Project Manager

Donald W. Corrigan

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Alpharetta, GA 30022

Home 770-***-****

Cell 440-***-****

E-mail: ***-****-********@*******.***

Career Objective

Work with end users and system developers to find innovative ways to meet

the business needs efficiently and effectively using modern tools and

technology.

Professional Experience

Policy Specialist Consultant 9/00 - Present Corrigan Consulting

Corp, Johns Creek, GA

As a human service and eligibility consultant, I work with different

business partners to provide consultative services on eligibility

application systems and processing of needy family or individuals medical,

food and/or cash assistance requests.

3/10 - 6/10 Business Analyst (FAMIS)

Contracted to Beacon Analytics to identify business requirements and define

use case designs for business functions. This involved creating use case

design standards, and use case review processes to ensure consistent and

complete requirement capture. Created class diagrams to support the data

model design and development. Developed system-testing scenarios to

exercise all the use case alternate paths and extensions. Worked with the

client to create a user acceptance plan (UAT) and schedules.

3/09 - 10/09 Business Analyst (VIP)

Worked with Affiliated Computer Systems (ACS) to gather business

requirements for the benefit issuance and benefit recovery subsystems for

the Tennessee VIP Project. This involved conducting JAD sessions,

identifying business requirements, documenting business workflows and

creating a design for a new automated system; and submitting deliverables

for customer approval.

9/00 - 3/09 Application Design Coordinator (CBMS)

Contracted to Electronic Data Systems (EDS) to identify and document

business requirements and establish the business needs for the Colorado

Business Management System (CBMS) Project. This involved working with the

Customer and the technical design team to develop business requirements,

establishment of a detail design and testing the working solutions. Other

duties involved establishment and evaluation of project scope change

requests, general project problem solving, working with training staff to

establish training material, and working with the testing staff to create

test scenarios for system integration testing. Responsible for working

closely with development staff to ensure business requirements meet the

proposed design. Serve as technical and historical resource for EDS

development staff regarding design decisions and requirements.

7/08 - 3/09 Business Analyst (CALWIN)

Contracted to Electronic Data Systems (EDS) to support the development of

the CALWIN test plan and test scripts and the testing of system change

requests. This involved reviewing the system change requests, gaining an

understanding of the impacted functional areas, developing testing

scenarios to trigger the affected changes and recording test results.

Overall execution of the test included creating data necessary to support

the different scenarios, recording each test step, capturing the results of

the test and preparing a reviewable document for the client.

Senior Consultant 12/96 - 8/00 Logic House, Denver,

CO

Contracted to the State for Colorado Human Services and Health Care Policy

and Finance Departments to help define and develop the Colorado Business

Management System (CBMS) Project. The CBMS project is a fully integrated

and automated welfare system capable of full eligibility cycle processing

from standard filing determination to benefit issuance. CBMS once fully

implemented will capture and process information for programs such as TANF,

Food Stamps, Medicaid, Title XX programs (day care) Work Programs and other

cash and in-kind programs.

As a Senior Consultant for Logic House, I performed the following tasks:

8/98 - 9/00 Enhanced Detail Design (CBMS)

Worked with state staff to enhance and further develop the detail design

for CBMS. This included reconciling different functional areas of CBMS

(such as provider, client and third party liability (TPL) data collection

necessary for the Medicaid Management Information System's interfaces) and

updating the various sections of the design to reflect the CBMS workflow.

The updates were in the form of changes to the data model, decision tables,

process descriptions, and screens; and updates to conversion detail data

and identifying new conversion rules.

9/97 - 7/98 Detail Design (CBMS)

Worked closely with the client to define business and technical

requirements for the development of a new client-server system. I was

responsible for the conceptual design and detail design team leadership for

the Data Conversion, Benefit Issuance and Benefit Recovery Processing

Design. This entailed developing a baseline design, conducting joint

application design (JAD) sessions with the state, documenting the design in

the CASE tool, and creating a design document. The design document became

the basis for the request for proposal (RFP) to vendors for the CBMS

project. Responsible for the detail conversion rules for more than six

Legacy systems containing over 10,000 data elements and mapping those

elements with conversion rules to the new relational database system.

7/98 - 9/98 Quality Assurance (LA LEADER)

Quality Assurance for conversion on the California Los Angeles LEADER

project. This job entailed review and walkthroughs of conversion

specifications, data crosswalks, and code. The primary goal of these

reviews was to verify that the developer deliverables met or exceeded the

requirements in the proposal or other customer agreements. In addition,

general code reviews were completed for all functional areas to verify

coding standards were followed.

