SUMMARY:

Extensive experience creating business solutions using information technology. Certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute, project management’s leading global professional organization. A broad background in systems integration, consulting, product development and project management is complemented by state - of-the-art knowledge of computer software and applications.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Rexford, NY

President

Responsibilities:

• Enhancing the ability of inspectors to quantify, prioritize and track workload;
• Tuning of the Weighted Enforcement System; and
• Modifications to promote the accessibility of systems to conform with the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act ( Confidential ) Section 508.

Confidential

PM

Responsibilities:

• a one year Agile effort to integrate information across the organization's lines of business with a Data Warehouse, SharePoint collaboration/workflow, and an Enterprise Service Bus.
• Creation of the organization’s first enterprise data warehouse, adding workflow and collaboration to existing line-of-business systems, standardizing the codebase of the line of business systems to .Net 4, automating information flows from the line of business systems to and from the Confidential accounting system, and integration with the NYS Consolidated Funding Application system.
• Roadmap-level project plans for this agile project were maintained in MS Project 2010 and down converted to MS Project 2007 for consumption by the client.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assisting the Confidential with the implementation of a M/WBE Monitoring and Compliance system.
• The system is a SaaS offering and connects to the existing NYS financial system and the Confidential Corporation for the purpose of collecting and monitoring financial information with the objective of meeting M/WBE State and Federal contracting goals and requirements.
• Coordinating the efforts of the Confidential and the SaaS contractor, Early Morning Software of Baltimore, MD.

Confidential

Project manager

Responsibilities:

• Management of all activities and work products including: the Project Management Plan, MS Project Plan, Weekly/Monthly Status Reports, Deliverable updates, and Team resources;
• Ensure quality of Team deliverables;
• Weekly meetings with the State PM to discuss status and progress; and
• Risk and issue identification, escalation and resolution.
• Detailed project schedules were maintained in MS Project 2007 with monthly update releases.

Confidential

Project manager

Responsibilities:

• Oversee and co-ordinate design, development, testing, training and transition activities for the changes to the legacy system;
• Responsible for overall management including: planning, scheduling, quality control, tracking the progress of knowledge transfer to the Confidential staff;
• Provide coordination between various groups: CIT Technical Services, Application Services, Confidential Finance and Central Business Office bureaus;
• Develop project schedules, monitor progress against the schedules; and
• Communicate detailed project status to Confidential staff through weekly meetings, weekly status reports, and monthly project status reports.
• Detailed project schedules were maintained in MS Project 2007 with monthly update releases.

Confidential

Project manager

Responsibilities:

• Authored the Integrated Project Management Plan for Confidential development and Confidential maintenance;
• Provided integrated project status for the Executive Steering Committee;
• Validated that the Confidential system is being developed to meet various federal stakeholder requirements,
• Acted as a principal on the Governance team for the project;
• Facilitated the development of Confidential system requirements and provided guidance and validation for Confidential use cases and functional specifications;

Confidential

Project manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided design and project management services to the New York State Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System ( Confidential ) project.
• Eligibility (Title Confidential, Title Confidential ), Legal Activities, and Interfaces (Child Support Enforcement, Medicaid, Welfare Management System).
• Primary point of contact between casework, legal staff, and financial policy makers and the project for these activities.

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Responsibilities:

• Worked in a project-oriented environment delivering web-enabled, client-server and mainframe solutions to Confidential in State and Local Governments.
• In his tenure with AMS, however, Confidential worked in four different vertical markets: Federal Financial Systems, State and Local Government Financial Systems, Telecommunications and Human Services.
• Played a wide variety of roles in project management, requirements, design, development and the implementation of large-scale applications.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led requirements validation sessions and produced a Requirements Traceability Matrix and Requirements Specifications.
• Managed Design Teams that conducted JAD sessions to develop a design for Confidential .
• Managed the interface design, conversion strategy, and conversion plan for data from existing systems.
• Maintained the portions of the project schedule relating to Requirements Validation, the Functional Design of the system, and the Interface Design in MS Project.
• Also maintained detailed earned value/burndown for the design process in MS Excel.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of a web-based front end to Confidential -E based on a third-party product;
• Implementing a new Child Care subsystem that tracks incidents and injuries to children in care statewide;
• Developing requirements for the unique identification of children in Child Care across all county and State Child Care systems;
• Responding to legislative or departmental inquiries via client bureaus; and
• Implementing changes to program eligibility or benefits.
• Maintained the project schedule in MS Project for the scope of work defined by the Quarterly Deliverable Agreement.
• Maintained parallel information for labor in Confidential

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led the team that is designing the integration points and integration methods needed to connect the Confidential system with existing Departmental financial systems, such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, and federal claiming for Social Security Title Confidential Foster Care and Adoption Assistance, Title Confidential Medicaid and Title IV-A Emergency Assistance programs, as well as claiming against other federal grants.
• Responsible for reviewing existing and desired departmental workflows, including integration with Best Practices for caseworkers.
• Responsible for facilitating JAD sessions for System Workflow Analysis and Architectural Design, as well as producing the design deliverables from the sessions.