SUMMARY

• Over 8+ years of diverse & refined experience as a Project Manager in various fields of Science wif an emphasis in biotechnology and healthcare
• Experience in managing large scale, cross functional projects wif broad scope to ensure deliverables are met wifin schedule, budge, and quality goals.
• Expertise in guidance of team during periodic check - ins wif key stakeholders to elicit feedback on output
• Specialties: E-Commerce, Digital Strategy (Digital Marketing Platform - DMP ) and Marketing, Automation, Innovation, Business Transformation/Modernization, Complex Technology Implementations, Cloud Infrastructure, Vendor Management, Supplier Management, Program Management
• A 360-degree view of working in and delivering several challenging and demanding projects wifin a complex stakeholder environment both internal and external including MSPs, agencies and third party vendors. I has been able to achieve the required quality and speed to achieve the desired goal and objectives leveraging smart interpersonal and leadership skills along wif creating a proven record of accomplishment of mentoring and coaching high performing teams (onsite, offshore, nearshore) and individuals.
• Experience wif various SDLC methodologies like Waterfall and Agile/Scrum. Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Extensive experience in Soliciting project stakeholders, SME & business users for gathering requirements through interviews, brainstorming workshops, JAD sessions and systems documentation procedures. Distilled requirements into functional, non-functional, and created documents such as BRDs, FRDs and SRS, User Interface Documents, User stories and other artifacts.
• Good Experience in RFPs when it comes to procurement for Products.
• Successfully delivered a key Transformation/Modernization program in the form of the next generation Digital Marketing Platform (DMP). I was responsible for the planning, technical design, build, testing and live implementation of the entire program from NA region.
• Experience wif Content Management Systems.
• Experienced in managing team, planning and scheduling the work, onsite/offsite management and project execution.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• MS Office Suite
• MS Project
• MS Visio
• JIRA
• MS teams

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Participate in transverse business unit project teams representing the interests of SBS, acting as a designee to provide status updates, escalate critical issues, scope changes or milestone changes as necessary.
• Establish project planning sessions and provide updates to senior SBS management via regular dashboard updates and related documentation.
• Cross function management of the program as well as manage and own the interdependencies, cross function communications and clarifications, escalations, tracking and reporting.
• Identify potential roadblocks and risk early and develop potential solutions wif SMEs and self-organize the team to mitigate the risk
• Create critical project documentation: project charter, business case and dashboard for updates to ensure their is a well-crafted plan dat provides business value and can be measured against.
• Facilitate Daily Standups, planning, and demos
• Analyze and develop retrospective presentative to apply for future sprints
• Provide succinct, regular project and program status updates following the SBS PM Methodology and SBS standard practices.
• Coordinate project testing activities for projects dat include a software deliverable or interaction wif key project milestones (i.e. User Acceptance Testing, System Integration Testing, or others as defined by the project.
• Organize and coordinate relevant training, awareness or other change management related sessions or communications as part of planning.
• Support post go-live key activities through a hypercare to ensure transition to routine business operations.
• Execute a post project lessons learned to ensure project team input is collected and compiled and reviewed wif SBS leadership prior to providing a summary of the findings to the project stakeholders.
• Partner wif IT on projects to and develop relationships wif key SME’s to ensure projects has proper technical requirements defined, coordinate implementation timelines and ensure proper support is in place once a project TEMPhas gone live.
• Assist the Lead, Portfolio Management as necessary for providing updates to the Project Portfolio Management tool updating project details including budget, scope, resources or generating reports on our entire portfolio of critical projects.
• Provide support and training to personnel from various functional areas in the program/project governance process and the use of PMO documents and tools

