SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a Senior Project Manager Consultant with 10+ years of experience leading business and technology projects for Fortune 500 client such as Confidential, UnitedHealth Group & Confidential .
• He has 3+ years of Agile experience using Scrum and Kanban to lead, coach and manage sprint planning, product backlog, user stories, product owner relationships and releases.
• His most recent project was leading a $5M, 16 month Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse project for Berkeley Risk to build out centralized reporting and data analytics capabilities for legacy and new Insurance Operations applications.
• Confidential has a reputation for his excellent client - facing & vendor management skills; has worked closely with executive-level IT and Business Stakeholders, Sponsors and Product Owners at Berkeley Risk, Confidential & Confidential .
• Strength holding technical teams (onsite & offshore) and vendors accountable to estimates and technical deliverables that meet the business requirements. Strong change control skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies: - Agile SCRUM & Kanban, Kimball, Waterfall, SDLC, Hybrid Custom, Lean/Six Sigma, CMMI, TQM

Project Management: - MS Project, SharePoint, Visio, MS Office Suite, ScrumWorks, Squish, Planview

Business Intelligence: - MicroStrategy BI, Business Objects, SSRS/SSIS, .NET, SQL, Hyperion Essbase, Cognos, Pyramid Analytics, Server Infrastructure

ERP/Systems: - Oracle, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, BAAN, Kronos

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Project Manager Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Reported to the IT Director and led multiple technology projects aligned to the business portfolio.
• Served as the Project Manager, Program Manager and Scrum Master to lead Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse and initiatives.
• Assigned to take on several mid-stream projects needing rescue including a Financial Payments Application project and custom Audit Application.
• Successfully delivered all projects ahead of schedule and under budget.
• Business Intelligence & Data Warehouse Project: ($5M)
• Led a $5M Business Intelligence & Data Warehouse project to streamline operational reporting and data analytics capabilities for legacy and new applications.
• Used Agile/SCRUM and Kimball methodologies to manage a complex, multi-phased project using ScrumWorks, Squish, MS Project, Visio & Excel.
• Led Agile teams staffed with 8-15 ETL and Front End Developers, BSAs, BAs, QA, COBOL Developers, Systems Analysts (DB2, Cold Fusion, SharePoint), Data Architect and Vendor Technical Leads.
• Managed the relationship with the Director of IT - the Executive Project Owner.
• Provided Agile/Scrum coaching to internal clients and project teams.
• Provided status updates to executive and business stakeholders.
• The project team was designated by leadership to resolve all difficult IT issues due to its success on the BI project and ability to meet the business’s needs.
• Systems Program: ($2M+)
• Rescued and led a multi-million dollar program to develop and facilitate enterprise-wide for all legacy and new applications and workflows.
• Systems included Finance and Accounting, Insurance Policy Operations, Claims Management, and Client Services.
• Led multiple project teams using an Agile approach; teams included Trainers, Subject Matter Experts (SME), Functional BA, Systems Analysts, Instructional Designer and Stakeholders.
• Managed the relationship with the Product Owner ( Manager), Program Sponsor (Director of IT) and Executive Steering Committee.

IT Project Manager Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager leading a $1M+ IBM Cognos TM1 implementation / Cognos Enterprise Planner upgrade for a leading international brewery and beverage distributor with revenues of $43B.
• Manage both client and vendor project plans using MS Project.
• Lead a team of 10 technical resources (developers, architect, infrastructure, testers).
• Work directly with client's director-level stakeholder, Project Manager & SMEs located in the U.S. & Canada for the client's Information Business Systems (Analytics), Application Development & Finance.
• Accountable for managing RACI, issues, risks, timelines and project deliverables in an Iterative environment.
• Facilitate functional and technical requirements sessions with stakeholders and business leads.
• Responsible for weekly status updates to the stakeholders.

Senior IT Project Manager Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• IT Project Manager for a Confidential SWAT Team supporting eHP customer web portal projects around client remediation issues (configuration, UI and/or data issues with the product).
• Lead a team of BAs, SAs, data architects, developers and QA (onsite and Confidential India offshore) to manage the back log and follow resolutions through the SDLC process.
• Coordinate the UAT & release of product fixes set up in a weekly deployment schedule. Uses test environment results to plan for release deployment in the live production environment.
• Create the project plan, assign tasks and manage the schedule, issues and risks.
• Participate in analysis and design walkthroughs, scoping meetings, war rooms and project meetings as needed
• Assist with regular Change Control council meetings and ensure all items coming for approvals have necessary signoffs from QA, UAT, SSS, Development and related business stakeholders
• Create and update project SharePoint sites; used MS Project and MS Excel as project management tools.
• Used a hybrid methodology - Agile/SCRUM for development and Waterfall for project management.
• Manages 1-2 week sprint releases; facilitates daily stand-ups with the technical teams; operates in a virtual warm room environment.
• Responsible for managing the daily tasks and hand offs (comparable to a burn down chart).
• Tools: MS Project, Excel, SharePoint, Agile/SCRUM, SQL, Oracle, HTML, CSS, SSRS, SSIS

