SUMMARY:

• With 20 proven years of strategic implementation experience and a solid track record of delivering targeted results, I utilize professional drive and hands - on skills in teh controlled management and delivery of system solutions for our business partners.
• Project Management through Process Management
• Excellent Business Client and IT Relationships
• Project Quality Measures and Risk Management
• Budget Planning and Financial Management
• System Integration and Administrative Management
• Strategy Development & Tactical Execution of Process Methodology Standards (PMO)
• Experienced in Vendor and Package-Solution Management
• Experienced Internal and External Vendor Management of Near shore/On Shore/Off Shore Resources
• Experienced assuring adherence to Confidential, SOX, PII, PHI regulations within development projects
• Team Leadership and Development, Mentoring and Supervision, Technical System Staff Management
• Experienced in delivering optimized business solutions with adherence to Infrastructure Domain requirements (IMO)
• Irreplaceable, Up-Through teh Ranks Design and Programming Experience
• Full Systems Development Life-Cycle SDLCs Agile Waterfall, Incremental
• Experienced in critical time to market projects
• Received PMP(Project Management Professional)
• A high degree of professionalism, customer service, and goal-oriented enthusiasm with a track record for successful delivery of targeted results in teh software development and delivery of high quality business systems in utilizing corporate PMO and IMO methodologies and varied SDLCs within SEI-CMMi level 2 and 3 environments.
• Demonstrated proficiency in managing multiple demands in high-pressure situations where time to market system solutions are critical success components.
• Excels at motivating teams, leading by example, in successful pursuit of greater efficiency and increased cost savings.
• Considerable technical noledge matched by sharp insight into management and budgetary issues, using combined technical and management skills to TEMPeffect timely delivery of projects.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential, HornBrook, CA

Responsibilities:

• Planned, managed, and executed cross country road travel in delivering teh successful construction of a wilderness shipping container home.

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential, Montvale, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Managing consultant responsible for teh new development of multiple back-office, corporate support systems. Using teh comprehensive KPMG PPMO software development management processes and Agile-Waterfall SDLCs, teh projects include delivery of a new data loss prevention BRMS system, enhancing teh client contract and document management system, and enhancing a privacy assessment system.
• Responsibilities include management of teh stakeholder relationships key to ensuring an understanding teh business processes and needs from teh applications, constructing project proposals inclusive of internal resources, contractors, and vendor SOWs, creating baseline budgets, and assuring teh solutions align with teh enterprise's architectural integrity and infrastructure standards.
• All activities employ extensive client privacy, security policy reviews, and phase sign-off gates.
• After teh baseline was agreed upon, change control procedures were employed to assure teh impact of changes to requirements, scope/objectives, schedule, etc were clear, widely communicated, and actively managed.
• Detailed financial reporting actuals tracking and budget reconciliation, cadenced status reporting including risks and issues, weekly status review mtgs and system delivery status details were supported by PPM Plan View, SAP, JIRA, and MSOffice suite.
• Supported application spanned buys multiple COTS and onshore-nearshore/offshore builds Java/JVM, C+VB /.net, AWS, Oracle

DIRECTOR / SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential, NY, NY

Responsibilities:

• Managing Director and Senior Project Manager of teh Global Delivery Management (PMO) team responsible for teh hands-on leadership in delivery of strategic software development initiatives and for teh team's management, workload, planning, procurement, and reporting of globally located, client-facing Project Delivery Managers PMs .
• As PMs, we are each accountable for teh proposal/estimation, build, delivery, and maintenance of end-client analytical reporting solutions; our additional responsibilities include cadenced stakeholder reporting and expectation management, artifact creation, stage gate sign-offs, budget creation and financial reconciliation, weekly status reporting including risk/issue logs, assurance of quality, resource procurement, and scope/change management procedures.
• A full mix of software methodology approaches SDLCs (Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid) are used in leading teams composed of Client-Solutions, Product Services, Analytics Services, varying technical/infrastructure teams, offshore employees, onsite/offshore contractors, UX, Data Governance, QA, and Operations personnel. Daptiv PPM timekeeping and resource tracking, MS Office, MSProject, SmartSheet, Java and AWS, Jira, and Confluence are teh management, development, and tracking tools.
• I successfully PM'd teh organizational build and implementation of a white labeled instance of teh GoodData big data reporting tool within teh corporate single-sign on SSO wrapper. I successfully delivered multiple Fortune 100 end client solutions on built reporting tool. My team and I subsequently managed teh program of projects required to plan, construct, and deliver of a home grown analytics platform which evolved to become teh default analytics platform for most of OMG.
• Responsible for teh definition, documentation, and rolling out of PMO system delivery procedures and templates to assure quality and TEMPeffective project management and delivery is consistently applied best practices .
• Integral contributor to business process engineering BPE initiative targeted to mature fragmented activities into scalable, defined, and high quality repeatable organizational processes. Integral mentor to teh twenty-something business resources seeking management leadership in understanding and learning teh rigor, consistency, and calmness required to assure quality and success as a team.

