Matt Lenaghan, Mba, Cpcu, Csm Email & Phone Number

Johnston, Iowa

Schedule, coordinate, and manage IT releases across the enterprise for the WaaS / Data Warehouse team.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

• Manage 5 IT projects over 15 months for Agency/Sales, Human Resources, Infrastructure and Operations with project budgets from $150k to $2M, matrix team sizes from 5 to 50+.
• Proactively manage cross-functional project team dynamics with focus on delivery using Agile and traditional methodology.
• Direct and monitor all activities for complex, high risk, strategic technology-based projects from initiation to delivery.
• Facilitate project initiation, document project scope & plans, generate work breakdown structures, estimate task duration, determine resource requirements, identify and track dependencies, assess and mitigate risk, and.
• Submit clear status reports tracking project commitments to stakeholders and management.
• Manage client and stakeholder expectations, implementing service improvement initiatives and communicating effectively with project sponsors.

West Des Moines, Iowa

• Initiated, planned and executed assessment of system constraints within legacy financial systems and executed delivery of capabilities to improve speed to market of new insurance products.
• Engaged business, IT and executive stakeholders to define required business capabilities, commit resources and approve proposed project plan.
• Created project plan including clearly defined scope, benefits, milestones, risks, assumptions, dependencies, budget, resource plan and schedule.
• Managed project plan with focus on delivering to milestones and communication to all stakeholders.
• Facilitated weekly project team meetings and monthly executive steering committee updates.
• Identified new opportunities to streamline processes and delivered capabilities ahead of schedule.

West Des Moines, Iowa

• Led Agile Transformation across Structure, Process, Culture, and Goals on application systems support.
• Ran daily Scrum meetings.
• Facilitated Sprint Planning and Review meetings and Sprint Retrospective meetings.
• Managed the Product and the Sprint backlog.
• Authored Sprint artifact’s and processes.
• Produced regular status updates to PMO and management team.

West Des Moines, Iowa

Manage IT applications team of 28 team members, and a $4 million annual budget. Collaborate with multiple department heads, managers, supervisors, and vendors to establish business priorities. Provide system maintenance, enhancements and periodic upgrade services. Create strategies, staffing plan, and work management models. Manage production support of 15.

West Des Moines, Iowa

• Led the implementation of LEAN operations principles in IT applications resulting in $158,000 expense reduction, improved collaboration and increased knowledge transfer between team members.
• Led the implementation of a self-managed work team and coached team for improved performance.
• Incorporated Kanban methodology for software development utilizing an open team work area to improved team collaboration, a Kanban board to visualize work and optimize the flow of the work among the team and daily.
• Published control charts and cumulative flow diagrams to continually improving team efficiency and remove bottlenecks.
• Managed stakeholder relationships and provided updates to executive steering committee.

Planned, initiated, and managed IT applications projects and maintenance of commercial insurance systems. Managed a team of 8 IT developers and their workload. Coordinated purchase of computer hardware and software, licensing and vendor support agreements. Oversaw $1 million annual budget. Served as a project liaison between business leaders and IT..

Analyzed and designed commercial insurance systems to solve business problems. Served as a change agent who identified the improvements needed, implemented those changes, and trained others to use the systems.

Documented, designed, developed, tested, and implemented COBOL mainframe computer programs and software packages for commercial insurance policy systems.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Management Information Systems, General

Bsba, Computer Information Systems

Activities and Societies: Wrestling team

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