Managing professional development, including training and certification activities in IT project management.• Engaging in thought leadership with Project Management Institute (PMI) and Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP).• Successfully planned, scheduled, and managed a significant personal move while seeking contract opportunities.

Selected for 1-year contract at health system with 36,000 providers and 139 hospitals in 19 states managing infrastructure, application & third-party system implementations. • Applied cloud expertise on team migrating 348 applications and 1210 servers from legacy data centers to private Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) environments. Managed projects with custom ServiceNow PPM system and G Workspace.• Improved project quality successfully negotiating changes in third-party vendor’s implementation methodology leading to more proactive & comprehensive testing of 100 workstations in 5 hospitals.• Persuaded project Service Delivery Manager to waive 1 of 2 required Change Advisory Board reviews to recapture 2-week loss in project schedule.

Professional Development activities while searching for my next contract opportunity.

Chosen by Director of IT, Mergers & Acquisitions, to manage capital projects, including technical migrations of legacy systems to Optum’s enterprise systems stack. • Co-managed $4M consolidation project of 3 different legacy systems in 5 acquired businesses.• Led project Infrastructure workgroup of 15 to architect network connectivity ensuring endpoints have 1GB bandwidth.• Led integrations testing and managed a diagnostic imaging integration to a new Radiology Imaging System (RIS). • Mitigated conflict between consolidation project schedule and corporate enterprise network deployment by negotiating acceleration of IP work and hardware testing in impacted data center.

Professional Development & Thought Leadership activities while searching for my next contract opportunity:• ITSM Certification: ITIL4 Foundation Level• Online Training: Cybersecurity ROI | PMI San Diego Webinar Networking: The Next Generation | Global State of IT Security | Good to Great: Maximizing your SaaS Success | DevSecOps | Optimizing Cybersecurity with Security Advisory | Migrate your Web Apps to Azure | AITP 5th Annual CIO Panel | Data Integrity: Compliance with 21 Part 11 & Annex 11, SaaS/Cloud and GDPR | Simplify and Secure Multi-Cloud Connectivity | 2022 Cybersecurity Trends and Predictions | SOC Modernization | Account Takeover Attacks | Building a Zero Trust Enterprise.• Thought Leadership: Project Management Institute (PMI), San Diego Chapter Online Training – REMOTEtional Intelligence Delivering Results from Anywhere | Association of IT Professionals – supported social networking events | San Diego IT Round Table Board Member – contacted and scheduled monthly member Spotlights, which informed the group about the member's services and the best type of referrals to be made.

Selected for short term project work by DermTech, a medical device start-up, and Avantor, a global pharmaceutical company.• Created RFP and Scoring document used with 3 vendor submissions for a custom integration layer (application) of an existing Telehealth platform.• Led 10 finance and customer service staff to identify 50+ user requirements for an enterprise deployment of RingCentral.• Directed daily stand-ups with 7 offshore developers, documented and managed project activities in Planview PPM and prepared stakeholder project status reports.

Recruited to manage COVID wireless Tracking & Contact Tracing implementation for global workforce at gene sequencing manufacturer. In addition, led decommissioning of equipment maintenance system and transfer of R&D group to SAP® Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) application. (2020 to 2021).• Strengthened contract tracing solution business case citing reduction of labor-hours of 73% per positive COVID case.• Researched and confirmed addition of 146 Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) radios will not negatively impact Access Points (APs) and WLAN (wireless local area network) in Singapore location.• Safeguarded 28 business requirements and use cases during scoring of vendors’ Request for Proposal (RFP) responses.

Professional Development & Thought Leadership activities while searching for my next contract opportunity: • Agile Certifications: ScrumMaster | Scrum Product Owner • Cloud Certification: AWS Cloud Practitioner • Online Training: AWS Database | AWS On-Premise/Outpost (Infrastructure) | Safe 5.0 Methods/Tools | Introduction to Kanban | Mobile Device Management (MDM) | AWS Summit: SaaS Migration - Single to Multi-Tenant AWS Security | Making the Most of O365 | AWS How to Transform your Cloud Data into Valuable Insights | How to Successfully Manage Change in a Regulated Office 365 Environment | Selling a Cloud-First IT and Security Vision | Maximize Your Growth With Digital Analytics | Migrate to AWS | CA Privacy Rights Act | Maximize Your Growth & Digital Analytics | Best of Breed Data Privacy SaaS Solution | Move GxP Regulated Workloads to Microsoft Azure. • Thought Leadership: Project Management Institute (PMI), San Diego Chapter Online Training – Impact of Future Technology on Project Management | San Diego IT Round Table Board Member – Manage Association LinkedIn page, developed Member Referral Profile form and the Member Referral process.

