Summary of Qualifications

Confidential is a PMP certified Project Manager with the IBM Global Business Services Application Management Services practice. He has managed project execution as a Delivery Manager, has led agile and waterfall development projects as a Project Manager, and has led and supported projects for the implementation and training of electronic health record EHR applications with the DoD in the healthcare industry, leading both virtual teams and onsite teams in fast-paced environments. He has supported projects for establishing and maintaining Project Management Offices PMOs managing, tracking and reporting of integrated plans and financials, where he was responsible for performance management planning, budgeting, and forecasting and conducting process improvement in the areas quality, issue, risk, and change management. Mr. Rath's 30 years of IT experience includes over 16 years of project leadership, 14 years of hands-on software development life cycle SDLC and agile development experience, 14 years of interfacing with clients, and two years of IT recruiting experience, working with public and private sector companies and clients in the automotive, communications, financial, healthcare, government, franchise and retail industries.

Employment History

Confidential

Project Manager

• Work in concert with client BSA and PM to drive projects to completion following ESI technical and business processes and methodologies
• Work with BSA and PM to ensure that the scope outlined in the business and functional requirements documents are aligned with the scope of the business developers as stated in the charter
• Ensure client satisfaction of all IT deliverables, including the design solution, within scope of the project plan.
• Keep abreast of changes in policy for the Affordable Care Act, and understand impact to pharmaceutical claims processing.
• Liaison between client IT capability development, testing, and release management cross functional teams impacted for each project, as well as with Senior Leadership for both IT and business organizations within ESI and ESI clients
• Determine number and type of resources, including SMEs working with capability leads, and ensure right resources are engaged at the right time
• Oversee the flow of application changes for the client through the software development lifecycle, including testing and deployment
• Plan software releases, understand and manage the scope and schedule of application releases, and adhere to change control processes
• Work with client business units to control the scope of their changes to ensure all development and testing occur within the established release schedule
• Escalate issues to client capability leads and senior leadership, and work issues towards resolution by identifying root cause of issues by working with client partners to reach solutions, ensuring that decisions/approvals are implemented
• Identify and manage risks with client capability leads and senior leadership throughout the life of projects
• Negotiate Vice-President VP level authorizations with client for project exceptions
• Coordinate client architecture and infrastructure decisions/approvals with the Architect Advisor, Infrastructure Advisor, and Application Architects
• Tools Used: Project Tracking System PTS , Clear Quest, Remedy, MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Office Enterprise Project Management Solution SharePoint , Clarity

Confidential

IBM Project Manager

• Confidential managed a staff of up to six local and eight offshore resources to assist JPMC in rewriting their existing Contact Manager application and decouple the current functionality from a tightly-integrated solution, developing and testing JPMC's Contact Manager Application following the Agile Methodology to create a flexible solution that embraces the end user's ability to engage with tablets, desktops and other devices. He developed and tracked budgets for this contract that totals over 1.73 million in revenue, including invoicing, staffing, project planning, and client deliverables. Technical Environment: Java, Junit, JSP, HTML, XML, Javascript, Spring, Web2.0 Ajax . Tools Used: MS Office, MS Project.

Confidential

IBM Project Manager

• managed a virtual team of up to 35 subcontractors stationed worldwide to provide training services, functional implementation and support tasks for ambulatory clinics of Navy Military Treatment Facilities military hospitals . He managed the training as well as the technical and functional user assistance in support of the AHLTA DoD enterprise electronic health record application, a clinical information system that generates, maintains stores and provides secure electronic access to comprehensive patient records that allows rapid access to patients' health records. He also managed the development and implementation of interactive web-based training for clinical staff. He developed and tracked budgets for contracts that total over 5 million in revenue each year, including invoicing, staffing, project planning, and client deliverables. He kept abreast of changes in government policy for ICD-10 code deployment for the DoD and identified potential impact to Military Treatment Facilities. He was responsible for meeting the client's conditions of satisfaction as well as leading the development of work product processes, templates and guidelines for the project. He managed and coordinated communication with multiple stakeholders and client representatives. He also participated on proposal development efforts and provided detailed estimates for bids. Technical Environment: Java, Data Gate, E Gate, MUMPS, HL 7, VB, Com/DCOM, 3M Suite of Products for Health Care, ActiveX controls, Crystal Reports, Solaris, HTML, Oracle, BEA Tuxedo. Tools Used: MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio.