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Atlanta, Ga, Us

White Plains, Ny, Us

Project Manager, Contingent. Reporting to Sr. Manager IT Project delivery. The first project was assigned to AGILe, “Advanced Grid Innovation Lab for Energy”, Phase I, AGILE Lab Phase I a $13m project to create a Digital Twin of the NYPA Grid. Project Management responsibilities, integrating AGILe Lab into the NYPA IT Governance program, and restructuring AGILe Lab project Financials. Restructure required full analysis of AGILe Programs Project structure, financial tracking. Working with the director of AGILe Lap, the VP of Technology, and the director of Strategic Planning, to understand AGILe Program structure contracts, and provide a financial coaching and a restructuring plan, the effort required following and understanding the NYPA IT Gov. procedures, and coordinating with appropriate stakeholders, providing detailed plans. The Project was completed successfully, and ahead of schedule. Promoted to Program Manager, NYPA IT Governance, assigned to fill a leadership gap, oversee the Common App Lem Program NYPA, the largest NYPA IT program, consisting of 24 critical projects, majority of the projects were app upgrades and moves to AWS cloud. Oversaw a budget of $8.5 million CY Base. Six active projects, to go live by May 2024 and close by June 2024, kicked off 12 projects to be complete by end of 2024, Following NYPA’s “extensive” PMI waterfall stage gate deployment process. Coordinate the project(s) and their interdependence between various projects and programs within departments or business units. Strong experience as project or program manager of large and complex projects or programs. Advanced knowledge of project and program management methodologies. Understanding of the business and strategic goals, managed deliverables, resources, procurement, change requests, presented weekly program status, lead Steering committee, lead RFP, SOWs, and purchase requests. All active projects were on track and ready for closure, 2024 projects kick off.

Milpitas, California, Us

UHG Optum, Hartford CT, Cognizant contractor Sr. Scrum Master, leading Multiple enterprise-critical Projects. Direct and Mentor Multiple Off-shore Dev/QA Scrum Teams 40+ resources. Optum OMNI Multi-year project. Goal to transition United Health’s Legacy Call routing systems to Genesis call Movement systems utilized by 50,000+ Call gents, doctors, providers, and millions of clients. SLA of zero dropped calls. Accountable for assuring day to day team Development and QA teams, performance and execution, release planning. Providing Capacity, and velocity planning, and Financial Forecasting. Successfully lead Life Sciences industry teams across all programs, technical all areas of UHG enterprise. Own, resolve and escalates impediments, remediate, resource constrains, ensure timely value in delivery, and drive program-level continuous improvement new to Agile and Scrum, report to Sr. UHG/Optum VP Leadership. Provide detailed planning and find efficiencies that will enhance overall delivery.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, In

Travelers Ins. Hartford Ct, Program manager Technical Currency, Contractor LTI, on site. Mar 2019 - August 2019o Value Stream Program Manager, oversea 4 business critical Value streams; offshore team of 60+ programmers and Product owners and onshore team of 5 contractors. Accountable for assuring day to day ART performance and execution. Successfully lead the Value Streams resolve and escalates impediments, remediated multiple risks ActiveX, GitHub, Grid, resource constrains, ensure value in delivery, and drive a program level continuous improvement. Oversaw the RTE PI planning, Drove a Program plan that engaged all program levels to find efficiencies that will enhance the Technical Currency value stream performance. Worked across the ARTs to find resource opportunities, removed obstacles, mitigated Risks and issues. Managing Staffing Plan and finding cost saving across the ARTs and Value streams.

Paris, Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Fr

Nestle Waters, Stamford Ct, Senior Project Manager /Scrum Master. Contractor, on site. Sept 2018 - Nov 2018o Scrum Master/Program Manager, lead two Nestle business critical projects that were in jeopardy of failure, to success. o Nestle Waters Data analytics, data warehouse Azure Project. Project was in a stalled status, business and IT could not reach an agreement. Needed a PM with the ability to bring diverse teams together to come to a mutual understanding that is best for the business. Lead the Data Analytics project, marketing data located on multiple legacy systems, move to a new Azure data warehouse. Coordinated IT resources, data security compliance, identify requirements. Business leads, IT Leads, external developers’ to meet the business needs for Nestle Water Consumer Package Goods Sales. Utilizing waterfall and agile/scrum methodologies; daily standups, sprint planning, utilizing MS VSTS and DevOPs reporting tools. Mitigated risks and issues and represented the project through Go Live, leadership steering review. Working with IT projects and business partners, worked closely with Sr. Leadership to ensure department goals are accomplished. Project on schedule completed Dec 19th. 2018.o Global Nestle marketing, new palette design. As Senior PM understand the scope at the enterprise level, bring all the right resources together. Nestle goal, design a new packaging solutions with multiple configs. Project was a year behind schedule needed to be completed by Mid-March 2019. Delays were mostly due to a re-org earlier in the year, new team’s and new management, project needed someone to tie up all the loose ends. All areas of Nestle Water need to be represented; FINANCE, Operations, Transportation, marketing, materials handling, off site packing, packaging, pricing, warehousing, and IT. New Brand required end to end testing for quality. Project passed regression testing went into Production Jan 19, 2019. One month ahead of schedule.

