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Philadelphia, Pa, Us

United States

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Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania, United States

-Business development for Synacor's Passkey Connect Cloud ID product-Client relationship manager for Pariveda, Synacor's partner in Healthcare and Portal business

Buffalo, New York, United States

A cloud based software and services company serving global video, internet and communications providers, device manufacturers, governments, and health tech companies by enabling customers to better engage with their end users. The Cloud ID product provides users with a frictionless identity login experience that protects their identity and controls their accessibility to content.-Provide overall Product and Engineering leadership, including Program Management of our largest customer, Sirius XM (SXM).-Manage, improve and grow Synacor’s commercial relationship and activities with SXM, This includes Professional Services that drives usage & license based revenue (~ $2M per year). -Built a structured process, utilizing Monday.com, to accurately track P/L (revenue, costs, margins) for all Professional Services engagements. This resulted in collections of missed billings ($200k+) for some of our largest customers.-Lead the company expansion into a new vertical, Health Tech-Developed a strong co-sell partnership with Pariveda, a management consulting solutions firm that specializes in healthcare and life sciences.-Developed a partnership with Oracle Health to augment their products with our password less managed service feature. Built and co-demo’d a working prototype solution at HIMSS, the largest Health Tech conference in the US.-Lead business development owner and built a deep sales pipeline

Exton, Pa

A cloud-based InsurTech/FinTech company that provides SaaS based software solutions to the life insurance and financial services industry. This digital end-to-end platform simplifies sales, compliance, operations and support for carriers, agents, financial advisors, banks and their consumers on a global basis.-Served as the primary liaison with multiple concurrent customer projects having primary responsibility for providing quality customer implementations and achieving target profitability objectives.-Consistently delivered high-impact results to meet client needs-Focus product areas - eApp and Underwriting-Provided leadership to a team of 35 (PM’s, BA’s, Developer’s and Testers) within my Practice. -Managed the financial requirements and profitability of the project engagement from inception to completion. Accountable for revenue, bookings and margin targets for a $10M portfolio across 10 major customers.-Participated in strategy sessions, PMO and financial planning-Developed and implemented processes, best practices and opportunities to grow revenue within the PS organization-Followed and supported an Agile delivery process-Directed the entire application implementation lifecycle from design, coding and testing to final deployment-Interfaced with iPipeline’s C-Suite Executives on a regular basis.

Princeton, Nj

Software consulting company specializing in Project & Program management for large-scale development and implementation projects for multi national companies, with a primary focus in transportation/logistics.- Documentation of proven process automation strategies for multifunctional organizations. This will result in substantial efficiency gains after implementation.-Documentation of past organizational transitions amongst IT and business functions.

Princeton, Nj

Red Bank, Nj

•Freelance consultant focused on Business Analysis & Program/Project management of business critical technology solutions.•Directed the business analysis of a DSP technology platform to enable programmatic media buying of digital ad space for a healthcare media provider, which provided accurate scenarios as input for developing epics and user stories.•Developed and managed the documentation of epics and user stories utilizing an agile development methodology, resulting in improved accuracy during the development phase.

Edison, Nj

•Sr Program Manager for the delivery of a global invoicing system for a Norwegian based auto shipping & logistics company. System was successfully implemented in Europe, North America, and Australia on time and within budget. After implementation, $250,000 of unbilled revenue was realized & process improvements were then implemented in the billing group to prevent future issues. This was the most critical and visible project in the company, since it handled all customer/supplier invoicing around the world, which totaled billions of dollars worth of revenue. •Restructured a fragmented global cross-functional team (North America, Europe, Australia and India) across several business units that resulted in a cohesive team with improved communication. Managed the team, which included Project Managers, Quality Assurance Managers, System Architects, Business Analysts and the Development team.•Managed project P&L and reported directly to the Senior Executive Management team at World Headquarters in Oslo, Norway to manage expectations, deliver project status and keep the project on track.•Oversaw all quality control measures and testing procedures. Streamlined a 3rd party defect-tracking tool (JIRA) to adapt to the project delivery methodology, which resulted in real time feedback across the global team and effective tracking and management of issues. This resulted in a decrease of the user acceptance testing phase by 25%.•Created and managed a SharePoint portal to ensure document control, resulting in effective and timely communication amongst the global team. The portal improved the efficiency and accuracy of the business requirements and reduced review time amongst the global team.•Performed supplier and contract management for client’s software vendor, TATA (TCS). Spent a considerable amount of time in India working with TATA throughout the critical phases of the project, which resulted in meeting project deliverables on time and within budget.

Murray Hill, Nj

Advent is a multi million-dollar software consulting firm that specializes in the custom development of global applications in the transportation/logistics industry•Responsible for corporate P&L, Admin (HR, Legal, Payroll, Accounting, etc.) and operations. Advent employs 50 staff members, residing in NJ, CA, & India•Led and project managed all mission critical & high visibility projects as the company’s most Sr. Project Manager•Created and led the Project Management Office (PMO). Developed, documented & implemented standards across all projects, resulting in streamlined processes & efficiencies for the company and increased customer satisfaction•Active role in business development efforts•Oversaw all enterprise software application development. Accountability for all Project Manager (15) & Quality Assurance (10) team members. Mentored Jr Project and Quality Assurance Managers on processes & best practices•Established and oversaw the IT Release Planning coordination efforts for Advent, which included the creation and development of a web based proprietary system to track change management requests across client organizations and projects•Grew revenue by 300% and the customer base from 1 to15, in addition to streamlining the overall cost structure. Reduced overall costs by 20%.•Developed and managed client relationships with significant government & large enterprise accounts within the US and throughout Europe (UK, Germany, Belgium), Japan and Australia.•Created, developed and supported annuity based products (systems) for the industry, which resulted in a new annual revenue stream of $100,000.•End to end management for the transition of IT and business functional services to client organizations (from support to maintenance phases of an Advent product). Developed and managed all customer maintenance and support contracts.•Managed the logistics of moving the corporate office to a class A office building with zero downtime for our customers.

Berkeley Heights, Nj

Transportation consulting firm specializing in IT consulting and software development• Sr. Program/Project Manager for the development and implementation of a global booking and billing back office system for Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics Inc.• Sr. Quality Assurance Manager for the development of a system to track domestic truck movement for a major Japanese shipping line, “K” Line, Inc..

Basking Ridge, Nj

• Quantitative Market Research Analyst• Demand Forecasting Manager• Network Fraud Management System Business Analyst• International Card Product Manager

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Aerospace Engineering

Activities and Societies: Member, Varsity Tennis Team

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Information Systems And Operations Research