SUMMARY:

• Multilingual MBA in International Business with 8 years of international experience. Fluent in Spanish, Italian, and English. Speaks Portuguese and some German. Twelve years of varied experience in multiple insurance lines, hospital/healthcare operations, pharmaceutical and manufacturing industries. Fifteen years of broad IT experience. Expertise includes Sarbanes Oxley compliance, IAS, IFRS, US GAAP, Six Sigma methodology, SDLC processes, HIPPA, FDA regulations, GCP, GMP, managing outside and offshore development teams, change management, business analysis, analysis of financial data and financial statements, project management using SDLC, and IT project management.
• Expert in Windows 2000, MS Project, MS Project Server, Outlook, Word, Excel, Excel macros, Visio, Sharepoint MOSS 2007, Hyperion Essbase, Hyperion Financial Management, Access, PowerPoint, SAS programming, JDE, Lotus Notes, Business Objects, Business Objects based Global Datawarehouse, Trackwise, ABQM, Minitab, Daptiv PPM, and some SAP. Expert in manipulation and analysis of large data sets using pivot tables and lookup macros. Confidential Vault Certified Administrator.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Thousand Oaks, CA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager for the implementation of mySOP cloud - based application enterprise- wide.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Clinical Systems Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager responsible for the upgrade of the existing RAVE and CTRM applications for Confidential . Also Project Manager responsible for the implementation of Confidential Vault eTMF (electronic Trial Master File) for the U.S. and full migration of all key study documents for Regulatory Affairs. Fully responsible for managing outside vendor Confidential Inc., internal project team and have full responsibility for project budget.

Confidential, Groton, CT

Project Manager (through Atlas Data Systems)

Responsibilities:

• Managed the testing, upgrade and reverse engineering of the Enrich application. Enrich is used to evaluate the financial viability of drugs and portfolios of drugs in all phases of clinical trials. Managed outside vendor responsible for creating, maintaining and upgrading the cloud - based and database servers that run the application. Worked with Clinical Portfolio Management and Business Technology departments to document and test the application.

Confidential, Cheshire, CT

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the Global Corporate Document Control Project (GCDC) (eDMS). Was responsible for $5 million budget for the project and managing the work of two outside vendors (CSC and Paragon Consulting). Worked with Quality and Manufacturing business to implement document management solution. Project was a global document management system that is validated and regulated. System controlled Quality and Manufacturing as well As Trial Master Files (TMF) submissions and documentation. eDMS will replace virtually all document management systems within the company including NextDocs.
• At same time as implementation completed a business data migration of all company documents. Supervised both the implementation vendor (CSC) and data migration vendor (Paragon Solutions) development work to complete the project within timelines.

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Sr. Project Manager (through Corporate System Associates)

Responsibilities:

• Managed a Business Insurance-wide Change Management Initiative working with Human Resources. Rolled-out schedule and process for 9000 employees in Business Insurance Unit of Confidential .

Confidential, Groton, CT

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager responsible for creating and maintaining a FTE resource model for Worldwide Safety and Strategy and Epidemiology. Worked with Safety staff and Leadership Team to model FTE demand under numerous scenarios. The FTE model will be used to predict and manage resources use to keep Confidential Inc in compliance with FDA and company standard across entire portfolio. Responsible for using Business Objects Business Intelligence application to validate and monitor results of model versus the activity tracking for Worldwide Safety and Strategy. Heavy use of Business Objects and Confidential Global Datawarehouse for data pulls.

Confidential, Simsbury, CT

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager for the Business Intelligence Municipal Tax Project. Project identified insured clients by global positioning to accurately assign correct tax rate for numerous insurance lines of business. This project was business critical as the ability to identify the correct tax rate for each client was a compliance issues with the state tax boards for 13 affected states.

Confidential, Windsor, CT

Sr. Project Management Specialist Call IT

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager responsible for Computer Telephony Implementation for GDS BPO. Project consisted of using existing LAN networks and creating and implementing a VLAN network using Virtual IP addresses to route claims and informational calls correctly. Also project manager responsible for coordinating Call IT's compliance with IE8 company-wide implementation in

Confidential, Bristol, CT

Sr. Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Sr. Financial Analyst responsible for reporting and financial analysis on several international entities within Confidential International. Responsible for all analysis of variance, P&L variances for entities, entity reconciliation, budgeting and forecasting on a monthly basis for the EMEA Region.

