Russel Wilson

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DISC Type : sc

IT Project Manager at ManpowerGroup

Boone, North Carolina, United States

Overview

Russel is a technical program manager with over a decade of experience in the financial sector, specializing in application portfolio management. Educated at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, he excels in driving business solutions, ensuring application stability, and managing vendor relationships to deliver client value.

His recent posts indicate he is actively seeking a new role where he can apply his expertise in application management and operations engineering.

He once managed the SharePoint migration for over 600 sites, including custom application rewrites, achieving the transition with zero downtime.

Personality Overview

Status Quo Seeker

Tough To Convince

Process Oriented

They are always well-planned and adopt a systematic approach.  They tend to be clear about their needs and limitations and are unlikely to promise too much. Being observant comes to them naturally.

Topics They Care About

Financial Sector Apps
He has over a decade of experience managing application portfolios and spearheading service delivery for critical Trust applications in the financial industry.
Application Stability
His headline emphasizes a focus on application stability, and he previously achieved 98. 7% uptime for three critical applications at Wells Fargo.
SharePoint Solutions
He is a specialist in Microsoft SharePoint, having managed platforms for over 40, 000 users and overseen migrations for more than 600 sites.

Media Appearances

Russel has no verified media appearances

Work History

5-2025
IT Project Manager at ManpowerGroup
8-2021 - 9-2024
Lead Systems Operations Engineer | Program Management, Business & Vendor Solutions, Agile at Wells Fargo
1-2016 - 7-2021
Senior Systems Operations Engineer | Application Management, IT Project Management, Agile at Wells Fargo
1-2013 - 12-2015
Senior Business System Consultant | IT Project Management, SharePoint & Business Solutions at Wells Fargo

Education

9-2006 - 5-2008
Master's degree from University of North Carolina at Charlotte
9-2002 - 5-2006
Bachelor's degree from Appalachian State University

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Insights For Selling To Russel

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Expect them to be slow and cautious, encourage them to ask more questions
  • First of all, focus on building their confidence by sharing examples, case studies etc.
  • Spend time addressing concerns around risk and change, they will have them even if they don't express them

DONT's

  • Don't push them too hard to make fast decisions, give them time
  • Don't be very accepting if that is your natural style, stay firm
  • Avoid getting into storytelling mode, especially when they ask specific questions

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Russel is

  • Proof of usage by others in the industry, case studies showing ROI are likely to work the best with them.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Russel

  • Often, they don't say no, or keep going about it in circles.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Russel move?

  • They are some of the slowest movers and take their time reaching decisions.
  • Can Russel take some risk or not?

  • They have very low acceptance of risk even if they do not say it directly.

You And Russel

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