Robert Udell Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

New York, NY, US

• Strategic Leadership: Oversee the end-to-end product management lifecycle for Medidata's data quality framework and clinical data solutions, aligning product strategy with organizational goals and customer needs.
• Program Oversight: Manage a complex portfolio of initiatives, including roadmap development, feature prioritization, and resource allocation, ensuring timely delivery of high-impact products.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with engineering, data science, and product teams to deliver innovative solutions, bridging technical and business perspectives to meet customer expectations.
• Governance & Process Improvement: Develop and implement governance frameworks to streamline operations, reduce inefficiencies, and monitor team performance to improve in delivery timelines.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Serve as the primary liaison for internal stakeholders, facilitating collaboration, addressing roadblocks, and communicating progress to senior leadership.
• Team Development: Lead and mentor a diverse team of product managers and product owners, fostering a culture of continuous learning and cross-functional excellence.Key Achievements:

New York, NY, US

New York, NY, US

• Agile Product Development - Managed agile product development for SCD, a tool used to visualize and analyze synthesized control data for various oncology indications, to support pharmacovigilance and trial design.
• Customer Engagement - Led focus groups with SCD users to prioritize features, build roadmaps and promote customer adoption
• Communication - Supported data science efforts for high visibility projects requiring inter and intra-team planning, frequent executive readouts, and difficult conversations to manage scope given technical complexity.
• Project Management - Navigated internal SDLC processes, resource jockeying, testing, and documentation required for on-time delivery of product releases, feature updates, and data refreshes

Hartford, Connecticut, US

• Product Management – Managed the plan and relationship between multiple business and technology teams to build payment integrity data products - ingesting new data sources, promoting predictive models and rules based.
• Revenue Optimization – Led initiative to decrease process errors by reporting trends and root cause issues

Hartford, Connecticut, US

• Portfolio Management – Matured project management across $4 million Data Science portfolio, training 40 project teams to use Agile/Scrum methodology, strengthening executive confidence in new organization's ability to.
• Data Visualization – Enabled on-demand, real-time project reporting for executives, business customers, and internal stakeholders, highlighting critical issues for over 40 projects through automated dashboards
• Marketing – Increased organizational awareness of new data science capabilities to ensure continued funding through internal marketing campaign promoting data centric culture, products, and engagement

Hartford, Connecticut, US

• Business Intelligence – Built a centralized data collection and measurement product for assessing enterprise threats and vulnerabilities- improving data quality and enabling trending, outlier analysis and informed.
• Product Enablement – Managed risk for experimental big data products, identifying new security controls needed to protect privacy given emerging technologies and changing threat landscape
• Consulting – Consulted with business to ensure decentralized subsidiaries align with Aetna’s security program - identifying critical risks, mitigating controls, and funding needs
• Governance – Enabled consistent security governance of $400 million IT Portfolio, software reviews, and business plans by developing clear and concise guiding principles for security architecture (SABSA)

Hartford, Connecticut, US

• Technology evangelist - Facilitated the use of a strategic enterprise architecture tool (Mega) to develop and manage reference artifacts such as business needs, business processes, business capabilities, IT roadmaps.
• Strategic Planning – Led cross-domain teams to complete 3 year strategic plans to mature business functions such as Plan Sponsor / Broker Relationships and Member Communications.
• Architecture Frameworks – Enabled transparency for executives into complex business functions by documenting and illustrating the relationship between strategic objectives, IT projects, business processes, information.

Hartford, Connecticut, US

• Project Management – Led quality assurance testing for multiple cross-domain IT projects, managing a team of over 40 Subject Matter Experts and Testers to complete test scripts, change requests, and defect management
• Operational Efficiency – Identified $1 million cost saving opportunities by consolidating and retiring overlapping products in the IT Software Portfolio
• IT Service Management – Integrated best practices from ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) Service Management into existing incident and problem management processes

• Knowledge Mapping - Constructed visual knowledge maps to identify, capture, and represent organizational knowledge for the Department of Defense to clearly identify the responsibilities of the Defense Threat Reduction.

New Brunswick, NJ, US

• Provided second tier IT support for 200 consumer sales representatives

Bs, Information Sciences And Technology

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