IT PROJECT MANAGER / SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST

Results-focused IT professional with practical experience in managing and implementing successful projects and systems. Excellent process analysis skills with the ability to propose and implement innovative and cost-effective solutions. Proven planning, organization and communication skills to enable successful collaborations and teamwork for increased customer satisfaction.

Core competencies include:

Professional Experience

Confidential

Project Manager

• Provided project management and tracking oversight for NextGen project initiative and 20 sub-projects.
• Facilitated project meetings to set SMART goals defining scope and deliverables for the overall NextGen project and its sub-projects across multiple sub-project teams and departments.
• Created, updated and managed project communication plan for NextGen overall project and sub-projects - provided an easy way to get project information in one place through the Wiki website.
• Created and provided templates to the project teams to communicate project status in a consistent manner for visibility and transparency on project goals, timeline, stakeholders and status.
• Worked with sub-project team leads to develop and update project timeline, estimates and status. Rolled up different sub-project schedules into a master project schedule showing key milestones and deliverables.
• Created dependency diagrams in Visio showing interdependencies within NextGen sub-projects, components and timeline visually.
• Planned and facilitated monthly project status meetings to clarify status, issues and risks, reassessing goals periodically and escalating issues as needed.
• Developed working relationships with project team members across different sub-project teams and departments to facilitate communication and foster collaboration including providing ongoing project consulting support and counsel to Technical Lead of the NextGen project initiative.
• Conducted post-mortems through face to face meetings and created and administered online surveys to gather feedback and make ongoing improvements to the project management processes.

Confidential

Senior Principal Business Analyst - PMO Partner

• Developed, planned, facilitated IT Governance meetings and functional Project Review meetings - provided visibility and transparency of IT project/program portfolio investments for review and approval.
• Developed key management reports - enhanced monitoring capabilities of IT project portfolio health.
• Provided regular PMO and project management consulting, change management, coaching/mentoring, training and support to 100 IT clients improved customer satisfaction and compliance to PMO and project methodology standards.
• Analyzed project management processes and methodology, recommended improvements resulting in a more standardized, simplified and user friendly processes improved efficiency by 80 .
• Organized, planned and managed tasks for external resources - improving support and maintenance for the PMO and project portfolio application system Changepoint .
• Facilitated Gartner and Forrester technical/market research and consulting teleconferences for clients - providing timely research and analysis.
• Recommended centralizing Technical Research requests Gartner and Forrester which resulted in saving 60 in costs and resource hours.

Confidential

Senior Principal Business Analyst IT Project Manager

• Successfully managed development, customization, configuration, testing and deployment for the Global Research Portal DIHub BEA portal/web project to 700 research scientists across 7 OPUs worldwide - provided increased visibility to company's research target portfolio.
• Managed evaluation, pilot, development, training and deployment of company's first employee portal, iris, B2E Vignette Application Portal to 800 members in R D and IT.
• Assumed project management mid-way for the Global Research Technology Alliances System DTAS - managing customizations, configuration and deployment of system to over 100 users worldwide. System provided management and tracking of relationships between company and research alliance partner companies - was delivered on time and met customer's approval.
• Successfully evaluated, piloted, deployed, upgraded and supported company's first web-based collaboration software eRoom to 500 members in BIPI which became a new corporate standard. Transitioned system to Infrastructure operations group smoothly through effective technical and process harmonization meetings.
• Led local implementation of the international chemical inventory system BIRMA project including managing requirements for vendor customizations, coordinating software development for purchasing system integration and procuring hardware for the project.
• Planned and managed tasks for deployment of Project Content Platform PCP system for the local Ridgefield Medicinal Chemists - collaborated with international colleagues for solve scheduling and technical issues.
• Assumed management of Lead Optimization System project mid-way through development and saw it through deployment including managing and incorporating scope change of a separate mini-project of procurement and deployment of additional unplanned hardware.
• Coordinated ELAB Chemistry lab notebook beta pilot and rollout to 60 Medicinal Chemistry users prepared relevant checklists and followed-up with pilot participants on results before rollout.
• Planned and managed project activities to successfully deploy in-house developed Protein Lab Information Systems PLIMS to 100 Biology users automating manual processes for ordering and tracking biology components. Planned, coordinated and facilitated collaborative group sessions for obtaining requirements, designing the user interface, training and promoting the system upon rollout.
• Initiated social network group for IT Project Managers and Business Analysts lead and facilitated meetings to support and enhance project management activities won IT Beacon award.

Confidential

Systems Analyst III / Principal Systems Engineer

• IT Analyst providing analysis and support of systems for the Research and Development departments.
• Managed and implemented lab information systems SQL LIMS and Connect for R D scientists including development and integration of custom reports and modules as specified by scientific users.
• Evaluated web technologies and developed prototype intranet for R D first company intranet .
• Administered and supported the company R D intranet including weekly publication of new content.

Previous Employment History

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