Robert (Rob) Baute Email & Phone Number

Apollo Beach, FL, US

• Provide management leadership and consul to the Connex implementation team, which includes resource and project assignments.
• Ensure growth of all team members based on a comprehensive career development plan.
• Establish and monitor company goals for the department and team members, based on corporate performance objectives.
• Conduct employee performance reviews and evaluations including setting performance expectations, goals, development objectives and training plans as appropriate. Monitor and evaluate employee progress.
• Collaborate and leads implementation teams to create key project artifacts including project charter, project budget, project requirements, risk register, and product development lifecycle (PDLC) stage gate.
• Create and maintain relationships with business partners, technology partners and with cross functional teams.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

- Assumed the overall project management of the EMV project initiative for 800+ projects. Segmented the projects into standalone and wave groupings, which allowed a more efficient strategy for the overall EMV initiative. Responsible for assigning the projects to over 20 project managers over two years.- Inherited the EMV program with a backlog of 100+.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

- Managed technical tasks for the implementation of two new.Net applications for the AML Account Closure and Safe Box Operation teams from legacy Access database applications. Activities included data migration and data readiness identification to ensure business personnel had all the necessary information in their new application. Coordinated the.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

- Managed the project implementations for two new EBT contracts, five Debit Card product programs and seven EBT contract re-bids. New contract rewards consisted of the migration of over 850,000 cardholder accounts in a nine month timeframe. Projects require coordination of cross-functional teams and the interaction with product and business managers.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

- Worked with the client to analyze business requirements and review produce specifications for system applications; responsible for planning, organizing the project and components, ensure quality of client deliverables; manage system implementations & application deployments.- Researched alternative solutions to business requirements, analyze impact of.

Latham, NY

- Provided advanced job-scheduling expertise, leadership and support to business users, application development groups and Information Technology (IT). - Conducted recovery analysis and performed problem resolution for application failures. - Designed and implemented Oracle production control processes and procedures.- Converted existing production job.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

- Utilized strong relationship management skills by working as a customer liaison between Information Technology and multiple business groups that consisted of all management levels. Achieved cross departmental agreements for re-engineering processes, collected business requirements, prioritized project requests and ensured sufficient technology resource.

Fort Myers, Florida Area

- Successfully managed, implemented and supported the conversion of a legacy Payroll / Human Resources system to a vendor package on Oracle. Oversaw $750,000 project budget, obtained business sign-off of enhancements, reviewed deliverables, approved vendor invoices and tracked project costs.- Documented and escalated project threatening issues and risks to.

Cincinnati, Ohio Area And Fort Myers, Florida Area

- Streamlined, automated and stabilized production processes that resulted in 12% reduction of $1.6 million production support annual budget.- Managed and prioritized a large number of mid-size projects for multiple business units that required continual weighing of business objectives with monetary impact in a high-pressure environment.- Supervised twelve.

Associate, Computer Programming

Graduated with Honors, Magna Cum Laude

Diploma