Forchheim, De

Siemens Erlangen Germany. Senior Project Manager. Nov 2017 – March 2018 Contractor, work from home, with 40% international travel IT DAM Digital Asset management project for Siemens-Healthineers Erlangen Germany MCS o Scrum Master, Lead the Siemens IT, DAM’s Digital Asset management project for all Siemens-Healthineers global marketing div. Took over as lead and Scrum Master of the DAM’s project; consolidate Siemens Global Digital Marketing infrastructure, housed across multiple DB systems. Lead Application owners, Marketing, infrastructure teams, DBA, Devops, in daily stand ups, back log management, iteration planning, requirements gathering, design requirements, ROI opportunities, leading steering committees and quality planning. Coordinated a successful Vendor RFP, oversaw $1.3m budget and financials, contract negotiations, resource, and represented the team at executive leadership budget and program reviews. Coordinated integration phases for SaaS DAMs solution, road maps and schedules. o Lead the Siemens IT One Library Digital asset management project, IT, DAM’s Digital Asset management project for all Siemens-Healthineers marketing div. Took over as the IT lead of the ONE library solution, another SaaS digital asset tool, that enables sales & marketing to easily personalize marketing artifacts towards customer needs and to deliver these messages in ONE harmonized way. As lead, removed obstacles, coordinated quality requirements and represented the project through Go Live, leadership review, approved, with roll out to 6 other countries worldwide planned for 2018.

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Optum. Division of UHG UnitedHealth Care. Director - Senior Project Manager/Scrum Master. July 2011 – July 2017 Next Generation IEI: New Optum team startup: Next Generation Cloud Enterprise Innovation: o Lead Optum Next Generation, cutting edge innovation across Optum Cloud Services. Acting Program Manager/Scrum Master, develop an innovation strategy, build a portfolio of technology strategies and revenue generating opportunities that will increase cloud productivity, maturity and innovation, over the next 5 years. Next Generation IEI, Scrum Master Lead Cloud Services. Jan 2017 July 2017o Cloud Services Tools overlap: Scrum master.o Agile (Certified) Scrum Master: Goal to mentor and Mature Optum’s Agile initiatives. 2014 – 2017Scrum Master, Agile coach: Data Transfers application development: mentor and coach multiple Devops application development Safe teams a New “Endpoint” Data Transfer application, critical for moving, scheduling immense amounts of UHG Data between data pools. Assist tracking the execution of features and capabilities. Facilitate periodic synchronization meetings Demo’s, including the ART sync at the Program Level. Agile Methodology, established first PI planning sessions, Scrum of scrums, acting RTE successful PI ceremonies, and breakout sessions. Lead the successful EndPoint application release and 4 consecutive version releases. o Scrum Master: Matured Multiple Network Scrum Teams: Mentored coached creation of Enterprise Strategic themes into a stable Agile Scrum teams. Trained and coordinated the Network teams on agile methodologies, utilizing CA’s Rally, Agile tool. Successfully lead Agile Assist tracking the execution of features and capabilities, Scrum team through multiple releases, and all Agile ceremonies. Facilitate PI Planning readiness, Facilitate the PI planning events, Summarize Team PI Objectives into Program PI Objectives.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Equifax Enterprise Monitoring Solution, Operational Model.Consolidate Health Net’s Corporate Data Center to IBM managed Data CenterTransition Manager, Integrated Technology Delivery, Service Mgt. (Contractor WFH 120k).• Equifax Account: 4 month project, Responsible for leading project Silo, in delivering Equifax Enterprise Monitoring Solution, Operational Model. Responsible for overall project performance, managing scope, schedule, and contractual deliverables. • IBM is rolling out an Enterprise wide IT monitoring suite of tools, Tivoli ITM, TPM, DBMS,TCM, TADDM, TWS, ITCAM, IBM Systems Director, SRM, SDP / CMI, Fusion, NetScout, KVM & DSView, and Maximo to replace CA Unicenter. Scope: to define an Operating Model to be in place for all monitoring tools and integrating the tools which have been implemented as part of project. Currently in the initiation phase, performing Due diligence, gathering Business Requirements data collection, and resource identification, analyzing current state and future state event workflows.• Sub projects, ITCAM Pilot (internet Traffic Monitoring), Manage the implement/integrating a working ITCAM model in Equifax’s secured Environment.July 2009 – July 2010.Transition Manager, Integrated Technology Delivery, Service Mgt. (Contractor WFH 120k). • Health Net Account: Responsible for leading project teams and technical silos, in delivering Data Center Relocation solutions. Responsible for overall project performance, managing scope, schedule, and contractual deliverables. • Accomplishments:• Health Net (Rancho Cordova CA.) Relocate and

