SUMMARY:

Experienced project and program manager and hands - on SME designing and implementing PMOs. Managed Confidential, change management, sales, new product launches, IT, financial, supply chain, procurement, purchasing, Six Sigma, process excellence, quality, compliance, start up, and technology transfer projects and programs, at big and small organizations. Speak Spanish and French.

SKILL:

Project management, program management, scope / resources / cost / risk planning and management, scheduling, issues management, hands-on problem solving, Confidential methodology, project management maturity assessment and development, technology transfer, change management, knowledge transfer and capture, stakeholders management, out-of-the-box and cross-disciplinary thinking, able to see the big picture, excellent analytical, conceptual, negotiations, interpersonal, organizational, conflict resolution, communications, facilitation, and presentation skills, business and systems analysis, financial analysis, eProcurement, requirements gathering, statements of work (SOW), requests for proposal (RFPs), Confidential, service management, applications delivery, procure-to-pay (P2P), supply chain management, contracts management, operations management, sourcing measurement and reporting, spend and cost analysis, cost accounting, key performance indicators (KPI), competitive bidding, vendor selection and relations, client/stakeholder persuasion and executive presence, Six Sigma, DMAIC, process mapping, process modeling, future state development, business analysis, data analysis, statistical analysis, master data management, data conversion, data migration, data mining, identity management, helpdesk, PMO governance, systems development life cycle (SDLC), OPM3, CMMi, Agile Project Management, ERP implementation, GAAP, SAP, Ariba, Business Warehouse, Business Intelligence, Active Directory, Single Sign On, Mathematica, MS Project, Visio, Access, Clarity, @Task, Open Work Bench, Jira, Confluence, Documentum, SharePoint, Java, SQL, pivot tables, teaching, eLearning, SOP development, SOP management.

EXPERIENCE:

PRINCIPAL PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Founded and lead a project management company that provides Confidential services. Some clients and engagements include:
• Managed nine Confidential projects at the same time, including P2P, contracting, active directory, identity management, data migration, helpdesk, security, and assessing the PMO procedures and templates and providing recommendations to improve them. One of the projects was extremely important and was reported regularly to the CEO and to the Board.
• Managed most of the projects of the Heart Center, which is rated as one of the best in the United States, in one of the largest hospitals in NY. Managed the roll out of Muse 8.0 to the four Montefiore sites and successfully performed most project management functions in a highly demanding PMO with very tight deadlines and significant project constraints. Presented regular project status to the heads of the Cardiology Departments. Managed the installation of four servers and two virtual machines in the data center.
• Managed a Confidential /change management project that prepared the business case, the project plan, the current state, and the future state for Marsh’s contract management processes.
• Managed two Confidential projects (one client facing web site, one infrastructure/Single Sign On (SSO) and advised and provided best practices, templates, and procedures to improve the Confidential .
• Documented the current state and helped the teams reach consensus on the future state.
• Led an Oracle HR and a global Human Resources/change management project, and advised the PMO with best practices, templates, and procedures. Managed the datacenter RFP and vendor selection process.
• Led a Confidential project to reorganize the way Confidential sources all its commodities.
• Prepared and obtained consensus on the project scope, project charter, and project plan.
• Provided project management and procurement skills and best practices to the project and to Confidential .
• Documented the current state and helped the teams reach consensus on the future state.
• Applied data analysis, data mining, and pivot tables to establish the procurement strategy.
• Managed global new product launches and technology transfer projects for over the counter pharmaceuticals with very fast execution.
• Managed teams of more than fifteen core team members and more than twenty five stakeholders.
• Managed a $240 million program, led teams of more than thirty individuals, wrote all project documents, and performed most project management functions.
• Wrote or modified twenty of the seventy procedures needed for operations of the new facility. Supported procurement and IT projects.
• Managed a $40 million project/program to start up a new pharmaceutical facility and a project to update all quality systems. Prepared all project management documents and performed most project management functions.
• Provided project, cost saving, financial, and cost analysis to a Confidential project. Applied data analysis, data mining, and pivot tables to establish the procurement strategy.

AFFILIATE PROFESSOR

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Teach graduate level project management at the Confidential, which is the largest technology management school in the US, and which is ranked top five.
• Rated as one of the best Stevens project management professors. Taught project management several times to several Fortune 500 organizations.

PRINCIPAL PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Confidential
• Managed projects to implement the most critical Confidential conformance standards, in the Validation, Manufacturing, and Lab Operations areas.
• Managed the verification of four Consent Decree commitments.

SOURCING SYSTEMS MANAGER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Successfully led the cross-disciplinary team that integrated the sourcing systems of two Confidential & Confidential divisions.
• Led an international Six Sigma project for a contracts management system.
• Managed the documentation of the current state and helped the teams reach consensus on the future state.
• Managed systems that executed around 900 million dollars per year in transactions.
• Received three team recognition s.
• Supported the implementations of SAP, Ariba, and Business Warehouse.
• Taught SAP and Business Warehouse and coached on Ariba.

Confidential

SENIOR PROCUREMENT ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Led eight international high-profile, cross-functional teams, which resulted in sales protection of $1,000,000 per day, and in the continuous market supply of four medically significant products.
• Managed, prepared and renegotiated contracts, and articulated the yearly business plans for the Confidential APIs and Biologicals areas.
• Negotiated the international outsourcing of a major drug, and facilitated its technology transfer, with very significant time constraints.

SENIOR PROCESS ENGINEER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led cross-disciplinary teams in the preparation of the capital scope and the start up plan for a major new drug, with future and initial capital investments $70 and $18 million, respectively.
• Managed cross-disciplinary teams which executed the detailed process design and the validation of the downstream, utilities, waste, and raw material dispensing areas for a major new drug.
• Led the process engineering efforts in the preparation of the basis of design (BOD) for a major new drug, in an $18 million pharmaceutical capital project.
• Calculated capacity analysis, optimum tank and heat exchanger sizes, utility and manpower requirements, least expensive waste disposal process.
• Prepared and/or executed IQ/OQs. Prepared and/or executed computer validation documents (FRSs and DDSs).

PROCESS ENGINEER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Identified $300,000 of capital savings in a technology transfer project.
• Demonstrated a 25% productivity improvement (from 3 to 4 lots per week) in the supply chain of one major vaccine.
• Prepared a change request that was distributed as an example of an excellent technical document.