PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• IT Professional wif IT Director/Management, Program/Project Management skills successful in developing product road maps and leading cross - functional software teams from prototype to release. Managed large, complex Programs in various business sectors.
• Experienced in the full SDLC using Waterfall, Agile and Hybrid methodologies. Provided Program Management and oversight of multiple projects, motivating and mentoring Project Managers and other project resources.
• Successfully managed the migration of legacy systems (mainframe) to new technologies. Established a Program Management Office for a large client. Adheres to local, State and Federal regulations
• Excellent team leader who works well wif all levels of the organization. Extensive experience in Program and Project Management planning, designing, developing, testing and implementing systems.
• Managed medium and large Programs wif multiple projects and Project Managers. Managed Programs alongside KPMG, Deloitte, Accenture, Maximus, IBM Watson, General Dynamics IT (GDIT), and Public Consulting Group (PCG) on programs exceeding $200 million.
• 15 Years of IT Director / Management
• PMBOK/PMP/PMI
• 10+ Years of Program Management
• 5+ years of Mainframe experience
• 15+ Years of Project Management
• Program Schedule and Resource Allocation
• Technical and Leadership Skills
• Development of RFPs, RFQs, RFIs
• Vendor and Contract Management
• CMS MITA, MECL and MECT experience
• Team Building and Resource Management
• Full SDLC Program Management experience
• MS Office Suite
• Design, development and implementation through closure
• System Integration including working wif System Integration Contractors
• Agile, Planview, JIRA
• HP Quality Center, ALM, LoadRunner
• Waterfall, Agile and Hybrid Methodologies
• Java/JSP, JDBC/J2EE/ODBC
• Change control and risk, issue and decision management
• Business Analysis, Consulting, and Requirements gathering
• Oracle/DB2/SQL
• Database design
• Systems Integration and E2E Testing experience

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

IT Consultant / Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• More TEMPthan 25 years working in IT as an IT Director, IT Manager, project manager, software developer, business analyst, and IT Consultant of large IT organizations.
• Extensive experience managing multiple projects from inception and design through development and implementation. My major accomplishments include migrating corporate legacy systems to new technologies, managing new development projects and designing software application systems. My experience includes software application development and project management experience in financial, mortgage, healthcare including State and Federal Medicaid requirements, telecomm, real estate and other industries.
• Used MS Project Server and SharePoint extensively for managing projects, tracking issues and managing risks. I also used SharePoint for tracking servers, SQL databases, status reporting, etc.
• Performed requirements analysis wif business units, SME's and management to compile, analyze, interpret, and validate documented business requirements.
• Worked closely wif top IT Consulting firms and vendors to successfully implement new systems and migrate legacy systems to new technologies.
• Provided Vendor Management and Test and Integration Management on numerous programs.
• Extensive Testing, Incident and Defect Management experience using Jira, HP ALM (now ALM) and other tools to create critical test paths, test scenarios, expected results, evidence and tracking defects.

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential - Raleigh, NC

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager, Systems Integration and Change Management for the State’s Medicaid Modernization Program. This a multi-year, multi-million-dollar program to move the state’s Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) to a modular Medicaid Enterprise System (MES) solution. This program requires the procurement of numerous RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs to solicit bids for services and modular system components.
• Provided assistance in the procurement process of multiple RFP and RFQs for solicitations for vendor responses and solutions. Assisted in answering vendor questions to solicitations.
• Direct report to the Deputy Director of Information Technology for the Department of Health and Human Services ITD division. Responsible for the overall Integration Strategy of this $300+ million program.
• Worked wif the Deputy Director for budget and cost forecasting as well as planning, resource allocation, scheduling, and vendor management.
• Provided contract and contractor management for the DHHS Division. Reviewed multiple contracts and contract amendments to assure adherence to the contract terms, deliverables, State and Federal regulations. Where gaps were found proposed mitigation steps to assure adherence to the contractual obligation.
• Provided Vendor management activities for the State.
• Assisted in the adherence to the Center for Medicaid Services (CMS) MITA and Standards and Principles guidelines to achieve the highest possible MITA maturity level to achieve level 3 and obtain Federal Funds Program (FFP) funding at a 90/10% Federal matching level
• Worked wif the Fiscal Agent Contractors in organizing requirements for the overall program and placing them in JIRA Features for the DDI process.
• Provided Systems Integration and End to End Testing Management and Oversight for multiple vendors engaged in the program. Utilized Jira, HP ALM to create critical test paths, test scenarios, test results, defects and defect management. Provided assistance in the migration of the ALM tool to the Cloud environment.

Confidential - Harrisburg, PA

Program/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Established and organized the Program Management Office (PMO) for the Commonwealth.
• This was a mandate by the Center for Medicaid Services (CMS)
• Managed the State's Medicaid Management Information System modernization (MMIS 2020) program
• Utilizing the MMIS program, led the effort to migrate the current mainframe, monolithic systems to a modular, interoperable system, to comply wif CMS mandates. Worked wif the Center for Medicaid Systems (CMS) certification process, Checklists, gap analysis and Worksheets.
• Involved in the procurement and creation of RFQ / RFPs to obtain competitive proposals from vendors including the Independent Validation & Verification Contractor which is a requirement of the CMS Certification process. Also aided wif the System Integrator and Modular vendors procurements.
• Created the RFP for an Information Technology Consultant / Quality Assurance contractor (ITC/QA)
• Responsible for screening, interviewing and building the States team resources for this large effort including Business Analysts and SMEs.
• Led efforts to interpret, gather and document business requirements
• This was a $150+ million program
• Utilizing the Medicaid Enterprise System (MES) roadmap, led the effort to migrate the current mainframe, monolithic systems to a modular, interoperable system to comply wif the CMS certification process including the Medicaid Enterprise Certification Toolkit (MECT), Medicaid Enterprise
• Certification Lifecycle (MECL), Checklists and periodic mandatory reporting requirements

