Jason Lantz, Pmp, Pmi-Acp Email & Phone Number

Okemos, MI

Okemos, MI

• Leading complex project to identify and remediate business process and systems compliance gaps for the general data protection regulation (GDPR).
• Managing cross-department, multi-year program to evolve a core product line toward a renewable revenue model.
• Performing sales data analysis to develop business insights and KPI baselines for a strategic growth goal.
• Providing mentorship and guidance to peers in the areas of project management and data analysis.

Okemos, MI

• Oversaw two product release programs of company’s flagship commercial software, spanning 5 departments and several projects.
• Delivered a project to rearchitect a cloud application, resulting in a 60% cost reduction.
• Drove the cloud product leadership group through a lean product development process, from ideation through to a successful beta release.
• Led a key cost modeling effort to determine the operational viability of a new product and proposed plans to optimize existing infrastructure costs.

Okemos, MI

• Developed IT roadmaps and project charters to maintain and improve critical business technologies and processes supporting internal and customer facing services.
• Managed numerous vendor relationships and engagements for project support, project outsourcing, and long term professional services.
• Successfully managed projects to implement or improve a wide range of core technologies, including: Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft System Center, Office 365, Power BI, public/hybrid cloud infrastructure, data center.

Okemos, MI

• Provided leadership to multiple engineering projects including coordination of day-to-day project management, dev tasks, stakeholder communication, and risk mitigation.
• Successfully managed project to migrate Exchange on premise to Office 365.
• Assigned key short-term project with aggressive 8-week timeline and delivered scope 1.5 weeks early.
• Assisted with product roadmap and backlog planning decisions.

Okemos, MI

• Coordinated quality management tasks for 2 major product releases, and numerous minor and maintenance releases. These consistently demonstrated above average quality at TechSmith.
• Department Core Team member. This team is responsible for coordinating QA department activities aimed at growing testing processes, core skills, teamwork, and innovation.

Lansing, Michigan Area

• Played a key role in the launch of a new market retail location.
• Hired, trained, and managed complete staff of 11 employees, and assisted with the onboarding of the company's first franchise owner.
• Improved store efficiency by the following: Reduced costs by sourcing a product line to a more competitive supplier. Successfully implemented customer satisfaction program. Effectively employed system for tracking.
• Responsible for store marketing in radio, TV, and print.
• Assertively pursued local business relationships to increase corporate sales and strengthen community involvement.

Ann Arbor, MI

• Assisted with the launch of a new market retail location.
• Assisted Store Manager with scheduling, inventory, maintenance, training, and product quality and improvement.
• Authored training program that improved cost effectiveness, employee opportunities, and effectiveness towards company mission that was approved by the company President.
• Researched and equipment and provided recommendations for use in new retail locations.