SUMMARY

• Successful career spanning years of demonstrated success in lean project management with an in depth focus on raising productivity through elimination of process waste.
• Expertise in project management merges with MBA degree to consistently contribute to corporate growth, profitability and productivity.
• Committed team player recognized for integrity, dedication, professionalism, strong communication skills, project management expertise and leadership.

• Project Management
• Requirements Gathering
• Customer Relationship Management
• Issues and Risks
• Work Breakdown Structure development
• Budget development
• Monitor and Control
• Agile Scrum

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Status reporting: VC, CEO, CIO, CFO and PMO

RDBMS: Oracle 10G, Terradata, informatica, service fabric

Business Intelligence Software: Cognos, Power Pivot

Infrastructure: Virtual Machines, azure cloud, micro services

Reporting: Cognos Relational, Dynamic &Virtual Cube

Budgeting/Productivity Software: Epsi v 7.2, Clarity

Certifications: Project Management Professional (PMI)

Training: MBA, 6 sigma, Lean kaizen, root cause

Business Software: PPM, Clarity, RTC, MS Project

Software Languages: VBA, SQL (toad), .net

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Warrendale, PA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed a range of nuclear power plant projects for products and services to utilities around the world in order to keep plants running safely, reliably, and efficiently.

Confidential, Wexford, PA

Construction Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed rental property renovation, upgrades and releasing. Coordinate financial, real estate and legal resources.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

IT Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed agile projects for payor systems. Upgraded health plan quoting, renewal and enrollment systems. Rebuilt the small group product to streamline the sales/renewal lifecycle. This platform will optimize workflows for the primary users (Producers and Account Managers), and sync with back - office subsystems and integrate with CRM (Salesforce). Azure cloud based with .net microservices. Protractor performed regression test for the Angular Java script product. Neoload balanced loading for users and cloud data. Microservices in service fabric, UI/UX, informatica and change data capture (CDC) teams were utilized.

Confidential, Canonsburg, PA

IT Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed team to map out processes, collect data and manage process improvement of a nationwide network of Workers comp and Property and casualty claims and medical bill review offices. Client bills were sorted, scanned, keyed, reviewed and presented to clients for approval and payment. Turnaround time, quality and other Key metric indicators were tracked to measure IT and process improvements. Data patterns were charted along with volume and quality metrics.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

IT Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed team to retrieve, chart and analyze work volume. Tracking productivity and quality metrics to assess staffing efficiency and effectiveness was key. Relative value units were calculated for read, actual, and unread. Turnaround time for accessions were broken down to STAT, Routine, inpatient and outpatient. Prepared data by analyzing, sorting and selecting datasets via Minitab, Excel Power Pivot and Visual Basic macros.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

IT Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed in house product revamp of provider credentialing processes required for automating the initial and recredentialing of care providers. Assembled deliverables, collected requirements and determined critical path for credentialing services rewrite project. Tracked risks, hours and ETC’s for agile teams in Clarity. Scrum teams completed functionality for: inputting, verification, letter writing and imaging of data and documentation. Monitored hours and financials via clarity and produced PM reports to keep PMO, finance and executives informed. Created project plans via MPP. Gathered requirements, scheduled and tracked resources via clarity, and walked through change requests with teams as requirements shifted.
• Managed upgrading the Central Provider Repository (CPR) from power builder to dot-net technology. This $7.6 mill initiative was broken into 3 years with the $3.9 mill keystone agile piece to be delivered in 2016. Upgrading provider affiliations, date cascading and delegation components were critical for scalability of automation and web delivery. Resources included scrum masters, BAs, developers and IT architects. Onshore and offshore staff of 30 FTEs were resourced via Clarity and tracked via Agile RTC (Rational Team Concert) tools for sprint planning, daily stand up, review demonstrations, and sprint retrospective meetings. Team impediments/issues were addressed, resolved, communicated, escalated, or moved to back log. Monitored progress via RTC. Provided reporting for team to PMO.
• Converted blue cross payment and insurance data sets from various systems to the Highmark claims adjudication platform. Payments from Medicaid, Medicare and ancillary insurers were analyzed, matched and brought onto a standardized platform via rule sets. Business owners, IT technical resources and blue cross subject matter experts were utilized to scope, develop and execute conversion processes to migrate Blue Cross affiliates onto the Highmark claims processing platform.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

