Developed, implemented and led overall project management function at a financial services organization. Successfully implemented a PMO including project and program governance and staffed with experienced business and technical project managers. Strategic project planning - partnered with company senior leadership from idea to acceptanceProvided leadership, coordination and management for the PMO processes and functions. Successfully completed dozens of business and IT projects as a PM including BPMS selection and implementation, application development to a new office location build out. Identified new project opportunities and drive through approval.Built processes for project budgeting and forecasting.Shouldered overall responsibility for enterprise resource planning.Driver for technical and organizational change management initiatives.Identified and proactively instituted IT and business process controls.Provided operational and architectural support for Sharepoint and MS Project Online integration, customization and reporting.

Leveraged extensive experience working with technologies such as applications (custom and COTS), infrastructure, data and distributed services to research, assess and implement large, complex, enterprise technical solutions that met strategic business needs and architectural standards.Successfully led projects included: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) governance solution that was accountable for hundreds of enterprise class web services via standards based monitoring, enforcement and repository solutions; Technical and Application Architect for implementation of web based application that consolidated operational enterprise data and documentation into a single source providing a context aware user experience that was closely integrated with disconnected operational data (single source only); DB2 run-time client changes for over enterprise desktops; application upgrades for over 700 applications to support implementation of new, supported operating systems(s).

Responsible for managing multiple large scale, global projects simultaneously;custom development projects and SAP focused projects in a fast paced IT organization. Managed project team resources to meet the demands of multiple projects, including new implementations, upgrades and interfaces to enterprise systems, training, and customization requests. Successfully led projects included: Implementation of SAP ECC 6.0 with SAP HR (HCM), BI and SAP Enterprise Portal globally – this project included Employee and Manager Self Service, 30 data integration interfaces to business critical HR systems, over 50 project resources and a capital budget exceeding $5M; IDEXX’s first customer facing SOA environment simplifying customer access to nearly 2 billion lab results and providing a common architecture for results delivery across the organization; AP Invoice Automation for all North American business units; Taxware Enterprise implementation with SAP integration; Global Compliance Training platform; AP/Treasury banking conversion for the US.

Led and managed the Professional Services team at a software company that provides enterprise software for tracking labor, time and attendance, and work in process for global manufacturing organizations. Accountable for project management, planning, implementation, configuration, training and testing of software and hardware. Partnered with all levels of manufacturing organizations to determine how to best leverage custom software implementations to improve manufacturing processes and reduce costs.

Responsible for IT operations and strategy at Tom’s of Maine; managed a team composed of application developers, eCommerce, and Help Desk staff; a member of Tom’s of Maine’s senior management team; developed and delivered a data quality initiative aimed to reduce product attribute issues in the supply chain.

Project Manager for IT asset divestiture of newspaper division from $2.5B sale. Managed IT infrastructure for Thomson Newspaper business units in the United States and Canada; responsible for creating and presenting capital expenditure requests, project plans, design documents, operations guides and training documentation.