SUMMARY

MANAGEMENT HIGHLIGHTS

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Platforms Development Application Projects Managed: Oracle,IBMUniversal DB2, Non-Stop HP/Compaq/Tandem , and UniVerse Pick , Visual Basic, Web and MS Access.

Applications Utilized: Microsoft Project Professional, Microsoft Enterprise Project Management EPM , Visio, SharePoint, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Access, Planview, Quickbase, , Microsoft Visual Basic, Lotus Notes, Business Objects, PVCS, Changepoint, SAP, First Class, Blackboard.

Operating Systems: Windows and Mac OS X

Foreign Language: Fluent Italian

RECENT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. PMO Project Planner

Confidential PMO planning position for global industry leader of semi conductor lithography.Responsible for US eastern manufacturing site'sincorporation and compliance of enterprise PMO standards and processes for the DUV programand APP product lines and their underlying projects.This includes program guidance and project adoption of enterprise product generation and manufacturing methodologiesusing company's version of PMI's Project Management Body of Knowledge. Responsibilities also include:

• Participation in cross-PMO initiatives in the development and refinement of enterprise standards and processes with European counterparts to improve efficiency, and effectiveness of global project management methods and standardization.
• Interfacing with business lines and factory operations senior management, product development leaders andengineering manufacturing sector leads.
• Mentoring of cluster managers, project leads, task managers, technical architects and engineers in company formal product generation, project management methodologiesas well as industry best practicesthrough workshops, classroom and/or one-on-one instruction.
• Assessment of project health through DUV APP program reviewsof underlying project schedules, scope, and rolling financial forecasts, as well as therobustness of issue and risk mitigation plans. Reviews ofmulti-year projects and programs with budgets in excess of 20 million Euros and project teams of more than forty team members comprised ofUS, European, and Asian employees, contractors and material suppliers.
• Site instructor for Microsoft Project Professional, Microsoft Enterprise Project Management EPM , as well as ASML's Product product generation Project SDLC Methodologies tools and roadmaps.
• Hiring participation for PMO peers including initial resume' review, screening and interview panel.

Confidential

IT Manager PMO Project/Program Manager

Confidential IT project and program manager with experience in infrastructure, distributed, web, mainframe, and desktop applications projects. This includes the operational management of full time, and contract onshore and offshore developers, business analysts, vendors and QA analyst teams to plan, process and implement new systems, enhancements, vendor integration and ad hoc customer requests. Stakeholders include lab operations, science and technology, medical lab directors, regulatory, IT, legal, compliance, HIPAA, and sales and marketing:

• Timely execution of critical applications systems and infrastructure projects based on product roadmap,
• Manage project and program initiatives using Labcorp's enterprise systems life cycle.
• Projects include Oracle DB and application upgrades for Clinical Trials area,web portal development, infrastructure installations and production support.
• Tiger team program manager for new EDI portal gateway.
• Northeast IT site manager for Labcorp's subsidiary Dianon Systems laboratories in Shelton, Connecticut.

Major Accomplishments: Successfully deployed 10 TIGER projects and fifteen applications, infrastructure and maintenance projects.

Relationship Manager

Manage and foster positive relationships with eastern region's strategic initiative stakeholders by assisting in the positive outcome of stakeholder scope negotiations as liaison with business owners and IT management:

• Manage company expectations by ensuring that functional, project, program managers successfully met the overall business and IT objectives,
• Evaluate recommend customer project direction and course of action.

Sr. Project Manager Consultant

• Hired as project, program relationship manager to assist in post-acquisition activities and project/program management including:
• Project manager for the Patient Reporting services engine for combined companies.
• Worked closely with operations and building construction site managers as the program manager for the planning and implementation of the new Dianon IT data center infrastructure. This included VOIP communication backbone, server virtualization and security implementations in the new LEED compliant anatomical and clinical specimen laboratories building for LabcorpDianon Systems in Shelton, CT.

Major Accomplishment: Led team insuccessfully deploying into production new data center.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager Consultant

Confidential as project program manager to evaluate and reverse the direction of the Connecticut State Police's Connecticut On-Line Law Enforcement Communications Teleprocessing COLLECT revision project. The responsibilities for managing this major mobile investigative application include:

• Evaluate project health recommend new course of action and project direction.
• Manage onsite vendors, project leads and assigned technical staff from the State of Connecticut Department of Information Technology.
• Responsibilities include managing all program objectives, recruiting, vendor contracts, scope, budget and timeline.
• Major Accomplishments: Successfully identified and evaluated all major project issues and forwarded the analysis/findings along with consultant recommendations to the client and state regulatory/oversight committees.
• PMO Manager Performance Based Contracting Domain Contract Owner Confidential interests as the 'performance based contracting' focal point for the operational relationship management of offshore vendors i.e. Cognizant Technology Solutions CTS and Infosys as well as contract statement of work SOW management.
• Worked closely with CTS Infosys engagement managers, in managing on and off shore technical leads, and developers,
• Monitoring and tracking of offshore deliverables, metrics, domain specific service level agreements SLA , fulfillment of terms/conditions and financial true ups.
• Identified business workflow, leading team in automating manual processes using existing company tools thereby increasing productivity and efficiency.

