SUMMARY:

• 10+ years of successful project management of planning and executing on projects and portfolios
• Experienced using planning and estimation software such as Microsoft Project, Daptiv, SAP PPM, SharePoint etc
• Strong understanding of technology and business strategy development, governance processes, project management methodologies, analysis frameworks, and the SDLC
• Experience managing projects with large data sets.
• Successfully managed highly visible IT & Business Project Portfolios & Programs
• Program/Project Management focused on Large Scale Enterprise Initiatives
• Experience leading a team of PM's
• Experience as a Scrum master
• PMP & CSM

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

OPERATING SYSTEM : Windows 7/Vista/ XP/ 2000

OTHERS : MS Office, Lotus Notes, SAP

Languages : English, Spanish, Dutch, German

Skills : Management, Organizational, Leadership, Procurement, Relationship building

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Project Management

Confidential, Bloomington, MN

• Responsible for planning and scheduling project timelines and identify key milestones
• Lead the planning and implementing of the project
• Define task and resource requirements
• Manage budgets of 1 million+ ensuring deliverables were on time and budget
• Reported regularly to IT, legal, finance, steering committee advising of progress
• Identify road blocks and help remove or mitigate any negative impact to the project
• Responsible for delivering large, compliance based healthcare initiatives following CMS guidelines
• Utilized Planview for budgeting of efforts
• Experience with RxCLAIM
• Managed CMS guided Compliance efforts across all LOB's including Medicare & Medicaid
• Experience managing project teams of 15 - 20 aligning business and IT efforts to complete client requests.
• Proactively managed risk and executing solutions to roadblocks
• Experience with all phases of healthcare development projects including Medicare, Medicaid, Commercial, HIM & ASO,
• Led a Gap Assessment to identify non productive workstreams in organizational realignment effort presenting recommendations to Senior Leadership
• Experience leading client based programs that included joint requirements gathering, UAT and QA.

Program/Project Management

Confidential, Greeley, CO

• Responsible for delivering Programs against an agreed scope, budget, schedule and expectations.
• Managing client expectations by ensuring the delivery of quality service
• Tracked multiple projects on same timeline
• Managed budgets of 2-10 million ensuring deliverables were on time and budget
• Reported regularly to steering committee advising of progress
• Managed cross functional teams in a matrixed environment of up to 25 per effort in a program portfolio.
• Responsible for Project administration including forecasting setup and tracking, project financials, and time and expense reconciliation
• Managed Large Scale Infrastructure initatives
• Projects centered on new acquisitions focused on data center migration, implementation of company hardware and software as well as security and network applications
• Program and Portfolio Management
• Bi Weekly reporting to Senior Leadership of progress of Portfolio and Programs
• Served as scrum master for large scale intiatives

ProgramProject Management

Confidential, Delavan, WI

• Strong planning, estimating skills and cost management across all phases of the project lifecycle
• Worked team leads, functional managers, and project support staff (Architects, DBA's, etc.) to create, maintain, and manage the project schedule
• Established, managed, and controlled project scope through a structured scope management process
• Responsible for Project administration including forecasting setup and tracking, project financials, and time and expense reconciliation
• Developed strong teams of up to 20 resources by Planning for and acquiring team resource needs. Making the most effective use of people involved with the project .
• Worked with day-to-day team management , team communication, identifying and leveraging strong skills while developing others
• Experienced in preparing project status report and keeping upper management , business clients and others informed of project status and related issues
• Managed infrastructure projects
• Infrastructure Programs centered on new acquisitions and focused on data center migration, implementation of company hardware and software as well as security and network applications

Program/Project Management

Confidential, Hickory, NC 

• Worked with a number of matrix delivery partners (e.g., Business Partners, IT, Quality Assurance, Infrastructure Services) to deliver work effort estimates, SDLC timeline targets, manage portfolio risks and issues, and resource plans
• Identified, accessed and resolved complex business problems/issues/risks and facilitate issue resolution and risk mitigation
• Experienced in working with business users, understand their needs, and translate such into final project deliverables
• Experienced in working technical resources, understand their needs and coordinate their efforts to deliver the final project solution
• Managed workloads within a team of peers and issue task list
• Projects focused on data migration, upgrading infrastructure and SAP implementation

Program/Project Management

Confidential, Brookfield, WI 

• Experienced in working In heavily regulated work environment and follow appropriate, SOX and FDA rules and regulations
• Worked closely with all stakeholders to escalate and resolve project request issues and risks in a timely and effective manner in order to not jeopardize delivery timeframes and solutions
• Developed and maintained project management deliverables including detailed project plans, scope documents, project schedules, communication plans, status reports, and issue management plans
• Experienced in juggling many different types of tasks at one time with the ability to work within project scope

Project Management

Confidential, Thousand Oaks, CA 

• Worked with Project Managers, Project Coordinators and Business Analysts to define and understand the request's capabilities, scope, assumptions, organizational impact, and architecture
• Prepared monthly progress and ad hoc reports as required and conduct and deliverables of Project Team meetings of up to 20 resources from the business and IT space
• Experienced in leading the projects planning process, including scope identification and resource needs.
• Participated in the design and development of appropriate processes to ensure successful projects focused on client request and ROI initiatives.