Martha Stephenson Email & Phone Number

Colorado

Project manager for implementation of Kuali at client sites.• Perform project management activities including budget and timeline estimates, resource management, risk management, and communications with advisory committees• Manage vendor relationships for project implementation• Kuali modules include Curriculum Management, KSA, and KSCO

Massachusetts

As project manager, responsibilities included project management for University-wide system implementation, managing vendor relationships and internal resources to achieve objectives for university initiatives• Assumed project management for initiatives to move university systems off a mainframe platform to Kuali Student• Performed project management activities including budget and timeline estimates, resource management, risk management, and communications with advisory committees• Managed vendor relationships for project implementation• Established program management for student information system conversion from mainframe to Kuali Student

As the project manager, responsibilities included program and project management skills for enterprise-wide IT projects, managing vendor relationships and internal resources to achieve objectives of initiatives• Assumed program management for $1.5M initiative to implement SharePoint as the content management system and Sitecore as the platform for the newly branded websites• Performed project management activities such as budget and timeline estimates, monthly budget reconciliation, weekly and daily stakeholder updates and status reports• Liaison with vendors, coordinated vendor activities and interactions with internal resources, initial point of contact

As the senior project manager, responsibilities included program and project management skills for department-specific and company-wide IT projects, managing vendor relationships, providing functional management skills for project managers and business analysts and managing daily IT business operations.• Assumed the program management role for $5.5M company-wide initiative to replace the content management system, websites and web infrastructure.• Successfully managed development and implementation of the content management system ($800,000 budget) based on customizing Alfresco, an open source system, and migrating approximately 1,000,000 documents to the new system.• Successfully managed development of the website redesigns and new web infrastructure ($1.4M budget) for the Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Digital and Higher Education websites as well as the eCommerce solution for HBD and HE Content Builder applications.• Recipient of the One Enterprise Award for Business Process Management for developing business processes incorporating new systems into daily operations.• Implemented a project management office to support the goals of IT.

As Lead Project Manager, responsibilities included providing key project management skills for web-based development and vendor system implementation and functional management skills for business analysts, leading cross-functional teams to deliver the product of the project, cultivating customer relationships within the college and providing first line of support for production issues.• Developed, implemented and refined project management processes and procedures for IT group.• Successfully managed the institutional conversion to Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000 (from Lotus Notes).• Successfully managed a variety of in-house software development and implementation projects for department and curriculum initiatives, including development of a role-based portal and an on-line system to provide prospective students with Admissions information and decisions.• Improved level of customer service to constituent groups.• Participated in mentoring program for junior-level project managers within the College.

First as a systems analyst, then as a project manager, responsibilities included analysis and documentation for new registration system, managing implementation of online insurance eligibility verification system, managing development projects for extensions to that system, training users on new system• Successfully implemented online insurance eligibility system in four health centers and three hospitals within the Partners Healthcare network.• Successfully managed development for extensions to the EDI software capabilities.• Developed, coordinated and delivered documentation and training program for software. • Developed monthly reports to upper management on bottom-line impact including statistical analysis, QA analysis, infrastructure maintenance and preparation and presentation of status updates.• Triaged support issues.

As project leader, responsibilities included providing leadership skills for the team and liaison with on-site client• Managed development team web-based search engine which accessed newsgroups and displayed behavior in a graphics image.• Analyzed system requirements and wrote needs assessment for system to evaluate user behavior in newsgroups.• Presented findings to upper management.

Ms, Mis

Bachelor Of Science, Biology