Responsible for the IT Project Management, IT Compliance and IT Budgeting functions at SJI.

Promoted to position. Leads the IT Project Management Organization, maturing project management practices and implementing governance/processes related to portfolio, program and project management. Responsible for recruiting, onboarding and managing a team of 30 program managers, project managers and business analysts. Manages a $30M-$40M annual IT project budget, with direct oversight of all phases of project management, forecasting, status reporting, demand management and resource management. • Developed overall vision and strategy for SJI’s IT PMO and introduced disciplines of program, project and resource management to the organization. • Established an extensible PMO governance structure, successfully aligning IT projects into programs, and standardizing project management processes and artifacts.• Early adopter of Microsoft SharePoint, Teams and PowerBI for collaboration, document/artifact management, and reporting for all projects; designed standard project SharePoint site format and dashboards.• Led planning, recruitment, onboarding and overarching program management of IT components for $1.7B acquisition; $90M IT budget over 2 ½ years. On target and under budget for Q1 2020 implementation.• Successfully planned and executed all IT aspects of 3 divestitures.• Coordinated information gathering and testimony for 2 rate case submissions.• Developed and streamlined repeatable processes for demand management, monthly project budget forecasts, reconciling of actuals, resource planning/forecasting, and contractor time entry.• Develops and nurtures “Second Hat” relationships with key executive business stakeholders.• Manages and mentors all program managers, project managers and business analysts. Recruits and onboards new staff as needed.

Hired as sole IT project manager. Reestablished the value of project management within the organization by introducing basic project management methodologies. Immediately recognized as a leader in IT and trusted partner across the organization by providing transparency, standard processes and artifacts, accountability, and KPIs for measuring project progress and performance.• Implemented standard PM artifacts • Managed as many as 8 projects simultaneously from initiation to closure. Included all planning, budgeting, forecasting.• Consistently delivered projects on time, on budget and to agreed scope.• Planned and implemented the foundation of an IT PMO, including “just enough” governance, project alignment to programs, collaboration tools, standard meeting cadence, capture and distribution of minutes/actions, RAID logs, stage-gates, signoffs, change management and audit compliance.• Recruited, onboarded and managed additional project managers and business analysts.

$12B global information solutions business serving financial & risk, tax and accounting, legal and intellectual property & science professions.Drove improvement, maintenance and support of content and editorial systems across the Intellectual Property & Science division. Managed a team of 50+ technology professionals across 6 global locations. • Spearheaded and led multi-phase, multi-year content production platform re-engineering project. Key accomplishments included: development and implementation of streamlined processes driven by automated business rules, creation of content masters for automated data resolution, full technology refresh (SOA, Java, Spring, Hibernate, Oracle, BPM), scalability and extensibility.• Member of Technology Leadership Team; worked with CTO and technology VPs to define and align to strategic vision.• IP & Science representative for Technology Diversity Champions; focused on gender diversity, talent attraction and retention.

Managed and led a globally dispersed staff of managers, developers, solutions analysts and architects who designed, developed, tested, implemented and supported content technology solutions for the Intellectual Property & Science business at Thomson Reuters.• Planned and initiated multi-phase, multi-year content production platform re-engineering project. • Planned and executed organizational re-design to align with location strategy and re-balance contractor/FTE footprint. • Expanded development and analysis staff by 30+; added teams in India and Barcelona.• Implemented Agile methodology across project teams.• Spearheaded full analysis of “as is” systems and processes, including system diagrams and process maps; used as a foundation for “to be” process maps.• Instituted formal development processes, change management, code reviews.• Initiated collaborative activities with business partners in editorial, operations and product to ensure content systems were enabling key business initiatives, and improving quality, timeliness and efficiency.• Focus areas: leveraging of shared services, consolidation, automation, efficiency.

Planned, organized and coordinated high-profile process improvement and cost savings projects.• Established and progressed project management of several key initiatives to move operations functions from US to India; monitored and tracked all aspects of transition from training and proficiency build, to RIF, to cost savings.• Led and drove Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) emerging business opportunity; played integral role in design and development of prototype for market segment testing.

Ran point on all aspects of the SDLC for strategic content technology initiatives.• Advanced initiative to convert paper-based patent production to proprietary content management and editorial workflow system. Efficiency gains and cost savings exceeded 50% and provided opportunities for content expansion.• Developed requirements and managed migration of legacy systems to new editorial processes and automated workflow.• Developed and strengthened client relationships.

• Designed and implemented enhancements to and evolution of proprietary data capture software and workflow processing system.• Headed efforts to externalize workflow management and data capture system; negotiated first external lease of system.

Created and updated help system and technical user manual for economic forecasting software.