Summary

• Experienced senior project manager offering over 25 years successfully leading all phases of diverse technology projects Master Certificate in Project Management / MA Project Management
• Business strategist plan and manage multimillion-dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains.
• Excellent communicator leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their respective teams.
• Expert in project management methodologies. Able to manage large project teams and known for high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets.

Skills Summary

Achievement Highlights

• Developed integration and testing plan for ICD-10 migration. Lead 5 Project Managers performing upgrades to EPIC and ancillary application to meet Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services CMS deadlines for conversions.
• Led local, dispersed, and off-shore teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.
• Identified, tracked, and mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments.
• Recruited by Pinnacle West Capital Corporation APS to provide executive level project management for the communications systems design, engineering, and installation for a new power plane west of Phoenix. Managed a 35M budget Project on time and under budget estimate. Provided weekly Executive level presentation to Pinnacle West Capital Corp board throughout construction and turn up.
• Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Moved between project methodologies and approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures.
• Tracked, maintained, and reported complex status to stakeholders, executive, and middle-management levels regularly translating complex technical issues into cogent information for each level.
• Successfully managed COBOL team to create application to connect disparate computer systems to provide continuous life / safety and aircraft utilization interchange for the merger of two major airlines.
• Recruited by Pinnacle West Capital Corporation APS to provide executive level project management for the communications systems design, engineering, and installation for a new power plane west of Phoenix. Managed a 35M budget Project on time and under budget estimate. Provided weekly Executive level presentation to Pinnacle West Capital Corp board throughout construction and turn up.

Representative Projects

• ICD-10 Upgrade and Testing: Managed a team of 5 Project Managers upgrading EPIC the EMR and multiple ancillary applications that interfaced with the EMR to provide completely paperless Medical Records for patients in the Network. These application required intensive investigation and testing in concert with each other and EPIC to ensure the billing information met CMS Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services requirements and provided maximized revenue recovery from Insurance Providers and Payers for procedures and care. We worked closely with the HL-7 and EDI engineer to ensure the messaging was correctly formatted to meet the CMS requirement. The program was completed successfully on time even in light of Congressional CMS agreement to defer the required completions date another year. This Program required regular interaction with Hospital Board Members as well as the CIO and CFO of the Network.
• System Integrations/Migrations: Managed a team for the development and integration of 29 ancillary software applets for the merger of US Air and America West Airlines combining the best attributes of the two company's main management Life / Safety and Aircraft Utilization applications. This included the development of the project plan, SIT, UAT and final integration testing for these applets. Managed a project team within the Air Ops Maintenance Engineering group to merge the SCEPTER Management System with SABER for additional functionality.
• Custom Software Developments: Managed a team of developers through the customization and deployment of Microsoft SharePoint enterprise wide. This project required HIPA and DOD systems support compliance for active duty military and family healthcare. This team performed the gap analysis to ascertain the condition of the legacy project and used this information to formulate a new direction and path to complete the deployment. The designed and deploying a branded presence for the legacy intranet web site to aggregate and better communicate, collaborate, and distribute information enterprise. Also acted as mentor for a junior project manager / business analyst in charge of the tactical engagements.
• Systems Engineering: Managed IT/IS design and engineering team to develop state-of-the-art communications solution for newly constructed power plant. 35M project completed on time and under budget - saving 3.6M. Total project construction budget was 800M. I reported directly to the VP of Construction Engineering. Included all aspects of communication including multi-path failover communications, SCADA, Wireless, and VOIP systems. Also allowed remote control and monitor of all plant operations.
• Enterprise Implementations: Managed a team of internal and vendor engineers to implement 'Witness eQuality eBalance' for all of the Consumer Credit Group Lines of Business in 14 Corporate Call-Center locations. This project required the coordination of outages and after hour work installations to accomplish the required tasks without disruption of the normal daily business. Worked closely with the vendor's engineering team to develop best practices for deployments in active environments. Team developed FAQ and informational pamphlets to assure the call center agents were properly informed regarding the intent of the systems. Regular interaction with the PMO regarding the project reporting, and project tracking metrics.

Early Career

Confidential

New Market Eng / Sales Consultant

• Worked directly with specific business sectors to implement secure high-speed data transport for LAN / WAN applications using state of the art copper and fiber optic media.
• Worked closely with Northrop Aviation to develop highly secure, paperless design and engineering system for the F-117 B-2 Stealth Programs.
• Also worked closely with the motion picture production and editing community to employ fiber optic connectivity to the desktop for high speed transport for storage and editing.
• Worked closely with Sony Corporation to adapt Tactical Fiber Optic Cable TFOAC for broadcast fiber optic ready video production cameras.
• Assisted with the development of alternative distribution channels for these copper and fiber optic media products.
• Recognized 14M sales revenue in the 1993

Confidential

Electronics Engineering Maintenance

• Maintained and Repaired Quality Assurance and Production Control equipment for Phoenix Works copper wire manufacturing factory. Performed routine maintenance and repair in manufacturing process control equipment.
• Redesigned and installed updated manufacturing control equipment for this factory, significantly reducing the maintenance and repair requirements by 60 .

Confidential

Tactical Air Command NCO

• Research and Development and Real -Time use of Remotely Piloted Vehicles Drones for Electronic Countermeasures, Photo Reconnaissance, and Weapons Delivery. Project Management, Electronics Systems Design and Engineering, Flight Crew, and Maintenance responsibilities.
• Project Management for above assignments.
• Vietnam Veteran / Honorable Discharge