Sean Peter White, PMP, MBA

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Results oriented, hands on, very experienced senior project/program manager (PMP), with over 20 years’ experience at a senior level in multiple industries, managing large business, infrastructure and applications teams both directly (as a Director) or as a VP/program/project management professional, either directly, or as part of large matrixed projects. (Up to 50 staff directly reporting to me and another 100 cross-functional staff with matrixed responsibility)

Ability to work at all levels within an organization, working day to day with technical/business staff and presenting summary information on a regular basis to senior management (up to C-Suite/EVP/VP level)

Significant financial management experience (departmental, project and vendor costs, MBA, specializing in finance)

Significant Experience in Waterfall and Agile environments (PMP Certified)

Expert in Smartsheet, MS Project, PowerPoint, Excel (including pivot tables), Access and Sharepoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT Nov. 2019 – Present

Various roles – Management of Technical and Business Projects

oTechnical Project manager for the implementation of a DR solution for the customers of a SaaS Vendor, implementing secondary VPN tunnels and/or MPLS lines to an AWS site. Management of technical resources, communications with external clients and reporting to senior management.

oProgram and Project Manager for a PA Health System, managing several projects simultaneously for their Cancer Center partnership with MD Anderson, including the implementation of a new EMR and a new LINAC (Linear Accelerator). Responsibility for weekly presentations to the senior management team (EVPs and VPs)

FLUIDEDGE CONSULTING, MALVERN, PA Aug. 2010 –Sep 2019 Vice President/Principal Consultant /Program Manager

oOverall Program Management for very large cross functional projects, managing staff at all levels from technical/development/business and responsibility for management of client relationships. Reporting to senior management (up to EVPs and C-Suite Executives) and management of project costs, for clients, including:

Johns Hopkins HealthCare

Florida Blue

Capital Blue Cross

Holy Redeemer Health Systems

Medecision (SaaS vendor)

Vanguard

oSenior Project Manager for the implementation of a SaaS solution for a vendor with responsibility for management and coordination of all IT resources to move existing hosted customers onto a SaaS platform, including weekly reporting to Senior Management and the CEO.

oProject Manager for the migration of customers/data for a SaaS software company from a self-managed solution (hosted at SunGard) to a fully managed solution (at Rackspace).

oResponsibility for setting up project governance, preparation and presentation of monthly status reports to the project steering committee (C-suite and VPs) using PowerPoint and other tools.

oProject manager and SME for IT systems selection for several projects

INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT (For FluidEdge Consulting) Jan.2008 – Aug 2010

oInterim Director of Global Architecture (Consultant) for a pharmaceutical company with main offices in United States, United Kingdom and globally. Responsible for multiple negotiations with vendors and management of technical staff.

oProject Manager (consultant) for the build of a new global data center for a pharmaceutical company as part of their new global headquarters – (3000 ft2 data center – managed in house technical staff, telecoms, cabling, UPS, generator, HVAC and other vendors).

oProject Manager (Consultant) for the implementation of a Core record keeping system for a national financial services company reporting to the COO.

oEngagement manager for a software vendor in PA, managing the day to day relationship with clients, the management of technical staff, including daily interaction with offshore resources.

INDEPENDENCE BLUE CROSS April 2000 to Oct 2007

Various Senior Management Positions

-Director, Technology Services, (IBC) Jan 2006 to Oct 2007

oDirected a team, managing and supporting the large system infrastructure – IBM mainframe, AS/400 (System i), storage and middleware. (Director position with 50 staff, including 3 managers as direct reports). Included the championing of an initiative that reduced overnight batch processing times, across the board, by 50%.

oWorked with technical staff and external vendors to champion a proposal with senior management to improve the disaster recovery strategy for key applications (hot site).

-Director, Managed Healthcare Systems, (IBC) Apr 2000 to Jan 2006

oDirected a team of approximately 50 IT/IS professionals with another 100 cross functional resources in a multi-year project to deliver a single claims system for a major Blues Plan. (Director position with 3 managers as direct reports). Day to day management of technical staff and developers and responsibility for monthly project updates to the senior business team.

EDUCATION

Middlesex University London, England - Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA) specializing in Finance

PMP Certified (after PMI began to include Agile (Scrum), Kanban and other agile approaches as well as Traditional Waterfall)

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