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United States

Providing Senior Level Technical Program/Project Manager and Enterprise Architecture expertise to large Fortune 100 companies. Currently delivering highly sought after expertise as a Business Architect for a leading Fortune 100 Health Care company on large multi-million dollar digital transformation projects. Roles require significant IT, Cloud, Enterprise.

United States

Technical Program/Project Manager for large Fortune 100 companies (in the telecommunications and health-care industries). Delivered significant value and ROI on several large multi-million dollar digital transformation projects. Projects required significant IT, Cloud, Enterprise Architecture, Agile and Business experience / acumen. Roles also required.

• Sr. Project Manager, Strong-Bridge Consulting
• Project Manager for major components of an extensive Digital Transformation effort at a leading network management provider. This was a mission critical $100 Million+ effort to position this company for survival in the.
• Led team responsible for development of a new customer-facing portal designed to be the ‘face’ of this transformation. The new portal would provide access to a new subscription model, new products, self-help and.
• Coordinated sprint planning and testing, along with team velocity management, staffing, and budgeting. Initiated effort leading to cross-functional UAT.
• Results: o Successful release of this brand-new portal (first of its kind for this company). Release is estimated to improve net incremental revenue by $60 million annually. o Coming into the project mid-way, I led the.

United States

• Sr. Project Manager, Strong-Bridge Consulting
• Led large cross functional CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote) digital transformation at one of the leading Telecoms. This effort was designated as one of the Top 10 company initiatives (50 million-dollar project). Platform.
• Led approx. 10 cross-functional teams in discovery and documentation of Epics, Use Cases, Personas and User Stories.
• Results: o Successful launch, resulting in $100 Million improvement in top-line revenue. o Led the team to an 80% first pass acceptance of scope and effort by Stakeholders, with remaining 20% resolved during Program.

• Starbucks, Manager, Global Portfolio & Strategy
• Led a team of 6 PM’s responsible for day-to-day and strategic management of Starbucks new product pipeline (representing $4 Billion in investments annually).
• Led the NPI (New Product Introduction) phase-gate process, including all the related decision processes.
• Developed and proposed a unique New Product Continuous Innovation process
• Results: o Innovative use of BI to deliver insights used for prioritization of resources and products resulting in an incremental $300 Million added to the new product pipeline with $50 million improvement to the.

Greater Boston Area

Working with the State of MA, through Accelare to move the licensing division from main-frame to modern IT architecture. This was a very large Digital Transformation effort. One of the drivers for this effort this was the need to comply with the REAL ID law. I played several major roles:One was as Portfolio Manager for all projects at the state related to.

Redmond, WA

+ One of several key architects involved in moving Microsoft Online Operations from a document centric process management framework to a BPMN model framework – complete with a process repository and process automation. Very first deliverable resulted in an annual savings of $13M+ Responsible for specifying the major standards (technical and functional) for.

Redmond, WA

Summary:Part of the architecture team leading the Enterprise-wide transformation of Microsoft to a Process, Service and Capability centric Enterprise. Very large, at scale, cross Enterprise undertaking, involving all dimensions of Architecture.+ I was a key player in the Application space – managing Microsoft’s entire application portfolio. My projects.

Greater Seattle Area

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• Senior Product Manager / Automotive Business UnitAs a result of the success of this Business Unit with the ‘Ford Sync’ product – this was exciting role. Required E2E Product Management including; Product & Strategic.
• Product Innovation: Defined and delivered a Front-End Requirements Capture and Management system that was Market and Data driven. Developed MRD for the Motegi (code name) release.
• Software Engineering: Fined tuned the product delivery framework. Process was integrated with software engineering SDLC (AGILE/SCRUM). Served as crucial point of coordination between engineering and business to define.
• Systems Engineering: Combined systems engineering, QFD and DFSS to develop a product development framework, process, language and accountability structure that could be ‘owned’ and ‘understood’ by both Business and.
• Market Research: Identified total addressable market and worked with channel partners to identify and implement new business opportunities resulting in potential incremental revenue of $10 million/year.(Further details.

Quality Program Manager / Online Advertising Business Master Black Belt background sought by Microsoft to develop End-to-End processes and methodologies to enable scaling of massive operations required to support its new Online Advertising business (i.e. compete with Google).As part of the team launching a new business at Microsoft (Online Advertising), my.

• Lean Six Sigma: 2004 - 2006 Quest made commitment to implement Lean throughout the entire company and created a new Lean organization (within Six Sigma). I was mentored directly by Sensei level Lean Six Sigma Master.
• Black Belt: 2003 - 2004Examples of successful deliverables+ Completely redesigned the outbound IT pre-sales and post-sales support operations.+ Turn-around was so successful that company halted plans to outsource.

• Completed Ford's unique Six Sigma training and certification program.
• Product / Process Improvement: Used Six Sigma tools and process to identify quality and customer satisfaction improvements amounting to a reduction of 14 Things Gone Wrong (TGW’s) within Ford Motor, translating to an.
• Product Innovation: Designed a first-of-a-kind, break-through process to identify and prioritize new technologies that could be used for future vehicle programs (Ford Product Development). (Further details available.

Performed Product Planning (Program Management / Product Management) functions for several major vehicle programs, (part of PMO team responsible for delivering the entire program).Responsibilities included:+ Management of the entire vehicle product life cycle (i.e. PDLC)+ Strategic pricing and market placement+ Attribute target setting along with cascading.

B.S., Engineering, Mechanical

Masters Of Public Policy, Decision Science

Similar to MBA. Emphasize on Decision Science, i.e. Operations Research, Statistics, Macro and Micro Economics, Economic Modeling, etc.)