Sean Watson Email & Phone Number

United States

I work with leaders, including neurodivergent individuals and teams, and those looking to take their game to the next level. Whether they are transforming an organization, the world, or their home/community, I'm here to support folks of all types in being the best version of themselves.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Executive leadership of the enterprise application, web/communications, and data services units within the 120 person SOM IT dept, serving approx. 8,000 students, faculty, staff and researchers.Co-created teams that achieved the following results:• >95% of projects completed within 5% of estimated completion date resulting in acceleration of educational and research initiatives• Led Agile transformation of existing teams and drove alignment with PMO and Dean’s Office• 30% increase in development teams estimation accuracy led to decreased costs and increased quality for development work due to increase in trust driving insourcing over outsourcing• Created first business analyst team in the history of the dept and co-created cross functional team leading to better aligned business processes and cross-dept goals• 33% decrease of intake cycle for projects resulting in rapid timeline establishment and a quickly adaptive roadmap that all customers could understand• Re-organized division to optimize resources, increasing customer satisfaction, value delivered and employee satisfaction with zero unhealthy turnover• Planned the enterprise data warehouse approach and created the vision and approach for data governance board for the school• More than doubled delivery capacity while creating continuous talent pipeline to manage demand spikes, all through sustainable methods including revenue generating work to offset costs

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Responsible for delivery of IT infrastructure and services across 28 US and international locations, enabling more than 300K volunteers and partners, to support over 620K individuals in feeding themselves in one year.• Increased IT department execution and alignment with organizational strategy by implementing 4 Disciplines of Execution framework, and Agile practices for software development and systems integration.• Drove design and adoption of organizational business process improvement model, including the co-design and implementation of the core cross-functional team, resulting in increased collaboration and effectiveness.• Led enterprise change for implementation and migration on Salesforce.com platform, moving from custom built legacy solutions to a new Salesforce.com instance with enterprise application NGO Connect, providing a scalable platform for more effective relationship, donor, and event management.• Designed and drove implementation of IT Portfolio, Project, and Release Management processes increasing operational transparency and strategic alignment of IT infrastructure to organizational strategy and goals.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Led design and implementation of key strategic IT initiatives and projects for small to medium sized nonprofits and businesses focused on creating and expanding IT infrastructure to enable mission-driven results.

Created custom software solutions for various multi-disciplinary user groupsDesigned, developed, tested, and documented software for human and animal experimentation in a laboratory setting within required ethical guidelinesReceived training for conducting clinical trials on humans and animalsCreated internet and intranet portals for various departments and institutes at the university

Wilmington, North Carolina Area

- Designed, created, tested, and documented several software modules using various technologies- Implemented mission critical data management systems required to meet Nuclear Regulatory Commission and ISO 9000 standards- Trained multi-disciplinary groups on custom designed software- Designed software with multi-disciplinary teams of business and IT managers- Managed time and resources between several projects

Wilmington, North Carolina Area

Entrusted with highest level of security clearanceInstallation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of hardware and software including clients, servers, and special equipmentGeneral end user support via telephone and office visitsReceived award for excellent organizational skills