First officer on Part 91 and Part 135 operations.

United Health Group Plymouth, MN 2011-2017Optum Health Behavioral Solutions EPMO IT Project Manager – BRMS BD PaaS Scrum Master• Scrum Master for 2 separate applications, transforming the applications to use an AGILE methodologies from waterfall. Resulting in a shortened development turnaround time from 100+ days to 2-3 three week sprints.• Took the initiative on scrum transformations to train and mentor Product Owners for their new role in entering User Stories and managing the Backlog of those user stories. • Managed three separate applications on a claims engine decommission in 2015.• 2013-2014 Managed migration of three applications from Solaris to Linux Manage Services, took these projects from initial estimates through post deployment warranty.• Involve in capital development projects up to $12.6MM as application Project Manager, with application accounting for $800K development costs.• Capital development projects up to $250K as cross application Project Manager, managing from initiation and estimation through post deployment and warranty.• Drove cross application coordination efforts, escalating issues as needed. Non-Capital development projects up to $250K as cross application Project Manager; including internal and external business requests. Typically having 20 or more projects in flight at any given time with a combined budgets of $500-900K. Responsible for full SDLC on these dev non-capital projects.• Briefed both Business and IT Management as to the status and health of troubled projects along with developing get to green plans for these projects.• Facilitated document and test reviews between Technology and Business Stakeholders.• Projects have included new customer installations, removal of obsolete customer code, tech only server moves, and compliance related enhancements. Using both waterfall and AGILE methods.

Status Reporting Project Manager on the enterprise wide HIPAA 5010 upgrade. • Change tracking and project admin on the EPMO Sharepoint sight.• External Impacts tracking (acquisitions, integrated release, decommission).• Program Sharepoint and Requirements Traceability Matrix Administrator.• Documented Lessons Learned for 5010 Program though leading project postmortem facilitation.• Part of coordination efforts between multiple business segments and platforms.

Coordinated the efforts of 6 internal departments as well as 5 client departments in the installation of two different benefit programs involving 500,000 lives.Evaluated upcoming tasks and provided biweekly status reports and dashboards to stakeholders as to the threats to the project timeline and completion.Organized and directed weekly status meetings with team leaders and account managers.Directed weekly conference call involving teams, business unit leaders and clients.Provided weekly updates and direction to project team leads regarding upcoming tasks due.Facilitated emergency mainframe data exchange between internal team and client.Plan setup and tracking using MS Project, each project had a 6+ month time span utilizing the resources of 8-10 different teams.Worked with internal and external team leaders to develop project plans that more accurately reflected project timelines and resources required as well as reflecting an accurate percentage complete.Streamlined project updates by championing and implementing a new Tracking and Look Ahead (TLA) document. The net result was allowing team members to focus more on tasks than updating project plans.Client Acceptance Testing (CAT) - ensuring plan adjudication complied with plan intent. This was done by running 36000 test claims and reviewing the system output for discrepancies from expected results. CAT non-conformity root cause analysis - determining if there was a problem with the test data or if the plan itself.Mainframe data quality analysis, ensuring all 376 benefit plans loaded correctly and are supplying the proper output information.Researched rejected live claims for root causes and reported findings along with corrective actions to Sr. Project Manager.Performed as the project point of contact during meetings involving account managers and business unit leaders.Both benefit install projects were completed and went live on the originally intended go-live date.

Contract negotiation and new business development with focus on technical positions.Candidate Development - Matching the right candidates with the right clients.

Product packaging, quality control and machine maintenance.

Batching and production of bulk product from the raw ingredient warehouse stage to the bulk prepackaged condition.Directed the workload for two other technicians as well as coordinating with the packing lines and the warehouse personnel (Using AS400 Mainframe interface).Collaborated with engineering to improve equipment and scientists to improve processes. Trained eight other technicians in the maintenance and operation of the Aseptic Mix Area.GMP Functional Leader, worked to improve plans and processes to improve FDA compliance.Successfully championed a change in the progressive disciplinary policy as a member of the Work Environment Improvement Team.

Responsible for the third shift GMP line check documentation and production compliance.Performed equipment audits and production line inspections.;

SiteComp was a software venture that transitioned specialized Surveying and Civil Engineering software from mainframe computers into the PC market.My duties at SiteComp were in the sales and technical support of the software.Success fully gained access to the Soil and Water Conservation Service Market.

Prepared, processed, and identified samples using a variety of chemistry techniques.Created Access database to track samples and test results.

Managed entire 3rd shift wafer thin layer metal depositions; including equipment maintenance and characterization.Wrote and revised ISO 9001 documentation.Worked with scientists to develop new GMR thin films and alter processes for better yields of these films.

Part of a self directed team responsible for off shift, high volume migration project.