Vickie Davidson

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

Chapel Hill, TN 37034

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DEDICATED PROJECT MANAGER

Senior Project Manager * Agile Project Management Leadership * Resource Allocation Optimization * Multiple priority prioritization * Mitigated Project Risks * Delivered On-time Deployments * Management of Budget * Flexible Mindset * Focused Scrum Manager utilizing Azure Dev Ops and Jira Align * Humana IT Elevation Award Nominee * Member of Diversity and Inclusion Award HCA

SKILLS

Project Management - Multiple Applications (Microsoft Project, ServiceNow, Planisware), comfortable in Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid

Leadership – successfully leading my Team toward their project objectives utilizing servant leadership

Time Management – prioritizing for optimal success

Azure DevOps – 6 yrs (Deloitte and Humana)

Vendor Management, including Budget management against actuals and contract totals.

Excellent Verbal and Written Communications

SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)

Requirements and Charter Creation

Kanban

Scrum Management

Microsoft 365

Medical Records Auditor for Insurance

Medical Terminology

Microsoft Teams

Azure DevOps and Jira Align

SharePoint Administration

Additional Skills: *Communicated by initiating interaction between team members, product owners and leadership, then facilitating open and honest discussion *Listened to understand *Emotional Intelligence – Fostered relationships and trust with clients and teams in order to make it a top priority *Business process Improvement *Certified in Stakeholder Management *Project Management across Business, technical and cloud projects. *Financials, Budget Management and Forecasting, *International and cross functional Team Coordination,

IT Project Manager, Humana, Inc. Remote

JAN '22 – March '24

Introduced an innovative process in Release Management, increasing Governance Board requirements compliance from 70% to near 100%

Acted as project manager of multiple projects, in a cross-functional environment. This led to improved communications across teams and 20% improvement of outcomes

Project Management for Medicare IT, working with Technology Team using Mulesoft to integrate with marketing, business, Medicare Advantage membership and technology applications to facilitate integration for upgrading and new technologies

Drive project scheduling, resource allocation and forecasting, time entry, and project controls through the standard project management tools and processes to ensure timely delivery and proper budget allocation and capitalization.

Responsible for tracking key project metrics and milestones and proactively escalating functional/quality/timeline issues along with resolution recommendations.

Coordinatde change requests from original specifications and ensure proper change communication and impact analysis.

Utilized Scrum process for project teams in a cross-functional environment to assure that Scrum Teams were aware and monitoring progress throughout projects.

Mitigate project risks through risk and issues reporting and utilizing Agile/Scrum best practices and effective change management techniques.

Managed Risks and Issues and reported weekly in Leadership meetings.

Communicated project success across all levels from leadership to team members.

Senior Project Manager. Tyson, Inc. Remote

APR '21 - NOV '21

Performed Project Management for Sales, Trade and Marketing IT PMO area.

Managed Financials four to seven projects.

Performed resource allocations for projects

Prepared weekly status reports on each project, including financial, and project health.

Managed Risks and Issues and reported weekly.

Prepared Project Charter, RACI Charts, detail project plans,

Participated and documented Scrum Meetings to facilitate management of blocks.

Enter Scurm outcomes into Jira.

Worked with global development team.

Inter-departmental co-ordination.

Managed a lift and shift of all marketing web components from server in China to server in Malaysia

Senior Project Manager, Sedgwick - Remote

OCT '20 - MAR '21

Performed Senior Project Manager tasks to implement updates and new applications for Medicare and Medicaid organization.

Utilize Project Management best practices to assure that all Claims projects delivered within proposed schedule and budget.

Provide leadership updates.

Create and present status reports

Manage team through execution of project tasks.

Project Manager Deloitte, LLC, Hermitage TN

JUN '17 - JUN '20

Engagement Manager /Scrum Master Deloitte, LLC, Hermitage TN

NOV'15 - JUN '17

ITS Deloitte Applications Services – Engagement Manager

Monitored Scrum meeting with Argentina development team for all DAS software projects.

