SUMMARY:

• Information Technology Professional with expertise, proven leadership and front line experience in corporate technology services. Results driven producer with expertise in managing/leading complex projects from inception to timely completion. Strengths include:
• Project Management SDLC Methodology PMO Compliance Data Modeling
• Waterfall Methodology ITIL Process Resource Management Vendor Management
• Agile Methodology Requirements Gathering Budget Management Documentation
• RALLY ALM Clarity

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Hartford, CT

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Working as an PMO Project Manager managing the building of new healthcare systems to meet the needs of Healthcare Reform legislation that requires insurers to administer reinsurance, risk adjustment and risk corridor programs.
• Federal mandated guidelines of Healthcare Reform for submission of Policy Plan and Member information, Medical Claims, Pharmacy Claims, Dental Claims and Revenue to the Confidential Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
• Currently managing multiple projects simultaneously for the healthcare reform program.
• Managing defect resolutions using Application Lifecycle Methodology (ALM) tool.
• Heavy usage of the Clarity tool for tracking schedule, resources, allocations, risks, issues and budget for baseline and cost plans. The Clarity tool is integrated with MS Project 2010.
• Develop and maintain project plans while working with Solution Architects, Data Modelers, Development and QA teams for managing the project lifecycle.
• Work directly with stakeholders, business users, integrated application teams in a robust matrix environment nationally.
• Ensures all project approvals, artifacts are created and stored appropriately when projects are ready to deploy to a production environment.
• Scrum Master managing 3 different scrum teams following OSAM methodology, developing user stories, grooming, maintaining backlog, sprint execution, sprint retrospectives, PI planning, etc.

Confidential, Yonkers, NY

IT Project Delivery Manager (PMO Office)

Responsibilities:

• Supporting infrastructure projects enterprise wide.
• Project Manager supporting the Desktop Optimization Windows 7 Upgrade for all hospital locations.
• Project Manager supporting the Next Generation Medical Grade Upgrade to the new Cisco network infrastructure.
• Project Manager supporting the development of an Enterprise Data Warehouse Project to centralize key healthcare information.
• Responsible for developing project plans, budgets and resource tracking.
• Utilize Clarity with Open Work Bench to add resources and track and report of resource hours for each project.
• Work with PMO office for tracking and auditing all projects involved with.

Confidential, Bloomfield, CT

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Leading project team for the simultaneous implementation of HFM and Hyperion Planning into 3 new infrastructure environments (DEV/QA/PROD). Includes being a business analyst for determining integration points for feeds to/from both systems.
• Following Mallinckrodt’s SDLC methodology from Assessment through Project Closure providing agreed upon phase documentation such as Project Charter, Project Plans, Risk Assessment, RACI.
• Coordinate phase stage gates with IT stakeholders to review phase deliverables have been met and obtain approval to move to next phase. Responsible to ensure infrastructure environments and database environments are procured and installed per vendor’s requirements.
• Present weekly status’ to IT and business stakeholders using PowerPoint presentations.
• Present monthly dashboard updates to senior IT management (VP and Director).
• Develop and track project issues and resolutions. Work with Oracle support.
• Provide risk assessments and procedures to mitigate.
• Leading an Oracle supplied resource for implementation of software and configuration.
• Work in a matrix environment where resources are distributed amongst various company locations.
• Proficient in MS Office tools such as MS Project, VISIO, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Good understanding of infrastructure technology such as MSAD, VM, SAN Storage, Database, Remote Access, VPN, SSO, F5 Load Balancing, LDAP.

Confidential , Purchase, New York

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led project team of 4 people that combined 2 separate Hyperion systems, Confidential ’s global Case Sales and Confidential International into latest version of Hyperion HFM, on time and on budget.
• Followed Confidential ’s 9 phases of SDLC and Waterfall methodology. Collaborated with PMO office ensuring compliance with project audits. Facilitated stage gate meetings held with stakeholders and PMO consistently meeting phase deliverables and sign off for approvals to next phase. Provided project assumptions, constraints and risk analysis. Provided documentation for each phase.
• Developed and successfully developed and coordinated project plans, utilizing MS Project, incorporating all lifecycle phases inclusive of all efforts in matrix environment with teams in
• Plano, TX and Chicago, IL locations meeting senior management objectives.
• Developed project scope for business confirmation and sign off and managed project deliverables.
• Provided weekly progress reporting to Business and IT Stakeholders via MS Power Point presentations. Tracked issues, resolutions and Oracle service requests. Managed business and vendor relationships in respect to project expectations and measured progress to published project plans.
• Followed ITIL process procedures using Service Manager 7 for Incident Management, Problem Management, Configuration Management, Change Management and Release Management.
• Led development of interfaces and integration from SAP Financials to Hyperion HFM for consolidation of earnings.
• Collaborated with Architects and developed sizing requirements for Windows server requests and developed architecture diagrams via VISIO that ensured system performance and business signoff.
• Built 3 infrastructure environments plus Disaster Recovery environment using Windows 2008 servers. Development (Sandbox) environment with 5 VM servers. QA, Production and DR environments each had 12 physical servers, web and application, load balanced with Single Sign On (SSO).
• Teamed with Oracle DBA’s for database requirements and setup of schemas.
• During the HFM implementation also managed baseline activities for other projects such as Corporate Audit systems for upgrades to software and infrastructure as servers expired and required replacement to keep compliant with vendor standards.

Confidential

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed and led upgrades to earlier versions of Oracle’s Hyperion software including all Windows 2003 servers meeting vendor requirements while maintaining compliance with company standards.
• Managed support in excess of 25+ Application and Citrix servers for various infrastructure environments (Development, QA, Production). Including server builds and installation of software on Application, Citrix servers and client software implementations.
• Managed support of audit systems such as Certus (SOX audit tracking) and Team Mate (Internal Audit Tracking System) packaged software. Included Infrastructure and Application.
• Teamed with vendor partners developing Abstracts and Statement of Work for various vendor upgrades and enhancements to latest software release.
• Led JAD workshop; gathered business requirements and formalized functional and design documents enhancing business intelligence reporting features of audit applications utilizing Business Objects, and Informatica (ETL). Utilized Agile Methodology.
• Presented timely status reporting to Business and IT Stakeholders.

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led design and implementation of PCNA Fountain Repository Database project for Analytical Reporting that centralized data from mainframe legacy systems and allowed data to be accessed for Fountain Analytical Reporting.
• Provided business requirements in respect to all fountain products and the fountain equipment that supported the products at various locations such as sport stadiums, convenience stores, fuel locations, etc. Requirements included isolating legacy master data, data cleansing, extracting of data utilizing ETL tool, Informatica, and working with Oracle DBAs to define database schemas.
• In conjunction with working with Oracle DBAs developed stored procedures using PL/SQL for retrieving data for evaluations and data cleansing.
• Worked with technical analysts utilizing Informatica ETL processing in addition to developing PL/SQL code to analyze data along with using Toad software for accessing Oracle tables and schemas.
• Followed SDLC and Agile methodologies gathering functional and design requirements, risk analysis, project charters, test cases, user test cases system integration testing, user approval for each phase and final sign off to migrate to production environment and was successfully implemented.
• Managed 2 onshore and 2 offshore resources in development of reporting requirements with Wipro Technologies in India.
• Developed project plans, outstanding issues lists for resolution, and managed change control for time lines.
• Led design and analysis of developing data marts to track equipment maintenance and fountain pour volumes by product. Business requirements for data marts developed by meeting with our business partners and assisting with business needs.
• Led business requirements for developing business intelligence reporting utilizing Business Objects and data modeling sessions in coordination with DBAs for logical/physical data modeling.