Kevin Wright Email & Phone Number

St. Louis, MO, US

Greater St. Louis Area

Primary day-to-day partner for Distribution and owner of business steering committee engagement and technology roadmap. Accountable for performance of $800K annual IT project portfolio supporting warehouse operations and transportation. Monitor project budget, scope, schedule, staffing to ensure business needs are met and serve as an escalation point for.

Led interaction with business owners, subject matter experts and project team members to define, develop, and implement business technology solutions. Responsible for the gathering and documenting requirements through various methods (interviews, process modeling, JAD sessions).

Responsible for day-to-day management of strategic projects supporting growth and business transformation initiatives. Planned and executed cross-functional projects within the agreed budget, scope and timelines. Developed recommendations to resolve business problems and implemented approved solutions. Communicated regularly to impacted stakeholders and.

Responsible for managing an 80+, $1.2M project portfolio of cross-department projects within consultative business model. Coordinated project activities and stakeholder communication across multiple departments, organizations, and vendors. Facilitated weekly resource allocation reviews, created and maintained project deliverables, and monitored project.

Led the organization in use of the standard project management methodology for all areas of the business. Gathered project metrics for status reviews, IT balanced scorecard, financial analysis, and executive team project portfolio reviews. Managed strategic IT projects, mentored project managers and business analysts, served as a member of the project.

Responsible for managing IT projects directly supporting the Wholesale Operations Division. Served as IT liaison for technology initiatives affecting wholesale operations, working with internal and external groups. Provided input and actively participated in strategic planning, capital and expense budgeting, and contractor resource decisions.

Facilitated strategic sourcing program for wholesaler route accounting systems. Led all efforts for vendor certification testing to support corporate requirements. Coordinated development and support activities between internal business units, IT, wholesalers, and software vendors. Direct involvement with 3rd party interfaces to ecommerce retailers, fleet.

Responsible for defining project quality standards for all IT projects and supporting compliance to the standard project management methodology. Managed quality assurance plans and testing initiatives for firm-priority projects. Mentored project managers in best practices, project methodology, and Rational tools. Formally evaluated and reported on quality.

Responsible for system analysis, design, project management, testing, and system support. Developed requirements documents, data models, process data flow diagrams, use cases, RFPs, user interface prototypes, and test plans.

Monitored and controlled the execution of programs on several mainframe platforms. Operated I/O equipment for processing and backup storage of mainframe, UNIX, and Window servers.

Ma, Information Technology Management

Ba, Philosophy

Activities and Societies: Sigma Nu