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Chicago, Illinois, United States

Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area

Project manager responsible for leading a team of 3 to 6 professionals in the areas of SharePoint, SCCM, Dynamics CRM, Skype for Business, Azure and O365 implementations utilizing the SCRUM methodology• Manage a project portfolio of 10 to 15 projects at a time• Responsible for maintaining control of scope and budget across the life cycle of the project• Manage teams across multiple disciplines and industries and build client knowledge and credibility• Identify potential risks and potential roadblocks, and develop specific plans to mitigate or address client concerns• Partner with tech leads to identify process improvement opportunities, provide optimization recommendations and solutions• Responsible for driving resolution to, and escalating issues and risks associated with pipeline, capacity and or scope

Sun Prarie, Wi

Mobius Decommissioning, February 2018 – August 2018Lead Project Manager responsible for the decommissioning of a document management system and the migration of its content to a newly developed ImageRight environment with total project budget of 2.5 million dollars.• Managed relationship between 4 external vendors.• Managed project through the beginning of the project lifecycle through to the start of the execution phase.

Sun Prairie, Wi

RiskGenius Implementation, November 2017 – June 2018Led implementation of web based policy document management tool utilizing machine learning to enhance user efficiency and functionality with total project budget of almost half a million dollars.• Managed relationship with start-up external vendor.• Developed internal process to extract policy documents and deliver to vendor for upload.• Developed change control process to assist with user adoption.• Implemented 3 work streams migrating over 500,000 documents.

Sun Prairie, Wi

SAS Upgrade, October 2017 – February 2018Led project from project definition through analysis and design with the objective of upgrading the SAS system for the Finance Department.• Facilitated the development of current state analysis and future state execution plan.• Managed gathering of business requirements.• Led effort to document execution plan.

Sun Prairie, Wi

Bottomline Implementation, October 2016 - January 2018Led multi-phased implementation of web-based vendor invoice management system with total project budget of $1.5 million dollars.• Completed project 10% below budget and on time.• Managed relationship with external vendor.• Oversaw effort to define current state and design future state process model.

Sun Prairie, Wi

OneSource Virtual HR Project, January 2017 – October 2017Led the implementation of a new payroll system with total project budget of $150,000.• Delivered project $10,000 under budget and on time.• Managed relationship with external vendor.

Sun Prairie, Wi

Standardization of Risk Management Quote and Binder Template, April 2016 – December 2016Led multi-phased project to automate the manual business process of quoting and binding business for the Risk Management area with total project budget of $100,000.• Developed the current state and future state process models.• Gathered and documented detailed business requirements.• Managed development work of external development contractor.

Dolton, Il

Professor within the Business School responsible for teaching Business Management, Organizational Behavior, and Project Management courses.

Chicago, Il

Responsible for the management of varying project initiatives, business process improvement, stakeholder management, business risk assessments, organizational change management and user focused process documentation.Most recent project responsibilities:Project Manager for Risk Survey Software Implementation Project - Managed total project budget of 2 million dollars completing project for 20% under total project budget.- Increased business resource productivity by 4%.- Increased insured business and coverage recommendation compliance rate by 3% resulting in reduced exposure risks.- Reduced data security threats and legacy system footprint with the elimination of 2 legacy systems saving approximately $25,000 in support costs.Project Manager for Risk Survey System Administration Transfer- Identified and documented ‘as-is’ and ‘to-be’ business processes and information flows.- Negotiated system administration transition between business area executive leadership reducing operational workload by 25%.- Planned and implemented training for new cross functional team.Process Improvement and Implementation Lead for Endorsement Processing Cycle Time Improvement Project- Led effort to document and analyze ‘as-is’ and ‘to-be’ business processes and information flows.- Performed and completed root-cause analysis identifying inconsistencies in internal resource business knowledge and adherence to business rules.- Saved over $100,000 in operational and resources costs by identifying true source of endorsement timeliness issues.

Chicago, Il

Developed business process to streamline the gathering and reporting of front door metrics that resulted in:- 50% reduction in manual work effort- 5 pp increase in hit ratio (issued/submissions)- 10 pp reduction in declination ratio (declined submissions/submissions)- 2 pp increase in effectiveness ratio (issued/quotes)Additional Responsibilities:- Provided operational support to regional teams enabling improvements that increased speed to market from 12 week to 8 week cycle. - Provided change management and implementation leadership for regional process and business rule enhancements for new business quote and endorsement processes resulting in 15% increase in quoted business and 50% reduction in underwriter handling of endorsements.- Monitored and resolved issues with premium booking process resulting in 97% on time bookings.- Supported regional executive, product, and operations leadership in matters concerning operational issues, such as staffing models and regional structure development.- Provided service and quality trending, root cause analysis, issue prioritization, and project implementation leadership.

Greater Chicago Area

- Developed, led, and managed Commercial Insurance Product/Non-Product Launch process increasing launches by 33%.- Provided support and guidance to Home Office Executive and Regional Underwriting leadership in the deployment of their tactical projects.- Managed team of 13 business and process analysts

Greater Chicago Area

Business Process Manager for Operations Restructuring Project- Provided process re-engineering support and analysis for operations restructuring project consisting of 24 field offices and 8 product lines transitioning to two regional service centers resulting in real estate and personnel cost savings in excess of $500,000.- Responsible for planning and completion of gap and time study analysis.General Duties- Managed team of 3 Process Analysts.- Led business process re-engineering effort for Compliance Department, Business Technology Area, and Product Development area.- Responsible for development of business processes that aligned with Enterprise Service Level Agreements.- Served on Process Review Board to ensure compliance with approved company business processes and rules.- Responsible for implementing formal project management methodology within Operations department.

Greater Chicago Area

- Managed development and deployment of Agency On-line Portal resulting in a savings of 2.5 hours weekly for agent support staff.- Served as Testing Manager/Lead Analyst for underwriting operations premium entry system integration project.

Aurora, Il

Professor within the Business School responsible for teaching Business Systems and Systems Analysis courses.

Chicago, Il

Responsible for Oracle database and UNIX systems administration; Responsible for program development support of portfolio accounting system.

Northbrook, Il

Northbrook, Il

Mba, Project Management

Obtained MBA with Project Management Concentration

Bachelor'S, Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Obtained B.S. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology.