SUMMARY:

• Acquired and applied knowledge based upon twenty years’ experience successfully managing highly visible projects across a diverse range of industries such as healthcare, insurance, supply chain and logistics, manufacturing, technology, telecom, multimedia, media & entertainment, and investment banking.
• Expertise in enterprise wide business applications, commercial deployment, strategic, system & technical initiatives; including e - commerce, marketing, CRM, infrastructure, data center as well as and all phases of solutions development supported by al emphasis in Information Systems Management.
• PMP certified with more than 20 years of overall experience in enterprise or complex technology realm, as a developer, solutions architect, business/data analyst, IT Manager and project manager applying various methodologies Agile, Scrum, SDLC, Waterfall and hybrids of each. Specialized experience on/offshore model with top India-based consulting firm ( Confidential .
• Versed in current business methodologies including Balanced Scorecard, KPI definition and ISO implementation solution for compliance and risk management between the various compliance/risk group, business entities and accounting/legal teams (covering compliance to HIPPA, AML, Business Continuity, SOX, and SEC).
• Domains Infrastructure, ecommerce, Finance, Media & Entertainment, Marketing, Business Intelligence, CRM, Mainframe, Telecommunications, Set top box, Release Mgmt., Project Management, Business Management, Storage (virtual or Cloud), Disaster Recovery, and Business Continuity.
• Acquired and applied knowledge based upon 20 years’ experience managing, developing and organizing highly visible and at-risk projects across a diverse range of industries with multi-functional teams.
• Organization Change & Leadership - restructuring teams, processes, re and retooling.
• Project Management, PMP Certified 15 years’ experience as a Project Manager and Development Manager utilizing LEAN, XP, FDD, Waterfall, SDLC, Kanban, Iterative methodology. Tools - Microsoft Project, Project Server (implementation and Integration), Clarity, Planview, At Task, & Smartsheet
• Finance: A/P, A/R, Invoicing, Billing, account reconciliation, Customer & Vendor relations, POS, Bank Reconciliation, Payroll & State, Local and Federal Tax as well as manual T accounting principles.
• Extensive experience in all aspects of business management consulting, collaboration, knowledge management, executive decision support, business intelligence, data warehouse, & Master Data.
• System development end-to-end systems for eCommerce, POS utilizing web based tools, shopping carts & transactional reporting
• Expertise in leading full life cycle development projects using SDLC, AGILE, Scrum, FDD, LEAN, and on/off shore development teams.
• Versed in current business practices including Balanced Scorecard, KPIs and ISO implementation solutions for compliance and risk management of various compliance/risk groups, business entities and accounting /legal teams (covering compliance to HIPPA, ALM, SOX & SEC)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Applications/App Servers: 20 years experience SharePoint Server, MS Project Online 10-16, Kronos, Content Management Server (MCMS), IIS 6, Remedy, SharePoint distribution/development, Middleware, IBM WebSphere, Sybase, Oracle) Development Languages 8 years experience with scripting languages: C#, .NET 3.5, VB.NET, ASP.NET, XML, JavaScript, HTML, DHTML, CSS, VBA, VBScript, WordPress, MySQL, Java, .NET, & VBA

Object Oriented Development & Solutions: 15 years experience Object Oriented Development: Business Objects, Visual Studio, SharePoint Designer ( ), ColdFusion, UML, Web Components (Web Parts, Gadgets and Portals), BEA WebLogic, WordPress & Java

Finance Tools: SAP Data Enablement, ARIBA on Demand, ARIBA on Premise, Workday, Fieldglass, Concur, Kronos, QuickBooks (both PC & online), Peoplesoft, & Peachtree.

Database/DB Tools/Business Intelligence: 20 years experience BOBJ, Webi, ODATA, SQL Server (SSIS, SSAS, SQL Server Studio), SQL Reporting Services (SRSS), ADO.NET, ODBC, Data Transformation Services (DTS), Sybase, Teradata, Oracle 10g, Access, RDB, ANSI SQL, TransactSQL, PL/SQL, SQL/DS, SQ L Server Tools, Erwin, Excel, TOAD.

