SUMMARY:
Application Project Manager with eighteen years of experience providing inception to completion management of IT projects. Proven success in managing project scopes, budgets, schedules and deliverables throughout all phases of waterfall and agile software development lifecycles with global teams. This success has been attained by combining technical and analytical aptitudes with problem - solving strengths to drive projects to on-time, on-budget and high-quality completion.
SKILLS:
- Waterfall and Agile Project Lifecycle Management
- Requirements Definition & Analysis
- Project Scheduling
- Team Building & Leadership
- Project Budgeting & Cost Controls
- Contract Management
- Quality Control and Assurance
TECHNOLOGY SUMMARY:
MS Office: MS Project (expert), Excel (expert), Access (expert)VBA (expert), Word (proficient), PowerPoint (proficient)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Camp Hill, PA
Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Managing a half million dollar project to replace Confidential ’s current document authoring software.
- Implemented and support a resource demand and allocation tool to meet the team’s need to automate and improve project and program level capacity using Excel and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).
Confidential
Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Led the initiative to transition to a new Confidential Testing Services offshore vendor.
- Successfully managed the testing of the implementations for the Confidential Payment Engine (NPE) and Provider Management and Reimbursement (PMR) web applications for two Blue Cross Blue Shield Plans with no Production defects and under budget.
- Developed and supported automated project status reporting and monthly delivery metrics using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) in Excel.
- Developed and supported automated testing scripts accessing mainframe and Web applications using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) in Excel.
- Developed numerous tools to meet team’s need to automate and improve project and program level workflows using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) in Excel.
Confidential, Camp Hill, PA
Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Managed an agile project to transition the customer to an external vendor's payment software package requiring extensive contract management.
- Successfully delivered, on time and within budget, a high visibility and high pressure $2.5 million dental project to transition the customer from their existing mainframe customer and group application to a web based application.
- Successfully delivered, on time and within budget, a high visibility and high pressure $2.35 million healthcare project to segregate information in Confidential ’s new role as an Application Services Provider with a global team.
- Developed and supported automated project and program status reporting using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) in Excel.
- Developed numerous tools to meet team’s need to automate and improve project and program level workflows using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) in Excel and MS Access.
Confidential, Camp Hill, PA
Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Successfully delivered a high visibility and high pressure $2.2 million healthcare project to transitions a client’s business from their local system to a new system in five months, with a global team, on time and within budget
- Successfully delivered over 50 healthcare projects on time and within budget, with national and global teams, with an average project budget of $500,000.
- Worked with program level executives to manage a budget in excess of $25 million
- Developed innovative resource and financial management tools for account leaders and project managers using Visual Basic for Applications in Excel and MS Access making it easier for people to do their job
Confidential, Camp Hill, PA
Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Successfully delivered over 20 small to medium size projects, on time and within budget, with an average project budget of $20,000.
Developer and Business Analyst
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- COBOL and AS400 COBOL development in support of healthcare and telephony projects.
