IT Project Manager

SUMMARY

IT Project Manager with extensive experience in Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) and financial applications. Expertise with Fortune 500 and smaller start-up companies. Manage large scale multimillion dollar projects with complicated coordination requirements.

Business Analysis and Process Optimization

System Design and Data Warehouse Deployment

Healthcare, Pharmacy Benefits, Banking

Claims processing

Waterfall – Agile – Scrum - SDLC

Documentation and Training

PMP Certified by PMI

Bilingual English – Hebrew

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

STARFISH ASSOCIATES, Bridgewater, NJ 01/2015 – present

Project Manager – Consultant.

Install & train MS Project server (Enterprise Project Management).

Client Education & Support

EXPRESS SCRIPTS, Franklin Lakes, NJ 3/2013 – 10/2014

IT Project Manager – Consultant

Managing multiple Projects at Express Scripts EPMO.

Managed a large Multimillion Dollar migration of clients from one Billing system to another.

Managed various smaller & medium size projects creating Government mandated reporting.

Coordinated with different areas of the organization keeping projects under control.

Generated daily status reports to Upper management of ongoing migration efforts.

Managed Projects to set up new processes for billing files creation.

Trained off shore resources on new procedures to create billing files

STARFISH ASSOCIATES, Bridgewater, NJ 11/2011 – 1/2013

Project Manager – Consultant.

Managed Projects utilizing PMI Standards.

Established new Risk Management procedures (Risk log & mitigation).

Introduced MS Project 2010 as a scheduling monitoring & controlling tool.

Utilize Microsoft TFS (application lifecycle management solution).

MEDCO HEALTH SOLUTIONS, Franklin Lakes, NJ 1990 – 9/2011

Project Manager; Project Leader; Application Architect; Senior Programmer Analyst;

Project Manager and Finance coordinator, HIPAA PROJECT

Pivotal role in Medco HIPAA charter (Medco’s biggest project ever). Reported Project Status to Upper management on a routine basis. Tested all Medco new billing deliverables with Medco’s clients.

Led all financial applications from analysis through design, coding and implementation of all HIPAA modifications and new procedures.

Coordinated across the organization controlling Cost Schedule and Scope.

Designed & creation of the new Medco Standard Claim Detail Layout (CDL)

Designed new Data Warehouse for Financial systems use.

Agile – Scrum methodologies

Saved the multimillion dollar HIPAA project from collapse by properly managing and mitigating Risks.

Project Manager, Financial Reporting

Managed Medco internal Financial Reporting group.

Built an internal Sales Database.

Project Manager, Y2K

Managed the Y2K efforts of all Medco financial systems. Supervised the analysis, coding, testing and implementation of all Y2K financial systems applications.

Established LOE for all Medco financial Systems.

At peak, responsible for over 70 people.

Certified all systems.

Project leader, Production support

Resolved all production support incidents for all Billing Systems. Resolved outstanding tickets. Ensured assignment of tickets to the proper financial team.

Reduced the number of open Remedy tickets from 250 to less than 10 within a month.

Set different teams on SharePoint.

Project Leader, Billed History

Collected Billing information from different platforms, formats and schedules.

Created a new system accessible by all financial applications that became the single source of billing information companywide

Application Architect, Integrated Billing Systems

Created and supported clients various billing deliverables. Recreated client Invoices and billing media deliverables. Eliminated billing errors by analyzing problems and creating workarounds. Managed the Solution Center for the Integrated Billing Systems.

Selected by management to train off-shore (India/Brazil) IT personnel and significantly reduced turnover time.

Created Billing systems presentations for all corporate employees using Macromedia Breeze Presenter tool.

Rebuilt the Carrier Pre Process system and assumed responsibility of all CPP billing files.

EDUCATION

BA, Political Science & Labor studies, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv

Project Management, Ramapo College, Ramapo

Sivan Computer Programming School, Israel

PMP Certified by PMI.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT and TRAINING

Technology Summary:

Databases: MS SQL Server, Teradata (Data Warehouse), Informix, DB2, MS Access,

Modeling/Metadata: Erwin, Visio

Languages/Tools: COBOL, SQL, PowerBuilder, Visual Basic, Queryman (Teradata SQL Assistance), MS-Office, Breeze Presenter, SharePoint, Macromedia, VPMi, Clarity, MS Project.

Platforms: Windows, IBM Mainframe, UNISYS Mainframe.

Bilingual: Fluent in English & Hebrew

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