SUMMARY

• me am an entrepreneur, digital strategist, skilled Agile Coach and Technology Practitioner experienced at leading and driving change. In these roles, me has had to continuously draw upon my experiences to coach agile teams. Shared concepts and tools to consistently partner wif all levels of a business to create an agile transformation and digital experience that addresses both client and employee needs.
• me has implemented agile business and technology approaches to encourage collaborative and transparent communication to improve teh delivery of new products or enhancing features based on business needs. Teh successes of delivering agile transformations, projects and programs has been attributed to my ability to engage stakeholders through open, transparent communication across teh organization.
• me has delivered pre and post merger integration solutions. As a product manager me has delivered solutions, business continuous improvement, full lifecycle systems implementations, and security implementations to support global strategies.Programs and projects me has delivered span $500 thousand to $150 million.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Industries: FinTech Startup, Not For Profit, Publications, Accreditations, Healthcare/Pharma, e - Commerce, Mergers & Acquisitions, Real Estate, Construction, Insurance, Investment Banking, Retail Banking (Credit Card, Mortgages, Auto Financing), Financial Services, Private Equity/Hedge Fund, Commodities, Digital Marketing, Transportation and Logistics

Skills: Agile Practitioner, Digital Experience, Content Management System, Program Management, Project Management, Risk Management, Digital Transformations, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Business Intelligence, User Experience (UX), System Development Life Cycle, Risk Management, planning and budgeting, Six Sigma Process Improvement, Supply Chain Management, Business Plan Development.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Director Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Defined consistent agile understanding and approaches. Defined a series of iterative methodology improvements for Product Development and Versioning. Further developed strategies for reusable features across products to improve time to Market.
• Coach teams of product managers, designers, engineers, quality analysts, marketers, and Client Delivery on pivoting to move to an agile cadence from a hybrid waterfall
• Leveraged AHA for Product Planning, Confluence for Story creation and Configuration documentation. Jira was employed to properly track and project feature development and using Jira Portfolio project capacity planning and laying out teh vision for product creation and client release management. Integrate Jira and Git to improve teh continuous integration and deployment of product
• Engaged in various Agile techniques to educate and coach teh proper use of tools and report to support product and business objectives
• Client Delivery of Confidential products ensuring teh seamless delivery of product and API integrations. Define predecessor successor dependencies to remediate delivery risk
• Managed Full stack, Front End and Back End teams of 50 engineers
• Delivered products to support Member, Medicaid Individual, Provider insurance stacks

Confidential

Project Manager/Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Introduced teh concept of Agile to teh business and development teams
• Managed teh organizational transformation from Waterfall to Agile methodologies by defining a proof of concept project that would follow Agile methods
• Trained Business Analysts, Developers and teh newly created roles of Product Manager on writing proper user stories to be used in development of a multiyear project
• Trained teh Product Manager to define feature roadmaps to better prioritize teh features to be released and to be able to pivot based on changes in teh business and to better assess dependencies
• Implemented daily scrums and taught teh development to better estimate User Stories using a weighting system to evaluate burn rate and velocity
• Further me trained several scrum masters on how to run stand up daily sessions focused on blockers, what was done yesterday and what needs to be done today
• During dis process me implemented Jira and Confluence to increase collaborative thinking and better perform pre sprint planning and post sprint reviews
• me further over fourteen months enabled all new projects to follow teh Agile methodology and further implemented a seamless robust intake for new projects while improving quality through implementing a proper Quality Assurance role
• me introduced Dev/Ops to expedite teh Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment of teh Agile methodology Development resources
• Developed a digital strategy to focus teh Institute on addressing business growth and changing dynamics in teh standards industry
• Complete redesign of project intake, developer roles and infrastructure
• Implemented Jira, Confluence, GitHub, SmartBear and Jenkins to support agile and introduce continuous integration and continuous deployment (DevOps) to teh application development and business teams
• Creation of a new innovative product development strategy and roadmap to transform teh use of
• Creation of a new innovative product development strategy and roadmap to transform teh use of autonomous vehicles for ground transportation
• Designed an innovative user experience and incorporated disciplined data analysis to manage client acquisition. Implemented strict Agile methods to deliver product phase 1 in six weeks utilizing 2 week sprints and scrums, changing customer acquisition strategies and engagement
• Defined teh e-Commerce strategy for improving teh user experience

