Lean minded Project Manager striving for the most efficient use of resources throughout the project cycle.
Skills and Certifications
• Six Sigma Green Belt Certified
• Lean & Design for Six Sigma Certified
• LabWare, LIMS and JD Edwards AS400
• Statistical analysis: Minitab & Excel
• Project Management Certificate – CTU
• Change Management Certificate – CTU
• Business Management Certificate – CTU • Microsoft Excel, Word, Access, Power Point and Project
• ISO 9000
• FDA/GMP Experienced
• Cost Accounting
• Eagle Scout (First PM Project)
• Complex Rated Private Pilot
Experience
Project Manager – Medco
Kelly Services (Contract Position) Eden Prairie, MN 2008-2009
• Coordinated the efforts of 6 internal departments as well as 5 client departments in the installation of two different benefit programs involving 500,000 lives.
• Evaluated upcoming tasks and provided biweekly status reports and dashboards to stakeholders as to the threats to the project timeline and completion.
• Organized and directed weekly status meetings with team leaders and account managers.
• Directed weekly conference call involving teams, business unit leaders and clients.
• Provided weekly updates and direction to project team leads regarding upcoming tasks due.
• Facilitated emergency mainframe data exchange between internal team and client.
• Plan setup and tracking using MS Project, each project had a 6+ month time span utilizing the resources of 8-10 different teams.
• Worked with internal and external team leaders to develop project plans that more accurately reflected project timelines and resources required as well as reflecting an accurate percentage complete.
• Streamlined project updates by championing and implementing a new Tracking and Look Ahead (TLA) document. The net result was allowing team members to focus more on tasks than updating project plans.
• Client Acceptance Testing (CAT) – ensuring plan adjudication complied with plan intent. This was done by running 36000 test claims and reviewing the system output for discrepancies from expected results.
• CAT non-conformity root cause analysis - determining if there was a problem with the test data or if the plan itself was built wrong.
• Mainframe data quality analysis, ensuring all 376 benefit plans loaded correctly and are supplying the proper output information.
• Researched rejected live claims for root causes and reported findings along with corrective actions to Sr. Project Manager.
• Performed as the project point of contact during offsite meetings involving account managers and business unit leaders.
• Both benefit install projects were completed and went live on the originally intended go-live date.
Technical Recruiter
Kelly Engineering Saint Louis Park, MN 2007-2008
• Contract negotiation and new business development with focus on technical positions.
• Candidate Development – Matching the right candidates with the right clients.
Packaging Line Lead
Caribou Coffee Brooklyn Center, MN 2007-2007
• Product packaging, quality control and machine maintenance.
Quality Control / Aseptic Mixer
Novartis Nutrition St. Louis Park, MN 2001-2006
• Batching and production of bulk product from the raw ingredient warehouse stage to the bulk prepackaged condition.
• Directed the workload for two other technicians as well as coordinating with the packing lines and the warehouse personnel (Using AS400 Mainframe interface).
• Collaborated with engineering to improve equipment and scientists to improve processes.
• Trained eight other technicians in the maintenance and operation of the Aseptic Mix Area.
• GMP Functional Leader, worked to improve plans and processes to improve FDA compliance.
• Successfully championed a change in the progressive disciplinary policy as a member of the Work Environment Improvement Team.
Quality Auditor – CIMA Labs
Scientific Staffing (Contract Position) St. Louis Park, MN 2001
• Responsible for the third shift GMP line check documentation and production compliance.
• Performed equipment audits and production line inspections.
Software Counselor
SiteComp Golden Valley, MN 2000-2001
• SiteComp was a software venture that transitioned specialized Surveying and Civil Engineering software from mainframe computers into the PC market.
• My duties at SiteComp were in the sales and technical support of the software.
• Success fully gained access to the Soil and Water Conservation Service Market.
Analytical Chemist – Donaldson Company Inc.
Dacon Engineering (Contract Position) St. Louis Park, MN 2000
• Prepared, processed, and identified samples using a variety of chemistry techniques.
• Created Access database to track samples and test results.
Third Shift Lead Operator – Semiconductor Manufacturing
NonVolatile Electronics Inc. Eden Prairie, MN 1996-2000
• Managed entire 3rd shift wafer thin layer metal depositions; including equipment maintenance and characterization.
• Wrote and revised ISO 9001 documentation.
• Worked with scientists to develop new GMR thin films and alter processes for better yields of these films.
Hardware/Software Installer
Entex Inc. Golden Valley, MN 1995-1996
• Part of a self directed team responsible for off shift, high volume migration project.
Education
Colorado Technical University – Online 2007-2008
Masters of Science in Management with a concentration on Project Management
• Graduated with a GPA of 3.69
• Courses include: Leadership, Project Management Processes, Project Planning, Project Cost Control, Project Contracting and Procurement.
University of Phoenix – Online 2003-2006
Bachelor of Science in Business Management
• Courses include: Accounting, Statistics, Total Quality Management, Economics, Systems Architecture, Systems Analysis and Design.
University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN
• Senior in Chemistry, Junior in Chemical Engineering
• Senior research project involved an ab initio simulation of a Van Der Waals gas
• Courses include: Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Physics, Thermodynamics, Fluid dynamics, Economics, Multivariable Calculus, Materials Science.
• President of University of Minnesota Amnesty International Chapter 1993-1994
Memberships
Project Management Institute (PMI), Boy Scouts of America (BSA), Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA)
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