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Orlando, Fl, Us

Orlando, Florida, United States

Austin, Texas Area

■ Managed laboratory information systems (LIMS) upgrades and migrations to new data center. ■ Worked several procurements and managed vendors and suppliers for system upgrades and professional services.■ Ensured the Laboratory enhances its IT reliability and security to minimize operational downtime and prepare for business continuity and disaster recovery through application and hardware upgrades. ■ Successfully managed development projects using Agile/Scrum to replace the Laboratory’s web portal.■ Successfully led a cloud-based bioinformatics platform buildout for Laboratory’s genome sequencing supporting Newborn Screening and COVID-19.■ Managed audit remediation projects to ensure applications were meeting agency security compliance standards. ■ Worked with Laboratory leadership to create alignment on strategic plans for application roadmap and projects.■ Developed and delivered regular clear, concise, status updates risk assessments to stakeholders.■ Ensured new development and enhancement projects followed agency security and compliance standards, and project objectives, scope, and project plans are met as planned and within budget.■ Identified project risks and gaps and developed creative and workable solutions to the problems and policy issues.■ Developed and managed project staff including hiring, training, and performance management ■ Mentor new project managers in agency best practices and standards.

Austin, Texas. Warren, Michigan.

■ Managed complex projects that included the design, development and deployment of database releases across the organization that met GM compliance and consistency standards.■ Analyzed and prioritized stakeholder goals and expectations during portfolio planning; and assessed the impact to the overall release management strategies. ■ Affinity for managing simultaneous projects by possessing outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills.■ Forged partnerships with GM’s “private cloud” team to develop innovative solutions to consolidate application communication and testing into a single tool to reduce deployment timing and improve application readiness. ■ Provided project status reports with a high degree of professional confidence and credibility, and with the presence and communication skills to represent program status, issues, and risks with senior business and information technology leadership.■ Adapted to situational demands providing release management, business analysis, technical leadership, project management and problem-solving.■ Led GDAT IT systems team (PMO) to improve the overall quality of processes, tools and reporting within the organization, by implementing best practices, thought leadership and education. ■ Provided training, coaching and mentoring to project managers to ensure growth and sustainability in portfolio.

Warren, Michigan

■ Created long-lasting Agile transformation changes at the team and organizational level.■ Facilitated continuous improvement to Agile delivery and adoption through support and training. ■ Provided support to the organization using a servant leadership style and leading by example. ■ Supported project teams by monitoring team velocity, removing roadblocks, escalating effectively, problem solving, continuous sprint planning; ensuring that the teams delivered on stated commitments.■ Assisted Agile project teams at all levels with their transformation with the goal to improve delivery performance through coaching and mentoring on team roles, tools, processes, and ceremonies.

Warren, Michigan

■ Established Estimating Center of Excellence for IT development projects.■ Hired, trained, and managed a team of estimators to execute project estimates.■ Designed and implemented estimating model templates for different project types.■ Created estimate database to benchmark estimating processes against historical projects.■ Coordinated with IT program managers to outline the cost estimate approach and aggregate their estimates.

Dearborn, Mi

■ Delivered program for a B2C website-Ford’s Owner experience (fordowner.com) working with a team of onshore and offshore Ford employees and the UX/UI team in New York. ■ Managed the product development using Agile/Scrum to deliver continuous monthly enhancements that met marketing objectives to drive car owners to Ford dealerships for maintenance and repair work and retail sales. ■ Performed backlog grooming/planning sessions to build consensus among project team members regarding task definitions, sequencing and task interrelationships within the project. From these sessions, updated program schedules, supporting documents and project management plans. ■ Implemented tracking to highlight impediments against epics and user stories which enabled the team to improve velocity; ensure project scope and requirements are achieved with high quality and timely fashion and facilitated communicating milestones, as well as document product and project decisions. ■ Provided project management oversight throughout all phases of the software delivery lifecycle, while continuously working to build strong partnerships with the internal business and IT teams.

Dearborn, Michigan

■ Established and managed an IT Estimating Center of Excellence that provided estimates for IT development projects and enterprise software deployments and was recognized by Gartner, Inc. as world class. ■ Established standards and processes for project estimation which incorporated allocating effort for all aspects of the projects and provided project timelines. Ensured measurable KPIs were developed.■ Provided estimates for IT development projects ranging from $1M to $100M.■ Established estimating centers in Dearborn, Chennai and Cologne. ■ Ensured measurable KPIs were developed, and that a feedback loop was created to align estimates to the overall KPIs for the development. ■ Educated the project and business teams on estimating models and trained all team members to provide consistent insight. ■ Used Six Sigma (DFSS and DMAIC) to determine best practices and improve the overall process.

Dearborn, Michigan

■ Created a project management office to centralize business process functions, such as Statement of Work creation, financial monitoring, monthly forecasting, yearly budgeting, and project management consulting■ Reduced annual costs by $200k and increased forecast accuracy by 300 percent on $40M project portfolio. ■ Gathered, analyzed and reported weekly metrics to multiple stakeholders on $40M project portfolio. ■ Managed IT Portfolio projects from planning through execution and completion. ■ Drove capacity planning activities during planning cycle and as part of on-going portfolio management.

Dearborn, Mi.

■ Successfully launched the Visteon IT Risk Management organization with a set of global security policies, standards, and guidelines. ■ Successfully launched 21 infrastructure applications with 5 cross-functional teams of 45 resources and $10M budget. ■ Developed strong partnerships with vendors, internal business stakeholders, and external development teams.■ Managed various software engineering project teams that consisted of 10 people and $1.5M budget. ■ Managed the implementation of project management policies and procedures.■ Managed project teams, defined team members roles and expectations, and hired contractors as needed to support overall project delivery. ■ Credited with being the driving force to complete projects on time and on budget by the customer and by a Ford Director “…with Lee leading the team, I don’t have to worry about delivery.”

Charlotte, North Carolina

■ Prepared, monitored and updated the project schedule and plan.■ Worked collaboratively and remotely with team members to accomplish goals.■ Collaborated with developers and QA teams to assess and resolve defects.■ Organized project meetings, prepared meeting minutes and provided leadership with status reports.