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Schwenksville, Pa, Us

Schwenksville, Pa, Us

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

* Lead initiatives to reduce enterprise IT spending by over $125M, optimizing annual budgets from $400M to $275M without compromising quality, performance or service levels.* Worked closely with executive leaders and cross-functional teams to identify inefficiencies and implement cost-saving solutions, achieving a 30% reduction in IT operational costs.* Consolidate redundant software licenses and contracts, achieving annual savings of over $10M through streamlined procurement processes, vendor relationship management techniques and renegotiated vendor agreements.* Partner with IT, financial and procurement leaders to establish budget accountability and prioritize cost-saving initiatives aligned with strategic goals.* Facilitate workshops with executive stakeholders to identify and implement process efficiencies, reducing time-to-value for key IT initiatives.

Burlington, Massachusetts, United States

* Delivered over $1M in Cost Savings Through Digital Transformation: Led a high-profile initiative to close over 50 global office facilities, transitioning to a fully digital workspace. Collaborated with cross-functional teams and third-party vendors to achieve a cost-effective, seamless transformation.* Optimized Project Management Efficiency: Implemented Smartsheet as the organization-wide project tracking tool, successfully migrating all data from Asana and developing workflows, SOPs, and executive-level reporting. Leveraged AI capabilities to enhance reporting accuracy and streamline project delivery.* Managed High-Impact Project Portfolios: Governed an active pipeline of 20+ IT and Security projects, directly reporting to the CSIO and CIO. Established efficient processes that improved visibility, decision-making, and operational effectiveness across the organization.

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, United States

* Gained operational efficiency providing transparency and clarity through the rollout of Smartsheet as a SaaS solution, enhancing collaboration and for resource capacity sharing between the IT and business teams. Developed standardized and streamlined project management guidelines and processes using the tool which reduced cost, overrun and increased resource utilization.* Optimized vendor relationships to maximize value and streamline operations by leveraging a SaaS tool to develop a comprehensive process for vendor selection and onboarding, performance management, and cost control.* Boosted revenue by enabling business development to assess highest value opportunities within the project pipeline process which drove a 15%+ increase in productivity and revenue.* Led High-Impact Project Delivery in directing a team of senior architects, project managers, and analysts to execute high-profile, client-facing projects, aligning digital initiatives with business objectives and improving organizational agility and efficiency.

East Norriton, Pennsylvania, United States

* Streamlined Digital Transitions During Acquisition: Directed pre- and post-acquisition digital asset transitions, leveraging DevOps Azure to govern enterprise data, hardware inventory, and lab instrumentation. Managed software licensing and contract integrations, ensuring seamless compliance and operational continuity.* Executed Strategic Digital Roadmap: Directed executive leadership initiatives by defining clear business objectives, ensuring stakeholder engagement, resource and budget management, data governance and security. Managed GMP-compliant MES schematic mapping and lab hardware/software remediation project. Delivered program status updates to executive leadership and organized steering committee meetings to support informed decision-making throughout the digital transformation process.

Pennsylvania, United States

* Led a Global Migration Initiative: Orchestrated the spinoff and migration of Veeva Vault Promomats assets from Merck to Organon, leveraging agile methodologies to meet aggressive timelines.* Spearheaded the Delivery of Enhancements: Delivered new products, upgrades, and enhancements to the Veeva Vault Promomats platform, successfully mitigating risks associated with enterprise wide Veeva-specific releases.* Optimized Software Change Management Processes: Evolved and implemented streamlined pipeline product and change management processes, enhancing efficiency across multiple global business technology teams.

West Point, Pennsylvania

Devised and executed project-level release and change management strategies for major global markets. Master of compliance within software delivery methodologies and practices, industry-level governance policies, and company best practice protocols, including GxP and risk management. Single point of contact for all Salesforce and Veeva release management and global communications processes.• Implemented and deployed SaaS Release Management Tool (Plutora) across the global IT organization, including administrative updates and improvements, such as process flows and tool documentation.• Led establishment and facilitation of global market change and release review boards across multiple work streams, maximizing reduction of lower-risk releases.• Created and implemented strategic automated global Veeva license management metrics system based on forecasting, usage, and market needs, delivering savings of >$1MM+ annually.

