Ken Hackl Email & Phone Number

Germantown, Wisconsin, United States

Germantown, Wisconsin, United States

I am Leading the PMO Initiative for an expanding Engineering Software Company by helping to improve project implementation processes, defining key performing indicators, and building communication channels across inter-company departments.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

As a Program Manager, my primary responsibility is to coordinate the development efforts of agile teams along with the companion work of other groups in a program setting.• Share in the leadership of software development for a multi-year program across multiple teams spread out across the globe.• Work with agile teams to ensure development efforts are meeting portfolio management standards and serve as an audit contact.• Maintain program budget and report to senior level management, Steering Committees and Project Sponsors.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Served as a Lean Program Manager in a Scaled Agile Framework software development group. My primary responsibility is to act as a liaison between our development teams, the Enterprise Project Management Organization, and the Finance group.• Monitor active software development for five business units that include over 50 projects and 14 million dollars in capital budget.• Work with the development teams to ensure project efforts are meeting Project Management Organization Standards and serve as an audit contact.• Provide project budget reporting to the development teams, Product Owners, and Project Sponsors.

Wauwatosa, Wi

Implement multi facility enterprise-wide software solutions for clients in the healthcare industry. Led WorkForce Management software solutions across multi-facility hospitals nationwide. Project durations are 6 to 24 months long and may affect as many as 30,000 hospital employees.• Earned 2017 2nd Quarter Outstanding Execution Associate Award for internal RHO Data Center Move Project that successfully migrated 30 remote hosted clients from our remoted hosted facility in Cincinnati, OH to new data centers in Dayton, OH and Phoenix, AZ. • Collaborated with WorkForce Management Software Development Team in the Lean Process Event of redesigning implementation methodology for HR and Payroll software solution, shortened implementation duration by 25%. • Identified issues on large HR and payroll rollout project and worked as liaison and project lead on Cross Development Team to bridge communications gap between software development teams, service teams and customers, facilitating rapid enhancement development and issue resolutions allowing continuation of installations. • Trained new Project Managers on methodologies and processes used by Project Management Office and mentored them as they were integrated in operations.

Hartford, Wi

API Healthcare (acquired by GE), Hartford, WI 2001 – 2014Project Manager 2004-2014Implement enterprise-wide workforce automation software solutions for clients in the healthcare industry. • Led and implemented HR and Payroll Solution software conversions for major hospitals nation-wide including teaching hospitals such as Duke University hospital and University of Indiana. • Collaborated with engineering during major upgrade version releases through daily scrum meetings to resolve functional issues in software enhancements. Acted as the voice of customer in identifying and resolving critical issues ensuring that they were heard.• Developing an After-Implementation System Assessment and audit to measure usability and effectiveness of implemented base to identify needed enhancements, further training required and outlining road map for future improvements.Release Coordinator 2001-2004 Managed software upgrades and installations for employee time and attendance and the human resources department. Served as a part of our 24 hour on-call support team.• Monitored and managed software installations for scheduling packages to large hospitals nationwide.• Provided installation support or performed the installation of software for upgrading clients.