Bloomfield, Ct, Us

SR Project Manager, CIGNA Hartford, CT Infrastructure Specialist 1yr Contract Jan 2008-Dec 2008· Reporting to the VP Professional Services.· Responsibilities: Manage CIGNA Enterprise Initiatives. Driving the project form Kickoff to Close, Creating the Statement of work, project plan, Coordinating and leading project meetings, Risk Mgt, Budget Mgt, Resource Mgt. Task Mgt. and Reporting. Managing the full Project Lifecycle.· Closed 10: Infrastructure project. · Completed Four: New Product/Application projects. All with a projected usage of ten million plus customers.· Completed One: Sun Solaris 10 Enterprise wide upgrade. Consisting of 200 plus servers, in 5 Environments· Completed One: Business Critical application Oracle 10.2 and Seibel 8 upgrade including a Production Server Refresh. · Completed Two: Government Compliance Projects: Requiring Application development, to meet HIPA and Legal Requirements.· Completed One: Network Refresh project implementation of MAZU Network Behavioral Analysis Appliances.· Completed One: CISCO Network Compliance Manager Network analysis took implementation.· Created CIGNA “Infrastructure Operations Process flow”: Analyzed current CIGNA infrastructure operation, created a process flow (in VISIO) that explains each step of Infrastructure operations, Where there was none before. The Process flow was created to help improve; Infrastructure Resource on-boarding and improve internal / External customers understanding of Infrastructure operations, Presented the to CIGNA IT Executives. The Process flow has become the Benchmark for CIGNA Infrastructure Operations.

Frankfurt Am Main, Hessen, De

SR Project Manager, Deutsche Bank 60 Wall Street NY, NY. Out-Sourcing Specialist, 6 mo Contract, · Reporting to the Deutsche Bank Global Director, Services and Security: · Responsibilities: · Project SOM (Standard Operations Model) 750m, 6 Month Project, Oversee Off-Shoring initiatives, 52 Global Business units, 1500 positions to new facilities in India, Bangalore and Mumbai, by Dec 2007, est. cost savings of 25m per year: Project requirements; Managing: PMO Project Plans, Project dashboard development, (Using MS project), Global Resources, interface with DB Business, Built End User Transition Department, Created the EUTM Web Site which automates EUTM services and quick launch site for DB Business Off-shoring. Coordinating Global DB groups, establishing process work flows (Using VISIO), define Roles and Responsibilities, build support services infrastructure, Local Server Consolidations, manage off-shoring schedules, and manage Remote and local Support Resources. Coordinate the build out of India Infrastructure/Facilities Data Centers, Build out for Networks, Servers, IS, Storage, DR, Data, application pkg, VOIP, Migration form Citrix to new VDI environment, Coordinating Local and Regional Banking compliance requirements for DR, Storage, E-mail retention. Responsible for chairing Meetings, Steering Committee presentations, Presented to Senior DB Business and IT executives. Project is in a Full Production Sate. Project Completed on Schedule.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

