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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Since 1998, Project Consulting Group (PCG) has been a leading provider of Management Consulting Services and Project Resources.We get up every day to enable and deliver business outcomes for our clients.We do this by driving for EXCELLENCE while demonstrating EMPATHY and bringing our EXPERIENCE each and every day

Eagan, Minnesota, United States

Drove the formation and optimization of the PMO by defining a workforce and service strategy that reduced the workforce by 30% while simplifying services across five practice areas for a large portfolio. Managed a multi-million dollar operating budget and cut costs significantly while delivering on the value objectives of the portfolio. Transformed with.

Eagan, MN

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Aon Benfield is the world's largest and leading reinsurance brokerage firms and the only one that has a common global reinsurance brokerage software platform. With the global IT development organization in Bloomington, MN, active interactions with all corners of the world happen on a daily basis to fully understand the growing needs of the business.

Led the North America IS Project Services and Enterprise Services team. Managed 19 people and an operating budget of $9M. Defined project methodology maturity roadmaps, standards, and governance for the North America portfolio. Created formal guidelines, tools, policy, practice, and training for the management and execution of all projects. Established and.

Led a functionally aligned team of Microsoft and Great Plains developers of 5 people to serve Operations, and Accounting organizations. Was hand selected to be instrumental in starting up a formal IT Project Services group. Project Manager for several large enterprise-wide initiatives using PMI project management and Agile methodologies. Development Team.

Mentored new developers and served as lead resource for entire team. Designed and implemented financial software for city governments. Established coding and user interface standards for product. Defined and implemented standardized development life cycle processes and teamwork dynamics. Designed and developed back end data system. Established the process.

Established and lead the enterprise’s technology objectives for the nation’s leading holiday décor designer and distributor. Directed a multi-disciplined team of domestic based IT employees involved in applications development, planning and development of financial analysis tools, systems support, training, LAN/WAN and Global networking. Directed IT.

Served as coordinator and project leader for developers authoring in Microsoft development environments. Applications Developer for the following environments: MS Visual Basic, MS Visual C++, MS Access and Office integration, SQL, Great Plains Dexterity, JavaScript, Pascal, HTML, and Lotus Notes.