SUMMARY:

• Transformed overall aggregated IT resource planning and prioritization for a CIO channel.
• Established business outcomes and priorities that have been established within the business lines.
• Adept at leading concurrent project teams through all phases of SDLC and ERP engagement.
• Experienced with Agile Lean workflow and has served as a Scrum Master on various projects.
• Proficient in custom software development that align with business goals and organizational objectives.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SKILLS:

• Scrum and Agile Lean Development (SAFe)
• Finance and Institutional Investments
• Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Health and Pharmaceutical Insurance
• DevOps (Development/QA)
• Commercial Manufacturing
• Enterprise Resource Management Rollout (ERP)
• Consumer Packaged Goods
• Enterprise Project and Portfolio Management
• Wholesale Clothing and Retail
• Human Capital Management (HCM)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

IT Consulting Program Manager

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Responsibilities:

• Delivered technical infrastructure and data center move from Florida to North Carolina
• Lead technical development of Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system for transition to overseas CRM.
• Worked with Software Delivery Manager to use DevOps as the engine for Service Location Protocol (SPL) rollout.
• Transformed the client’s workflow for both series of items to comply with regulatory standards.
• Delivered compliance items to prevent $5M in fines from Federal and Regulatory agencies.

Technologies: Microsoft.NET; Interactive Voice Response (IVR); Service Location Protocol (SLP)

Head of IT Portfolio

Confidential, Springfield, MA

Responsibilities:

• Developed a 90 - day plan to implement the PMO based on desired business outcomes and priorities.
• Oversaw departmental demand/capacity and bench management (i.e. off-project resources).
• Coordinated delivery to “Product Owners” to include full analysis of need, internal skill, and capacity analysis, and assisted in the execution of demand.
• Changed the formation of the Institutions Investments IT group in coordination with the CIO and Delivery Leads to respond more rapidly to business requests.
• Increased process efficiency by 25% from Ideation to Product Delivery

Technologies: Clarity 14.2 for Financial, Resource, and Schedule Management

Senior Agile Scrum Master

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Responsibilities:

• Utilized Agile Lean principles to deliver the reports on an iterative basis.
• Assembled a scrum team of designers and developers execute the implementation of the reporting solution.
• Implemented IBM/Cognos to build a custom data mart and data warehouse to augment the software platform.
• Transformed the investments reporting process with successful and accurate measures.
• Prevented over $2M in integration costs with the original application software.

Technologies: IBM/Cognos Data Warehouse and Reporting; Eagle Data Mart

Senior Agile Scrum Master

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Responsibilities:

• Organized the Scrum Team of analysts, developers, and product owners as Project Manager using Agile.
• Utilized JIRA as the tool to drive each sprint; working in 2-week sprint cycles.
• Transformed the reporting process successfully using Tableau for end user consumption.
• Decreased Resource Utilization by 15% for report creation.

Technologies: JIRA; Clarity 14.2; Tableau

Portfolio Manager

Confidential, New Britain, CT

Responsibilities:

• Managed portfolio financials (project and baseline); ensure realization benefits of Portfolio CBA
• Oversee departmental demand/capacity and bench management (i.e off-project resources),
• Initiated Risk, Governance and Compliance services for projects with budget over $1.0M
• Responsible for reporting and analysis of aggregated portfolio
• Implemented a proprietary SDLC project management methodology with PMO education and training.
• Managed 660 sub-projects working with 250 functional and technical project managers as reports.
• Decreased cost of project management by 17% on a global basis

Technologies: Oracle Peoplesoft HCM; Microsoft.NET; MS Project Server; Clarity 14.2; SAP Objects.

Senior IT Program Manager

Confidential, Stamford, CT

Responsibilities:

• Transformed the infrastructure model of Confidential as PM to a PaaS level of cloud computing
• Used Windows Azure (later Microsoft Azure) resulting in a 12% savings in IT operational costs.
• Converted Service model from local data storage model to a Hybrid of Public and Private Clouds.
• Assembled a matrix of cross-functional IT Team that encompassed MDM, application designers, overseas
• Managed a budget of over $10M in complete transformation of the Information Technology division.
• Increased overall commission rates by 15%

Technologies: MS Project; Microsoft .NET; Master Data Management (MDM); MS Objects, Windows Azure

Senior Principal Consulting Partner

Confidential, Southington, CT

Responsibilities:

• Established high-growth technology company as founding partner. Managed staff of over 50 consultants throughout New England.
• Crafted sales presentations and contracts and performed project management services to clients.
• Implemented several ERP applications on a multi-national basis as a senior project manager.
• Reviewed data centers for compliance with general controls and documented all application control objectives and activities for SAP FI/CO and JDEdwards.

Technologies: IBM I-Series; (MS Project; SAP R/3, Oracle 11i, BPCS, and MAC-PAC).