J. Ryan Ross

Mr. Ross is a skilled IT professional and program manager with extensive experience providing CIO services, leading large project teams and building project management office (PMO) organizations.  He has delivered numerous multi-million dollar business value initiatives and has developed structured IT and corporate PMO groups.  He has experience in multiple industries, mostly working in consumer product group (CPG) sector and has international experience having managed projects in Europe and Asia.

Mr. Ross has a BA in Marketing from Texas A&M University and an MBA from Texas Christian University.  He is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Certified Scrum Master (CSM).  He is an active member of Project Management Institute (PMI, Dallas Chapter) and Scrum Alliance.  Additionally, he is certified in SAFe (Scaled Agilist and Lean Portfolio Management), ITIL 4 Foundation and Lean Six Sigma and has training in Risk Management and Earned Value Management.

Qualifications include:

  • Corporate and IT Strategy and Operations Planning
  • Program and Project Management
  • Organizational Change Management
  • Application Development and Deploy / SDLC
  • Process Reengineering
  • Client and Vendor Relationships and Negotiations
  • Cross-Functional Team Building
  • Stakeholder and Executive Leadership Communication and Motivation
  • Risk and Issue Management
  • Budget Management

Technical Project Experience includes:

  • SAP ERP (serving multiple roles, with most modules, including HANA Sidecar, BOBJ, CRM Hybris, Enterprise Portal and Concur T&E)
  • ServiceNow ITSM and WFM
  • Salesforce.com
  • IBM Websphere Commerce
  • MS Project Server and SharePoint
  • CA Clarity PPM
  • Custom Software Development

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