Project Manager Management

Professional Experience

Omnicare, Inc., Cincinnati, OH January 2012 - July 2014

Senior Project Manager, Project Management Office (PMO)

Implementation of Oracle eBusiness Suite to replace two legacy dispensing systems currently in use at Omnicare

Partnered with IT Leads and 3rd party implementation partner to replace legacy dispensing systems

Completed pilot implementation of Billing and Accounts Receivable to one billing center before halting the project to assess for scalability, sustainability and stability

Supervisory responsibility for two additional Project Managers and their project workloads

Participation in development of formal Systems Development Life Cycle process for Omnicare, with particular emphasis on how project artifacts relate to the various steps of the PMO project guidelines

INC Research (formerly Kendle International Inc.), Cincinnati, OH Sept. 2007 - January 2012

Director of Information Systems/Program Manager

Implementation of PeopleSoft Financials on a global scale to North America, South America, Australia and Europe

3500 employee clinical research organization operating in over 30 countries

Project plan development and tracking, status reporting to executive steering committee, risk assessment and mitigation planning

Presentations to all levels of management: CFO, CIO, COO, Vice-presidents and Controllers, Project Sponsors and stakeholders

Steering committee meetings with global participants

Weekly team meetings with regional constituents in Latin America, Europe and Australia as well as U.S.

Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH Sept. 2001 - Sept. 2007

Director of Application Systems and Services/Project Manager

Full-time management of the University's application development staff concurrent with project management of full replacement of all administrative systems at Xavier

Supervise up to 16 programmer/analysts, database administrators and report writers including performance appraisals and development plans

Modules implemented as replacement for legacy systems included: Finance, Financial Aid, Student System, Human Resources, Alumni Development

Implementation accomplished on time and on budget

Member of leadership team reporting to the CIO setting direction for Division of Information Resources and the University technology

Member of committee charged with evaluating current systems in use at the University and conducting RFI with numerous ERP vendors

Cincinnati Financial Corporation, Fairfield, Ohio May 2000 - Sept. 2001

Project Manager, Project Management Office (PMO)

Responsible for planning, organizing, leading and managing assigned information technology projects ranging from Accounts Payable, Bonds, Commercial Lines and Personal Auto

Stay at Home Father, Cincinnati, OH Jan. 1998 - April 2000

Full time caretaker of three children and home while spouse worked outside the home

Great American Insurance, Cincinnati, OH Feb. 1979 - Jan. 1998

Director of Systems, Information Systems and Services

Direct responsibility for 10 programmer/analysts and 2 business analysts responsible for maintenance and new development of large scale mainframe insurance entry systems, both online and batch

Education Northern Kentucky University, B.S. Mathematics

Xavier University

Affiliations Member, Project Management Institute

Member, Southwest Ohio Chapter PMI

Member, Cincinnati Real Estate Ambassadors Program

Member, Cincinnati Area Board of Realtors

Member, Ohio Association of Realtors

Member, National Association of Realtors

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