IT Operations Management (ITOM) & Application Portfolio Management (APM) workstreamsTranslating requirements into platform functionality, optimizing workflows, enhancing processes, performing quality assurance, facilitating end-user enablement, and providing critical insights to support GM’s product evolution.

Subject-matter expert in Application Portfolio Management (APM) and Agile Product Owner supporting GM's application lifecycle management product. Effective communicator with high integrity & honesty that drives collaboration across 30+ IT functional areas for organizational goals and objectives considering current and future-state needs.• Subject-matter expertise on APM and tool supporting GM's application lifecycle management• Defines GM's APM governance policies & practices• Continually improving effectiveness, efficiency, and usability of the processes and tool-set• Advise executives & cross-functional teams on APM governance policies & practices• Facilitates APM user forums & governance meetingsKey Initiatives: IT Master Data Management Application Portfolio Management & RationalizationIT Transformation ProgramOpel/Vauxhall DivestitureGM Defense Program

Experienced Project Manager with success leading all phases of diverse application development and infrastructure enhancement projects. Selected by senior leadership to manage large-scale, top-priority and complex technology initiatives.Representative projects include: Company Name and Border Color: The addition and standardization of attributes to an Employee’s Identity profile to flow appropriately to downstream datastores. Planned, managed, and controlled a large cross-functional engineering and application development team for delivery of scope.Federated Onboarding Release: Planned, managed and controlled a large cross-functional development team for completion of scope via a multi-phased deployment strategy which enabled the client to respond quickly to changing organization and business relationships, provide streamlined on/off-boarding processes, and improving quality of identity data. Coordinated external system interfaces, service desk and operational support transition for each scheduled release phase.GM Supply Power Migration: Led a complex integration project to upgrade the back-end infrastructure while migrating in parallel to a new portal interface. Managed migration of more than 60+ applications onto this new infrastructure to become the single portal interface between Suppliers and GM Users thus eliminating vendor support issues due to software and hardware end of life cycles. Planned, managed and controlled a large cross-functional team for delivery of scope. Coordinated hardware/software procurement and installation, negotiated and managed hosting vendor deliverables.

Began career as Systems Engineer. Took on increasingly more responsibilities to become a Project Manager supporting various global service contracts. As a Project Manager with a broad and extensive system development expertise, was promoted to a Senior Project Manager.Representative projects include:Social Security Number (SSN) Remediation: Lead application development and engineering teams for remediation of SSN data as it related to dealer use. Defined, managed and controlled application-specific deliverables per scope. Coordinated with external system integration team for deliverables, testing, and deployment tasks per defined schedule of work. Virtual Private Network (VPN) Certificate Authority (CA) Refresh: Coordinated hardware procurement and installation, negotiated and managed hosting vendor deliverables, and managed VPN engineering team scope of work.GM Global Purchasing System (GPS 8.0) Enhancement: Prime integrator for the global delivery of a multi-million dollar enhancement project. Single point of accountability to client to ensure completion per contract requirements. Coordinated, managed, and controlled both on-shore and off-shore development teams as well as third party supplier’s performance to ensure deliverables were completed per commitments. Coordinated integration and deployment activities with external interfacing systems. VSSM GM BuyPower and Saturn Consumer Web Sites: Prime integrator and application lead for GM’s business-to-consumer (B2C) web applications. Coordinated project enhancement activities with GM application owners, third party marketing and development suppliers, hosting vendor, and internal development teams. Managed and controlled application specific maintenance and enhancement deliverables.