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully collaborated on the review of project results, relevant documents and reports, to identify problems, recommend and track progress on queries in Oracle
• Drafting Project Charter / Plan from client’s scope to implement efficiencies, methods, resources, and processes to assist the client stay wifin budget and meet project goals.
• Manage the technical support needed throughout the integration processes and present the issues to upper management as needed.
• Align wif the Stakeholders to develop work plans for change management work streams and related activities
• Facilitate project and team meetings to emphasize problem solving and process improvement
• Manage and Implement business requirement analysis including evaluation of current systems and protocols
• Anticipate changes and develop a plan to organize resources, rearrange project priorities, tasks, and timelines
• Facilitate kick-off meetings to ensure the client and lab are in sync wif the project objects and timelines
• Life cycle understanding of sampling, lab processing, data interpretation, and remediation for legionella testing for multitude of regulatory agencies
• Manage change requests during as integration to direct data entry into the LIMs system, understand the problems and develop solutions wif all stakeholders
• Monitor system performance and run diagnostics to identify problems in the system and maintain system performance
• Lead team meetings for multiple projects and present current statuses and changes, reason for changes, and the plan to overcome changes
• Maintain and communicate program documentation and ensure aligned communication internal and external to program team.
• Facilitating Daily Scrum Calls for shorter length testing projects
• Proactively identify potential road blockers and remove impediments to individual and team performance
• Managing of the administrative department of a staff of 8-12 to oversee work distributions and assign tasks and assignments based on ability and experience
• Manage day-to-day escalations requiring Senior Leadership attention related to project issues and risks
• Manage projects wif cross functional requirements but also maintain the ability to work as an individual.
• Develop effective account planning and management processes by leaving the development and implementation of account plans wif cross-function team approach

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Plan and implement projects accordingly as per the scope, goals, and deliverables
• Be the primary point of contact and build long-term relationships
• Built report mockups for business to gather high level, and granular level data field requirements
• Manage requirements through end to end phases of laboratory operations including after production maintenance
• Review and approve data recorded in multiple certified programs for water safety i.e. Water Watch
• Manage project plans and provide management status updates at key dates and upon certain requirement completions
• Proactively identified potential problems and removed impediments to individual and team performance
• Successfully collaborated on the review of project results, relevant documents and reports, to identify problems, recommend and track progress on queries in Oracle
• Develop plan for integration of different testing protocols into LIMs systems by understanding requirements from the business and end-user.
• Maintain and communicate program documentation and ensure aligned communication internal and external to program team and communicate on weekly basis
• Facilitate weekly team meetings wif client and project team to review project activities and report statuses based on following criteria’s; project challenges, scope changes, and timelines
• Facilitate business/project requirement meetings to be able to support the client during onsite visits
• Foster and maintain relationships wif clients through frequent communication throughout the project and by ensuring their requirements are satisfied on a daily basis
• Created and maintained ad hoc analytics for the Environmental organization.
• Support by training sales & business development departments
• Draft proposals for potential client’s generation on ad-hoc basis for executive leadership
• Validate and maintain the needed lab compound lists and limits to be able to meet project requirements for new and existing projects; add project specific limits to lists
• Confirm deliverable formats by validating dat all deliverables has updated policies and procedures incorporated for client convenience
• Communicate project details to operations, initiate project kick-off wif client, and the testing team
• Build credibility, establish rapport, and maintain communication wif clients at multiple levels, inform clients of delays and potential obstacles dat might arise for any given project
• Responsible and accountable for the coordinated management of multiple related projects directed toward strategic business and other organizational objectives.
• Maintain continuous alignment of project scope wif and make recommendations to modify the project to enhance effectiveness toward the business result or strategic intent

Confidential, San Bernardino, CA

Project Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Gene Synthesis and Mutagenesis projects using programs; Seqbuilder, Seqman, and Mega Align to design cost effective projects for customers to input data into Cerner LIMs program
• Drafted test plans, and requirements to achieve the accurate scope of projects
• Gatheird business and functional requirements from the Business to be able to create Business Requirements Document for the IT (Lab) to develop sampling results utilizing criteria’s provided
• Managed multiple project pipelines to ensure all data is accurate and available for analysis
• Gatheird data from different sources to record and analyze for department and company use
• Created and maintained ad hoc and recurring analytics for the FDA organization.
• Addressing, recording, and tracking project related communication for current and future inquiries
• Performed sample analysis tasks such as restriction digest assays, DNA transformation and DNA preps
• Liaison between different business and customers to assess appropriate allocation and initiation of projects
• Drafted business requirements and functional requirements from business to be captured in BRD, and FRD
• Tested integrations of various software systems to determine functionality of the system and notify software engineers of bugs (ALM)
• Draft Training materials for business to perform UAT on sampling results to be able to plug in correct data to gather associated results
• Expertise in adopting to constant changes wif processes in the department to halp improve day to day operations
• Reported on DNA extraction, PCR amplification and post reaction preparations and data analysis
• Performed DNA transformation, DNA Preparation and sequencing of DNA preparation samples
• Performed Fragment analysis submission and address questions from customers about Fragment Analysis
• Maintained, organized, and orderly lab project log, ensuring detail oriented in the project log as well as projects
• Extracted data from tables to perform analysis on data anomalies (SQL)