Oversees strategic business initiatives from development through successful execution under the guidance of senior leadership and department delivery leads.Partner with Delivery Leads to implement and maintain OKR framework and monitor progress against keyobjectives.Oversees departmental $36M budgetAssist and communicate with executives in decision-making, program management, and initiativeimplementation.Review, design, and execute on improvements to org structure, find knowledge and skills gaps and help address themImproved department intake process to streamline work and create synergies with our project team and business stakeholdersCoordinate organizational procedures for optimized efficiency and productivityEnsure meaningful follow up and completion of priority action items in the organization

Worked with business and technical stakeholders to help create an overall strategy and prioritize product and development roadmap to hit business goals.Managed a team of 8 technical scrum masters where I am responsible for providing coaching, mentoring, and guidance to them and their scrum teams to efficiently work as a team.Coordinated with internal team partners towards on-time delivery of critical projects and programs for their teams.Brought clarity, cohesiveness, transparency, organization, and accountability to projects involving multiple teams or departments.Provided leadership with information needed for appropriate status reporting to our stakeholdersCreated training documentation and standardization for all project managers and their teams to ensure that they are following appropriate SDLC practice.Conducted bi weekly and monthly 1x1s with technical scrum masters and engineering team leads to ensure that they are working towards their development plans and project goals

- Directly manages all aspects of the project life cycle and works with matrix IT partners to oversee all SDLC phases of a project.- Develops the integrated project, resource, contingency plans, and related project management artifacts.- Serves as a subject matter expert in routinely briefing key stakeholders on different aspects of assigned initiatives. - Chairs weekly program team, monthly leadership meetings to review progress with key constituents.

Associate of the Technology Early Career Development Program (TECDP) at Cigna Healthcare. The goal of the TECDP is to support the professional development needs of associates and talent requirements of Cigna IT by providing challenging assignments, structured training, and mentoring through a committed partnership between individual associates, program management and the IT organization. TECDP targets recent college graduates with a degree in Information Technology or a related discipline. The program offers its associates an opportunity to develop technical, leadership, and business skills to become a well-rounded IT professional and leader through rotations in different IT areas within the company over the span of three years.Leadership Positions:- Project Manager for 2014 Fall Foundations- Internship Lead for TECDP Summer Internship Program- Project Manager for January 2014 New Associate Orientation- Member of Eastern Connecticut State University Recruiting Team

- Revamped and unified a project management reporting tool (Daptiv) that is now being used in Spain, Scotland, Belgium and United States.- Created an international project manager user guide that is distributed to all project managers when they are assigned to a new project.- Implemented a global resource administration team which includes delegates from Scotland, Spain, Belgium, and United States to provide regional project delivery support to their specific regions. - Conducted weekly meetings with the global resource administration team to discuss pain points across the multiple regions and create solutions to fix the issues. - Developed new reporting to easily identify problem areas in projects and created a cadence of when the reports are pulled and reviewed to key stakeholders. - Provided international project delivery analysis by reviewing weekly project status updates and escalating issues to stakeholders.- Provided resource management analysis of all active projects in the international space to notify and escalate issues to project managers when they arise.

- Performs monthly auditing of Information Management’s important applications to ensure end users are in compliance with Cigna Information Protection standards and practices.- Ensures high-level integration of application development with information security policies and strategies.- Leading the migration of over 100 onshore and offshore employees in Information Management to specific primary job roles within their organization. - Provides technical analysis of requirements necessary for the protection of all information processed, stored, or transmitted by systems.- Help create security architecture design documentation for all Information Management assets.- Identifies, evaluates, conducts, schedules and leads technical analyses functions to ensure all applicable Information Management security requirements are met for all applications.

- Performed root cause analysis and issue triage for high visibility, time sensitive issues- Helped streamline and implement business processes and procedures- Standardized IBoR issue triage and analysis process for consistency and efficiency across all IBoR APS resources- Developed and socialized issue triage guide to all IBoR Production Support Team resources- Developed IBoR OnBoarding materials for access needs and solution information- Led IBoR Solution socialization discussions with key business and IT stakeholders- Assisted in planning, testing, and implementation of system changes