Blair B. Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, GA, US

Greater Atlanta Area

• Client: Edward Jones:
• Program Manager chosen for firmwide priority one compliance project. Managed technology, legal, compliance, change management, and other business units which resulted in an on-time delivery of regulatory changes.
• Project Lead for Branch Leadership Strategy, leading work to develop new roles and responsibilities, facilitate change management processes to Branch leadership, develop road maps, and introduce agile ways of working.
• Project Manager and Scrum Master for two development teams on a $13MM initiative to build a new digital core to automate the majority of manual processes in settlement operations. Managed two of seven development.
• Senior IT Technical Program Manager and Scrum Master for a $12MM project to migrate 22,000 users from Microsoft 2010 Office Suite to Google Workspace. Implemented Netskope SASE Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) in.

• Managed the product lifecycle for enterprise-wide research IT products, including implementation, service, roadmaps, RACIs, strategy, onboarding, support, service catalog page, documentation, training and labs
• Product - Amazon Web Services (AWS) o Gathered requirements from researchers for AWS o Wrote research analysis use cases o Member of the research cloud framework project and service launch team responsible for writing.
• Product - i2b2 (Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside) enables researchers to query Emory Healthcare electronic health record data for patient counts and aggregate information o Implemented query tool.

Greater New York City Area

• Weill Cornell Medical College is among the top-ranked clinical and medical research centers in the country.
• Managed full project management lifecycle of complex IT Projects.
• Maintained complete control on project scope, schedule, budget, risk & issues
• Created and maintained project documentation – including charters, PM plans, schedules, status reports, and change requests
• Monitored and controlled execution phase to ensure that projects are completed on time and meets all business and system requirements
• Provided management with regular project updates, created and maintained trusting relationships, identified and managed project issues, identified project risks and provided prudent risk response

New York, NY

• NYU Langone Medical Center - world-class, patient-centered, integrated, academic medical center and one of the nation’s premier centers for excellence in clinical care, biomedical research and medical education.
• Manage Full project management lifecycle of complex IT Projects
• Established and implemented project management processes and methodologies for the project management office (PMO) and NYU Langone IT community to ensure projects were delivered on-time, within budget and met high.
• Created custom reports and dashboards that compiled metrics relating to IT project success, project attributes, individual productivity and adherence to defined processes
• Conducted training and created all training materials for the project portfolio management (PPM) tool, Innotas
• Knowledge of project management tools, methods and best practices such as those defined by the Project Management Institute (PMI)Project Accomplishments:

New York, NY

• Springer Healthcare - leading publisher of medical educational products for the healthcare community, and forms part of Springer Science+Business Media, one of the world's leading global scientific and medical.
• Led projects to deliver sales of custom medical educational content to the pharmaceutical industry
• Established and negotiated licensing agreements for EHR providers and other health tech companies
• Created User Guide and performed training for e-Staging ToolProject Accomplishments:
• AJCC e-Staging Tool - design and build of an electronic staging calculator for inclusion in patient clinical records and retrospective staging for public health reporting purposes
• Custom print and digital projects – Led numerous projects to create scientific content and products for the pharmaceutical industry

New York, NY

• MedReviews, LLC - publishes four journals including Reviews in Urology, Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine, Reviews in Neurological Diseases, and Reviews in Obstetrics & Gynecology.
• Interacted with pharmaceutical and device product managers to tailor and develop their product message through satellite symposia, round table discussions, advisory boards and web-based initiatives
• Responsible for securing review articles and supplements for the publication Reviews in Neurological Diseases
• Produced proposals including detailed line-itemed budgets

Atlanta, GA

• Harry Norman, Realtors - Atlanta’s oldest and largest residential real estate firm.
• Managed all aspects of the sales and closing process
• Negotiated contracts for clients, including going to contract and to close with opposing realtors and legal representation
• Mentored new sales associates
• Earned awards and significant recognition, including: Top Five Office Salesperson by generating gross sales over $14+ Million per year, Salesperson of the month, 120% Club designation for outstanding sales growth above.

Atlanta, GA

• Ernst & Young, LLP - global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.
• Completed taxability reviews for multiple products and jurisdictions
• Managed and conducted assessments for process improvement of sales tax compliance procedures to determine the feasibility, costs and benefits of automating the sales tax and/or telecommunication tax function(s)
• Managed implementations of the Vertex Sales and Use Tax system with Oracle Financials for the accrual of consumer’s use tax, working with the Purchasing, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, Projects and Inventory modules.

Alpharetta, GA

• Scientific Games, Inc. - global leader in providing customized, end-to-end gaming solutions to lottery and gaming organizations worldwide.
• Maintained programs in C to produce lottery games and ticket validation files for global customers
• Trained and mentored new programmers
• Applied programming data and Information Requirements from clients to produce final instant scratch game lottery product

Master Of Science, Health Informatics, 3.98

Bachelor Of Business, Computer Information Systems