| OBJECTIVE | To capitalize on extensive career in management consulting and masters in business towards development of a broadened career in IT Project Management. To manage IT systems development and/or implementation projects with optional emphasis on data management, migration, analysis and design. Utilize strong interpersonal skills in leading and mentoring individuals and teams. |
| SUMMARY | Ten years of management consulting. Broad range of geographies and industries covered including Insurance, Finance, Telecommunications, Safety Certification, Government, Manufacturing/Distribution and Human Resources. Responsibilities have included: project management, strategic IT planning, product customization, corporate technology and product direction-setting, custom systems design and planning, package business system implementations, strategic use of data, systems analysis and design. Masters of Management from Northwestern University's Kellogg School with concentrations in Strategy, Organizational Behavior and IT. Undergraduate BA also from Northwestern University, with a heavy emphasis on biology, chemistry and systems. |
| EXPERIENCE | Strategic Technology Architects (STA Group) / HTS Consulting |
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Contract Consultant * Performing Requirements Management activities for large Insurance company. |
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| Integral Inc. | |
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Contract Consultant * Developed, socialized and implemented strategic analytic views for annual product portfolio planning process for large Pharmaceutical company. Responsibilities included facilitating VP- and Director-level individuals and program teams through strategy definitions and project scoring. * Researched over 12 Therapeutic Areas and provided recommendations for investment choices. |
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| Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (Manager) | |
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Competency Leader, Operational Support Systems (OSS) - Data * Worked with practice VPs to set strategic direction for OSS group, focusing on expansion of data management offerings and improvement of existing activities. Developed and led data group activities. Chief sales expert for telecom data projects in CGEY's Advanced Development Center. Also: overseeing direction and details of numerous data projects, supervising 25+ OSS data specialists, leading key client interactions, providing subject matter expertise and training, negotiating and directing TBS Migration Toolkit upgrades and enhancements, scoping, assisting and selling new data migration opportunities, managing and performing staffing and recruiting, and improving the group's financials. Grew data group headcount by 90%. Per/Project revenues managed $500K - 3M. Key contributor to project sales of $6M+. |
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| * Professional Development activities: career path guidance, performance reviews and improvement plans, individual and group training (up to 15 per session), mentoring and counseling (counselor concurrently for 5 consultants), staffing and recruiting (internal and external), team-building activities. | |
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* Sold, planned, designed and managed complex migration projects for major Local, Long Distance and Broadband services providers including one international client. Managed teams of 3 - 6 consultants per project. Included: development of system and data cutover strategies, project management, staff and client training, supervision of coding/scripting and testing, data source identification, analysis, and development of cleanup paths. |
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| * Managed second phase implementation of Metasolv TBS product. Responsibilities included: developing product implementation strategy with client, overseeing international team to complete configuration and implementation activities. | |
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* Strategic Information Systems Planning project for a safety-certification organization. Included: developing future application, data and technology architecture recommendations (with organizational structures), analyzing competitive market space and direction, joint-conducting executive interviews and leadership design sessions, gathering requirements from key leads. |
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* Led analysis and design of distribution system for furniture manufacturer / distributor. Included: research and use of industry best-practices, analysis of future trends, customer requirements and executive direction, design of future-state system and development of test cases. |
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Lead Analyst, HR System * Led analysis and design of segment of next-generation hiring system for a temporary services firm. Included: Meeting country-wide with franchise leaders to review current practices and requirements, researching and incorporating industry best practices, leading team of five developers through prototyping and initial development activities, facilitating business requirements' focus sessions and reviews, defining data and process models, leading reviews. |
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* Designed and managed systems testing strategy for integration project involving TBS and a custom web front-end. Led team of five. Included: defining the testing environment, creating and executing a test plan ensuring Y2K compliance, clarifying requirements and assisting with UAT efforts. * Coordinated testing for a large local and long-distance telephone company. Included: coordinating the integration, system, and acceptance testing for a 5000-hour project. |
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* Developed business requirements and initial design for suite of systems to enable Sales / Ordering and Provisioning functions within an Internet Services company. Led the business areas' interests in resulting package selection process. |
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* Co-designed a custom, award-winning GUI query tool, conducted worldwide client rollout and training, and served as liaison between technology and user groups for a large financial and travel institution. |
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EDUCATION |
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| 1996 - 1998 | J.L. KELLOGG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
(NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY) Masters of Management (MBA equivalent) Minors: Strategy, Organizational Behavior and Information Technology |
| 1987 - 1991 | NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Bachelor of Arts, Psychology |
| 1990 (Fall) | UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - SEMESTER
AT SEA Semester abroad program studying four courses relating to international cultures, politics and geographies. |
| TECHNICAL SKILLS SUMMARY: |
* Project management |