Brought in by the COO of AVID based on my previous work for the organization, which included implementing an enterprise Single-Sign-On system for 13 business applications, and developing the project management office (PMO). Entrusted as a senior-level technical project manager and charged with writing Charters as well as planning and executing enterprise implementations for the $85M balanced matrix organization, I rapidly contributed to key business objectives across business intelligence and analytics enhancements and expanding the functionality and efficiency of the accounting system.• Contributed to supporting strategic business objectives by managing the migration of a legacy customer portal to a microservices architecture with improved user interface (UI) and expanded integration of eCommerce and other financial transactions with the new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.• Limited development of legacy portal web application to one iteration and negotiated deferral of 25 internal development requests to the new portal backlog and future sprints, avoiding negative schedule impact. • Improved accounting functionality, productivity, and efficiency by leading a migration project with a 169 item gap analysis from Microsoft (MS) Dynamics Great Plains (GP) accounting system to Dynamics 365 (D365) in the Azure cloud. • Delivered data analytics and key performance indicator (KPI) information for senior leadership team utilization in strategic planning and operational improvement by designing and developing a Business Intelligence (BI) system and data warehouse (DW) used to centralize analytics.

Advised VP of quality management with this $605M biotech and medical device company to convert a paper system into an electronic solution. I managed the implementation and Computer System Validation (CSV) of the Pilgrim SmartSolve® Quality Management System (QMS) for GxP compliance and oversaw the migration of 580 controlled documents and metadata for six key departments into a new Electronic Data Management System (EDMS).• Saved $75,000 in vendor management services by managing three vendor project resources and 11 internal company employees to complete the project. • Managed project team composed of 15 contributors over an eight-week period tasked with creating use cases for inclusion in a 30-page User Requirement Specification (URS). • Cut document review time and delinquent staff training notification by directing the migration of 580 controlled documents and metadata for six key departments into a new Electronic Data Management System (EDMS).• Identified 500+ application configuration requirements for the vendor’s ISO9001 and SOC type 2 certified infrastructure by leveraging 15 years of business analysis experience and leading seven Subject Matter Experts (SMEs).

Contracted by CIO of a 100-physician multi-specialty medical group to manage the completion of a failing NextGen® Electronic Health Record (EHR) implementation for a three-location orthopedic specialty group with seven surgeons seeing 200 patients per day. • Conducted a 30-day project assessment and consolidated 50+ disparate components in the project plan, defined project scope, identified 200 tasks with time estimates, and created a four-month schedule with dependencies. • Translated requirements for mobile digital health access into technical specifications deliverable after performing 16 hours of clinical and business operations workflow analysis. • Increased user ID security and reduced network and application login steps by identifying 100+ Functional Requirement Specification (FRS) for the Imprivata® OneSign® SSO system.

Selected by director of program management/PMO at a 100-employee FDA-regulated biotech company to implement a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) enterprise project in a CLIA certified lab. • Led configuration of the new LabVantage® Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) by developing a 40-page FRS with 15 cross-functional laboratory SMEs.

Selected to advance a portfolio of six large projects and direct technical support of 15 enterprise applications for manager on leave. • Integrated 13 business applications for 200 users across 10 departments by managing an Okta® Single-Sign-On (SSO) cloud implementation and completed on budget.• Identified, prioritized, and resolved 25 ERP application issues post-upgrade by working collaboratively with finance stakeholders and users as well as the vendor to fix open items and ensure statement of work (SOW) performance. • Eliminated User Authorized Testing (UAT) risks in production environment by standing up new QA sandbox.• Expanded sales team access to 35 GP inventory and other database items, improving contract renewal negotiations by leading an integration project of MS Dynamics Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application. • Created the Project Management Office (PMO) based on the PMBOK® methodology; created 15 project tools (templates), initiated weekly status reporting to executives, and mentored two IT managers in best practices including tracking progress, forecasting, and monitoring and controlling projects.

Promoted internally to manage enterprise projects and support clinical and business systems.• Managed 12 SaaS implementations of Allscripts Enterprise EHR and billing systems in medical clinics with aggressive 90-day schedules and milestones and two weeks of go-live support for up to 15 users and five locations. • Achieved no interruption in Medicare or other payors’ claims by planning and executing a critical billing system upgrade for 25 clinics with a six-month deadline to comply with a new electronic data interchange (EDI) format (ANSI ASCX12). • Eliminated month-end accounting interruptions for 11 finance users and ensured no delays in A/P check generation while leading a time-sensitive GP accounting system upgrade.• Produced and translated user requirements into three Essette® case management application customizations using process analysis expertise to achieve successful results.