SUMMARY:

• PROJECT MANAGER/MS PROJECT SCHEDULER Plan, initiate, and manage information technology (IT) projects.
• Lead and guide the staff work. Develop or update project plans for information technology projects.
• Master Scheduler with MS Project 2007, 2010, and 2013. Serve as liaison between business and technical aspects of projects.
• Plan project stages and assess business implications for each stage. Monitor progress to assure deadlines, standards, and cost targets are met.
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP®)
• Excellent Organizer and Analytical Thinker
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) large global implementations
• Experience with Accounting and Financial system
• SDLC Life Cycle Management - all phases
• Vendor Management - and schedule integration
• Ability to identify and resolve problems
• MS Project Orange Belt® - Scheduler 2010, 2013
• Specialties: Program and Project management
• He is a highly effective coach and motivator for both of these competency areas.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Business Intelligence Program Management
• Visio SharePoint
• PMP Oracle
• Change Management Release Management
• Project Management Testing
• Analysis Risk Management
• Access Security
• Business Process Improvement Six Sigma
• Databases Process Improvement
• ERP Implementations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• OneAmerica’s Fiduciary Program - 50 projects across the three business channels in an effort to become complaint with the U.S. Department of Labor Conflict of Interest Rule. This is the top priority project in the enterprise, working directly with Senior VP level leadership and there appointed work block designees to define the scope of work and identify, allocate, and/or sources the necessary resources to perform the work.
• Managed 19 /50 projects that made up six of the nine work streams in two of the three channels.
• Two months into the project the company decided to move toward using in-house project managers and only one contractor project manager.

Senior Project Manager and Master Scheduler

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Extremely complex project schedule that has had more than 9000 tasks to update the Indiana Medicaid system. Included: Member Data Management, Managed Care, Finance, Provider Data, EDI, Third Party Liability, Web and Portal, Testing Management, Business Process Administration and Reference Data.
• As a key member of the PMO staff, performed the duties of the Master Scheduler for a multi-year program that provides Core systems and services to develop and maintain the Claims Processing necessary to process all institutional, professional, dental, ancillary, durable medical equipment, pharmaceuticals administered by physicians, medical and long term care claims, including but limited to current and future versions of CMS 1500, UB 04, and Dental claims related to 837 transactions (excludes processing of pharmacy claims).
• Presented weekly Schedule Performance Report to Leaders and made any adjustments before the FINAL reports are shared with the State of IN (client).
• Facilitated a weekly review of the schedule with the State of IN representatives to address any question they might have from last week and give them an overview of the status for the current week.
• Major contributor to the management of the entire SDLC cycle, release Management and Change Management Processes. I maintain the templates and process document for Schedule Management.

Senior PM, Program Manager and Training Lead

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

Responsibilities:

• Successfully supported and consulted with the IT Project Management Services providing scalable and adaptive PM services to several Global Infrastructure IT projects and one, Program Manager Duties: Program roadmap, cross-project dependencies, capacity management, Issue risk, and change escalation/resolution, vendor management,
• Lead the Life Cycle Management Program: Global Windows upgrade for more than 4500 servers. Other projects that included: print servers, SAP upgrades, converted legacy services support to ServiceNow (ITIL v3) environment and supported the disaster recovery data centers move to Las Vegas.
• Network /Telecom projects to Upgraded DATA center switches in multiple geographic locations.
• This is primarily a Critical Chain practice were I facilitate weekly team meetings F2F as well as virtually (Global). Articulated the impact chains, potential risks and issues to the team so they understand the concepts and how they support delivery of the project. Project manager responsibilities included: Project Planning and Tracking, Status reporting, Issue and risk management, scope and change management, and quality solution delivery in a timely fashion. This includes: Governance stewardship, and quality solution delivery in a timely fashion.
• Training Lead: Co-lead for the organization’s PMP Exam Prep course; a sixteen week study of the PMBOK, followed by a full week of boot camp for review, discussion, and exam techniques and simulated practice exams. Updated the course materials and aligned to edition 5 and conduct 1.5 hours of PMP training each week.

SENIOR CONSULTANT

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led Gap analysis, led and executed the Transportation Payment Retirement Study and the de-activation of its DSSN.
• Successfully implemented SFIS compliant Pay-Ready file interfaces (GFEBS thru Wave 3 and DAI) and the development of a standard.
• Coordinated multiple releases for DDS - the tactical solution for SDI. Created hundreds of “As Is” and “To Be” diagrams (MS Visio) and narratives.
• Met directly with stakeholders to resolve the gaps and issues from the original studies. Monitored the System Change Requests (SCRs) throughout the SDLC and coordinate their progression throughout the Release Management process.
• Maintained the schedules on an ongoing basis for ERPs and ADS (Navy) 3801 /CDS (Air Force) merge. Tracked the SCRs for vetting thru the FMCoE and the CCB approval processes.
• “Utility man” for SDI PMO Team, doing whatever needed to be done to deliver quality deliverables. Confidential Internal accomplishments Mentored 50 PMP candidates through certification process.
• “Applause Award - recognized for his continued dedication and leadership to the Confidential PMP Cert. Preparation Program and the impact he has had on advancing that program “

Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Functional Requirements Analyst Gathered functional business requirements and construct crosswalks that stratified the data to show not only how the funds were spent but where; thus providing congressional district level visibility.
• Coordinated with the technical teams to develop interfaces to/from the legacy entitlements, accounting and disbursing systems that are being eliminated as a part of the Standard Disbursing Initiative (SDI) project.
• Produced financial management reports for all contingencies including Global War of Terror (GWOT) Reports; Cost of War (CoW), GWOT Status of Funds (SoF), Disaster Relief, and other ad hoc queries and reports.
• Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes
• Excellent Active Listener - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Researched USAF appropriations breakdown structures and populated initial database load to stratify the data. Confer with project personnel to identify and resolve problems
• Added new skill - Oracle Designer to develop attributes Populated attributed in Oracle Designer for the BTA BEIS BI release that added Civilian Pay data to the OUSD (Comptroller) executive dashboard

Program/Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Program/Project Manager - Military Installations Planned, organized and managed a new Field Installation and Training Team to implement and support the Reverse911® Telephone Alerting Systems (TAS) product for twenty-four (24) military bases throughout the U.S. (two in Hawaii).
• Hired and trained new Field Installation Team (three) within two/three weeks of joining the organization. Those installers proved to be quality hires and were retained by the company and its’ acquirers.
• Played a key role in attaining the first DoD certification under the certification process in place at the time to become an authorized vendor (DoD’s APL list) that meets MILSPECs, DoD Interoperability, Information Assurance (IA), two level authentication systems (using PKI / SSL and CAC card technologies) and the Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG) testing at Fort Huachuca, AZ testing center - a critical success factor to compete in that market.
• Personally developed the company’s processes and procedures for installations making them repeatable for more consistent quality as a part of the continuous improvement process

S enior Consultant, Project Manager (IT)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked with customers, subject matter experts (SMEs), and developers to formulate functional and technical requirements.
• Designed and defined the work necessary to create the prototype Multinational Sales & Profitability Report (a global cross-BU report). Planned, developed and produced prototype report.
• Created use cases, logical design, data dictionary, mined data, reconciled results with users (proof of concept), and evaluated results value.
• Co-authored the functional requirements document (FRD) and the charter for the spin-off project to develop the automated report solution.
• Applied Six Sigma and ITSPM project methodologies

Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Confidential converted COGNOS reports (seven) into data flow diagrams to support validation requirements and documented: up and down-stream change control impacts.
• Tools and S/W Used: Code Visual to Flowchart v3.1. Technical Environment: COGNOS Reports and MS Visio charts

Senior Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Gathered user level systems access on a system-by-system (65) and user-by-user (3,500 active) basis for: Conseco employees, temps, contractors, Codelinks (offshore), 3rd party, and vendors across several platforms.
• Worked directly with Business Unit - Role Owners to create roles, system profiles and Transaction definitions to comply with SOX “separation of duties” control procedures.
• Worked with web developers to create and populate the Identity Database (IDB - web intelligence) with role profiles and validated all active employees. He used Business Objects Web Intelligence tools to match system login IDs in the Identity Database (IDB) with system admin access reports for QA.
• Analyzed SOX Review Board findings and generated the Role Change Requests (RCRs), 1800 of them - instructions for System
• Administrators to modify user’s access IAW SOX review Board findings. Confidential served as a key member of the “SWAT Team” (a Special Projects Team) dispatched to Chicago based Bankers Life and Casualty Company to assist their Business Unit Owners with role creations and system profiles.
• Maintained project tracking documents and provided ad hoc reports for the management team as needed.
• Used: RACF, IBM AS400, Windows NT/Win2K/XP, Novell, UNIX, Oracle, J2EE, Share Point, and MS Excel (import data, parse data, created pivot tables for project progress analysis and ad hoc reports, vlookups to determine which were active/inactive (26,000 employee records), and created the models for each role in each business unit). Conseco mandated a forced reduction of consultants.
• Technical Environment: Multi-tier, main frame, and client-server. MS SharePoint

Senior Business Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed as SFA and Site Lead for the DFAS IN, DJAS Implementation Team. Applied his extensive knowledge of Army Financial Management & Accounting, Military & Civilian Pay, Travel, Vendor Pay, and other Procurement systems.
• Analyzed, defined, tested and implemented the conversion of the legacy system STANFINS and its interfaces to the DJAS financial management system rollout.
• Presented official briefings to multiple DoD Agency Directors and Staff.

Used: Cognos Impromptu, Oracle PL/SQL scripts, queries, testing and reconciled the general account ledger for BMDO end of year. Technical Environment: COGNOS Impromptu v6.0, Oracle 7 PL/SQL