Kevin Groves - Director of Operations / Chief of Staff, SUSE

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Work Background

SUSEDirector of Operations

Sep. 2023Bulgaria · Remote

SUSEChief Of Staff - Business Critical Linux

Jun. 2022 - Sep. 2023Leading Strategic Planning, Budget Management, Operational Excellence and Strategic Projects

SUSEHead of Strategy, Governance & Architecture at SUSE - CIO office

Aug. 2021 - Jun. 2022

SUSEHead of Enterprise Architecture - CIO office

Mar. 2020 - Jul. 2021Prague, The Capital, Czech RepublicI have lead divestitures, mergers and integrations as well as the simplification, modernisation and acceleration of company GTM, Business Processes, Data, Apps, Platforms + Services and Infrastructure to better serve customers, partners and employees in a more service oriented and consolidated as a service capability. I have setup teams from greenfield as well as refine a brown field capability. I have already managed to consolidate processes, data governance and systems saving the company in excess of €10+ million.

PhilipsSenior Program Manager/Senior Product Manager/Architect - Chief Architect’s Office in CTO office

Jun. 2019 - Mar. 2020Eindhoven Area, NetherlandsResponsible to lead the E2E design, Implementation and Onboarding of the following: - Hosting and Operations (On prem, Private, Public and Hybrid Cloud) - IoTaaS - Mission critical Edge for hospitals - Digital IT - DevOps - Customer Support - Market Place - Organizational Redesign - Digital Transformation Also SME on AI and Data in Healthcare.

PhilipsSenior Integral Project Manager/Product manager/ Architect(R&D - Computational Pathology)

May. 2018 - Jun. 2019Eindhoven Area, NetherlandsResponsible for the Marketplace program for DCP which delivers: - The first productized DataLake in Philips - The first Open SDK for iSyntax WSI and metadata in Philips to support the development of diagnostic algorithms - De-Identification platform - Annotation, algorithm training and execution platform

MetrologicalSenior Project Manager/Program Manager/Technical Product Manager

Mar. 2017 - Apr. 2018Rotterdam Area, Netherlands

CloudreachCloud Engagement Manager - contract

Jul. 2016 - Feb. 2017Amsterdam Area, NetherlandsLeading Large Scale Application Migration to the Cloud

atlacarte ltd.Co-Founder (Previous CTO) COO

Oct. 2015 - Mar. 2020Strategist and operational leader

T-Mobile NederlandSenior Project Manager - contract

Oct. 2015 - Jun. 2016The Hague Area, NetherlandsWorking on various critical projects ranging from Technology to Business and Strategy.

MicrosoftProgram Manager 2

May. 2014 - Jul. 2015Wellington & Wairarapa, New ZealandWorking in Azure Big Compute as Program Manager to help cloud enable various different industries on Batch. My role includes: - Writing scenarios and specifications for new features as part of the Batch service and general product management - Ensuring Privacy, Security and other compliance are adhered to as part of every release - Building the Big Compute community - Ensuring end to end delivery of every release meets deadlines - Working closely with onboarding customers to the Batch service - Many more things, feel free to ask

GreenButton LimitedSenior Program Manager

Jan. 2013 - Apr. 2014Wellington, New ZealandI am responsible for: - Planning, scheduling, coordinating, and managing all aspects of GreenButton programmes and projects. - Working with the Development Manager, QA & Integration Manager and Chief Architect and Sales Manager to ensure the product backlog is fully populated and prioritized. - Maintaining status reports for the different projects and compile historical data and present it to senior management and the team members working on the project to illustrate productivity. - Work to constantly improve the project management processes and strategy to ensure developer productivity is maximized. - Work with the CTO and Development Manager to help facilitate external projects by interacting with clients to understand their requirements and for the successful service delivery (Service Delivery Management) of the developed solution. - Conducting training sessions for the team members and explain to them the Agile methods where required. - Ensuring progress and status of projects and programmes are reported to the management team. - Report to the CTO and Development Manager on any development issues arising or potential deliverables that may be at risk. - Assist to evolve the support and development processes to ensure the team is highly productive. - Ensuring deliverables are met by monitoring against the backlog.

WelTecAdvisory Board Member IT

Jan. 2010 - Dec. 2016Advise on current industry requirements to better shape, guide and align the IT Bachelor degree program for smooth transitioning from student to professional.

FrondeDeveloper and Project Manager

Jan. 2010 - Dec. 2012• Project Planning • Maintaining Issues and Risk registers • Estimating • Project Management (in general/overall) • Risk management • Change management • Budget management • Resource Booking / Planning • Project Tracking • OpenAir support (online resourcing tool), project and task setup, time sheeting, etc. • Weekly and monthly reports detailing costs, changes to consultants on projects and information, fortnightly reports on project progress and incidents • Setting up and maintaining processes and procedures • Seeing project through from start to end • Delivery assurance • Business operations.