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Brookfield, Wisconsin, United States

Muskego, Wi

Responsible for business management, company strategy, marketing, sales, application development, and consulting efforts. Primary focus on development and delivery of the TacTimer LTE application, available through the App Store.

Greater Milwaukee Area

- Managed a program consisting of five different projects, all of which encompass the evaluation of different emerging technologies at the client site. One project was conducting workshops to determine where within the current state processing RPA (Robotic Process Automation) can be utilized. One project was to run a Citizen Development pilot, utilizing the UiPath suite of products. One project was to evaluate the use of Chat Bots for a particular HR use case. One project was to evaluate… Show more - Managed a program consisting of five different projects, all of which encompass the evaluation of different emerging technologies at the client site. One project was conducting workshops to determine where within the current state processing RPA (Robotic Process Automation) can be utilized. One project was to run a Citizen Development pilot, utilizing the UiPath suite of products. One project was to evaluate the use of Chat Bots for a particular HR use case. One project was to evaluate the use of Computer Vision to automate the processing of invoices. The last project was to evaluate the use of Machine Learning.• Managed all projects. Creation of Project Charters, Schedule, Resource Plan, Cost Schedule, and all other PMO / Stage Gate documentation.• Managed the Request For Proposal process for the POCs which will be developed by vendors.• Managed the Pilot program for the Citizen Development project.- Managed a project at a global manufacturing company to migrate servers and workstations from an old legacy domain into a new domain. This is being done to simplify the environment as well as to improve cybersecurity.- Managed a project at a global manufacturing company which will transform their current process for making enhancements to their Salesforce environment into a more streamlined, standard process. This project will increase the speed to market for the enhancements, allow for better governance, and provide significant savings. Show less

- Assumed responsibilities for and drove to completion a high visibility project, facilitating communication between senior management, business clients, and multiple scrum teams. This project combined 16 retirement plans into a single plan, modified IT systems to account for the new plan, updated reporting for the new plan, and added additional requested functionality to the online systems.• This project was delivered on an extremely tight timeline, with all of the requested scope, within… Show more - Assumed responsibilities for and drove to completion a high visibility project, facilitating communication between senior management, business clients, and multiple scrum teams. This project combined 16 retirement plans into a single plan, modified IT systems to account for the new plan, updated reporting for the new plan, and added additional requested functionality to the online systems.• This project was delivered on an extremely tight timeline, with all of the requested scope, within budget, and with no production defects.- Managed a high visibility business project.• Project was to review and update business processes and training materials as well as identify potential customers who may have not been communicated with in a timely fashion and provide them with pertinent information regarding their policies.• Created the business plan, project charter, CBA, and project plan to complete the project by year end.- Managed a project which was consolidating multiple Salesforce instances into a single instance to improve customer relationships, sales efforts, simplifying sales management reporting, and reduce the number of Salesforce licenses required.• Created the project charter, CBA, project plan, and resource plan.• Identified a shortfall in current resources assigned to the project and worked with the business to acquire additional resources, as well as refine the project schedule.• Presented the business case and project schedule to executive staff to help work through potential timing for other projects on their roadmaps.- Collaborate with and help educate a PMO which is transitioning from waterfall to agile methodologies, such as scrum and Kanban.- Managed multiple projects simultaneously. Show less

Milwaukee, Wi

Directed high-profile software development projects with budgets from $250K to $6M. Oversee the successful execution of business strategies requiring critical IT development using project management methodologies which aligned with the business structure.− Facilitated communication between the business stakeholders and the software development teams to effectively negotiate the needs of all constituents.− Interfaced with multiple software development teams that utilized Waterfall… Show more Directed high-profile software development projects with budgets from $250K to $6M. Oversee the successful execution of business strategies requiring critical IT development using project management methodologies which aligned with the business structure.− Facilitated communication between the business stakeholders and the software development teams to effectively negotiate the needs of all constituents.− Interfaced with multiple software development teams that utilized Waterfall, SCRUM, and SAFe methodologies during a project.− Managed the interaction between large projects utilizing the SAFe framework and the current SCRUM team to meet project goals.− Collaborated with business clients to develop the project business case which encompassed project justification, potential risks, estimated costs, and cost-benefit analysis development.− Participated in SCRUM ceremonies (daily stand up, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospective, backlog grooming), helped Product Owners understand the priority of different large projects, and served as backup SCRUM Master.− Created/updated project business case documents, project charters, cost benefit analysis documents, project timelines, resource allocations, and collaborated with the project governance committee to secure project funding.Selected Highlights: − Contributed to defining and developing the transition plan for converting an IT functional department from Waterfall methodology to the SCRUM methodology.− Selected for a 10-month business rotation in the Life and Annuity Product Department.specifications and solicit feedback from key stakeholders to garner their support. − Directed the Rep Practice Buyout Project, a business project focused on Financial Representative’s practice. Reviewed financial institutions that provided loans to financial representatives to determine benefit/risk on the purchase of the book of business.− Added functionality to a newer system to sunset an outdated system. Show less

Researched and assisted in requirements gathering for mainframe project. Conducted design reviews which included business requirements prioritization with managers and project leads.- Created high-level test cases and detailed test scripts which encompassed importing the test cases and scripts into IBM Rational TestManager.- Oversaw the test group and UAT.

Spearheaded the development and implementation of the company strategy, marketing, sales, personnel decisions, and general business management.Selected Highlights: - Created an employee resume system that integrated with a backend DB2 database for a worldwide manufacturer of food coloring and flavoring.- Designed an order tracking Lotus Notes database and integrated in with a backend Oracle database and a backend Sybase database for an e-commerce business.- Maintained 40+… Show more Spearheaded the development and implementation of the company strategy, marketing, sales, personnel decisions, and general business management.Selected Highlights: - Created an employee resume system that integrated with a backend DB2 database for a worldwide manufacturer of food coloring and flavoring.- Designed an order tracking Lotus Notes database and integrated in with a backend Oracle database and a backend Sybase database for an e-commerce business.- Maintained 40+ different Lotus Notes database applications for a global manufacturer. Show less

Domino development, web development, business analysis.

M.B.A., Decision Support Systems

B.B.A., Management Computer Systems