Senior Project Manager

• Mar 2021 - Present

Consultant

• Oct 2019 - Present

Currently as a Principal/Consultant at Big Mountain Consulting LLC I leverage past enterprise class experiences in on-premise and cloud projects coupled with a broad technical background in Microsoft (.Net, MS Dynamics) and other popular technologies (Salesforce, SAS) to provide consultative guidance to assist organizations in their digital transformation processes. I've held a variety of roles and experiences including Application Develop Manager, Service Delivery Manager, PMOCE Manager, BI/DW manager (COGNOS), Scrum Master, DBA (MS SQL), and Developer (C++,Delphi). As an Agile Certified Scrum Master with significant experience and proven leadership skills in Agile development practices I Implemented Agile practices at DODD including team building, educating/coaching team members, product owners and management on Agile practices; product backlog development; story management grooming; estimations; sprint planning, standups; show and tell; retrospectives; agile story development; business process flows; acceptance criteria; project documentation; budgeting; communication and risk management. Flexible team player with servant mindset who thrives in environments requiring ability to effectively prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously. Excellent verbal and written communication skills used to collaborate with others to define requirements and solutions I'm Adept at developing and delivering presentations, whitepapers and RFP development/response. I'm currently utilizing these experiences to assist organizations in responding to a rapidly changing business landscape. Show less

Application Delivery Manager

• Apr 2013 - Sep 2019

Responsible for customer delivery focused with a mission to deliver breakthrough business improvements to IT’s portfolio. Partners closely with the capability leadership to deliver system solutions that satisfy customer business needs and align with the DODD technical architecture. In this role Matt has performed a variety of tasks including: Management of the PMoCE, Agile project management, and Application Development Management. Additionally, Matt worked with the DODD leadership team on the award winning imagine project. As part of his delivery management role on the DODD imagine project, Matt lead the IT and business team to groom and decompose user stories for architectural review, and developer iteration planning sessions. Matt also led iteration reviews with the business. This quick build project with over 700 user stories took approximately 8 months of development effort using a blended vendor/state staff team. Imagine was recognized by Microsoft at their Microsoft Dynamics CRM Convergence 2014 conference as a winner of the Customer Excellence award in the non-profit space. Matt’s contributions on this effort included: Software selection; Request for Proposal (RFP) development, evaluation, scoring and vendor selection; Vendor management; Staff Augmentation; and Delivery management. Other recent notable achievements include successful development and implementation of the Medication Administration application that provides the capability for Nurses to certify over 50,000 home care providers to pass medications to individuals with disabilities. Even more recently successful development and implementation of the Individual Assessment Application for over 400 Nursing home providers to assess and certify over 5500 individuals in order to set facility rates. With facility reimbursements of over one half billion dollars annually. Recently, Matt has been involved with migrations of 3 enterprise Microsoft Dynamics CRM instances to the Dynamics 365 cloud. Show less

Information Technology Manager

• Sep 2004 - Apr 2013

Managed an application portfolio of over 50 Internet based applications for a department with oversight for over 100,000 individuals served by Ohio’s 88 county boards Key applications include: a Medicaid billing suite of applications. DODD currently administers 5 Medicaid waivers supporting over 35,000 individuals on waivers; Over 10,000 waiver providers with annual claims volume exceeding 1.5 billion dollars. Also responsible for various administrative support applications including asset tracking application; Incident tracking system; Medicaid administrative claiming and systems that collect and manage data at the county level. Additional responsibilities include requirements gathering; project planning; disaster recovery and business continuity planning; application portfolio management; Interagency initiatives; MITS Medicaid transition activities; hardware and software procurement; Vendor management; staff augmentation; budgeting and long range planning. Show less

Manager Medicaid Systems

• Feb 2000 - Sep 2004

Managed a group of 9 developers with an annual budget of 1.2 million dollars. The scope of this group included deliverables for large and complex systems including the ODMRDD Medicaid Billing system which processes 300,000 claims weekly, The nationally acclaimed Internet-based Major Unusual Incident Tracking System, and the Internet-based interface with counties; Also responsible for the HIPAA EDI 837 implementation for over 1500 Medicaid providers; Served on many internal and external groups including ODMRDD departmental strategic planning committee, OhioHelps project, and Governors Management Improvement Commission; Develop ASP code on as needed basis; Led staff in development and deployment of numerous Internet-based applications which have significantly expedited processing for the ODMRDD user community. Oversee all processes related to the processing and payment of ODMRDD Medicaid claims; Show less

Deputy Director (Temporary Work Level)

• Mar 2000 - Jul 2000

Served on the selection committee for a new Deputy Director of IT; Reviewed budgets for 13 developmental centers; approved hardware and software equipment purchases for central office and developmental centers; managed 3 business units including 18 direct reports; approved vendor invoices for contract services; Provided continuity guidance and leadership to ODMRDD information systems during the Deputy Director search. Prepared and presented request to the Legislative Budget office and the controlling board for additional vendor resource. Show less

Lead Systems Analyst

• Jul 1993 - Feb 2000

Led team of analysts in the design, development, implementation and support of key applications; Provided technical assistance to lower level analysts. Developed several client server systems using Delphi and Visual Basic; Responsibility for numerous batch systems written in SAS. Development of Y2K contingency plan including development of Internet-based system for collection and reporting of business continuity data for central office and county boards of MRDD. Conducted training sessions throughout the state on business continuity planning; Served as database administrator for the RDB and Microsoft SQL environments; Performed ad-hoc reporting for numerous systems using Crystal reports. Participated in the conversion of the ODMRDD Waiver Tracking System from Delphi to Visual Basic. Show less

Systems Analyst

• Jul 1986 - Jul 1993

Lead analyst on numerous county based batch systems including the Individual Information Form System which pays a 40 million dollar yearly subsidy to county boards of MRDD. Developed interface to ODJFS MMIS system including access to Medicaid Recipient, Provider, Claims and Patient Liability files

Central Ohio Regional Promotion Director

• Jan 1980 - Jan 1983

As an active participant and top running competitor in the Central Ohio Running community I worked as part of the Ohio Runner Magazine team to support running and fitness related activities in Central Ohio. Primary responsibility was writing and photography for a monthly column on running events. Other responsibilities included writing and photography for feature monthly articles on running and fitness; Supporting outreach to the running and fitness community at expos for major running events (Cincinnati Mini-marathon, Columbus Marathon, Cleveland marathon); Participating on planning committees for major events such as the Columbus Marathon. Show less