Louis Toba

San Jose, CA

About

Title: Senior Director, PMO

Experienced (certified PMP, Six Sigma Green Belt, and Scrum Master (CSM)) program manager with 15+ years of global, cross-functional program and project management experience in e-commerce, services, software, and hardware PMOs at Fortune 500 companies.  Proven track record of delivering large and complex programs and projects on schedule and under budget, using solid program and project management, six sigma, process improvement, communication, coaching, influencing, negotiating, and vendor management skills to effectively lead diverse program and project teams.  Experience in Finance, IT, Product Management, Support and Service PMOs as well as Manufacturing Operations and Engineering.  Extensive collaboration with global, cross-functional business and technical teams.

Specialties: Program and project management, business process outsourcing, business process improvement, six sigma, services, cotact centers, quality and environmental systems management, e-commerce, retail, software, hardware, healthcare, supply chain, benchmarking, process engineering.

Experience and services

  • Career history

    • 2018-01-22 - present - Rackspace (Senior Director, PMO)
    • 1989-08-28 - 1999-07-02 - IBM (Staff Engineer)
    • 1999-08-23 - 2000-08-14 - Cisco Systems (Senior Program Manager)
    • 2001-02-28 - 2005-07-01 - VERITAS Software (Senior Program Manager)
    • 2005-07-04 - 2011-03-15 - Symantec Corporation (Principal Program Manager)
    • 2011-05-02 - 2011-10-07 - PMI-Silicon Valley Chapter (Operations Lead, 2011 PMI-SV Symposium)
    • 2011-08-08 - 2013-07-26 - Kaiser/KForce (Project Manager/Regional Lead)
    • 2013-08-05 - 2015-02-17 - Amazon (Senior Program Manager)
    • 2015-06-15 - 2018-01-19 - Brocade Communications (Director, Finance PMO)