David Cutts Email & Phone Number

Folsom, NJ, US

Folsom, NJ, US

Folsom, NJ, US

Responsible for the IT Project Management, IT Compliance and IT Budgeting functions at SJI.

Folsom, NJ, US

• Promoted to position. Leads the IT Project Management Organization, maturing project management practices and implementing governance/processes related to portfolio, program and project management. Responsible for.
• Developed overall vision and strategy for SJI’s IT PMO and introduced disciplines of program, project and resource management to the organization.
• Established an extensible PMO governance structure, successfully aligning IT projects into programs, and standardizing project management processes and artifacts.
• Early adopter of Microsoft SharePoint, Teams and PowerBI for collaboration, document/artifact management, and reporting for all projects; designed standard project SharePoint site format and dashboards.
• Led planning, recruitment, onboarding and overarching program management of IT components for $1.7B acquisition; $90M IT budget over 2 ½ years. On target and under budget for Q1 2020 implementation.
• Successfully planned and executed all IT aspects of 3 divestitures.

Folsom, NJ, US

• Hired as sole IT project manager. Reestablished the value of project management within the organization by introducing basic project management methodologies. Immediately recognized as a leader in IT and trusted.
• Implemented standard PM artifacts
• Managed as many as 8 projects simultaneously from initiation to closure. Included all planning, budgeting, forecasting.
• Consistently delivered projects on time, on budget and to agreed scope.
• Planned and implemented the foundation of an IT PMO, including “just enough” governance, project alignment to programs, collaboration tools, standard meeting cadence, capture and distribution of minutes/actions, RAID.
• Recruited, onboarded and managed additional project managers and business analysts.

Toronto, ON, CA

• $12B global information solutions business serving financial & risk, tax and accounting, legal and intellectual property & science professions.Drove improvement, maintenance and support of content and editorial systems.
• Spearheaded and led multi-phase, multi-year content production platform re-engineering project. Key accomplishments included: development and implementation of streamlined processes driven by automated business rules.
• Member of Technology Leadership Team; worked with CTO and technology VPs to define and align to strategic vision.
• IP & Science representative for Technology Diversity Champions; focused on gender diversity, talent attraction and retention.

Toronto, ON, CA

• Managed and led a globally dispersed staff of managers, developers, solutions analysts and architects who designed, developed, tested, implemented and supported content technology solutions for the Intellectual.
• Planned and initiated multi-phase, multi-year content production platform re-engineering project.
• Planned and executed organizational re-design to align with location strategy and re-balance contractor/FTE footprint.
• Expanded development and analysis staff by 30+; added teams in India and Barcelona.
• Implemented Agile methodology across project teams.
• Spearheaded full analysis of “as is” systems and processes, including system diagrams and process maps; used as a foundation for “to be” process maps.

Toronto, ON, CA

• Planned, organized and coordinated high-profile process improvement and cost savings projects.
• Established and progressed project management of several key initiatives to move operations functions from US to India; monitored and tracked all aspects of transition from training and proficiency build, to RIF, to.
• Led and drove Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) emerging business opportunity; played integral role in design and development of prototype for market segment testing.

Toronto, ON, CA

• Ran point on all aspects of the SDLC for strategic content technology initiatives.
• Advanced initiative to convert paper-based patent production to proprietary content management and editorial workflow system. Efficiency gains and cost savings exceeded 50% and provided opportunities for content.
• Developed requirements and managed migration of legacy systems to new editorial processes and automated workflow.
• Developed and strengthened client relationships.

Toronto, ON, CA

• Designed and implemented enhancements to and evolution of proprietary data capture software and workflow processing system.
• Headed efforts to externalize workflow management and data capture system; negotiated first external lease of system.

New York, NY, US

Created and updated help system and technical user manual for economic forecasting software.