4/97 - 7/97 Feasibility Study (CBMS)

Responsible for preparing a feasibility study for the state of Colorado to

determine the benefits of creating an integrated eligibility system for

cash, medical and Food Stamp assistance. The feasibility study included

potential technological solutions, sizing of the systems, and collection of

costing information for a benefit management system.

12/96 - 4/97 Information Technology Study (CBMS)

Responsible for development of an Information Technology Study (ITS) for

the state of Colorado's Department of Human Services and Department of

Health Care Policy and Finance. The ITS reviewed the state's current

technology, systems hardware, current software applications, and processes

supporting state and county workers. The study also reviewed sizing and

growth expectations for the existing systems.

Team Leader 5/94 - 12/96 Unisys Corporation Okemos, MI

Responsible for leading and directing the system internal specification

phase of the Data Management component, for the State of Michigan's

Department of Social Service's eligibility system. This was a very large

client-server application using thin client development approach. This

included development of 200 processes, including over 150 data collection

screens for the statewide eligibility system. The data collect team

operated in a JAD type environment to work with the customer to develop and

design the user requirements and external specifications. This methodology

involved taking external specifications, defining them in the Excelerator

CASE tool, driving them into structure charts, functions, and detailed

specifications, and then using code generation tools (APS) to complete

programs. Responsible for the Data Management team's communication and

coordination with 13 other functional teams, involving over 140 people.

Managed a team of System Analysts by providing direction, leadership, and

scheduling guidance. Other responsibilities included development of phase

standards, project scheduling, timeline development, metric development and

monitoring, and methodology training.

Project Team Leader 10/92 - 5/94 Douglas & Lomason,

Farmington Hills, MI

Worked with a business process re-engineering team to analyze the needs of

a Corporate Bill of Material system. Utilized the Holland Systems

Development Methodology and Excelerator CASE tools to design and implement

a corporate wide Bill of Materials installed in 22 plants and offices.

This project included re-design of the Engineering Charge Management

Process and definition of a corporate data warehouse in Oracle. Project

efforts consisted of Defining Project Scope, Defining User requirements,

Evaluating Design Alternatives, Developing Functional Design, Reconcile

Application and Data Models, and Prepare Functional Design Specification.

Lead Programmer Analyst 8/87 - 10/92 Third Party Marketing (3PM),

Livonia, MI

Designed and installed the (EDI) McKesson Transportation System. This

service system brings together customers with thousands of carriers

offering audited freight bills, carrier payments, and monthly activity

reports. Other responsibilities included coordinating new development of

enhancements for corporate accounting systems including accounts payable

and accounts receivable systems, maintained the system Point of Sale

database files, and evaluated future programming requests for feasibility

and time estimates.

Programmer/Analyst 8/84 - 7/87 Computer Dynamics Corp.,

Southfield MI

Contracted with McLouth Steel to analyze, design, and code financial and

accounting software packages, as well as steel production scheduling and

tracking applications. Contracted with Automated Data Processing (ADP) to

program, test and install a shared database and an electronic document

transfer system between the U.S. Air Force and Rockwell International.

Education:

B.B.A. Western Michigan University 5/84

Major: Computer Information Systems Minors: Computer

Science

General Business

Technical Skills

Software:

Microsoft Office Suite including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project.

Methodologies include First Case, IEF, Holland Development Methodology;

Case tools include Excelerator, and System Architect, Client-Server

development, Requisite Pro Requirement Tracking Tool, Rational Team Test

Hardware:

Digital DEC/VAX VMS, IBM CICS, HP UNIX

Programming Languages:

C, C+, COBOL, Basic, Pascal, FORTRAN, Datatrieve, APS, FMS, DCL, Oracle SQL

Plus, JAVA Script, HTML, DHTML Cascading Style Sheets, ColdFusion

References

Rex Allen

Title: HP Business Team Leader

9451 S. Desert Willow Trail

Highlands Ranch, CO 80129

Cell 303-***-****

E-mail: *****.*****@**.***

Brad LeFebre

Title: HP Project Development Manager

6456 South Ivy Court

Centennial, CO 80111

Work: 720-***-****

E-mail: ****.*******@**.***

Jaime Bradford

Title: HP Project Development Manager

7814 W. Friend Dr.

Littleton, CO 80128

Work Cell: 720-***-****

E-mail: *****.********@**.***

Mac Wansley, ACS - Atlanta, GA

Title: Project Manager

8645 Hope Vine

Roswell, GA 30076

Home: 770-***-**** Work: 770-***-****

E-mail: ***.*******@***-***.***

Gail Jennings, S2Tech

Title: Eligibility and Training Consultant

985 Club River Drive

Roswell, GA 30076

Home: 770-***-****

E-mail: *********@***-***.***

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