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Alpharetta, Ga, Us

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•Managed multiple large healthcare claims application development projects from inception to completion.•Overseen multiple large API projects for clients to channel bill review data through a third-party vendor.•Collaborated with internal stakeholders and external clients to establish application concepts and construct project timelines. •Ensured that all projects adhered to anticipated timelines by creating detailed project plans and roadmaps for each individual project. •Managed project Jira & Devops boards, ensuring all development, quality assurance and user acceptance tasks were progressing according to the projected completion dates. •Lead weekly meetings with upper management & stakeholders to give status reports on all assigned projects and discuss any roadblocks the team faced.•Lead daily stand-up calls getting project statuses and managing any roadblocks our internal IT team faced.

Eden Prairie , Mn, Us

• Manage, coordinate, and execute strategic project work for Optum Exclusions and Optum Case Advisor projects.• Develop, communicate, and implement project plans, business requirements and production releases.• Lead weekly project status and scrum meetings for Exclusions and Case Advisor.• Drive project execution and delivery on critical milestones to ensure both projects were meeting the expected deadlines and delivering the expected products. • Escalate and mitigate project risks and issues for both projects to ensure performance is tracked and measured.• Complete initiatives with leadership to meet both internal/external client satisfaction.

• Responsible for managing the Pro Solutions Learning Management System (LMS).• Owner of product development and drove the creation of new functionality.• Built the Pro Solutions Jira projects and created a process on how new requests were inputted into Jira and what project’s those new requests need to be included in.• Ran the team’s sprints and ensured all deployments were meeting the expected due date.• Created project plans for each sprint to roadmap all efforts that were needed to meet the project deployment date.• Created Business Requirement Documents for each sprint to ensure all requirements were gathered and included in the Sprint. • Ran bi-weekly scrum calls to make sure no road blockers have occurred.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Manage and lead multiple new client business implementation projects to sell Safeguard branded service contracts.• Built branded client portals for multiple automotive manufacturers such as Karma Automotive. • Lead weekly discussions with senior management to discuss upcoming projects, existing project statuses and project deployments.• Ensure that existing clients new requests are prioritized and deployed into production based on an agreed upon date. • As a product owner in ecommerce and software development, I managed multiple project roadmaps, backlogs and user stories. • Lead critical production defect resolution plans with stake holders and support teams. • Worked with all levels of executive, technical and business teams to break down and document requirements into user stories and business requirement documents. • Participated in daily scrum calls, weekly user story grooming sessions, monthly sprint planning meetings and project deployment calls.• Tracked multiple projects by creating project plans using tools such as Smartsheet, JIRA and MS SharePoint.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

• Improved reporting for EIS, financials, production services and profitability growth.• Analyzed how the profitability growth metrics data was being collected and created a roadmap for the PGM data to transition from being collected manually to an automated process.• Designed a mapping process comparing previously captured PGM data to the new implementation of PGM data.• Facilitated group working sessions to gather requirements to capture where the PGM data was being generated and how to automate the process.• Built a fully functioning Qlikview dashboard for the automated PGM metrics to generate daily for the CIO.• Created workflow business processes comparing how project financials were previously being reported compared to the new process of reporting project financials.• Built a fully functioning project financials dashboard based on the new project financial requirements.

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• Participated in multiple health care exchange projects; State of Vermont and State of Massachusetts• Guided the healthcare exchange projects by creating a project plan, analyzing budget, allocating and coordinating between internal resources and the vendor.• Lead application development for the Integrated Eligibility project for customer faced web portals and mobile devices.• Consult with state stakeholders to gather business and system requirements for State Healthcare Exchange Systems (HIX Systems) and Integrated Eligibility.• Analyzed business and state requirements and developed those requirements into use cases, user stories, acceptance criteria and test measures.• Created wireframes based on the business requirements for their web portals and mobile devices. • Participate in UAT and Post- production testing to ensure business functions are operating in a correct manner.• Created GAP analysis to integrate back end and front-end development to work simultaneously together. • Created SQL test cases and analyzed those test cases through XML files to ensure all required information was populating correctly.• Lead daily scrum meetings, daily business analysis team meetings, bi weekly sprint grooming sessions and JAD sessions. • Documentation: BRD (Business Requirement Document), FRD (Functional Requirement Document), RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix) and TDD (Technical Design Document).• Consulted daily with stakeholders; project managers, UX/UI, development, solution architects, subject matter experts and quality assurance teams to ensure all aspects of the project are running efficiently and are meeting team deadlines.• Software: JIRA, Rally, SQL, ALM, SharePoint, Visio and Microsoft Office.

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•Consultant for United Health Group•Analyzed system requirements and technical specifications. •Wrote SQL queries to test data examples•Wrote test cases and executed that data for Quality Assurance Testing. •Planned, evaluated and tracked testing results to ensure system applications were free from defects.•Coordinated with the Project Manager on appropriate test plans to maximize project efficiency.•Participated in User Accepting Testing throughout the project lifecycle.

• Assist owner in property investment strategies• Analyze all lease contracts, prepare monthly rent statements and maintain strong tenant relationship through outstanding service and consultations• Manage maintenance projects on a timely basis • Ensure that the Mt. Arlington medical property stays in good condition, and generates the largest amount of profit over the long term • Assist with processing rental payments, evicting tenants, showing properties, and scheduling contractors for repair

• Assist the Senior Program Manager with various MS-Excel worksheet models for all active technology projects• Created the annual IT Project Budget• Performed Asset Tracking Analysis across multiple data sources• Developed MS-PowerPoint slides for client presentation on project status and new consulting opportunities

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Finance

Finance

Education record

New Jersey Sales License, Real Estate