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Established Program Management Consulting, leading operational methods for applying PMO values to the company strategic goals and objectives, guiding project managers on project planning and process.• Lead organizations budget, resource/schedule requirements to successfully implement project deliverable milestones and KPIs. Managing stakeholder relationships, as to functionality, cost and delivery.

Led the Membership Workstream implementation for a $35M corporate Enterprise Facets Redesign and implementation initiative to deliver business objectives, managing scope, schedule, budget and application resource allocation for development and delivery efforts of in-house and vendor requirements. Managed a team of or 20 for the delivery of the Membership line of business, that impacted Product/Claims/Finance/ Accounting/Finance/Billing/Rating and Eligibility, while adhering to Waterfall Methodologies using MS Project and WorkFront for high level planning and implementation, and TFS for Agile Methodologies for systems development.Achieving project objectives to deliver on schedule and budget while achieving project technology and business objectives. required to ensure no loss to Business Operations.

Manage upgrade of Kaiser Permanente’s Member Benefits Data Warehouse to deliver/meet business and IT objectives. • Driving project delivery to meet schedule and budget requirement by working with stakeholders and business sponsors. • Consulting with stakeholders and business sponsors to ensure engagement in driving decisions/actions for project delivery.

Manage the implementing Portland General Electric business IT objectives by working with stakeholders and business sponsors on decisions/actions driving project delivery.• Replacement of the existing F5 firewall technologies with NextGen Palo Alto Firewalls into the Network Edge Security Stack.• Contact Center’s Call Management tools upgrade for Call Recording/QA, WorkForce Management and Speech Analytics operations, reducing annual maintenance costs by $700k/year.

Successfully built and managed an Enterprise Program Management Office of 5 Project Managers and 3 support resources. Led the development and implementation of Policies, Procedures and the tools such as SmartSheet, that were required to support and manage corporate Enterprise initiatives, for technology and product development. • Building partnerships across multiple internal and external partners driving to meet financial objectives to Program Office KPIs.• Managed Project Managers driving schedule, budget and resource allocation employing in-house and vendor resources. Implementing Waterfall Methodologies and tools for high level planning and project implementation.

Managed the EDI Enrollment, Claims and Provider Remittance technology Development teams consisting of over 20 resource and associated budget of over $6M, in addition to cross-functional business professionals in the delivery of the product portfolio, aligning technology strategy to business needs.• Revitalizing teams, creating value and efficiency leading to on-time delivery of the organizations largest upgrade implementation, managing schedule, budget and resource allocation of in-house and vendor efforts. • Implemented AGILE development methodologies, for the successful implementation of the Affordable Healthcare Act (ACA) for EDI 834 Enrollment, 835 Claims and 820 Payment Remittance, meeting project delivery schedule for open enrollment mandates within budget.

Leading major corporate year-long $4M initiative to deliver business objectives using Waterfall Methodologies and tools for planning and implementation. Managing scope, schedule, budget and application development resource allocation for development efforts of in-house and vendor efforts, including offshore resources.Successfully delivered the FACETs upgrade, achieving project objectives over a 1-year span to delivery on schedule and budget within a crucial 4-day timeline required for ensure no loss to Business Operations.

Established Program Management Office (PMO), leading operational methods for applying PMO values to the company strategic goals and objectives, guiding project managers on project planning and process, • Managed internal and external stakeholder program relationships in determining client’s needs as to functionality, cost and delivery. • Lead organizations budget, resource/schedule requirements to successfully implement projects major deliverable milestones and quality requirements.• Product delivered 4 months early. Reduced costs 28% by centralizing purchasing processes for 17 separate entities, 300 branches and over 1,000 cost centers. Client recouped cost of project in 8 months.