SUMMARY:

• Experienced professional with proven success in health and pharmacy - related insurance, advertising and marketing, research, survey, and banking industries.
• Strong ability to oversee tasks from concept to completion and finish them on time and within budget.
• Demonstrated skills in system integration, data management and architecture.
• Expertise in interviewing, hiring, training, and mentoring staff.
• Background in developing and implementing processes that improve efficiencies.
• Well-versed in database development and IT applications.
• 15+ years in Project Management
• 15+ years in Applications Development Management
• 5+ years Program Management
• 10+ years in Vendor Management
• 15+ years in Budget Planning & Management
• 200+ teaching classroom hours
• 15+ years in Database Operations Management
• 10+ years in System Migrations

CORE COMPETENCIES INCLUDE:

• Agile
• Certified Scrum Master
• Budget planning & management
• Project Life-cycle Management
• Stakeholder & Vendor Relations
• Continuous Improvement
• Project Management (SDLC/Waterfall & agile)
• Strategic Planning
• Infrastructure
• Financial Audit / Compliance (PCI, sas70)
• Microsoft Project / CA Clarity

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Eden Prairie, MN

IT Project Manager, PMO, Security

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple programs and projects against scope, schedule, and budgetary baselines. Two programs valued at $9M.
• Member of Corporate Agile Transformation team - Talent Management
• Corporate Agile Mentor for Product Owner and Scrum Master
• Track and mitigate risks/issues and effectively communicate the progress of these with business stakeholders
• Communicate status to executive leadership
• Coordinate release and plan next release
• Work with resource managers to build resource plan and manage to budget
• Create and maintain all necessary project documentation
• Methodology: Agile and Waterfall

Confidential, Bloomington, MN

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overseeing all aspects of 10 data integration projects with external customers including project plans, timelines, and budgets. Serve as liaison between company, customers, and vendors.
• Write statements of work, obtain purchase orders, and test systems.
• Direct projects for offshore resources and customers.
• All projects were to retain customers or for new sales.
• Methodology: Waterfall /SDLC

Confidential, St. Louis Park, MN

Project Manager/Data Architect

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for leading SasS generation application process projects.
• Analyzed data and created reports.
• Led data processing, loading, and server upgrades. System Migration.
• Defined business requirements and determined customer needs. Methodology: Agile, Scrum
• Completely re-wrote application system.
• Proof of concept to marketable product.

Confidential, Bloomington, MN

Manager, Data Management

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overseeing daily operations of three-person data management and five-person application development team including interviewing, hiring, training, mentoring, and performance reviews.
• Accountable for department profit and loss numbers.
• Oversaw projects and forecasting for full software development life cycle.
• Analyzed data and client marketing information and business intelligence.
• Monitored and assigned support tickets. Methodology: Agile
• Introduced and implemented two-stage release management and change management process
• Strategically led a departmental change from fulfillment to a customer focused service and analytics

Confidential, Prior Lake, MN

Owner

Responsibilities:

• Performed human resource employee retention services and survey solutions for a variety of clients.
• Provided sales employee training.
• Conducted customer sales meetings.
• Trained clients on employee retention.
• Human Resource Employee Retention Services and Survey Solutions .
• SQL Language Trainer for Blue Stem Brands 200 class room hours for 130 BI students.

Confidential, Bloomington, MN

Project Manager/Database Developer

Responsibilities:

• Directed technical aspects of conversion projects including 800G data obfuscation.
• Served as liaison between information technology and customer service teams.
• Extracted, transformed, and loaded data warehouse information.
• Waterfall /SDLC
• Collaborated with United Kingdom office and client to clean years of bad data import by exporting, cleaning, and re-importing data.

Confidential, Eagan, MN

IT Applications Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led 15-person software development and support department responsible for full software development life cycle project management and forecasting.
• Oversaw 6-10 concurrent projects. Served as project liaison for internal and external customers
• Managed division's hardware and systems, forecasting, and purchase approval.
• Responsible for division’s Technology Architecture. Methodology: Agile and Waterfall
• Implemented change management and release management processes to ensure better quality with less rework.
• Inherited a $2M project that was 6 months behind schedule.
• Took appropriate actions and the project team successfully completed the project in 2 months.
• Introduced Agile to company.