Summary

• Twelve years of experience inProcess Improvement, IT Project Management, Program Management and Business Analysis in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle. Includes defining and gathering business requirements, solution development, testing and deployment. Specific experience includes:
• Ensuring quality delivery of an enterprise IT solutions by establishing and implementing standards and best practices in the delivery of the solution.
• Working with end users to determine current and future business requirements for data, reporting, metadata, data quality and performance.
• Development improved processes, including logic for data cleansing, aggregation and business rule implementation.
• Facilitating a robust, sustainable software application that supports client requirements and provides for expansion given budgetary constraints, availability of data and skilled resources.
• Additional experience includes market research, financial analysis, management and budget forecasting.

Skills and Experience

Confidential

Project Manager

• Develop, implement, communicate, and enforce all project management processes, guidelines, and procedures associated with individual projects. Develops and manages the relationship and expectations of the Client agency managers through project management and change management methods.
• Main contact for the client during the project delivery as well as the main point of contact for all internal Benefitfocus work streams.
• Manage the delivery of all Benefitfocus products to customers.
• Own the project schedule and overall delivery of all scope components.
• Create and communicate project status to both internal and external stakeholders and project teams.
• Manage deliverables to milestones.
• Document and managing action items, risks and issues.

Confidential

Project Manager

• Directed projects team consisting of DTMB staff, contractors/vendors, and consultants by enforcing DTMB PMM and SEM Methodologies. Directs the activities necessary to develop and maintain software documentation of Customer Applications.
• Derived options and estimates for the design, development, testing and implementation of software projects.
• Served as the focal point, and the technical project advisor, for projects to ensure project completion. Perform first-line decision-making efforts on basic project task direction by assessing the economic, political, operational, and organization implications of the project decision.
• Developed project requirements, project goals, project plans, maintenance plans, resource plans and project budgets. Managed project scope including team's creation of timelines, milestone achievements, GANTT charts and other mechanisms for planning and assuring projects are completed on schedule.
• Identified project risks and issues and develop mitigation plans. Developed and utilize escalation process for project risks and issues. oject team members, contractors, and vendors and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.
• Built, developed, and grew any business relationships vital to the success of the project.

Confidential

Director of Project Management

• Confidential. was awarded 179 Million in federal stimulus funding for two broadband projects in Michigan. The Rural, Education, Anchor, Community and Healthcare - Michigan Middle Mile Collaborative REACH-3MC projects are a collaboration that will build approximately 2,300 miles of much-needed fiber-optic infrastructure in both the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of the state serving public entities across the State such as libraries, community colleges, universities and local municipalities.
• Defined project scope, goals and deliverables on an ongoing basis that support all federal requirements in collaboration with senior management. Develop and maintain full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.
• Liaisoned with Federal grant officers, grant Sub-recipients, vendors and contractors on an ongoing basis.
• Drafted and submit budget adjustments, and recommend subsequent budget changes where necessary.
• Set and continually managed project expectations with the NTIA, team members, Sub-recipients, and vendors.
• Determined the frequency and content of status reports from the project team, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem areas as well as proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans.
• Coached, mentored, motivated and supervised project team members, contractors, and vendors and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.

Confidential

Project Manager/Process Improvement Specialist

• Created the approved process to initiate and manage all recruitment efforts for all Medical School Department Chairs as well as Assistant Deans, Associate Deans and Senior Associate Deans as necessary.
• Interacted intimately with all department chair candidates as well as their spouses as a public relations representative for the Medical School.
• Created, launched and managed the successful program to conduct academic and financial audits of Medical School centers, institutes, programs and department sections.
• Developed and provided financial analysis of the Medical School's Executive Incentive Compensation Program which included implementing and continuously refining the process of calculating payments to Chairs and Administrators who participated in the program.
• Regularly assembled project teams based on the Dean's directives and identify resources needed to successfully complete projects. All project results are presented to the Medical School Dean as well as the Medical School Chief of Staff.

Confidential

Project Management Analyst

• Developed work breakdown structures, Critical Path Method CPM schedules and resource, cost and budget plans. Prepared cost estimates and Job Estimates PG E project justification packages , set up accounting in SAP and Power Generation's long term planning system.
• Efficiently and accurately performed monitoring and analysis functions for the various projects by working in collaboration with Project Managers and project teams to maintain project schedules and monitor cost status and forecasts.
• Gathered, compiled and inserted budget data in SAP to analyze schedule start and duration variances: complete vs. of time spent
• and recommend corrective actions when necessary.
• Performed SAP queries to extract financial performance data so as to analyze and trend variances by comparing the current cost plan against the actual to date, forecast to complete costs, approved or authorized costs, and budget costs.

Confidential

Business Analyst/Project Manager

Lead project manager for a team of 15 and contract administrator for a 7 million dollar ERP implementation of PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne 8.10 for the Department of Liquor Control. Also wrote and negotiated all contract documentation, co-chaired executive work group and change control board as well as developed contract amendment requests.

Confidential

Management and Budget Specialist

Prepared recommendations for the County Executive and County Council on operating and capital budget resource allocation, fiscal policy and related matters in the amount of 350 million dollars.