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Monte Miller

Fulshear,TX

Summary

Vice President of Enterprise Project and Program Management bringing 20+ years experience building an indisputable track record of successfully delivering Enterprise IT Project Portfolio’s to Fortune 100 blue chip clients. Visionary Delivery Executive and former US Army Officer with 20+ years of proven leadership experience overseeing operations related to enterprise project management, C-suite stakeholder management and complex IT program deliveries. Fortune 100 experience in building an indisputable track record of successful, complex system deliveries, process improvement, team building and financial growth across all parts of medium to large organizations.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Principal Delivery Manager of Projects, Strategic IT Planning, IT Portfolio Management and Strategy

Tyson Foods
Springdale, Arkansas
10.2021 - Current
  • Principal Senior Delivery Manager of a portfolio of sixty (60) + 'Plant of the Future' projects to deliver state of the art technologies to include SAP S4 Hana implementation, Automated Storage Retrieval Systems (ASRS), Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Robotic Equipment / Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV), Cranes / Conveyors, Auto-Palletizers, Warehouse Management systems, Predictive Maintenance systems, IT Capacity planning, Desktop Systems and software, Control Room Displays / Production Line Data analytics, Infrastructure (Switches, Routers and Gateways) Equipment.
  • Responsible for procurement and implementation of all IT related systems, applications and technologies for three (3) greenfield plant builds and plant expansions - part of Tyson's strategic initiative to open 12 new plants and invest $1.3 billion in automation in the coming years in the US.
  • Serve as the primary interface between Tyson's Enterprise IT organizations and Business Units, Engineers and General Contractors (GC) on all aspects of enterprise IT planning through all phases of the build process to include preconstruction, construction, commissioning, go live, hyper care and transition to steady state support.
  • Manage the evaluation and selection processes for automation technologies that leverage the advanced use of data to define, design and commission new processes for real time decision making and performance management to maximize plant production efficiency.
  • Managed relationships with key stakeholders to ensure smooth project deliveries and overall satisfaction.
  • Acted as a liaison between the delivery team and upper management, effectively communicating concerns and suggestions for improvements.
  • Managed resources effectively to avoid unnecessary delivery delays.
  • Championed a customer-centric approach, consistently seeking feedback from clients to make improvements and enhance the overall delivery experience.

Principal SAP S4 Hana Delivery Manager, Enterprise SAP S4HANA Transformation Program

Tyson Foods
Springdale, Arkansas
07.2020 - 09.2021
  • Principal Program Manager for 'Wave 2' of Tyson's SAP S/4HANA Enterprise rollout. In a 14-month timeline, successfully delivered a portfolio of eleven (11) SAP S/4HANA projects and programs -
  • On schedule
  • . 'Wave 2' rollout was the second half of Tyson's global greenfield transformation program.
  • This enterprise level initiative deployed S/4HANA 1709 with SAP Cloud solutions and interfaces to multiple other systems.
  • Scope of this SAP Premium engagement services client implementation included over 200+ plants and over 300+ warehouses streamlining the operations into S4HANA.
  • Implementation objectives also included bringing in multiple companies ('Hillshire Foods', 'Advanced Pierre Foods' and 'Original Philly') into a single Tyson S/4HANA enterprise platform (from legacy JDE, Oracle and prior ECC 6.0 landscape) and opportunities to merge and consolidate newly acquired businesses.
  • Keys to success included partnering across IT, Engineering, Business Ops, Procurement, Finance, and other functions to understand the key business drivers, cross check functional/technical specifications for ABAP custom programs and interfaces to ensure business requirements are met, and successfully manage numerous cross functional teams.
  • Utilized wave-based, phased approach to deploy multiple projects towards timely delivery which was crucial for the success of this enterprise level implementation program.

