Kevin Foster Email & Phone Number

An experienced delivery leader with PwC as a foundation and close to two decades driving complex Business-IT digital transformations utilizing cross-functional, geo-dispersed teams. Exceptional track record of business-technology leadership, execution excellence, and uncompromising delivery.Led global delivery & PMO at a machine learning & SaaS company with an operating budget of $2.5M USD. Concurrently, while leading the delivery and Go-live of our flagship machine learning, Edge Cloud software and on-boarding of our #1 customer, scaled the delivery team, led the implementation of the PMO, pre/post sales process and customer success, served as primary customer escalation point and directed several proof-of-value (POV) engagements at Tier 1 customers.Previously in a variety of delivery leadership roles, played a pivotal role in driving new Cloud (public, private) Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) programs at Tier 1 Telcos & large Enterprises. Directed and/or personally led over 30 IaaS implementations with public deployments integrating with various payment gateways. Also led the largest OpenStack Cloud migration which impacted 28 business units, 1000’s of VMs and over a petabyte of data at a large US Telco. Moreover, directed post-sales delivery teams including engineering, customer success and the PMO with team size & budgets ranging from 20 - 100 and $2.5M - $50M USD, respectively.Key strengths:• Ability to convince others of a direction, activity or idea, and influence decision making.• Ability to make high-quality decisions based on limited information.• Exceptional at anticipating problems.• Finding, hiring & keeping good talent.

Listed skills include Sdlc, Public Relations, Vendor Management, Project Management, and 25 others.

• Senior Delivery Leader

  Knowgent Systems

  Toronto, On, Ca