SUMMARY:

Tenacious and dynamic leader with experience in system architecture, software development and support, and security strategies. Known as transformational leader having successfully reorganized, revitalized and restructured IT organizations. Expertise in integrating technology, streamlining processes, increasing automation, simplifying IT infrastructure management, and reducing costs.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Project Development

Systems Development Life Cycle

Waterfall & Agile Methodologies

Time Management Skills

Problem Solving Skills

Negotiation Skills

Organizational Skills

PROFESSIONAL CHRONICLE:

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to Corporate PMO and responsible for managing and directing one or more IT project teams to meet complex project objectives.
• Delivery areas include Enterprise Applications including HR, Finance, IT Security and NERC CIP.
• Project responsibility include the initiation, planning, execution, monitoring/controlling, and closure of assigned projects.
• Manages the acquisition of funding, coordination, and contracting of services.
• Project activities include planning of project implementation, evaluates and formulates project plans, schedules and budgets.
• Work with business units to improve business processes, identify gap analysis to gain efficiency, standardization, as well as compliance and consistency. Provide written documentation or flow charting related to gap analysis, process improvement and standardization.
• Participate in procedure development and implementing processes. Organizes and guides project execution through both agile and waterfall methodologies.
• Evaluates development and reports progress in terms of quality and performance metrics common to IT projects.
• Works with IT client departments and business units to coordinate all stages of project lifecycle, including requirements gathering, systems testing, deployment, training and support transition.
• Collaborates with IT Solution Delivery management teams to ensure adherence to the Solution Delivery Lifecycle development standards and continuous improvement with regard to major projects.
• Testing Tool Service Integration - Project team designed to integrate Piedmont Gas testing team into Confidential ’s testing tools environment after Confidential ’s merger with Piedmont Gas.
• Worked with staff to scope the requirements accurately and on-time, scheduled resources as needed, and tested needed access.

Confidential, Confidential, SC

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading a project team of 90 members with a budget of approximately 20 million.
• Used project methodologies to manage and direct all phases of a Medicaid software integration of IBM Curam.
• Worked with project team to define project phases and requirements needed in replacing a legacy Medicaid eligibility system with an Enterprise COTS system.
• Oversaw the project schedule in Microsoft Project to monitor project performance, work effort, resource availability, and making any necessary corrective actions.
• Ensured project deliverables, milestones and required task were identified and completed as planned.
• Managed the software developers to ensure development with in IBM Curam framework and standards.
• Implemented applicable data transmission and interface requirements.
• Prepared status reports and communicated project progress on timelines identified as well as risks, expectations, milestones and other key project metrics to our Confidential customers.
• Restructured the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to streamline and ensure proper documentation through multiple phases of the project.
• Enforced best practices in test planning, test case development, and testing techniques.
• Ensure systems and policies cover CMS' Seven Standards and Conditions.
• Developed policies and procedures to conform and comply with agency’s cybersecurity policy and data protection design. Implemented security procedures to meet Federal & State requirements to include MARS-E 2.0 and Confidential standards.
• Created POA&Ms for those standards which didn’t completely meet required standards.
• Design and ensure Infrastructure environment met the COTS system requirements. Directed Infrastructure Support team on the multi-tiered environmental structural as well as maintained oversight of system and network security.
• Ensured all personnel followed industry standard information security practices.
• Analyzed, estimated, and provided Budget for staffing and ancillary needs for the project.
• Implemented software projects that used Java, XML, HTML, CSS, VBScript, JavaScript, and IIS.
• Created, reviewed, and ensured monthly reporting to our Confidential customers of activity toward our mutually agreed upon goals.
• Follow State/Federal procurement, compliance, and contracting policies when purchasing services on behalf of department needs.
• Project team designed and deployed new infrastructure at a secondary site located in Columbia, SC.
• Implemented all necessary routing lines to ensure High Availability and Redundancy. Ensured industry standard security protocols were followed to ensure data protection during transmission and failover. Migrated data from our primary site at Confidential, SC to the secondary site using Oracle Data Guard and Zerto for our virtual servers.
• Deployed and tested the DR site to ensure proper failover and recovery back to our primary site. It is currently set up as an Active/Passive between locations.

Confidential, SC

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Used project methodologies to manage and direct all phases of a Medicaid software integration of IBM Curam.
• Implemented applicable data transmission and interface requirements. Worked with project team to define project phases and requirements needed in replacing a legacy Medicaid eligibility system with an Enterprise COTS system (IBM Curam).
• Ensured project deliverables, milestones and required task were identified and completed as planned.
• Managed the software developers to ensure development with in IBM Curam framework and standards. Prepared status reports and communicated project progress on timelines identified as well as risks, expectations, milestones and other key project metrics to our Confidential .
• Restructured the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to streamline and ensure proper documentation through multiple phases of the project. Enforced best practices in test planning, test case development, and testing techniques.
• Developed policies and procedures to conform and comply with agency’s cyber security policy and data protection design.
• Ensure systems and policies cover CMS' Seven Standards and Conditions. Implemented security procedures to meet Federal & State requirements to include MARS-E 2.0 and Confidential standards.
• Created POA&Ms for those standards which didn’t completely meet required standards.
• Designed and ensured Infrastructure environment met the COTS system requirements. Directed Infrastructure Support team on the multi-tiered environmental structural as well as maintained oversight of system and network security.
• Ensured all personnel followed industry standard information security practices.
• Implemented software projects that used Java, XML, HTML, CSS, VBScript, JavaScript, and IIS. Interviewed and hired the right staff to ensure successful delivery of the new system.
• Follow State/Federal procurement, compliance, and contracting policies when purchasing services on behalf of department needs.
• Built on the progress made in 2013 and implemented a new eligibility system for South Carolinians.
• The system uses rules and communication to electronic data sources to process applications for Medicaid eligibility.
• The system is processing applications for South Carolina’s MAGI population and communicating with their MMIS legacy system to notify providers of eligibility as well as allowing claims to be processed.

Confidential, Columbia, SC

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading a 3 year project and team using agile methodologies to manage and direct all phases of a Medicaid software integration project.
• Worked with project team to define project phases and requirements needed in replacing a legacy Medicaid eligibility system with an Enterprise COTS system called IBM Curam.
• Implemented applicable data transmission and interface requirements.
• Created and maintained a project schedule in Microsoft Project to monitor project performance, work effort, resource availability, and making any necessary corrective actions.
• Ensured project deliverables, milestones and required task were identified and completed as planned.
• Prepared status reports and communicated project progress on timelines identified as well as risks, expectations, milestones and other key project metrics to Executive Management.
• Enforced best practices in test planning, test case development, and testing techniques.
• Ensure systems and policies cover CMS' Seven Standards and Conditions.
• Developed policies and procedures to conform and comply with agency’s cyber security policy and data protection design. Implemented security procedures to meet Federal & State requirements to include MARS-E and Confidential standards.
• Implemented software projects that used Java, XML, HTML, CSS, VBScript, JavaScript, and IIS. Created POA&Ms for those standards which didn’t completely meet required standards.
• Follow State/Federal procurement, compliance, and contracting policies when purchasing services on behalf of department needs.