SUMMARY

• Senior Project/Program/Portfolio Manager with extensive experience in managing projects involved with implementing vendor hosted software packages and in - house developed WEB and applications as well as IT datacenter improvements, business continuity, and networking solutions.
• Team-oriented, customer focused implementer, effective in developing, and managing multiple project teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Databases / Languages: Oracle, SQL Server / Java, HTML, JAVA Script, C, C++, COBOL, SQL

Software: MS Office 365, Visio, Project, SharePoint, Jira, Greenhopper, Innotas/Planview, Version One, Microsoft Teams, Google Sheets/Docs/Gmail, Service Now

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Business project manager of the Pharmacy, Nursing and Quality/Risk Management harmonization program responsible for planning and management of the standardizations of business policies, applications/tools and training required to provide a single set of procedures for the merger of Confidential Inc. and BioScrip Inc. healthcare companies.
• Worked with the Chief Nursing Officer, Vice Presidents/Directors of Pharmacy, Nursing, and Quality/Risk Management in building out an implementation plan for realizing synergies across the new corporation.
• Provided weekly status reports to all stakeholders on progress, risks and issues and cross program dependencies. Implemented a secure texting tool for nurses and other clinicians nationwide.

Sr. Project Manage

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project manage the migration of 11 applications from a vendor hosted site to the Confidential Azure Cloud data center.
• The project includes managing the installation of servers, connectivity both externally and internally from Web to firewall to middleware to database migration setup and validation.
• Work with Confidential App owners in India and the Philippines as well as teams from the Cloud team to complete all migrations within 6 months. Apps are .Net with SQL or Oracle databases, supporting treasury, human resource, internal and external web applications.

Implementation Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project manager supporting the implementation of the Follett ASPEN Student Information System SIS with the City of Chicago Public School (CPS) District. Working with Product Development/Implementation teams overseeing the Data Conversion from multiple CPS systems into the single ASPEN database.
• Project managed the specific configuration modifications of the application user interface and background procedures supporting daily administrative and teacher interaction via an AGILE process. Worked directly with CPS to manage open issue resolution, tracking of Follett/ASPEN team work using Version One Agile tool and managing data conversion issues across both teams to successful implementation.

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the oversight for two multimillion dollar major projects associated with the implementation of a vendor WEB hosted solution.
• Provided financial, scheduling and resource management support for the Implementation project involving the selection of a vendor to lead the effort. Led the effort to identify, compare and recommend the vendor. Also led the on-boarding efforts for the selected vendor and manage the monthly invoice validation and approval.
• Project managed the Infrastructure project involving the implementation of the vendor WEB hosted WAN from each site with redundant circuits at each site, verifying connectivity to multiple testing environments and that all firewall/IP Addresses were updated correctly. In addition, responsible for the identification, scoping, purchasing and procurement efforts for two additional test environments

Sr. Program Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overseeing product life cycle management, development & delivery activities across the enterprise for the Group Products Division. Program managed the launch of two new versions of the core products with budgets of $5M. Created and gained approval of all program documentation, managing the budgets for each project in the program and moving the teams through the product delivery stage gate process. Coordinated the customer validation and UAT testing activities supporting the product launch.
• Project managed three products for the Clinical Products division for early learning software products.
• Sr. Project Manager set up and managed the executive change control board, measured project/portfolio performance and monitored progress of key milestones and deliverables on all projects within the IT organization using Waterfall and Agile processes. Provided oversight in monitoring resource allocations of the development staff. Reviewed and created weekly reports on project progress and risks.
• Responsible for managing over 40 application/WEB projects, supporting the design, implementation, development/testing, and launch following AGILE/SDLC processes using JIRA for issue and backlog tracking.

Implementation Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided pre and post sales implementation for Hospira hospital clients throughout the US and Puerto Rico. Led multiple, simultaneous, implementation projects working with hospital administrators, IT, Bio Medical teams, nurse managers and clinical education leaders.
• Hosted on site and remote project status meetings, overseeing progress with each client. Provided support for product and resource logistics involving the scheduling of product shipments, hardware equipment purchases and on-site team training with nurse staff, bio-medical support team and IT groups.
• Partnered with the sales teams setting up Kick Off meetings, defining client requirements and product delivery process. Project managed 29 successful implementations at 60 hospitals involving over 8700 medical devices.

Project Management Trainer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Develop customized material and delivered on-site Project Management training to Northern Trust, McDonald’s, & General Growth Properties.
• Material based on PMI standard Project Management practices covering all knowledge areas, management processes as well as tools such as MS Project for scheduling and standard Risk and Open Issue tools.
• Materials modified for specific customer needs in application development, infrastructure procurement and implementation as well as business process transformation management.