David Powell Email & Phone Number

Sacramento, Ca, Us

As Sr. Project Manager, David currently provides IT consulting services in Project Management to support State of California clients as well as leading the QA and Training teams. Supporting large and complex Salesforce implementation projects by providing, utilizing, and applying current Project Management (PM) principles, methods, techniques, and tools.- Working with departmental managers and EDD branches to coordinate implementation and prioritization strategies, provide expert project management, technology evaluation, development, and consultation.- Leading, QA, documentation and training staff to support project activities.- Working with the EDD PM team to deliver on defined PM objectives.- Developing detailed requirements definition and designs for Salesforce custom development efforts.- Operationalizing project planning roadmaps and working with departmental managers to coordinate the implementation and prioritization of EDD strategies.

Sacramento, Ca, Us

Technology leader in Senior Leadership Team reporting to the Chief Executive Officer• Oversee digital transformation, business intelligence, voice and data infrastructure, desktop and mobile support, software development and project management initiatives Manage and direct • Implement a new business intelligence, data warehousing, and analytics platform with custom integration Act as Principal Technology Consultant for the organization serving public sector agencies based in throughout the United States.• Head public sector client engagement sites focused on expanding the capacity, enhancing functionality, and improving the performance of client information technology functions

Worldwide, Oo

Role created by the Chief Technology Officer to utilize a demonstrated strategic, tactical, and technical expertise in consolidating operations• Developed and implemented a national telecommunication consolidation strategy, resulting in $5M annual savings through execution of telecom project portfolio and business continuity plans• Improved service quality levels 30% via implementation of ITIL-based service strategy, centralization, strategic outsourcing, and retraining

Worldwide, Oo

• Headed P&L and management authority for the Northwest/Pacific regional technology infrastructure based in 10 distributed offices; directed a team of 9 employees• Improved business application availability to 99.999% level and eliminated infrastructure outages by developing standardized IT security management and business continuity plans for regional offices • Lowered vendor service cost by 20% and increased service availability and support times by 25% through negotiation of improved rates and SLAs

Worldwide, Oo

• Managed a group of 5 staff responsible for the desktop and laptop support needs of consulting practitioners throughout Northern California• Drove initiatives that supported high growth, increased sales, and enhanced consultant effectiveness, while making technology support a profit center rather than a cost center.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Mba

Bs, Business Administration - Finance