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Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, South Carolina Area

Advocated for customer needs to improve the value of the MES application installations.Drove actions to accelerate issue resolution with coordination across internal cross functional resources and external teams/organizations. Reduced case back log by and duration to resolution. Reported on prioritized commitments and issues to customer management on a regular basis. In strategic partnership with the customer, drove quality improvement with prioritization and scheduling of features and defects for the development and deployment scale up of a cloud based MES application.

Burlington, Vermont Area

Developed project governance for the Vermont Health Exchange project by setting up the Project Management Plan and processes. Managed program deliverables, change management, risks, issues, schedules and weekly status reporting to the State leadership. Contributed to the successful launches of Open Enrollment for Health Plan selection and enhanced change of circumstance functionality. Managed the Optum project SharePoint site as well as input to the State SharePoint site to provide transparency and collaboration with the State of Vermont client. Supported the State of Vermont Health Care Reform as Program Manager contractor for the Green Mountain Care single payer program.

Waterbury, Vt

Managed MES (Manufacturing Execution System) project from requirements gathering to pilot im-plementation and positioned solution for multi-site deployment. The solution provides automated transactions of orders with item data and sends completions and inventory quantities to the ERP.Managed a QDS (Quality Data System) project from requirements gathering to pilot implementation. Prepared statements of work and drove purchase orders to engage with two contracting firms to obtain the necessary resources and skills to successfully complete the project on schedule and budget.Successfully led an enterprise labeling project to integrate all lasers and automate setup across all US manufacturing sites. This provided standardization, efficient changes and reduced scrap.

Operations Project ManagerManaged enterprise portfolio management software application support. Responsible for system availability, problem and change management, system administration and IT infrastructure. Managed a large world-wide team supporting over 25,000 users. Planned and controlled budget and schedules and program resources.• Reduced outage time by guiding team to develop a business intelligence dashboard using Agile method and software.• Enhanced processes, customer satisfaction, and enabled compliance by developing and implementing customized software tools.

Software Application Deployment Project Manager Drove Enterprise Portfolio Management Software Application Implementation across a 1600 person world-wide organization to provide a common platform supporting resource utilization, project management functions and portfolio management reporting.• Developed the application usage methodology to align with business strategy. Created a user guide and training sessions to provide consistency of usage for portfolio analysis and reporting.• Collaborated with the application developers to obtain application improvements and fixes for future releases based on prioritized application requirements and issues.

Program and Product Manager Managed 5 semiconductor product developments supporting an industry standard architecture. Developed and managed $10M /yr budget and schedules from initiation to close. Provided team leadership, coordination and focus to meet product and project objectives while integrating a large world wide team. Managed risk, changes and communication with stakeholders and customers.• Trained, coached and mentored staff creating a mature and high performing collaborative team that was able to quickly react to internal and external developments.• Collaborated with architects, designers, manufacturing and marketing to establish competitive product offerings using tools such as SWOT, FAN, $APPEALS and market segment analysis. • Successfully identified and analyzed risks and executed mitigation plans which resulted in a leadership market position.

Managed PowerPC TM 750 Processor Products.Project and product manager for semiconductor processors. Managed cross functional teams to meet business, schedule, product and production objectives. Responsible for customer satisfaction, customer requirements gathering, product offerings, pricing, financials, supply/demand balancing and product availability.• Project and product manager for semiconductor processors. Managed cross functional teams to meet business, schedule, product and production objectives. Responsible for customer satisfaction, customer requirements gathering, product offerings, pricing, financials, supply/demand balancing and product availability.• Led the team development in designing, qualifying and manufacturing the first Multi-Module Card of the product line 3 months ahead of the benchmark. This solution dominated the product mix with 83% of the volumes.• Optimized the supply/demand of product speed sorting by coordinating manufacturing and marketing/sales to meet customer needs with minimal waste and maximized financial results