Distribution Tools: 15 years experience Mail/Fax/Scan Systems: MS Outlook, SMTP, DocumentumMicrosoft Suite 20 years experience with Microsoft Suite ( ) -Word, Excel, Visio, SharePoint ( ) Integration, Access, SSIS, SSRS, Outlook, MS Project and Project Server Online, PowerPoint, Access & Windows 95-10.

General Graphics/Media/Publishing: WordPress, Photoshop, Macromedia (Director, Flash), JAVA & HPXtremeData Center (moves & consolidations) to Server administration (5 years): MS-DOS 2.0, Novell, Windows Server, Solaris 10, Linux, Unix, Windows 95,7, 8 (MCSE), routers, switches, POS systems, Infrastructure metrics, Cisco Routers, ATM, Switches.

Financial, Statistical & Business Intelligence Reporting: 20 years Crystal Reports, Business Objects (SAP - all data layers webi to client tool), Universe, Excel, & SSRS (horizontal markets- finance, billing, resources, metrics, B2B, B2C, process improvement, operations)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

ARIBA SAP Finance Project Management & IT & S PMO

Responsibilities:

• Stand up of Project Management Office for IT&S, Project Online, Templates, Custom Reports and Dashboards, and strategy for managing in a non-PMO environment.
• Lead implementation of SAP Integrated Business Process (IBP), ARIBA Invoice Mgmt., Direct Connect, Spend Analysis, & Invoice Conversion and Integration with ECC & Workday.
• Project management schedule, tracking of execution of implementation tasks, risks, issues, facilitation of stand-up meetings, reporting to senior leadership, executive dashboards, and conducting meeting with bottling stakeholders & IT teams
• Executive and Board Members deck preparation

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

ARIBA, IDM & SAP Project Manager & Business Data Analyst (IT Finance Team)

Responsibilities:

• ARIBA on Demand UCOFA implementation using both ARIBA and SAP to allow the modification of the Approval paths for all forms in ARIBA on Premise.
• Project Management - Waterfall / Agile & Communication: SharePoint administration.
• Business process improvement & integration Workday, Fieldglass and innovation.
• Business Analysis and Business Data Analyst (Tools SQL, SSIS, SSRS)
• Activities included stakeholder facilitated requirements gathering, developing business requirements documents, creating functional specifications with data mappings.
• Wrote complex SQL queries using joins, grouping, aggregation, etc. for data analysis.
• Project management tracking of execution of data enablement tasks, risks, issues, facilitation of stand-up meetings, reporting to senior leadership, executive dashboards, and conducting meeting with clients and technical team.
• Successfully implemented the update of IDM Master Data to ARIBA on Premise and COFA design for Ariba on Demand.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. SAP Project Manager (Data Enablement Team)

Responsibilities:

• Project management execution of data enablement Supply Chain and Logistics & Manufacturing module tasks, risks, issues, facilitation of stand-up meetings, reporting to senior leadership, executive dashboards, and conducting meeting with bottling clients and technical team.
• Leading stand up meetings for multiple AGILE teams, delivering quality systems, managing stakeholder expectations, team dynamics, issue resolution and deliverables, utilizing project management experience, relationship management expertise and both Microsoft Project Online and Planview planning tools.
• Successfully executed multiple implementations simultaneously using AGILE/SCRUM to implement SAP for Supply Chain and Manufacturing. (Technical information provided upon request) Covering the following domains - Finance, Controlling, Pricing, Customer, Equipment, Fleet, HRM, Order Mgmt., Vendor, Procurement, LEO, & Materials.

Confidential

Business analyst

Responsibilities:

• As a Business Systems Analyst IV for life insurance products, I reviewed, analyzed, and evaluated business systems and user needs to develop documentation, manuals, resolve data issues and solutions for system integration. For healthcare insurance products reviewed, analyzed, and evaluated business systems and user needs.
• Primary project Cyberlife conversion of 500K records with formatting issues - extract, translate, manipulate and loading data into mainframe system.

