Michael Fedak Email & Phone Number

Hartford, Connecticut, United States

Responsible for the Project Management Office.Managing the entire portfolio of projects within the strategic portfolio.Leading a Transformation Program with a focus on enhancing people's skills, process maturity & technology advancement.Active member in the mentoring program across the department.

Oxford, Ct

Started my own Consulting Business specializing in Project and Program Management.

Shelton, Ct

Accountable for Quality Assurance (QA) Production Support and Quality Engineering (QE) Shared Service Organization.• QA Production Support: Ensured quality across 40+ applications, handling 100+ monthly BAU changes.• QE Shared Services: Oversaw the Automation, Performance, Test Data Management, and SW/HW upgrades for the entire Initiative and BAU portfolio.• Lead 85+ resources across all supported functions in 5 different locations.• Achieved 25% increase in throughput while reducing overall BAU spend by ~515k.• Doubled regression test coverage; drove automation utilization, built out Dev/Ops and Test Data Mgmt. solutions resulting in ~445k of cost avoidance, increasing speed, and test coverage.• Led Transformation program from QA to QE; Waterfall to Agile across ~150 resources.

Shelton, Ct

Accountable for Application Design and Solution Engineering Organization. Responsible for Solution Engineering, Functional & Technical Design across 40+ application for both Initiative and Production Support• Led 60+ Design resources supporting a ~40 million initiatives spend, providing Production Support, and driving Design process maturity.• Primary IT Owner for the Product Initiatives ensuring successful delivery across all IT functions. Most recent program was the delivery of the 15 million-dollar DOL initiative.• Established vision, and multi-year roadmap for maturing Design function focusing in on people, process, and technology. Areas to note: Focused on cross training, building SMEs, ramp up/ramp down capabilities, rewards and recognition, reuse of Design patterns, Integration maturity, Enterprise Architecture build-out.

Shelton, Ct

Director accountable for Technology Business Office within the Planning Organization • Responsible for IT Finance, IT Vendor Mgmt, Workforce Mgmt, IT Sourcing Office, IT Project Mgmt, IT Demand Mgmt, IT Tools and Reporting, and SEPG• Managed financials and supported project deliverables for the Workforce Optimization initiative that transformed the overall Annuities IT structure into a Plan, Deliver, QA, Operation model• Provided oversight and management of the multi-million dollar BAU budget and initiative spend plan.

Shelton, Ct

Program Manager, Prudential Annuities IT, Shelton CT Accountable for the multi-year IT Transformation Program to enable an onshore offshore delivery model.• Managed the selection process for an offshore strategic partner for the Annuities Business.• Led the integration and knowledge transfer process within each of the functional areas.• Provided governance and reporting to upper management though-out the engagement.• Effectively communicated and managed "change" within the organization.

IT Delivery Manager; IT Program Manager for Retirement Services 2005 – 2008• Responsible for managing multiple initiative projects/programs within the Service area of the Retirement Business• Managed matrix project teams consisting of cross-line of business ING resources, offshore vendor resources, and software vendor resources• Responsible for managing multi-million-dollar projects/programs• Adopted strong SDLC practices, developed business cases with supporting CBA, obtained customer/stakeholder buy in Team Leader for the Participant Retirement Services Website: 2002 – 2004• Managed six resources on the Participant Retirement Services website• Provided day-to-day management duties, ensured the website met production SLA, involved with managing bug fixes and small enhancements• Assigned resources, assisted with development plans/performance reviews, and team building

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