 12 months that resulted in saving $1.3MM in licensing costs utilizing cloud-native AWS products and practices• Orchestrated successful integration of Clayton's onsite home builders with Oracle ERP using AWS Lambda, API Gateway and Aurora services• Oversaw delivery of custom automated financials consolidation project that extracted and consolidated financial data from 12 different builder financial systems using the Domo Data Experience Platform• Directed integration of Oracle ERP with existing AS/400 systems using Oracle Cloud and AWS• Led Enterprise Data Intelligence Needle Mover program to help increase data quality initiatives and drive data governance programs across Clayton Technology• Executive sponsor for the Data Engineering, Analytics, and Governance programs. Established best practices for working with business partners to ensure strategic alignment of product backlogs and business objectives• Chosen as one of two senior managers to permanently attend strategic leadership planning sessions for overall Clayton technology, working collaboratively with VPs, and CIO

Maryville, Tennessee, Us

• Directed the software engineering department's expansion and optimized efficiency by moving the team to Agile methodology and micro-service architecture, implementing continuous improvement programs, establishing quality programs, and directing large-scale projects• Spearheaded use and adoption of AWS cloud platform at Clayton utilizing Lambda, API Gateway, Aurora, RDS, Redshift, VPC, Cognito, and IAM• Developed the product roadmap and guided the implementation of Clayton's SaaS platform used by over 2,000 Clayton and Independent retailers across the country• Led the team that successfully delivered integration between Salesforce Service and Sales Cloud and legacy financial and service systems using SSIS on prem, custom Lambda integrations, Appian, and Mulesoft• Redesigned the development organization to operate with more autonomy and mastery, removing traditional bottlenecks in the software development and delivery process by implementing DevOps practices and procedures• Grew and nurtured development team (3 Managers & 18 individual contributors) to operate with minimal oversight while simultaneously improving employee satisfaction• Implemented a complete “cloud-native first” and IAAS approach to software development• Won the 2017 Tech Behavior Award for Business Acumen• Chosen for Ignite Excel (Clayton's leadership development program) based on senior leadership potential

Maryville, Tennessee, Us

• Scrum Master and Senior developer for the first Scrum team at Clayton• Designed and developed an application migration and rollout strategy to ensure no downtime• Custom developed data migration strategy using SSIS• Initiated DevOps meetings that increased product planning and deployment speeds• Created and led Scrum Master Community of Practice• Won Retail Leadership Award for Excellence in Customer Service Q2/2015

Started and led a local user group focused on training developers on topics like cloud computing, database development, database reporting, ETL, and mobile development.

Knoxville, Tn, Us

• Served as Scrum Master and software team lead for new agile teams• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives• Developed interview strategy for new software development candidates and mentored junior and mid-level application developers.• Responsible for full database architecture, development, and deployment strategy of the Point of Sale system.• Led effort to completely modernize and redesign the Point of Sale and Commission application and reporting• Acted as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements

Reston, Virginia, Us

Irvine, Ca, Us

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

Executive Mba, Strategic Leadership

Bachelor'S Degree, Organizational Leadership

Associates Degree, Computer Networking