SUMMARY:

• Experience in Agile, Modern Agile and more traditional Waterfall approaches as well as the Agile Central, Unfuddle, Basecamp, Jira, & MS Project toolsets. Technologies implemented include Hadoop, Spark, SharePoint, Drupal, PHP, ASP, and others. Expertise in Change Management, requirements gathering, analysis, Business process redesign, as well as PMO processes.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Business analyst/project manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated over 70 principles across 10 different business areas to derive requirements for and to develop a schema for two different expansions to a $70 million system internally referred to as C2I. This platform was based in a data lake on Hadoop, with over 50 different business processes running on the result (Many more planned)
• Led an effort to review the schema for the already executed 50 projects when their efforts needed to be coordinated overall. This culminated in my transfer to the governance group to help coordinate those efforts.
• Managed to relationship with a trusted partner, whose application was to manage the execution of the provider and member domains across all clients.

Project Manager/Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Aided in the creation of a PMO office for the New York area, creating templates and processes of reporting for a redesign of the communication channels of project activity. This increased management visibility into all projects, helping to streamline and standardize Icreon responses.
• Major League Baseball Players Association
• Led requirements gathering for the player’s Mobile application (both Android & iOS), resulting in substantial upgrades including chat, implementation of security features, integration with US Anti - Doping Agency (USADA), the dissemination of Forms and the creation of polls. This app was used by over 1,500 players, resulting in increased visibility of the player’s association. After release copycat applications were released by the player’s association of the NBA, and NFL.
• WatchFacts
• Oversaw the implementation of a PHP based website handling inventory management and ecommerce with an important integration with Amazon, Gilt and others. I handled the entire project lifecycle including requirements definition, creation of wireframes, creation of project plan, budget reporting, Implementation, QA & QC, resolution of issues and project signoff. The end result was the listing and of over 10,000 watches from over 200 dealers with Q1 financial results yet to be published.
• UXL
• Managed a team of business analysts in the creation of specifications, as well as the implementation team in the beginnings of implementation. This project was cut short when UXL was purchased by XPO. Unification of software systems obviated the need for the project. XPO was so impressed with our work, however, that Icreon continues to other projects with them.

Project Manager/Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led a team to handle requirements gathering and development of an information governance plan for AARP. Part of this plan was a change management plan resulting in methodologies and procedures to develop the project roadmap going forward. The information governance system proposed helped AARP with compliance and document tracking, in a Gimmal designed SharePoint based system.
• Forex Capital Management
• Oversaw a team of 5 to design specifications for and implement and integration between EMC’s Captiva and EMC’s Documentum to use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to manually input forms. This process functioned in over 10 languages, each of which required its own OCR technology, and recognizing which technology to use by recognizing the underlying form, which required a pioneering use of the Captiva technology.
• Kadmon Pharmaceuticals
• Performed an information audit, and oversaw an effort to utilize EMC’s Documentum as a means to replace the currently used Dropbox. The goal was to use a more secure and robust repository for information, without putting an undue burden on the finance department who performed much of the Merger and Acquisition (M&A) work for the pharmaceutical group.
• Air Products
• Led the requirements gathering effort to perform an overall information audit for Air Products. . The end result was a series of written reports outlining their information governance from a wide variety of perspectives: Information lifecycle model, an information Governance Plan, a Physical Records Assessment, a Share drive assessment, an Email plan, a business case and a Project Roadmap

Project Manager/Auditor

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw the project management of over 1,800 individual projects to upgrade the hard drive image of systems across Confidential after their purchase by Confidential . The projects involved verifying the software installed on all systems prior to the initiation of any project and testing that in a new image and network to make certain that the process unfolded without issue.
• Managed teams of 4, Inspecting and updating the underlying financials of 403(b) and 401(k) retirement plans for Confidential . Our team outperformed another 5 teams both in terms of quantity & quality of plans produced resulting in recognition from management.