SUMMARY

• “great for teh team… someone who can absolutely face teh business and represent you well… adds more than experience, adds leadership to your team… one of teh best facilitators me’ve ever been around”
• Confidential leads people with a caring attitude, balanced with teh needs of teh business. (Performance Review Feedback)
• He TEMPhas been a mentor and example for all including me. (Michelle Whalen, Tom’s Manager at Confidential )
• Confidential did a great job managing our vendor relationship. (Andrew Fraser, Client Executive at Confidential ).
• Confidential demonstrates leadership in multiple ways, from directing initiatives to actually taking on team and project roles. (Performance Review Feedback)
• Confidential made significant contributions in teh agile transformation activities for Confidential and Confidential . (Performance Review Feedback)
• Confidential is an experienced leader who understands our business and can jump in anywhere anytime and halp out. (Performance Review Feedback),

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Project Management,
• Vendor Management,
• Operations Management,
• COTS Software Implementation,
• Cross Functional Implementation,
• Mentoring,
• Multiple SDLC Methodologies,
• Automotive OEM,
• Automotive Aftermarket,
• Manufacturing,
• Government,
• Healthcare,
• Insurance,
• Publishing,

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Management

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manages multiple concurrent projects across multiple vendors and solutions
• Manages team and vendor performance
• Collaborates with cross functional teams to define estimates and schedules
• Provides ongoing project status, issues, risks
• Collaborates with clients and vendors to define and deliver integrated solutions
• Manages project budgets and forecasting

Program Management

• Develops and provides executive dashboard and project status reporting
• Manages large scale multiple concurrent projects, teams, clients and vendors
• Builds vendor and client relationships
• Manages program funding, budget and forecasting
• Manages and resolves program level issues

Solution Design & Development

• Provides mentoring to project managers, business analysts, solution architects
• Partners with clients, vendors and technology teams to define requirements
• Identifies and develops business and technical implementation scenarios
• Coordinates internal teams and vendors to define integrated work plans
• Works with analysts, architects and developers to define solutions aligned to business

Independent Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led development of web development services practice for venture backed technology firm.

Confidential,

Responsibilities:

• Led enterprise technology transformation program for B2B sales services firm.
• Rolled out new technology for ~25 Fortune 100 clients.
• Converted/migrated proprietary (homegrown) applications to SharePoint based enterprise solution.
• Responsible for all aspects of day - to-day, hands-on PM activities: WBS, schedule, resource allocation / alignment, risk & issue management, vendor management, etc.
• Managed multiple vendors for COTS software and development.
• Used scrum methodology for development with SharePoint and excel based scrum tools to track backlog, velocity and throughput.

Confidential, Pontiac, MI,

Responsibilities:

• Led an enterprise program management office.
• Provided day-to-day, hands-on project management support to various development and implementation teams.
• Developed and managed executive dashboard for approximately 200 active programs.
• Led organizational Agile adoption by defining a transition roadmap, and facilitating agile transition planning for five complex programs.
• Led PM workshops for teh State of California Project Delivery Summit in 2013 & 2014.

Program Management Consultant,

Responsibilities:

• Various program management consulting roles, ncluding: set up project performance metrics for IT services firm; defined business plan and go-to-market strategy for start-up business software firm; defined service process model for healthcare information technology firm; led enterprise ICD9 to ICD10 conversion for major health insurance provider.

Senior Manager,

Confidential,

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for program management of enterprise SaaS / cloud Learning Management (LMS) solutions.
• Led project management through all phases of SDLC using both Scrum and traditional methodologies.
• Led architectural design of an integrated enterprise application.
• Led multiple projects: parallel system implementations, application migrations, and technology refresh projects for Fortune 100 clients.
• Worked with vendors to implement COTS applications and teh operations infrastructure. Managed client SLAs.

Electronic Data Systems

• Senior Manager - Automotive Components
• Managed software portfolio for automotive components manufacturer. Led 30 person team providing systems development and maintenance for systems across all business functions: finance, PC&L, HR, engineering and plant floor, with a budget of >$10M. Strategic consult to Delphi CIO department.
• Senior Manager - Consumer Electronics
• Led team to identify and define enterprise IT service offer to a global Japanese consumer electronics & media company. Services included proprietary architecture, integrated supply chain management, business intelligence, data mining and other technologies.
• Senior Manager - Web Retail
• Led development of an Internet retail service including created of project plan, financial forecasts, detailed market analysis, development of solution, engagement of suppliers.
• Senior Manager - Manufacturing Engineering and Robotics
• Provided IT services to Confidential Motors’ central Manufacturing Engineering and Robotics organizations. Services included: application development; hardware and software procurement, installation and management; IT planning; and voice and data communication facilities. Developed and maintained teh customer and executive relationships. Delivered contracted services. Budget was $8M+ annually. Led software development services for robotics simulation and manufacturing applications. Managed application roadmap. Led roll-out of engineering workstation technology.
• Senior Manager - Solutions Innovation Center
• Led organization of application architects specializing in analytics, advanced software engineering, and enterprise architectures. Applications included product engineering and design, manufacturing process management, network management, claims analysis, business financial analysis, work-flow, customer assistance center technology, and more. E.g.: for Confidential, developed enterprise application architecture for logistics management (air, road fleets); for Neodata (at teh time, teh largest U.S. publishing fulfillment firm), developed a multi-tenant database architecture and a custom business rules engine; for GM, developed a machine learning system to optimize teh designs of automotive vehicle components.
• Program Manager - Engineering Applications
• Led automotive systems engineering team. Led development of multiple automotive component design systems (brakes, bumpers, fasteners, noise and vibration, …). Developed system to statistically analyze automotive braking system performance. Developed system to statistically analyze automotive accessory usage. Developed vibration simulation model.