Oskar Back Email & Phone Number

Oskar Back is a Project Manager II at Qwest, Inc. at CenturyLink.

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  Project Manager Iii

  Centurylink

  Apr 2000 - Present - Littleton, Co

  Manage applications end-to-end, from development to support. Manage budgets and approve time sheets. Work with architecture group to maintain currency of hardware and middleware platforms.Specialize in application and server consolidation efforts. Saved the company $5M per year in support costs over the course of my tenure here. Decommissioned 7 applications by incorporating their functionality into other applications. Retired more than 50 servers by migrating application onto stacked environmentsComfortable working with offshore resources. Managed teams of TCS contractors, and currently work with our offshore IT resources in Bangalore (Benaluru), India.Adept at following and maturing processes. Managed the first application to become SOX-compliant. Drove accountability to the enterprise-level and helped to shape the process for all of IT. I believe that processes should be followed intelligently and diligently to maximize success. Blind, slavish adherence to process my assure compliance, but often hinders success.I consider myself more techincal than other project managers, and feel it is important to be able to ask intelligent questions to prioritize and resolve issues.