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Hartford, Connecticut, United States

• Program Manager for two (2) Spark Projects implementing eBill and ePay for all Life Policies significantly reducing in print costs and enhancing the Customer experience, managing 10 application teams, 4 Agile Pods / Kanban teams. Budget of $2.2 million each, delivered ahead of schedule and under budget.• Manage Life New Product Quarterly Releases, IN Force Projects and related Production Support initiatives. Managing multiple IT and Business PMs, Scrum Master Agile Pods and multiple… Show more • Program Manager for two (2) Spark Projects implementing eBill and ePay for all Life Policies significantly reducing in print costs and enhancing the Customer experience, managing 10 application teams, 4 Agile Pods / Kanban teams. Budget of $2.2 million each, delivered ahead of schedule and under budget.• Manage Life New Product Quarterly Releases, IN Force Projects and related Production Support initiatives. Managing multiple IT and Business PMs, Scrum Master Agile Pods and multiple Adaptive teams. Show less

Bloomfield, Connecticut, United States

• Responsible for developing the Total Populations Solution (TPS) Release process; managing the Enterprise Release Management Integrated and Non-Integrated Off Cycles releases for August thru September 2014 (seven releases during this period); managed the TPS Post issues/resolution activities and TPS Operational Readiness Retrospective.

Windsor, Connecticut, United States

• Matrix managed the replacement of STARS application and migrated the existing functionality and data to a new instance of Salesforce within the Voya Web environment. • Managed the implementation of a Social Media project responsible for the capturing of auditable messaging for ensure company policies via the Web. Managed the vendor relationship (Social Ware) for contractual compliance and delivery of their application interfacing with the Voya applications.

Hartford

• I managed a team of five (5) Release Managers responsible for the coordination a suite of 21 Financial Applications and their related project deployments responsible for all IT compliance and SOX governance requirements including extensive Quality Audits, change management, risk/issue management and managing the project delivery schedule. • I was responsible for matrix managing up to 30 resources through the project life cycle (UHC SDLC) per release coordinating the Front Office… Show more • I managed a team of five (5) Release Managers responsible for the coordination a suite of 21 Financial Applications and their related project deployments responsible for all IT compliance and SOX governance requirements including extensive Quality Audits, change management, risk/issue management and managing the project delivery schedule. • I was responsible for matrix managing up to 30 resources through the project life cycle (UHC SDLC) per release coordinating the Front Office, Development and QA staffs, Project Managers from the EPMO and Business customers for Per and Post Deployment activities. Also responsible for Post Defect Management/Resolution and Lessons Learned process improvements and communication. • I was a Cultural Ambassador within UHC FSG organization which promoted, trained and supported the ‘Our United Culture’. Show less

Hartford, Connecticut Area

• I managed 3 projects beginning January 2010 until completion in Aug 2011, which migrated Plan Sponsor and Member enrollment processing by Market segment (NA/MM/Small Group) onto a Third Party Vendor (Benefitfocus) platform. Each of the projects had budgets of $2.5, $1.7 and $3.2 million respectively. • I reported to the Business Sponsor and IT program manager providing daily status reports to these highly visible projects including responsibility for the daily vendor relationship. •… Show more • I managed 3 projects beginning January 2010 until completion in Aug 2011, which migrated Plan Sponsor and Member enrollment processing by Market segment (NA/MM/Small Group) onto a Third Party Vendor (Benefitfocus) platform. Each of the projects had budgets of $2.5, $1.7 and $3.2 million respectively. • I reported to the Business Sponsor and IT program manager providing daily status reports to these highly visible projects including responsibility for the daily vendor relationship. • I managed a matrixed team of 8 BAs; 4 business SMEs; 9 IT Tech Leads; onshore and offshore developers; 4 Solution Architects; a QA test team; and the vendor team. • he projects composed solutions / integration of twelve (12) Aetna applications, three (3) databases, daily operational reporting and various processes for business continuity. Show less

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mathematics