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential, Stamford, CT

Responsibilities:

• Managing consultant responsible for teh initiation, plan development, financials, and cadenced status reporting for teh management of scope, detailed requirements, design, build, quality testing, and deployment of concurrent capital level software development initiatives.
• Successfully partnered with teh line level stakeholders responsible for application and business processes; an ongoing activity critical to level-set and assure common expectations across teh organization. Utilizing a variety of methodical approaches and SDLCs within teh structured and tightly regulated PMO, I also successfully partnered with teh onsite/offshore global sourcing vendors Confidential and Confidential and employee teams in teh management and delivery of enterprise level initiatives.
• Successfully took over ownership for testing and implementation of teh Starguest-PMS Integration project enabling teh cross usage of teh preferred guest and property management systems data to provide superior customer services and marketing opportunities.
• Successfully delivered teh Varicent server and software upgrade project in purchasing, standing-up teh hardware, and installing teh Varicent software to enable web-based sales incentive and tracking.
• Successfully positioned and enabled a three-phase program delivery strategy for teh Saratoga Reservation Express project to modernize and functionally upgrade teh global call center’s desktop application to evolve into a web-equivalent application.
• Successfully positioned and enabled teh final conversion and migration of all business system reporting from teh Actuate reporting tool to teh MicroStrategy reporting platform.
• All projects required significant financial involvement: budget request/extension, budget creation, weekly application of SAP actuals and applied invoices, capital interest, ETC, EAC, variance, change controls, weekly reconciliation, forecasting, and reporting.

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential, NY, NY

Responsibilities:

• Managing consultant in support of teh Merger and Integration program for recently acquired companies into teh Confidential business and system fold, I was responsible for defining and developing teh charter/scope, project plan, and its end-to-end execution in merging/integrating appointed corporate processes.
• I’ve also took leadership of a distressed in-process M&I re-engineering project to validate and standardize teh capture a healthcare provider’s credentials and specialties.

SENIOR LIFE MANAGER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Actively and successfully performed as my own financial asset manager. Taking online courses and attending seminars/webinars on money management strategies and tactics for short and long term personal investing, I successfully re-established and revitalized my portfolio holdings.
• Planned and took my first real vacation time in ten years. Over teh course of a year, I traveled by motorcycle, car, and plane to Maine, Florida, and Arizona.
• Leveled and rebuilt a lakeside property in Putnam County, NY and performed as teh general contractor, sub-contractor, and laborer in teh reconstruction of teh residential home. Performed as a planning & building process consultant & as an onsite contact for a new home.

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential, Harrison, NY and Pittsburgh, PA

Responsibilities:

• Managing consultant responsible for teh program and project level components required to manage teh planning, requirements, design, build-out, and testing phases of several (Merger and Integration) program software projects in successfully working across culturally diverse IT and business organizations to merge functionally similar software systems in consolidating IT and business areas in support of teh two companies becoming one.

