Terry Tanner

Current

Director, Program Management Office at City and County of Denver

Past

Managing Consultant at Headstrong Consulting
Consultant at OppenheimerFunds
EVP Project and Product Management at TSYS Loyalty

EVP, Project and Product Management at ESC Loyalty (A TSYS company)
Program Manager at Great-West Life and Assurance
Graduate Student at University of Wisconsin - Platteville
Director, Project Management Office at Expanets, Inc.
Discipline Lead, Project Management at marchFirst
Director, Customer Service at Autometric, Inc. (Acquired by Boeing)
Operations Engineer at E-Systems
APM, Operations at TRW
Flight Commander at United States Air Force

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Education

University of Wisconsin-Platteville

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Connections

204 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Terry Tanner’s Summary

Mr. Tanner served 15 years in the United States Air Force as an Intelligence Officer, with nine of those years served in the European Theater in Berlin, Germany; Augsburg, Germany; and Rimbach, Germany.
Since leaving the Air Force, Mr. Tanner has gained 25 years of experience in the technical project management arena. He has served in significant technical management positions with TRW, Inc; E-Systems; and Autometric, Inc., within the Government Contracting domain and has spent the last ten years managing projects and managing Project Management organizations within the commercial sector with such companies as Channelpoint, Inc.; marchFIRST consulting; and Orcom Inc. in Insurance, Utility Billing, and e-commerce technical areas. Mr. Tanner served as the Director, Project Management Office for Expanets, Inc., managing the implementation of a $100 million ERP/ CRM system and then overseeing the release management services for that system. Mr. Tanner was the Senior Program Manager for Great-West Life and Annuity in Denver, where he managed critical and distressed projects for the company, before joining ESC Loyalty in Atlanta, GA., as the Executive Vice President, Project and Product Management. Mr. Tanner is now a Managing Consultant with Headstrong Consulting working with Oppenheimer Funds in Denver providing PMO and Program Management expertise.
Mr. Tanner earned a B.B.A in Management from Angelo State University and a Master of Science in Project Management from the University of Wisconsin. He has been professionally certified with the Project Management Institute since December of 2000 as a Project Management Professional (PMP).

Terry Tanner’s Specialties:

Project and Program Management; PMO definition and establishment. Software development organizational management; SDLC process implementation; QA and CM organizational management.

Terry Tanner’s Experience

Director, Program Management Office

City and County of Denver

(Government Agency; Government Administration industry)

May 2009 — Present (8 months)

Director of the Program Management Office, Technology Services, City and County of Denver.
Managing Consultant

Headstrong Consulting

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2007 — May 2009 (2 years 5 months)

Managing Consultant for Client engagements, providing Project and Program expertise to assist clients with establishing a solid project/.program management foundation.
Consultant

OppenheimerFunds

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2007 — 2008 (1 year )
EVP Project and Product Management

TSYS Loyalty

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

2006 — 2007 (1 year )

Executive Vice President of the Project and Product Management group responsible for implementing Credit Card Loyalty customers on our Loyalty processiing platform. Managed group responsible for implementations of Capital One, Toronto Dominion, Washington Mutual, and other large financial institution programs.
EVP, Project and Product Management

ESC Loyalty (A TSYS company)

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2006 — January 2007 (1 year 1 month)

Executive Vice President of the Project and Product Management group responsible for implementing Credit Card Loyalty customers on our Loyalty processiing platform. Managed group responsible for implementations of Capital One, Toronto Dominion, Washington Mutual, and other large financial institution programs.
Program Manager

Great-West Life and Assurance

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

2003 — 2005 (2 years )

Managed critical programs and distressed projects with history of on-time, on budget deliveries.
Graduate Student

University of Wisconsin - Platteville

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2000 — 2005 (5 years )
Director, Project Management Office

Expanets, Inc.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2000 — 2003 (3 years )

Established and managed the Project Management Office for Expanets, responsible for managing all IT projects within the corporate structure. Devised and managed a Release program to update the corporate ERM system.
Discipline Lead, Project Management

marchFirst

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1998 — 1998 (less than a year)
Director, Customer Service

Autometric, Inc. (Acquired by Boeing)

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1995 — 1998 (3 years )
Operations Engineer

E-Systems

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Defense & Space industry)

1992 — 1993 (1 year )

Provided operations engineering expertise in support of classified Defense programs and projects. Wrote engineering white papers and serviced government contract task orders.
APM, Operations

TRW

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Defense & Space industry)

1986 — 1992 (6 years )

Assistant Program Manager for Operations servicing a classified contract for an East Coast customer.
Flight Commander

United States Air Force

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1982 — 1985 (3 years )

Terry Tanner’s Education

University of Wisconsin-Platteville

2001 — 2005

Master of Science in Project Management (MSPM)

Additional Information

Terry Tanner’s Groups:

Plaxo, University of Wisconsin

SdB+ PM Forum
Project Management Link - www.pmlink.org
Project Managers PMP® Certified Networking Group (Unofficial PMI Group)
Project Manager Networking Group
WiMAX Channel
Headstrong Consulting
KYKO World Empire
Advanced Project Management Topics
marchFIRST Alumni /Former employees
University of Wisconsin-Platteville
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