CAREER PROFILE:

Results driven senior program/project manager with expertise leading multi - million-dollar projects within the medical device, pharmaceutical, human factors, healthcare, software, hardware, commercial lending, gaming and wagering, IT and technology industries. Extraordinary cross-functional management background with extensive domestic and international experience. Demonstrated leader with the ability to meet aggressive program schedules by building exceptional teams using simple strategies and continuous improvement mentality.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Complex Project and Program Planning and Management
• Global Team Development, Leadership and Management
• Continuous Process Improvement and Change Management
• Risk Management
• Strategic Planning
• PMO Establishment, Process Implementation, and Leadership
• Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) Development, and Implementation
• PMM, PMBOK, SDLC, Scrum/Agile and Six Sigma

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Consulting Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Confidential is developing a wet/dry auto-injector that will deliver a proprietary epinephrine formulation for the treatment of anaphylactic shock in both adults and children.
• Throughout the research, development and pilot production phases of the auto-injector device and epinephrine drug formulation, responsible for management of the internal and external teams and resources comprised of domestic and international contributors, contract manufacturers and suppliers.
• Established and managed the project schedule for active phases of the program as well as defined future phases of the program including large scale production, human factors activities, FDA submission and review and large-scale commercialization.
• Developed, maintained and communicated relevant KPIs to internal and external stakeholders, ensuring timely understanding of both project and financial performance.

Consulting Sr. Program Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Confidential provides expert human-centered research, product development, regulatory and manufacturing services to leading medical and healthcare companies worldwide.
• Responsible for managing user research FDA driven product solutions. Led cross-functional teams, applying all aspects of program and project management methodologies, in support of multiple multi-million-dollar programs for clients around the world.
• Client and executive management interaction, presentation and reporting, on all aspects of individual programs.
• Successfully delivered eight world-wide, complex, multi-million client solutions on time and frequently under budget. Many programs were worked on in parallel for different clients in different parts of the world.
• Extensive experience managing programs that include clients, team members and suppliers in multiple time zones, involving varying cultures.

Consulting Senior Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Reporting to the Vice President of Professional Services, worked directly with clients to research, define and implement their software and workflow requirements. Defined implementation schedules and adhered to them without slippage.
• Software solutions provided a secure, self-hosted private cloud environment designed to rapidly configure, maintain and run client-specific business automation solutions. Business automation solutions enabled clients to retain governance over deployment, user access and business critical data. These solutions could be run on virtually any mobile device.

Consulting Program Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Confidential provides expert human-centered research, product development, regulatory, and introductory manufacturing services to leading medical and healthcare companies worldwide.
• Reporting directly to the Chief Operating Officer and the Vice President of Quality, I was responsible for definition and management of a major continuous improvement program designed to result in more effective company-wide product development. Program involved over 40 employees as well as multiple members of the executive staff.
• Responsible for company-wide employee module design and implementation.

Consulting Senior Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As a consulting Senior Project Manager for Confidential Financial Corporation’s IT department, a group that serviced 1,900 internal customers, I was responsible for managing a cross-functional team of twenty whose mission was to convert a very large portfolio of consumer loans from an outdated accounts receivable system to a newer receivable system.
• The conversion project encompassed managing the procurement and development of new interfaces, integration of 3rd party software applications (SaaS), preparation for conversion of the actual loans from one platform to another, development of approximately fifty consumer and customer service reports, management of two external technology consulting groups that contributed to the development activity and oversight for the end-user plan development.
• In parallel, I was responsible for assisting in the development and implementation of new project management methodologies (PMM) introduced by TFC’s IT PMO.

Consulting Senior Program Manager and Senior Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Reporting directly to the President, the Vice President of Engineering, and the Operations Manager, I had sole responsibility for all aspects of program and project management pertaining to the development of all Cardiovascular Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) related software.
• My contributions to the product development process, as described within the following two bullets (including the successful management of the Agfa integration project) led directly to the acquisition of Confidential, a startup company funded by $21 million of venture capital in 2001, by Agfa Corporation in 2005 for $132.5 million.
• Developed and implemented processes whereby multiple engineering projects were run in parallel with minimum management oversight, enabling resources to focus on software engineering and quality assurance. This resulted in on-time delivery of many quality products to hospitals and physicians worldwide.
• Managed multiple successful software development projects at one time, often leading three to four development teams in parallel. Teams typically were comprised of fifteen to twenty members.
• Assisted in the introduction, establishment and integration of Product Management practices and techniques within the organization.

Consulting Senior Product and Senior Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities to Confidential Corporation, the industry leader in the manufacture of global gaming solutions (with annual revenue exceeding $1 billion) included project and product management for all aspects of hardware and software products for customers worldwide. Customer interface, product research and definition, business case generation, financial modeling, budget management, team management, project and production management of three multi-million-dollar software/hardware product development efforts were successfully completed under my management on time and within budget.