KENNETH GRIESBACH

314-***-****

ac1ogc@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY:

A well-rounded and result oriented IT Project Manager and executive who has over 15 years of leadership, technical & SDLC experience, including over 3 years with Express Scripts, and 9 years with AT&T on application development and hybrid app dev/infrastructure projects. Previous experience as a developer, provides a thorough understanding of the application and software development life cycles (SDLC).

EDUCATION:

University of Central Missouri

B.S.B.A. Computer Information Systems

Training:

Accenture Project Management Training, 2/08

Accenture Ethics and Compliance - Avoiding Insider Trading, 4/15

Accenture ATS Team Lead School, 5/05

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Skillset: Performance management (metrics and status reporting), performance support/coaching, project management, program management, collaboration, requirements development, value creation, test management, test planning, software license management, time-series regression statistical analysis, workflows, technical architecture design, Agile trained, Program, Project and Service Management (PPSM) experienced & trained,

Software: Clarity, Skype–Business, Jira, Confluence, Quality Center, Quick Test Professional, Virtual Private Network (VPN), IBM-DB2, Mainframe, IBM-CICS, HP PPM

Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Microsoft-Visio,

Database: Oracle-Database, DB2, Teradata

Languages: Oracle-PL/SQL, COBOL

OS: UNIX, Windows

EXPERIENCE:

05/17 to OTSI @ Centene

Current Project Manager

●Manage projects for Long Term Support Services

oCreating dashboards to help Care Managers/Supervisors better manage Caseload and compliance

●Responsible for managing budget, schedule, delivery, issues, and risks

●Working in an Agile environment

oCentene is in the process of moving towards an Agile methodology

●Utilizing Jira and Confluence

03/17 to MasterCard

05/17 Project Manager

●Manage projects for Credit Card Transaction Authorization application development area (MIP/ASA)

●Managing 8 concurrent SDLC projects, including existing and new development projects.

●Responsible for managing schedule, delivery, issues, risks and coordinating with Managed Service Providers (MSP) providing the bulk of the project deliverables.

●Working in a Waterfall environment, moving towards an Agile methodology

●Utilizing Rally, Confluence, and Quality Center

03/03 to Accenture

Express Scripts

01/16 Program/Project Manager (11/13 – 01/16)

●Led the ePrescribe project – 1.7 million dollars (implementing electronic prescriptions for 2 of ESI’s pharmacy applications) designed to be in compliance with State of New York’s Electronic Prescription requirement. Project passed internal and external audits to be in compliance with regulations and fully implemented on time, and within budget. Worked with internal clients and external client Surescripts

●Led the effort to ensure 9 virtual machines (3 in each environment - dev, QA, and prod) were installed on time and set up correctly in the ESI cloud environment. Worked closely with technical architects, developers, and the infrastructure team to estimate the work and see it through to completion. Delivered the project on time and $100K under budget.

●Led the implementation of the Health and Human Service mandate of ICD 10 diagnosis changes for the patient systems organization at ESI. Completed the project ahead of schedule and under budget with no major issues identified in production after go-live.

●Implemented a reimbursement application (eHUB) for a lung cancer drug and managed the day to day delivery and change requests after the initial go-live throughout tenure at ESI. Worked with internal and external clients

●Worked in an Iterative development environment, moving towards Agile Development methodology

●Completed Agile Training

Express Scripts

Project Management Office (PMO) Specialist (02/13 – 10/13)

●Project: Medco Merger Integration

●Forecast resource demand and created projects in the demand tracking tool.

●Created projects and maintained tasks in the time reporting tool.

●Reviewed reassessment forms to confirm that the details matched approved funding.

AT&T

Project Manager/Delivery Lead (12/08 – 01/13)

●Project: ITG – Offshore

●Supported supply and demand management project and portfolio management application for IT sourcing organization.

●Worked daily with multiple internal clients across different levels of the business

●Accountable for delivery of bi-monthly releases of 700 hours of development changes to the application.

●Managed offshore delivery team, identifying the appropriate resources and assigning individuals to development tasks.

●Managed the day to day production support and maintenance of the application.

●Ensured application compliance with corporate security policies and record information management.

●Facilitated daily issue resolution and strategy discussions with the business.

●Implemented a solution integrating two other large-scale corporate IT systems, thus enabling better financial management for the organization.

●Implemented workforce management solution that allowed the IT sourcing organization to better manage resource demand for strategic projects.

●Managed interfaces with 5 other corporate IT applications.

●Worked in Hybrid Agile/Waterfall environments

AT&T

Lead Developer (03/06 – 11/08)

●Project: Online Sales Transformation

●Developed Mercury ITG tool and provided support for users.

●ATS Recognition Lead

●Site Lead for ATS at AT&T.

AT&T

Developer (01/04 – 02/06)

●Project: BPI 2004

●Provided development and production support for the data development group in the billing products initiative.

●Acted as subject matter expert for the data load team.

●Served as co-team lead while the senior technical director filled the open position.

●Helped provide input for technical requirements.

●Wrote high level application designs.

●Coded and unit tested for bi-monthly projects.

●Served as the site lead for Accenture Technology at SBC.

Ameren

Batch Watch (07/03 – 12/03)

●Project: Production Readiness Testing

●Monitored the batch process during production readiness testing.

●Performed analysis when errors would occur to determine the root cause of the error and how to get around the problem so the batch process could resume.

●Stepped through the code to determine the cause of functional errors and what needed to be done so the program would process as intended.

●Documented issues and analysis using the standard reporting tool.

●Wrote and executed data repairs to correct issues with Oracle tables.

●Helped train new teammates.

●Kept nightly documentation of any issues with the batch process.

Ameren

Product Tester (03/03 – 06/03)

●Project: Phase 4 Billing Team

●Successfully completed and signed off all test scripts that were assigned.

●Stepped through code while doing an analysis to determine the root-cause of errors.

●Documented issues as they were discovered in the testing processes.

●Selected and associated accounts to scripts.

●Assisted others with the execution of test scripts.

●Helped train new teammates.

05/99 to DST

01/03 Developer (05/99 – 01/03)

●American Funds Development Team.

●Conducted ongoing software revisions and maintenance for TA2000 Mutual Funds System and TRAC Participant Recordkeeping System using batch COBOL, DB2, CICS, and MVS/ESA JCL.

●Supported American Funds client systems.

●Interacted with various team members in complex project planning, development, and implementation.

●Developed project specifications, unit test plans, unit test scripts, and logic design diagrams for COBOL and DB2 programs.

●Wrote batch programs using DB2 and COBOL II.

●Enhanced and maintained batch COBOL, DB2, CICS, and Share View programs according to project documentation.

●Tested COBOL, DB2, and CICS programs using File-Aid, File-Aid for DB2, Xpediter Batch, and Xpediter CICS.

●Provided support during the integration, testing, implementation, and post implementation phases of the TRAC dividend enhancement project.

●Wrote and modified ad hoc Easytrieve reports and Spufis for testing and analysis.

●Performed analysis of coding changes using Comparex.

Intern (05/99 – 05/00)

●Worked part-time while completing senior year of bachelor's degree.

●Graduated from 15-week Launch 2000 Technical Training Program.

●Major subject areas included COBOL II, SQL, MVS/ESA JCL, DB2, ISPF, File-Aid, and Comparex.

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