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Carmel, Indiana, United States

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

BDO Digital helps middle-market organizations capture the full power of technology, to adapt to disruption, increase operational efficiencies, improve risk management effectiveness, and uncover new sources of revenue. We make the aspirational achievable by combining strategy with end-to-end execution, delivering measurable business outcomes at every juncture.

Noblesville, In

Responsible for the successful planning and implementation of client projects including the management of all project team resources and deliverables. Partner with Program/Project Sponsors to define baseline project objectives, scope, schedule, and budget. Create, update, and maintain critical documentation related to the project including charters, project plans, timelines, issue/risk logs and budgets. Communicate project objectives, status, risks, issues, and tasks to project team, sponsors, and other stakeholders. Participate in resource forecasting and work assignment for services delivery organization.Key Contributions• Successfully implemented large feature enhancement for B2B client’s eCommerce platform to manage the quote request and fulfillment process. Lead combined team of internal and client staff in the US and India.• Successfully migrated client’s eCommerce platform from IBM Cloud to AWS while simultaneously completing a significant platform software upgrade.• Successfully lead nine-month, $1.5M custom-developed call center management software implementation for multi-site, multi-lingual call center. Managed internal team members and consultants, collaborating with departments across the company.• Designed and implemented JIRA issue management workflow for client, significantly reducing the number of steps in the SDLC while maintaining code quality.• Successfully lead modification of six-site WebSphere implementation replacing company’s legacy credit card business with 3rd party credit provider.• Successfully planned and implemented multiple maintenance releases for largest specialty jewelry retailer in the US, UK and Canada.• Lead implementation of application managed services support model for client, providing 2nd tier support of company’s WebSphere implementation and related back-end systems.

Carmel, In

Manage application development and infrastructure projects for Verizon Wireless’s largest premium retailer. Responsible for generating project artifacts such as project charters, work plans, status reports, budget reports, and project change requests. Duties included: leading project teams, managing project budgets, and communicating project progress with company executives.

Carmel, In

Lead project management team responsible for delivering application development and infrastructure projects supporting corporate initiatives. Duties included: team management, status reporting, team assignments, and strategic roadmap management

Managed application development projects for industry-leading provider of lending products for vehicle dealers and auctions. Duties included: authoring project statements of work, creating project work plans, managing project execution, and managing vendor relationships.

Manage fortune 100 property and casualty insurer’s web development team. Team is responsible for company’s on-line quote and bind system. Duties included: team management, status reporting, project scheduling, and schedule maintenance.

Carmel, In

Responsibility for software integration team focused on integrating company’s vehicle inspection software and proprietary auction management system. Duties include: leadership of five-member team, strategic roadmap development, leadership of IT governance committee, and project management.

Carmel, In

Lead vehicle inspection integration projects, integrating vehicle inspection software with proprietaryauction management system enabling bi-directional transfer of information. Duties included: authoringproject statements of work, creating project work plans, managing project execution, and managingproject budgets.

Manage functional and system testing for $30M unemployment insurance system replacement. Duties included: author project test plans, author test cases, status reporting, project scheduling, and schedulemaintenance.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Directly responsible for availability, maintenance, and customization of accounting, customer relationship management (CRM), and source code management systems for $50M software company. Duties included: leadership of five-member team, design and implementation of product enhancements, build and release management, and MAS200 administration.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Responsible for validating industry-leading data protection product compatibility with third-partyapplications. Duties included: Leadership of seven-person test team, creation of test plans, monitoringproject status, and status reporting.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Responsible for system test activities of multi-database helpdesk product. Duties included: leadership of three person test team, creation of test plans, creation of test procedures, and status reporting.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Responsible for researching and selecting efficient technologies for GUI-based automated testing. Duties included: leading two-person development team and development of automated GUI test scripts.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Developed GUI-based test scripts for system validation of multi-database helpdesk product.