Jodi Butcher
Houston,TX
Summary
Experienced Senior project management professional with over 10 years of experience driving project and product management. Skilled in developing, implementing, and supporting complex operations in challenging and competitive markets. Decisive, solutions-focused, and results-oriented leader with expertise in risk management, marketing integration, and process improvement strategies. Proficient in managing project budgets ranging from 10k to upwards of 850k. Progressive leadership experiences have cultivated a passion for surpassing corporate objectives through a combination of world-class project management and superlative operational initiatives.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Information Technology Program Manager
Ryder
12.2018 - 12.2024
- Responsible for overseeing and executing large-scale logistics projects within the Ryder System, ensuring efficient operations, meeting customer needs, and achieving project goals by managing timelines, extensive budgets, technical and operational resources, and key performance indicators (KPIs) across various aspects of transportation, warehousing, and supply chain management
- Fostered team collaboration to boost productivity and innovation.
- Managed multiple projects simultaneously to meet diverse client needs.
- Responsible for performing risk analysis on projects and determine contingency plans
- Determine the communication matrix and escalation matrix – Stakeholder Identification
- Work directly with the finance and operations project sponsor to establish a project budget, Managed project budgets and resources, leading to cost savings of over $500,000
- Improved project outcomes by coordinating cross-functional teams and managing resources efficiently.
- Developed strategic plans for successful project execution and alignment with organizational goals.
- Enhanced stakeholder engagement with regular updates and transparent communication.
Project Manager
Winsupply
09.2017 - 08.2018
- Coordinate internal resources-5 RPG developers and 1 BA and third party vendors for the flawless execution of projects
- Collaborated closely with senior management to align project objectives with strategic company initiatives, ensuring that efforts contributed to overall business growth.
- Ensure alignment of projects to IT vision and mission is kept throughout the life of all projects
- Ensure that multiple projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget ranging from150,000-350,000
- Ensure that all deliverables meet quality standards and have been through defined for testing and project acceptance
- Assist in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
- Develop a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress, Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule and project costs
- Lead and Collaborate with a team of 5 RPG Developers to determine project timeline and managed the SDLC lifecycle of sprints for various projects
- Measure project performance, forecast vs actuals and project health using appropriate tools and techniques such as MS Project, JIRA and Visio
- Established effective communication among team members for enhanced collaboration and successful project completion.
Lead Project Manager
NiSource
01.2017 - 08.2017
- Responsible and accountable for coordinated management of multiple regulated related projects directed toward strategic business and other organizational objectives
- Present weekly project health status reports on current program, Project financials, future opportunities, and stakeholder issues and risks
- Maintained all documentation for SOX and GRC compliance
- Managed and tracked budget for various projects in Microsoft Excel built cost model tool, to influence organization's financial profitability
- Worked directly with C level project managers, developing project plans and assumed responsibility for project profit and loss
- Demonstrated firm grasp of and usage of variety of tools for gathering/defining business requirements for each project with minimal guidance
- Defined processes and tools best suited to each project, worked within PMBROK Methodology for project specifics and stakeholder goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures
- Maintained SharePoint and Service Now database regarding project health, weekly financial updates- forecast vs actuals, Statements of work and Project artifacts.
- Ensured seamless project transitions through meticulous documentation practices and thorough knowledge transfer sessions.
Project Manager
JP Morgan Chase
01.2016 - 01.2017
- Communicate and Coordinate with users, managers, and secondary contacts to implement actions, which reduce desktop cost while maintaining or improving workstation efficiencies
- Extract data from various corporate database in support of identifying targeted technology work stream opportunities in support of CCB consumable efficiencies
- Maintain share point database and high level excel spreadsheet to report results on a monthly basis to various teams associated with CCB Consumables group for project health
- Developed project timelines to streamline workflow and meet deadlines.
- Consistently championed the most cost-effective solutions negotiating contracts with new and existing suppliers; efforts have played a vital role in saving company $100K in 2016 and $200K in 2017
- Worked Heavily in MS Excel and Sharepoint to maintain statements of work for internal CCB budgets and financial updates for consumable efficiencies
- IT Asset Management-Project Management
- Successfully managed multiple projects simultaneously by prioritizing tasks according to urgency, resource availability, and alignment with organizational goals.
- Managed risk assessments and implemented mitigation strategies to minimize potential issues during project execution.
Project Manager, PMO
DHL Supply Chain
01.2015 - 01.2016
- Led the successful execution of multiple complex projects simultaneously, ensuring quality outcomes for all stakeholders.
- Championed innovation within the PMO by staying informed about industry trends and incorporating cutting-edge strategies into daily operations.
- Managed global start-up projects hardware, software and Virtual desktop in procurement capacity
- Assisted in managing vendors, software compliance and the full life cycle IT procurement processes for internal development projects
- Spearheaded managing 4 developers of an electronic/web-based format to manage pricing data; efforts improved the accuracy of pricing records and allowed key business stakeholders throughout the organization to quickly access the information
- Developing sourcing strategies and innovation in delivering large complex international projects
- Lead role in component and material procurement to include supplier selection, price benchmarking and price negotiation for production and associated deployment works
- Uses effective data-driven analysis for developing appropriate solutions within risk management of assets and accuracy of budgets ranging from 100,000-250,000 for internal projects.
Technology Project Manager
Wendy’s Corporate
01.2014 - 10.2014
- Consulted on 9 month project with large support team managing the relationships with external and internal stakeholders for Wendy’s Corporate Franchise Development Program
- Served as key liaison for all project stakeholders, third-party vendors and technology team for deadline-driven, high profile International Shipping Project
- Created superior documentation for project requirements and dependencies
- Managed multiple concurrent projects efficiently by prioritizing tasks based on urgency, complexity, dependencies, and available resources.
- Championed process improvement initiatives within the organization leading to increased project efficiency and quality standards.
- Edited business processes for enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for internal stakeholders
- Produced stage plans, highlight reports, risk logs, test cases and scripts
- Applied a deep understanding of project agile methodologies, testing standards and documentation standards
- Increased customer satisfaction by effectively managing stakeholder expectations and ensuring timely project completion.
- Managed and tracked budget of 100,000 to 550,000$ per franchisee location
- Worked directly with stakeholders to analyze, negotiate and prepare each franchisee for go-live
- Worked intensely with Franchisee budgets, Software/Hardware vendors NCR and Bailiwick through implementation leading to go-live of remodeled stores
- Lead Technology design, development, implementation, and support efforts to establish solutions for providing the business with consumption capabilities of structured Enterprise Information across all Functional Areas of the business
Skills
- Project management
- Stakeholder engagement
- Agile methodologies
- Budget management
- Strategic planning
- Risk assessment
- Process improvement
- Resource allocation
- Cross-functional collaboration
Timeline
Information Technology Program Manager
Ryder
12.2018 - 12.2024
Project Manager
Winsupply
09.2017 - 08.2018
Lead Project Manager
NiSource
01.2017 - 08.2017
Project Manager
JP Morgan Chase
01.2016 - 01.2017
Project Manager, PMO
DHL Supply Chain
01.2015 - 01.2016
Technology Project Manager
Wendy’s Corporate
01.2014 - 10.2014