SUMMARY

• Experienced project and program manager and business executive offering extensive experience leading all phases of diverse technology projects; Prior Certifications in PMP, Certified Scrum Master, APICS, and Continuous Improvement. Broad base business skills in executive management, finance, operations management, start - ups, sales 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. Excellent C-Level presentation skills.
• Trained facilitator and experienced corporate trainer.
• Financial Skills: Managed budgets of up to $500M and cross-functional teams of up to 150 developers, programmers, analysts and network specialists, executive team members. Led revenue, P&L, ROI and cash flow improvement. Financial Analysis, Department Budgets, P&L Optimization, forecasting and analysis and extensive experience managing departmental budgets
• White board idea manager: Cultivates a team culture that leverages business drivers into practical results like profitable revenue, margin improvement and satisfied customers.
• Strong Technologist: Significant bias for action and results. Hands on professional with a complete focus on customers, driving up revenue and driving down costs. Considered to be a strong technologist with C-Level presentation skills.
• Multi-skilled Project Manager: Strong experience base in IT Project Management; Operations Management; Sales Project Management
• International Business Acumen: Significant international business experience in Europe and Asia. Lived and worked 10 years in Europe and is fluent in German.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Program Manager/PMO Director

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assess present financial software application system and lead the design and implementation of the replacement system
• Assemble and facilitate cross functional team product owners from multiple business units for team
• Design new system, system architecture, feature functionality, database requirements and development platform requirements
• Design and lead quality testing, user acceptance testing
• Develop customized business intelligence tools
• Design entire software application through all cycles of software development
• Migrate legacy database tax application from AS400 to SQL Database for a county taxation office
• Process flow mapping of entire work flow and also create system specifications
• Led Agile development process and served as Scrum Master
• Estimate and plan budget for entire project & managed and led the development team. Grew account by 10 times.
• Manage and lead entire product team and operations for leading online education company
• Manage and lead development programs (Agile) of online software development projects for leading online education company
• Design, implement and direct a PMO operation for a 150 Million dollar company
• Implement an ERP system including vendor selection process

CTO

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed and employed technologies and products to harvest data and relevant content from printed advertising and convert it to digital format for the newspaper industry serving the largest publishers in the world.
• Led end user application development in .Net and Java designing product applications via Agile Development
• Led back end application development in c#, Perl and Linux
• Managed all custom online software development, system architecture and networking, SDLC, Content Management System, Data Warehousing, analytics, data strategy, meta data management, DB design, enterprise data strategy, cloud management, online operation & SEO strategy and Social Media
• Invented middleware application between entire online newspaper industry and Careerbuilder
• Managed team of over 65 people and P&L responsibility
• Developed sales and marketing plans and programs, which resulted in providing products and services to hundreds of newspapers in the United States, Europe and Canada.
• Managed over 1000 internet application installations for some of the most well-travelled to websites in the world. Develop and executed a innovative online marketing strategy to grow traffic and customer acquisition via SEO. SEM, Social Media, Email Marketing and PPC.

Confidential

Senior Director

Responsibilities:

• Managed 400 Million dollar budget.
• Managed international direct sales force plus third party distributors and agents
• Director - International Data Center & Product Management
• Recruited, hired and trained team for data center.
• Managed direct sales force and third party agents throughout Europe.
• Managed entire European product management function
• Data center was fully functional and implemented under budget and ahead of schedule.
• Director, Quality Systems & Project Management Office (PMO)
• Managed team of 30 quality auditors and process engineers responsible for the implementation and application of statistical process control measurements and statistical auditing procedures and re-engineering of production systems.
• Sr. Manager, Project Management & Process Engineering (PMO)
• Managed team of Project Managers and Process Engineers. Department’s role was the deployment of the internal Project Managers and Process Engineers throughout company to drive efficiencies throughout the company functional areas; development; finance; sales; product management; database design.
• Manager, Vendor Management/Purchasing/Off-shore Development
• Responsible for the management for vendors all over the world ensuring the delivery of quality service at the best rates.
• Training and Development/Continuous Improvement Manager
• Designed and delivered company-wide continuous improvement training seminars. Delivered seminars to thousands of employees.
• Production Planner and Scheduler
• Responsible for scheduling of data builds requiring cross functional coordination across all departments utilizing MRP System
• Human Resources Generalist
• Responsible for HR Generalist duties including organizational charts, staffing and recruiting.