Patrick Garon Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

New York, Ny, Us

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Selected Achievements:• Led an 11 million-dollar, multi-national project to ingest data across all of the US Bank’s Commercial, Consumer, and Corporate applications, consisting of 34 applications and 600,000 data elements with a project team of over 150.• Provided data analytics and software development consulting to help drive businesses by providing the software tools, expertise and culture that organizations need to stay competitive and deliver value to their customers.• Successfully planned projects and escalated appropriate items quickly, pushed on the right discussions with the program, and ensured the project plan, schedule, budget, and work package were ready to execute.• Managed project scope, financial labor forecasts, metric tracking & reporting, and resource and labor management, while keeping the enterprise updated on progress and challenges to help distinguish company from competitors.

Selected Achievements:• Led engineering initiative to internationalize all core software systems, including strategic planning, sequencing, budget creation, vendor selection and project execution of a 13-month engagement with a budget of 2MM. • Directed all aspects of agile project management by leading software development teams, implementing new product enhancements, and employed Agile project delivery methodology with a 1MM budget SOW with 10-month duration.• Negotiated statements of work, created timelines and schedules, managed consultant led project engagements, and performed data analysis on patient insights to help company close gaps in care and improve service delivery. • Led 500K enterprise platform integration project into existing architecture using Amazon AWS and completed first project of integrating Salesforce.com into core customer database within 4 months.

New York, Ny, Us

Selected Achievements:• Mentored and guided the development of 16 staff, consisting of program & project managers, and business analysts, to deliver projects valued at 15-20MM annually for a Fortune 100 Financial Services Firm and retirement plans provider.• Expanded a team from a single project delivery team to 3 IT Programs, increasing the team by 300% and spearheaded strategic planning and execution for transitioning project delivery from traditional waterfall to Agile methodology.• Established a committee of stakeholders from all lines of business to align corporate plans and priorities across the entire corporation for the secure customer website • Led 3 firm priority confidential projects that had NDA/Code word references.• Delivered firm priority, high value technology project with a 6MM budget, on-time, under budget by 1MM, and within scope that allowed the entire company to meet their corporate goal and schedule, which rolled out to the entire investment community at TIAA.

Selected Achievements:• Managed and developed consulting team of 4 staff to conduct software system upgrades and re-platform projects for financial services clients such as, Wells Fargo, Merrill Lynch, Invesco, JP Morgan, and Citistreet.• Headed an initiative to investigate and report findings on an acquisition’s retirement recordkeeping software platform, requiring preparing and delivering weekly presentations to Senior Executives for a fortune 100 financial services firm.

Working as an Implementation OmniPlus Consultant on a large project.

New York, Ny, Us

Implementation Project Manager/consultant for Pyramid suite of applications and Sungard OmniPlus systems.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Led team of developers and analysts supporting the retail 401(k) recordkeeping book of business. Was responsible for technical solutioning, break/fix activities, and development of custom omniscript programs requested by the various operations teams. Provided operations partners with subject matter expertise and consultation in regards to the core recordkeeping system used (OmniPlan) to manage 401(k) plans.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us