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Feasterville, Pa

Philadelphia, Pa

OVERVIEW: Project manager with 10+ years of experience managing hundreds of information technology projects for more than 50 clients across diverse vertical industries including healthcare, pharmaceutical, software, financial/insurance, government, construction, distribution, and manufacturing. Projects managed ranged from software development, mobile apps, web enablement of legacy systems, e-commerce applications, portal/intranet implementations, infrastructure migrations with OS and messaging roll-outs to thousands of users. On most projects, perform the dual role of business analyst and project manager.MOBIUS CONSULTING GROUP, INC.: was incorporated to market services and to directly contract with clients on a C2C financial basis. I also engage on a W2 and direct billing basis. I am currently working on a digital marketing implementation project for Financial Agility, LLC which is almost completed. Past projects as an independent contractor include:• Lawson HR rollout project for a large hospital group as ‘BPR Training PM for Org Change’ where I facilitated training sessions for HR managers on using the reengineered processes.• Instructor role for PMP Boot Camp and Project Management Fundamentals classes onsite at pharmaceutical home offices, state government agencies, and colleges. The PMP Boot Camp class enabled students to pass the PMI Project-Management-Professional (PMP) certification exam within a week. The Fundamentals class focused on enabling students to use the PMBOK methodology to improve the success rate of their department’s projects. • Wrote FRDs and RFPs defining scope for a venture capital firm on proposed mobile apps (Android/iOS) to enable budget forecasts and for developers to bid on the cost of production. Familiar with MDM software.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Project manager with 10+ years of experience managing hundreds of information technology projects for more than 50 clients across diverse vertical industries including healthcare, pharmaceutical, software, financial/insurance, government, construction, distribution, and manufacturing. Projects managed ranged from software development, mobile apps, web enablement of legacy systems, e-commerce applications, portal/intranet implementations, infrastructure migrations with OS and messaging roll-outs to thousands of users. On most projects, perform the dual role of business analyst and project manager.

Exton, Pennsylvania

Consulted Global 1000 clients in healthcare, philanthropy, research, distribution, and manufacturing, for an IT consulting firm of over 2000 employees. Completed SharePoint EDM implementations & integrations, website redesigns, road-maps, and mainframe migration analysis. • Utilized skills of communication, presentation, time management and organization; managing all participants’ expectations of timelines, milestones, and deliverables. • Coordinated cross-functional activities serving as focal point for liaising disparate stakeholders. • Monitored tasks assuring compliance with the approved plans and within the approved schedules, scope and budget against performance baselines.• Disseminated status reports, dashboards, burn-down charts, and scorecards on project variances, activities, and issues. Practiced change management with a focus on avoiding scope creep. • Documented ‘lessons learned’ for continuous improvement and adherence to best practices.• Taught Project Management Fundamentals classes to colleagues at Perficient’s training events. • Performed the role of business analyst on many projects managed.• Consulted technology and business subject matter experts (SMEs) learning their issues and business needs, and conducted user group meetings to further understand their requirements.• Analyzed data and wrote detailed functional requirement documents (FRD) clearly defining scope. • Generated use-case and process diagrams visualizing current processes and a more automated future state of business process workflows and controls (gap analysis).• Created custom spreadsheet tools to facilitate solution, product, and vendor selection. • Architected software and strategic solutions.• Wrote user and training manuals.• Customer relationship building initiating pre-sales for client's next project.

Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania

As an IBM Premier Partner we provided services and solutions that improved client’s communication, collaboration, and workforce productivity. Many projects included IBM Lotus/Domino/WebSphere development, messaging, infrastructure and client roll-outs. Assisted AS400 and mainframe clients to web enable their legacy applications. Other initiatives included development of tablet applications for a national builder to streamline the delivery and sign-off of new homes, and worldwide server upgrades and client roll-outs/training to thousands of users.Responsible for managing most of the firm’s projects, in detail as PM, or on high-level oversight as PMO. Clients ranged from pharmaceutical, financial/insurance, government, construction, distribution, software and manufacturing companies. As project manager and business analyst I:• Coordinated with clients, technology managers, project leads, contractors, and vendors. • Managed all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) including requirements analysis, design, development, quality assurance, training, and support. • Conducted kick-off meetings to manage expectations, and closing processes for every project.• Created well-structured project plans that segment work into pre-defined phases. • Planned for staffing and resource utilization including schedule development and budgeting. • Identified, assessed, and mitigated project risks and established quality parameters. • Customized project guidelines and procedures to reflect stakeholder’s strategic plans, goals and objectives including creating processes for reporting, operations management, and accounting.

Jenkintown, Pennsylvania

CSG is a leading provider of country-club management POS software, and has since been acquired by Jonas Club Software. I managed projects that enhanced; bug fixed; and created one-offs for CSG's legacy software products including Accounting, Retail POS, Scheduling, Catering, Payroll, Guest Billing (hotel), Food & Beverage, and Inventory. • As project manager worked with a staff of 30+ developers and QA resources on hundreds of software one-offs, bug-fixes and enhancement projects.• Reported directly to the CTO and coordinated between senior management, sales, customer service, user groups, development, and quality assurance.

Wayne, Pennsylvania

Palarco was a regional IT services company employing over 200 consultants before being acquired by Safeguard Scientifics. I was project manager and business analyst in the profitable ‘E-Development Group’. • Completed dozens projects for a variety of clients ranging from fortune 100 to local businesses. • Projects included e-commerce platforms, data integration, infrastructure upgrades, scheduling application, architecture analyses, AS400 custom applications and upgrades.• Managed a large architecture review project for the oldest corporation in the world. Facilitated group meetings with SMEs from all of the client’s business groups focusing on System Services; Content Management; Enterprise Integration; Product Catalogs/Configurators; Storefronts (websites for contractors); Transaction Processing; Product Visualization; Wireless Connectivity; Online Knowledge; CRM; Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence; and e-Procurement.