SUMMARY:

• IT Professional with extensive IT experience in the areas of Project Management, Application Development, Business Relationship Management and Continuous Improvement.
• Dedicated leader with a strong analytical/process improvement background and business orientation capable of outstanding execution of tactics and strategy to deliver agile and traditional PMI projects on time and within budget.
• Developed global relationships with the business/IT at all levels through active collaboration and strong facilitation and communication skills
• Led the development of key strategic business roadmaps and development of capital plan
• Primary IT liaison for various business areas including: Innovation, R&D, Corporate Marketing, Legal
• Managed projects using agile development strategies including SCRUM and company specific methodologies
• Managed multiple large/global projects through all phases of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and deployment across multiple industries and produced/reviewed/approved key deliverables.
• Led the Agile Prioritization, Sprint Planning and Execution across scrum teams
• Responsible for communicating project status to all levels of management via project steering committees, scorecards, monthly highlight reports, weekly status calls and, also responsible for presenting project update to larger organizational meetings

AREAS OF EXPERTISE INCLUDE:

• Agile Processes
• DevOps
• SAFe
• Customer Satisfaction
• Project/Team Oversight
• Process Improvement
• Problem Solving
• Organization
• Issue Resolution

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Applications/Tools Experience: Azure DevOps, SmartSheet, SharePoint, MS Office 365, Clarity, Accolade, BrioQuery, JIRA, Rally, Tableau, MS Dynamics 365 CRM

Database Experience: Oracle, MS SQL Server, LDAP, MS Access, TeraD Confidential

Programming Language Experience: ASP, C, HTML, Java, JavaScript, SQL, Visual Basic

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Glenview, Illinois

Sr. IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Overall responsibility for managing IT Implementation projects and enhancements for service desk and EMR application
• Implemented an Agile delivery strategy utilizing MS Azure DevOps processes and Kanban boards
• Enhanced the DevOps process to including the ability to track project concepts through to implementation
• Oversaw the phone system cutover from the current Confidential to Fuze at multiple Confidential sites.

Confidential, Lake Forest, Illinois

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Overall responsibility for managing IT Implementation projects and enhancements to quality and manufacturing systems.
• Led the implementation of a vendor hosted Quality Management System cloud solution.
• Supported organizational transformation activities to aid adoption of agile development processes.
• Managed several continuous improvement enhancement projects to meet compliance with FDA Observations

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

Business Relationship Manager

Responsibilities:

• Strategic liaison between the Global Commercialization and Innovation business teams and the IT delivery and support organizations to shape business demand.
• Followed delivery projects through their lifecycle ensuring business expectations were being met and the value recognized.
• Led road mapping activities and created requests for IT work including costs vs. expected ROI to drive innovation time reductions.
• Oversaw the implementation of a Global Innovation d Confidential warehouse solution utilizing Tableau for standardized and one - time reporting needs.

Confidential, Hoffman Estates, Illinois

Technical Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw project to build a mobile IoT application to monitor and control various appliances and products with software interface capabilities.
• Managed cross-functional teams with approximately 45 team members. Ran sprint planning sessions and daily scrums.
• Monitored and tracked project statuses.
• Managed large project to implement manufacturer e-Coupon functionality across online shopping websites.
• The project was comprised of cross functional teams with approximately 60 team members.

Confidential, Barrington, Illinois

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led the vendor implementation of electronic lab notebook application for the Long Term and Advanced Research teams.
• Effectively completed within time and budget.
• Managed multiple projects of various sizes, valuing between $50,000 -$300,000, overseeing various backline team members as necessary.
• Led the re-design of the consumer contact experience for the brand web sites utilizing SiteFinity.
• Completed the upgrade of a Documentum Content Management application; served as 3rd party consultant and liaison with the vendor.

Confidential, Schaumburg, Illinois

IT Application Manager

Responsibilities:

• Served as IT Applications Manager, responsible for 12 non-clinical applications.
• Planned and managed the workload for two full-time employees, in addition to two consultants.
• Collaborated with team members to streamline the project portfolio tracking for the IT organization.

Confidential, Barrington, Illinois

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated cross-functional teams through the successful implementation of Accolade Portfolio Management software system.
• Served as key contributor in implementing the first global governance and release management strategy for R&D.

Confidential, Abbott Park, Illinois

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led the migration and development of Abbott websites, establishing a standardized internet platform.

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated multiple Java/JSP based Messaging enhancement projects for the Confidential and Confidential ecommerce websites using Agile development processes.
• Led requirements gathering sessions to develop a more robust interface with the main airline ticketing systems.

Confidential, Abbott Park, Illinois

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led the migration and development of a digital asset library.