Confidential, Groton, CT

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager responsible for completing all integration project work from initial charter to completion of integration of all Confidential Diversified Business units eClinical 5.0 clinical studies into the current Confidential environment using Confidential ’s SDLC process. Confidential Diversified Business comprises all OTC drugs and consumer goods in the Consumer Health Division.
• Directed the work of project team including assisting and supervising the business analysis in the gathering of the system and the business requirement to complete the project. Created and managed the Wyeth/ Confidential Integration team's Sharepoint site. Created the format and content as well as calendar to track and monitor progress on all Dev Ops integration projects.

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• As the Project Manager for International Tax, was responsible for completing and coordinating interactions between Confidential Corporate Legal, Accounting, Treasury, Tax departments, domestic and international business units, and outside advisors to complete complex financial transactions. Transactions included: M&A, selling and closing businesses, and creating new legal entities to optimize corporate tax structure and financial results.

Confidential, New London CT

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• As a Sr. Project Manager on Clinical Trials Relationship Management Portal Project completed $600,000 project on time and on budget. Managed the application through the complete SDLC process. Managed a team of up to 14 throughout project lifecycle. The CTRM Portal was a Sharepoint MOSS 2007 COTS application modified using .NET. The Sharepoint Portal will be used by clinicians to collaborate on ongoing clinical trials and report and share information and results of clinical trials worldwide. Responsible for planning, managing outside vendor application development, requirements gathering and stakeholder acceptance, design, build, UAT and system testing, and full implementation into the production environment for application. Served as Administrator of the the CTRM site until a BAU administrator could be found and trained. Worked with clinical trials business lead on a daily basis to implement business solution. Created material and processes for new administrator. Trained new administrator on features of the CTRM application. Used Microsoft Project server to create project plan, resource level and report on milestones sand project timelines.
• Worked as Project Manager on a Six Sigma Financial Business Intelligence Process Improvement Project for Worldwide Purchasing Organization. Added Pegasus application to Trackwise change management system. Trained support staff on use of Trackwise system. As the Project lead on this Six Sigma project I was responsible for providing both business analysis and operational analysis to management, and making recommendations to sales and marketing areas on how to reduce cycle time for project approval and reduce rejection rates. Recommendations to management were implemented and saved $1.4 M by reducing cycle time and lowering rejection rate in WPO organization. Used information from Confidential ’s Global Datawarehouse (GDW) to create analysis and business recommendations.

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing business and IT relationship during financial change project. Responsible for 4 common modules in finance and IT department during business process re-engineering project. Reengineering brought together common financial reporting platform for P&C insurance business for XL worldwide. Resposibilities during this project was to make sure that the ETL portion of the process was completed successfully and fully tested in the US and abroad before the full implementation of the platform.

Confidential, New Haven, CT

SOX Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creation, review, and completion of all Sarbanes Oxley documentation. Full responsibility for Sarbanes Oxley process narratives, audit maps, and audit test scripts for all company processes. Reported and reviewed all results to VP/CFO of company in preparation for Sarbanes Oxley attestation before IPO. SOX remediation was completed on time for initial attestation by auditors.

Confidential, New London CT

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager responsible for managing Hyperion System 9 Foundation project to completion using SDLC process. Hyperion System 9 integrates all Hyperion applications and allow the applications to share information. Integrated all Hyperion systems with Trackwise platform for change management control. Responsible for full testing of integration .As project manager responsible for the full suite of system and project documentation and client acceptance necessary to complete the project.

Confidential, Purchase NY

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for business analysis and recommendation to improve forecasting and trends of both line and freight maintenance monthly expenditures. Reconciled payments to outside service providers to both Atlas and Polar Airline’s JDE ledger accounts. Recommended changes in accrual process to improve accuracy in JDE ledger accounts.

Confidential, New York City, NY

Finance Manager

Responsibilities:

• Then converted North America and South America to IFRS and IAS standards
• Responsible for all the preparation, analysis of KPI’s, P&L analysis, and presentation of financial results to senior management in the region and in Paris.