Data Entry Project Manager

Larry Alderks

Email: *****@*******.*** • Phone: 507-***-****

**** ****** ***, ******, **

https://www.linkedin.com/in/larry-alderks-286755

Objective: A business collaboration opportunity that will provide challenging objectives with a focus on strategic goals and professional relationships to strengthen a growing opportunity or initiative by examining, prioritizing, measuring, and leading changes.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Effective communicator / facilitator with stakeholders, Sr leaders, internal partners, external customers, and vendors that can bring motivation, enthusiasm, and success to the environment.

Develops and manages all aspects of roadmaps and project lifecycle for business and State driven efforts delivering multiyear and multiple concurrent projects of $50K- $35M.

Served as a leader and coached for two organizations transitioning from SDLC to Agile platforms by providing training/mentoring to increase leveraging of practices from SAFe. Often conducting weekly coaching sessions.

Identifies product strategies, business requirements and decipher ambiguous requirements to align with the development efforts.

Championed a team of peers where we collaborated on developing “standards & reporting guide” to be used across all Agile projects to provide consistency in reporting for scrum teams and business leaders resulting in smoother start up, better issue identification, consistency of reporting and communications.

Supportive team member of Project Management Office supporting over 400 Project managers with training, work sessions, process development, project support, tool development, procedure development, and coaching.

Highly adept in managing and communicating complex escalations and issues; identifies and manages all aspects of problem solving to achieve optimal results in highly polarized environments.

Relevant Experience

United Health Group - Optum, Eden Prairie, MN (12/2016 – Present)

Value Stream Engineer and Release Train Engineer for Community and States Growth area

To improve operational effectiveness, I created a set of tools (7 Apps) for the Value Stream Engineers to provide consistent reporting to the Scrum teams for monitoring progress and identification of blockers.

To provide business with consistent reporting (progress, finances, blockers, etc.) I established a base set of reports/apps and engaged peers for additional feature and functionality which was then presented to three levels of management for use across the teams.

Championed multiple application teams to meet contractual obligations for state Medicaid authorities. Leading cross functional teams with 50+ SM/PMs and vendors across large complex projects to meet State objectives, ambiguous requirements and solidify relationships with the State.

Improved Agile adoption by identifying teams with opportunities and using SAFe techniques and internal coaching resources to assist with their development to meet transformation objectives.

Develop capital budgets and track spending for all development teams engaged on the project.

Develop Stage Gate views for the Steering committee to track and discuss project issues, risks and priorities

Voya Financial, Minneapolis, MN (09/2014 – 05/2015)

Strategy and Planning - Spearheaded planning, strategy deployment, and execution for a line of business projects $9.1M.

Established Governance structure for Life insurance LOB with a strategic initiative of $9.1M. Identified governing members, defined responsibilities, developed change management process, drove meeting agendas, identified escalations, and established approval processes.

Validated and aligned all Life projects to overall strategy with the Sr leadership.

By prioritizing capacity and capability across line of business’s three-year strategy roadmaps I identified areas of constraint allowing for better resource planning. This provided focused resources on the highest priority work.

With the finance team I developed and prioritized metrics for the departments progress on reaching corporate objectives. Scorecards and dashboards for each program were established to reflect progress on department objectives.

Drove continuous improvement of methods and processes for the business line with Value Stream mapping techniques that identified backlogs of work, process delays, poor handoffs, etc. Improvements were made resulting in reduced hand offs, reduction in data entry and utilization of fewer systems.

Delivered and presented Stage Gates to Sr managers on project efforts to review the issues, risks, and priorities as the objectives of the clients needs changed.

Facilitated session with the Sr leaders to clarify vision, strategy, scope, priorities, and outlined the roadmap for two major initiatives: fulfillment initiative and multicultural marketing effort.

US Bank, Richfield, MN (05/2007 – 07/2014)

Project Manager for Residential Mortgage Default Management (03/2014 – 07/2014)

Launched project team using modified Agile techniques to implement application for borrowers in early default of their mortgage ($5.2M).

Led Agile team on large enterprise project changing the internal mortgage processes from manual and paper processes to automated, and storage of electronic documentation.

oLed Agile project team of eight members and vendor, maintained daily project management tasks, scrum meetings, schedules, burn rates, back logs, resources, among others. Identified blockers, issues, scope changes, and required project management documentation.

oPrioritized features, timeline, and/or budget to meet business objectives.

oManaged outside vendor for delivery of enhancements.

US Bank, Richfield, MN

Project Management Office (03/2013 – 03/2014)

Established and facilitated monthly status to Sr Executives on projects that were most visible and impactful increasing visibility to issues within project that consequently leaders could them assist in resolving and prioritizing.

Led and coordinated the enterprise process for technology planning for Sr Technology Leaders to provide visibility to limited project funding. I assessed and reduced the list of enterprise projects for 2013 from 200 to less than 80

Provided support for 400+ project managers by developing and delivering training, procedures, process documentation, and process support. Therefore, improving processes, documentation of procedures and processes for PMs for more efficient reporting and reducing duplicative processes and reporting.

