Thomas Petite
IT leader with extensive experience in relationship management, program and project management (PMO) and customer relations. Skilled in both strategic and tactical planning with demonstrated ability to manage multi-year transformational programs in regulated and non-regulated environments. Progressively responsible career in Fortune 100 companies who has the ability to absorb complex technical concepts and communicate them to a non-technical audience effectively. Flexible and adaptable in exercising judgment in a dynamic matrix environment and able to manage competing priorities.
• Senior leader of PMO providing tactical, strategic and financial guidance and standards for team of project and program managers
• Program lead of global implementation of CTMS for Merck, with IT benefit of $6 million and business benefit of $10 million dollars annually.
• Lead Program Manager for the integration and merger of Merck and Schering Plough for R&D IT.
• Executive team member assigned to develop business cases for business and IT transformational projects and make decisions on which programs would be funded.
• Division lead for global SAP implementation. This allowed single global processes for finance (FBM), supply chain management (SCM), source to settle (STS) and order to cash (OTC). One version of the truth.
• Dynamic leader with unique combination of technical as well as management capabilities. Formed and have led shared services for database and business intelligence.
• Vendor management. Off shore and on shore. Member of executive team to determine outsource partners.
• Sigma: Executive Belt & Yellow Belt; ITIL IT Service Management Foundation Certification; ORACLE Certified Professional
• Experience in regulatory environments including Sarbanes Oxley and FDA CFR Part 11.
• MS Degree in Information Systems Management from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
Specialties:Client Relationship Management; Portfolio & Program Management; Shared Services creation and management; Strategic Planning; Business Case Development; Change Management; Strategic Sourcing; Process Change and Re- engineering.