Program & Project Management · Chandler, Arizona

Complex programs, delivered.

Twenty-five years of systems integration, product launches, and platform migrations inside American Express, Wells Fargo, LifeLock/Symantec, and startups. Now on contract through WestVector Solutions, putting that experience within reach of smaller companies.

The Record

Numbers, not adjectives

6 weeks

to deliver an MIS replacement that had been in development for two years

8 days

from start to a live member self-service portal, including VRU and operations

$2M

of incorrectly sequenced initiatives stopped before they did damage

Where This Helps Most

Three situations that keep recurring

Drawn from environments that demanded speed and the discipline to ship things that hold: large companies and startups.

A legacy system that has to go

Billing, catalog, storefront, and platform migrations: moving a business off the system it has outgrown without stopping the business.

  • Legacy-to-modern platform migrations
  • Data and content migration
  • Cutover planning with near-zero downtime
  • Operations handoff and documentation

Recovering a stalled program

Work that has slipped far enough that the plan no longer describes reality, and someone has to say so before it can be fixed.

  • Independent assessment of true status
  • Re-sequencing and critical path repair
  • Impact modeling for decision makers
  • Delivery to a defensible new date

A product that has to launch

New products and services taken from concept to market, with the partners, testing, and operations readiness handled.

  • Launch programs and partner integration
  • User acceptance testing that sticks
  • Operations and support readiness
  • A schedule someone commits to out loud

Method

AI in the delivery, not in the pitch

I spent much of my career leading software development teams to delivered solutions. Today I lead an AI team the same way, with the same discipline, and I ship working software with it.

A recent client compliance build went live in four and a half hours, covering the deployment, the API integration, a customer facing form, the test pass, and the written operations guide. The interesting question for a program manager is not whether the tools work. It is what that kind of compression does to an estimate, to a critical path, and to the size of a team. That is the question I bring to a program.

WestVector also designs and manufactures production hardware for the experimental aircraft industry, and migrates small retailers off legacy platforms. That is not a side interest. It is a standing reminder that a schedule is only real if a working product ships at the end of it.

Working Together

How an engagement works

Entity
WestVector Solutions LLC, established 2022
Structure
One principal on the work. No agency in the middle, no bench to staff
Start
Scope, rate, and start date in writing before anything begins
Shape
Full program, fractional, or a fixed scope assessment
Location
Remote, or hybrid in the Phoenix metro

PMP, PMI, current to 2029 · CSM, Scrum Alliance · B.S. Industrial Engineering, Purdue University

Get in Touch

Tell me what is stuck.

A short description of the program, the date you are working to, and where it is slipping is enough to start. I will tell you honestly whether I am the right fit.