Scott A. Wolbach, MBA

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Profile

Project Manager with demonstrated track record of success committed to

producing high quality deliverables; that are ahead of schedule, within

scope, and on budget.

IT Skills: MS Office . MS Project . Oracle/SAP ERP . Hyperion . Clarity .

COGNOS . SharePoint

Core Qualifications

Project Management: Project Value-Added Leadership:

Software Deployment Lifecycle/Financial: Cross-Functional

Business Process Stakeholder management Supervision

Improvement Costing, Budgeting & ROI Team Building & Mentoring

New Product Implementations Analysis

Risk/Mitigation Client Relations &

Clinical Trials Management management Presentations

Compliance and Reporting Project Scheduling Systems/Tools Alignment

Enterprise Lifecycle Vendor Management

Career Track

Project Lead (Contract position - Research and Development Division)

11/12 - 7/13

PJM INTERCONNECTION (via Liberty Personnel) Norristown, Pennsylvania

Privately Held Company with over 500 employees serving the Energy market

Industry

. Facilitate scheduling (task and assignment creation), initial resource

loading, budget estimating, business case and value proposition

analysis for a $28mm project. Support external stakeholders as well.

. Coordinate and track periodic status reports for each project team.

Manage Scope and Change control along with Risk management issues.

Negotiate/manager vendor SOW's.

Project Manager (Clinical Operations and regulatory areas) 4/12 -8/12

Octagon Research Solutions (acquired by Accenture Life Sciences-7/12)

Wayne, Pennsylvania

Privately Held Company with 201 to 500 employees serving the

Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology industries

. Led and collaborated with successful cross functional Project teams to

effectively manage complex Clinical trial related projects for external

clients (for FD&A approval for drug and product development).

. Effectively managed multiple project and workflow assignments,

resources, time-line adherence and proactively resolved all contract

and proposal conflicts in a highly productive and timely manner.

. Mitigated and avoided risk by pursuing project team approval in advance

of deadlines. Informed management and made recommendations to resolve

critical issues and constraints.

Project Manager (Contract position - Operations Business Development - PMO

office) 2010 - 2012

Independence Blue Cross (via Magic Hat Consulting) Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania

$8 Billion Healthcare Services firm with over 5,000 employees and

operations spanning North America.

. Provided IT PMO strategic consultation, leadership and guidance to

functional Business Owners and stakeholders to execute new initiatives.

. Managed the PMO Project management lifecycle; includes both the

Waterfall and Iterative methodologies across the entire project

portfolio.

. Conducted detailed analysis of all PMO activities; determined what

project management tools were the best fit to maximize effectiveness

and value.

. Designed and developed new business processes aligned and suited to PMO

best practices. Created a full template repository as efficient and

meaningful reporting tools.

. Managed implementation of new software and upgrades to existing IT

platform; to automate and enhance capabilities. Customized a Dashboard

and Analytics based reporting process for owners.

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Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis (Sales and Operations) 2007-2009

Roadlink Services, LP (Downsizing) Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

$400 Million firm with 1,000 employees and operations spanning North

America.

. Innovated and recommended new business processes to streamline and

expedite the Sales and financial reporting process by eliminating

manual steps and procedures.

. Established and defined short and long-term objectives, and facilitated

planning activities through effective people skills to gain buy-in,

resolved issues and maintained goal achievement.

. Spearheaded development, implementation, and utilization of the

company's first Customer Profitability Reporting System that guided

management to enhance margins within the top 20 accounts.

Operations Analyst (Contract Position - Manufacturing Operations) 2006 -

2007

Wyeth Pharmaceutical (via Devon Consulting) Collegeville, Pennsylvania

Multi-Billion dollar Global Pharmaceutical Company

. Audited world-wide 3rd party Supply chain contracts and effectively

identified areas of compliance related issues; avoided potential

penalties and saving up to $1mm in compliance related fines.

Financial Planning & Analysis (Corporate and Manufacturing Operations)

2002 - 2005

Binney & Smith, Inc. (Crayola) Easton, Pennsylvania

$600 Million Global manufacturer with a universally-recognized brand and

diverse consumer-oriented product

. Led efforts and restructured the financial reporting, budgeting, and

forecasting processes resulting in improved productivity of over 20%

and accelerated Capital project approval process by 2 days.

. Introduced and utilized financial planning tools to evaluate operating

performance. Evaluated complex business trends to lower costs resulting

in improved profitability by 3%.

. Innovated and created a new Employee Recognition Program company-wide;

Efforts increased employee satisfaction, morale, and productivity by at

least 25%.

Learning Credentials

MBA - Management; Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Bachelors in Business Administration; University of St. Thomas, Houston,

Texas

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