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Dayton, Ohio, Us

Primary duties included, but are not limited to:• Provide strategic direction for developing EIAM/CIAM Modernization project plans specifying goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, identification of risk, contingency plan, budget, and allocation of resources• Establish, track, and report on critical metrics to ensure the quality of the program’s services is meeting business objectives• Generate, provide, and present reports and presentations suitable for individuals at all levels of the organization• Develops and delivers communications that convey a clear understanding of audience’s need • Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others, including internal and external stakeholders, to meet shared objectives• Creating and delivering executive presentations on information security and risk management topics and metrics• Provide expert knowledge of project management methodology and Agile methodology, approaches, techniques, and tools to senior management• Direct system analysts, software designers and programmers to determine best methods to achieve project objectives.• Managed 3rd party consulting service SOWs, report outs, and ensuring outcomes are tracked and delivered on time• Coach and mentor project team members; mentors other project managers around project management methodology; determines project scope• Transform the existing large team into self-organized and efficient product team by establishing an Agile product structure to deliver key capabilities for next generation Identity solution while executing the current Identity integrations

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

• Provide leadership for all IAM strategic enterprise-wide programs• Provide strategic planning analysis for all aspects of program on short to long term basis based on program projections.• Provide strategic direction for developing enterprise project plans specifying goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, identification of risk, contingency plan and allocation of resources.• Provide expert knowledge of project management methodology and Agile methodology, approaches, techniques and tools to senior management.• Act as a coach to the Release Train Engineer to direct system analysts, software designers and programmers to determine best methods to achieve project objectives.• Coach and mentor project team members; mentors other project managers around project management methodology; determines project scope.• Act as a Chief of Staff for Identity Access Management Leader• Transform the existing large team into self-organized and efficient product team by establishing an Agile product structure to deliver key capabilities for next generation Identity solution while executing the current Identity integrations.

Dayton, Ohio, Us

Centric Consulting is a mid-sized business consulting and technology solutions firm providing full-service management consulting services. We are dedicated to our clients’ success and are honored to serve our communities. As a consultant, my major responsibilities included:Strategic Planning: Supported strategic plans, goals, and objectives for RBAC, Automated Provisioning, Authentication, and PAM.Collaboration and Alignment: Partnered with team members to ensure project visibility and alignment, fostering collaboration and engagement.Executive Communication: Kept executives updated on timelines and results, offering strategic recommendations on staffing and team structures.Organizational Alignment: Aligned team members with organizational goals, creating an engaging and empowering environment.Executive Reporting: Delivered comprehensive executive reports and strategic recommendations.Strategic Contribution: Defined and contributed to the Executive Strategy for IAM, ensuring alignment with business objectives.Performance Metrics: Established Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to track progress and drive performance.Support and Guidance: Assisted managers in defining roadmaps, tracking deliverables, and adhering to SDLC best practices.Governance Support: Supported internal governing bodies including steering committees, review boards, and work groups.Roadmap and Backlog Management: Helped teams build and manage roadmaps and backlogs for Authentication Services, SailPoint, Entitlement Management, Identity Warehouse, Architecture, Provisioning and Certification, Privileged Access Management, and Application Monitoring.Agile Implementation: Defined and implemented Agile Transformation and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) roadmaps, including Agile methodologies and Lean concepts to optimize organizational scaling.

Brighton, Ma, Us

Designing and delivering cross functional improvements and integration efforts that meet organizational needs and ensure the integration and flow of information. Information Governance and Assurance:Regularly re-evaluate all business processes to ensure the organization is aligned with the strategic goalsInvestigate new and evolving disciplines/tools to achieve the objective of assurance and compliance Explain how different methodologies may or may not be useful to the organizationEnsure consistent high standards of project management methodology and approaches are maintained throughout the IT project life cycle. Provide valid input and to be a centre of excellence for the project control and process flow methodologyPerformance and Quality Management Empower the organization to continually uncover and incorporate process improvements and help guide the organization in achieving strategic goalsProvides instructions and guidance towards the adoption of AgileProvides Quality Assurance and Continuous Improvement direction to IT projects and the PMO communityApplies Agile methodology and acts as subject matter expert to coach teamsUtilize Lean/Six Sigma to improve organizational flowResponsible for hiring and managing Agile PMs and Quality Engineers.

• Leading Scrum Teams to deliver Cloud Services (IaaS and SaaS). • Initiated the usage of JIRA/GreenHopper to capture all outstanding requirements and introduce Agile Rapid Boards for prioritizing and coordinating tasks among different sub-project teams located throughout the US. • Responsible for addressing any issues impacting timelines; coordinating project deliverables, and refining business requirements

Sullivan, Missouri, Us

• Leading process improvements by utilizing Lean and Six Sigma methodology. Responsible for developing action plans to achieve organizational goal deployment initiatives and strategic planning. Capturing business requirements for in-house development. • Evaluating and prototype new system applications• Developed Business Objects reports using the data warehouse universe and Crystal reports • Running ad-hoc queries to solve customer needs and inquiries• Developed Sharepoint templates and websites• Developed new applications for scheduling appointments for the clinics and tracking customer complaints using VB.Net and MS Access • Developing entity relationship diagrams and database schemas for in-house application development• Maintaining legacy applications for capturing authorizations• Mentoring managers on project plan development and defining key metrics• Coordinating and facilitating rapid improvement events along with processing mapping and implementing Standard Work• Trained staff on Six Sigma/Lean methodology and the tools (Value Stream Mapping, Wastes, FMEA, Impact Matrix, etc.)

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

• Leading process improvement by integration effort; facilitating user requirement meetings, capturing requirements, developing test scenarios, along with identifying and ensuring workflow improvements to the business. • Responsible for evaluating processes, providing solutions, developing metrics along with JAVA programming. • Developed project plans including project budgeting and timelines. Prepared SWOT analysis & developed request for proposals. Developed and maintained project timelines for Agile (FDD) & Test First Development. • Coordinate and manage project team (architectures, developers, testers, DBAs); develop iteration schedules. • Identification and mitigation of risks (eg. compliance, data security, intellectual property protection, etc). • Utilization of the SixSigma process to identify process improvements & develop baseline metrics. • Performed database analysis & customized queries to produce reports. Developed entity relationships diagrams for application databases & the warehouse. Created database schemas, tables, indices, constraints, assertions for the dev. environments. Created canned queries & stored procedures for Oracle & SQL databases along with running ad-hoc queries for data analysis. Implemented standardized Naming Conventions and data integrity through improved system integration.

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

I originally was hired as a JAVA programmer and developed many applications. I have held many different positions but supporting the same department. My other roles include the following: Project Manager, Senior/Business Analyst, Senior Programmer, and Functional Lead.

Implemented and ensured quality processes for physician selection, chart audits, and track physical file movement throughout the companyDesigned numerous Access databases to track productivity, projects, training information and results, and various management reportsCreated and designed database queries and table structures

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Information Technology - Information Assurance And Security

Master, Computer Information Management

Ba, Business Administration & Human Resource Mgmt