President

• Jan 2021 - Present

Vice President Marketing

• Jan 2019 - Dec 2020

My mission is to create a better awareness of Project Management, the PMI and in particular the Greater Kansas City Chapter of PMI. In that endeavor, I will be working with the KC PMI Board of Directors, Volunteers, Sponsors and all the good folks who make this possible.

Director Of Public Relations

• Feb 2018 - Jan 2019

My mission is to create a better awareness of Project Management, the PMI and in particular the Greater Kansas City Chapter of PMI. In that endeavor, I will be working with the KC PMI VPs of Programs, Membership, Personal Development Days (PDD), Communications and others. Corporate Outreach is an essential responsibility of this role. This position is under the overall office of the VP Marketing.

Business Development Operations Manager

• Mar 2000 - Present

Systelligent Corp. is an IT Service company providing IT Staffing, Business Solutions, IT Managed Services and IT Project Management. As the Business Development Operations Manager it will be my task to introduce company services to private sector companies of all sizes as well as State, Local and Federal Government bodies.

Technical Project Manager

• Feb 2008 - Mar 2011

PMBoK 7th Edition Reviewer

• Aug 2019 - Jan 2021

Project Manager

• Oct 2014 - Nov 2017

Project Management of Data Warehousing (DW) & Financial Management Reporting (FMRS) DevOps Process development & Re-engineering. Solution Consultant for Business Intelligence solutions to meet the needs of the data users for Decision Support and mandatory reporting. Establishing relationships for business development. Human Resource Manager of contract employees (9), evaluating employee performance, recruiting, interviewing, Monitoring Resource utilization in a DevOps environment etc. ● Successfully delivered a large (40K Hours) Business Intelligence (BI) initiative on Oracle & Informix Target and source on SQL Server and DB2; reporting on OBIEE & EPM11. Complex Architecture. ● Managed large account business client (Office of Budget and Finance (OBF). This client accounted for 60% of the change requests handled by the group. ● Eliminated an eleven-month persistent backlog through establishing a Business Steering group, task prioritization, pipeline reviews, development cycle time optimization and communications. ● Reduced error counts by over 75% by implementing quality assurance regime. ● Reduced development cycle time by 20% through realigning the Data Warehouse Development Life Cycle (DWDLS) in synch with the source system SDLC. ● Eliminated 80% of Data Load job failures by implementing Change Data Capture (CDC) functionality in ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes. ● Won the Administrator’s Award for excellence in project delivery. ● Data Governance Project initiation, concept architecture, development and delivery. ● Created standards for Analysis and Design artifacts for the Data Mart/ Reporting Data Store development initiatives. ● Effectively used project Retrospectives to drive continuous process improvement. ● Initiated the use of Change Data Capture (CDC) functionality in ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes. ~ the engagement at USDA was as an employee of Harmonia Holdings LLC. Show less

Product Manager

• Oct 2013 - Sep 2014

Connected Car paving the pathway to Autonomous Vehicles. Along with that ushering in new times for Insurance, Car ownership, driving privileges, transport infrastructure, mass communication, remote connectivity IoT, urban planning & design, law and everything else that touches human life and transport. It is an exciting new world of looking at the future through a crystal ball and making it happen. That is my current job description. Additionally, the job requires articulating the vision in concrete terms, describing the future in language and vocabulary of the past and convincing the skeptics of the effort being worthwhile to make the change. Too easy. I still have to discover the rest of my tasks ... ... Show less

Project Manager

• Nov 2011 - Oct 2012

Delivery Lead for PARMO/ FSA projects. Delivery Lead for PARMO/ FSA projects.

Webmaster

• Feb 2011 - Feb 2012

- Launched the new upgraded version of the website and CMS - Optimized the branding of the chapter's website - Managed the updates to the Website through the Content Management System (CMS) - Held online training sessions in the use of the CMS functions - Setup the events in the catalog and for marketing - Added front-end functionality (Forms) for process automation - Launched and successfully conducted the first online seminar for the Chapter - Standardized the event marketing communications - Promoted a standard communication plan for marketing all events - Implemented the website statistics monitoring - Answered 5 - 8 web queries per week from members on various subjects - Contributed to strategic plans for Marketing, Communication, Media policy, Advertising and others. Show less

Senior Project Manager

• Sep 2011 - Nov 2011

Technical Project Manager

• Jan 2011 - Sep 2011

Technical Project Manager

• Jan 2011 - Sep 2011

Project Manager

• Jan 2009 - Oct 2010

Program/ Project Manager

• Mar 2001 - Mar 2008

• Managed medium to large IT programs/projects with Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Resource requisition, activity lists, level of effort estimates, scheduling, Budgeting, planning.• Led client brainstorming and formal requirements gathering sessions to define development projects.• Excelled at communicating technical concepts to clients in a “business-friendly” manner, and then business concepts to technical associates in a more technical manner. • Monitored, controlled and communicated project schedule and cost performance. • Managed resources; deliverables; on-boarding offshore resources. • Identified risks and mitigation plans; issues management; Root Cause Analysis & resolution.• Conducted project kickoff; Application development and event management sessions; Go-Live War-room activities planning and execution; Functional and System Requirements sessions; Data & Application design walkthroughs; requirements tractability; User Acceptance Testing; System integration testing; release to production; warranty issue management and closed the projects.• Managed multiple concurrent projects in different phases of development.• Led cross functional core teams of Test Manager, Application Development Managers, Requirements Manager, Account Manager, Enterprise Release Manager, Data Architects, Corporate Security and others. • Planned and managed the War-Room activities at project delivery (Go Live). Monitored and mitigated System impacts. Show less

IT Project Manager

• 2001 - 2008

Director, Project Delivery

• Feb 2000 - Mar 2001