Program Manager

• Jan 2021 - Present

Project Manager/ Release Manager

• May 2013 - Dec 2020

Business Analyst Consultant

• Feb 2011 - May 2013

IT Business Process Engineer

• Mar 2010 - Feb 2011

Develop and coordinate activities for defining a Master Data Management business case.Responsible for facilitating and coordinating requirements gathering, documenting current and future state requirements and translating to capabilities. Work with business users and technical team in documenting the capabilities and evaluating Master Data Management products. Coordinate activities with vendor, users and cross functional teams in planning and due diligence process including status to senior management.

Project Manager/Release Manager

• Jan 2009 - Feb 2010

From inception to deployment, project managed multiple implementations of software products to customers. Coordinated and delegated tasks between teams: Business Analysis, Development, Quality Assurance, Deployment, Training and Customer Support. Managed stake holder relationships and expectations. Managed and controlled project budget and scope. Mitigated project risks. From inception to deployment, project managed multiple implementations of software products to customers. Coordinated and delegated tasks between teams: Business Analysis, Development, Quality Assurance, Deployment, Training and Customer Support. Managed stake holder relationships and expectations. Managed and controlled project budget and scope. Mitigated project risks.

Project Director

• 2006 - 2008

Directly managed two operational teams. Oversight of the collection, processing, and quality assurance of patient and clinical quality data. Managed the relationship with outside vendor providing application development services. Project managed new data and reporting initiatives. Directly managed two operational teams. Oversight of the collection, processing, and quality assurance of patient and clinical quality data. Managed the relationship with outside vendor providing application development services. Project managed new data and reporting initiatives.

Manager, Data Management

• 2000 - 2006

Directly managed a team of 7-10 staff comprised of technical and clinical Business Analysts, Quality Specialists, and Data Analysts. Co-project managed the development and implementation of the Product Item Master (PIM) used as the "truth of source" by all technical systems for health care product information. Built and defined new operational team responsible for managing the PIM as well the relationship with outsourced data cleansing and categorization vendor. Overall responsibility for the timely and accurate operations of cleansing, categorizing and loading products and attributes to the general product catalog and assigning products to Group Purchasing contracts. Developed technical interface schedules. Responsible for the completeness, accuracy, timeliness, and relevance of health care related product information in item master/repository that held over 4 million records.

Operations Manager

• 1998 - 2000

Directly managed operational staff responsible for Data Collection and Customer Service. Project management and liaison between IHA COMPdata staff and contracted IT development team to transition COMPdata from an AS/400 based system to Oracle based Web Application. Provided technical assistance to staff for querying relational databases (MS Access, Oracle Discoverer, SQL) and miscellaneous MS Office and FTP applications. Directly managed operational staff responsible for Data Collection and Customer Service. Project management and liaison between IHA COMPdata staff and contracted IT development team to transition COMPdata from an AS/400 based system to Oracle based Web Application. Provided technical assistance to staff for querying relational databases (MS Access, Oracle Discoverer, SQL) and miscellaneous MS Office and FTP applications.

Criminal Justice Specialist/Asst Office Manager

• 1988 - 1998

Grant Monitor, Federal State and Grants Unit. Negotiated and monitored contracts providing $27 million to government units and not-for-profit organizations by reviewing program proposals, assessing needs, coordinating local services, recommending program goals, objectives, strategies and budget, reviewing progress and making site visits. As Assistant Office Manger was responsible for all agency purchases, office equipment and printing procurements and service contracts and vendor relationships. Created first PC databases in QA and then in Access to manage lists and addresses of criminal justice agencies. Created a purchasing/procurement system in Access and Excel to make the purchasing of supplies and printing services more efficient.