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KJ Anderson

Vice President, Applications & AI Co-Chair · Speedcast

Houston, Texas · linkedin.com/in/kj-anderson · kjanderson.com

Summary

I'm a technology and business transformation executive with 20+ years leading modernization at enterprise scale — most recently as VP of Applications & AI Co-Chair at Speedcast, where I cut Applications OpEx 20% annually, rebuilt Order-to-Cash into a Lead-to-Cash model that fulfills orders in under 20 minutes, and led enterprise AI governance and adoption end to end.

Core impact

$40M+

Operational savings delivered

20%

Annual Applications OpEx reduction

31

Engineers & technical leaders led

<20 min

Lead-to-Cash fulfillment cycle

Experience

Speedcast

June 2024 — Present

Vice President, Applications & AI Co-Chair

  • Reduced Applications OpEx 20% annually; delivered ~$500K in annualized operating expense improvements
  • Rebuilt Order-to-Cash into a unified Lead-to-Cash model — fulfillment cycle from weeks to under 20 minutes
  • Led enterprise AI governance, adoption, and MCP architecture, including custom servers connecting legacy platforms to AI tools
  • Executed 17 international divestitures across major enterprise platforms with zero operational disruption
  • Built the enterprise Data Foundation and semantic-layer capabilities; established governance, KPI, and prioritization frameworks
  • Lead an organization of 31 engineers, QA professionals, and technical leaders

Gulf Coast Agile LLC

January 2022 — June 2024

Senior Enterprise Advisor

  • Delivered $10M+ in operational savings advising Fortune 50 executives
  • Influenced organizations comprising 300+ teams across energy and utilities
  • Built executive reporting, governance, KPI, and portfolio frameworks
  • Guided AI readiness and operating-model modernization initiatives

Providence Health

December 2020 — January 2022

Principal Program Manager, Enterprise Applications

  • Directed application governance across 5,000+ healthcare applications
  • Led rationalization and cloud migration efforts with four specialized technical teams
  • Maintained HIPAA and regulatory compliance throughout modernization
  • Improved executive visibility into risk and modernization progress

Viasat / Rignet

December 2018 — December 2020

Senior Program Manager & MEO Communications Product Owner

  • Managed a $15M communications product portfolio
  • Built and led the enterprise IT PMO; rescued a challenged ServiceNow implementation
  • Established a nearshore development center in Monterrey
  • Unified workflows across Finance, HR, Legal, Supply Chain, and IT

Sparkhound

October 2017 — December 2018

Senior Business Consultant

  • Restored a mission-critical financial datacenter after Hurricane Harvey
  • Led M&A integrations and divestitures
  • Stabilized challenged programs and restored executive confidence
  • Guided clients through modernization and MSP transitions

Microsoft

April 2007 — September 2017

Senior Program Manager

  • Delivered $30M in annual operational savings through infrastructure lifecycle governance
  • Built the program supporting 112 Azure datacenter launches; cut deployment startup times by >50%
  • Governed ServiceNow CMDB across tens of thousands of assets
  • Presented modernization strategies influencing tens of millions in technology investment
  • Supported major Microsoft.com, Download Center, and Bing launches; Microsoft Ignite speaker

2nd Ranger Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment — U.S. Army

2001 — 2005

Team Leader (11B2V)

  • Led high-performance teams in dynamic, high-risk environments
  • Built the accountability and mission-execution disciplines that still shape how I run organizations

Skills

Leadership & Strategy: Executive stakeholder engagement · Organizational transformation · Governance & operating models · M&A integration & divestitures · Vendor management · Portfolio & PMO leadership · Nearshore delivery centers · Crisis response

Enterprise Platforms: Dynamics 365 · NAV · Workday · ADP · ServiceNow · Salesforce · SAP · Snowflake · Coupa · DocuSign

Cloud & Data: Azure · Power BI · Azure DevOps · Data governance · API integration · Semantic layers · Infrastructure lifecycle

AI & Automation: MCP architecture · Agentic AI · Enterprise AI adoption · Claude · Copilot · Lovable · Base44 · Workflow automation · Automation Anywhere · Power Automate

Certifications

Project Management Institute: PMP · PMI-ACP · GenAI for PMs

Scrum Alliance: CSM · A-CSM · CSP-SM · CSPO

Scaled Agile (SAFe): SPC 5 & 6 · Certified Trainer — SM, ASM, POPM, LPM, Leading SAFe, SAFe for Teams

Scrum.org: PSM I & II · PSPO I · Nexus Scaled Scrum

Scrum Inc.: Registered Scrum@Scale Practitioner

Management & Strategy Institute: Lean Six Sigma Black Belt · Certified Kaizen Facilitator · Lean Supply Chain Management

EXIN: ITIL v3 Foundation

Education

A.S., Computer Science (Networking) — ITT Technical Institute, Everett, WA · 2005–2006