SUMMARY:

• Alan has 15+ years experience leading application integration and development initiatives.
• Managed full SDLC processes including the standard project planning, gap analysis, risk management, change management, transition planning, and training/deployment initiatives. These initiatives included Customer Relationship Management, Business Process (Workflow) Assessments and metric reviews for Key Performance Indicators
• Managed the design, development, and deployment of four major interactive E - Commerce solutions, including a brokerage interface, online benefits enrollment application, a major B2B service bureau, and an enterprise collaboration/workflow/content management solution.
• Participated in the corporate transition of the SDLC process from the standard Waterfall to current best practice for Agile methodologies in two organizations.
• Scrum Master leading the successful delivery of a customer facing E-Commerce solution for Pharmaceutical Orders management. Team size of 12 persons from three locations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

IT Delivery Manager/Agile Project Manager

• Managed the integration efforts for an enterprise appeals and grievances application. Assisted in requirements definition for the corporate service layer integrating multiple domains of knowledge and unique points of integration with external and internal data sources.
• Managed and carried the responsibility for the full SDLC processes including all release planning and implementation for the applicatioin and data integration efforts.
• Monitored the release activities for six (6) scrum teams.
• Managed the project reporting and tracking in MS Project and Clarity.
• Reviewed project Scrum artifacts as documented in CA Rally.
• Participated in cross team collaboration efforts.
• Managed the design and development for the application integration efforts and upstream dependencies for those data sources.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

• Managed two (2) major upgrades in support of MNsure, for the State support of Affordable Care Act. This followed the agencies standard SDLC process.
• Managed and led in design and problem resolution for all external data source integration.
• Managed the SDLC processes for a third project to meet state regulations for recipient eligibility. Budget established for this program included a $ 5MM budget with necessary fiscal oversight of this initiative.
• Team size greater the 45 persons from multiple business units and IT organizations. Significant resource management efforts due to capacity risks. Budgets for this set of projects were in excess of $5MM.
• Heavily involved in the Vendor Management of external software application enhancement.
• Provided leadership in release management and defect tracking for two major releases.
• Assisting in the implementation of an enterprise portfolio, program, and project management application within the DHS organization. This includes the mentoring and training of all PMs in the PMO.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager, Scrum Master

• Managed the project life cycle for a major rebuild of the enterprise planning system, interacted with external partners/providers, and provided the leadership for all testing considerations among 14 departmental teams.
• Participated in the adoption of Scrum methodology as an SDLC framework in the IT organization.
• Managed a Vendor application implementation and migration from existing document management system.
• Utilized Team Foundation Server (TFS) and MS Project to put together templates, tracked solutions against tasks, track time and report project status against project plan in Agile work environment.
• Managed a project to enable an enterprise EDI/Ecommerce assessment and implementation. Budget for this project was $1.2MM.
• Assisted in the mentoring of other PMs that joined the same teams.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

• Managed the implementation of Claims based activities as it relates to the Enterprise Data Warehouse. Assisted in the rapid application requirements sessions, design specifications, and implementations of projects related to prior authorization, federal subsidy programs, and communications standards.
• Assisted in the mentoring of other PMs that joined the same teams.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager, PMO Consultant

• Provided assistance and consulting support to improve business process and implementation methods for division implementation services.
• Participated in team efforts to revise and improve PMO methods and practices for implementation practices.
• Developed standard Program and Project templates for the implementation teams using MS Project templates for standardizing the delivery model for other organizations.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

• Technical Architect to design and develop a web-based Patient Health Profile system.
• Managed an organizational initiative to rollout mobile devices to various business units through the organization. This involved significant architectural enhancement.
• Scrum Master leading the successful delivery of a customer facing eCommerce solution for Pharmaceutical Orders management. Team size of 12 persons from three locations. Budget of $ .8MM.
• Used TFS as system of record for project plan, time tracking and reporting.

Confidential

PMO, Senior Project Manager

• Coordinated multiple concurrent projects and programs for the Business Services department.
• Managed an enterprise implementation of ERP; including project scope, process analysis, budget, dependencies, risk, and implementation processes.
• Managed several PMO initiatives to develop a corporate structured methodology for the IT PMO. Implemented a corporate Portfolio and Project Management application to support this structured methodology.
• Improved the departmental application support and reliability after monitoring and improving communication and interaction with application vendors,
• Led two in-house development projects using Agile methods as an alternative to the standard waterfall SLDC.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

• Application Integration, Messaging,
• Coordinated multiple concurrent projects for the ETL and messaging efforts within Confidential .
• Managed the implementation and support of the secure messaging and integration of Tumbleweed.
• Scrum master for the ETL team and business practices group.
• Coordinated development, testing, and deployment of messaging solutions for internal and external clients.
• Managed SDLC processes including project scope, costing estimates, budget, dependencies, risk, and implementation processes.
• Consolidated three distinct messaging / ETL tools into a single platform of choice and Business Process analysis led to a means to migrate legacy applications to reduce duplicated systems and interfaces. Improved efficiencies and up-time for the messaging departments.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

• Managed the Oracle Release Management efforts for the enterprise; including release planning, quality assurance, business validation.
• Managed the Oracle CRM module integration project for local manufacturing firm.
• Led in the SOX Compliance for IT Applications.

Confidential

Systems Integration Manager; Senior Project Manager

• BizTalk /Covast Implementation
• Assisted in the design, development and deployment of an EDI Accelerator messaging agent for an external client - a major glass insurer.

Confidential

Middleware and Technical Project Manager

• Participated in the implementation strategies for a major .Net and SOA initiative with BizTalk 2004 as the messaging pipeline. Led in the Customer interaction for Business and Application Integration design and implementation.
• Significant client and account management in release of new and enhanced business processes.
• Participated in the ITIL Change, Incident, and Problem Management implementation for all E-Commerce business process.