Margaret Goldych
Cicero, NY *****
adwd6t@r.postjobfree.com
Summary:
PMP Certified Project Management Professional with MBA, over 10 years of experience in IT Project Management with prior application software engineering career that included programming and business analysis.
Certifications & Training:
PMP Certified until July 2025; Certified Scrum Master
Agile Training, ITIL
Trainer for PMP exam candidates - Syracuse PMI group and PMI Women in Project Management SIG (2003 – 2008)
Technical Skills:
PC: MS Project – multiple versions
MS Office Suite
Visual Basic 6.0
Micro-Focus Cobol
Cognos Query Studio
IBM Mainframe: Planview, Clarity, Sharepoint, Cobol, DB2, SQL, CICS, IMS, JCL, Oracle DB, HP Quality Center
Education:
Syracuse University, Whitman School of Management, Syracuse, NY
Master of Business Administration (MBA): major Innovation Management, HR Management minor
Bachelor of Science - Operations Management major; Management Information Systems minor
Bryant & Stratton College - Associates of Science in accounting
Professional Experience: (Looked for new jobs and applied to jobs during unemployed times.)
Onondaga County Board of Elections – Primary and Election days Jun 16 to Nov 22
Poll Worker – Voter System Specialist
Sign in voters in the election poles; assist voters with scanning ballots, assist with scanner machine issues, troubleshoot for ballot scanner, opening and closeout of ballot machines.
Lloyd Staffing NYS DOH Expo Vaccine Pod, Syracuse, NY Mar 21 to May 21
Data Entry Specialist
Performed patient data entry for Covid19 vaccines at Syracuse NY Expo Center using NYS Dept Of Health system.
United States Postal Service - Taft Rd, N. Syracuse NY Nov 20 to Jan 21
Package Handler
Sorted packages based on zip codes. Loaded package bags into shipping container
U.S. Census Bureau, Syracuse NY Jul 20 to Oct 20
Census Data Enumerator
Collected information going door to door for those residences that did not return the US Census Bureau form then input data into online system.
Data entry of printed information from Army base into the Census Bureau system.
CRS Group client Discover Financial Services, Pittsford, NY Mar 15 to Aug 16
PMO IT Project Manager
Managed 40+ small mainframe iterative software portfolio projects (4 to 8 weeks) of Diploma System Clean Up program using Cobol and VSAM. Worked remote 2 of 5 days weekly.
Coordinated projects between Discover and Citi Bank that had a shared student loan system. Used MS Project and Clarity for project documents.
Managed Citi Student Loan Sale 2015 project that created interface of student loan data to another bank.
This project had 4 companies involved and cross-functional teams.
Ensured accounting balanced and ACH payments were properly handled.
Project completed successfully on time and budget in October 2015.
Worked on Otis DSL Data Migration project for creating data conversion files and working through defects on a large new student loan servicing system development project.
Used HP Quality Center for defect resolution and anomaly(bug) assignments.
Project manager on cross functional 15-person team to create letters and checks for multiple mailings with refunds to customers per CFPB with project hard end date.
Time Warner Cable contract, Syracuse, NY Jan 13 to Feb 14
PMO Engineering Project Manager
Contract project manager for multiple projects.
Created project documents using Clarity and MS Project.
Managed Infrastructure Hub Newburgh Expansion project, NE RTN project, Hub Realignment Projects, CASA CMTS Trial project and Northeast CMTS projects for field engineering projects.
Project manager for Connect NY project to expand internet service in New York State in unserved areas.
Project manager for UAT testing for the Salesforce and DOCK software integration mainframe relational database development project.
Project manager for DOCK mainframe software deployment (that interfaced with Salesforce) in Northeast, Carolinas, and NYC.
Managed software training and user access for 30+ resources; ensured regional data loaded; validated DB2 software database data.
Diasys Personnel client BCBS of Western NY, Buffalo, NY Aug 11 to Mar 12
IT PMO Project Manager
Managed 4 software development projects. Created project reports using Daptiv and MS Project. Stored project documents in Sharepoint.
Completed a project of modifying existing internal mainframe software of “The Good Life” product that tracked employee health related data used by employees. Software implemented successfully end of 2011.
Croop LaFrance client Excellus BCBS, Dewitt, NY Feb 11 to Jun 11
Project Mgr Strategic Marketing
Project manager for 2012 Product Discontinuances project to move groups and their member enrollment to another health plan product as of 1/2012 on Trizetto/Facets system.
Managed project from kickoff to completion. Letters mailed to group enrollment population and enrollment moved to another product across multiple system platforms.
Received Cognos Query Studio training.
Global Quest client M&T Bank, Buffalo, NY Jul 10 to Nov 10
PMO Project Mgr. & Testing Coordinator
Second project manager on a large, complicated mainframe software development project using Cobol and DB2 converting bank loan coupon books into printed monthly bank statements.
Used MS Project, HP Quality Center and Sharepoint.
Liaison with software vendor and overseas QA testing team.
Video Gaming Technologies, Ruckersville, VA May 06 to May 08
IT Engineering Sr. Project Mgr
Project manager on multiple software development projects for both protocol interface software and casino slot game software. Point of contact for a group of casinos pertaining to VGT slot machines.
Project manager for off-shore out-sourced software documentation project.
Mentor for guidance and instruction to assistant project managers on their projects.
Interviewed potential project managers and assistant project managers.
Manage software deployment and hardware installations at client locations in multiple casinos in multiple states.
Keane client Excellus BCBS, Syracuse, NY Jul 04 to Oct 05
IT Program Manager
IT Program Manager for Cobol and DB2 mainframe and web development RBRVS provider management project at Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield Insurance company.
Used Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) on project.
PM for team of 24 located in 4 different cities.
IT Project Manager for the Enhanced Automated Enrollment project that developed new mainframe Cobol and IMS programs to compare company full enrollment health insurance files in either a HIPAA 834 format or Excellus Intelliquick format to determine subscriber health insurance changes and generate reports along with creating records for adding and terminating subscribers.
Developed technical solution proposal based on JAD session and estimated work effort needed to meet end of year deadline.
Interviewed and hired consultants for 2 Cobol / IMS programmer positions. Completed project on time and within budget by aggressive end of year deadline.
Delivered presentations to senior management on this strategic project.
Turning Stone Casino, Verona, NY Sep 00 to Dec 03
IT Software Solutions Developer
Project manager, application support and quality assurance testing of back-end business critical gaming system in client server Unix environment.
Product Manager for software vendor upgrades, wrote business design requirements and SOWs for software vendor. Determined which change control requests should be bundled in next software release.
Developed software and tested 20+ ad hoc slot machine gaming reports using PL/SQL and Oracle Developer 2000 Reports.
Responsible for program maintenance and coding new applications using Visual Basic 6.0, Oracle databases, PL/SQL in Windows 2000 environment.
Prior to 2000 - Worked at Mutual of NY Life Insurance Company (MONY Financial Services) for 9 years that started with computer programmer training class. Application software developer engineer and business analyst on new mainframe systems for Universal Life and Flexible Premium Variable Life projects. Project Lead and Architect on new mainframe system development for managing Insurance Salesperson clients. Project manager and analyst on voice response system implementation.
Worked contract programmer analyst assignments at Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, and Farmers Insurance Company.