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Tennessee, United States

Provides strategic and tactical, advisory and hands-on support for organizations just starting, or looking to improve their innovation and portfolio management processes, product lifecycle management processes, governance, techniques and technologies. Experienced in working with management, functional and cross-functional teams, PMOs as well as.

Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, United States

Manage the Global Portfolio Management strategy, governance, operations and initiatives as well as provide leadership for Innovation & R&D Project Management and DFSS Education. Set vision and strategy for portfolio management, transparency and decision-making for New Product Development, Sustaining Engineering, Plant CIPs, IT programs and other business.

Corporate, Murray Hill, NJ

Developed global strategy for portfolio management. Upon completion of the Project Portfolio Management (PPM) requirements and vendor selection, defined Portfolio Management processes, governance, and tools for implementation of Portfolio Management program. Managed the Global Portfolio Management operations and initiatives as well as provide leadership in.

Facilitated and executed a vendor evaluation and selection program for software to enable effective R&D decision-making within and across divisions.

New Jersey

Innovative Business Process and Content Management Solutions organization that provides senior leadership and technical expertise to solving our client's business, process and technology challenges.

Worked with the Strategy and Innovation Team, I was responsible for supporting the development and delivery of strategic and innovative Advisory Services across various Shared Service functions. Involvement included the evaluation of a Business Process Management (BPM) platform, the strategy and direction for a Center of Excellence and Community of.

• Worked with the Science, Technology and Clinical Affairs group to assess their needs and to assist in the determination of best fit products/vendors to meet their strategic business objectives in the areas of PPM and.
• PPM assessment working sessions to gather current state and critical success factors,
• Product information gathering and assessment,
• Capability analysis and mapping to key, weighted requirements and success criteria, and
• Findings report indicating best fit, gaps and key considerations.

• Led an effort to facilitate the collection of capabilities and usage patterns related to the potential use of SharePoint 2010 in Clinical Affairs operations. Activities and deliverables included:
• Identification of key collaboration and content sharing patterns,
• Creation of a content management capability profile to gather information related to content usage patterns,
• Development of a Proof of Concept (POC) to verify SharePoint 2010 capability usage, and
• Assessment, correlation and documentation of findings senior management.

As a Senior Solution Architect for a major pharmaceutical company, I facilitated the definition and direction for Document and Content Management Strategy for both collaborative and regulated content world-wide. This included current state assessments of existing solutions, usage and content. Additionally, was responsible for the execution and direction of.

Defined a BPM Shared Service including the group's charter, methodology, service descriptions, and project artifacts. Additionally, delivered several BPM Proof Of Concepts (POCs), Process Discovery and Assessments, and the first 3 BPM Solutions.Introduced an Agile and Iterative methodology for definition and delivery of high-quality requirements, designs.

Assumed responsibility as the lead architect for ECM and BPM initiatives.Assessed and replanned 4 existing projects, managed outsourced resources for the design and delivery, moved production hardware and software between regional to national data centers, designed and delivered Document Capture, Accounts Payable and Web-based indexing solutions.Defined.

Provided architecture, design, and compliance guidance during Blueprinting and implementation in the areas of Workflow and Document Management Systems (DMS) processes, resulting in saving substantial time for the program as well as operations upon implementation.

Provided architecture to image-enable the Agency’s Legal Tracking System (LTS) of court documents reducing access time to court documents from 14 days to 2 days. Designed solution to eliminate disallowances in State and Federal funding by ensuring compliance to federal regulatory case file requirements, saving up to $2M in federal funding per year.

New Jersey And Vermont

Worked as the lead architect on a high visibility project. Responsible for overall strategy, architecture and approach for process enabling the end-to-end Sales To Cash process for a major telecommunications company. Also defined innovative approaches, techniques and solutions for mapping processes, requirements, and test cases for automated tracking and.

As the Director of the Workflow Practice, I was responsible for business development, staffing, and engagement delivery with a keen focus on Customer Satisfaction. In addition, I was responsible for meeting company objectives of revenue growth and profitability, managing the P&L for team initiatives totalling $7M annually.

Lead the Workflow and Document Imaging function as the Practice Manager with full P&L responsibility. Worked with sales representatives to target and engage customers and prospects that would benefit from leveraging improved processes related to business documents and information flows, as well as lead the delivery of consulting services and technology.

As a Manager at Unisys Corporation, I was responsible for all integration activities in the Northeast Region. My team was involved in systems and application integration between Unisys and Non-Unisys hardware and software components to achieve business solution objectives for our customers.

I was responsible for managing all international business partners from initial interest through partner education, training and ongoing support and operations.