in information technology, business solutions, and management. Comprehensive background demonstrates ability to develop and align organi zational resources for results. Proven success leading project teams and business initiatives. Ability to translate technical requirements into language clearly understood by all stakeholders. Expertise in client-facing roles delivering business solutions to meet client needs and exceed their goals. Recognized ability to bring projects in on time and under budget. QUALIFICATION HIGHLIGHTS Business Acumen

• Highly motivated self-starter with a proven ability to ramp up quickly in new industries, technologies, and ideas
• Expert in strategic planning, operational planning, and personnel management
• Skilled conflict resolution and issue management
• Confident with vendor management and contract negotiations
• Strong written and verbal communicator experienced public speaker and certified training instructor
• Excellent process and methodology background implemented transformations in multiple organizations IT Management
• Recognized authority in determining overall objectives, priorities, and policies
• Expert in requirements, change, risk, defect, resource, and i ssue management
• 9.5 years of directly managing IT teams of up to 21 concurrent employees, managers, and consultants delivering quality software, reporting, data warehouse, and business intelligence solutions indirectly manage matrixed teams
• Personnel responsibilities include hiring, performance / salary reviews, and team development / coaching
• Lead and motivate onsite and remote team members lead by example and focusing on the goals of the organization
• Vendor management negotiated and managed contracts for software purchases and consulting services Technology Platforms
• Extensive web, cloud, DevOps, client/server, and COTS application development using Relational and no SQL db's
• Oversaw infrastructure deployments and upgrades LEADERSHIP ROLES

Led the overall technology implementation for a new high visibility insurance product, delivering on time and under the $15M budget. This program is recognized as one of the best managed Agile initiatives of 2018. Program is highlighted during many investor calls and UHC business and technology town hall meetings.

• Oversaw large multi-million dollar ($10
• 15M annual budgets) UHG technology programs by working with UHC, Optum, and external vendors
• Contributed on a 10+ million dollar enterprise level initiative to consolidate all UHC member/provider/clinical benefit information into a single big data repository
• Worked on initiatives spanning all lines of business
• Facilitate / lead program meetings of up to 50 people: PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, Product Management Council
• Worked closely with Chief Information Officer, Senior Vice President, and Vice President level executives
• Accomplished Agile Essentials certification in 2016, and Scaled Agile (SAFe) certification in 2017
• Recognized as being at the forefront of the Agile Transformation process
• Coordinate and lead multiple volunteer and internal team opportunities

Responsible for the core SaaS product line supporting existing and new customers for this software vendor. Provided state of the art loss prevention tools to Fortune 100 clients. These Business Intelligence tools provide enterprise data analytics to identify fraud theft suspicious activity and compliance from both internal employees and external customers. Analytics solution strategy includes prediction mitigation response and recovery. Responsible for pre-sales end end product development implementations product delivery and post-release technical support for the Aspect LP legacy exception-based reporting product line using Java and Spring batch

• Advanced the team by introducing frameworks for their development environment implemented code reviews and process using Kanban
• In charge of internal and external server support
• Managed a team of six developers

using Scrum and Kanban

• Worked closely with customers on a daily
• Primary Statement of Work (SOW) writer and key leader on pre-sale technical calls

Selected key clients include:

o Contracted to manage a full site assessment covering every aspect of the organization

• This was to prepare for an FDA audit
• The client was quickly overwhelmed after the first of six assessments and this role managed the process, organized the findings, and oversaw the process to successfully complete all tasks by the required delivery dates

(Subcontract through Teradata) for my retail experience to work with two Sr. Retail Executives turned consultants, and their support team, on a master data/business intelligence project

• Worked closely with business team members on a multi-million dollar BI project
• Heavy data analytics/product development project

• Managed IT projects as part of the PMO
• Heavy emphasis on information security
• Asked to oversee a best practices task force

• Process and methodology company concentrated on helping clients improve their business and technical processes
• Focus was to provide clients with consultants who could augment their development teams as well as provide process and methodology coaching

• Supported the product development needs for most of the Best Buy Marketing department, primarily Merchants/Buyers, Advertising, Space Management, Marketing Process, and Visual Merchandising also had st rong ties to Supply Chain ( Inventory, Replenishment, and Logistics)
• Managed 5 PMs and 20+ direct reports
• employees and consultants on multi-million dollar programs
• Working with the EPMO and Enterprise Architecture groups, piloted the transition from waterfall to iterative development methodologies using RUP
• Joined Best Buy with no formal PM experience, promoted to PCM after about 2 years grew the team from 3 people to over 20 in less than 3 years TECHNICAL ROLES Sr. Consultant -Software Developer, Renaissance Worldwide, Mpls, MN
• Primarily healthcare insurance clients (UHG) working in Visual Basic and PowerBuilder