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Greater Atlanta Area

Greater Atlanta Area

Managing the implementation of Tropical Smoothie Café’s new Loyalty Application while serving as a bridge between the business, vendor and technology teams. Leading project analysis, planning, designing, building, testing, training and Go Live Coordination and transition to support. Primary communication point and progress reporting with internal and external stakeholders across a highly matrixed organization.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

Project/Product Management contract for the creation of a Project Development Tracking application. Managed project scope and deliverables. Product development by an offshore team using SCRUM.

Greater Atlanta Area

I had the opportunity to help with the transition during the Education Software Division’s acquisition from Quadrant 4 to Brainchild Unlimited, Inc. while supporting 100+ customer accounts. I streamlined and supervised the Professional Services/Product Management functions for the Software as a Service (SaaS) and hardware product lines. • Managed Project/Product Managers, Hardware/network specialists, business analysts, engagement leads and supervision of development teams in India and Colombia.

Greater Atlanta Area

This was an exciting opportunity to be involved in the product development of Quadrant 4’s Education Exchange Platform. I helped to develop strategy, business plans and product requirements for market analysis while managing multiple programs and projects. I was lucky to mentor a group of great project/product managers, multi-site development/implementation teams in product development management, QA, and customer implementation for the Professional Services program. • Responsible for product management of the Data Integration, Reporting and Business Intelligence components of Quadrant 4’s Education Exchange platform. Developed the strategy, business plan, product requirements and roadmaps based on customer requirements and competitive market analysis.• Developed data and storage Privacy and Security policies resulting in reduction in risk and liability with all student data securely stored and encrypted in compliance with FERPA and HIPPA regulations.• Directed strategic planning, problem solving, product development and upgrade, launches, post-production support, customer relations, and compliance.• Compiled business requirements, UI/UX specifications, and wireframes and provided direction to offshore team of developers to ensure best user experience.

Greater Atlanta Area

I really enjoyed my time at CORE managing custom software solutions. I was able to foster relationships with various state government customers, vendors/partners, while identifying and implementing areas of process improvements and promoting cross-project tracking and transparency.• Selected to take over troubled projects after company downsizing to rejuvenate revenue centers, and revamp client relationships. Stabilized the projects after 30 days and all targeted clients were satisfied within 45 days.• Directly managed or responsible for all phases on multiple ongoing projects with multi-million yearly budgets and duration varying from 3-18 months to continuously renewing contracts. Ensured that project scopes were met while monitoring to ensure quality, schedule and budget requirements.• Supervised and guided other Project Managers in various product and custom software lines.• Worked with a team to define the organization’s project management guidelines in order to identify and implement areas of process improvement and promote cross-project tracking and transparency.• Executed contracts with GA Department of Early Care & Learning, NC Public Schools, and Maine Department of Education successfully renewing and expanding every year.

Greater Atlanta Area

Managed approx. 2 key projects per year through the system development (SDLC) and project management lifecycles (PMLC) managing budget, profit margins, quality and schedule. Performed business analysis, interfaced with 9+ internal and government agency customers, vendors and offshore development teams.• Managed various projects for State and Federal customers with development and testing teams split between the United States (Georgia and Illinois), Russia, Ukraine and India.• Customers and projects included the Maine’s Data Management Financial System application (MEDMS/FS), a Pre-K Management System for the Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning (DECAL), a SharePoint portal for the CDC/Coordinating Center for Infectious Disease (CCID) Office of the Director and the Jefferson County School System (JEFCOED).• Organized and restored legacy solutions built for existing customers. • Managed various on demand internal projects such as the implementation of a company-wide vacation reporting portal for the Human Resources department, and client applications for the sales and implementation teams.• Product Manager in charge of the design and development of CORE-ECS’ StatesFirst product. • Led a team in the development of a demo and prototype of a Special Education Student Management product based on the solutions created for the states of Michigan and North Carolina.

Greater Atlanta Area

Led a team in the design and development of Individualized Education Program (IEP) modules for the state of Michigan’s Special Education application (MICIS) and state of North Carolina’s Comprehensive Exceptional Children Accountability System (CECAS). Designed and developed a student Unique Identifier application meant to be merged into various products and projects such as the state of Michigan’s MICIS application and a system for the Center for Educational Performance and Information office in Michigan (CEPI).Performed business analysis and design for the Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) and led a team of developers in the development of a test data collection and grading system. Developed a School Nutrition reporting application for the Georgia Department of Education using dynamic HTML and JavaScript, PL/SQL and an Oracle database.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Information Systems

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering