CORE COMPETENCIES

PROGRAM / PROJECT MANAGEMENT

• As Director, Project Management Services Office for, Alpha Project Management Group, oversee portfolio of client projects Up to 12 Programs simultaneously. Train and Mentor all Project Managers and related teams.
• As Executive Director for, Work it UP, established the Project Management Office, oversight of all internal initiatives and external client projects Up to 47 simultaneously . Developed Project Management Institute PMI approved training programs for Project Managers and Subject Matter Experts.
• As Program Manager for, Realty Marketing Studio, selected and led teams Market Research, IT, Operations, Business Process, E-commerce Front-end Website and Business Information System Back-end Solutions Development assigned to launch of real estate marketing and sales start-up.
• As Senior IT Project Manager, VirtuaLux Digital Media Studio, directed multiple Agile/Scrum teams responsible for all custom web design and e-commerce client projects Up to 15 projects simultaneously .

BUSINESS PROCESS RE-ENGINEERING

• Directed the integration of merged or acquired small business companies into parent firm evaluating existing technology, information systems, business processes, then designing and managing change implementation to improve operational efficiencies.
• Led management team responsible for delivery of a 12.6M expansion plan for super-yacht management agency. Redesigned core business and maintenance engineering processes used to create, maintain and distribute super-yacht life cycle maintenance planning, logistics and work authorization products.

SYSTEM/SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

• As Program Manager, oversaw three-year project to research, design, test, develop and deliver cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning ERP system Talent Scout to be used as a 'portal' for nonprofit virtual on-line community centered on professional development training .
• As Project Manager, led team working in Agile/Scrum framework on development of cloud-based Project Management application JetPM created expressly for small business clients who are new to project management.

TEAM LEADERSHIP

• As head of Alpha Project Management Group selected, trained, mentored and directed multiple teams of talented business and IT Subject Matter Experts for clients in multiple industry sectors.
• As Director of the Work it UP - Project Management Office designed and taught PMI approved course in Project Management and collaborative workplace techniques to recent college graduates and working professionals seeking to fulfill their Professional Development Unit PDU classroom training requirement for a PMI - Certified Associate Project Management CAPM designation.

Confidential

• Alpha Projects began as the strategic planning office PMO for a marine services company. The focus of the business remains management consulting with a strong reliance on project/ program/ portfolio management and related disciplines to implement strategies for small business companies and private equity investors.
• As Director of the firm oversaw administration of capital resources, asset management, management consulting, strategic planning, business analysis, project and program management, business process re-engineering and information technology services to private companies.

Confidential

Executive Director,

devised and directed implementation of turnaround strategy for 502-c-3 nonprofit in a three-year Development Plan. Established Strategic Solutions Office PMO to manage all internal initiatives and external client projects directing sixty to seventy personnel in widely distributed teams.

Confidential

Program Manager

• served the interests of, Christopher, Chadwick and O'Malley, LLC, a Florida-based private equity investment company seeking to launch an innovative on-line real estate marketing and
• sales start-up. Oversaw teams responsible for implementation of strategic plans from initial launch through second-round investor funding.

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Senior IT Project Manager directed multiple business and technical resources and Agile/Scrum teams 18-23 resources . Responsible for all custom web design and e-commerce client projects Up to 15 projects simultaneously .

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As President and CEO, built diversified portfolio of small business companies Acquisitions, mergers and start-ups complimentary to existing assets of the parent organization.

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As President and CEO of New Leaf Investments was appointed Managing Director of Sterling by FPj Investments - a private equity firm based in New Haven, CT. Oversaw implementation for program of international expansion plans for this super-yacht management agency based in George Town, Grand Cayman, CI, BWI.

Confidential

• Alpha Projects began as the strategic planning office PMO for a marine services company. The focus of the business remains management consulting with a strong reliance on project/ program/ portfolio management and related disciplines to implement strategies for small business companies and private equity investors.
• As Director of the firm provided capital resources, asset management, strategic planning, management consulting, business analysis, project and program management, business process re-engineering and information technology services to private investors.
• Industries by sector Information Technology, Healthcare, Media, Web/ E-commerce, Arts Entertainment, Recreation Leisure, Marketing, Real Estate, Construction, Marine, Nonprofit, Manufacturing, Import/Export, Workforce Development and Financial Services.
• Client contracts of extensive duration and complexity with values ranging from 100K - 15M.
• Planning and execution of mergers, acquisitions, start-ups, turnarounds, rapid growth and divestitures.
• Complete business financial management, estimating, budgeting, tracking, cost-benefit analysis, reporting, projections, development, restructuring, more.
• Experienced in managing complete PMLC / SDLC: initiation, design, scope, resource planning, training, mentoring, budgets, risk, communication, execution, control and close-out.
• Trained and directed multiple program managers/ business analysts assigned to business and IT projects including infrastructure, applications, data warehousing e-commerce, digital services delivery, custom web and software development.
• Designed, developed and executed complex projects working with numerous techniques, PMI, Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, more.

Confidential

• As Executive Director, devised and directed implementation of turnaround strategy for 502-c-3 nonprofit in a three-year Development Plan. Established Strategic Solutions Office PMO to manage all internal initiatives and external client projects directing 60-70 personnel in widely distributed teams.
• Develop, implement and automate PM processes for this nonprofit organization's Project Management Office directing an average of 8-10 project team leads engaged in delivering 30-40 internal initiatives and external client projects.
• Of Client projects included the development of an information system containing all Maine-based organizations and programs involved in improving the quality of health care.
• Obtained two grants from Project Management Institute, Education Foundation PMI EF to create a Certified Associate Project Management CAPM training course series for member professionals.
• Led Agile/SCRUM development team over 18 months to create JetPM a proprietary project management software application to provide fundamental PM guidance tools and processes for use by members and clients on internal and external projects.
• 2011-12 successfully negotiated contract with University of Maine System to replicate Work it UP proprietary IT and project management tools and PMI-approved training for their Campus Ventures Program at the University of Southern Maine, Gorham campus.
• Directed implementation of business and technology elements of 6-8, ten-month projects simultaneously. Projects included: start-ups, existing business growth, software development, marketing web design, market research and strategic planning, healthcare and financial services.

Confidential

As Program Manager, provided leadership for an Alpha Projects team to deliver business and technology support in the interests of, Christopher, Chadwick and O'Malley, LLC, a Florida-based private equity investment company seeking to launch an innovative on-line real estate marketing and sales start-up. Oversaw teams responsible for implementation of strategic plans from initial launch through second-round investor funding.

• by conducting client interviews to analyze business model assumption driving risk.
• Gather business and technology requirements for all aspects of business operations

• Develop a set of project charters and a Master Work Breakdown Structure for the company from start-up launch through early-stage development to second investor round funding.
• Selected, mentored and directed teams of Subject Matter Experts to serve on business and technical elements of the project including Operations, Sales and Marketing web design and content, graphic design and custom development components.

• Developed work packages for multiple teams applying Agile/Scrum framework for the custom development of the front-end website and the back-end data collection and re-purposing processes of the company.

• Select and organize the Operations Team responsible to establish standards for the day-to-day aspects of the company from information systems management to corporate branding and marketing strategy, to designing and documenting proprietary business processes including sales processes, to designing and developing policies procedures for new employees.
• Working closely with Product Owner assigned to the Agile components of the project, gather requirements and conduct technical research to arrive at a set of design options to test/develop back-end technology components anticipated for use in the data collection and re-purposing portion of the business.