Human Analytics/Polimeni Medical Information

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of 3 product/project managers, 16 developers, 3 data scientists, 2 actuaries and 3 sales professionals to drive teh creation and sales of our product offerings
• Led teh funding of teh company to support growth
• Partnered wif Health Insurance Providers to evaluate how teh data collected could support teh health Confidential . dis led to opportunities wif Cigna, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, Oscar and New York Medicaid
• Delivered teh digital strategy and platform for teh development of a user friendly experience in teh form of an Application for teh desktop and tablet environments delivering encounter notes
• Teh application was further developed in iOS and Android to provide a handheld solution and subsequently deployed over 3 months
• Established and constructed teh e-commerce solution for end customers. Teh solutions provided an easy app download for retail patients and business to business for hospital networks integration and partnership wif EPIC, Cerner and McKesson
• July 2016 through August 2017 me took time to address personal obligations
• Led teh development utilizing lean agile techniques prioritizing functionality through Agile tools: Scrum, Kanban, Story Boards, prioritization, backlog running 4 week sprints
• Developed and executed a prototype using Blockchain as a solution to protect and check in check out of very sensitive healthcare data
• Teh chartDoc product was developed in Angular, Python, Java, and Scala, data analysis tools utilized were Hadoop, Pig and Qlikview visualization. Teh actual algorithms and analytics products were implemented wif Hadoop, Pig and presented using Qlikview
• Continuous integration and continuous deployment were implemented utilizing Jenkins and Git Hub
• Defined developed and managed teh security architecture roadmap and implementation of a secure cloud based HIPAA compliant solution.
• Led teh Angel funding rounds and pitches to perspective investors
• Developed and modeled exit strategies including, acquisition to public offering
• Responsible for leading and providing guidance for teh implementation of a data architecture to support teh modernization of on demand KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators) using data visualization tools
• Implemented HL/7 messaging standards for CCDA retrieval of demographic and lab data in XML
• Gained deep understanding of EMR solutions, EPIC and Cerner to accommodate CCDA messages and Doctor Encounter notes to be captured at a patient level from various hospital systems
• Participated in teh lobbying of HIPAA initiatives to make teh acquisition of patient records more efficient by developing a process model and documented ecosystem that included encounter notes, labs, MRI’s, CAT scans, X-rays all supported by an online DICOM reader
• Captured teh ability to look at historical insurance information at a patient level and supply that data to patients
• Mapping of ICD 9 and ICD 10 codes to teh parts of teh anatomy following teh FML Ontology from Washington State and further mapping codes and ailments to major human systems. Integrate Snomed and CPT codes to properly align all codes to create lineage and relationships from diagnosis to verification to claim to payment
• Linked family health data wif teh HIPAA compliant approval of all family members to analyze family ailments and health trends

Confidential

Senior Product and Senior Project Manager SAP ERP

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for teh digital transformation of financial projections and risk adjusted insurance product solutions
• Led a global team of project managers and functional SME’s in finance, data science, business intelligence, application developers, quant modelers and actuarial professionals to optimize and improve teh ability to measure and forecast teh impact of economic stresses and global catastrophes on lines of businesses in near real time
• Delivered teh Enhanced Data Modeling Capabilities for mergers and acquisitions of property and casualty insurance companies modeling balance sheet and income statement pro-formas ($600M merger).
• Successfully lead teh standardization of SAP GL accounts. Led teh consolidation effort of 212 ledgers, Computron, PeopleSoft to SAP FI CO
• Led teh initiative to create transparency from source to report wif originating solutions to SAP GL FI CO and improved teh allocation process by migrating from Cognos to allocating in SAP
• Successfully developed and implemented a global financial forecasting solution using SAP BPC on S4/HANA focused on Controllership and FP&A process integration supported by SAP ABAP, SAP Hana, Igloo, GGY Axis and Axiom. Delivered CCAR, and Basel compliant models by incorporating teh projection of assets ($900+B) and insurance liabilities ($890+B) based on economic and catastrophic stresses and shocks over nine, thirteen and 240 quarters. Teh solution reduced cycle times from weeks to hours. Leveraged Amazon cloud bursting to execute teh models when peak computational demand was required. All Source to report activities strictly adhered to Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.
• Implemented a structured risk management processes across all business lines
• Delivered optimized approaches to conduct sensitivity analyses to deliver teh modeling capabilities
• Developed and implemented teh Business Intelligence standardized methods and tools including developing and defining data models to support teh reporting needs of business leaders. Objectives met provided indicative operational reporting to make more informed and timely decisions
• Extensive experience utilizing Microsoft Project and Project Server as teh primary tool to provide updates and indicative analysis for driving each of teh programs
• Conduct daily scrums and a weekly cadence of reporting highlighting risks, opportunities for remediation and ways to possibly accelerate opportunities enabling key stakeholders to understand status of projects and key areas of decision that need to be made and timeframe
• Drove teh migration of business projections from sixteen thousand Excel workbooks to 2 core solutions reducing cycle times for projections, reserves and risk arbitrage
• Drove and supported teh ongoing development of Enhanced Data Modeling Capabilities for mergers and acquisitions of potential insurance companies modeling balance sheet and income statement pro-formas

Confidential

Head of Transformation

Responsibilities:

• Areas of focus included Life and Disability, New Business, Dental, and Health
• Responsible for identifying target state objectives and designing a realistic roadmap to support teh target state of a migration of claims processes from Conduent to SPS on behalf of Guardian Life Insurance Company
• Introduced teh concept of Agile to teh client and development teams
• Managed teh organizational transformation from Waterfall to Agile methodologies and identifying risks and resource gaps
• Areas of focus included Life and Disability, New Business, Dental, and Health
• Developed remediation plans to course correct teh existing programs wif realistic timeframes
• Implemented proper capacity planning and management to support teh client deliverables
• Initiated focused teams to identify source operational and development issues and create remediation and realistic solutions
• Led five merger and acquisitions of complementary businesses
• Led teh direction and consolidation of numerous underwriting platforms to common set of platforms supporting long tail and short tail businesses
• Developed, designed, implemented and managed a US based captive for Technology and Operations
• Defined and implemented a global shared services vision focused on managing transactional and analytical functions for key areas
• Responsible for teh design, development and implementation of a data harmonization strategy to improve teh reserving and reporting of financial results
• Implemented strategic technology transformation across a complicated application environment