SUMMARY

Results-driven bi-lingual professional with over 12 years of experience as a Project Manager with demonstrated experience in leading business teams and managing projects from initiation to closing using a SDLC / PMI methodology.

• Coordinate the scanning of POS systems and the upgrade to the NCR Network and Security Systems NSS
• Led customer meetings for the integration of Vanguard Health Systems into DELL financial revenue application
• Created Budget to track project expense by FTE's and/or hours spent. The tracker contains burn down feature to identify spent versus remaining
• Coordinated client process for IT and Business achieving HIPAA compliance
• Conducted client meetings to identify and document all business requirements for the projects successful implementation. Liaison between IT and Business of 15 client projects that were implemented successfully
• Recovered over 50 Million in Medicaid overpayments for my clients
• Established best practices for Project Management in the PMO to address ICD 9-10 changes and achieved a clear requirements of the work to be performed to meet the clients business needs
• Mentored junior PM's in implementing successful projects enhancing project quality that achieved greater implementation success and customer satisfaction
• Completed the major PCI-DSS Debit Card implementation for JCPenney Stores
• Completed major encryption project for all off-site tape storage for JCPenney. This required working across the enterprise with Applications, Network, Architecture, and RDBMS groups

Areas of Solid Experience:

• Project Management
• RDMS DB2/Oracle
• Risk and Impact Analysis
• Project Lifecycle SDLC PMBOK
• Project Management Office PMO
• Team Leadership local, virtual and off-shore
• Mainframe Development COBOL, DB2, CICS
• Mainframe tape encryption with MegaCryption
• Cross development WEB/MVS/Client Server
• Project MGMT SharePoint Product

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Platforms: Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/Vista/W7, AS 400, VM, MVS, WEB, J2EE
• Networking: TCP/IP
• Data Bases: Oracle, DB2 Mainframe, SQL Server, DB2 UDB, VSAM
• Languages: COBOL, JCL, MVS Utilities, CICS, SQL, HTML, Scripting, C, C
• Tools: Microsoft office tools Excel, Word, Power Point, Access, Project, Outlook , LOTUS NOTES, QUEST TOAD , MegaCryption EPM Live SharePoint
• Methodologies: SDLC Project Management Life Cycle PMBOK, AGILE

EXPERIENCE

Confidential

• Infrastructure Project Manager for upgrading and setting up new POS Systems
• Working with Vendor to coordinate hardware and software deployment in each store
• Initial rollout of the POS systems requiring the NCR Network and Security System Suite
• Built test lab to lay down the NSS Suite on the various POS systems in the field Micro ale

Confidential

• Project Manager for integration of Vanguard Health Systems into DELL revenue system responsible for client meetings, status reports and budget management
• Leading the Feature release project for Catholic Health Initiative - EPIC, STAR, MEDITECH
• Leading integration project team that supports Conifer Health Solutions and managing a one million dollar budget and project reporting
• Managing a team of seven developers, business analyst, quality assurance that includes off-shore

Confidential

• Project Manager for new software build for the Short Message Services SMS deployment using JIRA Agile and Atlassian.
• Tracking scope, schedule, and budget. Conduct daily SCRUM calls with off-shore resources

Confidential

Senior Project Manager in the Project Management Office PMO

• Successfully implemented client projects. These processes are built to receive all medical and pharmacy claims from the Plan and create Professional 1500 bill claims and Institutional UB04 bill claims.
• Strong leadership required for client facing meetings to conduct Kick-Off Meetings to present HMS business and process and achieving client support. Achieved trust and confidence by creating clear project timelines and objective.
• Gathered all client business requirements and conducted planning with the HMS Implementation Team achieving a clear project scope, schedule, and budget requirements.
• Successfully communicated clear project expectations to staff that included both on-shore and offshore business and technical personal. Achieved improvement for PMO best practices by leading efforts to better report metrics and track projects to schedule. This created a trust between PM peers and business contacts by providing transparency.
• Successfully conducted weekly executive meeting reporting project status and expected revenue with delivery dates achieving trust and support from the major stakeholders.

Confidential

• Led effort to improve all the back office processes using a SDLC process that leveraged PMI's OPM3 Model ensuring that Business and IT best practices were followed.
• Improved security and business processes.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

• Responsible for conducting the analysis and creating the plan for encrypting/protecting personal information throughout the enterprise and meeting Payment Card Industry standards.
• Led the effort for IT Security to rollout the debit card transaction process for JCPenney stores requiring PIN encryption, Audit compliance, meeting Secure Data Procedures SDP , and Data Security Standard DSS requirements for the Payment Card Industry PCI .
• Led project to encrypt all tapes going to off-site storage
• Led the effort to replace the company Incentive Compensation system that came in ahead of schedule and under budget. Revenue savings and client satisfaction data driven system
• Led the effort for the United Way project that achieved an 89 scanning improvement. Concurrently leading HRMS PeopleSoft Tax Updates and running a disaster recovery BCP test.
• Led the software product evaluation, replacement and implementation of the Incentive Compensation System using PS HRMS Oracle backend
• Led Business Process Improvement efforts on the Incentive Compensation System and PeopleSoft Payroll Tax Update System that saved processing time with cost savings in time reallocation.
• Led the Y2K effort for the Associate Systems Department

Confidential

Advanced System Engineer

• Responsible for setting up and maintaining CICS platforms and DB2 DBA Lead for Bank One account in Dallas.