Todd LaRose
PMP Certified Project Manager
Objective: Looking to secure a project manager position that will allow my exceptional verbal and written communication skills to shine, as well as, bring my project management skills to complete projects under budget, on schedule, and within scope
Core Competencies
Project Planning and Scheduling
Proficient in both Waterfall and Agile Project Methodologies
Salesforce Management Experience
IT Governance
Leadership in Full Project Cycle
Budgeting and Cost Control
Enterprise Wide Solutions
Business and Product Requirement Analysis
Collaborative Leader and Skilled Communicator
Resource Planning and Requirements Gathering
Knowledge of Design and Development
Proficient in using MS Project and MS SharePoint teams for project documentation
ROI Analysis
Vendor Management
Cross-Functional Supervisor and Team Building/Mentoring
CRM experience delivering products and services to external clients, interacting with clients to ensure customer satisfaction
Professional Experience
Person Directed Supports, Whitehall, PA October 2019 – October 2020 Project Manager
Successfully managed company’s Horizon billing system including user management, creation of company reporting, and running analysis of system status
Managed primarily waterfall projects, successful in bringing projects to completion within budget, scope, and exceeding stakeholder expectations
CRM experience dealing with external clients to provide technical support and solutions
In wake of Covid 19, I implemented a plan to take our company from a typical boardroom setting to a complete virtual meeting environment managing our Go To Meeting system and our Google Meet system to ensure all meetings throughout the company were virtualized and streamlined, creating a new company standard for communication going forward
Implementation of Quick Mar system to ensure all company paper documentation was stored in an electronic format that could be updated and maintained easily by system administrators
Managed transition of company printing to securely copy and print, locked down by user code, thus saving the company
$11,000 in overages from the previous year working with Edwards Business Systems to achieve this
Conversion of company licensing information from binders to an online portal using Egnyte software to create secure HIPAA compliant documentation that could be scanned securely from copiers into Egnyte into a secured drive
Acquired a technology grant from Lancaster county that brought in $10,000 of revenue for the company, and this money will be used to better utilize technology in the workplace company wide Health Network Laboratories, Allentown, PA September 2004 – January 2019 Project Manager, June 2012 – January 2019
Utilized both agile and waterfall methodologies to achieve project goals
Interfaced directly with our internal Sales team to achieve external client solutions utilizing the Salesforce platform and a customer driven ideal
Led efforts with our external clients to implement our lab order entry software to ensure customer satisfaction by delivering the product on time, on budget, and exceeding client expectations, including scoping out the project, working with internal teams to develop a delivery plan, creating workflows to fit product needed, and creating the project plan for go live
Manager of DocuShare document repository system responsible for maintaining approximately 5 million scanned documents in a HIPAA environment, as well as, configuring and managing the software platform
Project lead in planning, implementing, and converting Pocono Hospital and Muhlenberg Hospital lab from the Lehigh Valley Hospital to Health Network Laboratories network, including budgeting, network/hardware/software changes and installations
Led projects dealing with application upgrades and migrations to a new platform, software experience in Windows Office Suite, Microsoft SharePoint, VMWare infrastructure, and Citrix
Led approximately sixty projects in opening remote patient service center lab locations, including network and equipment design, chief buyer of all equipment, lead in working with all vendors, and installation of network and hardware equipment, coordination of team to complete all projects on time and with excellent quality
Promoted to project manager to plan, schedule, and execute infrastructure projects involving software, hardware, and system implementations, while monitoring progress to meet deadlines and cost goals
Created ROI assessments and cost-benefit analysis that were used to implement decisions
Resolved many project issues including staffing, scope creep, and business and user needs
Excellent communicator, able to articulate project goals and scope, translated business requirements to technical terms, completed detailed work breakdown structures to achieve project goals Supervisor, Hardware Solutions, February 2009 – May 2012
Established new policies and procedures to respond to network user and security incidents, greatly improving response time and improving overall customer service
Led a team that was responsible for the desktop and hardware support of over 1,000 employees
Led a team that resolved all level 1 support issues, and was responsible for the triage and resolution of level 2 and 3 support issues
Managed customer service tracking guidelines, and reduced call center wait time and improved end user problem resolution and satisfaction
Maintained daily and monthly statistical call center reports and developed a help desk survey to improve end user satisfaction
Supervisor, Network Services, September 2004 – February 2009
Created and implemented network’s Active Directory configuration, including user/group management, DNS/DHCP, and network security groups
Created virtualized environment for company infrastructure, proficient in VCenter and VSphere, directly responsible for administering server and desktop virtual environment
Managed network server environment, including antivirus, network patches, and server updates
Administered organization’s firewall configuration and implementation, managed internal network security
Worked in tandem with department director and CIO to implement Wyse terminal hardware in conjunction with VMware Desktop and Server Infrastructure, Virtual Center, and Cisco Voice over IP for entire network
Management and documentation of organization’s hardware infrastructure, including Wyse workstation configuration and deployment, Windows 7 organizational rollout, and print server management
Responsible for Microsoft Exchange setup, configuration and management to a network of 1,000 employees Education
University of Pittsburgh, Bachelor of Science, Psychology University of Phoenix, Master of Science in Computer Information Systems