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• Provide Project Management for Precisely R&D Infrastructure Support. Facilitated daily scrum meeting, managed budget & timelines, tracked metrics, and communicated status, decisions and risk to stakeholders and senior.
• On-schedule migration of 2200 servers to Precisely datacenters during four acquisitions.
• Improved Jira ServiceDesk support of 5000+ virtual machines in four major data centers worldwide.
• Reduced VMWare resource consumption by 20% by decommission of 500+ unneeded VMs, avoiding new hardware purchases. Standardized processes resulting in faster deployment of servers.
• Achieved 4.9/5.0 rating from 600 users by setting clear expectations for deliverables and motivating team members to meet project goals.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Led a team of 40 client-facing project managers in the US and UK who delivered marketing database and analytic services to Harte Hanks B2C and B2B customers. Onboarded new clients and serviced existing clients. Accountable for team’s adherence to good project management principles, delivery of services per client SLAs, customer satisfaction, budget.

• Guided development of Harte Hanks’ Data Refinery product for IBM, a Hadoop big-data application that enriched B2B and B2C data by merging records from multiple digital and social data vendors.
• Organized development of CRM / marketing database systems for large clients including Toyota, Hasbro Toys, The Jones Group, Ford Motors, Stride Rite/PLG, Modell’s Sporting Goods and DELL EMC. Application architectures.
• Directed development of a worldwide sales lead application for Microsoft which aggregates, matches, scores and routes leads to the appropriate salesperson. Custom solution developed using Microsoft technologies and.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

IT Project Manager for pharmaceutical and healthcare clients. Sample accomplishments include a custom database application for liver transplants, a set of strategic initiatives which improved recruitment for clinical trials (reduced cost, increased speed of recruitment, etc.), and leadership of FDA compliance & medical-legal review for pharmaceutical.

King Of Prussia, Pennsylvania, United States

• For SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, managed 10-person application integration team creating installation packages for 4,000 workstations in the U.S. Accountable for project management, team management (hiring.
• Chaired the creation of an extranet site used by Independence Blue Cross for member enrollment.
• For i-Open.com, a multimedia advertising company, led programmers building a browser-based billboard application. Oversaw budget, schedule, team members, and project status.
• For Janssen Pharmaceutica, re-designed the business processes for a compatibility-testing laboratory, resulting in improved software application integration, flow, and documentation. Performed application integration.
• For ConvenienceWorks, a commercial refrigeration and convenience store company, implemented revamp of e-commerce web site, including creation of customer-specific web stores.

Masters, Computer Science

Bachelors, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Alpha Epsilon Pi