Confidential, New York, NY

Enterprise ProgramManager (Director)

Responsibilities:

• Developed overall program schedule for Confidential, a $1B asset acquisition & integration, risks mitigation, resourcing and managed forecasting, operations, and budgets. The program covered all aspect of business including, Marketing, Client Portal, eCommerce (Payments), Policy, New Products, Broker Services, CRM, Document Management, Data, Reconciliation, Regulatory and Legal, Policy disbursement and management, interface with AXA Equitable, Infrastructure Systems and Mainframe for over 147 products and 1 M customers.
• Formulated, strategized, organized and monitored inter-connected projects, determined suitable strategies and objectives to coordinate cross-project activities and enterprise-wide key milestones. Led and mentored project managers and functional managers on developing and controlling deadlines, risk, issues, budgets and activities.
• Controlled change management at all levels of the project schedules, scope and resources and assumed responsibility for the program’s people and vendors, prepared reports for program directors, senior leadership, stakeholders and Board of Directors.
• Delivered on-time and within budget the Confidential closed block of business to Protective Life, technologies which included Mainframe, Security migration, Microsoft Project Server 2013, CRM, AWD, DST, HP Exstream, MS Dynamics, Oracle, Access, SSRS, SSIS, MQ series, SharePoint 2013 integration and configuration, EIB, FTP, Data Mapping, System Integration Testing and conversion of Connect Direct, Oracle/Cognos to SQL Server.
• Worked with client to setup PMO templates, governance program, workflow and monitoring program to manage SOW activities, ensure the program is managed within the PMO structure, preparation of gate review material, budget, resources and support to client PMOs and cross-functional representatives. Co-own the weekly presentation to the business and executive leadership with the Client Program Manager.
• Support the Confidential Teams on Program Gate Reviews or Check Point preparation, recommendation and presentation. Held appropriate Check Point reviews and Program reviews (internal and joint with customers, as required)
• Led team of on & offshore developers, business analyst and functional area leads in the relocation, integration, decommissioning and conversion of insurance products listed above. The project had an aggressive schedule due to SEC and monetary implications.
• Developed high-level product specifications with attention to system integration points and feasibility; reviewed code for compliance with clients coding standards and workflow; then communicated successfully all concepts and guidelines to offshore development team.
• Provide technical guidance and coaching to developers and engineers ensuring code meets all requirements of quality, security, modifiability, extensibility etc. and approved final product before launch.

Confidential, Purchase, NY

Global R & D Project Manager & Bio-informatics

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain Oracle database results for chemistry, molecular strain data; to ensure accuracy of experimental database records, normalization and conclusions for genomic analysis of microbial preservative isolates and discovery of preservative systems.
• Organize, plan and execute pilot and plant trials as well as product research for preservatives, savory flavor and other food related attributes including Tastings and reports.
• Developed presentations and team Newsletters in conjunction with scientist for technical results, both written and oral, as well as, associates, peers and provided clear, concise topline summary/abstracts.

Confidential, Briar Cliff Manor, NY

Strategy Consultant Business Transformation (Director Reporting to CIO)

Responsibilities:

• Prepared comprehensive transitions plan for new department, evaluating politics, staff, tools and scope.
• Plan and conduct in-depth interviews and often multi-variant analyses on a variety of complex business projects/issues. Develop appropriate assumptions, analyze results and make recommendations, as well as articulate the rationale for the methodology chosen.
• Build proof of concepts for the new reporting model, website design, storyboarding, navigation SharePoint and develop reporting project inventory and documentation standards. Infrastructure and capacity planning as well as minimum standards for the user community. and retooling BI Developers with SSRS reporting integration techniques for Analysis Services, Oracle 9i, SQL Server 2008 R2, conversion from Sass to SQL, ProClarity and Portal, as well as integration with SharePoint and Dundas Dashboards.
• Developing an overall strategy to reorganize the department to best serve the needs of the University as a source of Business Intelligence.

