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Charlotte, Nc

Leveraged over two decades in cross-functional team leadership, effective and efficient IT project management, BI analytics innovation, and keeping organizations at the cutting-edge of technology servicing bottom line growth to oversee the company’s leading-edge BI platform (MicroStrategy). Rapidly learned best practices to serve the largest logistics, supply chain and supply vessel operator in the world ($39B annual revenue; 80K+ employees; operations in 130 countries). Drove high quality and cost-focused operation, maintenance, deployment, implementation, and management of the platform.- Utilized deep HR and personnel development expertise to train and mentor staff of diverse cultures, overcoming language and experience challenges to empower members to develop expertise in Ansible scripts, infrastructure capabilities, and complex IT project responsibilities.- Led a cross-functional team (direct/indirect).Spearheaded business and technical support models development.- Bottom line responsibility for the relationship between Maersk and MicroStrategy — renegotiated a $70K savings.- Facilitated the team in ensuring MicroStrategy was fully operational, overall architecture implementation, development of a security/access model, creation and implementation of communities, server stability, and performance tuning.- Used strong relationship development skills to oversee 3rd party vendors.- Administered contract and licensing management. Influential in achieving $100K cost savings through supporting a seamless migration from on-premise data centers to Maersk’s private Azure Cloud.- Assisted in proactively consolidating platforms and environments. Successfully managed multiple updates during tenure. Assisted in implementing Scrum/Agile across the design and development organization.

Belmont, Nc

Provided healthcare supply chain consulting services to various clients.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Lead a 12-person development & support team in the creation of the SpendAdvisor® supply chain business intelligence application, meeting budget and deadline requirements as part of daily accountabilities. Advance project completion through requirements elicitation & analysis, UX/UI design & research, quality assurance, and final installation and launch. Manage and support established product lines. Originate product development roadmaps in direct conjunction with the Product Manager, effectively identifying and managing client expectations and feedback. Supervise 2 Business Analysts. • Showcased company products as a dynamic presenter to clients, C-Level executives, and attendees at such events as the National Pharmacy Purchasing, ASHP, and the Annual Breakthrough conferences. • Stimulate new business through well-crafted RFP responses. Employ such quality resources as mortality rate and billing costs by doc, practice, and peers. Partnered with IBM to successfully integrate supply chain, clinical, quality, and labor/productivity data using a comprehensive platform. • Praised for the successful development and introduction of both the Failure to Supply application and the GA rollout of Contract Modeling functions.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Launched the PharmacySpend™ reporting module and Dashboard using a MicroStrategy and Adobe Flex platform as outlined in a personally devised and executed product roadmap, closely partnering with assigned Project Managers. Pioneered such tools as the Contract and Impact Analytics functions to support Pharmacy Sourcing and the Premier Analytical Contract Engine (PACE). Forecast future fiscal year budget cycles and drafted annual product planning strategies. Supervised key operational requirements vital to product development and management as a dynamic representative performing presentations for various stakeholders, including senior leaders & executive committees. • Teamed with Product Managers to incorporate PharmacySpend™ roadmap capabilities into other applications, maximizing universal functions and platforms. • Promoted to Product Director in 2008

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Defined the design and governing business rules for an automatic tiered price verification system as part of pharmacy space requirements. Delivered exceptional client technical support as a recognized subject matter expert for the PharmacySpend™ application. Generated elicitation requirements fueling the creation of SpendAdvisor® PharmacySpend™. Oversaw product advisory work groups. Authored applicable business requisites documentation, skillfully coordinating its transition among the business, development, and quality assurance teams. • Promoted to PharmacySpend™ Product Manager.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Constructed, supported, and managed numerous Oracle database projects crucial to backend functions of the company’s clinical analytical product suite. Handled database schema design and production, security administration, performance improvement, operational administration, module & script coding, and troubleshooting. Supported end users and GUI development team members. Acted as an intermediary between the database administration team & end users. • Educated end users on SQL to help them access back end raw data by creating various training programs. • Systematized processes to load standard and master data, additionally creating supporting documents, protocols, and scripts.• Composed specific code modules for effective data archiving and deletion.