• 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• Advocate for right level of governance and oversight for Projects• Support PM’s in escalations to resolve issues• Eliminate barriers so that my team can be successful• Assign PM’s to projects where they can be most effective and in support of our internal and external partners• Review and assess project plans, risks, issues and key deliverables for projects in my portfolio• Solve conflicts between staff members in order to keep focus on the work• Buld relationships across the organization to support customers responsively• Develop tools for providing information about projects with the right level of detail• Hiring and on-boarding responsibility for PM’s in the department

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 this far. • 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. • Implement Lean Six Sigma process for improvement of team.• Orchestrate initiatives to improve both manual and technical initiatives.• Support all projects or processes.• Managed Budget for 50 team members.

• 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 processing over a 2 year implementation• 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 • Work with senior leadership from around the company to determine best path forward for the project• Understand the business goals as well as the technology needs for the initiative• Mentor and coach new project managers to develop our internal expertise as an organization• Contribute to recruiting and hiring process to grow the organization• PMP Certified Project Manager

• 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.

• 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, end-user customization of user’s portal home page§ Managing priorities of business needs as well as interfacing directly with software development team to deliver this project on time and on budget§ Skilled liaison between the business customers and software development team § Resource and Budgeting assessment and forecasting § Develop testing, communication, training and deployment plans for software implementations§ Managing project deployment with resources located at multiple sites including the US and India§ Capability Maturity Model (CMM) project management training and certification

• 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 user survey that generated valuable data for future pre-release customer relationship management § User registration also enabled Sybase to target specific customers for selling opportunities§ Ensured the production release was highest quality

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.