Project Manager

David Nichol B.H.Sc., M.Sc., PMP

Montréal, QC • 778-***-**** • **********@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Project and Events Manager

Institute of Gender and Health - Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Montreal, QC Jan. 2018 – Apr. 2018

Plan, manage and implement projects and events for the Institute, on time, and within budget and scope.

• Planned and scheduled a 10-million-dollar funding opportunity for Indigenous research.

• Planned, managed and executed a two-day event in Vancouver for 100 attendees from across Canada. Resulted in

$1,125,000 knowledge translational projects initiating.

• Implemented standard project management practices and processes across the institute. Project Manager / Advisor

MyGolio, Montréal, QC Jun. 2017 – Jan. 2018

Project managed the building and development of an application that provides a marketplace for creative collaborators to: connect, create, earn money and build a reputation. Project Manager / Senior Business Analyst, Implementation, Clinical & Systems Transformation Project Provincial Health Services Authority, Vancouver, BC Apr. 2014 – Jun. 2017 Worked on the largest healthcare project in BC’s history with a budget over $800 million, the project aims to transform clinical practice and information systems across BC which will benefit patients, healthcare providers and Health Organizations.

• Lead the technical implementation working group, which coordinated the technical teams across the project to ensure technical readiness of the sites for implementations.

• Developed project plan and work breakdown structure for each site’s implementation. In addition, developed project plans for other phases of the project and tracked status of tasks and deliverables against baselines.

• Planned and managed the execution of the clinical software upgrade to the newest instance, coming in $50k under budget.

• Contributed to Implementation strategy, methodology, and project planning to complete the transformation using a phased approach.

• Determined current state processes for maintaining provider information across the province through stakeholder consultations and analysis. Analyzed sources and determined a strategy to maintain data for over 20,000 providers.

• Determined current state document distribution for information systems across organizations.

• Worked with stakeholders to develop the strategy for all document distribution from the new system.

• Authored the Project Charter, collecting all relevant information from leadership and stakeholders. Developed Charter templates for all teams, and wrote the Implementation/Activation team Charter.

• Assisted in budget development for the project by meeting with all project teams to determine costs and resourcing using a bottom-up approach.

• Organized and documented a week-long site visit with leadership from a leading Ontario hospital to provide design teams and leadership the opportunity to learn key lessons from their implementation and ongoing experience. Senior Strategic Planning Analyst, Planning & Performance Management Provincial Health Services Authority, Vancouver, BC Mar. 2011 – Apr. 2014 Worked on an interdisciplinary team in the areas of Healthcare Informatics, solution delivery, project management, business analysis, project portfolio management and benefits evaluation. Primary Project

• Core project team member: province-wide implementation of a $10 million Clinical Information System to be used by all Health Authorities (HA) to ensure that members of Health Authorities Medical Staff have the requisite credentials and privileges. The system will be used by over 10,000 health professionals. The project involves engagement of administrative, technical and clinical stakeholders across all BC HAs. o Worked with the RFP Team to draft the requirements, RFP document, and to develop evaluation outlines and criteria. Completed vendor evaluations, and selection. o Personally responsible for:

Completed workflow redesign of all HA's current state business processes into common future state processes;

Test Plan for Development Environment, Business Requirements Document, Implementation Plan, Privacy Impact Assessment, Data Flows, Use Cases, Terms of Reference;

Project resource selection.

Additional Projects

• Developed a cost benefit analysis and business case to support the upgrade of the VCH Health Protection application and hardware that serves to track and report public health and safety in the areas of air quality, bed bugs, drinking water and recreational water, food safety and security, industrial camps, personal services establishments, radiation protection and sewage systems.

• Developed a business case for an organization-wide implementation of a Project Management Office and Project Portfolio Management Software for IMITS (Information Management/Information Technology Services for PHSA, VCH and PHC).

• Developed and implemented a mandatory online course to orient PM's across IMITS to the Project Portfolio Management, Project Management, and reporting practices used by the organization. Engaged stakeholders and establish standards for PPM processes.

• Supported operational procurement and contract management of consultant and hardware and software contracts.

• Led a template review and development working group for all IMITS Project Management templates, examples include: Project Plan, Test Plan, Go-Live Plan, and Requirements Documents.

