Technical Project Management — Complex Cross-Functional Delivery
Executive-grade program leadership for enterprise software, infrastructure, and integration initiatives — including project rescue when delivery has gone sideways.
Who this is for
- Organizations running enterprise programs that need executive-grade PMO leadership, not just task tracking.
- Companies in the middle of a release management transition, ERP cutover, or system integration that requires senior delivery oversight.
- Programs in trouble — missed milestones, stalled vendors, fragmented stakeholders — where a project rescue is the realistic path forward.
- Engineering organizations needing release management discipline applied to overnight deployments and quality gates.
What I provide
- End-to-end program ownership — charter, plan, execution, adoption.
- PMO governance — scope control, RAID logs, dependency management, documentation standards.
- Release management — overnight deployments, runbooks, validation steps, quality gates, rollback procedures.
- Cross-functional leadership — across business, engineering, operations, vendors, and executive sponsors.
- Executive-ready communications — dashboards, status briefs, decision logs, escalations in business language.
- Project rescue — diagnosing why delivery stalled, restoring stakeholder alignment, rebuilding the plan.
- Scaled Agile, hybrid, and waterfall delivery — methodology fit to context, not enforced for ideology.
Engagement models
Program Lead
Full-time-equivalent ownership of a single program through delivery. Best for enterprise initiatives needing senior PMO leadership end-to-end.
Release Manager
Embedded release management for a defined release train, including overnight deployments, runbooks, and quality gate enforcement.
Project Rescue
90-day rescue engagement for stalled or failing programs. Diagnose, stabilize, restore delivery — then transition to internal ownership or extended program lead.
Senior Technical Project Manager and Release Manager at Apex / Optum (2022–2023): created integrated project plans, supervised cross-functional delivery teams, facilitated overnight major code deployments, defined quality gates, and tracked test automation results across enterprise healthcare systems. Prime DoD contract program oversight at Tinker Air Force Base. Project rescue lead on a complex Domino/Oracle integration for a major Kansas company — drove issue resolution, stakeholder alignment, and delivery recovery on a program at risk of failure.
Typical outcomes
- Integrated plan, RAID log, and stakeholder map that hold up to executive scrutiny.
- Releases delivered on schedule with documented runbooks and tested rollback procedures.
- Stalled programs returned to a credible baseline within 90 days.
- Vendor accountability tightened; deliverables aligned to contract terms.
- Documentation, decision logs, and operating rhythm that survive after my engagement ends.
Program in trouble — or simply too important to leave to chance?
The first conversation is exploratory — we walk through the program, the stakeholders, and where the delivery risk actually sits, and decide together whether a senior PM engagement is the right move.
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