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I will be facilitating Ignite for the LLI. Ignite is a Latino leadership development program designed to reflect the rich diversity of experiences within the Latino community while meeting individuals where they are in their unique leadership journey. Ignite provides Latino professionals the opportunity to explore their identity, build confidence, use neuroscience to develop executive decision-making strategies, and create a framework for advancement.

Owner of Next Faze, focused on real estate investing in the single family, multi-family, and commercial segments. Also, owner and operator of Next Faze Consulting, a consulting company focused on technology strategy and innovation.

In my role as a Senior Product Manager I partner with the business and healthcare operations teams to determine strategy for new capabilities needed to support an evolving industry. Specialization in Salesforce Health Cloud and integrations.My accountability spans from the product road map within the Salesforce Healthcloud platform to the technical scrum teams made up of Salesforce Business Analysts, Salesforce Administrators and Salesforce Developers that implement features in the product as well as do production support activities.

• Led the vendor evaluation and analysis for a point to point encryption solution designed for payment cards to prevent a Target-like data breach and an enterprise payment switch which processes 75 million transactions a year.• Leading the development of a $60 million dollar business case which encompassed plans to simplify Kaiser’s PCI environment thereby decreasing costs associated with attaining the annual PCI Report of Compliance and increasing payment card data security for the payment landscape throughout the entire enterprise.• Effectively created a plan and coordinated multiple cross-department teams to address a PCI compliance issue in a condensed timeframe.• Developed and executed on a project plan as an interim project manager.• Successfully developed cross-department relationships that lead to exposure to other projects in the organization and will lead to cost savings due to overlapping scope.

• In the role of system/technical expert to translate customer business processes into the system and act as liaison between client and internal development teams to ensure complete solution is delivered. • Lead and support all project management activities, due diligence sessions, integration discovery/documentation, system configuration, testing methodology, data gathering and data conversion phases of implementing the IQNavigator SAAS vendor management system solution. • Create process documentation, system requirements, project plans, issue and risk tracking and configure the test and production systems. • Lead user acceptance activities internally and with the client.

Lead and support all project management, system configuration, data gathering and data conversion phases of implementing the IQNavigator vendor management system solution. Create project plans and configure the test and production systems. Lead data gathering and data conversion efforts with the client and IQNavigator teams. Provide post go-live production support.

Deliver IT solutions via multiple project roles and service lines to Utilities across North America. Lead clients to define business objectives and requirements that align with their company's strategy. Assist in gathering executive commitment to the procurement and implementation of ERP systems; specific accomplishments include:Solution Procurement,Managed 15-member cross-functional team utilizing a rigorous procurement methodology, through to the purchase of 4 software systems (ERP, CIS, HR/Payroll, EAM).Developed multiple Requests for Proposals for software systems and implementation services with project budgets up to $25 million.Coordinated and analyzed up to 12 vendor proposals to ensure "apples-to-apples" comparison of vendors.Negotiated contracts for software licensing and implementation services with multiple providers.Established project budgets for software implementation.Client Side Delivery ServicesLead client to develop and establish metrics for Critical Success Factors and overall project readiness.Lead billing work stream for client that generates 200,000 bills per month.Generate Microsoft Project plans and manage to them to achieve project milestones and on time delivery of project artifacts.Identify business process improvements and assist client leadership to implement.Facilitates meetings to familiarize clients with new topics, derive business needs, and drive clients to a timely business decision.Provide project status to multiple organizational levels.Business DevelopmentLead and assist in development of proposals for prospective clients.Assist management with the development of corporate tools and templates used for all projects.Interview prospective talent for Five Point Partners and clients.Participate in business development activities such as industry conferences and meeting with local industry contacts to maintain relationships.

Interacted with customers to analyze business processes, create system requirements and ensure a quality product for over 500,000 customers. Developed and maintained the web front-end and Oracle backend business component layer for the Great West Life implementation of IBM's Workflow application. Utilized Oracle, J2EE, Servlet, XML, HTML, SQL, and JDBC skills.Supported 350 production users. Created all associated documentation needed by the waterfall methodology that Great West Life employs.Provide 24 by 7 support to customers.Assisted Quality Assurance team in trouble shooting and completing test cases.

Worked on development project that effectively allowed the organization to save several million dollars by discontinuing use of third party application while at the same time integrating several back end applications.• Worked with large Xtreme Programming team developing an in house Customer Retention Management application with 500 users.• Utilized Epicentric portal technologies on an n-tier architecture. • Extensively involved in application design and development using Enterprise JavaBeans (Entity and Session EJBs) and other core J2EE technologies (JSP, Servlets, JNDI, JMS, JDBC) also (XML, SOAP, Web Services) all on UNIX systems. • Assisted in creating database designs utilizing Oracle and other database modeling technologies. • Interfaced with clients to gather requirements, provide statuses and coordinate testing efforts. • Aided in testing applications and completing test case