Senior delivery leader · AI-enabled transformation

Rob Guthrie

Experience. Accelerated.

I run large, complex technology programs and fix the ones that are failing. Twenty years of Fortune 50 delivery, now accelerated with AI.

Raleigh, North Carolina · Open to remote roles · U.S. Army veteran · PMP

Summary

Senior delivery leader with 20+ years running large technology programs for Fortune 50 clients in telecom, media and technology. I stabilize troubled programs, install governance that sticks, and grow accounts through delivery. I combine P&L ownership and C-level client partnership with applied AI work and five Salesforce certifications.

$170Mlargest account led, for a Fortune 50 communications and media client
2,100+people on the global delivery team
$150Mprojected revenue uplift and savings in a network migration business case
267%order volume increase from a DevOps transformation
Experience
2025 – now

Principal Consultant

FusionEdge Solutions · AI and delivery consulting · Remote
  • Built PRISM, a 116-practice delivery assessment framework (web app and workbook) for program health, governance and recovery engagements, benchmarked against PMBOK, Scrum, DORA and ITIL.
  • Use Claude, Perplexity, NotebookLM and Gemini to speed up planning, research, proposals and documentation.
2023 – 2025

Client Partner

Eviden (Atos Group) · Raleigh, NC
  • Owned the P&L, contracts and renewals for enterprise manufacturing and automotive accounts, and led their transition from Atos.
  • Exceeded 2023 revenue targets and earned top client satisfaction scores, including a perfect score. Rolled out a governance scorecard to stabilize delivery.
2021 – 2022

Client Partner (VP, Client Services)

Virtusa · Raleigh, NC
  • Led a stagnant account to its FY22 revenue targets and grew data practice revenue 198%.
  • Delivered a DevOps transformation: order volume up 267%, sprint velocity up 28%.
2020 – 2021

Client Partner

Wipro · Raleigh, NC (2021) · LTI, now LTIMindtree (2020 – 2021)
  • Wipro: took over an at-risk technology account (custom development, testing and ServiceNow), clarified contract obligations and installed Best-in-Class governance, restoring SLA compliance and client confidence. Turned a request for more no-cost ServiceNow staff into a supplemental SOW, increasing ServiceNow billings by more than 75%.
  • LTI: hired to lead a large media and entertainment account; reassigned to new-business development when COVID-19 cut the client's projects in 2020.
2010 – 2019

Account Manager to Senior Engagement Partner

Cognizant Technology Solutions · Director, Senior Director from 2018 · Plano, TX
  • Engagement Partner on a $170M account for a Fortune 50 communications and media client: 200+ projects, a 2,100+ person global team and 7 engagement managers. The account won Cognizant's C2020 implementation award (2018). Then grew a wireless account from $49M to $83M.
  • Built the business case for a legacy-network migration (ATM to Metro-Ethernet), projecting $150M in combined revenue uplift and operating savings; proposed a small-market rollout to test churn risk, then led two live markets where monthly recurring charges increased 40% for migrated customers.
  • As Account Manager, grew a portfolio from $2.6M to $27M across 30+ concurrent projects in billing, order management, service assurance and data engineering, and won an $11M BPO engagement.
What I bring

Program recovery

Taking programs that have slipped on scope, schedule or trust and putting them back on a steady, measured footing.

Governance that sticks

Operating rhythms, scorecards and escalation paths that teams keep using after the consultants leave.

Client and P&L leadership

C-level relationships, contracts and renewals, and growing accounts by delivering well.

Applied AI

Hands-on with AI tools in daily work, PMI generative AI training, and a practical view of where AI pays off in delivery. Backed by five Salesforce certifications.

Work sample
Framework · 2026

PRISM delivery assessment

A structured health check for any IT program: 116 practices scored 1–4, filtered by methodology (predictive, agile or hybrid), with current-versus-previous scorecards. It grew out of the governance model I used to recover programs at Cognizant, Wipro and Eviden.

See PRISM on FusionEdge Solutions

PPeople & Knowledge
RRhythm & Governance
IIntelligence & Automation
SStakeholder Value
MMomentum & Quality
Credentials

Certifications

  • Project Management Professional (PMP)
  • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
  • SAFe Practitioner
  • Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

Salesforce

  • Salesforce Certified Agentforce Sales Consultant
  • Salesforce Certified Agentforce Service Consultant
  • Salesforce Certified Platform Administrator
  • Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder
  • Salesforce Certified Platform Developer

Education & service

  • MBA, Technology Management
  • BA, Political Science, NC State University
  • U.S. Army, Infantry
  • NC Army National Guard

Let's talk.

I'm looking for senior program management and AI delivery leadership roles, remote or Raleigh-based, including state and federal positions. Résumé available on request.