IT Reporting Project Manager/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of 9 software developers and DBA’s to create Cognos virtual cube reports for top 10 apparel retail operation. Developed functional requirements with BA team, reviewed technical requirements with report developers and database architects. Drove test case approval with UAT business teams. Data architecture development was key to building fast reports. Business reports included: sales, inventory, markdowns, costing, margin, average unit retail (AUR), average retail (AR), Average unit cost (AUC) and strategic planning. Streamlined report run time by moving calculations and joins to database tables, revising reports, indexing tables, and setting aggregate settings in virtual cubes. Developed work lists, priority rankings, work breakdown structures, ETL flowcharts, project plan Gantt charts and executive updates. Utilized Dimensional, relational, virtual and dynamic cube reports. Utilized Waterfall and Agile Scrum methodologies. Scrum morning meetings reviewed sprint status for 20 key reports.
• Planned effort to rebuild existing robust retail reports. Worked with business analysts to develop report requirements in excel reports created from historical decision planning system. Worked with DBA to create data views to facilitate low run time reports. Extracted, transformed and loaded (ETL) via Informatica. Data from enterprise planning, location planning and central planning were placed in Teradata staging tables and then fact table destinations. If possible, reports were sourced from the IBM virtual cubes, otherwise relational reports were created. End users tested and validated data. Reports were automated for distribution as required.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Finance IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led team in implementation of Allscripts EPSi SQL database products to provide an integrated reporting system for cost accounting, product line budgets, operational and capital budgets and strategic planning. Implementation included EPSi budget manager, capital budget manager, strategic product budgeting, productivity manager, cost manager and product line analyst.
• Automated budget variance reports in Cognos 10.1. Epsi SQL data and Mckesson General Ledger data sets were moved to the data warehouse to facilitate sophisticated reporting. Requirements were created by Excel VBA macros from raw data sets. Requirement spreadsheets were given to developers to replicate in the data warehouse. JIRA manpower tracking system was utilized for project hour tracking, work breakdown structure, and trouble tickets.
• Implemented Oracle/Java J2EE performance measuring and budgeting application that improved profitability of corporation by setting staffing levels and volume adjusting expenses. Automated data collection of patient medical record details, employee time clock data, general ledger financial budgets and actual data into Oracle 10G data warehouse. Created Discoverer reports.
• Updated Oracle 10g application with DBA to eliminate manual budgeting process. Collected requirements from administration created and outputted Oracle Discoverer reports as required. Implemented Oracle 10g daily productivity module. Daily values rolled up to pay period and monthly reports. Java J2EE enabled drilldown capabilities allowed managers to view data.
• Instituted process metrics such as hours per patient day, full time equivalents per department, and key volume indicators per full time equivalent. Published productivity reports daily, monthly, and annually. Benchmarked departments to encourage best practices. Trained users on 6 sigma methodology skills.
• Trained operations, decision support staff, hospital managers and administrators on 7 Sunrise EPSi modules. Coordinated with vendor subject matter expert as required. Module training occurred every 3 months until all 7 modules were complete.
• Project manager for international classification of disease upgrade project (ICD10) which upgraded from version 9 to version 10. Team included patient financial services, clinical, education, communication, decision support and information technology.
• Infrastructure

Confidential, Leetsdale, PA

Staff Process Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with team to design and build tabular alumina plants throughout US, India, China and Europe. Processing plants were designed and refined via AutoCAD light. Monitored progress with Microsoft Project. Used Honeywell Distributed Control system (DCS) to control automated process throughout the plant.
• Six Sigma black belt project improved precision of particle sizing for single crystal jet engine parts utilized in DOD F-22 Raptor project.

Confidential, Andersonville, GA

Process Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed 7 person quality control department including: Network and software administration, budgets, staffing, training, product overrides, reject review and disposition, and continual improvement initiatives.
• Responsible for reporting analytics for all quality control data. Database administrator for SPC express reporting and analytic package.