Delivery Executive / Director - Program and Project Management - Southwest Region

Avanade
Houston, Texas
08.2018 - 05.2020
  • Principal Delivery Executive on an Accenture Federal Services (AFS) $100M + AFS 'Diamond Account' managing Enterprise - Level Information Technology operations and support for Customs and Border Protection (CPB) agency 60,000+ end users.
  • - Maximized efficiency of large 275+ FTE staff across 26 functional areas, by mentoring and coaching team leads and management on staffing, training, administrative oversight, personnel issues, and operations and workforce management.
  • - Monitored $68M annual budget allocated to improve technical systems and platforms that provide security and overwatch in securing US borders, Ports of Entry (POE), and trade activities.
  • - Provided oversight for an enterprise Information Technology Project Management Office (PMO). Set the strategy for how the enterprise's portfolio of projects are managed from start to finish, including planning, prioritization and value realization. Participated in governance activities to ensure the enterprise project portfolio remained aligned with strategic objectives to include setting project governance rules, establishing process controls, creating key performance indicators for projects and oversight of project technology.

Global SAP Projects Delivery Manager

TechnipFMC
Houston, Texas
06.2016 - 06.2017
  • Senior SAP Delivery Manager, hand-picked by CIO to take over $5M+ SAP / ERP project portfolio critical to key SUBSEA Finance line of business.
  • Executed Global SAP ERP Program Recovery plan, successful completing six (6) complex, global SAP implementations in Scotland, Norway, California, Brazil, Singapore, and Malaysia.
  • Planted seeds for successful collaboration, overcoming internal resistance with client leadership and diplomatic negotiations, reinstating confidence with client executive management.
  • Expedited reporting by addressing inefficiencies, clarifying roles and responsibilities, and introducing process improvement plans, improving cross-functional team efficiency, and renewing customer confidence and trust.
  • Delivered Global SAP solution in

Delivery Executive - Smart Grid / Intelligent Grid Program

ABB
Houston, Texas
04.2014 - 11.2015
  • Engagement Owner of ABB Enterprise Software / CenterPoint Energy's Smart Grid / Intelligent Grid successful system deployment - the world's largest Smart Grid / Intelligent Grid implementation to date - serving 2.2 million customers in the Houston Power Grid.
  • Recruited to steer the successful recovery of DoE Smart Grid program including implementation of new Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) and 'Smart Grid / Intelligent Grid' infrastructure for Smart Grid technologies.
  • Saved $200M partnership, transforming program plagued with organizational and technical issues, with hands-on leadership and crisis management skills gained from prior military experience.
  • Generated immediate positive impact, establishing 'Operational War Room', initiated twice-daily status briefings to Executive Management, centralized status reporting flow up through the War Room and streamlined critical resource allocation, focusing efforts towards stabilizing and resolving the most critical program exposures.
  • Established and solidified Executive Management relationships, leveraging leadership attributes acquired as career Army Officer to exude confidence, calm C-level stakeholders and successfully stabilizing the program in
  • Finalized program turnaround of largest worldwide Smart-Grid implementation, supporting 2.2M customers across the Houston Electric Grid. U.S. Undersecretary of Science & Energy, Dr. Franklin Orr was on hand for launch.

Senior Program Manager - Enterprise Petro-Technical Software Consolidation Program

Halliburton
Houston, Texas
05.2012 - 02.2014
  • Orchestrated enterprise-level transformation for CIO-directed $40M IT project affecting 15 core Product Service Lines (PSL).
  • - Spearheaded Agile software development initiative to consolidate Petro-Technical oil exploration software from 15 Product Service Lines (PSL's), into an enterprise wide software development configuration, combining efforts from previously siloed applications, into a best practice selection of oil exploration applications on a single platform.
  • - Laid scalable technical foundation currently being used for variety of well engineering applications such as onshore, offshore, deep water, high-pressure/high-temperature, 3D directional profiles, horizontal, and extended reach.
  • - Executed robust change management operations, evangelizing the vision and foreseen benefits, soliciting grass roots level input from end users and line management, ultimately obtaining buy in and successfully rallying support across all organizational levels.

Project Manager - High Performance Computing (HPC) Infrastructure Upgrade Project

Baker Hughes
Houston, Texas
03.2011 - 05.2012
  • Drove modernization projects for high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure covering hardware and applications.
  • Significantly reduced energy use 40% as a result of the upgrade of frontend, middleware, hardware and network infrastructure including improved user interface, updated ticketing / priority-based job queuing system.
  • Added state-of-the-art hardware, boosting computing capacity 50%, enabling faster processing of complex drilling algorithms from geologists and Petrotechnical engineers worldwide.

