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Louisville, Kentucky, Us

Louisville, Kentucky, Us

St Louis, Missouri, Us

Led two internal product's development efforts with an agile methodology. • Coordinated the migration of one app to AWS including EC2 processes and IAM/Cognito for SSO. • Led exercises to define MVP, created product roadmaps, drove epics to completion according to the roadmap, managed backlog refinement and agile ceremonies. Removed blockers for the team. • Acted as Technical Product Owner and created wireframes for front-end UI and gathered input from the Product Owner. • Groomed user stories to ensure the quality equal to a software development product. Team Lead supervising nine team members. Promoted to Senior Consultant.

St Louis, Missouri, Us

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

Directed Reconciliation and dashboard data analytics to identify discrepancies between billing and provisioning systems including programs that auto-remediate discrepancies, having a budget of $1.4M and supporting the Billing Assurance business team. Hybrid role of Technical Product Owner / Project Manager. • Recognized an inefficient process for new requests via email and initiated a formal intake process. A portfolio and roadmap were created, approved, and maintained. Recommended priority setting based on the sponsor’s overall goals. • Provided a vision of the Data Analytics to become user-friendly and attained buy in from the business. • Resource manager responsible for a team of nine people focusing on application enhancements and support.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Managed Data Analytics build for plant line operator performance over 11 KPIs sourced from 4 systems. • Created the dashboard and a security badge scanning process to relate the KPIs to the warehouse operators. • Identified staff effectiveness by identifying opportunities to improve efficiencies with story grooming and testing efforts.

Chesterfield, Missouri, Us

• Led delivery of a proprietary application to manage insureds and retrocession data to other insurance companies. Application included an improved UI, automated processes, and improved performing application. • Worked with other project managers on issue resolution, risk mitigation, and timeline adherence for an $82M Program. Responsible for maintaining program dashboard for leadership discussions.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Department: SpecialtyProject Manager responsible for twelve application development, database, and infrastructure efforts to improve the reliability of the Specialty application. Managed the finances for seventeen projects and 80 team members. • Delivered 75 release items. • Improved response times by 25%, via reduced database footprint by terabytes of data.

Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, De

Department: USIT Delivery SolutionsProvided project management services for application enhancements and data collection for the farmers’ harvest season and a high visibility Seed Launch required much coordination for application stability by ensuring systems were sized properly by conducting load tests and providing launch day orchestration for 25 teams. Engaged product owners and manged strategic directives to add epics and backlog items from R&D area. Managed US and global deliverables for an improved Salesforce customer service usability and access to data. • Recognized by leadership for the significant reduction of help desk tickets during the harvest season due to the restructuring of priorities and management of the teams’ workload. Added application functionality for collecting and viewing new data at the critical time of season. • Recognized for seamless Seed Launch system and organized war room with quick actions on issues on launch day even though a short timeframe was allotted for the efforts.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Department: Home Delivery and Specialty within the Front-End Pharmacy Solutions departmentProvided project management and scrum master services for the home delivery and specialty teams. • Controlled work for 70 IT resources on an integration project with remote resources within US and offshore. • Managed a high-visibility project effectively to improve delivery dates of prescriptions to patients by providing infrastructure and application enhancements having more than 100 project team members. System performance improved from 97% to 98.5% for the 3½ month agile project. • Managed and governed $3.7 million in pharmaceutical application development and infrastructure efforts for seven concurrent projects.

St Ann, Missouri, Us

Provided project management and vendor management responsibilities for finance proof of concept, supply chain, technical debt and upgrade projects. Added MS Analysis Services to create a finance data model and generate analytical MS SSRS reports. Upgraded the supply chain software and the job scheduler software. • IT Project Manager in the Project Management Office (PMO) using waterfall, agile and JAD methodologies. • Management of $1.2 million in BI, Accounting and supply chain projects. • Successful release of cubed data from 17 data sources including third party data. • Maintained an average of 12 IT resources on projects including remote resources and 2 contractors. • Effectively managed JAD sessions for replenishment of perishables for the ERP system.• Successfully piloted a hybrid agile methodology for the company for urgent financial reporting reports needed by the new CFO.

