Senior Manager, It Programs
Current• Fleet Programs IT leader, responsible for ensuring operational, commercial, and corporate systems readiness meet critical milestones for new fleet types and European market launches. Oversee multi-million-dollar budget lifecycle management, status reporting, and risk mitigation while directing a cross-functional team of crewmembers and business partners to achieve program objectives. Key Projects: A220, A321LR, & A321XLR fleet inductions.• Leading the Aircraft Changes Foundational Platform to streamline the sources & simplify the modifications needed for new fleet types. Projected saving of up to $1.5M per. This key initiative is on track to support 2025’s strategy.• Managed Crew Communication Tool pilot; proved operational performance improvements resulting in cost reduction.• Product leader driving launch of internal AI chatbots to multiple workgroups; goal is to deliver enterprise-wide tool.• IT liaison for the JetForward Strategy. Focused on delivering to milestones and hitting financial targets.• Revamped the team’s project & program reporting processes & templates, providing criteria recommendations for holding ourselves to disciplined, structured approaches, while coaching & growing in/direct team on process. • Lead for the Data Center Rationalization Program – migration of applications followed by smooth shutdown of former primary & disaster recovery data centers, the latter completing 3 months early & $6M under budget (2018). • Program manage critical Disaster Recovery exercises of e-commerce (booking, payment, & self-service check-in) & system operations products.• Formerly accountable for check-in kiosk hardware support for the enterprise including business partner management as well as all baggage scanner devices.• Delivery of multiple Infrastructure & Facility projects, including 2016 Exchange upgrade, O365 migrations, hardware refreshes, collaboration tools, new airport openings & LGA Terminal Move.