IT Project Manager Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Technical Project Manager for a high visibility, enterprise-wide software development project. Total project budget $1M+ and team 20+ resources (Remote/onsite FTEs & contractors)
• Developed a capacity planning & resource planning tool for the WFHM Retail Sales & Fulfillment groups to support the entire loan origination process.
• Constructed large portfolio of Dashboard Wireframes, Functional Mock-ups, Code Audit/Review, Data structure mapping (DB and Table), and Meta Data.
• Oversaw and created the Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), developed use-case statements, established Testing plan/method and developed the plan.
• Re-wrote and re-scoped the project charter and project plan originally created by Confidential .
• Migrated the team from Waterfall to Agile/SCRUM in order to increase deliverables output.
• Managed sprint planning & 2 week sprint development intervals.
• Accelerated sprints to maximize capacity and to show progress to the business & secure funding.
• Ran the daily stand up meetings with the technical teams. Managed the burn down charts.
• Responsible for working with BAs, testers and developers to reduce the product backlog.
• Led the product demos with the Product Owner. Presented mock ups for reporting, business intelligence and dashboard design to the sponsors and stakeholders.
• Established standardized methods for all activities in Initiation, Planning, Execution & Maintenance.
• Produced, delivered, and archived/tracked a series of comprehensive status reporting.
• Facilitated virtual project meetings for executive sponsors, management, and IT project teams.
• Tools: MS Project, SharePoint, Excel

Senior Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed a performance scorecard and BI dashboard reporting program for the PBM Benefit Design & Formulary Operations group as part of a Continuous Quality Improvement Initiative.
• Created operational metrics and data generation tools for a high impact client relations effort conducted with HCSC ( Confidential holder).
• Restructured the Resource & Capacity Planning activities and processes for Government Programs and Commercial Claim Operations (GPCCO).
• Completed weekly reporting to the Enterprise Project Office (EPO) to ensure adherence to enterprise project/program standards and portfolio planning.
• Developed and deployed communication plans for audience groups for all projects and metrics products.
• Solution required data mining from multiple sources - Rx Claim software, Kronos Time & Attendance system and home grown benefit design applications.
• Developed a large portfolio of metrics (BI) tools and coached a broad audience of users on the best practice for understanding and utilizing all metrics created.
• Tools: PMO standards, MS Excel (reporting & project management), Benefit Edit tool, SAS Enterprise Guide, SSIS, and Planview

Project Manager and Analyst Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As a Project Manager, managed cross-functional resources and resource planning, schedules, issues, risks and stakeholder communications.
• Managed projects and provided consulting services related to process design & improvement, metrics, reporting, business operations and capacity planning in the manufacturing, healthcare and financial services industries.
• Facilitated project and stakeholder meetings and delivered regular status updates.
• Managed cross functional teams of 3-10 resources across Finance, Operations, Sales, Product, Marketing and IT.
• Tools: MS Project, MS Excel, Visio, SAS, SSIS, Cognos, Business Objects & BAAN ERP

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Served as the Finance Project Lead responsible for the project financials/budget for an enterprise project to develop a new medical technology product & service.
• Worked within an Agile/SCRUM project environment. Presented at the large group project status updates, weekly and daily scrum updates.
• Tools: Agile, Cognos, MS Excel

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed a portfolio of projects in the effort to integrate and centralize a high impact subsidiary’s $2M A/R and Credit Granting operations into the client’s enterprise’s shared services.
• Re-developed the A/R divisional KPI reporting packages to include customized performance analysis and scalable charting.
• Developed and maintained the project plan, communication plan, process documentation and .
• Tools: MS Excel, Visio, Lean/Six Sigma, Business Objects, BAAN ERP(AS/400)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created financial analysis models during periodic and annual budgeting processes for the Engineering, Safety, Legal, Marketing, IT, Finance, Compliance, Human Resources & Planning groups for Confidential budgets ranging from $5K up to $20M+. Used MS Excel and Oracle ERP.

Project Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Served as a Project Manager & Consultant for a national business operations firm specializing in management consulting, business operations, process improvement, analytics, and reporting.
• Serviced clients in the medical nutrition, manufacturing, energy & insurance industries.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As Project Manager and Business Architect consultant, developed an enterprise tool known as Internal Asset Transfer (IAT) to track/report asset value, performance and tax event movement for all of Confidential assets - a total of $25B+ of assets.
• Worked with the executive business stakeholders/sponsors to translate the business goals into an actionable solution using enterprise process management (EPM).