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Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States

Accomplished IT Program Manager, with a proven record of successfully managing multi-million-dollar projects from initiation to completion. Responsible for aligning project objectives with organizational goals, resource management and leading cross-functional teams, risk management, communication, quality assurance and delivering exceptional results in complex IT environments. Primary duties include:▶ Defining program goals and objectives and set overarching goals and specific outcomes for projects within the program.▶ Developing detailed program plans and schedules for each project, ensuring alignment with Emerson program goals.▶ Managing and overseeing personnel, budget, and equipment to execute the program successfully.▶ Monitoring program progress and tracking project milestones and deliverables to ensure they are being met.▶ Communicating program status and keep stakeholders informed of program status, including executives, sponsors, customers, and team members.▶ Identifying potential risks and develop risk mitigation strategies by regularly monitoring and addressing risks throughout the program lifecycle.▶ Ensuring program quality and that all projects meet quality standards and satisfy stakeholder expectations.▶ Facilitating collaboration among project teams, stakeholders, third-party providers, and relevant groups.▶ Conducting regular reviews to assess program progress, identify areas for improvement, and ensure objectives are met.

Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States

Responsibility for managing project scope, timelines, budget and the effective and high-quality delivery of vital enterprise solutions both business and technology focused. Delivered new and enhanced capabilities working with a wide range of team members, including senior leadership, to perform advanced levels of project management, working under limited supervision with latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment. Oversaw, directed, assigned duties and evaluated the work of team members and project staff.Lead and motivate cross-functional teams, making prompt decisions to ensure project success within set parameters and ensuring expectations were clearly communicated and met across internal teams and business stakeholders.

Fort Washington, Pa

Responsible for assisting and supporting the Head Girls Basketball Coach in all aspects of the High School Girls Basketball Program, including practices, games, and team management.▶ Responsible for leading specific skill development sessions during practices, focusing on individual or group drills to enhance players' abilities.▶ Assist the head coach in developing game plans, analyzing opponents, and implementing strategies.▶ Provide opponent scouting reports detailing their strengths, weaknesses, and tendencies.▶ Observe and evaluates players during practices and games and provide feedback and suggestions.▶ Guide, support, and mentorship to players, helping them navigate challenges, build confidence, and develop their skills.▶Maintain open lines of communication with players, parents, and the head coach, ensuring everyone is well-informed and on the same page.▶ Assist with various administrative responsibilities, such as organizing team events, managing equipment, or coordinating team travel.Assist in overall operations of Girls' Basketball Program, with implementing off-season training programs for player development reporting directly to Head Girls' Basketball Coach.

Fort Washington, Pa

Responsible for overseeing the entire junior varsity program and assisting the Head Girls Basketball Coach in implementing the direction and development of the High School Girls Basketball Program.▶ Assisted with instruction at HS Varsity Girls' Basketball practices and games▶ Coached High School JV Girls' Basketball team in practices and games; devised game plans and strategies for JV games, including determining lineups, substitutions, and offensive/defensive schemes.▶ Provided opponent scouting reports▶ Provided guidance and mentorship to JV players, helping them grow both as athletes and individuals.▶ Communicated regularly with players, parents, and the varsity coach to ensure a smooth transition from JV to varsity and to coordinate program goals and expectations.▶ Evaluation and feedback: They assess player performance during practices and games, providing constructive feedback and identifying areas for improvement.▶ Performed various administrative tasks, such as organizing team schedules, coordinating transportation, and managing equipment.Assist in overall operations of Girls' Basketball Program and with designing and implementing practice plans that focus on developing fundamental basketball skills, including shooting, dribbling, passing, defense, and teamwork, reporting directly to Head Girls' Basketball Coach.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Responsible for helping the company achieve financial goals and objectives and increase operating performance by identifying and leading new business opportunities.Set goals, monitor work, and evaluate results to ensure that departmental and organizational objectives and operating requirements are met and are in line with the needs and mission of the organization.Additionally responsiblity to work alongside community leaders, executive directors, major donors/funders, government officials, and senior staff/board members to eEnsure highly productive relationships and partnerships for the benefit of the organization.

Greater Philadelphia Area

The CoreInsight Group specializes in custom application development and design for a range of platforms, architectures, technologies and devices. Our primary focus is on providing highly responsive, intuitive web-based and mobile applications for all business types that allow existing processes to be more efficient and help new ideas get from paper to production.The CoreInsight Group provides innovative custom software applications that allow our clients to become more productive and efficient and to realize the full potential of their business ideas.

