SUMMARY

• Confident and results - driven Business Transformation & Project Executive with strong “hands on” technology experience, delivering large scale, collaborative and technical business initiatives - including those within Healthcare, Life Sciences & Pharmaceuticals - is seeking a challenging position in Program/Project & Organizational Change Management - as a tactical consultant and as an effective change agent - working within a team orientated environment that is focused upon delivering true value to clients, partners and stakeholders alike.
• Proven track record as a driven, analytical, astute and business savvy professional leading critical Enterprise Solution Projects/Programs and creating Proactive Project Management Organizations with 20+ years demonstrated success in information technology, business process improvements and management consulting - driving and delivering mission criticalsolutions that were completed on-time and on-budget for numerous multi-million dollar projects.
• Expert presenter, mentor and relationship manager - able to synergize diverse project teams providing workshop and leadership sessions while driving to consensus and effectively communicating, through white papers and strategic presentations, to C-level executives.
• Keeps goals in mind and visualizes the steps necessary to achieve aims and responsibilities throughout the sales process delivering innovative business consulting and technical solution.
• Dynamic personality with strong interpersonal skills with a solid mix of business and technical proficiency.
• Provides solutions that are consistently innovative and creative with strong cost savings and profitability awareness - complete ROI determination, tracking and realization.
• Organizational Change Management Expert - PROSCI ADKAR, Kotter's 8 Step and other innovative change management solutions.
• Project Management - Expert Facilitator, JAD/RAD, CMM, ITIL, PMI, Waterfall, Critical Chain, SAFe, Scrum Master/Agile evangelist - complete familiarity across all aspects of the SDLC using a variety of project tracking and risk abatement tools, processes and techniques.
• Business Process Improvements Leader - BPI/BPM, TQM, Continual Improvements/Kaizen, Efficacy Measurement/Metrics (Six Sigma)
• Data Warehousing - including Business Analytics, Data Governance and Best Practices towards proactive, strategic reporting solutions.
• Wide vertical knowledge across various industries includes, but is not limited to, Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, Bio-Tech, Financial Services, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain Management & Logistics.
• Broad International Cross Cultural Exposure - adept at numerous languages including Russian & Portuguese.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Program/Project Management
• Organizational Change Management (OCM)
• Vendor Management & Service Delivery
• Contract Creation & Negotiation - Strong persuasion and negotiation skills
• Enterprise Systems Integration (ERP/MRP)
• Strategic Technology Planning
• Software Development (SDLC)
• Cost & Resource Control
• Supply Chain Management & Optimization
• Indirect and Direct Procurement (Ariba & Fieldglass VMS)
• Process Improvements / Shop Floor Control Systems
• Information Architecture/Data Warehousing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Cincinnati

Senior Project Director/Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Leading key strategic initiatives as Project Director and/or Engagement Manager for a number of global clients that include Corning(Life Sciences and Optical Communications), Hospira, Eli Lilly, Confidential, Great American, & Axcess Financial.
• Architecting and leading innovative supply chain solutions across a global manufacturer’s core product offering yielding reduced cycle time and increased profitability while delivering quality and stable solutions in a high-risk environment.
• Guiding complex international Mergers & Acquisitions teams while leading IT solutions implementations ensuring smooth transitions and “Day One” operational efficiencies.
• Providing proactive, end-to-end management consulting services - including solution architecture, pricing of proposals and supporting the sales process as well as complete delivery responsibility.
• Leading large, highly visible and high risk, global programs involving direct & indirect procurement (SAP & Ariba) process replacement - programs with international leadership, project development and key stakeholders spanning the globe.
• Driving and coaching diverse project teams across I.T. and the Business, as Scrum Master and Agile Evangelist, instilling collaborative values while meeting aggressive project goals and tight iteration & program schedules.
• Facilitating team sessions across the Enterprise - driving to collective goals, maintaining project cadences and ensuring stakeholder involvement and participation through proactive communication strategy.
• Directing and managing numerous programs and projects concerning the .COM catalog development of a Fortune 500 firm’s international web presence concerning replacement of burning platforms, loss revenue correction as well as modernizing appearance/functionality for diverse businesses on a global basis. Development work across Web Content Management, Search Appliances, Integration Points (with additional web presence systems) - creation of Modular Template Design - full ecommerce solution.
• Developing, recommending and delivering the optimal systems of record, master data management, technology infrastructure, and security for new dynamic data warehouses and BI/Analytics tools utilizing SQL, Infobright and Pentaho.
• Creating and executing high level strategic and tactical work plans to increase overall value proposition for key clients - encompassing Data Intelligence, Reporting (Cognos), Integration Tools/ETL (Informatica) and Data Warehousing.
• Providing overall Project Oversight & People Management throughout all initiatives - including a large insurance company’s selection of a new Policy Administration System (PAS - an ERP for financial services/insurance industry).
• Delivering Data Warehousing & Big Data Solutions - together with Business Analytics through BI, Data Governance (MDM) and Best Practices towards proactive, strategic reporting that provide true innovative business intelligence delivery.
• Orchestrating collaboration among numerous, and diverse, business entities and third party vendors.
• Serving as an “in-house” consultant/SME providing real-time OCM perspective as well as Agile transformation guidance and mentoring to several enterprise-wide IT projects for numerous clients.

