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Project manager in Data and Informatics at Carefirst and responsible for EDW projects.

Project manager in Enterprise Informatics at Highmark and responsible for EDW projects.

• Project manager in Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence at the Geisinger Health Plan. Informatica, Teradata, and Business Objects comprise the core technology platform.
• Worked with staff and leadership to document, standardize, and improve project management, BI, and DW development processes and practices including ETL, BI development, and data architecture.
• Managing the load and validation of a newly-redesigned healthcare data warehouse built using a customized reference model.
• Projects or related activities included the following customary activities or deliverables including: Source-to-target mapping, ETL development, data sourcing, master data management, data analysis, data profiling, project change management, requirements change management.
• Project focus included pharmacy and wellness programs.
• Supported the initiation of Master Data Management project.

Project manager working in the Strategic Operations PMO at Highmark on cross-functional projects including mandate projects. Projects focuses include provider reimbursement, benefits updates, claims, other party liability, pay for value ACO PCMH , Medicare Secondary Payer CMS mandate and desktop sales tool for health care reform.

• Project manager working in the PMO at Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
• Projects include: Enterprise-wide FileNET upgrade Enterprise-wide IE8 upgrade IT Portfolio Process improvement initiative Technology Lifecycle Management process development initiative dotGrants web application rewrite vendor oversight for a state-wide paratransit software implementation and GIS enhancements for Marcellus Shale region.

• Project manager at Amtrak in Washington, DC. For the conversion of several hundred Brio reports to BusinessObjects Web Intelligence reports.
• Observed an iterative life-cycle including requirements, universe design, report conversion, quality assurance testing, and acceptance testing.
• Acquired and deployed training courseware for BusinessObjects Web Intelligence.
• Capacity testing of BusinessObjects platform to ensure that the developed reports can be released to production with confidence. Also evaluated vendors for programmatic conversion of reports.
• Communicated extensively with a geographically dispersed information consuming community of several hundred people to ensure that the new reports and reporting capability was accepted and effectively used.
• Expanded and upgraded hardware. Migrated servers from physical to virtual. Upgraded BusinessObjects to latest version.
• Initiated a company-wide application integration project for the expansion of the SOA capability and the creation of a portal architecture.

• Project manager Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence project at Advance Auto Parts, a retailer in Roanoke, VA.
• Worked with eight functional areas of the business, in joint sessions, to document business requirements within four data subject areas in accord with the statement of work for this major release identified relevant KPIs / metrics, measures, dimensions, and hierarchies data quality assessment identified and analyzed existing reports data cleansing source systems analysis, mapped source to target, created conceptual models.
• Responsible for ensuring team understood and complied with methodology project statusing and status reporting capturing and resolving issues risk analysis reviewing and tracking expenses client relationship management.

Business-side consultant for a new business intelligence BusinessObjects implementation at JP Morgan Chase. Responsible for SLA, modifications to change management processes, report and data retention requirements.

• Data warehouse project manager accountable for completion of multiple, simultaneous, enhancement projects. This is a geographically dispersed organization requiring PMs to lead teams at several different sites. Responsible for planning and scheduling major deliverables, performance tracking, scope management, schedule and cost control. Managed projects from specifications from business requirements through extract, transform, load, and validation. Caremark is a CMMi organization.
• Project manager for migration from custom ETL to Informatica for existing warehouse feeds. Project manager for creation of a new staging platform 6000 hours for the ETL of medical claims and integration of these with drug claims.
• Project manager for 16,000 hour effort to implement newly-mandated National Provider Identifier into two data warehouses and clinical applications IT organizations.
• Project manager for various consumer engagement / clinical program data warehouse implementations. e.g., Compliance and Persistency and Customer Care Retail.

• Lead Business Intelligence analyst for data warehouse project at GMAC Commercial Mortgage.
• Determined requirements approach, lead interviews, managed process, produced requirements documents. Supported creation of dimensional data model ensured that business needs and rules were reflected accurately in model. Source-to-target mapping, data integrity assurance, MicroStrategy report QA, compliance with data architecture standards.

• Co-project manager for an enterprise data warehouse implementation on Teradata platform at The Bank of New York. Worked to recover a fixed-price project severely over budget and schedule via aggressive scope management, strong leadership, focusing on results. Endeavored to maintain satisfied client.
• Managed project from specifications through extract, transform, load, validation, implementation of ancillary applications. Replanned major deliverables, tracked performance, managed scope, administered vendor contracts, schedule and cost control. Implementation included Cognos cubes, Customer Attrition model, Cross-Sell model.

• Deployed comprehensive IT enterprise project management and methodology software.
• Determined business needs, eliciting project structure and reporting requirements, analyzed existing PMO and related processes, designed new project / program management processes or designed tool use to support existing processes, and configuring product to support these requirements.
• Customer relationship / engagement manager for implementation projects. Identified resources / alliance partners to support accounts, project planning and solution design, review work products, provide implementation methodology support with responsibility for customer satisfaction and a referenceable account.

Consulted in process improvement and project management at Accenture's outsourcing customers. Projects included: