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Denver, Co, Us

Golden, Colorado, United States

Greater Denver Area

IT program manager for portfolio of 6 projects related to automated real time transportation tracking systems and smart fare card technology. Responsibilities encompassed managing IT and business resources to ensure successful delivery of IT project portfolio. Details include managing program wide budgets over 20 million dollars, developing and managing contracts/vendor procurements, hiring new staff, making best practices improvements practices within the PMO and ensuring successful and responsible project delivery. Successful project highlights include: Implementation of mobile and web based real-time tracking and prediction applications for buses and light rail, and web portal development/implementation for cutting edge smart card fare technology. • Successfully negotiated a savings of $2M from a $25M budget through contract negotiations• Developed improved PMO processes, procedures, and templates for standardization within the 1st month of employment resulting in higher project throughput for the organization• Achieved rapid project turn around for real time tracking system – moving from multiple high criticality issues upon takeover of program to zero critical issues

Aurora, Co

Project manager for various healthcare related projects including: Epic implementations (Beacon, Epic Upgrades, ICD-10) , Dental and Cardiology PACS vendor selections and implementations, and other clinical projects. * Promoted to Project Manger II (Senior PM) after only 1 year of employment * Invited to develped & teach project manager training program for managers resulting in over 20 managers being trained in PM tools and techniques

Denver, Colorado

Project manager for enhancement and maintenance of the IBM strategic outsourcing bid tools (SAge and Cost Targets). These tools were considered by Microsoft to be the largest known Visual Basic desktop applications in existence.*Developed a global outsourcing comparison tool currently in use by IBM with patent pending that resulted in winning the IBM Boulder Tech Connect Event*Achieved IBM 100% Club recognition (< .5% of employees receive this) for successfully turning around two troubled applications*Personally responsible for successfully delivering four major tool releases resulting in over $40 million dollars in revenue annually *Worked as a liaison between business team and project development team to deliver project scope definitions, schedules, documentation, and gap analysis resulting in on time and within budget delivery of all project releases along with A+ customer satisfaction ratings*Utilized extensive use of PMI/PMP processes and procedures resulting in post-production maintenance savings of $1 million dollars to the company

Westminister, Colorado

Designed software requirements at client location for a trouble ticketing application. Gathered requirements, analyzed results, and obtained stakeholder approval to ensure project success.*Promoted to requirements analyst position after only six months of system testing *Designed a business-to-business electronic interface for generation of service tickets, resulting in over $2 million dollars in revenue annually

Westminster, Co

Created and executed detailed test plans for two messaging applications, one web based and the other platform driven. Developed and implemented test scripts resulting in 0 high severity bugs being caught in the code after being promoted to production*Assisted in testing for the new user interface, documented test results, and conducted UAT*Recommended future improvements to the management teams resulting in new revenue generating features*Assisted with test cases and developed strategies with testing engineers to implement efficient testing resulting in reduced amount of testing resources needed

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General, 3.9

Activities and Societies: NoneGraduated with honors

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science, 3.6

Activities and Societies: NoneGraduated with honors