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• Responsible for the project management throughout the entire project lifecycle of Revenue Cycle, including project Initiation/proposals, project delivery, business liaison / stakeholder management, post implementation review and project close out / handover. Ensured all milestones achieved in timeframe.• Effectively and efficiently ensure all projects are executed on time, budget and within scope by following the project management methodology.• Collaborating and communicating daily with Sr. Leadership, design, and technical development teams• Manage project budgets and communicate to business sponsors on weekly status of project burn out• Manages multiple, medium to large capital and non-capital projects simultaneously.• Ensures that in-flights reviews and quality assurance procedures take place for all projects.• Minimizes IT s exposure and risk on projects. Solves conflicts and issues in a timely manner, escalating to manager as appropriate.• Acts as a liaison between disparate business and technical teams by planning, conducting, and directing the analysis of complex business problems as it relates to technical systems. • Developed mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and migration of problems with project managers, line managers and clients.• Provides technical assistance in identifying, evaluating, and developing systems and processes that are cost effective and meet business requirements. Works with technical support teams and business groups to analyze metrics and/or create metrics when not present. • Conducted a current state vs. target state gap analysis, and remediation phase for all projects.• May act as an internal consultant within technology and business groups by using quality tools and process definition/improvement to re-engineer technical processes for greater efficiencies.

• Responsible for the project management throughout the entire DevOps project lifecycle, including project Initiation/proposals, project delivery, business liaison / stakeholder management, post implementation review and project close out / handover. • Completely overhauled project management system workflow to create reliable reports and ensure accuracy• Implemented Time Tracking software application that increased workflow throughout UHG/Optum360 centers.• Salvaged troubled project for Optum360 Finance reporting, stepping in after delays damaged client relationship. Drew up new schedules, control request, identified and resolved issues and delivered system ahead of revised schedule. • Produced an effective plan & risk assessment so that timescales and project costs are underwritten, understood and accepted by all stakeholders. Set budgets for project time scales and deadlines with clients.• Managed staff to ensure that all milestones are achieved within the agreed timeframes.• Conducted a current state vs. target state gap analysis, and remediation phase for the project.• Conducted regular impact analysis in order to assess the consequences of the project deliverables on other sections of the business.• Assisted the technical team in their design and development tasks.• Produced project definitions to include validated functional requirements, scope, roles, responsibilities, budgets, timescales and resources. Ensuring accurate records of expenditure, accounting, costing and billing.

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Partners with clients to define scope and objectives based on business needs and thorough understanding of end-to-end business processes.• Lead requirement gathering sessions to evaluate and document existing business processes within IT asset management.• Implemented multiple data migration efforts with business vendors improving data quality and timing.• Successfully managed data migration projects, software releases and overall product quality delivery. Monitors, controls and manages overall project execution, including budget, scope, structure, schedules, processes and resources.• Contribute to the successful completion of project deliverables by working autonomously on selected deliverables including research, testing and functional validation. • Collaborated and ran sprint planning, daily stand ups, and release management for 15+ engineers working on 5 separate applications and platforms.

• Worked directly with our 32 Healthcare business partners and customers when appropriate to identify cross-functional solutions and opportunities for improvement. • Implemented three” GO Lives” with IBM, General Dynamics and State Street. • Improved existing Payroll arrears practices which decreased defects and anomalies. • Researched and analyzed specific business processes and structures to support integration into new and existing technology platforms. (ORACLE and HOBs Environments).• Supported all aspects of the project lifecycle including research and analysis, requirements documentation, user acceptance testing and implementation.• Recognized by Leadership and Peers as Employee of the Quarter recipient Q1 2015

Project management team member for multi-year, concurrent projects. Subject matter expertise in Global Production Management Corporate and Commercial Operations. Responsibilities including insuring milestones, dependencies, and critical path. Demonstrated analytical skills, communication skills, coordination of project activities, change control, attention to detail without daily supervision. Perform daily activities in support of market data vendor contract administration and budget to ensure that centralize services (invoices, accrual and reporting) are align with SLAAct as a vendor and business partner liaison by developing relationships with offshore business partners, internal business partners, client contacts and 3rd party vendors. Provide assistance as a point of escalation for business issues.Managed monthly audits and help in managing forecast spending limits per business units.Experience in AGILE development methodologyWork as a part of a team of business representatives on the project. Support all aspects of the project lifecycle including research and analysis, requirements documentation, user acceptance testing and implementation.Recognized as “Veritude Employee of the fourth quarter” 2012 by senior mgmt and my peers.

Leverage technology and detailed understanding of the business to research and analyze data in order to identify and determine the root cause of defects. Reconcile very large datasets to identify anomalies and variances. Interpret information needs into economical, logical and useful solutions for complex systems