Chris Maisto
Transformation Services | Portfolio/Program Leadership
New Hope, PA, United States
Transformation Services | Portfolio/Program Leadership
New Hope, PA, United States0 reviews
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*** Currently available for all FT / PT / Fixed engagements. The ‘perfect engagement’ for Sideways8 includes ownership of multiple strategic focus areas, portfolio strategy development, vendor management, and driving the organization to deliver substantial impact to the business by aligning strategy and execution. ***
Chris Maisto provides strategic consulting for enterprise transformations, M&A integrations (buy & sell-side), divestitures and private equity carveouts. In January 2021, Chris started the boutique consultancy Sideways8 to simplify the management and orchestration of technology project portfolios, implementations, service delivery, operations, governance, and engagement leadership with a value creation mindset.
As a former leader at both PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) and Accenture, Chris has served in consulting roles since 2008, focused on Consumer Goods, Pharmaceutical, Telecom and Manufacturing. He has developed and led programs that enable business process transformation across all business functions, supporting executive stakeholders to deliver outcomes that align with business strategy. Chris’ delivery expertise spans across the technology landscape, from ERP to eCommerce to new product development & compliance.
In 2018, Chris received his Master of Science in Technology Management from Columbia University, where he graduated in the top of his class, summa cum laude, with a 3.96 GPA. Chris is a certified SAFe Lean Portfolio Manager (LPM), PMI Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP) *Pending Exam, PMI Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM), PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PBA).
Chris’ engagement and technical expertise coupled with a strong consulting toolkit would be a tremendous asset to any firm, its customers, and clients. Upon request, he will provide a full project portfolio, technical delivery expertise and leadership references.
Transformation Examples:
Independent Consultant, M&A Integration & Transformation Advisory Jan 2021 – Present
Acting as Senior Portfolio / Program Director / Scrum Master, led technology project portfolio operations and orchestration for several clients using Agile & Waterfall methodologies, techniques, and mindset to deliver key business outcomes across multiple workstreams. Lead and mentor C-level and executive teams, setting the vision, behaviors, and strategy for communications, change management, resource utilization and delivery standards for employees / vendors to work together as one team.
· Client Program: Freeman Company: Led a vital enterprise-wide transformation effort across multiple, concurrent workstreams, focused on transforming functional logistics model, business process and go-to-market, leveraging SAP S/4HANA to transform Supply Chain, SEM, Finance Modernization, Master Data Governance, and CX. Result: >$1B projected annual cost savings
· Client Program: Orveon Global: Led design and implementation of PMO for teams of 200+ corporate employees, vendors, and consultants to successfully deliver and integrate an end-to-end, SaaS / Cloud technology infrastructure, including NetSuite, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, UKG, Specright and 14 additional enterprise applications through design, build, test, go-live and Hypercare. Result: Achieved all aggressive TSA & DSA Exit timelines, saving the company $40M in exit fees
Transformation Program Director | Healthcare & Life Sciences Transformation Jan 2019 – Mar 2021
Lead IT & Digital technology advisory partner for Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer, to support the clients’ vision for business growth and efficiency. Designed a client digital transformation platform, addressing business disruption to critical business processes in Pharma Supply Chain, Drug Discovery & Development, Robotic Surgery and Pharmacovigilance. Established and managed PMO, governance & risk of enterprise programs across the business technology portfolio. Sold over $38M in transformation and advisory services.
· Client Program: As the Senior Transformation Program Director, owned strategy, and development of a 5-year transformation to consolidate 17 SAP landscapes to 4, transitioning to SAP S/4HANA on a multi-cloud infrastructure to transform the drug supply chain and shift 50% of workloads to the cloud. Result: $7B in projected overall savings by 2030
· Client Program: Architected solution and program managed end-to-end IoT / edge initiative to reduce drug development time-to-market with HPC, GPU, analytics at the edge. Result: Time to commercialize reduced by 25%
Created and delivered over 20 practical, efficient, innovative, and customer-focused solutions as the go-to-market leader for IoT and Business Transformation at Verizon, AT&T and Comcast. Led Agile, design-thinking-based sales workshops focused on increasing deal size / project scope and delivering transformational outcomes. Managed program utilization of onshore and offshore resources to deliver on-time and on-budget results. Achieved over $20M in sales of consulting services.
· Client Program: Conceptualized and owned IoT product development strategy, delivered several professional and managed services-based products to create an end-to-end IoT enterprise offering. Result: >$400M projected first year revenue
· Client Program: Led successful business development and project delivery of Home-Based Call Center program, including complex Call Center routing design and predictive analytics. Result: Reduction to onsite call center footprint by 25%, saving the client over $2B in operating expenses
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