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Remote

In summary, my role within the Business Transition Services team entails overseeing the refinement of IT integration processes, managing diverse projects, evaluating requirements, fostering client relationships, ensuring cost-effective solutions, monitoring budgets, establishing plans, collaborating with vendors, and conducting comprehensive project closeouts. Details include:> Optimizing and consolidating internal systems impacted by past mergers and acquisitions, I contribute to a more streamlined and efficient organizational structure. This results in enhanced productivity, improved collaboration, and a better user experience for staff who rely on these systems.> Enhancing the documentation of processes and workflows pertaining to IT integration, specifically addressing the intricacies and challenges brought about by mergers and acquisitions. > Taking the lead on multiple projects within the Centene/WellCare IT Integration Portfolio, each with unique complexities. > Evaluating and assessing business and technical requirements, project timelines, and costs. > Nurturing client relationships by actively engaging with stakeholders, capturing their requirements, and effectively communicating project expectations, progress, and outcomes. Through open and transparent communication, I foster trust, manage expectations, and ensure that client needs are met.> Ensuring the technical solutions aligned with the business objectives while maintaining a favorable cost/benefit ratio. > Conducting thorough project closeout procedures, which include summarizing project results, expenses, and lessons learned. These insights are stored within SharePoint, ensuring that valuable knowledge is captured and can be utilized for future reference, enabling continuous improvement.

Greater St. Louis Area

Project Manager in the Master Data space working with 13 internal workstreams to migrate legacy Monsanto Materials, Customers & Vendor data to Bayer SAP Systems. Tasks include; Managing multiple detailed plans around the build of infrastructure, strategy of migration for Materials, Customers & Vendors along with tracking key application interface inter-dependencies. Monthly reconciliation of a $15m budget tracking forecasting of resources, 3rd party contracts, & travel costs across more than 75 stakeholders.Ensuring critical documentation is created & approved on time for each phase of the project, such as Design Concepts & foreseen delta's, Specifications documents, Process documentation around ICS controls for audit.Aligning & reviewing RAID logs with the Team and PMO leadership highlighting possible impacts to the project.

Saint Louis, Mo

Primary Project Manager involved in transition & transformation of on-boarding MSP's and relocation of the data center. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:> Coordinate execution of individual projects within a program> Manage centralized Master Program Plan, closely coordinating with multiple global Project Managers> Centralized Equipment Ordering and Tracking> Centralized Financial Tracking to include > Labor/Resource allocation > Hardware/Software Capital & Expense > Balance project capital & expense budgets > Purchase Orders / Commitments> Strict Change Control around scope deviation > Adhere to Program Quality Management Plan and deliver Program Artifacts> Manage issues, escalations and risk mitigation strategies> Communication plans through execution> Manage project artifacts to include: CMDB, PMO templates, Service Catalog and Sharepoint sites> Produce weekly status reports and metrics> collaboration with ISO to ensure policies of a defensible migration are in place.

Columbia, Missouri Area

Senior Project Manager for critical projects on an account valued over $1 billion. Manage multiple projects under RFS, LOWO and RFP from inception through delivery.Communicate regularly to C-level government stakeholders throughout the development / implementation lifecycle. Actively practice and enforce leading methodologies such as those from; PMI, ITIL, LEAN, and Six Sigma. Provide direction and input to a developing PMO to maximize project operations efficiency and effectiveness, including: planning, scoping, issue, risk, and monitoring & reporting.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Pivotal role in planning, defining, and ensuring the delivery of technology deployment, repair, support and training across multiple business units within Europe and Central Asia Region. Analyzed business risks, recommended new systems/products, executing project management/planning initiatives, and delivered expert technical support and administrative services. Monitored and maintained network structure, operations, and security; skillfully performing hardware and software maintenance, upgrade, and troubleshooting for system supporting 1400 accounts in 30 countries. Prepared and supported global video conferences, managing up to 25 different sites simultaneously via Polycom.