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Bothell, Washington, United States

Bothell, Washington, United States

Internal Consulting, Business Analyst Management.

Greater Seattle Area

Partner with clients to get projects finished! Provide clear stakeholder communication and management, project management, software development oversight, quality oversight, and increased value capture. Significant technical experience representing Fortune 100 clients. Have the context and experience to avoid the usual issues, and the desire to overcome the unusual ones.* Practice integrity and competence in all activities* Experience working with, and representing Senior Executive stakeholder roles* Knowledge of common tools and methodologies, including but not limited to:** Waterfall, Traditional, Agile, MS Project, SQL, ECM (Content and Document Management), Portals, ERP(s), Data Analysis, Data Reporting, Data Visualization, Status Reporting, Issue Management, Risk Management, System Validation, Change ManagementRecent/Curent projects include: Project Management Office PM* Multiple Projects* Scope and Schedule* 3 - 25 resourcesClinical Systems Lead* Custom forecasting solution (SaaS, $50k/annual, 5 resources)* Data Warehouse PM (Capital, $1.2m plus SaaS annual, 5 resources)Vendor Oversight, Governance, and Management* Provide facilitation and resolution guidance for vendor issues* Risk based ongoing vendor governance* FTE BackfillWeb Marketing - Enhancements, Platform Standardization* Audit marketing web infrastructure* Develop shared service process structure and delivery model* Develop execution documentation and identify required resource roles* Pilot migration activity** $100k total budgetEFPIA tracking and reporting system* Strategic analysis, project management, development oversight, deployment oversight* Included integrations with SAP and CTMS* Included scope of enhancements to existing PPACA tracking and reporting system** $500k+ total budgetMulti phase Investigator Portal (external portal)* Business analysis, project management, user experience evaluation** $1.5M+ total budget

Orange County, California Area

Led Boutique Consulting Services P&L ($1.5M+ annual billing)* Created short and long term strategy for P&L, including formal business plan** Boutique consulting services to Life Sciences, and across vertical in content management* Responsible for team achievement of quarterly P&L billing targets ($375k+ quarterly billing)* Responsible for all aspects of consulting client relationships* Ensured all solutions delivered by team exceeded client expectations* Provided sales support, proposal oversight, and SOW creation on behalf of team* Managed consulting services staffing to meet contracted services** Responsible for consulting services staff evaluation, training, and development* Resource responsiblity 5 and 12 consultantsProvided cross-billed consulting services support to the other Portford Solutions P&LsProposed Consulting services line items ranged from $10k to $400k.Projects were mix of traditional and Agile, with more clients choosing Agile in recent years.Consulting services typically included:Program ManagementProject ManagementBusiness Process Requirements Analysis, documented formally as Business RequirementsSolution Requirements documented as a User Requirements Specification, which included process and system solution setSystems Requirements documented as Functional Specification(s)Technical System Requirements documented as Design Specification(s)System Development (occasionally)System Validation Documentation, which varied by the client SOP and client regulation requirementsSystem User Training Plan and DocumentationSystem Administration Guide(s)User Training ActivityPost Go-live SupportClients used a variety of management tools and deployment environments. These included MS Project, CA Clarity PPM, Salesforce, SAP, Informatica, Spotfire, Silverlight, various custom code stacks built on Oracle, Java, .net, etc., and APIs in conjunction with custom logic.

Orange County, California Area

Managed consulting services team* Worked with new and existing clients to define SOWs and identify resource requirements* Assigned consulting services staff to projects* Oversight of client related deliverables* Billed 90% of my time* Grew consulting services team from 5 to 7 resources* Team worked primarily in Life Sciences, but also completed Document Management and Content Management projects in other verticalsImplemented sales and marketing strategy for in-house products Obtained and managed necessary Technical Services resources on projects which required in-house developmentSuccessfully positioned consulting services team as de facto service provider for large clientIntroduced daily time management software and monthly invoicing process (software and process) to reduce team overhead devoted to repetitive administrative tasksSited a Pharmaceutical Supplies fulfillment and tracking system, which integrated with existing ERP and study specific systems (IVR, EDC, Monitoring). Gathered requirements, selected vendor, validated and deployed this system. Significant efficiency gains resulted in using department, allowing for 50% staff reassignment.Led a complete CTMS platform upgrade and revalidation, including data migration. All migration and upgrade activity performed during existing maintenance windows, for zero end user impact.

