PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Business and technical professional with over 20 years of experience in leading IT projects within the information services and pharmaceuticals industries with a primary focus on translating business goals into reality. Proven capabilities in managing large - scale global IT implementations including data warehouses, financial applications, human resources systems, managed markets reporting, security and compliance programs, and sales and marketing field force systems. Able to strategize, negotiate, and tactically implement business applications using a variety of platforms.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Financial Systems: SAP ECC, Hyperion, SAP BPC, SAP BW, TM1, Anaplan, Clarity, Planview

Security Systems: eDiscovery, Database Encryption, Data Classification

Data Warehouse/BI: Kimball Methodology, Ab Initio, Informatica, Cognos, MicroStrategy, Business Objects, Birst, Tableau

Mainframe: TSO/ISPF, QMF, SAS, SYNCSORT, MVS/JCL, DB2/SQL, CICS

Platforms: Salesforce, cloud computing, UNIX, SAP, HPUX, Web, IBM Mainframe

PC: Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Project, Access, Outlook, Visio), MS Teams, Collaboration (WebEx, Bluejeans, Skype, Lync), Windows, Linux, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat, Citrix, Sharepoint, HTML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:Confidential

Director, Technical Project and Portfolio Management

• Program manager for the Data RPM Program, a global compliance effort requiring all Confidential products containing PII to create retention schedules and purge data based on time or client demand as part of the GDPR implementation in EMEA. Served as point person for project managers in both Product Management and R&D for questions regarding data purge.
• Managed compliance-related programs across global product teams for the following:
• Confidential ’s Binding Corporate Rules: Managed effort and creating repeatable processes to ensure global IT teams continue to meet the obligations of Confidential ’s BCRs and pass audits.
• Web Accessibility: Ensured that Confidential products meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Implemented strategy for products to meet the standards or engage a third-party vendor (AudioEye) to assist with compliance.
• Economic and Trade Sanctions Compliance: Managed effort to ensure all Confidential products met and continue to comply with OFAC requirements.
• US Privacy Program: Currently scoping effort to ensure all products required meet the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
• Managed annual planning process for the Product Management department. This includes working with 11 BUs to review product roadmaps, followed by product owners’ creating work and plans within Confidential ’s portfolio management tool. Managed the annual project schedule, including progress meetings with all levels of management and providing Finance with yearly financial goals.
• Managed quarterly product review process and monthly reporting for executive management to receive progress against OKRs.
• Created the Confidential Product Master, a comprehensive list of products globally.
• Portfolio Management Tool Upgrade: Strategy and program management for selection of a new tool for product portfolio management. Manage global program to pilot and plan implementation.

Confidential

Program Manager (Consultant)

• Program manager responsible for a $25M global IT data privacy and security program.
• Provided strategy and direction at a program level and to global project work streams.
• Developed program governance, created and socialized complex project documents, managed program financials, interfaced with legal and compliance teams to define and clarify program requirements, conducted steering and advisory team meetings, defined status reporting metrics, and managed day-to-day program activities.

Program Manager (Consultant)

Confidential

• Program manager responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control and completion of complex, global IT programs and projects for assigned strategic clients. Delivered client applications built on a Salesforce platform and accessed via web and mobile technologies. Projects centered around AHM’s products that supported clients’ speaker programs and Key Opinion Leaders’ conferences.
• Primary client contact responsible for taking point for all key program issues, including establishing project governance, conducting steering committee meetings, managing program finances, identifying and monitoring program-level risks, change control and issues.
• Established PMO by developing robust, standard processes and structure for managing programs and projects within the company. Creation of SDLC processes, financial reporting processes, and standard templates.

Confidential

IS Manager (Consultant),

• IS Manager for IT solutions supporting The French's Food Company. Led effort to collect requirements, design and build a replacement of the financial planning and forecasting system that will be used as a baseline for global implementations of the solution for other RB divisions. Solution delivered via Anaplan, a third-party cloud-based software. Responsible for preparing project and system documentation following RB’s SDLC.
• Developed and presented an accepted strategic design and architectural roadmap for the division’s analytics program and knowledge management program.
• Facilitated requirements workshops, designed and implemented an intranet solution to support the food division’s global sales force.

Confidential

Senior Manager / Program Manager

• Provided leadership and guidance to the Information Risk Management & Compliance organization. Managed IT strategy and projects for Global Security, Compliance, and Risk Management. Managed an IT project portfolio, IT budget and a team of project managers to ensure projects were completed successfully following Merck’s SDLC and financial processes while continuing to meet clients’ expectations. Implemented projects following waterfall, agile and hybrid methodologies. Projects included database encryption, eDiscovery Solution, data classification, password management and global watch centers.
• Managed project and development activities for the Close and Consolidation work stream of the TRANSIT program. This project replaced Merck’s financial closing and consolidation system with a Hyperion Financial Management platform. Established architecture and led effort to integrate this data into a new financial data warehouse solution. Worked with other work stream leads to create and manage an integrated project schedule, issues and risks for this global program. Managed the financials for the entire $40M program.
• Directed a cross-functional team to integrate additional sites in the EMEA region into Merck’s SAP environment, COMET. Project included data validation, data integration, mappings, validation and testing data and functionality with existing financial databases and systems.
• Program manager for the Intercompany Profit Elimination project that created and implemented a solution to collect, merge and validate data from Merck and Schering-Plough sites post-merger. Managed global project teams and delivered the solution on time and on budget.