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Provided staff management, project management and vendor management responsibilities for credit card, transportation, source code management, order management, and backend support of website redesign projects. • Converted from one credit card processor to another on short timeframe having a hard date. Identified a large design flaw during testing and provided an acceptable workaround for extending the hard date by going in parallel until the issue was resolved. • Responsible for AS/400 ERP application development, support and projects for all divisions. • Collaborated with business partner in wireframing of the website redesign for backend processing of orders. • Staff management of 8 employees and 3 contractors. • Personally filled the need of a Business Analyst and Product Lead responsibilities.

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• Managed a government Program, having 29 team members, to retain a $25 million annual contract. Other government projects resulted in a sales increase by $34 million over 3 years. Used EVM techniques to manage project costs and schedule.• Analyzed two legacy systems for a gap analysis with the SAP CIC product. Gathered and wrote functional specifications for SAP requirements based on business needs concerning differences between the contract and retail businesses. Conducted configuration change on one SAP CIC feature. • Responsible for coordinating fixes of data flow problems between SAP SD, webMethods, IBM iSeries and unix systems including DB2, oracle, SAP and webMethods. • Developed and supported AS/400 legacy ERP supply chain applications. • Managed cross-functional projects with web, mainframe, SAP R/3, Amdocs' Clarify CRM, legacy AS/400 and oracle systems.

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• Managed application development for 3-tier Clarify CRM application in which 1200 call center agents relied. Responsible for the relationship with the software vendor, Amdocs. Led task force for the Clarify performance team to resolve slow system performance issues.• Set priorities based on ROI, budget, available resources and skill sets. Determined accurate cost and duration estimates for projects of up to $400k. Managed project risks. • Managed multi-discipline team members plus consultants. Conducted annual reviews and planned staff’s training schedule.• Led task force for the Clarify performance team to resolve slow system performance issues.

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• Managed IBM iSeries applications and projects for order entry, customer and contact maintenance, drop ship order, and item setup. Set project priorities based on ROI and resource availability. • Project lead, architect, and developer to a large new feature to capture custom imprint orders to meet a tight schedule constraint due to catalog release. This led to an increase of sales by $6 million/year. • Managed customer service and merchandising applications and projects. Set project priorities based on ROI and resource availability. Project lead for a new system feature for iSeries email capability. • Supervised five team members with different skill sets and different supervisory needs.

• Project leader for Slow Pay threshold project. • Using AS/400 APIs, created a database of program, file, and field use. Constructed an RPG ILE data extract to be downloaded to a data warehouse.• Implemented an upgrade of the ERP software and led projects.

Little Rock, Ar, Us

• Project leader for the Y2K project and J.D. Edwards World A7.3 merger from 360 Communications to Alltel. Earned a reputation for dedication and as applications architect; retained throughout the merger until the last wave of layoffs. Technical lead in any design in the ERP system. • Major role in any design and architect for the ERP system. • Supervised five staff members while managing financials and custom real-time inventory projects.

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• Assumed project leader role for a small project to re-write patient registration with contracts, insurance companies, and responsible parties to be more structured, including many enhancements. • Proved my ability to quickly learn the system and to locate problems.

• Implemented EDI 810 (Invoice), 850 (orders), & 856 (advanced shipping notifications) for 6 vendors in BPCS manufacturing software package without the use of mapping software. • Automated daily and month end procedures. Performed light system security tasks and heavy system operator functions on the AS/400.

Peoria, Illinois, Us

• Supported the inventory of chips, diodes, resisters, capacitors, etc. • Prepared electronics incoming for repair for computer technicians.

Bachelors Of Science In The College Of Engineering, Computer Science

Associates, Pre-Engineering