Successful leadership of multiple large scale integrated development projects as well as business projects, acting as both project manager and ScrumMaster on Agile application development projects. • Project management and ScrumMaster for multiple application development and maintenance projects. Most recently establishing a platform for genetic typing results processing, and correcting issues with donor management system. Projects delivered on-time and on-budget.• Successful project management of the acquisition of an independent marrow donor registry. Coordinated the work of multiple business units resulting in successfully establishing interim processes and closing the transaction within a 6 week timeframe. • Responsible for project management of third party/off-shore developed cord blood unit management system. Transitioned to this role mid-way through development process. Focused the team on key requirements requiring coordination with cord blood banks. Held off shore development team accountable for system issue correction. Kept local team morale high as project timeline demanded a high level of overtime and weekend work. • Provided product management support for a system providing transplant centers the ability to submit required forms electronically, acted as a liaison to transplant centers, vendors, and registries interested in the use of this system. • Project management of a joint effort with the European Blood and Marrow Transplantation group to map European forms and database field to the U.S. forms, then to submit data from European transplant centers to the CIBMTR electronically.

Responsible for project management of ECMC’s data center relocation from downtown St. Paul to Oakdale Minnesota. • Coordinated efforts of technical support staff and a third party vendor conducting the physical move.

Responsible for project management on business intelligence and enterprise data warehouse projects ranging in size up to $15,000,000, with over 30 assigned resources. • Led efforts to deliver customer analytics via enterprise data warehouse with reports using Business Objects. • Collaborated with Siebel CRM development team on effective issue management and project planning resulting in successful implementation of analytical reports integrated into the application.

Managed development of production support requests and insurance product projects. Worked in a matrix organization effectively collaborating with resource managers to staff projects.• Collaborated with business and information technology staff to define and develop change requests, resulting in multiple successful implementations.• Closely monitored project expenses against budget ensuring project would deliver within budgeted cost.• Proactive issue management, involving the appropriate parties to come to timely resolution.

Project Manager Managed project to consolidate distributed server data centers from The St. Paul and Travelers organizations. • Worked closely with technical support, operations, and application areas to move server infrastructure with as little disruption to application availability as possible.• Led efforts to successfully implement MS Project 2003 as the standard tool for project management coordinating training and implementation of methodology roadmap.Technical Support Manager Managed the support of a diverse set of infrastructure tools. Supervised 13 direct reports including: hiring, work assignments, staff development, assessment, and human resource responsibilities.• Worked closely with both application development areas and support staff to provide high availability and system reliability. • Developed technical understanding of the use and support of the tools supported including: DB2, Oracle DB, MQ Series, DB2 Connect, Business Objects, FileNet Content Service, and Image Service, resulting in effective management of technical staff.Application Development Manager Provided effective leadership for web and client/server application development team, keeping them focused on project goals. Large application development project integrating legacy mainframe systems with client/server and web systems.• Effectively communicated with all levels of customer and IS organizations, regarding project status, issues, risks, and project plans ensuring a shared understanding of the tasks at hand, barriers to completion, and proactive measures taken to ensure timely completion.• Provided support and direction to on-call staff, dealt head on with production issues, keeping staff focused, and customers informed resulting in timely resolution of issues and reduced impact to customers. Project Management, Business Analyst, Developer • Strengthened involvement on project teams of various sizes over time. From developer to project manager.