Real Progressives is an advocacy, education, and outreach organization that focuses on supporting progressives policies, candidates, and economics for all citizens. Together with an all volunteer staff of journalists, social media managers, graphic artists, videographers and writers I work PART TIME to guide this organization in the education and outreach to struggling communities around the country.

Sr Project Manager for Network Communications for the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission

Provide Project/Program Management expertise for cross domain, multithreaded initiatives within PennDOT and external vendor led efforts for internal clients with customer facing clients. Using PMBOK and PennDOT approved hybrid methodolgies leveraging Iterative, Agile and Waterfall, I deliver on requirements.•Pavement Asset Management System for the planning and maintenance of state and local roadways•Bridge Asset Management System for the planning and maintenance of state and local bridges•Migration of Personal Storage Tables to Online Archiving through MS Exchange online.•Utility Permitting Project to shift the tracking mechanisms for all external and internal dependencies and affected constituencies.

Directed large IT initiatives in the healthcare field including pharmacy initiatives for both internal amd external clients. Large migrations with cross domain / cross SDLC approaches (highRUP, waterfall and AGILE/SCRUM). Provide Project Management expertise for cross domain, multithreaded initiatives within Highmark and external efforts for clients such as Independence Blue Cross, Blue Cross Blue Shield Michigan and Amerihealth New Jersey. Projects range from small budget initiatives beginning at 250k up to significant multiyear programs up to 10M•Carecore Radiation Therapy Management conversion for IBC 500k budget with expected annual efficiencies and savings of 25M •IBC Conversion from Argus platform to RX Claims platform including developing middleware solutions. Budget 5M•BCBSMI informatics and rebate pricing initiative. Budget 1M•Market Based Pricing initiative. Budget 250k •Express Scripts Modular Accums. Budget 1M•Clarity scheduling and governance•Resource planning and demand projects•Budget management and cross domain forecasting.

Work with KPMG Program Team to provide healthcare and IT systems specific consulting for the ACA eligibility system for the State of Pennsylvania. Provided Program leadership for communications efforts supporting the Department of Welfare (DPW) during the planning, design and implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Healthy PA initiatives. Collaborated with KPMG, DPW leadership and stakeholders to develop business requirements and led formal requirements gathering sessions that resulted in the development of process flows, presentations and business requirements artifacts. Collaborated with DPW leadership to deliver executive communications, as well as provide notifications to labor unions for technical and functional changes resulting from each software release. •Developed OIM Intense Briefing refresh that is used for onboarding new employees and shared during a change in administrations.•Managed the communications team master project schedule•Provided weekly executive status reports•Provided business consultative services to the operations team at Office of Income Maintenance (OIM)•Managed updates to Communications team documents on SharePoint.•Developed professional presentations and Visio timelines

Provide Project / Program leadership directing the life cycle management for a new enterprise wide CRM. Manage cross functional requirements gathering, developing and managing the RFP process, evaluating solutions, developing project and implementation plans and work with executive management to deliver training and staffing for a new enterprise CRM for both Federal and Commercial student loans. Provide expert program, project, and organizational change management through PMP best practices through all phases of the project management lifecycle including planning, scheduling and executive program communications. • Develop RFP for CRM solicitation including technical and functional requirements • Evaluate vendors such as PegaSystems, KANA, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics and SAP• Conduct enterprise level technical and functional reviews with vendors• Lead scoring initiative to determine RFP awards• Championed and collaboratively developed hybrid Agile / Waterfall methodology meshed with NIST requirements that PHEAA executive management adopted for a critical 3 year enterprise CRM initiative to achieve maximum business unit satisfaction and achieve time to value.• Led initiative to modernize PHEAAs HR Recruiting systems to integrate with legacy Peoplesoft implementation.• Led initiative to modernize PHEAAs printshop and inventory management system.

