John Welch, Pmp, Mspm Email & Phone Number

Ladson, Sc, Us

Summerville, South Carolina, United States

• Executed the CEO's Merger Strategy, managing data migration, vendor contract negotiations, and comprehensive staff training on the new system. • Led the technology, vendor, and data integration for the $900M merger of REV FCU and Riegelwood FCU, ensuring zero disruption to 75,000 members. • Oversaw the multi-state branch merger, forecasting technology needs and consolidating vendors across both institutions. • Eliminated vendor redundancies by reviewing current contracts and evaluating technology products to select the best ones to support the business requirements. • Improved requirement-gathering processes and implemented Agile methodologies, reducing custom development time by 50%.• Led Critical System Technology Strategy by leading the critical system migration at REV FCU, including data mapping, vendor contract management, reintegration, and staff education. • Performed a comprehensive GAP analysis of hardware and software, eliminating redundancies and identifying system upgrades. • Led a team of 20 Directors and 40 data and quality testers, achieving a 30% reduction in development costs through DevOps practices, multi-thread processing, and an open API. • Created an organization-wide 30/60/90 day initiative to track post-go-live action items, ensuring smooth operational transitions.• Established a Project Management Office (PMO), improving project initiation speed by 25% through well-defined processes and SLAs between stakeholders and the PMO.• Boosted stakeholder engagement by 85% through the implementation of an enterprise project intake pipeline.• Converted strategic goals into actionable, tactical projects

Summerville, South Carolina, United States

Charleston, South Carolina Metropolitan Area

- Managed two Defense Health Agency (DHA) application teams in a projectized environment that were on the verge of removal.- Developed connections with stakeholders and re-engaged for project development.- Negotiated with fellow Project Managers to share resources to complete needed tasks for development.- Managed budget burndown and adjusted team rosters to balance spending.- Rebuilt connections with business partners that control the data layer of applications to prepare for increased development updates.- Developed level of efforts and rough order of magnitudes to provide estimations for application updates.

Charleston, South Carolina Area

- Assisted project manager of Defense Health Agency (DHA) application teams to manage development work and track high level action items to report to stakeholders/client.- Filled role as acting project manager for applications as needed.- Mentored business and requirements analysts to take on more responsibilities and develop project management skills.- Assisted with staffing and project work decisions to align goals with business and contract goal.

Charleston, South Carolina Area

- Managed client database migrations to hosted SQL and Azure environments.-Trained new teammates on processes and assess progress and train colleagues on new processes.- Reviewed and maintained team processes.- Worked with internal teams to complete requests for client migrations.- Used Salesforce to manage client/stakeholder engagement and progress.- Built and adjusted custom reports within Salesforce.- Report bugs and submit request via MS Visual Studio Team Services

Charleston, Sc

- Assisted clients with troubleshooting technical issues in Blackbaud Hosting Environment.- Demonstrated Blackbaud Hosting to new hires in Core Product training.- Maintained accurate knowledgebase solutions, clear backlog of “drafts”, removed duplicate solutions, and reviewed new solution documentation to maintain technical writing standards.

Charleston, South Carolina Area

Started as Client Setup Associate and transferred to Implementation Associate to audit newcontracts for clients against vendors' rates and services in their system after new agreementshave been executed.

Master Of Science

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.)