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Provide strategic and technical leadership for the end-to-end delivery of Technology solutions addressing internal and external business needs. Influence business and technology solutions, negotiate deliverables and requirements across Technology teams, business customers and third party strategic partners. Maintain awareness of business, technical operational, architectural and infrastructure constraints and act as a consultant to aid in the development of creative solutions. Drive strategic efforts to optimize internal delivery practices while providing day-to-day oversight of program execution across multiple delivery workstreams, inclusive of scope, schedule and budget. Provide leadership to team of senior delivery owners and delivery leads.

Owner/operator of consulting services company providing project and business management expertise. Primary focus is on organizing and executing product prototype development for small start-up companies.- Lead PM throughout the full lifecycle development for an innovative start-up company of a new patented medical device that is now actively marketed to physicians and health care facilities. Successfully employed Agile management principles to rapidly develop prototype device to meet critical investor deadlines.- Technology and PM Lead for a start-up company that is developing a new social-networking tool designed to streamline crew staffing in the film studio industry. The MVP for this effort has already garnered funding commitments from local government and is also attracting interest from state governments.

Established and led Program Management Office for oversight, delivery, and management of key strategic multi-year Program within the CCI Product Management and Development department. Worked closely with Product owners, boundary partners and Program sponsors to drive out Product business objectives from inception through deployment. • Oversaw end to end delivery of enterprise-scale, multi-year change initiative programs key to implementing company strategic objectives, specifically: Internet Data Usage Billing, and Cox voice syndication and Cox Homelife Product syndication with a large strategic industry partner.• Continuously evaluated the efficacy of the scoped target state solution vs. the elaboration of the business objectives and guided strategic conversations with leadership to validate expectations and align tactics.• Drove highly complex programs that utilized both Agile and traditional waterfall development methodologies. • Directed large matrixed program/project management and delivery teams among both business and technology boundary partners within the organization, leveraging advanced relationship and trust building skills across multiple levels of the organization.• Identified and creatively mitigated risks and constraints to delivery, while providing regular key status metrics to stakeholders in order to establish and fulfill success criteria and priorities.• Provided contract development and negotiation support to Senior Vice President and Vice President executives throughout contract negotiations, and responsible for compliance monitoring of executed contracts across program lifecycle• Accountable for management of overall program capital and operational budgets up to $460M.

Cox Communications, Atlanta, GAOversaw end-to-end Program Management of the Product development and Technology implementation of a successful multi-million dollar, multi-year, strategic capital Program comprised of five major component projects employing varying governance models. • Led cross-functional teams to successful launches of several major products of the ongoing overall Program, including the next generation IP Detail Record Collector Platform, Internet Data Usage Meter, and deployment of the new Rating and Billing Manager platform in nine Cox markets.• Effectively drove risk management and mitigation to protect and deliver approved scope within Program budget and timelines. In partnership with Department, Category and Enterprise PMO leadership, I authored and implemented corporate Program Management governance, process and methodologies

Expert in the Data Warehousing and Project Management internal communities of practice. Served as a trusted business and technical advisor to clients across a variety of industries. Managed 22 direct reports.Cox Communications, Atlanta, GAOwned and maintained client management relationships, project budget accountability, risk identification and mitigation, and overall project management discipline.• Led the professional services Technical team that developed the High-Speed Internet customer data warehouse utilizing an enterprise Oracle Exadata platform. • Successfully delivered the platform that became the foundation of a multimillion-dollar revenue stream. First Data, Atlanta, GALed a project team to reverse-engineer and fully document of a complex eCommerce platform.• Implemented a follow-the-sun model to meet unique client timing constraints, providing near 24-hour project development and testing activity through a team of 28 technical resources and project managers both in Atlanta and our Delivery Support Center in India.

Executive Manager with Accenture, providing consulting expertise to clients accounts at AT&T, Inc. and PepsiCo in support of implementing complex and innovative business and technology solutions.AT&T, Atlanta, GAProject Manager and Technical Delivery Lead for team of 12 SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) supporting a complex reporting initiative utilizing an enterprise Oracle Data Warehouse.• Managed resources, estimates, change management, accountability for planning of resources for tasks, estimation, scheduling, risk and issue tracking and mitigation, and high-level and detailed work planning.• Managed a non-project Accenture team of 17 senior technical professionals.PepsiCo, Chicago, ILLed planning of resources for tasks and issues management for a project team of approximately 80 resources.• Provided effective cross-team Project Management leadership while interfacing with the client delivery lead to implement the largest corporate SAP conversion ever undertaken at the time.• Full accountability for planning of resources for tasks, allocation, estimation, scheduling, risk and issues management for a project team of approximately 80 resources.• Managed a non-project Accenture team of 22 senior technical professionals up through the Senior Systems Analyst level during this timeframe

Client: Bellsouth, Atlanta, GAProvided Project Management support for development team. • Managed full lifecycle development of over 400,000 lines of (UNIX) code connecting frontend GUI (Windows application) and the corporate Teradata data warehouse. • Provided Project Management support for the development team, including task scheduling, resource assignment, task estimation, and change request management. • Responsible for full life cycle development and maintenance of over 400,000 lines of backend (UNIX) code that interlinked a frontend GUI (Windows NT application) and the corporate data warehouse installation (Teradata).