Fort Washington, Pa

Experienced head coach of highly competitive, nationally qualified girls AAU basketball team. Articulate, student-focused individual with proven expertise in motivating youth to achieve goals, while also prioritizing and strategizing for winning athletic programs. Holds students, parents, and staff in high esteem, and interacts with the greatest degree of professionalism and personal integrity. Background includes leadership in business. Dedicated to student and staff development and proficient with athletic statistical analysis, play diagramming and scheduling software.

West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States

Managed multi-disciplined teams across the product development lifecycle to deliver the online customer and professional annuity services portals and implementation of corporate Compliance applications. Timely implementation of chosen technology solutions translated to $3M in costs savings via move from partner companies. Provided leadership to IT teams as well as external vendor reports during implementation and integration of enterprise applications to introduce automation into processes, improve workflow, centralize the PMO, and bridge gaps between application and system capabilities and business needs.

Philadelphia, Pa

Senior Technical project manager acting as the primary interface to clients for the technical aspects of projects for major pharmaceutical clients. Primary responsibility for successful delivery of multiple responsive web applications for AbbVie products using the Adobe Experience Manager enterprise web content management platform with cross-functional teams that included marketing, strategy, planning, creative, development, quality assurance and business analyst. Led the technical aspects of various responsive web projects for Gilead products ranging from site builds and refreshes, splash pages, survey pages, formulary tools, etc. Utilized the client project management tools (JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, MS Project, etc.) to manage development and QA deliverables and to provide work direction and leadership to assigned project members/teams (including the scheduling, assignment of work and review of project efforts). Allocated and utilized resources, including team of software engineers both onshore and offshore (Costa Rica and Colombia). Effectively communicated daily project status and relevant project information, managing client expectations, to all stakeholders for on-going projects; participated in client discussions regarding status and provide technology insights, recommendations and solutions.

Philadelphia, Pa

Worked closely with creative/user experience/business units/development teams and vendors to scope, plan, and execute online projects; collaborated with teams to drive search engine optimization and client social media strategies.• Responsible for successful delivery of multiple responsive web applications for AbbVie products using the Adobe Experience Manager enterprise web content management platform with cross-functional teams that included marketing, strategy, planning, creative, development, quality assurance and business analyst.• Managed the technical aspects of concurrent responsive web projects for Gilead products ranging from site builds and refreshes, splash pages, survey pages, formulary tools, etc. • Demonstrated excellence in use of client project management tools (JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, MS Project, etc.) to manage development and QA deliverables and provide work direction and leadership to assigned project members/teams (including the scheduling, assignment of work and review of project efforts). Allocated and utilized resources, including team of software engineers both onshore and offshore (Costa Rica and Colombia).• Effectively communicated project status and relevant project information, managing client expectations, to all stakeholders along with technology insights, recommendations and solutions.

Philadelphia, Pa

Primary responsibility for the product analysis and requirements documentation for the Pay Hub Dashboard project which included interactive and static reporting capability. The role also included the appropriate management of all people and processes required to complete these tasks and working with cross-functional teams that included key users from Finance, development, quality assurance, business analysts, UX, and 3rd party vendors. Provided the link between the internal stakeholders (local and international), technical teams and third-party software functionality, facilitating gathering sessions to understand and document complex business needs, including creating workflow diagrams of the current and future Pay Data and Process, PayNet User Management, Post Processing Approval, and Point of Sale. Documented the functional requirements/specifications of the charts and graphs of the Pay Prevalence and Planning Interactive Reporting Pay Reports (Power BI) in the Pay Hub for handoff to the UX and Development teams for implementation.

