DeWayne Moats has more than 20 years of experience providing Program Leadership and Organizational Change Management consulting services to Technology, retail, Insurance and public sector organizations. He led strategic planning efforts, established Project Management Offices and Risk Management Offices, and managed large-scale transformation initiatives for clients across the globe.

DeWayne’s background features a strong emphasis on relationship management as the key to project delivery. He has worked as a technology and organizational change evangelist for Cloud transformations; Built technology product roadmaps; delivered the roadmaps with aggressive timelines and within client budget and time constraints. As a person who can thrive in an ambiguous, high-pressure, and fast-paced situation, DeWayne possesses and outcomes-based mindset and strives for positive results while leveraging his aptitude for optimizing performance of others through mentoring. motivation, and empowerment.

PROJECT EXPERIENCE:

• WA Health Care Authority
• WA Employment Security Dept
• WA DSHS
• Seattle public schools
• Zurich / Farmers Insurance
• Microsoft
• T-Mobile
• Amazon
• Expedia
• Chase

EXPERTISE:

• Strategic Planning
• Executive Leadership
• Organizational Change Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Product Management and roadmap
• Technology transformation Programs
• Project and Program Management
• Business & Technology Consulting
• Procurement and Vendor Management
• PMO Implementations

SAMPLE PROJECTS:

At WA Health Care Authority, DeWayne helped define an operating model for a Data and Analytics team to support an Enterprise Data Warehouse Amazon Web Serves cloud-based transformation initiative. He coached and ramped up teams and rolled out the Information Management strategy and Data Governance functions within the program teams. He led the transformation to Lean and Agile principles within the executive, product management, development, and operational / support teams. He also supported hiring and activating the team of architects, analysts, engineers, and testers for the program team and agency.

At Amazon DeWayne helped Launch Third-Party Logistics and Transportation by Amazon, increasing revenue by $97 million within the first year. He also led additional enterprise-wide programs for Jeff Bezos’ direct-report team to optimize operations and supply chain to improve the customer experience through increased accuracy and reliability and reduce recurring annual costs by over $150 million.

At Expedia, Dewayne led Word-wide Project Services and Technology Products and provided strategic planning organizational transformation, and program delivery across the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific regions. This included worldwide prioritization, budget and resource planning and alignment, the establishment of key metrics, and ensuring outcome-based delivery and benefits realization.

EDUCATION AND INTERESTS:

DeWayne teaches the Undergraduate degree program for the University of Maryland, where he specializes in Program Management and Information Systems courses. He holds a master’s degree in Information Systems and an undergraduate in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix. He is certified with various Project Management frameworks (PMP, PMI-ACPI, Scrum, SAFe) and is a fully versed Change management consultant using the Prosci® ADKAR methodology and LEAN methodologies such as Kaizen and PDCA.