Peter Bates
Peyton, CO - 80831
Vice
President / Sr Director / Director
Information Technology
Manufacturing/
Computer Software Industry
Innovative
Information Technology (IT) executive, seeking decision-making role to provide
vision and leadership in leveraging technology to develop and implement
performance-driven, quality-focused, business-enabling IT services
A
service oriented business partner with more than 20 years of IT leadership in
support of planning, implementing and maintaining enterprise communication and
information (voice and data) systems with 10+ years experience managing
technical teams and partnering with executive management for strategic planning
and business enablement
ACHIEVEMENTS
AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Certified Project Management
Professional (PMP) and Six Sigma Black Belt with strong organizational,
analytical and detailed planning skills driving the effective delivery of
large, complex, high value projects
Passionate about ensuring
alignment of reliable, cost effective, and well suited IT services to critical
business operations and the realization of business unit objectives.
Established IT Governance
framework to ensure the alignment of IT initiatives and infrastructure to
business goals and objectives
A proactive, passionate,
enthusiastic, and trusted team player that builds and maintains strong
professional relationships with stake-holders, peers and staff and provides
guidance, persuades, and influences decision makers
An adaptable, self-governing,
self-motivated leader with a proactive “can-do” approach to meeting objectives
and overcoming voice and data challenges with urgency and integrity
An effective, data driven,
analytical thinker, adept at considering all alternatives to solve a problem
Former USAF Commissioned
Officer (1987 – 1996)
Former Vice President Board
of Directors, Peyton School District 23 JT, (2007 – 2013).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Gates
Corporation, Denver, CO (2001 to 2015)
The
Gates Corporation, based in Denver, Colorado USA, is a manufacturer of power
transmission belts and a manufacturer of fluid power products
Progressive
(In reverse order):
North
American Regional Director, Information Technology
Director
IT Risk Management
Director
IT Business Services
IT
Process Improvement Manager
Guided IT team in
computer and network operations for 28 regional facilities in a $3B
manufacturing company with emphasis on high-quality delivery of communication
and information services––developed innovative, functional, scalable, reliable
and cost effective voice and data solutions focused on back-office automation,
end-user adoption, and business achievement
Partnered with
production leaders to set strategic and tactical objectives for Manufacturing
Operations Management (MOM) systems to exploit computer and network resources
for competitive advantage––directed development and systems implementation to
enable continuous improvement and enterprise-control system integration
Directed IT team in
the $35M consolidation, relocation and optimization of manufacturing
capability, capacity and quality enabling 30% increase in operational capacity
and 100% improvement in product quality
Led IT team on
emergency relocation of manufacturing facility––coordinated IT resources,
business and site management teams, and vendors to enable resumption of
network, computing and voice services within 4 days after tornado demolished
assembly facility
Guided organization
through strategic transformation of IT infrastructure services to a managed
services outsourcing vendor resulting in cohesive support of company business
objectives focused on best practices and benchmarking
Performed project plan
oversight, business enablement, and organization change management for $30M
Oracle e-business suite ERP implementation, $5M PTC Windchill, Product
Lifecycle Management (PLM) migration, and $2M Infor EAM application upgrade and
deployment
Steered IT team in
physical move of data center infrastructure and hosted applications from
corporate headquarters to an external datacenter without downtime to the
business—200+ servers hosting 100+ business applications moved
Provided guidance,
managed plan and directed actions to assess risk; and to document, test and
maintain general computing controls to ensure their effectiveness, maintain the
integrity of all systems and data, and to ensure IT compliance to
Sarbanes-Oxley Act Section 404 (SOX) requirements
Provided leadership of
IT Project Management Office (PMO), project/program oversight, and IT
architecture development
Led international team
in effort to define global data standards
Implemented regional
IT associate professional development program
Compuware
Corporation, Denver, CO (1998
to 2001)
Compuware
Corporation is a mainframe software company. Compuware Corporation empowers the
world’s largest companies to advance their mainframe intellectual property to
meet the demands of the digital economy.
Senior
Architect for Software Process Improvement
Coordinated
corporate initiatives and developed plans to implement Software Capability
Maturity Model (SW CMM)-based continuous improvement program
Supported
clients in SW CMM-based improvement efforts and conducted CMM-based assessments
to enable maturity level progression
Coached
and trained continuous improvement and change management methodologies
Computer
Data Systems Inc., Colorado Springs, CO (1996
to 1998)
Computer
Data Systems, Inc. does 90 percent of its computer service business with
federal and state governments, primarily in setting up and operating data
processing systems for its client agencies and selling its own prepackaged
software to them
Chief
Information Officer/IT Director (McKesson Outsourcing)
Senior
Software Process Improvement Consultant
Provided
strategic focus for major process re-engineering effort of advanced weapon
system software
Conducted
SW development process appraisals and developed action plans that reduced SW
development time and application defects
EDUCATIONAL
QUALIFICATIONS
BS Electrical Engineering,
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO
Professional
Certifications:
Project Management
Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute, LLC. 314268, November 2005 –
November 2018
Software Engineering
Institute (SEI) Lead Assessor for Capability Maturity Model®-Based Appraisals,
Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, February 1998 –
February 2002
ITIL Foundations, ITIL
Certification Management Board (ICMB), Starting July 2006
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt,
Academy Associates, Starting November 2001
ACCREDITATIONS,
AFFILIATIONS & ASSOCIATIONS
PMI
Project Management Professional (PMP) (2005-2018)
SEI
CMM Lead Assessor (1998-2002)
ITIL Foundations Certification (2006)
US
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