Implemented across multiple departments the financial forecasting product for Internal Business Clients. Analyzed planned vs. actual for budget adjustments and accruals.

Improved monitoring of department financials by preparing Financial reports using SQL to access database to provide information on budget, actual expenses and cost to forecast future financial status and accruals in order to assist Business owner resources with pro forma financials relative to purchases or application conversions on large project.

Forecasting by month to include any applicable CapEx or OpEx costs.

Collaborated with offshore teams using AWS in order to track and manage development activity, along with other tools for delivery/development.

Met face to face with clients to understand needs and develop initiative-taking solutions.

Consulted with teams on established best practices and process improvements.

Used Scrum processes to establish story size and schedule within feature within Agile environment.

ITS Deloitte IT PMO

Proven Record of successful delivery of first-time compliant projects, following the project life cycle methodology defined under the SDLC process ensuring that project deliverables, schedules, and budgets were maintained and on track for 4 to 5 concurrent running medium to complex projects in different stages of execution.

Proficient and used both Waterfall process, Agile, and hybrid methodologies to achieve the best outcome for the Client and project.

Co-Manager of Cloud Migration Program relevant to the integration of Global partners into more processes and strategic initiatives.

Member of strategic goals team to optimize PMO initiatives.

S4 Hana Integration project management on large, complex cross functional project.

Participated in the conversion to sAFE Agile for PMO based on strategic initiatives working both remotely and on site. Earned certification.

Collaborated with top PMO performers to create and utilize a living PMO Playbook including links to all documentation and processes for purpose of on-boarding and best practices.

IT Manager: IT Supply Chain Logistics IT, Cardinal Health 3PL, Lavergne TN

AUG '14 - SEP '15,

Managed IT Analysts and EDI consultants in Supply Chain Third Party Logistics organization for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers within a complex SAP migration project interacting with multiple teams and customers daily to meet goals.

Completed SAP Implementation for Logistics.

Guided Clients through software upgrades or implementation via scheduled interactions.

Managed new Client IT requirements and configurations for system and EDI.

Monitored project schedule and budget, forecasting against planned and actuals.

Managed EDI delivery, government compliance, and process improvements.

Manager, Acquisition Project Management, and Implementation Team

HCA, INC Nashville, TN.

03/2002 – 09/2013

Manager of ERP, Supply Chain, Financial, and Revenue Cycle Implementation and Project Management. Trained, mentored, directed, and performed Project Management for twenty- four implementation analysts, consultants and contract resources in products, processes, procedures, relationships, and consulting.

Managed $2M up to $16M budget across and average of 20 projects a year.

Supported business owner for strategy planning at division or enterprise level.

Extensive use of Microsoft Project with a Waterfall methodology to reach goal of transitioning acquisition over to a new Financial, Supply Chain and Payroll system.

Provided leadership in maintaining and growing business/technical client relationships.

Created and delivered end user training programs to ensure development of direct reports to reduce development costs by 30% and increased development offerings by 20%. This increased efficiency by 15% and reduced dependence on contract resources by same amount.

Reviewed and reported on all project metrics to assure value and efficiency.

RECOGNITION:

Recognized for inspiring cohesive project delivery teams, collaborating with diverse members to excel and to provide best case project deliveries on time and within budget.

Award for delivery of high profile, high budget market project to convert fourteen facilities to new platform and applications on time and within budget. Budget exceeded $16M.

EDUCATION:

A.S: Medical Administration

Jefferson Community College, Louisville, KY, US - Louisville, KY

Certificate - HITECH Implementation Manager

Walters State Community College - Morristown, TN

CERTIFICATION:

Certificate: Stakeholder Management - Linked In Learnings

Certificate – LSS Yellow Belt – Cardinal Logistics 3PL Employee Training Class

SAFe Agile – Deloitte internal training class – Cert #106*****-****

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