Delivered monthly training and process updates to enterprise PMO staff on topics that were of most concern to them or were changing.

Managed upgrade to the CA Clarity new release

Additional Professional Experience

Ameriprise, Minneapolis, MN (03/2016 – 09/2016)

Project Manager Consultant Wealth Management

Led and delivered complex/interdependent regulatory initiative ($3.2M) that brought financial advisors into compliance with new fiduciary responsibility regulations set by the Department of Labor.

Led eight business SMEs and 22 application teams to implement changes to adhere to SEC regulations.

Utilized Ameriprise Quality Management System (AQMS) tools and techniques to provide consistent delivery of project milestones and deliverables and adhere to compliance protocol to ensure project was delivered on time and on budget.

Drove efforts with external vendors to deliver changes ahead of scheduled delivery.

Wolters Kluwer, Minneapolis, MN (09/2015 – 03/2016)

Project Manager Consultant

Led internal team of eight members and six client team members to implement new required mortgage regulations for national banks.

oDelivered full implementation for multiple compliance projects for Mortgage, Consumer, and Non-Real estate to comply with TILA-RESPA (Truth in Lending Act – Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act - Integrated Disclosure (TRID)).

Developed and negotiated SOWs for project and ongoing support with external customers.

Led concurrent compliance regulatory projects ($2.6M) for mortgage institutions.

Addressed with Sr management (internal and external) escalations, budgets, and status.

US Bank, Richfield, MN (05/2007 – 07/2014)

Facilitation and Communication Techniques (01/2013 – 07/2014)

Studied, practices and applied facilitation techniques and tools to build ownership to business strategies. Created a shared vision, understanding and focus ensuring a more complete analysis, and adoption of change on projects within divisions.

Utilized facilitation skills and techniques for corporate, division, and department planning and strategic initiatives to identify purpose, specific deliverables for programs, and improvement opportunities.

oCreated strategic roadmaps to identify new customer service opportunities in mobile banking.

oWithin Wholesale banking, revamped its annual technology spend on projects.

oIdentified and secured new opportunities in ATM markets

US Bank, Richfield, MN

Program Manager for Information Security (11/2010 – 03/2013)

Led a team of six project managers to deliver Information Security projects. Projects included secure remote access, password vault, Payment Card Industry (PCI), mainframe encryption, controlled user access, Privileged Access Management (PAM), Identify and Access Management (IAM), and others.

Removed project manager and negotiated with the sponsor to revise scope and milestones on VPN project. The project was over a year behind in delivery, had over committed on delivery of hardware, lost sponsor support, and was underfunded. Initiated a communication plan to all the Business lines for them to request additional spend to meet the security requirements and identified new milestone dates.

Overhauled the project scope of the Password Vault project. Project manager was focused on operational and marketing aspects that the business line had relinquished. I redirected the team to deliver project deliverables bringing the project back on schedule.

Escalated issues and delivery schedule with senior and technology management on the Enterprise Key Management (EKM) project as it lost sponsor support and focus. The project was experiencing schedule and funding delays. Devised a plan to arrive at a new delivery date and funding source for the mainframe encryption hardware.

Analyzed data on current rate of delivery and determined that the Identify and Access Management (AIM/UDA) project was scheduled to deliver 18 months beyond scheduled date. The analysis was shared with the project team and Sr management leading to additional tools being engaged to assist in meeting delivery dates and new dashboard for measuring progress.

US Bank, Richfield, MN

Program Manager for Retail Banking Acquisitions (05/2007 – 11/2010)

Led infrastructure team of 12 members and vendors on strategic acquisitions ($2M to $34M) to install hardware, deliver training, communications, and support. Delivered all seven (7) acquisitions within the 23 week schedule.

Served on the Due Diligence team to identify high level costs for new opportunities.

Led efforts for integrating seven acquired banks into the US Bank infrastructure, process, and standards.

Established strategic relationships with cabling vendors, human resources, and commercial real estate staff to meet acquisition deadlines.

Collaborated with five to eleven internal business and technology cross functional teams.

Devised a model project plan that became the framework for all subsequent acquisitions.

Created a due diligence model for estimating costs for potential acquisitions.

GMAC, Richfield, MN (08/2006 – 04/2007)

Project Manager

Delivered strategic recommendations and plans to implement changes across thirteen departments, reducing external risk and generated financial impact by $517.0M.

Implemented changes to improve mortgage processing behavior.

Integrated three systems into one, improving efficiency.

Developed new metrics for the mortgage processing area to change organizational changes.

TOOLS

Methodologies: Agile, SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle), ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library), Facilitation, Lean, Kaizen, Value Stream Mapping, CA Clarity, Project Central, TFS (Team Foundation Server)

CONTINUING EDUCATION

SAFe 5.0 SA – (Scaled Agile Framework 2020)

Scrum Master – US Bank (2013)

Agile Training & Coaching – US Bank (2013)

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

IT Service Management (ITIL) - Foundations Certified

EDUCATION

Bachelors, Business Economics, Northwestern College, Orange City, Iowa

Bachelors, Psychology, Northwestern College, Orange City, Iowa

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