Steve Thomas, Mba Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Teaneck, New Jersey, US

Devbridge acquired by Cognizant - Software & Platform Engineering, Digital Engineering

Chicago, Illinois, US

Direct project operations and sales initiatives for Devbridge and Cognizant’s custom software offering. Oversaw project execution and fostered client relationships to drive business growth. Managed multi-disciplinary team of project/product managers and designers, providing guidance and mentorship across associate to senior levels. Spearhead resolution of.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Owning a subset of the business portfolio and expanding it through intimate knowledge of strategic accounts, as well as leveraging professional network to expand the portfolio into new accounts. Working closely in.
• Take responsibility for delivery for a subset of the Managing Director’s portfolio
• Drive revenue, both directly through client engagements, and by building an effective team that understands client’s business priorities
• Resolve client issues as a key member of the escalation process
• Directly manage a team of Product Managers and Product Designers who will advise and deliver high quality digital products to clients
• Pitch our services in a highly consultative fashion, delivering real value to the client with each interaction

Chicago, Illinois, US

Leatherhead, Greater London, GB

• Providing direction and oversight for a team of project professionals responsible for managing the deployment of HH Global (formerly InnerWorkings) technology solutions for enterprise clients. Successfully rolling out.
• Ownership of the IT project management function to implement the global eCommerce technology solution (SaaS) as well as custom application development
• Leading and mentoring a globally dispersed team of project/program managers as direct reports
• Established the PMO and led governance of PMO best practices
• Providing oversight and direction to project teams on all active initiatives
• Engaged in all pre-sales activities with technology solutions group to ensure proper scoping and resource allocations

New York, NY, US

• Serving as the delivery management lead responsible for providing leadership, direction and oversight across a portfolio of projects. Driving teams of PMs, UX, visual design, strategy, and technology personnel towards.
• Coordinating efforts of highly skilled cross-functional teams including team members at the executive level
• Assuming responsibility for risk management, accurate scoping, financial tracking & reporting, and resource management
• Managing day-to-day project activities including agile-scrum development activities, design research, UX, visual design and usability testing initiatives across traditional digital projects and eCommerce platforms
• Lead and direct estimation process for new projects and initiatives
• Client facing roles include working in a consultant capacity to interface with client organizations to define, build, and implement solutions that address business needs

New York, NY, US

• Providing direction and leadership to support the key PMO activities encompassing program planning, governance, and process improvement. Responsible for the successful development, implementation and delivery of each.
• Initiating continuous improvement and documentation of project management, editorial, creative/design, quality and technical operations related processes in a highly regulated pharmaceutical industry
• Overseeing daily program management office activities including project workload management and meeting with PMs to review and monitor project health to insure deliverables are on time, within scope and on budget
• Providing and monitoring financial forecasts for all projects being managed by the PMO office
• Providing direction for personal development plans and scorecards for all direct reports
• Ensuring all projects and teams adhere to company’s Quality First initiative which stressed 100% compliance to FDA and pharmaceutical industry marketing standards

New York, NY, US

• Managed project development life cycle of integrated marketing campaigns for major healthcare and pharmaceutical brands with budgets ranging from $100k to multi-million dollar with durations from one month to two years
• PM responsibilities included managing development of email, print and video pieces, interactive digital programs on desktop and mobile, mobile applications, as well as development of creative for mobile advertising
• Handled target audience management to ensure campaigns are being deployed to the intended targets
• Worked with QA teams to identify incidents and seek out their resolution and closure to prepare pieces for release
• Managed the development of external data feeds and prepared/analyzed reports with third party data providers
• Cross functional team management for both onshore and offshore teams to ensure proper resource allocation

Evanston, Illinois, US

• Managed projects in the area of clinical research for the top pharmaceutical and biotech companies in the world. Projects included email development, interactive programs and live event production of web-conference.
• Managed client relationships from analysis through maintenance phases
• Worked with streaming media encoding as well as enterprise web/video conference systems
• Managed maintenance of client online portal training systems. Included system management and troubleshooting.

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