Raul Lopez Email & Phone Number

Dallas, Tx, Us

In this role, I Program Managed AT&T Cybersecurity initiatives by partnering with Product Management, Pricing, Legal, Architecture, Operations, Application Development, Enablement and other Go To Market teams in order to ensure the delivery of key Program Increment Objectives and Features on time and within allocated budgets.Principal Cybersecurity Product Development Engineer achievements and responsibilities included:• Leading Agile Release Train (ART) Cybersecurity product and feature launches, protecting upwards of $300 million in revenue while reducing hardware, license and support related costs over a 6-year period.• Successfully managing $30 million in cumulative Cybersecurity budgets over a 6-year period.• Facilitating 25+ quarterly three-day, cross team PI planning events to align on Product Vision, PI Objectives and Feature delivery• Providing weekly Program/ Agile Release Train status of key program increment objectives, features and metrics to Executive Management• Assisting Product Management with economic decision-making by facilitating feature and capability estimation and determination of their cumulative roll-up to the portfolio/ epic level • Facilitating weekly synchronization meetings (Scrum of Scrum, Art Sync, Demo)• Improving the flow of value through value streams using the Continuous Delivery Pipeline and DevSecOps principles• Managing program level blockers, risks and dependencies• Coaching Product Management, Scrum Masters and teams in SAFe and Lean-Agile practices.• Driving relentless improvement via quarterly Agile Release Train Inspect and Adapt workshops.

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

In this role, I Program Managed AT&T Cybersecurity initiatives by partnering with Product Management in order to ensure the alignment of Product Vision, Program Increment Objectives and Features on time and within allocated budgets.

Richardson, Texas, United States

In this role, I served as the liaison between IT, Retail and Call Center stakeholders for strategic planning and the development of ROI positive technology solutions to address business needs. Senior Technology Solution Manager achievements and responsibilities included: • Driving Retail, Call Center and IT stakeholders to identify innovative, high value IT solutions, which achieved cost savings of $70M in support of strategic business objectives.• Overseeing the successful delivery of $100M+ in cumulative project budgets with marginal overspend, while ensuring IT software development and infrastructure upgrades met operational performance expectations.• Receiving a Key Contributor Award by client leadership for exemplary Program Management leadership for execution of the multi-year CCTP Call Center Conversion Strategic Cost Reduction Program, which resulted in an annual $36M revenue lift from 2013-2016.• Preparing and communicating monthly Executive level PowerPoint presentations, highlighting key IT initiative status and their financial impact to the business to ensure ongoing strategic alignment across the portfolio.• Assisting in the analysis of complex data sets to identify trends and gaps, offering actionable insights to influence business strategies.• Working with IT support services to quickly identify Cingular Mobility call center impacting outages, ensuring prompt root cause identification, remediation and post mortem to prevent recurrence.• Providing timely business critical system outage and remediation communication to call center Director and Regional Vice President leaders.

Richardson, Texas, United States

In this role, I led IT Commissions, Sales Operations, and Transaction Processing Center teams in planning, executing and successfully completing projects on time and within assigned budget parameters.IT Project Manager achievements and responsibilities included:• Cultivating high performing teams, resulting in the successful implementation of 20+ IT Commissions projects within baselined time and budget targets.• Receiving a 2008 Key Contributor Award from Finance management for exemplary Project Management leadership for the delivery of the Horizon Commission Processing System to the SBC Accounting organization.• Creating Commissions Program Strategy (Project Charter), Plan (Communication), Baseline (Project Schedule, Budget), Logs (Change Management, Issue), Visual Data (Gantt Chart), Report (Status) and other key artifacts.• Culling appropriate metrics to track project progress for bi-weekly review with executive leadership.• Managing project prioritization, risk identification and mitigation strategy sessions.• Confirming that proper change control processes were implemented throughout the project lifecycle to ensure scope and capacity remained in alignment.• Improving project team performance via lessons learned evaluation sessions.• Participating in industry and other professional networking events to ensure awareness of current industry standards, trends and best practices in order to strengthen organizational and technical knowledge.