Pierre Botros
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Mount Olive Township, NJ, United States
Toptal member since February 7, 2022
Pierre has led organizational effectiveness initiatives for 12+ years, most recently in product engineering at IQVIA and previously as a business analyst at BJ's. He has focused on technology roadmaps, program/portfolio management, operational restructuring, product management, process improvement, and operations/service management. Pierre has worked with data management, product engineering, operations, finance, logistics, marketing, field ops, and IT in retail/logistics and healthcare/pharma.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile Transformation
- Complex Program Management
- Engineering
- Enterprise Product Portfolios
- Portfolio Management
- Project Management
- Risk Management
- Technical Product Management
Work Experience
Product Engineering Associate IT Director
IQVIA
- Saved $4 million annually in master data management (MDM) operations through procurement of web harvesting and MDM tools, such as Trillium Quality, Telerik, Intuli, and OnOph anonymization.
- Facilitated 20+ Lean Sigma Kaizens, saving up to $300,000 per event.
- Managed a multiyear, $4.8 million MDM program that delivered $3.1 million in savings and $4.5 million in revenue.
- Structured and managed a multiyear transformation program with a $13.5 million budget, supporting 20 clients across seven global regions in the first year.
- Developed a go-to-market strategy that reduced the deployment time of two product suites by 70%, costs by 75%, and increased adoption by 300%.
- Managed vendor relationships with multiple IT staffing agencies.
Business Process Analyst
BJ's Wholesale Club
- Managed the ITIL process, requirements, UI/UX analysis, user testing, and training for finance, logistics, sales operations, and marketing eCommerce initiatives.
- Led the business analysis of the data center migration from TJX to Wipro.
- Initiated the quality assurance team and led performance testing using LoadRunner and HP QuickTest Professional (QTP).
- Developed a portfolio management workbook using Excel VBA for the IT portfolio.
- Built an inventory equipment management application on VB.NET to automate manual activities.
Project History
Global Master Data Management Product Suite
Structured and led a global master data management product suite roadmap, modernization, and data governance portfolio of programs supporting 20 clients across seven global regions in the first year alone.
• Recovered troubled projects globally and produced annual savings.
• Managed Agile and DevOps adoption and CI/CD pipelines.
• Led the product roadmap and adoption of an MDM maintenance application, global MDM data model, reference data store, and virtual data transformation tool.
• Leveraged EBX and Hadoop technologies in a big data platform running on Apache Mesos.
Data Warehouse Global Market Basket and Reporting Suite
Managed a $10 million-dollar program to reengineer a data warehouse market basket, global reporting, and BI in the US, Europe, and Asia, supporting $600 million in operations and driving $1.9 million in annual savings with $1.75 million in revenue.
Big Data Enterprise Product Portfolio
Led two product suites for a big data platform, reducing deployment time by 70%, costs by 75%, and increasing adoption by 300%.
Master Data Management Modernization Program
Managed and directed the program and solution design for a multiyear, $4.8 million program from initiation to launch, achieving $3.1 million in savings and $4.5 million in revenue.
Education
Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA)
University of Massachusetts Boston - Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Master's Degree in Computer Engineering
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth - North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, USA
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth - North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, USA
Certifications
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
Scrum Alliance
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Lean Sigma Advanced Continuous Improvement
TBM Consulting
Skills
Tools
Jira, Confluence, MATLAB, Atlassian, LoadRunner, HP QuickTest Professional (QTP)
Paradigms
Management, Database Design, DevOps
Industry Expertise
Lean Six Sigma
Other
Project Management, Software Engineering, Schedule Optimization, Risk Management, Communication Management, Stakeholder Management, Resource Management, Cost Management, Scope Management, Scrum Master, Kaizen, Engineering, Complex Program Management, Agile Transformation, Integration, Technical Project Management, Planning, IT Operations Management (ITOM), Strategy, Optimization, Process Optimization, IT Project Management, Finance, Operations Management, Scrum Product Owner, Portfolio Management, Technical Product Management, Enterprise Product Portfolios, Excel VBA, Procurement, New Product Rollout, PI Planning, Technical Delivery Management, CTO, Distributed Systems, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Microprocessor-based System Design, Computer Architecture, Circuit Design, Computer Networking, Probability Theory, Mathematics, Digital Electronics, Operating Systems, Communication, Robotics, Machine Vision, C++, Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET), Human Resources (HR), Enterprise Product Ownership, Enterprise Architecture, VB.NET, Jira Administration, Microsoft, ITIL, Business Analysis, Data Center Migration, QA Leadership, Performance Testing, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), CI/CD Pipelines, Product Roadmaps, Program Management, Master Data Management (MDM), TIBCO, Hadoop, Data Warehouse Design, Product Management, Team Leadership, Technical Documentation
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