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Playing Golf, Enjoying Lake Michigan and Time with Friends and Family.

Can help your organization improve Project Management processes, establish, and maintain standards that will move your business forward. Able to lead remotely or onsite as the situation dictates. Recently helped a central Indiana bank define a tiered approach to improving their business analytics. Coordinated the creation of the Business Requirements Document which addressed the need to modernize the data management strategy, deliver business value sooner and stream-line the data warehouse. Filled the temporary vacant position of PMO Director for a 10 million dollar holding company who was in the process of converting an acquired Michigan bank. Provided leadership across multiple areas including Core Data, Enterprise Applications, Human Resources, Operations, Procurement, and Infrastructure.

Senior Project Manager for Experis Business Intelligence and Analytics Practice, a SAS® Institute Partner. Work across multiple industries throughout the U.S. including Pharmaceutical, Financial Services, Insurance, Manufacturing, and Healthcare. Experienced at Managing various external client projects including strategic assessments, application development, infrastructure platform, and version migration. Creation of standard operating procedures for Project Management best practices for managing analytics projects. On-going assistance with client proposal writing including background, scope, approach, risks, timeline, and budget.

Senior Project Manager, Commercial Internet Banking Project.  * Turned around an 8.5 million Treasury Management on-line banking project.* Established a new approach and a year at a glance schedule along with a detail project plan. * Aligned vendor billing with release cycles.

Worked as part of the US Technology Services Project Management Office (PMO). Initiated effort to implement SharePoint, MOSS as a document repository tool across the U.S. footprint. Also Mentored project managers on implementation and best practices for following a System Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Rolled out procedures for project managers to capture and report labor forecast for integration and business as usual projects

Worked on multiple integrations and TM projects * Customer Engagement Project Manager, MidAmerica Bank, Oak Brook, Illinois* Integration Treasury / Cash Management Project Manager, Fidelity Federal Bank, West Palm Beach, Florida* Integration Treasury / Cash Management Project Manager, Provident Bank, Cincinnati, Ohio*Single Charter Duplicate Account Number Quality Analyst, Cleveland, Ohio*Remote Capture - VOC Six Sigma Project Manager, Cleveland, Ohio*Managed PMO for National City Mortgage, Miamisburg, Ohio

Responsible for Information Security and compliance projects: accountable for effective management of project scope, schedule, budget, quality, team, communications, and procurement. Mentored staff to become top performers and to adhere to the best practices for Project Methodology, labor and budget reporting.Implemented first remotely hosted application, GLBA -Virtual Compliance Officer, implemented Atchley Systems OFAC scrub compliance software and managed a Tandem system Comply Wire upgradeConsistently exceeded expectations as reported on annual reviews: Received the highest possible rating, which was in the top 10% of the organization for effectiveness on annual review in 2001 and 2002. Winner of individual National City Excel Award in ‘02 for Anti-Money Laundering, Know Your Customer (KYC) project. Team Excel Award winner in ‘01 for an On-line Banking projectCompliance, PMO, Banking, Financial Services, Infrastructure, Customer Engagement, Data Center, Security, Six Sigma, SDLC, PMBOK, PMI, PLC, Agile, PMP

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