Defense Logistics Agency Information Operations employee Stacey Evans was named the Information Technology Program Manager of the Year for 2021.
Evans managed the Business Transformation Study phase of DLA’s Enterprise Resource Planning migration project from November 2020 through March 2021.
The ERP capability serves 25,000 military and civilians across the United States and throughout 28 countries. It manages over five million line items via nine supply chains for 86 percent of all military services repair parts and 100 percent of fuel and troop support consumables. DLA’s ERP capability supports over 2,300 weapon systems. It processes over 8,000 procurement actions and 100,000 orders each day for annual sales totaling more than $42 billion.
Evans led a cross-functional team to review the business processes currently in use and the associated customizations for each of those processes. She delivered the study in April 2021, meeting all stated objectives to identify opportunities to conduct Business Process Reengineering designed to streamline the processes.
“Stacey managed the entire coordination effort including more than 650 people representing every organization across DLA with the professionalism and teamwork that is unprecedented,” said Kim Pisall, former ERP Migration program manager. “She built a rapport across the teams that energized the participants and made them excited to participate.”
Evans’ strategic thinking and ability to adapt to a changing environment is amazing, Pisall said. She adjusted the methodology for the BTS workshops, the schedule, and the attendee list throughout the effort to ensure the right subject matter experts were available to meet the objectives. Due to the lack of resources to review every customization in the ERP using BPR, the senior leadership directed the team to limit the BPR to those with the greatest value. Evans developed and implemented an evaluation process to identify those BPR opportunities that had the greatest value to pursue.
“I have not seen anyone that can bring people together like she does in my entire 35 years. I just sit back in awe,” Pisall said.
Since receiving the award, Evans stepped up as acting program manager to finalize the migration to cloud after Pisall’s retirement at the end of 2021. The program successfully completed DoD’s largest ERP to the cloud migration and is now embarking on ERP Transformation. This new effort will migrate the ERP to the next generation platform and adopt standard capability to the maximum extent possible.
“I like the fact that there are folks across the agency that will step up and collaborate to address a challenge, even though our workloads are significant, we always pull together to solve problems,” Evans said.
The 15-year veteran of DLA said she looks forward to expanding her experience and knowledge to grow into additional leadership roles.