Derris Boomer

Consulting executive and program leader with 20+ years driving complex HCM-WFM, POS, and enterprise platform transformations across healthcare, retail, manufacturing, public sector, and financial services. Known for standing up PMO frameworks, leading global rollouts, stabilizing at-risk programs, and aligning product, engineering, and operations to measurable business outcomes. Deep platform expertise across UKG (WFC 6–8.1, Dimensions, WFM Pro, Pro WFM) and Workday, with hands-on integration to SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Ceridian, Lawson, Dynamics, and ADP.

• • Held end‑to‑end accountability for program success; primary liaison among Corning, Service Integrator (GroupeX), and UKG to resolve cross‑vendor issues and keep delivery on plan.

• • Enforced Corning CSS HTR Transformation Framework stage gates, deliverables, and quality criteria; drove compliance across SI and ISV workstreams.

• • Owned the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) and critical path; chaired weekly status across Corning, SI, and UKG; ensured data‑driven forecasting and on‑time milestone execution.

• • Directed RAID governance: maintained program‑level risk, issue, action, and decision logs; owned SI and UKG risk issue logs; established escalation paths and SLA‑based triage.

• • Managed the overall program budget and coordinated vendor sub‑budgets (GroupeX and UKG); produced variance analyses, re‑forecasts, and executive‑ready financials.

• • Led change control and contract management for SI and UKG (CR authoring, impact analysis, approvals), ensuring scope integrity and transparent trade‑offs.

• • Produced Steering Committee reports and delivered executive presentations; secured approvals for scope, funding, and timeline decisions.

• • Authored the OCM strategy and training strategy; aligned stakeholder engagement, communications, and adoption KPIs with go‑live readiness.

• • Established core PMO artifacts (charter, governance plan, communication plan, status deck, minutes), institutionalizing repeatable delivery practices.

• • Coordinated vendor status updates and integrated them into Corning executive reporting, ensuring a single source of truth for schedule, budget, and risk. Includes integrations to ADP and Oracle.

• • Delivered enterprise implementations and strategic roadmaps contributed SME input to RFP-RFQ responses and solution proposals. Lead projects for HCM practice (SAP, UKG, Workday and Taleo).

• • Workday HCM Project Manager certified; clients included Eversource, Bristol Myers Squibb (ServiceNow), Abbott Abbvie, Tyco, Bridgewater Associates, University of Miami, and Ascension Health.