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Sunnyvale, CA

Sunnyvale, CA

• Ongoing Program Management and Project Management responsibility for development of the MLS-Touch mobile application and partner relationship management.MLS-Touch is a mobile application that allows real estate.
• Successfully drove Project Management activities in migrating MLSListings' applications and services to Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing service.
• Responsible for managing MLSListings' Salesforce instance and System Administrators.

Palo Alto, CA

• Speaker Liaison, Grace Hopper Celebration 2016 - Organizational Transformation Team
• I was part of the GHC Organizational Transformation (OT) Team responsible for successful delivery of the OT track at the October, 2016 Grace Hopper Celebration.
• Worked directly with all of the OT speakers and teams to develop content, schedule and logistics for the OT track.
• Established weekly “stand-up” meetings with teams to obtain status, answer questions, troubleshoot and ensure speakers were on track to meet their OT track schedule milestones.
• Reported status back to OT organizers.
• Collaborated with ABI Speaker Coach to schedule run-through of presentations with each team prior to GHC.

Mountain View, CA

• Yuzu is a 100+ person “self contained” consumer electronics products group within Barnes & Noble Education, Inc.Staffed, managed and mentored a strong team of Scrum Masters and Engineering Project Managers. Planned.
• Created the Yuzu PMO from the ground up. Developed simple, flexible, effective release processes, operational procedures and standards. Drove portfolio planning and management from concept to launch. Led SOX and PCI.
• Developed and managed Partner Programs with the largest educational learning and software publishing houses in the US; Cengage Learning, Wiley, McGraw-Hill, Pearson and Penguin Random House.
• Simultaneously managed and released multi-platform development projects and services.
• Consistently met/exceeded objectives for on-time delivery of releases and partner programs.
• Participated in strategic planning meetings with, and presented to, Executive Staff and Strategic Partners.

Reno, Nevada Area

• Successfully refined and drove all Program Management and Operational activities in Renown's sub-licensing of its Electronic Medical Record System (Epic) to Critical Access Hospitals, Partners and Affiliates.
• Set strategy, defined requirements and implementation, led cross-functional/cross-organizational clinical and revenue cycle teams, managed partner communication and pre-post go-live support working with Epic corporate.
• Developed a successful working project plan and implemented simple processes for go-live plans from the ground up for Epic sub-licensing projects for multiple organizations and Partners in remote locations.

Truckee, California

• Performed workflow analysis, development and refinement for clinical and revenue cycle areas. Worked with Lawson, Next-Gen and Meditech EMR systems. Assisted with IT Operations.
• Designed curriculum for Project Management Training Program for Healthcare IT teams, consultant for Document Scanning and EMR implementation, Meaningful Use, HIPPA, Governance and Standards, Business Process and.
• Volunteer Project Manager on R&D team chartered to create rural mobile computing solutions for physicians using iOS and other devices.

San Jose, CA

• Managed a large team of Technical Engineering Project Managers and Release Engineers.
• Led the Release Management activities of Cisco IOS Mainline, Specials, Maintenance and Enterprise Services releases – including integration of new acquisitions. This involved product integration with contributions from.
• Successfully integrated new acquisitions into the Cisco product development process and delivered their products on time.
• Successfully managed development and deployment of 5 web-based, customer-facing tools, which decreased TAC call center calls by 48%. Project teams were located in various cities across the US, Asia and Europe.
• Created a Release Management Process & Procedure Guide for Business Units and Partners. This allowed newly acquired companies and partners to understand and become part of Cisco’s processes and successfully transition.
• Redesigned and implemented Cisco’s Next Generation New Product Life Cycle corporate-wide, which resulted in smoother release management and integration.

Cupertino, CA

• Improved CI Labs’ operational, legal and financial position and managed Partner relationships (Apple, Adobe, IBM, Novell, Just Systems), programs, legal and technology transactions.
• Reduced fixed costs of operations by 50%.
• Briefed partner CEO’s from Apple, Adobe, IBM, Novell and Just Systems, as well as managed their logistics for a major trade show.♦ Senior Program Manager, OpenDoc (1995 - 1996)
• Developed, planned, tracked, communicated and managed schedules across Apple and Partner software development teams.

Milpitas, CA

• Recruited to bring a major system software release back on track. Reduced schedule by 30%.
• Created Octel’s PMO from the ground up. Managed a team of senior SW & HW Engineering Project Managers.
• Led cross-functional team to develop and document efficient product development lifecycle processes which enabled us to reduce time to market.
• Successfully project managed the VMX merger, without disruption to either teams project schedules.

Cupertino, CA

• Successfully developed, planned, tracked, communicated and managed release schedules for medium to large-scale system software projects across cross-functional hardware and software development teams.
• All projects met or beat project timelines.
• Key member on the Apple New Product Process team - chartered to develop efficient processes to allow hardware and software to release concurrently. The core of this process is still in use at Apple today.

Certificate In Project Management

Bachelor’S Degree, Business Administration

Certificate In International Software Licensing

Education record

Certificate In Iso9000 Auditing/Assessing

Certificate Lean Six Sigma, Healthcare & Information Technology, 2010