Confidential

Senior Director (Projects)

Responsibilities:

• Client Engagement Leader for various global projects for this multi-national consulting company based in Berlin, Germany with satellite offices in Almaty, Kyiv and Moscow.
• Performed customer facing role with full project lifecycle responsibility for large infrastructure based projects, many within the Oil & Gas industries, throughout China, Kazakhstan, Egypt, Italy and Germany.
• Clients consisted, but were not limited to, AGIP, Shell & Tethys
• Project budgets managed and responsible for - project deliveries ranging from $1.4m - $42m.
• Successfully implemented and managed, through formal project management techniques in numerous scrum/agile environments, diverse cross-cultural teams throughout both internal and external vendor teams.
• Served in a dual capacity - that of CEO for the company - managing daily operational issues, global project finances and project specific Organizational Change Management concerns.

Confidential

Senior Project Executive/General Director

Responsibilities:

• Led the mergers and acquisitions to create this new firm (formed by two multi-national companies) consulting with and supporting, primarily, the Oil, Gas & Utilities industries (Central Asia), through the introduction of innovative growth orientated, marketing and operational plans that included standardized project management, organizational change management and program controls nationwide.
• Defined all project objectives and scope - leading, hands-on, multiple projects that included detailed costing and detailed schedules to assist in the implementation and deployment of Microsoft Dynamics (AX 2009) ERP from initial concept, SOW compellation and infrastructure implementation plans - analyzing business requirements, associated risks and the business process solutions required to bring about quality delivery with world-class advantage - included financials and Organizational Change Management.
• Instilled Agile framework across the company while serving as a proactive Scrum Master ensuring positive and sustainable change throughout the organization.
• Assisted in the migration of the company from earlier Great Plains (Microsoft GP) financials to true enterprise ERP (Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009) to provide true cost accounting across the enterprise.
• Created and led the corporate PMO - mentoring program/project team in readiness to support and bring to fruition the tactical projects and immediate goals of the company through ERP implementation.
• Preparation and presentation of a nationwide, holistic business model that includes financial forecasting/modeling (CAPEX/OPEX) multi-year staffing and program/project plans to attract capital from multi-national banks/funds through value-propositioning (ROI).
• Served in the dual capacity - that of General Director for the company - managing daily operational issues.

Confidential, New York

Senior Project Executive/General Manager

Responsibilities:

• Singularly responsible for the hands-on project management aspects of this financial services/private equity firm’s merger & acquisition, development and operation of their largest and most prime investment in Eastern Europe (Ukraine).
• Created and implemented strategic business plans to maximize across the Supply Chain operational efficiencies, net operating income and competitive advantage in the international marketplace.
• Implemented an enterprise wide ERP (Microsoft Dynamics AX) - scrutinized business requirements, defined process solutions, developed technical, infrastructure and logistical strategies - assignment of resources and tasks – all with an eye towards quality delivery.
• Communicated and reported to executive level management as well as all stakeholders weekly project operations and technical development status, including but not limited to financial and project performance.
• Analyzed, documented, designed, planned and executed strategies for improving efficiencies in product delivery, operations, product and technical development throughout the project.
• Led an internal PMO, developed Scrum as a method to instill Agile to increase project productivity while implementing communication plans and actionable strategies that ensured adoption and buy-in by the Leadership Team.
• Responsible for project governance and for the program’s outcome (full SDLC) – composed value-proposition cases and implemented innovative revenue strategies exceeding all revenue targets.
• Composed RFPs, managed Tender Processes, worked with legal resources to compose governing contracts and monitored progress against resulting contracts for all outsourced services – serving as the single point of contact (SPOC) for Vendor Management issues.
• Ensured quality service and related Service Delivery issues by arbitrating project issues, reviewing project risks and initiating risk minimization actions and issues with the entire portfolio.
• Supervised the management, marketing and financial controls of this multi-million dollar project – from inception until exit (resulting portfolio sale netting over $61million).
• Solely responsible for staffing, creating and mentoring a team of 100+ project professionals (including vendors, outsourced services, virtual and onsite project members).

Confidential, West Greenwich

Senior Project Manager/General Director

Responsibilities:

• For this Fortune 500 financial services/lottery provider firm, primarily responsible for the “solutioning”, definition, development and implementation of a large, high risk, nationwide project throughout an eastern European country (Ukraine).
• Creation of new, high effective, Supply Chain – distribution, logistics and inventory systems – through the integration of key processes and critical CRM data to manage over 2500 POS locations nationwide.
• Solely responsible for detailed waterfall orientated project schedules, team selection/allocation, vendor management and the multi-million dollar budget.
• Managed cross-silo technical solutions and tools providing SLA’s (service level agreements) and project governance within the company and throughout its various offshore vendors (that included, but were not limited to, Polish developers, Italian telecom experts and English engineers) to improve Service Delivery, reliability and performance for the infrastructure, local data center, data warehouse and supporting applications.
• Led the implementation of numerous Enterprise-wide software tools including, but not limited to, Axapta (now Microsoft Dynamics AX) (to manage Supply Chain/Integrated Financials), Cognos and Crystal Reports.
• Orchestrated the creation of a PMKS to maintain artifacts from the numerous concurrent projects while supporting the corporate PMO (USA) through the development of business and operational policies in the leadership of large, multi-disciplined teams in the definition and development of a total solution – including outsourcing - across multiple locations, language and cultural barriers.
• Strong collaboration, mentoring and presentation skills ensured success combined with overall customer/client focus.
• All project goals accomplished on-time and under budget – multiple million dollar savings resulting in the project being branded as ‘the company’s best performing “project” to date’.