Confidential, Harrisburg, PA

Healthcare Reform Program/IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully, completed the government Rebate mandated reform to ensure all affiliate health insurance agencies return excess funds to insured by August 2013 in the amount of $10M
• Responsible for analyzing, coordinating and directing all IT & Program related production and operational activities of an “At-Risk” project to implement new technology & enhancements to existing systems to support the MLR Health Care Reform.
• Overseen, directed and managed communication of the project team(s) comprised of client, nationwide affiliates, developers, Steering Committee, offshore teams and third-party vendor(s) implementation partner team members. Responsibilities included project governance, oversight, scope, budget, time records and resourcing across multiple projects and work streams.
• Effectively manage and communicate project performance and program status, issues, and corrective actions to the senior leadership, stakeholders, and to the MLR program by leading or participating in internal & steering committee meetings (C-level), client meetings or cross-functional meetings. Billable Hours ~75hrs per week

Confidential, New York

ROLE: Business Development

Responsibilities:

• Various project management consulting opportunities throughout the United States
• Retailer designer accessories and electronic sales through Jamaica, EBAY and AMAZON in excess of $50k per year in sales.
• Merchandising, buyer, advertising, customer service, issue resolution, quality control and product packaging and distribution.

Confidential, Woodbury, NY

Interim Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Working very closely with Change Control, Development, Quality Assurance, Project Management, and Corporate IT to ensure that critical deliverables were completed on time and with high quality, roll back plan and predictability. Provide leadership and guidance as the SME on process improvement, best practices and functions of release engineering and configuration management disciplines. Ensure organizational compliance with defined controls in the area of PMO Change Management governance team. Liaise with managers and stakeholders to proactively keep them informed of delivery/release progress.
• Overseen the repositories which support version control for set-top box (STB) configurations, releases and documentation Tools - Microsoft Office 201x, MS Project Server, Jira, WIKI, Visio, and SharePoint.
• Plan appropriate capacity/processes and resources to package a release build it Test and deploy to production environment; ensure documentation is complete and signed off, develop the deployment release sequence of all different releases for each Node and Brand of Set top box.
• Managed the release team (6), coordinated on and offshore (Russia) IT professionals who are responsible for executing release deliverables including: JAVA & C++ software deployments to large variety set-top boxes for cable industry, ensuring that proper change processes are followed, routine deployment tasks are automated and working to trouble-shoot issues in environments and technical writing.

Confidential, Manhattan, NY

Sr. Marketing Project Manager (nationwide ad campaign)

Responsibilities:

• Project managing the Marketing Team DTA Initiative program including Buy Flow, Online, Interactive, Advertising, and Commercial, Audience participation, Direct Marketing, Social Media, Audio visual and other 360 Tactics. Impacting 13M customers overall program and overall program budget $2.7M.
• Acting as a conduit to manage marketing project schedules and tasks between MARCOM marketing team, Product & Brand Managers sales, & advertising agencies to coordinate national campaign.
• Developed a solution to improve internal marketing efficiencies using metric analysis, SharePoint collaboration, reporting and analysis database, web interface and business intelligence reporting. Created an organizational database and reports to support new product launches, including calendars, market analysis and product briefs.
• Gaining consensus from cross-functional areas, including management, business units, and field marketing for go-to-market plans and assets, creating a tracking system to manage new projects and enhancements across the organization and market regions.

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Senior Project Manager Healthcare Reform

Responsibilities:

• Hired to execute in-flight at risk project, to deliver High Risk Pool Insurance Programs in conjunction with the NJ Governor Chris Christy and the State of New Jersey.
• This Health Care Reform (Affordable Care) program was medium size yet comprehensive across the enterprise, complex, and had implications on several different applications used by 75% of the organization at BCBS. In addition, as a side activity I was tasked with the collection of business intelligence reporting, requirements, functional specs and system development.
• Project scope of work, BRD, FRD, resource allocation, scheduling and execution of projects to execute Health Care Reform policies for High Risk Pool, Rate Review, MLR, and Tax and Revenue reform mandates for the Insurance Industry. Provided insight on future reporting requirements to meet government regulatory review of the program.