Philadelpha, Pa

Senior Technical project manager with primary responsibility for managing the day-to-day data integration tasks of a new US eTrading Platform. This included managing the delivery of key documentation for the integration of data from Beazley to 3rd party vendor software then back into Beazley. The role also included the appropriate management of all people and processes required to complete these tasks in accordance with Beazley business priorities and working with cross-functional teams that included key users from Finance, development, quality assurance and business analyst. Also, responsible for staying current with emerging technologies and the digital landscape to contribute to the overall direction of technology.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Technical project manager with primary responsibility for successful delivery of web/mobile applications spanning multiple technologies with cross-functional teams that included marketing, strategy, planning, creative, development, quality assurance and business analyst. Through the overall project plan, budget, structure, schedule and staffing requirements, ensured that client needs were satisfied through the formulation, development, implementation and delivery of application solutions in response to their requirements. Also, responsible for staying current with emerging technologies and the digital landscape to contribute to the overall direction of technology.• Acted as the primary interface to clients for the projects assigned and through the life of the project• Ensured developer adherence to management of project by the plan to optimize cost by designing & deploying efficient solutions• Created, supported, and/or maintained functional and technical requirements and other business and project-based documentation• Identified and resolved technical issues proactively with cross-platform teams and worked closely with QA to manage the QA process• Effectively communicated project status and relevant project information, managing client expectations, for on-going projects; participated in client discussions regarding status and provide technology insights, recommendations and solutions• Governed scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with program managers and stakeholders• Managed timely escalations and enforced strict change controls ensuring timely delivery• Effectively allocated and utilized resources, including team of software engineers both onshore and offshore• Elicited cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including senior management• Assisted team management which included creating high quality and timely performance reviews and development plans along with competency development and career planning

Plymouth Meeting, Pa

Responsible for assisting Head Girls Basketball Coach in implementing the direction and development of the High School Girls Basketball Program.▶ Assist with instruction at HS Varsity Girls' Basketball practices and games▶ Coach High School JV Girls' Basketball team in practices and games▶ Provide opponent scouting reportsAssist in overall operations of Girls' Basketball Program, with implementing off-season training programs for player development reporting directly to Head Girls' Basketball Coach and Athletic Director.

IT Consultant specializing in enterprise system planning, architecture, design, and development life-cycle with proven expertise in the implementation of web-based systems, e-business solutions, and Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) software systems. Primary responsibilities included performing business requirements analysis, recommends selection of software/hardware, develops proposals for consulting services and manages the execution of projects.

Primary responsibility of overseeing the technical management of all Sunoco, Inc. web sites, providing IT leadership for the web development technology team. Provide support for Sunoco & served as internal knowledge expert in the area of web application systems across multiple facilities nationwide.Primary Responsibilities include: Provide support for Sunoco Internet sites & the technical platform they run on (IIS, web/application servers, Microsoft Content Management Server platform); Function as lead for Web Server Operations Team (Intranet, Internet, Microsoft Content Management Server, SharePoint Portal Server 2003 & MOSS, FileNet & custom web applications); Work with colleagues & vendors to ensure/maintain stable web servers in development, QA & production environments at required service levels (24 x 7 w/exceptions for planned maintenance windows); Ensure requests are properly prioritized & resolved in a timely manner; work with management/staff to help with prioritization; Act as key contact for developer & infrastructure IIS questions & problems; Ensured the effective coordination of work activities & objectives with internal departments & client entities (including 3rd-party) as required; Provide hands on leadership to developers & support resources for IIS & technical consulting services to the B/L technical teams in web technology & associated service offerings; Assisted with staff development & communications on a variety of personnel actions including employment & performance reviews; Ensure quality management of the sites, including evaluation of links & usability; Assist with the development & implementation of the corporate/Web Architecture (i.e. standards & procedures) which allowed for the business units to maintain corporate consistency in their site development; Database management & coordination of retrieval of pertinent information from the sites to end-users; Manage technical support for problems related to the all Sunoco, Inc. web sites.

Experienced head coach of highly competitive intramural, travel, AAU and school basketball teams that competed against quality Township, AAU club, Catholic Academy League and Inter-Academic League teams in the Metro-Philadelphia and surrounding area. Articulate, student-focused individual with proven expertise in motivating youth to achieve goals, while also prioritizing and strategizing for winning athletic programs. Holds students, parents, and staff in high esteem, and interacts with the greatest degree of professionalism and personal integrity. Background includes leadership in the in business. Dedicated to student and staff development and proficient with athletic statistical analysis, play diagramming and scheduling software

Primary responsibility for the ongoing support and development of FoxPro LAN Applications. Provided support of Colonial Penn Corporate FoxPro Applications (including Year 2000 conversion).

Bachelor Of Arts, Interdisciplinary Studies In Social Science-Law And Society

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Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Interdisciplinary Studies In Social Science Law And Society