Regina Grayer
Summary
Innovative, forward-thinking, and results-driven, I am Senior Project Manager with 10+ years of experience leading large-scale projects, managing global teams, and driving overall project success. I specialize in end-to-end project and portfolio management, from ideation to execution, leveraging strong communication and negotiation skills to manage stakeholder expectations. I have consistently made significant impacts by ensuring timely delivery of projects within budget without compromising quality standards. I excel at identifying and mitigating risks, reaching milestones, and managing deliverables, by establishing strong and positive relationships with team members, stakeholders, and customers.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
3
3
Certification
Work History
Senior Project Manager
Tyson Foods
Springdale
01.2020 - Current
- Led the effort to develop and deploy a standardized data visualization system across 25 locations, saving an average of 2 million dollars per plant.
- Led IT deployment for all systems, software, hardware, and network infrastructure for new poultry and prepared foods processing plants being built.
- Implemented best practices for project management across multiple teams and departments.
- Collaborated with project sponsors and subject matter experts to drive innovation and automation projects from ideation to implementation.
- Directed global projects involving cross-functional teams across multiple geographies and business units.
- Oversaw application teams coordinating SAP integration testing and rollout to align with business strategy for SAP S4 HANA transition.
- Coordinated training sessions to enhance team skills and knowledge sharing.
- Analyzed risks and developed mitigation strategies for ongoing projects.
- Liaised between senior management, project team members and clients to ensure effective communication throughout the duration of the project.
- Created detailed reports on project status, issues, risks and opportunities.
- Negotiated contracts with third-party vendors when necessary.
- Monitored internal financial budgets to measure against projections.
- Completed thorough risk assessments and deployed management and response strategies to prevent roadblocks.
Senior Technical Project Manager
Walmart
Bentonville
01.2018 - 12.2019
- Lead Walmart’s global information security instructor-led training program where I trained hundreds of associates on how to prevent, detect, and respond to various cyber security threats
- Assessed team's current compliance with the NIST and ISO 27001 frameworks
- Planned and executed yearly cybersecurity conferences (Sp4rkCon) as well as monthly webinars for internal and external attendees including strategic planning, budgeting, communications, marketing, vendor management, facilitating, and reporting of these events
- Designed courses and facilitated classes that delivered critical content around securing data to the enterprise, including associates, customers, the community, and vendor partners using collaborative technologies such as video and web conferencing
- Maintained Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans while coordinating and facilitating quarterly plan testing in case of extended loss of service
- Analyzed the workflow of security awareness team and then implemented process improvement plans by creating new procedures complete with training documentation, redefining standard operating procedures for the team and thus reducing time spent on administrative and repetitive tasks while offering streamlined knowledge transfer and improved on-boarding
- Managed internal and external compliance audits of the security awareness program by providing documented evidence of program to auditors and mapping action plans to ensure compliance with company policies and procedures as well as federal regulations such as SOX, HIPPA, ISO-27001 and PCI
- Planned, coordinated, and conducted risk assessments for various business units
- Managed large-scale projects that included crisis management, crisis communications, incident response planning and strategy, as well as pandemic planning
- Worked with internal teams to determine risk appetite of various organizations, implementing several measures, such as creating firewall rules, to enhance intrusion detection and intrusion prevention methods
- Information Security – Training and Awareness, Bentonville, AR
IT Project Manager
Walmart
Bentonville
01.2015 - 12.2018
- Collaborated across the organization to troubleshoot large scale, widespread issues that were impacting to the business and played a key role in driving them to resolution while simultaneously communicating status reports to executive team
- Spearheaded first ever organization-wide risk assessment and led Business Impact Analysis effort to prioritize risk mitigation activities by business area
- Planned, coordinated and conducted risk assessments for various business units
- Managed large-scale projects that included crisis management, crisis communications, incident response planning and strategy, as well as pandemic planning
- Communicated quarterly risk status to executive team and designed business continuity and disaster recovery plans
- Spearheaded data migration from out of spec physical servers into cloud infrastructure (SaaS/AWS)
- Analyzed the workflow of internal teams and then implemented process improvement plans by creating new procedures complete with training documentation, redefining standard operating procedures for the team thus reducing time spent on administrative and repetitive tasks while offering streamlined knowledge transfer and improved on-boarding
- Analyzed Risk Management initiatives and followed up by developing, executing, and improving processes that support business decisions
- Hosted weekly technical workshops for up to 100 associates at a time to further end user systems training and change management
- Managed Risk Management projects via identifying and mapping action plans while upholding compliance with company policies and procedures
- Recognized by senior leadership for being an advocate for making our customers our number one priority and also giving to the local community
- Promoted tight-knit team culture by creating, planning, and executing quarterly team events per year
- Coordinated and maintained Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plans in case of extended loss of service events, including the plan for internal teams and also played a key role in driving the creation of BC/DR plans for key vendors and suppliers that were critical to the team infrastructure
- Global Risk Management – System Implementation and Innovation, Bentonville, AR
Sr. Systems Engineer - Infrastructure Ops/Engineering
Walmart
Bentonville
01.2011 - 12.2015
- Led Walmart enterprise-wide digital transformation projects for video/audio/web conferencing solutions
- Assisted in the research, development, and deployment of future collaborative tools, implementing 6 new solutions during my tenure, including Cisco WebEx, Cisco Jabber, VOIP, and Zoom
- Traveled domestically and internationally to provide onsite support for executive level meetings and managing large scale shows and events for internal and external attendees
- Strategically planned and executed large scale events for Walmart, including budgeting, marketing, communications and hosting
- Installed, configured, and administered video conferencing hardware and software domestically and internationally
- Collaborated with event production crew to build, install, and configure mobile A/V hardware to broadcast Walmart shows domestically and internationally
- Responsible for managing 1300+ Cisco/Tandberg video conferencing endpoints both domestic and international
- Created knowledge base articles and training materials and instructed training classes for Cisco video conferencing, teleconferencing and web conferencing tools for both administrators and end users
- Coordinated and maintained Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plans in case of extended loss of service events, including the plan for internal teams and also played a key role in driving the creation of BC/DR plans for vendors and suppliers that were critical to the team infrastructure
- Information Systems – Collaboration Engineering/Shows and Events, Bentonville, AR
Education
High School -
Madison Academic Magnet High School
Jackson, TN05.2005
Some College (No Degree) - Computer Science
University of Tennessee At Martin
Martin, TNSkills
- Project and Portfolio Management
- Agile Coach
- Digital Transformation and Automation
- Risk Management
- System Implementation
- Strategic Planning and Execution
- Multi-Project Oversight
- Training and Mentoring
- Continuous Improvement
- Lifelong Learner
Certification
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt
- Comptia Security +
- Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) v3
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Senior Project Manager
Tyson Foods
01.2020 - Current
Senior Technical Project Manager
Walmart
01.2018 - 12.2019
IT Project Manager
Walmart
01.2015 - 12.2018
Sr. Systems Engineer - Infrastructure Ops/Engineering
Walmart
01.2011 - 12.2015
High School -
Madison Academic Magnet High School
Some College (No Degree) - Computer Science
University of Tennessee At Martin