Marilyn Smith Email & Phone Number

Remote

Healthcare project manager

Midland, Mi

• Project Manager within MidMichigan Health in charge of various infrastructure and clinical projects for the health system.• Created and published IT’s project management methodology. Provided training on methodology for various areas in the health systm.• Oversees the Project Management Office, conducting bi-monthly meetings to review status reports and discuss project progress for 20 plus projects.• Co-authored a white paper with MidMichigan Health’s Chief Medical Information Officer on a proposed Telehealth program for MidMichigan Health.• Provides project mentorship to the business.• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification since May 2015.

Ada, Mi

• Project Manager within Amway for their Next Generation Global Data Warehouse program comprising of $6M over the next 2 ½ years.• Responsible for 3 projects within the program comprising of over 10,000 hours of work.• Responsible for creating project plans using Microsoft Project, adhering to schedules, and ensuring project goals, budgets, and milestones are met.• Responsible for working with in-house and vendor personnel with coordination of resources through Resource Managers.• Provide regular communications to project stakeholders regarding budget, milestones, risks and issues.

Kalamazoo, Michigan Area

Pfizer Inc., Kalamazoo, MI 11/2011 to presentProject ManagerContracted through Fortira, Inc.• Project Manager within Pfizer for the establishment their Global Data Warehouse and BusinessObjects reporting and querying for 2 projects, each project comprising of $1.6M.• Coordinating efforts globally between vendors and Pfizer personnel for the warehouse and reporting aspects of the projects.• Responsible for creating project plans using Microsoft Project, adhering to schedules, and ensuring project goals, budgets, and milestones are met.• Provide regular communications to project stakeholders regarding budget, milestones, risks and issues.• Developed the Global Pfizer Data Warehouse and Reporting portfolio for the Business Process Managers to present to each site prior to rollout. Includes PowerPoint presentations, documents, reporting demos and project management setup for rollout to each site.• Provide training to the Business Process Managers on the portfolio documentation and presentations.• Currently developing documentation for the establishment and implementation of the global data warehouse and reporting encompassing their current agile methodology for current and future projects.• Established standards and best practices for Pfizers enterprise PMO for project execution to adhere to Pfizer’s Global Regulatory Compliance processes. Provided training to other project managers on the developed best practices.

Midland, Mi

Contracted through Adecco• Project Manager within Dow Corning for high complexity e-business projects using a stage gate methodology.• Responsible for creating project plans, adhering to schedules, and ensuring project goals, budgets, and milestones are met.• Provide regular communications to project sponsors and key stakeholders regarding progress, risks or issues.• Act as a leader for the project team, ensuring project momentum is maintained, focusing on the schedule, budget, issues, and ensuring that the project requirements are met.• Act as the liaison between the business and IT technical teams assembled for the project.• Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within project teams• Develop and deliver status reports, dashboards, proposals, scope documentation and presentations.• Track, monitor and communicate project progress against the project plan, requirements, quality measures, standard process and milestones.• Build and manage strong relationships with internal and external customer base (sponsors, key stakeholders), vendors, and other technical support personnel to provide strong project management services.• Successfully lead a wide variety of projects including Data Warehouse reporting, EDI, SAP and vendor applications while adhering to the SDLC.

· Project Coordinator/Audit Coordinator for ABN AMRO Bank account for data integrity and server compliance. Managed and tracked SOX audits to meet year end deadlines. Provided requirements gathering, design proposals, coordinated testing, training, installation and validation of any products or changes to the environment.· Coordinated and managed multiple internal and external infrastructure audits for remediation within audit timelines. Created audit responses to findings, project plans, managed resources, timelines, proposals, and provided weekly status reports. · Gathered resources, set up project plan, managed time line, identified risks, worked with infrastructure and application teams to turn off 11 services on 200 plus Unix servers. Provided weekly updates to management, client and auditors on progress. · Provided project management support for server decommissions, installations, middle ware upgrades and server compliance for Unix and Windows servers.· Provided on call support to ensure successful restoration of the systems.· Re-aligned workloads to reflect contract specifications and customer needs, resulting in better client satisfaction.· Created and managed 2 SharePoint 2003 encompassing documentation posting, updating and management of the sites. · Provided infrastructure support for the following customers: FINRA (aka NASD), Sprint/Nextel, Foamex, J Crew, Progressive Insurance, Western Union, Terex, 3COM, Phoenix Life, Reichhold and Dow Reichhold Specialty Latex.· Supervised daily workload and server implementation activities for the FINRA account. Effectively managed resources and identified implementation risks to client.

· Supervised daily workload and server implementation activities for the Dow Chemical account on a global basis. Effectively identified implementation risks to client.· Reorganized server implementation for better flow and efficiency. Led training to server team and project managers on the improved stream-lined process.· Created and monitored process for all new software or upgrades compliance prior to installations.· Provided a key role in the startup of a Six Sigma project to remove old and unnecessary data resulting in savings of 2TB of disk space. · Identified billable disaster recovery project resulting in $95,000 revenue.

· Maintained the consumption management of the Window NT 4.0 server environment. Managed disk space on 1500+ servers globally on a daily basis. · Managed disk space consumption on 1500 Windows NT servers. Created “Disk Near Full” and “Share Move” documentation and trained others on the process.

· Computer Operator supporting Dow’s global mainframe environment from 1994- 1997. First level support of 27 mainframe images with various operating systems: VM, VSE and MVS. Monitored jobs for abends; cycled CICS and SAP regions during incidents and participated in Change Management scheduled outages.· Computer Operator supporting Dow’s global Window NT 4.0 environment from 1997-2000. First level support of 1000 plus servers. Performed restores, backups, monitoring of the servers.· Developed training plans and training documentation. Performed 90% of the training of new operators for the mainframe and server environment for 7 years.