SUMMARY:

• IT professional with proven experience delivering results in all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle.
• Known for innovative approach and track record of high quality outcomes from system and process understanding.
• Recognized for motivating teams to deliver results.
• Provided system capabilities unique in the health care industry, enabling on - demand product setup and unprecedented product offering flexibility for the sales team.
• Designed and led development of a system to automatically build product and benefits in the core claim system, reducing time to build product from 80 man-hours to less than 5 seconds with built-in test automation.
• Led a team of 45 staff to implement connectivity with the New York Heath Exchange, a multi-million dollar project. As part of that effort led the first use of offshore resources for Confidential, an Albany based payer.
• Consistently chartered by the Confidential to lead the most difficult and time-sensitive initiatives.
• Introduced the discipline of Business Rules Management, taking data from disparate sources and created a rules repository of 250,000+ product and benefit rules, implementing Master Data Management, now the source system for numerous enterprise applications.
• Introduced Agile development to the organization resulting in faster time to value.
• Designed and implemented an Enterprise Change Management Process and System using IBM Rational tools to over 1000 users.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software and Technologies: CA Clarity, Microsoft Project, Eclipse, Rally, JAMA Collaboration Software, Visio for Data modeling (ER and UML), basic knowledge of XML and JSON

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Weston, MA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Short term consulting arrangement through Manpower/Experis to assist in a project to master customer data for use in downstream applications.
• Worked with Milliman who was the chosen vendor to consolidate customer data from Confidential and Confidential to master the data into the data warehouse.
• Wrote user specifications.
• Wrote functional specifications.
• Wrote test scenarios.

Confidential, Albany, NY

Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading a team of 5 developers to support the NYS Department of Health initiatives in a big data environment of Oracle and Vertica database platforms.
• Also responsible for designing and implementing a set of tools and processes to provide management visibility in the IT portfolio and SDLC milestones and their status including a JAVA tool to project demand versus supply.

Confidential, Woonsocket, RI

Consultant, Release Management

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for automating the deployment process for Confidential .com

Confidential, Albany, NY

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for design and day-to-day management of system development and integration for a critical
• $5million dollar project with aggressive, mandated deadlines. Managed a project team of 50+.
• Managed the company’s first use of off-shore development in India to supplement internal development.
• First-ever use of the Facets API to automatically enroll members and groups in the claims system saving thousands of man hours.
• Scrum Master -Created the Product Information Management System (PIMS).
• Benefit data was not centralized and was housed in thousands of spreadsheets. Built Master Data Management around product and benefits. This is used to power applications that require product data, including customer service and sales & marketing systems. This project was the first in the company to use Agile Scrum.
• Product Owner -- Affordable Care Act Summary of Benefit Document ( Confidential ) Requirement. Compliance.
• Designed and implemented innovative solution to enable document creation from business rules in extremely tight mandated schedule.
• Created IT Governance and Center of Excellence for the use of Salesforce by business areas.
• Modernized the SDLC and Service Management.
• Designed and implemented the Enterprise Change Management System in Rational Team Concert to include Requests, Incidents, Defects, Problems, Deliverables and Tasks.
• Introduced the discipline and practice of business processing modeling in order to document as-is and to-be business processes using BPMN with Websphere Business Modeler and IBM Blueworks.
• Introduced the discipline and practice of Business Rules Management; created a staff of rules analysts and developers to ensure rules are housed in a rules engine, not embedded in code.
• Implemented the requirements discipline, ultimately managed 10 business analysts.
• Technologies: Informatica B2B, .Net, Java, Tomcat, Telerik, BPMN, OpenRules Business Rule Engine, Rational Requirements Composer, Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager

Confidential, Boston, MA

Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conducted business analysis on a $750M global trading system.
• Introduced use case methodology to the client requirements team with great success.
• Introduced UML, particularly use case development and data modeling. Became a key mentor to the other analysts in the group. Documentation considered a key artifact by upper management and gave them the ability to understand their system capabilities.
• Methodologies: Waterfall Development.
• Proprietary trader for a hedge fund. Focused on trading Confidential stocks. Also designed and oversaw development of software to analyze traders’ performance (first ever of its kind) using Microsoft OLAP technology.