Provide executive leadership directing the life cycle management for Comcast new product development in both Agile and Waterfall environments. Programs include the Xfinity Connect Mobile App (which encompasses the development of cross platform mobile applications for iOS, Android and Blackberry hand helds and tablets.) Identity Management (which drives client account management, marketing of products and services, providing a single platform for all products and services within the Comcast portfolio.) Xfinity Text Messaging (provides text messaging capabilities for both domestic and international communications on the Xfinity Connect Mobile App) and Voice 2go integration (soft phone capability over the mobile app utilizing both WiFi and 3G/4G networks). Provide expert program, project, and organizational change management through PMP best practices through all phases of the project management lifecycle including planning, scheduling and executive program communications. • Lead, collaborate, document and deliver project collateral such as conceptual mind mapping, training, risk assessment and risk management, quality control, change management, project schedule, action registers, communications, contingency planning and Microsoft project program level management plans.• Led cross functional teams (up to 60 individuals assigned to the program, domestic and international) to develop wireframes, visuals graphics, sales and marketing collateral and plan, web placement, development, quality assurance, market and employee trials, defect reviews, deliver launch candidate to iTunes, Google Play and Blackberry World for deployment.• Produce and deliver efficient and timely executive level presentations, reports and communications including contract management, product roadmap, playbook and product demonstrations. Clarity program governance.

Provide expert Program Management for the overall database design, document preparation, interface design, digitization and transmittal of 12 million non-classified, foreign military sales documents for the US Army in New Cumberland PA through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology and Oracle databases. • Led team of 14 project coordinators to complete tasks and subprojects critical to the overall program’s success.• Worked with Chiefs and COTRs for terms and conditions governance• Provide expert program, project, and organizational change management through PMP best practices through all phases of the project management lifecycle including planning, scheduling and program communications through Microsoft Project, Sharepoint and other software tools.• Lead, collaborate, document and deliver project collateral such as conceptual mind mapping, training, risk assessment and risk management, quality control, change management, project schedule, communications and overall program management plan.• Produce and deliver efficient and timely executive level presentations, reports and communications including contract management.• Efficiently manage the planning, systems design, implementation and integration of scanning systems through joint venture with ACS – Xerox.• Strategically develop organizational assessments including requirements analysis, business requirements, joint application development and use cases for database and client interface development and implementation. • Business process design, documentation and project execution strategies including documentation, training and client consulting services. • Identify and position new revenue opportunities for the corporation.

Strategically lead organization and primary client engagements, providing management consulting, senior strategic guidance, and project leadership services in the selection, development, and implementation of media and telecommunication technologies for response to the Broadband Electrification Program of the Federal Government.• Systems design and integration, documentation and technical writing.• Organizational assessments including requirements analysis, pursuant to Unified Communications and other virtualization enabling technology implementations.• Business process design, documentation and project execution strategies including documentation.• Educate and provide guidance to senior leadership in telecommuting solutions that directly impact revenue.• Network design and architecture.• Pro-formas, including long-term business plans for grants and proposals.• Program, project, and organizational management planning and communications.• Lead $100M Grant Proposal for Lyric Communications Broadband Electrification Stimulus Project for Lower Anthracite Region of Central Pennsylvania. Lead technical writer for grant submission.

Supported the Program Management Office as one of 4 Senior Program Managers. I lead many international projects that focused predmoninantly on mergers, aquisitions and remote access. The integration of these acquisitions into the Johnson and Johnson network was the primary focus and usually entailed multiple sites, gerographically dispersed including layers 1-7 of the OSI model. Led matrix based project teams and program portfolio management.

Managed 20 direct reporting project, implementation and escalation managers to enable the Pittsburgh / Upstate NY sales branch and the nationwide virtual implementation team handling the entire former Verizon portfolio of enterprise products and services. Managed Services, CPE, Optical, VPN, MPLS, voice, Security Solutions, Network Design, Hosted IP Communications and staff augmentation.

Managed a matrix based program team for the delivery of the overall product development, first office application and implementation of the Commonwealth of Virginia's Hosted IP Communications ICB. Including Systems Analysis, Portfolio Management of all Voice and VoIP products, Process flows, methods and procedures, software development and the SDLC model. Project Management, executive reporting and requirements development in the form of BRDs and JADs.

Provided IT solutions to DOD and national civilian accounts.Led sales team to negotiate a five-year $25M 9000 Seat Cisco AVVID contract.Subject-matter expert for Data CPE/Primary Focus VoIP Apps and MNS.Cisco Subject Matter Expert

Verizon ­ Internet and Service Market SegmentTop producer of ISP market segment during Bell Atlantic/GTE merger.Subject-matter expert for Data CPE/Primary Focus VoIP Apps and MNS.Achieved 193% of annual sales objective.