SUMMARY:

An accomplished Senior Technology Executive with a proven track record of building and leading world - class software development to drive revenue. Experienced Scrum Master with a proven track record of delivering high-quality software, on-time and within budget. Strong skills in Strategic Planning, Business Process optimization, large scale project implementation, setting up and managing global teams. Proven history of bringing order to chaotic environments.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Team Development & Leadership
• Agile Project Development
• Business process optimization
• System Scalability planning
• Customer Relations
• Change Management
• Solution Design
• Quality Controls/Standards
• Software Development
• Budget Development
• Application Support Services
• Microsoft BI tools - including SQL, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS)
• Oracle HDWF
• Oracle-Siebel, SAS (BI, DW)
• ETL Tool Informatica (Power Center)
• SQL Server
• ASP.NET

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

IT Project Manager

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Worked as IT Project Manager under Institutional Analytics and Informatics (IAI) Department which is responsible for building infrastructure and creating capabilities necessary for sustainable clinical data delivery.
• Confidential (MDACC) implemented a new EHR system across the institution. This resulted in replacing many of the data sources feeding current Analytics infrastructure - the Enterprise information Warehouse (EIW) and the Federated Institutional Reporting Environment (FIRE). Hence the Remediation project was devised. Spearheaded this cross-functional initiative to achieve successful implementation.
• Provided project management oversight, leadership, and expertise for an cross-functional initiative to achieve successful implementation of Enterprise information Warehouse EHR Remediation.
• Managed all phases of the Agile software development lifecycle (SDLC) to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.
• Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to analyze impact of changes related to the EHR Project, to provide business continuity for analytics customers by remediating impacted, prioritized, in-scope objects (reports, dashboards, queries, focused applications, views) in a phased, iterative approach.
• Managed medium to large cross-functional project teams consisting of ETL, Data Modeling and Data Governance resources.
• Coordinated data warehouse impact assessment and migration efforts across both changing source systems and diverse data warehouse architectures as the EPIC EHR system is implemented.
• Tracked and managed product backlog, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task break-down.

Environment: Oracle Healthcare Data Warehouse (HDWF), Existing legacy applications, MS Projects, Informatica Power Center 9.1/8.x.

Project Manager

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Provided key project management support throughout the project lifecycle, including project initiation, delivery, stakeholder management, post implementation review and project close out / handover.
• Managed successful implementation of PreCare application rollouts for (15) centers.
• The New Patient Appointment System (PreCare) helped patients check their referral status, complete first appointment documentation and facilitate staff to perform the referral process. This new system has improved efficiency in patient triaging and reduced delays by 45% from the previous year and increased enrollment in clinical trials.
• Developed project plans and ensure milestones are met according to the schedule, Tracked issues, facilitated resolution, communicated with cross-functional teams and provided weekly status reports to senior management.
• Provided onsite-offshore project coordination and process development support to implementation teams.
• This project involves integrating various legacy systems using Oracle Fusion Middleware technologies that leverage SOA architecture.

Environment: Java, J2EE, Weblogic Server, Oracle JDeveloper, Application Development Framework (ADF), Oracle 8i and 9i SQL and PLSQL, Oracle WebCenter Portal, Existing legacy applications, MS Projects.

IT Project Manager

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Responsibilities:

• Concurrently managed several work packages which can be a group of projects, SOW or SR, as part of the release. Estimate resource requirements and time lines based on the requirements, i n a collaborative team environment.
• Assisted in the adoption of key engineering practices like Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development, Unit Testing, Automated Testing, etc.
• Developed master schedule of sub projects; created a set of project plans, completed project documentation such as risk logs, change logs, executive summaries; negotiated resource constraints on competing projects;
• Assisted with Vendor product evaluations when necessary. Worked on the technical evaluation of Thunderhead enterprise communications platform.
• Coordinated activities with resources and followed up on all issues concerning each project and communicated with cross-functional teams, vendors.
• Liaise with offshore software engineering team and other departments of the company on daily basis, working across different time zones in an onsite-offshore model.

Environment: Legacy (Mainframe) applications, Mega Enterprise architecture tool, Existing Java applications, MS Projects, Primavera.

Project Manager

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Lead teams in design and development of prototype for new workflow and consolidate applications supporting over 2 Million dollar in revenue for the company.
• Worked with stakeholders to define project scope, document requirements and communication needs to update project progress and change requests.
• Coordinated meetings with business stakeholders (sales, business owners, technology, etc.) to gather requirements, set expectations, gather feedback, provide project status, resolve conflicts, and scheduling.
• Managed an off-shore (India) software engineering team, customer project schedules, functional specifications, RFPs, client communications and issue resolution.
• Reporting on project on a weekly basis with updated presentations and project plans.

Environment: HP Proliant Servers, Storage and Backup systems, ASP.NET, Web Services, Visual Studio.NET, SQLSERVER 2005, SVN Codesion, Microsoft Visio, Windows 2003 server, MS Projects.

IT Manager

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Managed a yearly budget of $1.5 Million for IT projects including SOW and T&M contractors.
• Designed IT Strategy, Planning and Implementation for a new Patient Specialty Drug Scheduling application (Irxene) enabling processes to be streamlined saving the company significant time and improving the bottom line.
• Facilitated release & sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and inter-team dependency meetings with distributed teams.
• Led teams in designing the Doctors login (MD Access online) and patient login applications for the company website increasing customer satisfaction and error reduction.
• Streamlined work processes, including quality control, communication management and design to reduce costs and enhance operational effectiveness
• Introduced Agile SDLC methodology (with 30 day sprints) into traditional (waterfall) environment; Used Agile scrum methodologies for managing multiple iterations.
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.
• Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.
• Work closely with project owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
• Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders.
• Tracked and managed product backlog, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task break-down.
• Direct and lead development team from project initiation through delivery of final product.
• Developed team skills, resulting in enhance productivity
• Designed and implemented a real time SQL Server SSIS data import module to import data from Advantage DB into SQL Server2005.
• Designed Integration between intranet application (Irxene) and external Bank applications (Reconciliations), Insurance Company (Adjudication, Reimbursement) .

Environment: HP Proliant Servers, Storage and Backup systems, ASP.NET, Web Services, Visual Studio.NET, SSL, C#, JavaScript, SQLSERVER 2005/2008, SVN, Microsoft Visio, Windows XP/Windows 2003 server, Share point, MS Projects.

Pre-sales Solutions Architect

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Strategized with Upstream Engineering team and other Solutions Architects on opportunities and knowledge transfer as well as from SAS EEC / Siebel-Oracle Expert Services
• Provided support to all business units, segments, and industries across HP while enabling the close of business by providing in-depth technical product and solution knowledge.
• Evaluated customer business requirements cost model, platform strategy (scale up vs. scale out etc.), operating system and storage preferences and providing appropriate competitive solution designs end-to-end and prepared custom configuration proposals.
• Created presentations and technical documentation Applications Group Oracle-Siebel/SAS/E-Intelligence to win business for HP ISV solutions - SAS, Siebel, Oracle and/or Business Intelligence
• Developed a comprehensive system blueprint for all components of SAS, mission-critical Siebel CRM solutions and Oracle
• Verified architecture and designed complete solutions for partner software vendors requiring hardware, software, availability, networking, disaster/recovery and performance expertise

Environment: Siebel 6.0 / 7.0 / 7.5 / 7.7, SAS 8.x / 9.x (Functional), Oracle, SQLSERVER 2000 / 2005, HP-UX, Windows 2000 / 2003 server, HP Servers (HP Proliant, HP Integrity servers), HP Enterprise Storage solutions (SAN, EVA), Microsoft Visio, MS Projects.