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# Darrel Wharton

**Headline:** Professional profile
**Location:** Newark, NJ, USA

## About

Darrel Wharton is a program manager with experience leading software implementations and SaaS upgrades. Darrel’s work centers on aligning teams, meeting deadlines, maintaining project scope, and supporting sound decisions throughout delivery. Darrel has worked closely with C-suite leaders, including CEOs and COOs, on project decisions and values executive access paired with clear ownership boundaries and structured accountability. In a SaaS upgrade, Darrel managed an early go-live that proceeded with incomplete user-acceptance testing. When post-launch issues required action, Darrel escalated quickly and secured additional resources to support the response. This experience reflects Darrel’s ability to manage delivery challenges directly, coordinate stakeholders during a crisis, and address the operational needs of a project after launch. Darrel brings a program-management approach grounded in implementation delivery, scope discipline, cross-team alignment, and timely escalation when projects need executive attention or additional support.

## Highlights

- Managed software implementations and SaaS upgrades as a program manager.
- Led a SaaS upgrade that went live early with incomplete user-acceptance testing.
- Escalated post-launch SaaS upgrade issues and secured additional resources for the response.
- Managed key delivery challenges involving team alignment, deadlines, and project scope.
- Worked closely with CEOs and COOs on project decisions.
- Advocates executive access alongside clear ownership boundaries and structured accountability.

## FAQ

### What does Darrel do?

Darrel Wharton is a program manager who works on software implementations and SaaS upgrades.

### What are Darrel’s program-management strengths?

Darrel’s strengths include aligning teams, meeting deadlines, keeping projects in scope, and coordinating decisions with executive stakeholders.

### What happened during Darrel’s SaaS upgrade go-live?

Darrel managed a SaaS upgrade that went live early despite incomplete user-acceptance testing. Post-launch, the project required escalation and additional resources.

### How did Darrel respond when the SaaS go-live needed additional support?

Darrel escalated quickly after the early SaaS go-live required post-launch support, helping secure critical additional resources.

### What executive stakeholders has Darrel worked with?

Darrel has worked closely with C-suite executives, including CEOs and COOs, on project decisions.

### How does Darrel prefer to work with C-suite leaders?

Darrel values access to C-suite leaders while preferring clear ownership boundaries, structure, and accountability rather than checking in on every decision.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrelwharton

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