Walter Edstrom Email & Phone Number

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 /.
• 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
• 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.

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.

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.
• 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 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.
• 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).
• 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.
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• 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