SUMMARY

• 17+ years experience with increasing responsibility in Project Management, software application development, including IS/IT, cross - functional teams, resource allocation , strong technical competency and excellent client facing.
• IS/IT 17+ years, Government 7+ years, Healthcare 10+ years, Military 7+ years of Project Management.
• 10+ years of custom software coding experience including interfacing and/or controlling standalone hardware & apps.
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills, written and verbal. Strong ability to communicate complex, technical concepts to specialists and functionality, in concise, plain English, to all levels of an organization.
• Successful in preventing scope creep in implementations and software development projects.
• Proactively assess/manage threats/opportunities throughout all stages of projects via contingency planning.
• Risk Management: When it is appropriate to escalate an issue, I will present it with a clear description AND an explanation of suggested corrective actions.
• Scope, Time, Cost, QC, HR, Communications, Risk, Procurement, PMBOK, SDLC, Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, SOW, WBS.
• MS Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook, Skype, MS Teams, Adobe Acrobat, SQL/ODBC, Photoshop, CSS, COTS.
• HTML5, XML, .net, dynamic web pages, and DB2 via IBM® Data Server Driver for ODBC, and APIs.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Decommissioned firm's legacy national data center in MI to create AZ state-of-the-art data center with minimal disruption
• Designed and developed system to convert 30,000 form-letters used in MI system to new system for AZ and PA
• Moved print production & insertion machines equipment from MI headquarters to AZ & PA with minimal disruption
• Decommissioned firm's MI headquarters & moved personnel to Livonia & Ann Arbor MI, & production staff to AZ or laid-off
• Corrected medical records data exposed in envelope windows - HIPAA violations on 6,000+ templates ($100 to $50,000 each). Original project timeline was 2 years ; my alternative project solution timeline was 2 weeks
• Managed all five projects above concurrently, as well as other smaller projects

Confidential, Cave Creek, AZ

Senior Project Manager

• Technical IT Project Management consulting company specializing in custom software application development
• Provide strong leadership in managing day-to-day operations of simultaneous large-scale, technical projects o Client engagement ensuring client satisfaction through professional project development, scope, time management, financial processes, QA, HR, communications, risk identification, assessment, and mitigation, procurement and implementation
• Implemented organizational process assets acquired over the years facilitating software development & installation

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

• Developed and crewed Predator/Reaper Airborne Drone Emulator Aircraft and systems
• Custom air and ground based data/video/audio dissemination systems design, implementation, installation and testing o 2-way radio communication technical systems, airborne and ground-based microwave systems o Provide expertise as required to troubleshoot and resolve systems issues
• New system consultation acquisition, design, hardware/software selection, installation, implementation and testing o Establish plans, policies, and procedures necessary to ensure proficient system operation and training o Conduct training for new personnel and recurrent training
• UAV Predator/Reaper Close Air Support Tactics Instructor for US and Coalition Armed Forces

Confidential

Senior Proj'ect Manager

• Plan, design and implementation of project eliminating health records off-site storage, increasing patient data retrieval speed while meeting HIPAA compliance via turnkey document archiving system
• Easily and cost-effectively, indexes and digitally stores paper records into searchable electronic documents Software totally automates scanner functions and automatically determines document storage/retrieval locations
• Ensures portability to all Electronic Medical Records (EMR) products developed or future using the PDF standard

Confidential, Washington, DC

Senior Project Manager and Subject Mater Expert (SME)

Responsibilities:

• Confidential was unaware of the Drone Emulator Aircraft (described above), and their skill at search and reconnaissance o I identified areas of expertise required and assembled the country's preeminent experts, utilizing resources throughout the United States into 3 cross-functional teams
• Communications team of 14, Aviation team of 19, and Ground Operations team of 18 o Conducted multiple, highly technical webinar workshops including sophisticated diagrams and explanations o Contract successfully concluded on-time and under budget
• Created official Confidential documents identifying the capabilities of 750 additional aircraft and 60,000 additional search and rescue personnel resources now made available to Confidential Incident Commanders nationwide

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Streamline data updates through ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) automation technology
• ANGIS, software & hardware (VMI), provides powerful, automatic, data updates in seconds through automated data retrieval from data feeds, to-and-from websites and databases - 100s of times faster than humanly possible and eliminates human error
• Automated Output To And Input From the Web ANGIS Sub-System
• Any information in the ANGIS database may be automatically formatted into web pages, including navigation pages, based on client-designed templates, and automatically uploaded to the website as new data arrives
• Web-based input forms are also similarly generated
• Information received via the web-based forms is immediately available for output and/or display, including output to SQL and/or ODBC-compliant databases
• Automatically produces web pages much faster than humanly possible and eliminates human error
• Performed over 100 system deployments (VMI) with user training on associated software and/or hardware
• Implemented organizational process assets acquired over the years to facilitate installation and training
• Identify client key stakeholders and conduct interviews to define how system is to be customized to meet client's requirements
• This is done through rolling wave planning enabling one team member to execute work packages on a previous subsystem, while another team member develops next set of work packages based on ongoing client interviews
• As the client learns more about the capabilities of the system, their requirements change to take full advantage of the system's functionality
• User defined if-then-else logic may be incorporated in database records to check input validity and/or adjust graphical output "look and feel" and/or trigger user defined events o ANGIS delivers increased data throughput, eliminates human input errors, and reduces staffing

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Automated downloading web pages, FTP site files, and/or local files in HTML including tables, XML, and text ETL - Extracts desired data per user defined configuration, translates to SQL command, and loads SQL DB with the latest data
• Enable any SQL / ODBC system that needs the most up to date data contained in non-SQL files to be made available without the requirement of designing and developing custom data source interface software applications

Confidential, Washington, DC

Senior Project Manager

• Software application development and implementation controlling totally redundant robotic systems creating videos of the daily Confidential floor sessions for the Library of Congress and the National Archives.
• Length of the Senate floor sessions are unpredictable and could vary from a few minutes to a record of 24+ hours. The system eliminates need for video recording engineers 24 hour staffing availability through automation. System is capable of unattended operation for 36 hours which reduced staffing by 10%.