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Victor Yepez

Victor Yepez

Summary

Senior-level practitioner with successful completion of 13 projects in last 10 years leveraging large IT/Business consulting, Coaching Leadership, and cross-industry experience. Project Management professional who exploits Change Management, Agility to lead, inspire team engagement and resilience.

Overview

17
years of professional experience
1

Certified Change Practitioner, Prosci

1

CAPM Certified Associate Project Management, PMI

1

SAFe Lean Portfolio Manager

1

Partner, 5 Points Consulting, Inc.

Skills

  • Project Mgt, Business Change Mgt integration
  • Large-scale delivery, from need to solution
  • Contract, Vendor, and Value Management
  • Stakeholder engagement for strategy alignment
  • Fit to purpose tailoring of methodology, process
  • Effective handling of complexity, volatility, risk

Certification

  • Certified Change Practitioner, Prosci
  • CAPM Certified Associate Project Management, PMI
  • SFC Scrum Fundamentals Certified, VMEdu, Inc.
  • SAFe Lean Portfolio Management, Scaled Agile, Inc.
  • SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager, Scaled Agile, Inc.
  • SAFe Agilist, Scaled Agile, Inc.
  • SAFe Scrum Master, Scaled Agile, Inc.
  • Change Management Professional, Acuity Institute, School of Business Leadership
  • Change Agent In-Store Customer Experience, Office Depot
  • Dale Carnegie trainer for Effective Communications & Human Relations/Skills for Success
  • PMP certification in progress. Expected February 2024

Work History

NeoGraphite, Inc.

Managing Partner - Project Management, PMO, OCM
07.2014 - Current

Job overview

Client engagements in the last 10 years while not on Contract or in Industry :

PMO Advisor

State Employees' Credit Union | Hybrid - Raleigh, NC

  • Advised leadership on strategic steps and factors to scale IT PMO from supportive to enterprise level
  • Constructed PM integration framework. Promoted OCM approach to build PMO community of practice
  • Drafted SOPs including OKRs for portfolio intake, planning of over 100 active, 300 potential projects

Project Manager
Hertz | Onsite - Estero, FL

  • Re-planned $47.8M global, 11k users Fleet Mgt./OCM project to resolve unattainable go-live
  • Coordinated disposition of 116 Use Cases, 357 change requests, 500 past due issues to support OCM
  • Achieved deadlines through schedule performance of 205 integrations, Infor EAM, Oracle EBS

Project Manager
Argano at Fiserv | Remote

  • Led hybrid Tableau analytics project to optimize debit/credit card portfolio, cardholder behavior

Project Manager, Sales Support
Argano At Alamo Colleges District | Remote

  • Authored Statement of Work, facilitated client reviews for Data Warehouse, Tableau project
  • Formulated project charter, RACI Chart, workplan. Tailored methodology with rolling wave planning

5 Points Consulting, Inc.

Partner - Project Management, PMO, Business Change
07.2014 - 03.2023

Job overview

Engagements:

Project Manager - Organizational Change Management

Oracle At Berkshire Hathaway Energy | Remote

  • Formulated workplan to manage OCM inter-project dependencies for 44 cloud ERP deployments, 4-year roadmap. Oracle HCM, Financials, CIS, Capital Projects, WAM
  • Met deadlines, monitored milestone performance using Primavera. Established Risk Management Plan

Project Manager

Oracle at Southern Company | Remote

  • On time delivery Customer Care and Billing (CC&B) solution for commercial, industrial accounts
  • Supervised teams that planned and completed data conversion, 12 integrations, 15 billing rates

Project Manager, Development Lead

Oracle at WSSC Water | Hybrid - Laurel, MD

  • Orchestrated design/configuration of Oracle WAM, MWM, C2M
  • Directed development, testing of 82 integrations with legacy and Oracle EBS
  • Influenced cutover strategy, supported dress rehearsals, maintained user training, cutover workplan

Project Manager

Oracle at The City of Seattle, electric and water utility | Hybrid - Seattle, WA

  • On time delivery of cloud Utilities Meter Solution (MSCS) for IT/OCM integration into CC&B program
  • Guided delivery of 115 extensions, 20 integrations and data conversion. Tailored Oracle methodology

Project Manager

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions at Costco Wholesale | Hybrid - Raleigh, NC

  • Stabilized Retail Refunds processing impacted by one-year client satisfaction issue. Reinstated revenue
  • Formed 10-developer team for accelerated Waterfall/Agile resolution of 118 defects

PMO Manager Latin America

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions | Hybrid - Latin America

  • Enabled account, strategy reviews for Latin America
  • Stewarded POS solution delivery, five PMs, teams in US, Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina

Project Manager

Restoration Parts Unlimited | Hybrid - Lebanon, OH

  • Recommended Change roadmap to aggregate five (5) companies into common operating model
  • Led Equity-backed 10-project ERP initiative intended to maximize company valuation in 18 months

Agilist and Change Management Lead

Argano at Suez Water Technologies & Solutions | Hybrid - Philadelphia, PA

  • Reinvigorated Tableau project, proposed CoE and Change roadmap for improved water analytics

Project Manager

Argano at MattressFirm | Hybrid - Houston, TX

  • Recovered Tableau/OCM project at 2,400 retail stores and Corporate with three-month slippage
  • Re-prioritized scope, risks to deliver 74 analytical dashboards, two (2) datamarts at Amazon AWS

Office Depot

Sr. Manager IT PMO
01.2007 - 07.2014

Job overview

  • Delivered annual portfolios of 45 - 60 projects (aggregate budget: $37M - $40M)
  • Engaged IT Directors to control performance, competing constraints of on-premise and cloud initiatives
  • Instituted project dashboard, facilitated monthly project briefings with Senior Leadership
  • Hired, supervised, mentored team of 20 PMs, and refined portfolio staffing requirements
  • Directed merger integration with 13 PMs to undertake 600 new stores with existing technology stack
  • Implemented Clarity PPM, prepared PMO playbook and Risk Management Plans
  • Stewarded $2M benefits Oracle Transportation. Directed $10M harmonization of 272k European SKUs
  • Implemented Virtual Warehouse for eCommerce 12k SKUs, Oracle Retail Demand Forecasting
  • Optimized customer loyalty, store revenue, and Associate talent (435). Won nationwide Sales contest

Lydian Data Services

PMO Director
08.2006 - 11.2006

Job overview

  • Incorporated expertise, capacity planning for initial reset of Project Office with team of 16 PMs and BAs
  • Re-defined portfolio and PMO operating model to support Professional Services and internal initiatives

Education

University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA

Bachelor of Science from BDIC: Computer Sciencies - Business Administration

Software Competencies

MS project, Smartsheet, Primavera, Asana, Clarity PPM, Jira, Visio, Slack, Office 365

Victor Yepez