• Experienced PMP Certified project manager with 6 years successfully leading IT Healthcare projects through all phase of the project life cycle
• Coordinated and managed implementation projects with major healthcare networks including Tenet Healthcare and Ascension Health
• Experienced working within a Project Management Office (PMO)
• Strong ability to effectively manage multiple projects concurrently while driving resource efficiencies and meeting all project deliverables
• Develop successful project charters and project management plans that are aggressive yet achievable for the organization.

Oct 2013 to Jun 2014

Large Health System – Midwest

Senior Project Manager

• Worked within a PMO setting managing multiple Cerner solution projects concurrently including PowerChart Ambulatory, Lighthouse, Patient Portal, Cerner Direct and Meaningful Use Stage 2 Objectives for Transfer Summary of Care.
• Assist Meaningful Use activities by coordinating system enhancements, modifications to Bedrock filters, validation of Functional Reports with Cerner and client, modifying workflows, communications and training to clinicians for meeting measure objectives.
• Coordinated all major events with projects teams including Requirements Collection, Solution Builds, System and Integration Testing, Trainer, End User, and Super User Training, Conversion Support Planning, and Go Live Conversion Activities.
• Member of Integration Operations Council and Integration Process Council within the organization to assist with successful change management and process improvement efforts.
• Facilitate project team meetings with client and EMR provider Cerner to coordinate project tasks and objectives within the project plan.
• Effectively utilized MethodM and MS Project Server to manage project schedules, management plans, and change control processes.

Mar. 2013 – Aug. 2013

Regional Medical Center – Southwest

Project Manager

• Responsible for project management over all EMR related new implementation and upgrade projects including BMDI and Vitals Link with iBus implementation, ICD-10,  Patient Portal, 2012 Cerner Code Upgrade, SureScripts (ePrescribe) upgrade, Core Measures (Light House), Meaningful Use Stage 2, 724 Access Viewer, Athena integration with physician offices, Fetal Link upgrades, and XR Chart Request.
• Organize and facilitate weekly Core Committee meetings with Executive and Patient Care leadership to communicate implementation strategies, mitigate project risks, and provide guidance on change management and technology adoption.

Sep. 2010 – Feb. 2013

Regional Medical Center – Southwest

Project Coordinator

• Coordinated the transition to electronic health records to Cerner for Tenet Health Care facilities.
• Organized meetings with hospital executive staff to provide Cerner Integration project status updates.
• Training lead for all medical staff and physicians to transition of electronic health records using Cerner.
• Developed Physician Training Database to track the training progress for all physicians and providers in El Paso market for Tenet Health Care for over 1,000 providers.
• Coordination of Cerner upgrades including PACS Imaging interface, BMDI, and 2012 Code Upgrade.
• Provide Cerner reports to client utilizing PowerInsight Reporting tool with Business Objects to assist with Core Measures and achieving Meaningful Use requirements.
• Communications lead for all medical staff concerning project milestones, events, and updates.
• Coordinate end user testing for Cerner Millennium EMR System.
• Develop process workflows and user documentation for new EMR applications.

Oct. 2007 – June 2010

Pfizer, Inc., Groton, CT

Global Infrastructure Coordinator

• Manage Global Infrastructure Coordination Team in day to day activities.
• Coordinate procurement and installation of IT infrastructure projects in large scale data centers globally.
• Created internal processes and documentation to streamline purchase, delivery, and installation of IT assets globally.
• Leverage historical consumption trending and demand planning to predict infrastructure requirements in the platform, storage & facilities areas to support a bulk procurement strategy to leverage scale and reduce overall time-to-deliver.
• Assisted the coordination of large scale data center consolidation projects.
• Member of IT Governance Board to ensure continued alignment with defined IT standards globally.

June 2005 – Oct. 2007

General Physics, Mystic, CT

Regional Server Coordination Team Leader

• Leader regional server coordination team.
• Review all newly approved capacity requests to assign application hosting infrastructure from capacity pool.
• Facilitate relocation projects of target architecture capital assets between Pfizer data centers as required.
• Capacity pool maintenance activities including usage reporting/tracking, identification of purchase requirements, sourcing of required vendor quotations, and purchase order administration.
• Schedule the delivery and installation of all global infrastructure devices including servers and storage.
• Customer Relations Manager for WTI application hosting services.

Owner/Operator – Poker Cats, LLC, Stonington, CT Nov. 2001 – April 2005

Aviation Warfare Systems Operator – U.S. Navy (Active Duty), Whidbey Island, WA Sept. 1996 – Sept. 2001

Bachelors of Science – Business Administration – Eastern Connecticut State University

Willimantic, CT           May 2010         3.86 GPA        

PMP – Project Management Professional Certification – PMI Oct. 2013

ITIL Foundation Certification – APM Group, New York, NY Jan. 2008