SUMMARY

• Experience with System Analysis, Development and Production Support, coordinating and managing rollouts, and code management. Deliver organized and cost - effective projects and work effectively with cross-functional departments to maximize ROI on delivering business directives and strategies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• MS Project, MS Office Suite, Bugzilla, Remedy, CSV, Solaris 8, Novell, Win2003, JIRA, RALLY
• Visio Pro, Photoshop 5.0, Windows NT, UNIX, Linux. NovaManage®, MS Access, Adobe PDF writer
• IBM 3090/OS MVS, TSO, OS JCL, ISPF, MANTIS, COBOL, DATABUS, TRAK, CICS
• ORACLE, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, Fortran, BAL, C++, Pascal
• Clarity, SharePoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Project Manager (PMO)

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Responsibilities:

• Initiated and successfully completed Phase 1 replacement of a complex legacy Transportation System and Customer Integration Conversions. Assigned and assisted with other business and infrastructure projects.
• Team: Multi-national cross-functional members. Organized daily team meetings and development sessions.
• Forecasted project metrics and managed actuals. Reviewed, approved all hours on projects assigned.
• Developed and managed project plans and schedules, resource time, and cost tracking
• Waterfall, Agile/Scrum Hybrid
• The cross-functional team consisted of Business SME's, Tech Leads, Developers, BA’s, QA. Organized and ran daily stand-ups, generated status reports. Used Clarity, Rally, MS Office Suite, MS Project, Google Office, Ever-note.

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential, Allentown, PA

Responsibilities:

• Product Delivery: Implementing the federally mandated strict serialization of pharmaceutical product packaging on several products. High level of involvement from hand-off to IT coordination, administrative setup, coordination of floor equipment layup to validated QA, billing, and logistics.
• Successfully delivered complex double-blind clinical trial supply packaging project in 6 months.
• Organized project team with heavy collaboration with Sales Executives(sales), Operations, Design, Billing, Finance, Purchasing, QA, Communications, and logistics.
• Organized customer-facing meetings and acted as a liaison during the development process.
• Managed all documents, design, and billing during the process and provided oversight during the production process.
• Managed issues/risks, prioritization coordinate all resources within Sharp and maintained a focus on deliverables to meet target dates.

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential, Morgantown, PA

Responsibilities:

• ERP legacy project replacement and in 12 months successfully delivered its first proof of concept product using the new system.
• Implemented best practices for design, development, and testing.
• Using strong management and organization skills evaluated the project components: Business Requirements, Customer Service, Software Development, Functional QA, API's to manufacturing floor machines, scheduling, Cloud (Azure), Infrastructure (Server, Wifi, Cabling), Disaster Recovery and Go-live planning with 20+ wholesale distributors, Trained and solicited feedback from their Sales Team.
• Worked directly with Business SME's, Management, Developers, Customer Service.
• Blended Waterfall and Agile/Scrum approach. Daily stand-ups. Used Skype and Bugzilla to facilitate a strong connection between the End-Users, QA testers, and the offsite development team.
• Reviewed designs and solutions, prioritized tasks, maintained a focus on the objective and inspired a high level of communication between business keeping morale up among team members; development, and testing teams. Provided regular status updates of progress and issues/risks. Developed and maintained documentation.

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential, Wyomissing, PA

Responsibilities:

• Managed a project portfolio that included 9 functional areas: Engineering, Finance, HR, IT, Innovation Team, Manufacturing Purchasing, select corporate initiatives, and other areas.
• Utilized SharePoint dashboards and worked with the Steering Committee to prioritize, set expectations, and deliver projects on time.
• Prioritized 200+ company requests and implemented a development tracking system.
• Managed PMO activities and functions, ensuring the development and adoption of project management best practices across the business areas.
• Worked tightly with the IT development applications group to ensure the support and successful completion of simple and complex project requests assigned within time and cost budgets and manage any deviation.
• Built strong relationships with business managers and vendors to partnering and consulting with internal and external stakeholders.
• Reported on the status of the programs, including timeline, budget, resource needs, scope and quality, risks and issues, and communications to stakeholders.

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Responsibilities:

• Developed and managed the central and country project plans a 'Flagship Project' for Confidential: Partnership for Prevention (P4P) initiative. Global implementation of preventive health care for all of its international employees that encompasses over 120 countries.

Project Manager

Confidential, PA

Responsibilities:

• Developed ePRO (electronic Patient Reported Outcomes) for Clinical Trials
• Handled project management and execution and coordination of the project team.
• Reviewed customer protocols and developed an eDiary (ePRO) solution that best suited the sponsor study needs
• Created and managed the project and validation plan which incorporated all project deliverables
• Trained study staff, monitoring staff, and site staff on the devices; conducted presentations and hands-on training during Investigator Meetings and User Acceptance Testing
• Served as primary customer contact for the project, working closely with the Customer’s project leadership
• Ensured compliance to quality, adequate planning and resourcing, budget and forecasting
• Conducted periodic status checkpoints with customers and team to assess progress against the plan
• Performed re-forecasts of project variables as necessary throughout the project
• Prepare weekly, and monthly status reports on all project activities and issues as required
• Conduct internal and external post-mortem reviews and reports
• Utilized project management skills of communication, presentation, time management, organization and planning to implement company’s products successfully

Consultant Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked directly with CFO, VP of Toxicology and QC, Director of Lab Operations, VP of marketing, to manage Application Development, Infrastructure, Testing and Validation, EDI, Database Support, and daily IT Operations and strategic business functions. Software used was a hybridized LIMS by CompuChem.
• As Director Restructured IT Organization and implemented new roles that resulted in better delivery of solutions that increased productivity and significantly improved project quality. By implementing best practices it reduced the laboratory-testing time and resulted in higher quality results and significant time savings to the delivery process.
• Utilized a combination of Waterfall and Agile/Scrum to manage Key Corporate Projects and daily requests. Developed and enforced project standards and change control using a firm but flexible approach to project management.
• Organized 800+ company requests and implemented a development tracking system with a dashboard.
• Led initiatives that reviewed and guided sponsors and helped to prioritize department application and technical infrastructure projects.
• Achieved completion of 41 corporate key projects successfully varying from 6 months to 3 years. 438 small to mid-size projects delivered to production using Agile/Scrum SDM and 515 Hot Fix’s delivered to production.
• Developed and led initiatives for infrastructure upgrades such as server replacement and hardening, firewall upgrades, PC/Desktop Support, and Help Desk Implementation. Improved systems safeguard and managed through several disasters to maintain business continuity.
• Implemented an Electronic Data/optical capturing Solution (EDC) that had a $4M revenue gain while providing a reusable process that extended the companies patient results delivery capability and a continued revenue stream
• Reviewed and approved policies and procedures for the department.
• Established operational strategies for IT Operations department