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential, Middletown, CT

Responsibilities:

• Managing consultant responsible for teh project plan development and evolution, budget planning and tracking to manage teh design, build-out, and testing phases of a new proprietary software system for Confidential ’s Individual Markets Medical Marketing and Underwriting group.
• Successfully delivered teh framework project positioning teh business and systems to support Individuals policies to be handled and processed similar to Group policies.
• Utilizing an expert-vendor software application (Fiserv’s LifeSuite) at its base, business line specified requirements and customizations were jointly constructed for teh package’s integration with teh corporate consumer portal and document imaging system.
• Teh Confidential /SOX compliant program/project reported to teh business PMO and consisted of managing other PM’s, FTEs, varied onsite consultants, and vendor onshore/offshore personnel adhering to teh corporate APLC, a CMMi Level 3 accredited process.
• Daily interactivities included teh PMO/IMO, IT, Marketing and Medical Underwriting Business management teams, Software vendors, Infrastructure Domain groups, BA’s, AIS, QES (Systems Test, Performance, HFE/Network Usability, UAT/Model Office), EITest, and ERM personnel.

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Responsibilities:

• Managing consultant responsible for teh project plan development, management, construction, and delivery of proprietary software systems for financial systems enhancements in teh defined contributions and retirement services programs utilizing matrixed PM’s, FTEs, consultant, and vendor onshore/offshore personnel.
• Following teh full corporate development life-cycle methodology, teh project incorporated a Sales and Marketing percentage driven auto increase functionality to work with an auto enroll process at teh plan sponsor level while enhancing teh current contribution rate change functionality for internal consumers, outward customer facing, and TPA systems.

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Responsibilities:

• Managing employee responsible for delivering teh new application which a utilized a document management and workflow management tool within a custom application wrapper for teh workflow process automation of a 400 seat service center and 35 seat Medical Underwriting group(s) in support of Benefit’s Marketing efforts to retain and grow our customer base.
• Responsibilities included program plan development and delivery execution of proprietary software systems using a commercial Enterprise Content Management (ECM) package: OpenText’s LiveLink. Enveloped within a home-grown Java and Oracle based application, teh LiveLink package was used for its Document Management and Workflow Process Management capabilities in teh automation of teh corporate Medical Underwriting and Service Center areas in support of Benefit’s Marketing efforts to retain and grow our customer base.
• An expert package Document Imaging system was also incorporated within teh client’s workbench.
• Responsibilities also include program and project level assurance of adherence to corporate life-cycle methodology, adherence to evolution of PMO/IMO policies and standards, and compliance to Confidential /SOX regulations.

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential, Simsbury, CT 

Responsibilities:

• Managing consultant responsible for teh project plan development and delivery executions of home-grown, commercial-off teh shelf (COTS), and ASP based solutions for teh general ledger, equity accounting management, actuarial, and hedging financial systems for an internationally based annuity business.
• Utilized several international vendors and services to facilitate system functional components in teh start-up of teh company’s Confidential .
• Project Management responsibilities included providing clear, concise analysis of problems, identification of viable solutions and making appropriate recommendations, internal and external vendor relations and contractual negotiations, organization and creation of work documents, and direction setting. Worked closely with teh corporate/project compliance group and Internal Auditing to assure strict adherence to both US (SOX) and international financial reporting standards (IFRS).

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managing consultant responsible for teh project plan development, execution, resource supervision, budget, and timeline of facilities projects including teh installation of served based Confidential Control Software systems running an ASP solution at a third party data center site.
• Teh successful delivery provided real-time data in support of Marketing and Sales management’s need for point-in-time inventory from sale through delivery.

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential, NY, NY

Responsibilities:

• Managing employee responsible for teh full life-cycle (SDLC/Agile) methodology, PMO/IMO process standards, corporate resources, staffs, and budgets targeting teh development, enhancement, and operations of new and existing systems on teh Intranet, mainframe, and desktop platforms for teh corporate financial mutual funds, sales and trades system’s reporting, and accounting systems.

SOFTWARE SYSTEMS CONSULTANT

Confidential, Rutland, VT

Responsibilities:

• Consultant for teh installation, build, and customization of Confidential Software on WINDOWS NT platform

PROGRAMMER to APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

Confidential, Chappaqua, NY

Responsibilities:

• Managing employee responsible for tactical implementation, communication, tracking, and evaluation of corporate IT strategic plan components for several project groups.
• Provided direct, agile, value-added system support to teh Marketing, Sales, and Client Operations departments.
• Served as primary technical and business contact for multiple vendors. Acted as CRM between system’s development teams and teh senior business personnel, built and nurtured teams inclusive of business resources.
• Continually re-engineered business practices utilizing new technologies to enhance processes.