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Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Leading multiple business transformation projects to deliver essential business functions. Working directly with Sponsors and key stakeholders to ensure alignment of business goals and objectives with project.
• Accountable for on-time and on-budget delivery of all projects to include developing and executing project plans, delivering all required financial reporting and forecasting. Collaborating directly with Resource.
• Executing Communication Plans to ensure all stakeholders are adequately informed of project activities and Change Management plans to prepare the organization as a whole for all changes related to implementation.
• Facilitating requirements gathering process, ensuring technical reviews are successfully concluded, and coordinating workflow between developers and testers.
• Developed numerous pricing and decision analysis documents for decision makers and negotiated terms for Statements of Work for vendors.

Overland Park, Kansas

• Led 20+ IT and business projects with total budgets in excess of $5M for both local and regional units. Effectively coordinated the activities of the project teams to include defining project scope and objectives, and.
• Produced pipeline and dashboard reports for senior management to reflect the project status and staffing capacity across our group for all projects in our portfolio. Provided subject matter expertise to our PMO office.
• Application Manager for Claims mainframe applications. Provided successful delivery of all application release projects by partnering with and providing oversight to our overseas Application Service Provider. Managed.
• Led a team of Business System Analysts and Architects. Assigned work, established best practices, reviewed and approved deliverables, managed resource capacity, monitored delivery timelines, and provided HR oversight.

Overland Park, Kansas

• Primary IT liaison to internal business clients – executive level, managers, and business leads.
• Provided IT consulting services to internal business clients as an input to their strategic planning and tactical operations to enable IT to meet client business objectives and balance between business needs and the.
• Facilitated solutions design efforts with IT Subject Matter Experts and acted as an advocate for business client needs.
• Developed and maintained communication channels between business units to assist in leveraging enterprise solutions and facilitated solutions to address inter-departmental issues.
• Successfully defined 70+ projects and secured total funding in excess of $25M. Delivered all project initiation activities including business case development, business requirements, project plan, resource allocation.
• In 2006 role was expanded to include end to end Project Management. Served as the IT work stream lead for a regional Integration Project which realized $27M in economic value for the organization. Managed the regional.

Overland Park, Kansas

• Gathered and defined business and technical requirements; created process and data models, non-functional requirements, use cases, and prepared required documentation.
• Served as a liaison between business clients and IT.
• Led and facilitated meetings and workshops, conducted interviews and surveys, and carried out necessary research of systems and emerging technology.
• Assisted with the development of Proposals and Project Agreements.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Business Administration

In addition to the normal business education curriculum, completed extensive course work in computer science, mathematics and logic. Areas.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Information Systems, 4.0/4.0 Gpa

Graduated June 2001 with honors. Languages - Java, C/C++, Visual Basic, HTML, Oracle, SQL, Cobol, JCL, CICS