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Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Plano, Texas, Us

Delivery director responsible for Integration and Security Services for Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare.

Plano, Texas, Us

▪ Delivery director responsible for quality assurance / testing delivery for Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

▪ Delivery services manager responsible for 150 member global QA / testing and test data management team for Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare (Payer)▪ Created testing center of excellence in support of IT strategy incl. implementation of a SOA architecture, migration to new claims engine and other components, Federal ACA program and exchanges implementation, regression and end to end automation and performance testing▪ Created global delivery testing model that included offshoring and development of a competent offshore team in order to provide around the clock test coverage and support▪ Evolved and mentored QA / TDM teams to become integral parts of development and prod support delivery with innovations in QA domains and programs, test data management, and Agile ▪ Lead collaboration with client’s CIO and CTO offices and Dell application teams to reengineer processes and implement broad changes across organization to reduce costs and improve efficiencies and quality ▪ Designed and implemented monthly release path to production and implementation management processes▪ Designed, implemented and owned complex issue resolution SWAT process, thus enabling rapid root cause analysis, reduction of production downtime, resolution optimization, and ensured delivery of long term fixes▪ Developed and implemented innovative tools to allow users to create and modify their own test data, thereby streamlining and reducing testing, UAT, and turn-around times▪ Turned several troubled critical complex programs around resulting in on time delivery.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Program manager and member of the PMO responsible for implementing a new claims engine

Brookline, Ma, Us

Interim CEO and CFO of a highly innovative software development company

Irvine, Ca, Us

German Bank in NY:Data Warehouse and Reporting Application:Produced project schedule and budgetProject managed pre-study to gather user requirements and assess source data and systemsSoftware Installation Project Management:Project managed the installation of Service Desk Express and Configuration Management Express.Broker Dealer Data Warehouse Scoping Exercise:Develop data warehouse business case linking NY broker dealer data to head office regulatory reporting frameworkDevelop broker dealer reporting requirementsDevelop project schedule and costing.Credit Suisse Project:Business analysis, systems analysis and design.Data model, process mapping and improvement, gap analyisis.Designed, built and project managed implementation of an MS Access database application to run the back office functions of one of the bank's departments.Data import and verification.System documentation and training.Various ad-hock process, data and automation projects for the same dapartment.

Zurich, Ch

Business analysisData modellingApplication design, development and implementation

Design, develop and implement a rapid assessment tool to assist with business assessment.Design develop and implement a business assessment tool to assess a business cash flow and viability.

Under contract: Western Cape Provincial Government, Dept. of Economic Development – SME project- Develop methodology and rapid assessment questionnaire to rapidly analyze an SME- Develop project management plan and lead project- Co-develop success criteria & intervention, forward looking business viability and implementation methodologies- Analyze 60 SME’s in 6 weeks, produce recommendations and provide strategic interventions to 54 businesses

London, Gb

Under contract: Fresh Produce Terminal’s (FPT) ISO 9000 process documentation- Develop process guidelines & framework in line with FPT & ISO 9000 requirements- Document financial and related processes - Create process and control maps- Quality assurance on process documentation

London, Gb

Under Contract: Treasury, Provincial Government of the Western Cape Internal Audit, Risk Management and Government Governance capacitation and roll out project covering all 14 departments- Provide conceptual input – risk assessment framework and methodology- Provide conceptual input – government governance framework and methodology- Develop project process framework and relationships between change management, internal audit, risk management and government governance- Co-author change management framework and methodology- Develop key performance indicators for change management and major project components- Facilitate change management interventions - Co-author process & control mapping framework, methodology and training material- Provide process & control mapping training, quality assurance and standards maintenance- Facilitate risk elicitation and process & control mapping workshops

Cape Town, Western Cape, Za

Qualitative and quantitative field research data- Co-develop data model- Design virtual accounting system- Design and construct database, application, queries and reports- Provide ongoing support and report & query writing function- DBA

Shareholder and founder of multiple businesses: - Export – agricultural products, artifacts / curios / art (from Southern Africa to Europe)- Property – development, construction, project management, financing, broking (South Africa and Germany)- Tourism – Pan-Africa products, services, new product development; European and US markets

Played significant role in commercial real estate industry in South Africa, including:▪ Financing▪ Development▪ Project management ▪ Broking

Mba, International Trade & Finance

Bsc Chem Eng, Chemical Engineering