SUMMARY:

• Experienced Senior Project Manager with the ability to remain calm under pressure and lead IT/IS projects to be delivered successfully in a structured or unstructured professional environment. Various industry experiences include Telecommunications/Wireless, Financial, Healthcare, Software Development tools, Manufacturing, and Federal Government/DOD.
• Confidential, Advanced Systems Engineer Analyst, Developer, Tester, and Technical Lead on many projects across multiple platforms such as PCs, IBM Mainframes, Unix workstations, and Digital VAXes. These projects dealt with different business applications such as Wireless Billing, GM Plant Floor Maintenance, Wireline Outside Plant Engineering, Cellular Billing Credit Watch, and a GM Plant Job Request System. The programming languages used were C, C++, Cobol, PL1, and Basic.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technology and Tools: Software Development LifeCycle (SDLC), Software Implementation, Stage - gate project process, cross-functional matrixed environment, Scope, Schedule, Quality, Budget, Communications, Risk and Change management, top down and bottom up estimating, estimating tools, resource planning, Microsoft Project, Critical Path Methodology (CPM), CMMI, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Scrum, Business Dimensional Lifecycle, RAD, JAD, Prototyping, function points, PMBOK, meeting facilitation, project repository (workbook), post project survey, EVMS (Earned Value)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager on PlugTest Program. Successfully closed down the Electronic Flight Bag PlugTest as contractor met all requirements. Currently starting another PlugTest that is in the Whitepaper phase.
• Project Manager on program to implement new firewalls across the Air Force to all Air Force bases to replace current end of life solution. Working on program team to coordinate and prepare bases and Air Force IT units to successfully imple for ment and test the new firewalls. Successfully lead implementation at a pace of two bases per week but sometimes four or five due to issues Confidential project control for a total of over 100 bases to meet the end of project timeline.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Successfully lead two extremely high profile projects, a Business Impact Analysis & Disaster Recovery Plan update, across North America and Canada within budget to a very tight timeframe to close important Audit Issue. Also ran two additional projects to document a security process into the Software Development LifeCycle and resolve and implement a 3rd party patch management solution.

Confidential

Consultant

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• Lead implementation team to complete 34 sites in 6 months to integrate UMass Memorial clients (doctor’s offices and Health Care Centers) Electronic Medical Record Systems or Laboratory Information Systems with Confidential as part of Confidential acquisition of clinical outreach laboratory business of UMass Memorial Medical Center.

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Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead effort to successfully meet strategic goal of offering Dental Plans to consumers for first phase of effort to meet the Affordable Care Act. As program/project manager oversaw approximately 50 small and medium subprojects to plan, execute and track the effort through implementation. Created and managed integrated Schedule for all of these subprojects. The program included updating current systems through full SDLC as well as implementing Salesforce, a Data Warehouse, reporting systems, a new bill printing system, and managing a vendor to implement B2C website. The budget for 2012 was approximately $1.5 million Confidential the NE Delta Dental employees.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Supported Program Manager in managing a $39M sustainment contract for a critical system that supports Emergency Action Message traffic at multiple Nuclear Command & Control Centers worldwide. Supported Program Manager in successfully transitioning DIRECT Program to another base. Created plan to new contract at Hanscom to mitigate the risk of new base being unable to contract. Held Secret Clearance.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created and managed integrated Schedule and provided other Project Management consulting services for integration project of medical laboratory services acquired from Caritas Christi Health Care. This involved updating the Caritas Meditech system, integrating with eClinical Works for Caritas Network physicians, implementing eClinical Works to Caritas Affiliated physicians, and the integration of Public Service Centers.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Refocused stalled rearchitecture effort for Pharmacy Payer tables for HealthCare Informatics Oracle Data Warehouse. Implemented Scope and Change management, established schedule and led project to implement successfully during company integration. The improved Payer subsystem resulted in reducing unresolved Payers on Pharmacy claims in half and increased Medicare Part D mapping by about 33%

Confidential

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• Managed development projects of Testing and Security tools for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET software development. Project budgets ranged from 400K to 1.2 million. Managed several projects simultaneously across a cross functional organization to include Product Management, Development and QA managers, Documentation, Release Engineering, and Beta and Release coordinators. Wrote Statement of Work for all projects.
• Used Earned Value to measure progress as well as IT Project Portfolio Management tool, Changepoint. Two main project schedules remained above .95 SPI.

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Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed requirements phase of project to improve content on Fidelity.com for Cash Management business. Also created preliminary schedule to set expectations of the internal customer.

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Responsibilities:

• Led project for successful on-time implementation of a vendor system to manage Hedge Fund processing. The system was migrated from a Wintel server platform to a Solaris Unix platform and completely tested in 7 weeks.
• Led teams to create required project documentation in order to implement to company standards

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project Lead for Data Warehouse team. Created comprehensive project plan for two Data Marts to include schedule, issues tracking, change management policy, risk management as well as a project plan document. Software included Business Objects 6, Oracle 8i, and Solaris 8.
• Led the development of Guide and the User Guide which provided the users the ability to create their own reports and drill down into the Data Warehouse.
• Created project roadmap of an integrated Application Development team schedule to include all projects for current year and 2 years out using MS Project.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created Master Schedule to include inserted subprojects, one resource list across all MS project files, and schedule dependency links between project schedules. Helped implement a new schedule based on the best use of limited resources. Created and presented reports for senior executives and provided a means to identify the critical path of the project. Also coached and mentored Project Administrators in the use of MS Project.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager for important strategic cross-functional two location project. Project was first between ESG and the DTCC, which the merged company, Omgeo later used to market itself. Project delivered on time within budget in a professional environment where this was rare.
• Part of Management team for large financial trading Internet development project to implement 'T+1' solution. Project Manager for two subprojects. Helped establish, design, and build Project Management Office. Instrumental in establishing the use of Rational Unified Process.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Recovery Project Manager for late software project to rewrite customer reporting Windows application from desktop to extranet managed by EDS. Development tools for project were Java, BEA Weblogic, SQL Server, and MS Frontpage. Coordinated implementation activities with Networking, Systems, Documentation, and Production Support groups and refocused team and reset expectations.
• Supported organizations effort to achieve SEI CMM Level 3 by leading team in writing Computer Resource processes and procedures. Part of team that defined the process for tailoring the organization's standard Software Process. Wrote Issue Escalation procedure for Intergroup Coordination KPA.
• Led first successful project after two failed attempts to create Graphical User Interface (GUI) for legacy system. Selected and employed Rapid Application Development (RAD), Joint Application (JAD), a User Interface Expert, and an Iterative/Incremental development lifecycle utilizing Visual Basic as tool. First phase of this project used in evaluation of organization in of SEI CMM Level 2.
• Led first project in organization to use formal project management. Led project team to deliver four software releases on time within budget to support seven wireless carriers using SaaS (Software as a Service) billing system. Twelve person project with budget of $1.2 million. Reduced time to market from nine months on first release to seven weeks on fourth and bug fixing in subsequent releases was reduced to 12% from 48%.