^{Jeremy Threatt}

574 Nth 24^th Street Apt. 8A                                                 Cellular: 205.616.9242

Rogers, AR 72758          Email: JeremyThreatt1@gmail.com

Project Manager | Information Technology

_{STRATEGY | LEADERSHIP | PERFORMANCE}

Skilled Project Manager with unique ability to recognize inefficiencies and strategically think through solutions to deliver projects on time and within budget. Innate ability to create and distill project and strategic documentation to various audiences including team members, stakeholders, high-level decision makers, and Vice Presidents. Quick adaptability and capability of working through various road blocks, barriers, and opportunities to projects. Adept at bringing short term solutions when barriers cannot be removed for successful project delivery.

Areas Of Expertise

 

 

 

 

 

§    Infrastructure Technology §    Exceptional Communication §    Systems Development Lifecycle §    Agile Methodology §    Corporate Retail

§    Executive-Level Presentations §    Relationship Management §    Project Planning §    Customer Service §    Matrix Work Environment

§    Strategist §    Leadership §    Project Delivery §    Overcoming of Barriers §    Problem-Solver

 

Professional Experience

 

Walmart  Corporate office, Bentonville, AR 2011 – Present

Project/Relationship Manager | Project Management Shared Services

§ Led an International cross-functional project team consisting of 60+ associates to develop and implement a solution to integrate a Brazil acquired company’s item file system with Walmart’s item file system.

§ Commuted to Brazil on numerous occasions to collaborate with business customers and team members to document business requirements, solve business problems, and brainstorm ideas on how to effectively integrate Brazil stores with Walmart systems.

§ Led an Infrastructure cross-functional project team to develop, document, and implement a solution to upgrade 3,700+ systems globally from Informix 11.5 to Informix 12.0 database software.

§ Collaborated with 10+ international countries to schedule outages to implement and test the Informix 12.10 software upgrade, based on their countries availability and preference.

§ Led a Security cross functional project team, including vendor partners, to implement a solution to help ensure Walmart customers’ credit card information is properly secured and not illegally obtained by potential criminals. This enabled Walmart to proactively avoid any fines and/or penalties associated with customer card information being illegally obtained.

§ Led Infrastructure engineers in the development of a mobile device which is used by Sam’s Club associates to enroll potential new members in the field.

§ Led Infrastructure engineers on the Store Number Expansion (SNE) project. This project removed the issue of Walmart store numbers being exhausted within 3 years, and created the opportunity for more than 10 billion store numbers to be generated worldwide.

§ Consistently deliver projects on time and within budget, while leading and growing team members to reach their full potential.

§ Consistently provide clear and concise direction to team members, while simultaneously keeping project stakeholders and senior leadership updated on projects’ risks, dependencies, and successes.

§ Manage projects via Clarity, Workbench, and Microsoft Project.

§ Led a team of 10 associates to document roles and responsibilities for Project Managers, Program Managers, and Resource Managers. This allowed for role clarifications for each role, thus making each individual department more efficient in the work they were to deliver.

§ Streamline the process for Project Managers to have Infrastructure engineers engaged on their projects from an average of 6 weeks to 4 days.

§ Led a core team of 18 associates to consult and train 300+ Project Managers within 8 weeks on how to engage Infrastructure engineers to work on their respective project(s).

§ Prioritized 200+ Walmart US, Sam’s Clubs, and International projects to be worked on by the Infrastructure department. This ensured that the Infrastructure department worked on the right projects at the right time.

§ Successfully managed and led infrastructure engineers’ tasks and deliverables for 20+ Walmart, Sam’s Clubs, and International projects simultaneously.

§ Utilized Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Visio to define the role of a Relationship Manager. As the Relationship Management role was new to Walmart, the documentation proved to be beneficial to help provide role clarity for associates new to the role.

§ Developed, implemented and lead a bi-monthly meeting for 50+ associates to understand their role and responsibilities as a Relationship Manager to ensure we delivered an exceptional and consistent level of customer service. This also served as a forum to brainstorm process improvements where needed.

§ Collaborated with a team of associates to develop and implement a tool to generate a weekly Infrastructure Resource Capacity report via Excel. This helped Project Managers properly plan their project’s schedule within the boundaries of resource availability to help deliver their project(s) on time.

Walmart Corporate office, Bentonville, AR 2009 – 2011

Systems Engineer | Windows Server Engineer

§ Collaborated with a cross functional team to architect, implement and test a VMware vSphere virtual Windows server solution to be distributed to 50+ Walmart distribution centers nationwide. The solution has estimated to save Walmart $100+ million in server cost and maintenance.

§ Provided guidance and supportive documentation for international countries such as Brazil, Canada, India, United Kingdom and etc. so they can have the autonomy to implement and support their own servers.

§ Responsible for maintaining 500+ Windows servers domestically and internationally.

Nucor Steel, Tuscaloosa, AL 2009 – 2009

Business Analyst/Programmer | Internship

§ Collaborated with a cross functional team to replace an outdated Lotus Notes inventory management system with a web based application to programmatically keep track of Nucor’s material inventory. This solution removed the need for human intervention, which also removed the possibility of human error.

Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs, Tuscaloosa, AL 2008 – 2008

Business Analyst/Programmer | Internship

§ Collaborated with a cross functional team to develop and implement a web application to assist and track the progress of dislocated workers in the state of Alabama. This tool provided insights for the department to brainstorm ideas to improve the unemployment rate for the state of Alabama.

Hibbett Sports, Tuscaloosa, AL 2005 – 2009

Business Analyst/Programmer | Internship

§ Effectively managed a staff of 10+ associates to ensure daily tasks are completed properly and on time.

Education

 

Bachelor of Science, Management Information Systems/Computer Science, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, GPA 3.40

Skills

§    Microsoft Office Suite §    Leadership §    Remedy §    Retail §    Microsoft Project

§    Clarity §    Workbench §    SDLC §    Iterative, Waterfall, and Agile Methodologies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Community Leadership & Training

            

 

§ Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) v3 Certified

§ Chosen as 1 of 8 people in the company to participate on the Next Generation Panel for the Business Leadership Series program (Participated in a panel with Mike Duke, former Walmart President, CEO)

§ Mentor for Mi Futuro, a youth mentoring program to motivate 8^th graders to begin planning for future accomplishments

§ Participant with the Bentonville Church of Christ in providing Thanksgiving meals for the homeless (2011, 2012, 2013, & 2014)

§ Member of the “Meals on Wheels” campaign, used to deliver meals for people that are unable to provide and prepare meals for their family

§ 2012 Excellence in Community Engagement award recipient

§ Invited and took part of a mentoring circle with Walmart Information Systems’ SVP Ben Hasan

§ Providing mentorship for Walmart’s summer interns (2010 – 2014)

§ Keynote speaker at a University of Alabama Management Information Systems (MIS) program for Junior and Senior level students

§ ‘Dale Carnegie Effective Communications & Human Relations’ course graduate and award recipient

§ Leader of a mentoring circle for new hires that have been with Walmart less than 1 year

§ 3x Associate of the Month award recipient

§ Project Management Professional (PMP) certification in process