Joanna Majewski, MBA / PMP

Tel 610-***-**** - abjulv@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Senior IT Professional with extensive experience leading/managing/mentoring

technical teams through all stages of the System Development Lifecycle.

Responsible for providing vision, strategic direction, and leadership to

cross functional teams. Managed global mission critical projects involving

multiple geographic locations and time zones. Recognized for successfully

delivering projects on time and within budget and for ability to prioritize

and multi-task in a fast paced, changing business environment. Background

includes:

Strategic Planning Global Implementation /

SDLC Methodologies Integration

PMO

Data Warehouse / Data Mart/ODS Business Intelligence

Process Change/Risk Management

improvement/Re-Engineering

Data Modeling /Business Analysis Business Performance management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SANOFI-AVENTIS PHARMACEUTICALS, Bridgewater, NJ

2001-2010

Sr. Manager IT Projects

Managed the cross-functional global project teams by leading the

development of an integrated project strategy, coordinating project teams

activities, initiating and monitoring project planning and execution

functions, and reporting to management

. Developed and managed operating and capital technology budgets; tracked

and reported variances; Responsible for the allocation methodology to

insure accurate chargeback to the business

. Managed project teams in remote international locations and outsourced

vendors

. Managed relationships, negotiations and services provided by outsource

vendors for both services and products

. Mentored, developed and guided team members in all facets of Full life

cycle of the projects SDLC and project management

. Ensured integration of Strategic Planning and Program/Project Management

processes with the overall IS Methodology implemented by the IS Quality

Services organization

. As a member of the Program Management Office, contributed to the

continuous improvement of the Project Management planning process;

enhanced the project management performance of IS through the

introduction of project management methods, standards, techniques, tools

and training

. Provided project plan-based presentation materials for effective

communication within and external to the team

. Managed end-user expectations and demonstrated negotiating skills and

ability to work up and down the leadership chain

. Demonstrated ability to work well with the existing management team by

being a good listener, a team builder and an articulate advocate of their

IT vision

. Interacted with different areas of the business, providing insights into

how Information Systems could provide value and savings, accomplish the

work as defined in the strategic business-analysis; acquired knowledge of

Drug Discovery & Development Processes

INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT

1995-2001

Clients included:

SMITHKLINE BEECHMAN, King of Prussia, PA (1999-2001)

Project Manager/Senior Business Analyst for Electronic Archiving Business

Operations

. Formulated Data Warehousing Implementation Strategy defining Back-Room

Architecture (Data Marts Design and DataStage as the ETL tool) and Front-

Room Architecture (Brio.Enterpirse and SpotFire).

. Developed the Business Operations Model/Framework outlining Electronic

Data Archiving processes for R&D GxP compliant business processes. The

model is defined by three essential and interdependent characteristics:

Role, Technology and Business Process. The development of the model was

structured into: planning, information gathering / requirements (Use Case

Model), design phase and implementation phase.

. Developed a plan and process of how to integrate the EDA Business

Operations Model into

existing business processes

. Estimated Total Start-up Cost specifying cost break down into - people

resources (QC team) & hardware/equipment & software tools

. Proposed a customized data warehouse development methodology which

included meta data management, data migration and transformation, roles,

responsibilities, tasks, and deliverables

BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB, Princeton, NJ (6/99-11/99)

Project Manager for Data Warehouse/SAP Environment

. Managed the data integration project to realize the full benefits of the

SAP R/3 and Data Warehouse environment. Developed an expertise in data

integration with SAP R/3 and BWI.

. Managed a project to design a solution/architecture to retrieve data from

SAP R/3, transform it, and load it into Data Warehouse focusing on the

SAP R/3 - Data Warehouse integration (ETL) tools such as Sagent,

Informatica, ACTA, Ardent. Designed and implemented diverse interfaces

between SAP R/3 and Data Warehouse to meet the analytical reporting

requirements.

. Managed a project to design and capture in-depth metadata to interface

with SAP R/3. Interacted with SAP R/3 data system library dictionary to

provide a knowledge base to interface to data in SAP R/3

. Managed integration of corporate business processes to enable an

effective workflow, greater productivity and efficiency and lower costs

as the basis for the company's complete "Value Chain"

. Designed and implemented a project management strategy using client

resources from definition of job roles through to development, testing

and migration. Created a control structure by which all processes can be

controlled and monitored

. Interacted with senior management to define the requirements of the DSS

and Data Warehousing architecture and to promote the Business Process

Reengineering project for the SAP R/3 operational and analytical

reporting. Provided presentations explaining the design concepts of the

SAP R/3 to Data Warehouse Architecture and process/data flow

ADDITIONAL CONRACT CLIENTS

1995 -1999

PECO Energy, Philadelphia, PA

Assessment Systems Inc., Bala Cynwyd, PA

Johnson & Johnson, Poland

McNeil Consumer Product Company, Fort Washington, PA

Zeneca Ag Products, Wilmington, Delaware

Taratec Development Corp Newark, Delaware

Relational Solutions Inc. Toronto, Ontario

ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Several positions in technology with increasing responsibilities. Technical

experience includes:

ERP: SAP Project Planning Tools,

ClinTrial, ClinTrace, Data Modeling Tools

Database; Oracle, Access, SQL Agile Development

BI: Business Objects, Cognos, Reporting and Query

OLAP: Essbase, Clarity Automated Workflow

EDUCATION/PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Master of Business Administration Degree

University of Toronto

Master of Economics Degree / Major in Cybernetics and Computer Science

University of Szczecin, Poland

PMP Certification-PMI

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