SUMMARY

• Influenced outcome originator with extensive experience developing technical strategy and product roadmaps, with a plan to increase software product deliverables by 20% in teh first year.
• Launch change management Agile best practices methodologies to increase teh production of IT staff priorities efficiently ensured 99.9% system uptime in production.
• Achieved performance targets and success factors governing software development deliverables by introducing Agile methodology, with a 30% gain in on - time delivery & 40% reduction in defect rates.

CORE SKILLS PROFICIENCIES

• Information Systems
• Turnaround Strategies
• Product Management
• Risk Management
• Cost/Benefit Analysis
• Project Management
• Commercial Product Experience
• Performance Improvement
• Software Development

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Confidential, Bloomington, MN

Responsibilities:

• Recruited to lead teh culture, dynamic vision, strategy, and responsible for all facets of technical operations, system technology and use cases related technical system services, for both consumer and commercial products within a biomedical engineering corporation.
• Transformed strategic initiatives and Business Analysis Excellence (BAE) consultancy costs by approximately 50% by conducting in-house consulting.
• Launch train/mentor a staff of 15 career professionals engaged in technology system management, system implementation, data mapping, and providing help-desk support to our internal/external global locations.
• Achieve measurable change in organization operations, by maximizing IT project plans and ROI targets, resulting in a 20% reduction in capital expenditures in eight months.
• Launch change management Agile best practices methodologies to increase teh production of IT staff priorities efficiently ensured 99.9% system uptime in production. Engage stakeholders in teh change effort and ensure adoption of new changes, measure progress and assess business readiness.
• Jump-start stalled data strategy negotiations and executed four critical strategic areas of unnecessary spending. Contracts, Bill Payment, Inventory Assets, and Invoices strategy help improve my organization’s business intelligence, saving $20,000 annually.

DIRECTOR OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw 100 employees while spearheading global planning and analysis within an IT product portfolio valued at $15M.
• Improved teh efforts of a dynamic distributed product-team of 150 employees and headed teh Project Management Office, with authority over product-schedules, budgets, deliverables, user cases and Scrum Teams as well as agreements with outside vendors.
• Achieved performance targets and success factors governing software development deliverables by introducing Agile methodology, with a 30% gain in on-time delivery & 40% reduction in defect rates. While implementing new status reports and summaries to track key performance indicators against benchmarks and expectations.
• Improved production by 50% in 2015 through a shift in focus towards technical services, while continually identifying opportunities to reduce costs across multiple projects, yielding a 45% reduction in technical resource costs.
• Conceived and metamorphosed infrastructure and technology assets uptime and operating efficiency by 94%.
• Achieved efficiency of 15%across four time zones through teh development of IT global governance and management procedures.

PRINCIPAL MANAGING PARTNER OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw and monitored more than 100 IT products, human capital, and software deployment, and vendor contracts, ranging in value from $20,000 to $1,000,000+; coordinated with both internal and external stakeholders regularly, ensured timely and accurate delivery of product contract deliverables.
• Achieved diversified partnerships with decision makers, and business users, securing program visibility, resulting in a $100,000 increase in private resources.
• Spearhead teh use of Agile methodology by overseeing scrum creation of 100K+ pieces of process documentation, reducing development timeline by 15%, ensuring that technical progression of big data projects where implemented coherently, based on product vision and high-level conceptual design.
• Converted teh prerequisites and overall mindset of improving critical business offerings and product management by 35%, utilizing Agile framework to launch big data products as well as developing entirely new ones.
• Negotiated teh operational function of clearing entity relocation valued at $400M in cost and assets. Instrumental in maintaining policy documents, templets, operating procedures, and product-milestones and status information.
• Launched in-depth analysis of capital project Merger & Acquisitions (M&A) resulting in a combined international financial trading operation support effort. Increased overall productivity and efficiency by involving IT teams early to remediate bottleneck and show teh value of 30% IT synergies to solve merger complexity.
• Trained, coached, and mentored various distributed team in teh development of business cases supporting over 450 dynamic projects and products within 100 programs, influencing teh improvement in IT/financial services and healthcare technology.