Michele Turner, PMP
Indianapolis, IN 46236
(Mobile) 317-***-****
Areas of Expertise:
Software Design and Implementation Project/Program Management
Vendor management Resource management
Risk management Accelerated Implementation
Management
Critical Chain Procurement/Contract
Management
Experience
10/97 - Present Eli Lilly
02/08 - present Global Program Manager for 3.8 million dollar global project.
Responsible for the overall project leadership (both direct and indirect
resource) for cross-functional team at Indianapolis and Belgium Clinical
Trial Material locations. Responsibilities include the defining
organizations IT strategy that is in alignment with the Clinical Trial
organization's strategy. For each project accountable for planning,
organizing, execution, vendor management, communication, Steering committee,
issue resolution, risk management, and resource planning for all project
deliverables (IT, Quality and business). Ensuring a quality project is
implemented on time and within budget.
02/02 - 02/08 Manager - Responsibilities included defining objectives for the
organization, ensuring that projects met the organizational objectives,
defining and managing the budget, performance management/coaching/development
of 2 salary and 1 hourly employee, assisting with issue resolution and
training programs for employees.
01/01 - 02/02 Project Manager for Windows/Office 2000 deployment for Program
and Product teams, and Clinical development: Project manager of
cross-functional team consisting of 33 full-time employees and 6 contractors
for Window/Office 2000 deployment to 3000+ work stations. Responsibilities
included: communications plan, project budget, project plan, issue tracking
and resolutions, status updates, and project closeout
8/00 - 01/01 Portfolio Analyst: Responsible for influencing project managers
in various business units to utilize common project management
tools/processes, conducting lessons learned sessions encouraging a project
management learning environment business planning - coordinating with the
business units to define the projects, priorities and budgets, working with
financial organization to ensure that the budget was set appropriately,
monitoring the projects and priorities with the management team and having
the appropriate trade-off discussions.
10/97 - 8/00 Sr. Systems Analyst, Evista: Responsible for project management
of the reporting function for Evista clinical trials. This included
reporting, working with Clinical Resource Organization (CRO) providing
specifications on dataset creation, coordinating data transfers, ad-hoc
reporting of data, troubleshooting, maintaining Microsoft timeline of study
for team, and serving as the liaison between Product team and CRO IT
personnel.
9/94-9/97 EDS
Systems Engineer - Primary customer support for an IMS online and batch
COBOL/DB2 cost accounting system. Duties included disaster recovery, job
scheduling, project management, analysis, troubleshooting, and nightly on
call responsibility.
11/89-9/94 USA Group
Programmer Analyst II -: Responsible for the batch online ADSO and COBOL/IDMS
Loan Status Management system. This involved estimating, status reporting,
documenting, coding, analysis, troubleshooting for customers, writing JCL,
user acceptance testing, conducting system test and managing Programmers.
12/88-10/89 Mayflower Corporation:
Programmer - Completed ad hoc reports for Human Resource area. Also,
responsible for MSA payroll software.
9/87-11/88 Blue Cross Blue Shield
Programmer Responsible for coding, debugging, and testing new COBOL/IMS
programs, JCL creation, updating data dictionary for new administrative
system.
Education / Licenses
ITT - Master in Project Management
Professional in Project Management (PMP Certification)
Bachelors, Computer Technology Purdue University