PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• I am now fully recovered and ready to return to work
• Technically sophisticated and result - oriented certified Project Management Professional (PMP) & Certified Scrum Master (CSM) with expertise encompassing technical requirements development, solution design, implementation planning, and team leadership.
• Possess superb communication skills with notable talent for translating complex technical information for non-technical audiences and accurately conveying benefits.
• Driven leader, adept at building top-performing teams capable of achieving measurable results to attain aggressive objectives.
• Full Life Cycle Project Management
• Requirements Analysis
• Mergers/Acquisitions
• Development & Implementation
• Budget Administration / Allocation

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Earned Value Management, Financial Management, Budget Management, MS Project, PowerPoint, Visio, Word, Excel, Outlook, SharePoint, TFS, JIRA, VMware, Infrastructure, Software Development, SaaS, NetSuite, Innotas, Remedy, Box, Dropbox, Azure Cloud, SoftLayer Cloud, AWS Cloud, Cisco CloudCenter / CliQr, Webex, Skype, MS SQL Server, Oracle, Swift

DETAILED EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager for Infrastructure and Software Development projects serving a variety of organizations.
• Projects required substantial client facing presentation, communication, and negotiation skills.
• Working with Business and Technology Teams to develop and manage requirements, scope, staffing, documentation, and budget/financials.
• SDLC (Planning, Defining, Designing, Building, Testing, Deployment) gating requirements (Approval to Plan/Approval to Build). Specific documentation with approvals, schedule forecasting and budget approvals/requests. Weekly minor deployment schedules, monthly major deployment schedules, all requiring the project manager to obtain CAB approval.

Confidential, Pasadena, CA

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project was considered an enterprise high priority with Confidential Senior Leadership’s oversight.
• Project Manager for adoption of Public Cloud offerings (AWS, Azure, SoftLayer)
• Worked with Confidential and IBM Teams (IBM is Confidential ’s primary technology vendor) to deliver cutting edge cloud VM self service WEB Portal for the enterprise.
• Reduced provisioning delivery time to business from 4-6 months to hours.
• Project Manager for IBM/SoftLayer Private Cloud Integration
• Project Manager for DBMS Automation - Implement Oracle RAC and SQL AlwaysOn HA & DR

Confidential, Valencia, CA

Sr. Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked directly with WellPoint/Anthem management in customer facing role on project roadmaps.
• Software (WEB) Development using Agile/Scrum methodology
• Process Improvement, and Infrastructure Projects working with multi-location teams across the US and Canada.
• Led Active Directory Project for North America operations. Included US, Canadian, and Philippine technical teams.
• Risk management was a major component of this project as the environment was largely “undocumented”.
• The project was delivered on time and I received special recognition for this important enterprise achievement.
• Served as both Project Manager and Chief Architect for WellPoint/Anthem Invoicing Project to shorten invoicing month end cycle and recover lost revenue due to inaccuracies.
• The project had previously been tried (on several occasions) and failed. The major hurdle was to overcome a severe team morale deficit.
• The Executive Vice President regarded this as the most successful project of the year.
• Re-engineered process that provides content to WellPoint/Anthem Web Portal. This was a highly visible issue that had significant ramifications for HIPPA compliance and possible sanctions.
• Infrastructure upgrade project involving NetApp storage and VM upgrade/migration, disaster recovery site. This is a bi-coastal project.

Confidential, Gaithersburg, MD

Sr. Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Software & Infrastructure Solutions (Active Directory, Storage, etc) primarily for Healthcare industry clients.
• Led Active Directory Project for major pharmaceutical (MedImmune) client with facilities spanning Europe, North America, to the Philippines.

Confidential, Chatsworth, CA

Director of IT

Responsibilities:

• Directed all aspects of IT operations and infrastructure for bi-coastal organization; defined and executed high-level strategy and tactics for development of customized client solutions.
• Managed client and vendor relationships, including budget administration, proposal preparation, contract negotiation, and presentations.
• Leveraged hands-on, team-oriented leadership approach to foster technology growth and in corporate cutting-edge solutions; facilitated training sessions for all members.
• Collaborated with client IT teams to enable data interchange utilizing a variety of file formats.
• Served as Project Manager for numerous high-profile initiatives.
• Ensured adherence to applicable regulations based on client industries. (including HIPAA)
• Successfully led large-scale migration replacing all IBM mainframe technology with PC / Client Server environment.
• Drove reengineering for all business and technical processes from top to bottom to ensure full utilization of new technology.
• Managed implementation of robust disaster recovery program with real-time data mirroring between two locations, secondary site activation, operational remote system access, and switch back of mission critical applications; realized cost reductions of $3.5M.
• Project Manager for acquisition of Three Cities Mailing Services and transition/integration of all technical resources into MCRB.
• Acted as Project Manager for creation and deployment of $500K Inventory and Warehouse Locator / Tracking system providing clients with unlimited warehousing services.
• Turned around underperforming operations and built exceptional team capable of meeting aggressive goals and driving high productivity

Confidential, Chatsworth, CA

Sr. Programmer / Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Experience in mergers and acquisitions. Confidential was made up of 5 separate business units, one of which (In-Source) was acquired twice in as many years, the final time by MedAssets.
• Project Manager for technical transition of In-Source to MedAssets.
• Served as Project Manager and Technical Lead for healthcare solutions provider. Aligned technical requirements with detailed business needs; coordinated team members and ensured attainment of milestones and deliverables. Developed and programmed reporting solutions. Liaised with EDI Administrator to process HIPAA-standardized data from clients.
• Managed development and implementation of real-time ERP system to track complex financial transactions and disbursement resulting in significant improvements to Business Intelligence efforts.
• Designed comprehensive reporting system based on detailed data analysis increasing asset and resource allocation and saving $2M.
• Expertly migrated legacy accounting system to Microsoft / Great Plains ERP solution.