SUMMARY

• PMP Certified Project Manager with experience in all phases of Project Management, Initiation through Closure.
• Over 15 years experience managing small to complex (40M+) projects
• Technical background with over nineteen years Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) experience, ranging from Programmer to Project Manager
• Industry experience includes healthcare, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, retail, and government

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, PA

Senior IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Program Manager for a major Health Care Reform initiative to support the offering of Individual health insurance on the Federal and State Exchanges (offering insurance in 24 states).
• Facilitated project kickoff meeting and requirement gathering workshops with over 50 stakeholders
• Managed project schedule, budget, risks and change control
• Effectively communicated project status, issues, schedule and accomplishments to various management and stakeholder groups
• Monitored and managed vendor performance to ensure contract commitments are met
• Maintained a Requirements Tractability Matrix to ensure all Coventry and vendor requirements were tracked from analysis through testing
• Program Manager for an enterprise wide project to outsource business processes for our Individual healthcare market. Coordinated all activities for Coventry Business, Coventry IT, and outsourcing vendor from Initiation through a Three Phased Deployment
• Created and maintained integrated project plan including definition of tasks and deliverables
• Worked directly with project team members to track progress, identify issues and risks,
• Worked with users to understand complex problems and focuses on bringing issues to resolution, escalating as necessary to meet timelines
• Coordinated end to end and user acceptance testing, including the development of a day by day calendar and defect reporting.
• Deployment planning for the conversion of membership, shutdown of Coventry systems and processes and startup on vendor system and processes.
• Oversaw transition to production support

Confidential, Omaha, NE

Project Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager for major initiative to implement the Product domain of Master Data Management (MDM). The Product Information Management (PIM) application will supply a single source of product information while re - engineering their Product Lifecycle Processes (PLC) across 14 functional departments. Project deliverables included:
• Document the current state product lifecycle process flow
• Identify all current sources of product data.
• Propose future state product lifecycle process flow utilizing PIM
• Develop a phased implementation Roadmap for PIM
• Education on implementing a Data Governance program
• Develop RFP for PIM software selection
• Coordinate scripted vendor demos for four finalists
• Conduct proof of concepts with the final vendors
• SOW negotiations with final vendor
• Project Manager for several initiatives for the Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance program which included developing an Incident Response Plan.
• Project Manager for website redesign to support dynamic navigation. This project was given a fixed duration of six months in order to implement prior to holiday season. Close monitoring of the schedule, risks and issues, along with applying fast tracking techniques enabled this project to deploy on time and within budget.

Confidential, KS

Technical Project/Program Manager III

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager for the PeopleSoft Financial/Supply Chain Management 8.9 implementation, a project to convert legacy Sprint and legacy Nextel to a common PeopleSoft 8.9 platform. Responsible for all aspects of the project - leading a team of 8 project managers, developing the work breakdown structure, developing and managing the schedule using Microsoft Project, managing change requests, managing risks and issues, status reporting, project team meetings, and coordination with corporate release schedule. Very complex project which included:
• Implementing 8 modules - GL. AP. AR. PO, T&E, AM, ePro, sPro,
• Defining new business rules and software customizations
• Modifying over 200 interfaces to the new platform and from FTP to EAI technology.
• Migrating from mainframe to mid-range architecture, setting up 18 new environments
• Converting over 2 terabytes of data from two different platforms and 2 different database technologies into a common platform and database.

Technical Project/Program Manager II

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager for the Sprint Nextel Merger Day 0 Finance and HR domain projects. All five projects completed on time and within budget.
• PMO project manager supporting the Sprint Business Solutions lane. Project managed several projects in support of an initiative to improve the online ordering and tracking experience for external business customers.
• Project managed a critical project to deliver a reporting database to the Affiliates to help rebuild the Sprint/Affiliate relationship. Delivered project 3 months early despite obstacles with hardware delays, switching hardware platforms in mid-development and resource constraints.
• Project manager for all Affiliate Settlements projects
• Responsible for representing Affiliate Settlement requirements for all corporate initiatives including the implementation of Sprint PCS new 3G technology.
• Responsible for managing 9 consultants through all phases of multiple custom software and web development projects.
• Product Manager for all phases of the SDLC for the development of siteLaunch™ a web template product to streamline web site development.
• Project managed a team of 15 through all phases of the SDLC for a multi-department/multi-functional team for a critical mainframe retirement project.
• Team player on a large-scale Y2K software conversion project. Client was Y2K complainant six months ahead of schedule. .
• Project managed development of a bail trust checking system for Riverside County, CA. Activities included requirements gathering, coding, testing, and user training.
• Developed budget and welfare trend reports for Riverside County, Ca.
• Provided consulting services to Sunkist Growers at their request, based on previous experience with Sunkist.

Confidential, CA

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Project managed a team of five on a two-phase project to develop a Performance Measurement and Profitability Reporting System which allowed Sunkist to track the Sales and Marketing performance and profitability of consumer products.
• Analyzed and programmed a budget system that was used to prepare yearly budgets for the Processed Products Division.
• Analyzed and programmed enhancements in production support of the MANMAN ERP system and the Fruit Accounting System.