Objective:

To obtain a position where I can leverage my product management, release management, and business analyst skills to ensure delivery of high-quality, market-focused software.

Experience:

MEDecision, Inc., Wayne, PA (October 2006 to November 2011)

Product and Release Manager

March 2008 to November 2011

Managed the execution of business plans for Inframe iEXCHANGE Web and Inframe Medication Therapy Management applications (SaaS applications); ensured releases were delivered on schedule while meeting content and quality goals.

Responsibilities included:

• Working with marketing, customers, and partners to gather business requirements, communicate existing functionality and technical implementation requirements.

• Development of Epic business requirements documents.

• Product roadmap planning and management of product backlogs.

• Working with business analysts to develop user stories and acceptance criteria.

• Coordinating the activities of multiple development teams and other stakeholders to ensure releases were delivered on time and content goals were achieved.

• Facilitating scrum meetings and design discussions to eliminate roadblocks to application development and ensuring project milestones were met.

• Communication of project status and release content to stakeholders.

• Lead Product and Release Manager for technical projects such as Single Sign-on, document attachments functionality, application security, workload management, and exposed web services.

• Key member of MEDecision’s six sigma initiative for MEDecision’s requirements intake and management process. Resulted in increased responsiveness to customers on status of requested enhancements and ensured all product enhancement requests are evaluated and ranked.

• Facilitator of MEDecision’s Product Enhancement Review Board.

• Mentoring new release managers in Agile process.

Senior Business Systems Analyst

October 2006 to March 2008

Managed the development of user stories, acceptance criteria, and user interfaces for MEDecision’s iEXCHANGE Web, iEXCHANGE IVR, and Alineo software applications.

Responsibilities included:

• Prioritization and management of product backlogs in Rational ReqPro.

• Led sprint planning sessions and development of sprint plans.

• Led user story estimation sessions and sprint kickoff meetings.

• Worked with Product Management to manage release scope.

• Conducted requirements gathering sessions & development of user stories.

• Development and management of detailed acceptance criteria and user interface prototypes to support up to 3 development teams / 16 developers.

• Reviewed and signed off on completed application functionality.

• Project manager for MEDecision’s annual User Group Interactive Lab.

• Led implementation planning sessions to determine software and hardware requirements.

• Development of project plans for software implementations covering planning stages to final implementation of hardware and applications.

• Actively managed implementation of software systems requiring coordination with over 25 individuals to make implementation happen within tight time frames.

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Collegeville, PA (April 2005 to October 2006)

Manager, 3rd Party Vendor Data Integration

Managed the development of business and functional requirements for software enhancements and operational and compliance reporting.

Responsibilities included:

• Management of the integration of 3rd party vendor data into SAP Business Warehouse for operational and compliance purposes.

• Elicitation and documentation of business requirements for VSB Program Manager event management system.

• Management of system enhancement prioritization process.

• Development of operational and compliance reports using SAP Business Warehouse and Microsoft Access.

• Departmental liaison for all projects involving interaction with Wyeth’s Information Systems department.

• Development and management of standard operating procedures (SOPs).

MEDecision, Inc., Wayne, PA (August 1999 to April 2005)

Business Systems Analyst

October 2002 to April 2005

Managed the development of functional requirements and user interfaces for MEDecision’s iEXCHANGE Web and iEXCHANGE IVR software applications.

Responsibilities included:

• Elicitation and documentation of functional requirements for iEXCHANGE IVR and iEXCHANGE Web using use case methodology, UML, and activity diagrams.

• Development of all iEXCHANGE Web user interfaces using Macromedia Dreamweaver and Adobe Photoshop.

• Validation of functional requirements and user interfaces.

• Review and approval all CarePlanner® and Letter Print Processing System documentation.

• On-site support of Letter Print Processing System implementations.

Programmer/Analyst

August 1999 to October 2001

Core team member in the ground-up development of MEDecision’s CarePlanner Web.

Responsibilities included:

• Primary technical designer and programmer of Java server pages, servlets, XML, XSLs and DTDs.

• Reverse engineering of existing client server applications and documentation of business logic.

• Elicitation and documentation of business and functional requirements for MEDecision’s CarePlanner® client-server application.

• Visual Basic and Cache development for MEDecision’s CarePlanner® client server application.

Self Employed (March 1997 to April 1998)

Web developer

Developed and maintained e-commerce web site for Country Club Editions in Bridgeport PA (GolfPix.net).

The Home Depot, Willow Grove, PA (March 1997 to August 1999)

Manager

Managed Front-End Operations / Plumbing Department

Duties: Hiring, managing, scheduling and reviewing of up to 55 associates at any given time. Resolution of customer issues.

The Campbell Group, Inc., Harrison, OH (April 1995 to March 1997)

Northeastern U.S Territory Manager

Managed and sold to all Campbell accounts in the Northeastern U.S. Primary account responsibilities involved selling to Hechinger and Home Depot Northeastern corporate buying offices.

Education:

Temple University, Philadelphia, PA (December, 1994)

Bachelor Business Administration - Marketing and Management - Cum Laude.

Computer Learning Centers, Plymouth Meeting, PA (July, 1999)

Certificate in client server programming.

Certifications:

• Collaborating & Communicating Agile Requirements

• Business Information Warehouse (BW) - Reporting & Analysis

• AHM 250-Managed Healthcare

• IBM Rational DOORS Enterprise Requirements Software

• Sun Educational Centers, Java programming

Technical Background:

Software Applications:

Rational ReqPro, Telelogic, Majic Draw UML diagramming software, Axure, Macromedia DreamWeaver, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia RoboHelp, IBM Visual Age, XML Spy, Visual Basic, Microsoft Office applications including Project.

Software Design:

Object oriented application design & software prototyping.

Programming:

Java, Servlets, JSP development, XML/XSL, Visual Basic.

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