David Pyle

Sr. IT Manager

Development, Delivery, Engagements

Experienced IT professional focused on successful definition and delivery of technology and digital transformation projects within schedule and budget. Collaborates with business, stakeholders, and management to understand needs and develops plans to drive projects with measurable business results. Works with sales to create proposals and staffing plans focused on revenue and margin targets. Identifies areas of opportunity for growth with existing engagements. Experience in Finance, Healthcare, Insurance, and other sectors.

Key Skills

Project Management: Manage small and large projects involving SaaS-based products, integrations and custom solutions. Ensure Agile and Waterfall methodology best practices are implemented. Manage team backlog, user stories definition, sprint planning, development, test and delivery processes.
Resource Management: Identify skillsets required for projects, build appropriate teams with employees and sub-contractors, both local and offshore, and manage resources assignments. Oversee off-shore resources to avoid issues around culture, time zone, local work practices, and connectivity.
Communications: Communicate effectively and appropriately among stakeholders, project team, company finance and executives. Ensure clients are fully informed of all aspects of projects thru status reports, issues, risk logs and other artifacts.
Business Analysis: Collaborate with users and project stakeholders to understand requirements of the business, internal/external interfaces, regulatory restrictions, and desired improvements to business productivity. Identify product gaps, prioritize and escalate issues, and develop workarounds where necessary. Work closely with development, test, and delivery to ensure a quality delivered product. Focus on identifying and mitigating risks and gaps.
Financial Management: Manage T&M and fixed price contracts to maintain appropriate revenue and margin. Monitor financials at various levels and communicate to internal and external stakeholders.
Contract Management: Ensure project progression within budget and schedule. Identify, track and communicate risks and issues to appropriate levels. Manage scope and contract changes throughout project, driving contract completion with deliverables and signoffs. Coordinate interactions between clients, partners, sub-contractors and vendors.
Client Proposals & Demos: Understand client needs, pain points, abilities and limitations, and demonstrate how positive change can be achieved. Propose solutions taking into account estimation models, project plans, risk, and costs. Write SOW/LOEs to detail project deliverables and contractual obligations.
Consulting Experience: 15+ years experience consulting with clients in the Financial Services, Healthcare, Insurance, Telecom, and State and Federal Government industries. Working experience in each discipline of the software lifecycle: solution conception, requirements, development, test, training, implementation and go-live. Able to leverage technical background and skills to support many industries.

David Pyle CV