• Developed an online toolkit on the IMITS SharePoint that outlines business processes to guide 5000 IMIT staff. Examples include: Consultant hiring, HW/SW purchases, staff intake process.

• Planned, built and maintained the Business Integration and Optimization SharePoint team site and the PHSA, VCH, PHC Application Rationalization site. Sites are used by all IMIT managers and application business owners. Maintained security, layout, and permissions architecture diagrams. Project Analyst

AMBiT Consulting Inc., Strategic Program Management, Vancouver, BC Jul. 2010 – Nov. 2010 Cultivated AMBiT business development and secured new clients for the management consultancy firm.

• Managed proposal response teams and authored multiple successful RFPs, including: o Strategic Technology Advisor for the University of Calgary for 3-5 years; and o Project Manager for the University of Victoria’s Patient Simulation Program.

• Developed a Business Analyst World presentation, ‘Unknown Unknowns: Analyzing Business Requirements in the Face of Uncertainty,’ for Seattle, Edmonton, Vancouver and Ottawa conferences.

• Completed planning and managed project execution for videoconference sharing between a provincial Health Authority and the UBC medical program. The new processes and videoconference capabilities allow doctors, patients and students to connect through 50% more facilities.

• Drafted project manager budget templates for use across the UBC medical program and AMBiT.

• Facilitated internal and external lessons learned exercises for the projects and proposals above. Project Coordinator

AMBiT Consulting Inc., Strategic Program Management, Vancouver, BC Dec. 2008 – Jul. 2010 Analyzed, planned, developed and implemented projects optimizing videoconference support for the UBC Faculty of Medicine, and projects to build new videoconference facilities for medical education and doctors across BC.

• Planned and managed projects within a program that increased videoconference support capacity through efficiencies while maintaining current operational budgets, affecting the support of doctors and medical students province-wide. Maintained, monitored, and controlled project budgets.

• Managed and coordinated vendors and contractors for two, $300K auditorium videoconference retrofits.

• Coordinated the relocation and $130K of renovations, for a videoconference support desk that services BC.

• Contributed to the development of audio visual output specifications for two new Public-Private Partnerships hospitals.

• Authored memos, outcome reports and service level agreements to document project and program outcomes, recommendations and agreements between organizations.

• Managed client and vendor relationships and produced key project deliverables: business analyses, client communications, presentations, recommendation reports, project plans, charters, schedules, budgets, resource projections and outcome reports.

• Led and facilitated client, project and internal meetings. Prepared plans, statements of works, risk logs, status reports, comprehensive meeting minutes and updated action / decision logs. Reported on project health to clients and stakeholders.

Researcher (professional part-time)

Pathfinder Forum-Consulting in Forensic Medicine & Pathology, Vancouver, BC Aug. 2006 – Mar. 2009 Provided lawyers, governments, law enforcement, and individuals with expert opinion and education about the causation of sudden death and personal injury.

• Reviewed current medical literature, reviewed and summarized police and court documents, medical reports and pathology reports.

Teaching and Research Assistant - Department of Human Kinetics University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada Sept. 2005 – Jul. 2008

• Taught, supported and evaluated students for Human Kinetics classes in the area of Neurophysiology and Human Motor Growth and Development.

• Research involved: developing testing procedures, writing literature reviews, data acquisition, participant recruitment and testing, critiquing of projects and journal articles, presentations, database management, computer coding of MATLAB and Spike2 software, data analysis and statistical analysis. EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION

Centre Saint-Louis, Commission Scolaire de Montréal, Montréal, QC Sept. 2017 - Present French as a Second Language

Project Management Professional (PMP) Apr. 2012

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC 2005 - 2008 Master of Science - Department of Human Kinetics - Neurophysiology Laboratory Achieved GPA of 3.87.

McMaster University, Hamilton, ON 2001 - 2005

Bachelor of Health Sciences (Honors with distinction), Summa Cum Laude One of 100 students selected for program from 3000 applicants (GPA of 3.56, Dean’s Honor List). TECHNICAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

MS Project

JIRA

Confluence CA PPM

SharePoint and SharePoint Designer InfoPath

Visio MindManager

MS Office Suite Asana

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