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Responsible for managing a 250 m + portfolio approval process and the annual demand management portfolio process including project prioritization process, value realization for projects and portfolios, investment alignment . Oversees IT Project Portfolio operations and integration of portfolio management into the IT Functions. Manage IT Portfolios of commercial, security and risk, and global support functions (HR, REFS).Tracked project metrics, ensured portfolio readiness, alignment to strategy and financial management. Managed Project escalations and provided remediation. Ensured project readiness for financial approval and alignment to strategy.

Formulated key business relationships within GCO to align business strategies with technology initiatives to maximize the business value of IT investments while aligning to portfolio targets. Created technology roadmaps, defined application lifecycle. Drove POCs in GCO to enable innovation and demonstrate capabilities to the business. Managed third party services for application support.

Managed the Development Portfolio of projects and applications and tracked financials. Responsible for ensuring quality of IT portfolio data and providing analysis, insights, and recommendations to ensure optimal IT project investment decisions and outcomes and report on portfolio risks. Supported the project prioritization and budget process for DI.

Responsible for establishing and maintaining controls that support key performance indicators, organization roles and responsibilities, application portfolio rationalization, management decision support tools, and best practices. Created and oversee Business Relationship function which serves as the focal point for web services for the business IT areas. Responsible for fostering and building strategic relationships with customers. Created Service Strategy and Service design for Enterprise Web services.

Worked at Novartis Consumer Health and Forest Labortories

Designed strategy to optimize end user experience, key business drivers with costs of services. Created a continuous improvement process to improve end user experience. Designed and manage a global service organization responsible for setting business and supporting technology priorities. Established and managed relationships with global business activities for end user computing applications.

Oversaw an application that hosted one half of all US prescription data. Responsible for working with the business to ensure that the client requests of HMOs and hospitals were processed timely and correctly to ensure the delivery of prescriptions Worked with business to manage expectations and assess and prioritize workload.