Confidential - Nashville, TN

IT Sr. Program/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided Program Management for the State of Tennessee Medicaid Modernization Program
• Managed multiple Projects / Project Managers and reviewed project documentation and made recommendations for improvement
• Worked wif the State and KPMG on critical Program Management planning and documentation
• Responsible for Medicaid Transformation and Medicaid Enterprise System projects.
• Assisted wif the Program Management Plan and the on-boarding of the Strategic PMO (SPMO) contractor
• This was a $200 million program
• Performed requirements analysis wif business units, SME's and management to compile, analyze, interpret and document business requirements.
• Provided technical assistance and made recommendations on the RFQ for the System Integrator contractor

Confidential - Honolulu, HI

IT SR. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to 4 of Confidential 's top 5 projects
• Tasked wif resource allocation, estimating and budgeting on all projects
• Acted as Project Manager on the Mainframe Shutdown Project (MFSD)
• Led the team in Confidential 's transition to an Agile methodology bringing in MS Team Foundation Sever
• Led the Open Enrollment project to eliminate problems from past years which required
• Working closely wif the business stakeholders, management and the development and technical resources
• Implementation of Healthcare Enterprise System for the organization
• Led efforts to interpret, gather and document business requirements
• Conducted Workforce Optimization which included proposing solutions to improve overall
• workflow for various departments at Confidential Led the effort for MS SQL Server upgrades due to the end of life support of the Windows Server 2003 servers
• Contributed to the reformation of the Disaster Recovery Plan wif annual exercises planned

Confidential - St. Louis, MO

IT Consultant, Program/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the Program development, technical and testing teams to migrate Centene's legacy (mainframe)
• systems to new technologies using Agile methodologies
• Conducted coordination of the business stakeholders wif the IT teams in order to successfully execute the migration
• Resolved deficiencies in communication between teams including testing and development during critical phases of the Program
• Provided detailed status reporting to Executive Management
• Identified risks related to performance of the Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) software and related interfaces

Confidential - Columbia, SC

Software Solution Designer, Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided direction in the redesign of numerous corporate applications including the corporate website, Intranet and halp desk noledge base applications
• Managed efforts for the enhancement of the corporate document repository (CMOD) and efforts to redesign the front-end document search user interface
• Provided direction in the migration of the corporate content management system to new technologies (WCM - WebSphere Content Manager)
• Supporting the Design, Development and Implementation (DDI) activities of BCBSSC’s Healthcare Enterprise System
• Responsible for numerous projects from inception through implementation using the company's structured methodologies
• Responsible for estimating efforts, phase progression and collaboration between the project management, development and testing teams
• Led efforts to interpret, gather and document business requirements.
• Responsible for key areas of Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE projects and compliance wif HIPAA regulations and system level agreements (SLAs)
• Directed data mapping required for the HIPAA flat files and XML processes

  Visio prototypes were developed for the new UIs for the TRICARE system dat included

• embedded data mapping and documentation
• Developed numerous whitepapers to research solutions for various critical applications and provided input for large RFPs wifin time constraints

Confidential - St. Louis, MO

Program Manager/Program Director

Responsibilities:

• Managed the Program (multiple projects) for the automation and implementation of software
• applications for new companies dat the client acquired
• Worked wif the development team and the client to define business and system requirements to meet the various business needs of each client company
• Led efforts to interpret, gather and document business requirements.
• Identified business critical areas in management reporting and system functionality
• Managed the Program through the full SDLC using client methodologies
• Worked wif Monsantos's Executive Management to assure successful completion of the implementation of software applications in the newly acquired companies including training and Executive reporting requirements
• Developed custom reporting requirements to make field representatives and sales personal more effective and profitable and to provide the tools to assist the sales personnel in the field to provide discounts to clients

Confidential

CEO, President

Responsibilities:

• Management, Leasing Services and Resort Rentals applications
• Brought together a development team to design, develop and implement a solution based on Oracle DB for scalability
• Managed the development team working wif business leaders in the Real Estate industry to define the business requirements which resulted in a comprehensive Real Estate software solution
• Provided consulting services for Project Management, Business and Systems Analysis, Application Integration and Project Planning
• Other services include the integration of third-party software and corporate acquisitions consulting services
• Designed and developed Oracle 9i and 8i Databases based on application requirements

Confidential - Fairfax, VA

IT Director, Program Director

Responsibilities:

• Directed the corporate IT systems through Y2K and migrated the applications to new technologies
• Provided system and project management of all production business applications
• Migrated the company's mainframe, legacy financial systems to new technologies
• Managed a project to develop a Direct Mail Marketing system for over 10,000 sales agents
• The inclusion of a USPS CASS certification software resulted in significant postage savings to the company, estimated at more TEMPthan $30,000 per month
• Managed numerous other critical projects to automate business processes or replace existing, aging software applications
• Formulated a comprehensive Disaster Recovery Plan wif an offsite, out of State recovery hot spot

Confidential

CEO And President

Responsibilities:

• Formed IRMS to design, develop and market comprehensive software for the Mortgage Banking Industry.
• The software included loan origination, processing, closing and Secondary Marketing.

Confidential - Mclean, VA

IT Director

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the production systems in a mainframe environment, applications development, and operations
• Managed multiple programs for the automation and modernization of the Mortgage Origination and Processing systems, Loan Closing and Secondary Marketing