King Of Prussia, Pennsylvania, United States

Managed quality delivery, budget, and maintenance of top-tier, revenue-generating online webstore accounts grossing $750MM+ in online sales annually (Ralph Lauren, Kate Spade, NHL, NFL, MLB, and NASCAR). Partnered with market vice presidents, senior solutions engineers, architects, and program directors to support full-service delivery, ideation, scoping, contracting, planning, implementation, and support for new launches, upgrades, migrations, and product launches.• Spearheaded business / platform separation venture between multiple business entities (GSI / eBay and Kynetic Inc.) with multi-faceted and multi-location team of 9 resources under aggressive time frame of 6 months.• Developed and deployed client-facing, document-sharing process, utilizing onsite tool (DAPTIV) at no incremental cost to the company, generating subsequent cost savings of ~$1MM.

King Of Prussia, Pennsylvania, United States

Managed simultaneous, large-scale IT / eCommerce projects focused on site enhancements or redesigns, including all aspects of project delivery (plans, resource allocation, and budget), as well as decommissions and shutdowns.• Led internal resource collaboration program (BEG Program) leveraged across multiple lines of business, improving communication, decision making, and solution setting for client needs, saving $500K+ over 6 months.

King Of Prussia, Pennsylvania, United States

Led definition and execution of company wide quality strategic initiatives and technology roadmap milestones by deploying new technologies via internal partners and client-funded projects. Oversaw largest revenue-generating business vertical within the company with $10MM+ in internal revenue annually.• Managed daily activities and deliverables of 20+ global quality assurance (QA) professionals, executing on-time, on budget, high-quality delivery of new eCommerce store launches and platform modifications, including full site redesign.

West Point, Pennsylvania

Managed teams of up to 10 members responsible for testing multiple high profile Pharmaceutical Sales systems using such products as Siebel, SAP and numerous internal custom built applications. Worked closely with the development teams, business analysts and managers to coordinate testing, results and defect management.

West Point, Pennsylvania

Managed multiple teams (onshore and offshore) testing high-profile pharmaceutical sales systems. Coordinated testing results and defect management protocols with development teams, business analysts, and business managers.• Deployed leading-edge testing tools, including HP Quality Center and Quick Test Pro to streamline, consolidate, and automate testing, shortening testing lifecycle time 20% and lowering bottom-line cost over 10%.• Implemented cost-saving revolutionary process to track activities of testing teams and eliminate manual efforts.• Identified $100K+ in savings by streamlining and automating test cases during development and regression test cycles.• Facilitated vendor negotiations, saving $150K+ over 18-month period.

Supported and provided enhancements for a major pharmaceutical manufacturing system using SAS, SAP, COBOL, COBOL II and CICS. Team Leader for the manufacturing systems Year2000 conversion efforts. Organized and met with the client to provide details and updates regarding system impact, scope, preferred methods of problem resolution, time line and resourcesDesigned, constructed and unit tested extract and load programs for a large pharmaceutical companies customer repository. Created and maintained all in-house operations manuals including client specific data and proprietary data handling methodologies.Held the position of Data Security Lead which entailed working collaboratively with upper management on the handling of client data for compliance purposes.

Maintained multiple production environments by way of JCL, SQL and COBOL/DB2 programming for several larger clients. Held the role of Team Leader and met with clients and vendors to help organize and tailor their specific data and project needs. Mentored other associates on Data Archiving and Best Practice tools in order to meet client specific needs.Responsible for taking raw data from numerous large clients and manipulating the data by means of JCL, SAS Programming, FILEAid and PC based tools into records or files that could be loaded into one or several of the numerous insurance products.

Langhorne, Pennsylvania, United States

Managed a team of 11 computer operators which provided around the clock 24/7 uninterrupted service.Delivered high quality output for direct marketing clients, which included but not limited to, mass marketing mailings and DirectOne® data distribution.Designed the physical and logical data center from inception to full operating performance, running under an IBM 9370 VSE/SP platform and coordinated the transition to an MVS/ESA 4381 platform without disruption to the company or deliverables.Worked closely with the development staff on all project implementation and design.Took the initiative to learn programming on the PC level and later transition into mainframe COBOL and COBOL II.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

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Associates Degree, Computer Science

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