Rick Haywood
PMO Manager at Kubota Tractor Corporation
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Haywood is a results-driven PMO Manager with 25+ years delivering complex IT and telecom programs, currently leading SAP and digital transformation efforts for Kubota after a high-impact tenure at T‑Mobile. He builds and rescues programs across security, healthcare, and manufacturing, having stood up PMOs, standardized methodologies, and governance that scaled delivery to 100+ projects and portfolios up to $200M annually. A decorated US Army officer, he translates military leadership and operational rigor into running geographically dispersed teams of up to 60 and instituting change management that sticks. Notable wins include cutting millions in BOM errors via SAP Advanced Variant Configuration, launching customer-experience programs that drove JD Power recognition, and remediating large-scale security incidents in healthcare. He combines hands-on technical project engineering with strategic financial and risk management to remove roadblocks and accelerate outcomes. Based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, Rick is known for pragmatic process design and an ability to align stakeholders from shop floor to C-suite.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Certification in Military Sceience, Military Operational Art and Science/Studies, Certification in Military Sceience, Military Operational Art and Science/Studies at Armor and Cavalry Officer Advanced CourseBA, Political Science, BA, Political Science at Brigham Young University
German, Bosnian
Github Skills (44)
aws-cloudformation8
aws8
user-guide8
controller8
composer6
ingress6
amazon-web-services6
terraform6
kubernetes6
docker-image6
k8s5
elastic5
elasticsearch5
php5
node-pool5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
runningman/symfony-todo
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
symfony 4 todo app test
Contributions:13 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
todo-appphpsymfonytest-apptodo
runningman/terraform-aws-eks-blueprints
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
Configure and deploy complete EKS clusters.
Contributions:3 releases, 2 tags in 1 day
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