Manage cross applications in support of a cloning effort to implement new benefit plans • Identify impacted applications and manage Budget Guidance Estimation within Clarity/PPM Optics • Generate project schedule across all impacted applications and facilitate weekly status meetings• Coordinate the Requirement Reviews with all stakeholders, capturing changes, approvals and documenting all responses in within the Clarity/PPM Optics tool• Identify IT and Business Stakeholders and create the Governance Plan documenting the cross-organizational roles and responsibilities to fulfill the IT planning phase • Schedule and Coordinate planning meetings, updating the issue and risk log when required

Manage software development project in support of the Actuarial Project Technology initiative• Lead efforts involving work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans and status reports within time, budget and specification constraints while aligning deliverables to phase gates and milestones• Generate project schedules in a cross functional team environment while communicating progress to upper management and stakeholders via bi-weekly dashboards and status meetings• Lead the design, development, and implementation of business perspective work plans to determine the required tasks and resources for the project spanning multiple business units• Create project artifacts in support of the Liability Warehouse development projecto Generate Governance Plan identifying key stakeholderso Generate Project Schedule capturing project phases, milestones and deliverableso Generate Project Retrospective documentation to determine successes and areas for improvement• Manage, organize and facilitate daily testing defect meetings and weekly status meetings, generate meeting agendas, create and distribute meeting minutes/action items and upload to SharePoint• Coordinate System Test efforts and align with defect resolution, and capture test metrics for reporting to management. Approximately 150 defects identified and closed during test phase• Facilitate document review sessions capturing revisions, ensure updates are made in a timely manner to meet milestones, capture stakeholder signoffs and upload to SharePoint for audit purposes• Identify and anticipate risks and issues; facilitate resolution and mitigation, and escalate as required• Manage and update the issue and risk log via status meetings, and upload to SharePoint

Effectively lead/motivate the project team to create, support and implement business solutions • Create and Maintain in SharePoint all project management artifacts including the following:o Project Management Plan / Project Chartero Project Schedule via MS Project 2010 / 2013• Manage Budget of approx $900K via Scope Management, Resource Forecasting, and Project Charges• Facilitate weekly project status meetings including both onshore and offshore resources• Manage Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) process for new Software projectso Engage the Cross Functional Team capturing project effort required for funding purposes• Coordinate efforts to assist with Requirements gathering and Detailed Level Design documentation• Coordinate with Development and Testing groups (onshore and offshore) and Release Management to align schedules for code delivery and testing activities

Create and manage project plan to include Resources, Dependencies and Durations.• Create a 600+ line project plan to include the project deliverables, phase gates, resources and hours• Identify and capture project related risks, assign priorities and identify whether cost, schedule or scope is impacted; work with functional managers on resource related risks

Managed project activities from inception through deployment taking into account Project Infrastructure and the Triple Constraint of Scope, Cost and Schedule for a major SW platform. Implement SDLC and PMBOK project management methodologies; assumed Cost Account Manager (CAM) responsibilities • Generate the Integrated Master Schedule via cross-functional team meetings • Facilitate and coordinate the weekly cross-functional project status and schedule meetings o Communicate project status and risks between all stakeholders and team members o Ensure the Business Needs are being met and the project is progressing according to the baseline• Manage, identify and track issues and proactively identify solutions; escalate when necessary• Facilitate and manage the Discrepancy Report Review Board process o Identify code defects, and schedule SW fixes for deployment• Point-of-Contact for all project related status, issues and risks

Manage software releases of new project code and bug fixes through weekly meetings with the on-site Cross Functional Team and the Off-shore International Team members • Create and manage Project Timelines using the SDLC generally accepted standards and methodologies• Facilitate weekly meetings between the China development team and the on-site test team to track feature status, update percent complete of project tasks, and capture action items• Coordinate the Change Management effort for System Changes and Project Updates o Create the Charge Request documentation and present to management o Facilitate the LOE process to determine the required effort to implement changes and updates

Software Developer - COBOL• Develop, code, update and unit test new and existing applications to support system enhancements