· IBM Data Center Relocation: Responsible for leading project teams in delivering Data Center Relocation solution to the IBM customers using the appropriate business baseline measurements, terms and conditions for the project according to the project charter, project agreement or contract. Overall performance responsibility for managing scope, cost, schedule, and contractual deliverables, which includes applying techniques for planning, tracking, change control, and risk management. Over see all project resources, including subcontractors, vendors and for establishing an effective communication plan with the project teams. Provide day to day direction to the project team and regular project status report to the customer. o Smurfit Stone Container (Alton, IL) November 2006 – April 2007 Relocate and Consolidate, Corporate Data Center to new facility St Louis, MO. Overseeing Data Center, Move Waves 1 -10 Optimization, Consolidation and Relocation. Responsibilities: Analyze customer Current IT Enterprise: Perform Asset inventory, Data Collection. Perform Customer interviews: Applications, Mainframe, Midrange, Wintel, Storage, networks, DC Infrastructure. Identify gaps, Data Migration Planning, Future State Environment, move day timelines, status reports, Project plans, resource mgt, Risk Mgt, Change Mgt, pre and post Test plans. Meet all deliverables and Milestones. Relocation, Executed and completed on schedule. Daniel K. JoppPage 3o Stater Brothers Co. San Bernardino, CA. 3 week project. Assist in IT Asset Data Collection, data consolidation and validation, developed detailed asset report to support Project Kick off, for the Data Center Relocation.o First Data Corporation: 3 Week Project. Lead DC Relocation kick off, set customer expectations, establish guide lines roles and responsibilities, define scope of work, silo schedules, and Draft a Project plan to set direction and Project

PACS Technical Manager = Technology Solution Co. Health Care Div. (Employee) 90% Travel · PACS Technical Manager for a small start-up Health Care PACS division of TSC, Medical Digital Imaging. (16 Consultants all prior GE employees). Strong knowledge of Radiology, PAC infrastructure and Integration, Modality DICOM Readiness, Digital imaging, HL7, CR Computed Radiology, HIS and RIS environments. Spent 3 months as Technical Lead on a McKesson PACS project at OSF Health Care Systems Illinois 6 remote hospitals 200 bed avg. and 30 – 60 modalities each, 4.5m. Visited each site performed a PACS Assessments, evaluate Modality DICOM/HL7 Readiness, Due Diligence, Risk management, Analyze CMO, developing data collection tools, working with PACS and Modality vendors, scheduling upgrades. Working closely with hospital Radiology staff to train them on becoming DICOM Compatible. All 6 OSF sites went Image-store and PACS live on schedule. Helped to develop PACS implementation tools that have become the standard for the new TSC Health Care division.

Norwalk, Ct, Us

RESPONSIBILITIES: Champion Global IT projects for Internal and External GE Customers. Specializing in IT acquisitions and transitions. Business Goal, Integrate and standardize IT services across all GE Businesses.Highlights: Transitioned the following GE Businesses, IT infrastructures, into GE IT Solutions Division.· 2004 2.5m GE Aircraft Engines 3 months.12,00 seats, 65 US, 9 Eastern Europe, 5 Asian sites. · 2003 3.7m GE Medical Systems 6 months. 18,000 seats, 120 US, Global Asset management Project.· 2003 1.2m GE Equipment Mgt 2 months. (Fleet, Rail) 8,600 seats, 30 US, 5 Europe, 4 Global locations.· 2002 4.5m GE Consumer Finance 6 months. 9,000 seats, 45 US, 2, Europe, 4 Global locations.· Goal: Maximize resource integration opportunities, Implement offshore helpdesk services, analyze and integrate server mainframe and network environments into GEITS managed Services. Develop and maintain 100% availability of service · Managed Business Partnership. Strategic use of resources, TOI and ROI. Industry best practices for IT services negotiation.· Developed multi-generational project plans (MS Project 2003) maintaining, Schedules, Budgets, Change control, and resources, exceeding expectations. · Analyzed current operations for best performance, Interviewed and evaluated incumbent staff, on average reduced IT staffing by 30% to 40% at the same time improved Service levels 75% to 95% and reduced operation costs by 15% to 25% (Millions saved per/year per/business)· Developed a Transition plan that has become the “play book” for all GE IT transitions.· All Projects completed on schedule and under budget using GE Best Practices, Six Sigma Quality and PMI Standards.

Norwalk, Ct, Us

RESPONSIBILITIES: IT Infrastructure, 650 node. (Staff of 6) Lead all Distributed Computing Projects, 1.5 Million budget, hardware and software, switched network, servers, DR, security and PC upgrade. Project development (MS Project), maintain, and troubleshoot all network connectivity (VISIO), inventory, and Manage network team and exceed service levels. HIGHLIGHTS: Project Lead, Card Services Corporate infrastructure consolidation Stamford 1600, 2001:· Developed Full MS project plan, Time, budget and Resource assignment.· PC Rollout, work with vendors to coordinate offshore helpdesk, imaging, inventory, schedule implementation, and hardware removal, reduced IT staff form 12 to 6 and improved support SLAs form 88% to 99% .

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