Wesley Cole

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location of Wesley ColeCary, North Carolina, United States
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  • Timeline

    Jun 1988 - Aug 1991

    Senior Consultant

    Accenture
    Aug 1991 - Jun 1993

    Business Analyst / Application Developer

    University of Pennsylvania
    Aug 1993 - Jul 2012

    Manager - Application PMO

    Progress Energy
    Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
    Jul 2012 - Nov 2012

    Manager - Energy Delivery & Security Projects

    Duke Energy Corporation
    Current Company
    Nov 2012 - now

    Senior Director & SVP - Corporate Project Office & IT Business Office

    First Citizens Bank
  • About me

    Senior Director & SVP - Corporate Project Office and IT Business Office at First Citizens Bank

  • Education

    • Virginia tech

      1984 - 1988
      Bs industrial engineering & operations research
  • Experience

    • Accenture

      Jun 1988 - Aug 1991
      Senior consultant

      Designed and implemented a new financial tracking system for a state government.

    • University of pennsylvania

      Aug 1991 - Jun 1993
      Business analyst / application developer

      Designed and implemented a new student financial system.

    • Progress energy

      Aug 1993 - Jul 2012

      Directed Application Development PMO responsible for managing all demand driven application projects. PMO comprised of 13 PMP certified project management professionals. Annual project portfolio in excess of $10M. Facilitated the Enterprise IT Governance & Planning working group responsible for reviewing and authorizing over $7M in IT application investments annually.Directly involved in multiple activities supporting Progress Energy / Duke Energy merger including demand governance, workforce strategy, external web portal and internal employee portal integration efforts.Developed three tiered application mitigation strategy in response to delay in merger close. Show less Led a team of 10 direct reports responsible for development and support of Progress Energy’s external web site, web self-service applications, content management system, and internal portal (Microsoft SharePoint).Directed the IT portion of multi-million dollar strategic initiative to study, design, and implement a redesigned external web site (progress-energy.com) and new web content management system (TeamSite). The new web site was rated #2 in the South and #4 Nationally in 2012 JD Powers survey of large utility web sites.Implemented a mobile version of Progress Energy’s web site for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry mobile devices. Key features include account balance, report an outage, and bill payment options.Created new governance principles and vetting processes for Enterprise IT investments. Show less Led a team of 14 direct reports responsible for enhancing and supporting a CIS system serving over 1.3M customers (residential, business, and industrial) in North Carolina and South Carolina. Team responsibilities also included support of Interactive Voice Response technology (IVR), E-mail Management, Paperless Billing (eBill), customer-facing web self-service applications (e.g. account summary, usage history, billing history, bill analysis, start/stop service), and an innovative call routing and sales lead applications. Show less Selected to establish and lead Progress Energy’s first formal Telecommunications and Infrastructure PMO. Built team of 11 project managers to manage data, voice, wireless, transport, and structured cabling projects. Infrastructure PMO completed over 300 projects during tenure, including the implementation of telecom infrastructure for two multi-story corporate offices, the relocation of Florida Customer Contact Center to new facility, and lifecycle replacement of all aging routers/switches throughout the company. Show less Carried out application development and project management in support of Progress Energy’s CIS and other supporting customer applications. Selected to lead key technology initiatives including:- Implementing Progress Energy’s first electronic (paperless) billing system. - Development of an innovative browser interface for legacy mainframe “green screen” online conversations – reducing training time and overall call handle time for customer service agents.- Implementing Progress Energy’s first web self-service applications.- Designing and implementing a new corporate external web site in support of the CP&L and Florida Progress merger (forming Progress Energy). Show less

      • Manager - Application PMO

        Apr 2012 - Jul 2012
      • Manager - SharePoint & Internet Solutions

        Oct 2009 - Apr 2012
      • Manager – Customer Contact Channels

        Mar 2009 - Oct 2009
      • Manager – Open Systems Engineering

        Feb 2008 - Mar 2009
      • Manager – Enterprise Infrastructure Engineering

        Apr 2007 - Feb 2008
      • Manager – Infrastructure Project Management

        Aug 2003 - Apr 2007
      • Manager – IT Customer Service

        Mar 2002 - Aug 2003
      • Project Manager / Business Analyst / Application Developer

        Aug 1993 - Mar 2002
    • Duke energy corporation

      Jul 2012 - Nov 2012
      Manager - energy delivery & security projects

      Named leader in Duke Energy’s IT PMO following completion of merger between Duke Energy and Progress Energy. Responsible for demand driven application projects for Energy Delivery, Energy and Distribution Management, Supply Chain and Work Management, and IT Security lines of business. Supervised team of 18 project management professionals. Responsible for helping integrate Progress Energy enterprise governance best practices into Duke Energy IT organization.Assisted with the development and rollout of formal project management methodology and project management best practices for IT PMO. Show less

    • First citizens bank

      Nov 2012 - now
      Senior director & svp - corporate project office & it business office

      Leads First Citizens’ technology Project Management Office. PMO responsibilities include:- Oversight of business application and infrastructure projects (including annual product programs)- Project portfolio reporting- Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) tool administration- Maturing project processes leveraging on PMI, Agile, and CMMI best practices- Project methodology standards, processes, and compliance- Facilitating project governance meetings with IT and Line of Business executivesLeads IT’s internal finance team. Responsibilities include:- Applying Technology Business Management (TBM) principles to the management of IT’s annual budget- Developing IT’s annual operating and capital budgets- Overseeing the creation of budget forecasts throughout the year- Processing one-time and recurring technology invoices- Managing IT’s budget to fall within annual goal tolerancesServes in a Chief of Staff capacity for the CIO. Leadership responsibilities include:- IT business office operations- Workforce strategy- Benchmarking- IT Goals and metrics reporting- Organizational change management for internal to IT and enterprise-impacting technology efforts- IT training- Internal communications- Oversight of administrative support staff- Liaison with Corporate Real Estate for all facilities-related changes impacting IT Show less

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Certified technology business management executive (ctbme)

      Technology business management council
      Nov 2019
    • Project management professional (pmp)

      Project management institute
      Jun 2012
      View certificate certificate