Orange County, California Area

Managed Life Sciences consulting services team for single client* Worked with client to define SOWs and identify resource requirements* Assigned consulting services staff to projects* Oversight of client related deliverables* Billed 95% of my time* Grew Life Sciences client team from 3 to 5 resourcesWorked with client on massive infrastructure development project in Clinical R&D to create pre-validated IVR, ePRO, and EDC systems. These products allowed trial specific, validated instances covering 80% of proposed clinical trial needs, at a cost savings of 90% and a time to market savings of 80%. Gathered cross functional business requirements (Clinical, Biostatistics, Data Management, Monitoring), identified vendors, validated vendor functionality. Additional savings was realized in post-go live instances as vendor maintenance and management was significantly reduced due to similarity of systems.

Orange County, California Area

Spearheaded development of large Life Sciences client ($100k+ monthly billing). Worked as lead for Life Sciences consulting services team for single client* Worked with client to define SOWs and identify resource requirements* Assigned consulting services staff to projects* Oversight of client related deliverables* Billed 100% of my time* Grew Life Sciences client team from 1 to 3 resourcesRetroactively documented legacy Clinical Trial Subject and Kit Randomization system. Validated legacy randomization system. Process evaluation and mapping led to creation of formal request templates and reduced data delivery requirements, saving approximately 40 hours of resource time per randomization request.

Rosemead, Ca

Responsible for project finances on multiple $10M+ projects* Tracked all spend (capital/expense) for reporting* Provided financial oversight servicesDeveloped extensive financial reporting process and system from ground up* Reduced repetitive (monthly) reporting time 66%, from 24 hours to eight hours.

Irvine, Ca

Marketing* Performed market size analysis for prospective products* Participated in product branding* Participated in focus group oversight and analysisResearch and Development* Evaluated existing published research to identify future potential products

Merced, California Area

Selected for Strategic Development Team* Worked on plan to update legacy systems into 3GPL code base* Trained in 3GPL (Visual Basic)Business Analysis* Developed strategic system plan with supporting departmentsCreated new Budget application* Responsible for development resourcing* Met time and budget for projectSupported Accounting, Budget, Elections/Jury, Fair Departments* Maintained legacy mainframe applications* Performed UI/code/process enhancements as necessary* Performed Y2K remediation

Atwater, Ca

Led Space Camp activities for astronauts aged 8-14* Narrated space missions.* Performed extra-mission management of astronauts as required.* Evaluated potential mission programs for suitabilityWorked with management staff on potential site re-use of recently decommissioned air force base (Castle Air base).

Dayton, Ohio Area

Researched and built unique single purpose scientific equipment.* 1 square meter black body analog* 10 square meter computer managed variable temperature surface (up to 20 degree C above ambient)* Hardened current and temperature buoysObtained Security ClearanceLed ground data collection efforts across the United States, including:* Weather stations with cellular connection. Temperature, humidity, solar incidence, and other information* Data buoys with periodic retrieval, temperature and current information* GPS Mapping of designated areasData evaluation and presentation, coincided with external data points.

South Bend, Indiana Area

Quality Oversight for small aerospace supplier* Developed repeatable quality system to reduce resource requirements of quality protocol. Reduced resource time required by 40%Compounded new rubber products to determine suitability in new productsWorked assembly line as necessary if assembly staff was not availablePackaged completed parts for shipment to client

Mba, Strategy, International Business

Activities and Societies: Consulting Club, Golf ClubBeta Gamma Sigma (top 20%). International Business, Strategy, and Consulting. Study.

Bachelor Of Arts, Physics

Activities and Societies: Honors Program (interdisciplinary liberal arts course program) With HonorsMathematics minor, Psychology minor.