
Christopher Forehand
Sr. Lead Business IT TPM - Product Delivery Mgr.
Technology / Internet
About Christopher Forehand:
- Sr. Lead Project and Program Manager – Business and IT, including hardware and software partners, regulatory agencies, and customers while leading PMO/PMP/Scrum/Sprint meetings activities across multiple work streams
- PMO Leader, Director/Manager skillsets, former up to 80 personal team leader with world-wide operations with many site visits, guiding Sr. Leaders on companywide partner initiatives in many PMO evangelist roles.
- Developed, managed, and reported on Franchise Critical banking processes and procedures, updating critical banking systems while implement PMO standards (PTS, Jira, Agile implementations, with forecasting, budgets, cross-group budgeting time vs. actual costs per Dev, PM, Test, Business costs.)
- Sr. PM of the company’s “C” level presentations, including world-wide conferences, solutions matter expert in Business to IT solutions implemented for BAU.
Experience
- Develops, manages, and oversees complex technical programs across business and IT domains
- Over 24 years of direct customer site visits to direct ODM, OEM, partner engagement including solve pressing technical issues, coordinating the RoB, from end-to-end owning the whole events calendar, prep work, post work, and closer with stakeholder teams.
- CSU leader of partner calls, and offsite complete leadership, including presenting to large audiences as solutions matter expert for a product rollout, with full customer journey mapping for enterprise customer experience.
- Analytic mindset - resources, able to dig into data and create reports and PowerPoints, consultant/BA background – Companywide and vender / client presentations for business to IT relations.
- Expert Level Excel and PowerPoint skills – 10+ years “C” Level Corporate Executive Program / Project presentation with deep-dive analytical data to help executives and managers make data/market data-driven decisions at company/industry levels.
Education
Continued Education - AI Cloud Implementations and Transformations with enterprise hardware and software top 500 companies world-wide.
Banking IT / SAP (ERP, CRB), Citibank, JPM/Chase SWIFT, SSI, full-service IT PMO regulatory, compliance, operations transformations - Cash and Securities Consolidated Custody Reporting for world-wide banking.
PMP /PMO Leadership and Agile Implementation - former Microsoft Press Contributor for Agile Mythologies.
EE and CS implementation PMO and Manager of process and procedures - Battery and Motherboard certifications, PC Industry designs, Allen Bradly control systems, PC and Industrial fail-safe fault tolerance, software regulatory and compliance transformations.