Major Accomplishments: Successfully negotiated contract language to identify new performance metrics to be achieved.

Project Manager, Strategic Systems Processes SSP Reversed the direction of an Enterprise Application Integration EAI critical path project in jeopardy of failure. Implemented Go to Green plans, budgets, and master project/resource plans for fiveproof of concept sub-projects. Project defined overall EAI SSP architecture through the delivery of reference architecture documentation, engagement model and proof of concept documentation. Project completed the stated deliverables on time and within budget while conforming to Aetna's project systems development lifecycle SDLC and CMMI Level 2 guidelines using MS Project and Planview. Team members included architects, IBM and Diamond Cluster consultants and the mentoring of two junior project managers.

Major Accomplishments: Project successfully went green within three weeks. Also completed two other projects: a proof of concept using Popkin Software modeling tool for strategic enterprise planning requirements and a product evaluation of IBM's Process Choreographer to address Aetna's workflow tools requirement.

Senior Project Manager Consultant

• Confidential to reverse the course of an existing critical project in jeopardy of failing to meet customer deadlines objectives. Changed the direction of project by managing the business requirements and stakeholders' expectations via the creation of a project plan, successful management of scope, change, issues and risk in current deliverables.
• Major Accomplishments: Successfully implemented three releases of the Enterprise Relationship Management System ERMS client/server application into production. Product met the customer's timeframes, while exceeding quality expectations.
• Project manager for an Oracle project team in the design, development, testing deployment including disaster recovery . This top initiative was accomplished by utilizing a web interface for the collection analysis of valuable nationwide agency profile data in compliance with HTSC PMBOK methodology. This provided an efficient timely delivery mechanism for decision making by automating the competitor data needed to market target agencies with additional sales potential.
• Major Accomplishments: National web application was successfully deployed on time in production in just seven weeks from the project start date.
• Provided the leadership project management in completing the Charles River ComplianceMaster concept, analysis and project planning stages. Assisted HIMCO management in determining strategic direction and project approach.
• Major Accomplishments: Led team in developing completing project planning tasks deliverables including: Project charter, scope definition, Issues Log, Risk Log, change management procedures and work breakdown structure.

Project Director

Overall project management, leadership business ownership for the Operations Management Database OMD . Responsibilities included the ongoing design, architecture, development application rollout for this web enabled IBM UDB database. Led team in development execution of project plan in accordance with Cigna's project development methodology.

Major Accomplishments: Successfully meeting customer expectations through the implementation of two releases into production.

Application Development Manager, Systems Engineering

• Responsible for the leadership and management of Nasdaq's real time Non-Stop HP driven Quotation system. The team and staff management of internal and external resources resulted in production rollout of the updated Quotation portion of the SEC regulatory mandated Decimalization program and capacity planning models and templates.
• Major Accomplishments: Successful completion of eight major projects, eighteen minor releases and industry impacting Decimalization project all utilizingNasdaq's SDLC.

Recipient of the Nasdaq President's Award for Excellence 2001.

Project Leader, Information Systems

• Managed the re-design, development, implementation of a new claims migration application utilizing cross platform technology Fort for large-scale data migration from UniVerse Pick legacy system to the Oracle platform.
• Member of PMO/SDLC methodology team responsible for the content, development, acceptance, and implementation of Oxford's homegrown project life cycle SDLC and associated project artifacts creation and repository. This included participation in CMM analysis and recommendations for process improvement. Also managed the evaluation of enterprise project portfolio recommendations for tools creation, metric standards development deliverable milestone/gate procedures.

Enterprise Coordinator, Information Systems

Enterprise focus included production release management, capacity planning, enterprise project ranking and priority coordination, and project portfolio reporting including portfolio issue risk . Vendor management

Major Accomplishments: Successful completion of seven projects and assisted in the formation, staffing, launch and ongoing operations of the Oxford's new PMO.

ACADEMIC TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Adjunct Faculty Professor, College of Professional Studies

Academic appointment to teach course OL235, Evaluating Business Opportunities: Writing A Business Plan to undergraduate students in the College of Professional Studies. This course focuses on preparing students to evaluate business opportunities by identifying critical steps in gathering information and decision-making.

Adjunct Faculty Professor

Academic appointment to teach graduate course STM620/SIM60, Web Project Management in the Master of Science in Systems Integration Management and Master of Science in Strategic Technology Management degree programs. These courses focus on guiding graduate students in learning real world project management according to Project Management Institute's PMI Project Management Body of Knowledge. The project focus is on Internet projects and utilized a case study approach.