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Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Greater Philadelphia Area

Greater Chicago Area

Led PMO, Digital Delivery team, and strategic initiatives at Leo Burnett for their marquee client, a Fortune 200 company. Managed strategic partnerships across agencies, vendors, and internal departments. Oversaw digital operations and financial responsibilities.• Led digital delivery team consisting of project management, business analyst, architects, and multiple offshore development and quality assurance teams.• Oversaw all software and web development delivery, optimization, enhancement, and production support activities for client portfolio including scope, timing, and budget management. • Established operations model for multi-agency, matrix team, including staffing, revenue projections, process definition, multi-national on/offshore integrations with India and Costa Rica, associated RACI, and establishment of continuous improvement/DevOps process.• Delivered successful project execution for strategic, critical, and highly complex projects on behalf of the company and client, providing overarching leadership to the team and ensuring timing, cost, and scope were appropriately managed.• Partnered with clients to define and influence development roadmaps, execution strategies, data analysis, and portfolio integrations that aligned with the overall client strategy.• Orchestrated transformation efforts between multiple companies and client to evolve business processes and implement new technology, resulting in a 30% cost savings to the client which was reinvested into personalization and test-and-learn initiatives.• Headed vendor management and strategic partnerships, inclusive of selection process, contracting, negotiation, relationship management and escalation.

Greater Chicago Area

Managed digital portfolio for marquee client, overseeing strategic, creative, and technical execution and support for all brand websites and business applications. Ensured successful delivery of all programs in an environment where time, cost, and scope were immovable.• Oversaw all development and production support activities through entire development and testing lifecycle for the 12-month digital marketing calendars for 11 consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands, including all business applications required to support the marketing plans.• Consulted with client Brand teams on development of marketing calendars relative to brand priority, design, technical feasibility, and timing.• Managed a team of 27 project managers and large offshore cross-functional development and quality assurance team in support of a recurring digital project portfolio that averaged 50 initiatives of various sizes per year and up to 18 deployments.• Reported on portfolio health, progress, and KPIs with client and senior organization leadership.• Collaborated closely with Brand, Creative, and Experience Design teams to outline vision for consumer experience and how to translate vision into execution.• Consulted with client marketing teams on development of calendars related to brand priority, design, technical feasibility, ROI and timing.• Adapted Waterfall and Agile frameworks into project management methodology unique to the client’s needs and culture and aligned with industry best practices and evolving technology.• Hired, mentored, and supported team work efforts and career progression through individualized coaching and company culture development plans.• Provided hands-on support to team as necessary for issue resolution or critical activities.

Greater Chicago Area

Lead multiple teams in the successful execution of various client projects, including backend software development, IT Infrastructure, website development and creative asset development.• Managed project to reengineer entire backend for client brand websites, including WSDL redesign, code updates for all client related sites, automated testing, test harness and vendor/supplier relations. Project costs of $1.5MM.• Migrated 3 client brand websites across hosting environments including: replatformed from .NET to Java, migrated client database across vendors, integrated core business shared programs to the sites and integrated all client vendor components into sites over 6 month time period. Project cost of $1.6MM.

Greater Chicago Area

Responsible for managing several projects within the client's portfolio. Projects include:• Management of website refreshes for one of our client's brands. Included facilitation of Flash and .Net developers and full testing and deployment.• New vendor integration for custom music mixer functionality.• Management of server hosting environment upgrade, including setup and creation of IDE.• Management of initial development for new WSDL implementation for client web properties.

Greater Chicago Area

Lead large scale software development projects through full SDLC, including Agile and Waterfall development teams in multiple locations. Supported product sales of $150MM.

Daytona Beach, Florida Area

Established corporate PMO and Project Management processes. Ensured successful planning, design, quality assurance, and delivery of technology project deliverables through full SDLC as well as training and mentoring staff.