Joe Balitewicz, Pmp, Csm Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

I have joined Centric Consulting's rapidly expanding National Enterprise Portfolio and Program Management Practice as the national delivery lead.I am responsible for delivery and oversight of national EPPM engagements as well as collaborating with Centric business units and service lines on large scale engagements Additionally, I collaborate with the.

Greater Chicago Area

• Spearheaded agile program delivery and project deployment strategies to support digital transformational initiatives by stakeholder value creation, realizing benefits of an optimal resource cost, mitigating risks, and.
• Served as a Program and Project Management (PPM) evangelist to Advisory, Tax and Audit groups focusing on educating, developing, and implementing KPMG's project management methodology to our clients.
• Responsible for the end-to-end project/initiative management and delivery model transformation, including road mapping, budgeting/funding, resource management, vendor management, stakeholder management, scope.
• Developed and managed program operating costs, including budget allocation/reallocations, tracking/reporting OpEx/CapEx, proactively identifying/managing Risks/Issues, while measuring and communicating.
• Improved program management capabilities, implement solution delivery to business clients, leverage program management knowledge across the IT organization incorporating industry best practices, and establish.
• Accountable for increasing our market presence through internal and external networking and business development opportunities.

• Client: Top 5 Financial Company ○ Timeframe: 2019-20 ○ Team Size – 12 ○ Platforms/Tools: Full Stack Modernization / Jira / SAFe / Kanban / RAID
• Served as the execution lead for a cloud-based implementation for a national retail expansion initiative using agile methodologies. Interacted directly with client c-suite leadership daily.
• Worked with 30+ technology and business and teams, including architects, product owners, customer and client experience teams, and systems implementation vendor, PMO, risk/compliance and testing.
• Interfaced directly with the national retail expansion named CEO, CIO, and COO on progress, challenges, issues, budget, staffing, resources, and 3 technology vendors.
• Partnered directly with the vendor who was implementing the modern core platform, a $250mm initiative that would place the bank in a position to increase its offerings to 20M+ new customers.
• Provided daily reporting to C-suite on progress; organized and led Program Increment Planning Sessions; led Scrum of Scrums across 20 product owners; led functional and business requirements workshopsClient: Private.

• Client: $600M SaaS Company ○ Timeframe: 2017 ○ Team Size – 10 ○ Platforms/Tools: SAP / Revenue Recognition Module
• Provided project leadership for adopting and implementing ASC606 revenue recognition project on behalf of a $600mm SaaS company, which provides solutions to the healthcare industry.
• Organized the team into multiple workstreams, created an effective schedule, held team members accountable, got them back on the path, guided them from assessment through implementation, and assisted in bringing the.
• Provided program leadership to a global Pharma company engaged in rapid growth through acquisitions valued at >$50mm.
• Developed and implemented a robust PM structure across finance and operations divisions and worked directly with C-Suite officers in executing the various workstreams and associated projects to integrate the targeted.
• Created a PMO that was scalable and identified their resources to join and then run the PMO at conclusion of project.

Chicago, IL

• Served as an integral member of the executive team for a successful, innovative start-up organization that provided software technology (SaaS) for organizations seeking in-depth market research and analysis, providing.
• Managed cross-functional teams, including 6 project managers on managing a portfolio of CPG and Retail clients to design, support, and deliver unique virtual solutions addressing operational and insights-based.
• Guided clients through seamless execution of projects using Agile Scrum and Kanban, including managing timelines, questionnaire and analysis plan development, and reviewing stimuli to ensure alignment with research.
• Trained employees on project execution and best practices and provide actionable plans to guide professional development by coaching and providing the right learning opportunities.
• Tasked with identifying a multi-tier-offerings and creating the pricing model, ultimately expanding available products to be more flexible and accommodating client objectives, timing, and budgets to boost.
• Personally, managed client engagements; completed 95+ client-centered projects during tenure.

• Championed and managed all aspects of multifaceted projects with tight budgets and numerous deadlines with full accountability for fraud and money laundering investigations, risk management, compliance, and information.
• Responsible for the analysis of costs on the entire project; including performing audit procedures, forensic review of large datasets, and developing analytical procedures to explain trends discovered during the review.
• Pioneered and directed national clients' projects from needs assessment through planning, team management (50+ direct reports), and efficient, systematic, results-driven project execution.
• Analyzed large volume of costs recorded on multiple accounting systems, combining key aspects of each system into a comprehensive database while utilizing the new data to determine areas where costs overruns occurred.
• Conducted interviews of project personnel, including key executives and engineering staff, to determine how costs were originally estimated, segregated, and reported.
• Interfaced with the client to provide daily, weekly, and project to date metrics, status reports, and project plans, and collaborated with the IT team and business managers to resolve production support issues.

• Client: Accounting Firm ○ Role: Project Director ○ Timeframe: 2003-2006 ○ Team Size – 9
• Championed all aspects of a five-year project that involved full-scale production and legal review of 1M+ pages of financial documents in response to IRS-issued summonses.
• Defined and executed strategies and policies for data collection, analysis, and management for a massive project directly impacting 400+ former investors.
• Set up a workflow process to review all documents identified; scheduled attorneys from USA and UK to review the files.o Metrics - IRS collected $10mm in revenue that had not been previously taxed and shut down 25 tax.
• Spearheaded major projects for a private banking institution in response to one of the largest enforcement actions in the U.S.
• Reviewed and analyzed high-risk, historical accounts and transactions for non-compliance.

• Project Example Client: Health Maintenance Organization ○ Role: Interim Chief Information Officer ○ Timeframe: 2002 ○ Team Size – 6
• Hand-selected for the senior leadership role to revitalize operations for California-based HMO placed in conservation.
• Improved by introducing standardized processes for all projects.
• Streamlined IT project management and implemented new processes, systems, and tools to dramatically improve the software development life cycle (SDLC) and help desk and administrative department operations.
• Initiated outsourcing of the IT department and 24-hour data center.