Head of Software Testing Military Mission Management Computer, Airbus Military A400M Program

Airbus Military
Ulm, Baden-Württemberg
01.2010 - 12.2010
  • Invited by Senior VP of Airbus to extend consulting contract by one year, to apply the organizational principles used in software engineering assignment (see assignment below) to the SOFTWARE TESTING organization to pass A400 Civil Airworthiness Certification.
  • Executed successful Program Recovery, reorganizing 90+ person testing organization, developing and implementing test strategies with complimentary test teams.
  • Optimized planning and cross-functional resource allocation resulting in meeting key Civil Certification milestones.

Head of Software Engineering, Military-Mission Management Computer, Airbus Military A400M Program

Airbus Military
Ulm, Baden-Württemberg
01.2008 - 12.2009
  • Brought on-board (after 2nd missed deadline) to turn around slipping $37M portfolio of 15 aviation/aerospace software projects for software development of the Military-Mission Management Computer (M-MMC) a key flight control system of the Airbus A400M Strategic Cargo Aircraft.
  • Initial planning - Completed deep dive into 15 software development projects, revalidating all requirements, scoping major development activities, and formulating Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), resulting in 200K+ hours of effort.
  • Tactical planning - Re-baselined project plan for entire program, rebuilding a 110+ personnel aerospace industry software development organization from ground up - three large software development teams in located in Ulm Germany, Friedrichshafen Germany and Gatafe Spain - with the correct skill sets and talent to support the plan.
  • Strategic planning - Cross-coordinated the enterprise level avionic software solution with Systems, Hardware, Engineering, Verification and Civil Certification organizations, to validate compliance with strategic requirements to include DO 178B Design Assurance Levels (DAL), Configuration Management, Quality Assurance and Civil Airworthiness.
  • Program Execution - Coached, counseled and mentored all 15 software project managers on monitoring and program plan execution best practices, achieving all milestones and passing 100% of AIRBUS Flight Readiness reviews. This enabled the M-MMC system to be onboard the aircraft and operational for first flight of A400M (MSN 001) on 11 Dec 2009 at Seville, Spain.

Education

Bachelor of Science - BS - Business Administration and Management, General

Brenau University
01.1992

Postgraduate Degree - Management Information Systems, General

US Army Computer Science School
06.1996

Skills

  • Enterprise Transformation
  • Executive Leadership
  • Contract Management
  • Deployment Planning
  • Financial Forecasting
  • IT Capacity Planning
  • C-Suite Relationships
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Nine digit Budgets
  • Strategic Planning

Certification

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Awards

  • "IMPACT" (on the spot) Army Commendation Medal
  • SUCCESSFUL PROGRAM RECOVERY - ENABLED THE MILITARY-MISSION MANAGEMENT COMPUTER (MMMC) TO BE ON BOARD AND OPERATIONAL FOR THE FIRST FLIGHT OF THE A400M (12/11/09)

Timeline

Principal Delivery Manager of Projects, Strategic IT Planning, IT Portfolio Management and Strategy

Tyson Foods
10.2021 - Current

Principal SAP S4 Hana Delivery Manager, Enterprise SAP S4HANA Transformation Program

Tyson Foods
07.2020 - 09.2021

Delivery Executive / Director - Program and Project Management - Southwest Region

Avanade
08.2018 - 05.2020

Global SAP Projects Delivery Manager

TechnipFMC
06.2016 - 06.2017

Delivery Executive - Smart Grid / Intelligent Grid Program

ABB
04.2014 - 11.2015

Senior Program Manager - Enterprise Petro-Technical Software Consolidation Program

Halliburton
05.2012 - 02.2014

Project Manager - High Performance Computing (HPC) Infrastructure Upgrade Project

Baker Hughes
03.2011 - 05.2012

Head of Software Testing Military Mission Management Computer, Airbus Military A400M Program

Airbus Military
01.2010 - 12.2010

Head of Software Engineering, Military-Mission Management Computer, Airbus Military A400M Program

Airbus Military
01.2008 - 12.2009

Bachelor of Science - BS - Business Administration and Management, General

Brenau University

Postgraduate Degree - Management Information Systems, General

US Army Computer Science School

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