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

CEO, HUD Contract Manager & Construction Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Managed Section 8, inspections, remediation and administrative activities.
• Rehabbed and sold/rented over 20 properties throughout the Jackson County area.
• Financial Reports, Bookkeeping and Tax filing for C- Corp using QuickBooks and Peachtree

Confidential, Bethpage, NY

Senior Infrastructure Project Manager (staff augmentation)

Responsibilities:

• Managing scope schedule and resources for the following projects Data Center Consolidation, Zenworks Migration (10.2), Windows 7 Upgrades, MS Project Server Upgrade, Moves and Modifications Facilities (Varsity Channel), & Server Virtualization and Refresh. Projects tracked using Clarity and MS Project.

Confidential, Bristol, CT

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Financial Systems New Development and Integration with SAP, internal web development & Business Intelligence projects. Direct Production Operations system implementation, creating a MM dollar system to replace and integrated financial legacy system.
• Project management and JAD facilitator for design, upgrade and integration of the Talent and Contracts system for ESPN Confidential included implementation under .NET corporate wide (PB/Oracle/Sybase) and administration of all design and JAD sessions. This system touched every aspect of the company from legal, production, to production and everything in between. Manage project scope, schedule, budget, ROI, benefits, risks and issues to deliver on time and +/- 10% within approved baseline in an immature and challenging PMO environment. Project sizes range from $10K - $5.1M.
• In support of ESPN/ Confidential Brazil's expanding market, directed complex international financial system integration project to manage financial, marketing and advertising business as well as coordination of SAP Integration; project management, systems analysis and full development to deployment of an enterprise wide SAP integration financial system for ESPN Brazil - including Brazilian bank integration, US and Brazil Reporting and Taxation.

Confidential, Stamford, CT

BI Solutions Architect & Development Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading the continuous process improvement initiatives of the Infrastructure reporting department. These improvements created transparency to reduce the range, source and impact of risk associated with the on-going BCM/SOX projects thereby, creating a venue for managing the project’s success, risks, continuity efforts, accountability and identify areas of concern.
• As an architect, I provide thought leadership based on previous experience to help us evolve our services architecture with a focus on availability, low latency, high throughput, scalability and resiliency in the delivery of global reporting, SharePoint Integration, Business Objects WEBi and data ETL processes.
• Designing full life cycle of the Global (EMEA, ASIA, UK, US) Infrastructure Estate Data Warehouse (terabyte), developing ETL (VERITAS, EMS, Sybase and other proprietary server base tools), testing and implementing Business Intelligence (BI) solutions (dashboards and reports) for the Data Warehouse and Data Mart using Business Objects, Webi, Universe, OBIEE, Windows Batch Script, SQL, SharePoint, .NET, JAVA, SQL and Oracle.
• Implemented project management governance ensuring the alignment of major program initiatives with business strategy and direction, providing for greater cost transparencies, tranche management and stakeholder expectation management
• Interacted directly with company executives, CTO, and financial senior managers to provide guidance on current and planned business strategies and initiatives as they relate to the consolidation and cost containment of global infrastructure. Provided communication and presentations status reports, statistical results and conclusions for Senior Management audience.
• Headed up global Risk and Margin program office, supporting staff of six senior project managers and 47 on and off-shore staff, directing efforts of 3 leading equity producers (Equities, Prime Services, and Fixed Income) and managing vendor relations, RFP, RFQ, human resources, system redesigns and task orders in the management of a complex book of products. Directed Sr. project team who were responsible for the ongoing support of Hedge Fund Risk and Margin financial systems
• Implemented project management governance ensuring the alignment of major program initiatives with business strategy and direction, providing for greater cost transparencies, tranche management and stakeholder expectation management. Managed cross-functional team of 23 professionals, included technology, operations, design, data warehouse, e-commerce, marketing, QA (Test Director), and information architecture.
• Managed portfolio projections for future development with regard to headcount, resources (time and material) and offshore/outsourced contract negotiations. Vendor invoicing, and operations workflow improvement system, included business analysis and project management tasks - scope, planning, resource, cost analysis (ROI, IRR, EVM & NPV), quality, and communication management.