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Rochester, New York, US

Rochester, New York, US

• Lead a team of Project and Program Managers to successfully deliver project portfolio
• Assess & Manage Risks and issues across all the projects in our portfolio
• Mentor and coach PM’s to improve project delivery
• Present project and program status updates and issues to C-Level Staff
• Develop new processes to support execution of large and small initiatives
• Develop annual goals for Project Manaers within the organization

Rochester, New York, US

• Lead and learn in the world of projects and portfolio management. Bring value by connecting the dots and seeing opportunities. Always bring balance to my style but flexible in my approach. Have really enjoyed my role.
• Oversight and leadership of 45-60 individual team members.
• Led senior leaders to determine key strategic initiatives for significant investments to drive business value.
• Responsibility of execution of key strategy items, projects, and the largest strategic efforts in the company.
• Facilitated governance and reporting initiatives.
• Oversee and supervised team building and hiring of all staff.

Rochester, New York, US

• Manage multiple, concurrent projects to successful completion in a time sensitive and challenging health care industry
• Direct & implement significant functionality related to pharmacy benefit conversions, including membership and eligibility, accumulator benefits, reporting & data warehouse capability, vendor coordination claim.
• Work with teams from multiple locations from around the world to deliver projects on time and in budget
• Extremely strong negotiation skills
• Lead projects with teams of up to 50 people which result in millions of dollars of return on investment
• In charge of distributed teams from across the globe to deliver medium and large scale projects

• Led consulting engagements in energy trading market in Albany NY.
• Lead consultant for engagement at Verizon Business.
• Reported and tracked efforts from larger global projects.
• Managed smaller innovation projects as key part of the effort in the consulting engagement.

London, GB

• Managed New Product development projects for life insurance company.
• Projects ranged in size from 5-25 individuals for developing, testing, and implementing various products for customers.

§ Manage implementation of end-user portal which enabled more than 2500 affiliated agents to submit online applications, obtain production and service reports and verify compensation for sales made§ Deliver functionality via the portal to complete sales within minutes instead of hours or days§ Deliver additional portal capabilities including query tools.

• Primary projects were obtaining CMM certification for the project management organization.
• Project manager in technology asset management efforts.

§ Managed beta release program of Powerbuilder software§ Managed user group feedback sessions and instructed beta users on the procedures for logging issues§ Development of a formal feedback process for pre-release software § Engineered feedback metrics to assess our beta release(s) and gauge interest and satisfaction levels with our software § Developed.

Randolph AFB, TX, US

While a member of the United States Air Force (USAF) used various software and forecasting models to provide detailed flight forecasts for military pilots. Worked in a high pressure environment within a tightly knit group of professionals. Honorably discharged.

Mba, Management Information Systems

B.A., English & Psychology

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