Executive Summary

Senior Project Manager with over 20 years of project management and business process experience leveraged across various fields including healthcare IT, Finance and Application development/deployment.

Chronological Summary of Experience

Senior Project Manager CONFIDENTIAL

• Led the deployment of Meaningful Use Clinical application deployment across HCA hospitals and physician offices
• Managed multi-million enterprise-wide projects
• Led and managed project management activities and deliverables from a SDLC prospective
• Developed and maintained monthly rolling estimates
• Served as a member as the Quality Centre for Excellence responsible for championing enterprise-wide project management governance
• Liaised with corporate procurement team to design and develop statements of work and the execution of vendor contracts
• Ensured effective and proactive risk and issues management
• Utilized Lean methodology Scrum Master and managed sprint iterations and release
• Worked with Business Analysts, other Project Managers and Project Manager Assistants in overall program to ensure dependencies were managed efficiently

Senior Project Manager CONFIDENCIAL

• Managed from start to finish a project for IT infrastructure including airline industry software, the scope of which was the planning, building and implementation of network infrastructure for the company. The result was the successful deployment of Dell servers across three continents, Dell desktops, laptops and blackberry smart phones
• Conducted feasibility study in order to determine adequate hardware, software and manpower based on capacity and geographical locations
• Produced project status reports, managed the team and resolved day-to-day issues with emphasis on SDLC
• Oversaw and managed project members at multiple offices and locations and exhibited troubleshooting skills to address the project-related issues as well as human resources needs of team members, and made quick, informed decisions about technical problem areas
• Operational responsibility for IT planning, implementation and support across offices in the United States, United Kingdom and Africa. As an integral component of the business plan, ensuring adequate hardware and software infrastructure in place to meet the challenging demand of the business. Engineered turnaround of IT performance and service levels
• Successfully registered the company as an IAC Indirect Air Carrier with TSA America and obtained a license from the US Department of Homeland Security. Gained certification in Cargo Airline Security and in Dangerous Goods by Air

Project Manager

Confidential

• Campus Wide Area Network Deployment Project
• E-library Development Project
• Directed and managed project development from beginning to end.
• Led high profile project including a team of 12 per site on a 24 month project on multisite, with 1-6 simultaneous projects ranging from 2-4 months and developed and designed the network infrastructure.
• Liaised with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis to provide information on progress of project as well as conflict resolution. Actively participated in the continued improvement of process and procedures.
• Managed geographically dispersed staff of differing cultures including 5 different locations also dealing with various vendors and suppliers and responsible for contracts and service level contracts. Renegotiated all current vendor contracts to achieve best possible pricing and flexible terms to match the business needs.
• Responsible for site migration and migration of Data centers across different cities in the state. Was responsible for ensuring solutions provided took into consideration ROI for stakeholders.
• Planed and scheduled project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools. Accountable for project portfolio of more than 40m.

Project Manager CONFIDENCIAL

• Defined project scope, goals and deliverables that supported business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
• Effectively communicated project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
• Managed the development of Internet portal accounting, billing, and provisioning systems database network configuration changes, core network upgrades and network capacity management process changes customer data management process changes and operational / logistics changes to support broadband implementation.
• Liaised with Microsoft team to understand plan and structure the Storage and Virtualization needs of the client, producing detailed implementation designs and being involved in implementation process.
• Configured business and consumer systems to enable email delivery using Microsoft Exchange 2003 and proxy servers to avoid spamming. Also installed Barracuda hardware to act as spam filter,
• Delivered project within agreed timescales and approved budgets. Wrote final report to stakeholders detailing the effective pre-sales and after-sales service, accounting, and website maintenance plans. Project Budget: 1.2M.

Project Manager CONFIDENCIAL

• Managed multisite office moves with each site housing approximately 400 staff. One site move had the whole production team being migrated. Carried out site visits to ensure all third party vendors provided the correct equipment and installation was done to required specification.
• Managed and set expectations of the businesses clients, and virtual teams that had expertise across different disciplines, and was accountable for relatively short implementation timelines whilst applying project management methodologies.
• Addressed budget allocation issues and deliverables related to the project. Reviewed strategies and methodologies developed by team members.
• Generated feedback from clients about ERP module implementation, pain points and issues related to legacy IT systems and applications, and used the feedback to deliver improved service.
• Managed the development and deployment of an intranet system used by the Vauxhall Marketing Distribution department and all Vauxhall Retailers.

Project Manager CONFIDENCIAL

• Established Project Management office at clients site
• Scheduled the deliverables for the program in the plans and ensured they were being updated and reviewed on a regular basis
• Monitored and adjusted the Resource allocation on tasks to ensure that adequate resources were assigned to tasks to ensure the work could be carried out on target
• Managed from start to finish a project for IT infrastructure, the scope of which was the planning, building and implementation of network infrastructure for the company.
• Coordinated and facilitated Change Review weekly meetings with IS T Key representatives and Change Request owners to review upcoming change requests and ensure approvals are met.
• Reviewed requests for Changes to Production on a daily basis to ensure the requests are compliant with