Gregory W. Wojyn, PMP, CSM
Project Manager (PMP# 309668) Certified Scrum Master (CSM# 1620770)
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Results-driven, technology-savvy Project Manager Professional (PMP) & Certified Scrum Master (CSM) with 18-plus years of combined project experience utilizing waterfall, agile and scrum for new product development, manufacturing, sales operations, call center, marketing, and IT. Leverages extensive Smartsheet, SharePoint, ClearQuest, JIRA and Quality Management System (QMS) tools to proactively lead cross-functional, product-oriented delivery (POD)-focused teams. Highly experienced in software/product development lifecycle for multi-million-dollar initiatives. Strong business process mapping skills used to analyze, correct and implement standards that significantly increases productivity and grows sales. Borough Council President and office holder: 13 years in municipal government leadership roles as Police Commissioner; Technology Chair; Admin & Personnel Chair; Public Works Chair. U.S. Navy Petty Officer/Journalist; aboard USS Enterprise (CVN-65) and Commander-in-Chief U.S. Atlantic Fleet Headquarters Public Affairs.
SKILLS
PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL (PMP) / CERTIFIED SCRUM MASTER (CSM): 18+ years of hands-on planning and executing projects using PMI methodology, Stage-Gate tools, Agile/Scrum Framework and hybrid means resulting in multi-million-dollar sales, and repeatable cost-savings via process improvement for software, manufacturing, insurance, and healthcare industries
SCRUM & AGILE: 10+ years project manager experience running Agile and Hybrid projects for manufacturing, insurance, and healthcare industries. Enabling hybrid options resulted greater team flexibility to complete projects more efficiently.
GOVERNMENT: 13 years of municipal government leadership and management of Police, Administration, Public Works, and Recreation Departments. Adept at constituent relations, government relations, and crisis management.
SMARTSHEET: 5+ years designing dashboards, customized KPI reports, and automated tasks tools designed to increase productivity and accountability across PMO and business units. Trains employees across multiple business units on project management tools/fundamentals while greatly improving business operations and productivity.
SHAREPOINT: 18+ years of In-depth, hands-on experience creating internal web portals, landing pages and repositories for critical business, marketing and IT operations.
VISIO: 18+ years of experience designing process flows and organizational charts understandable by novices and experts for clear understanding of PMO functions and business rules.
MS PROJECT & OFFICE 365: 18+ years of advanced skills in MS Project, Word, PowerPoint and Excel leveraging SharePoint and MS Teams to create, distribute, and archive critical business documentation. Highly proficient in creating dynamic multi-media presentations used for executive-level briefings and cross-functional meetings.
BUSINESS, TECHNICAL AND QUALITY DOCUMENTATION: 18+ years creating user/business requirements, software testing plans, SOPs, Quality Manuals and Work Instructions used in manufacturing, SalesForce.com/Veeva releases and telecommunications projects. Possess advanced copy writing and research skills used to create/update materials ranging from sales/marketing literature, technical manuals, user guides to executive-level presentations.
CORPORATE MEETING EXCELLENCE: 18+ years of leading impactful, executive-level meetings, company-wide training, client-facing sales events and trade shows. Expert-level skills with CISCO Telepresence, WebEx, Zoom and MS Teams and multi-media technology. Skilled in automated and traditional tools used for business and daily scrum.
PUBLIC SPEAKING/BROADCASTING: 18+ years of public speaking experience for corporate, commercial, government and military organizations. Expert-level ability to provide product and service demonstrations at trade shows. Possess extensive emcee and broadcasting experience.
MILITARY: U.S. NAVY (5 Years): Certified Navy Journalist with service aboard USS Enterprise (CVN-65) Public Affairs Office and Commander-in-Chief Atlantic Fleet Headquarters Public Affairs. Public Affairs Briefer to Admiral’s Staff.
BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
09/2024 – 07/2025
PROJECT MANAGER (CONTRACTOR), EXPERIS/DONNELLEY FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS (Remote/Chicago, IL) 09/2024 – 07/2025
Project Manager driving thorough and efficient software- and service-driven solutions for capital investment market companies requiring Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) regulatory adherence.
Responsible for Security/CISO-focused meetings and respective project planning, estimating and execution.
Created custom trouble ticket reporting dashboard by leveraging Smartsheet, ServiceNow, MS Teams, and MS SharePoint tools that stream-lined processes and increased engineering team productivity.
04/2023 –04/2024
PROJECT MANAGER II/SCRUM MASTER (CONTRACTOR), CAPGEMINI/BCBSNJ (Remote/Newark, NJ) 04/2023 – 04/2024
PMO Lead for Blue Cross Blue Shield of NJ to decommission and repurpose 20 years of CRM server data into a history archive designed for legal department and customer service functions.
Leveraged PMO standards across SharePoint, MS Teams, Planview, ServiceNow, and Jira in training over 250 archive users.
Instrumental enforcing PMO and Quality standards to close 75 command center process issues.
Chaired Executive VP stakeholder meetings designed to inform and obtain directives.
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BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
06/2021 –04/2023
PROJECT MANAGER II (PMO & OPERATIONS) (CONTRACTOR), ATOS (Remote/Irving, TX) 06/2021 – 04/2023
PMO Lead for Telecommunications POD; responsible for implementing new SOPs for successful upgrade of over 500+ telecom devices used across multiple Baylor Scott & White hospital sites.
PM for server and desktop optimization, maintenance, and decommissioning across hospital multiple sites projects in support of EPIC data, call center, and customer operations.
Instrumental in re-mapping primary call center IVR flows with specific attention to PMO standards, thus laying foundation for improved service and metrics reporting.
GOVERNMENT EXPERIENCE
07/2009 –
08/2022
ELECTED COUNCIL MEMBER, ENGLISHTOWN BOROUGH (OFF-HOURS), (Englishtown, NJ) 07/2009 – 08/2022
Borough Council President, Police Commissioner (2 terms), Chairman of Administration, Finance & Personnel Committee having direct oversight of $2.1M municipal budget and all borough employees.
Technology Chairman responsible for roll-out of PMO IT standards in support of hardware/software upgrade. Designed and implemented remote public meeting hardware/software as workaround to COVID-19 crisis.
Drove IT shared services agreement with neighboring town thus improving borough productivity and IT compliance with state and federal regulations.
Chaired 5-member shade tree commission helping win $15K grant and reduce liability insurance costs.
Instrumental in winning $80K town grant for town’s first-ever municipal parking correcting decades of parking issues and improving local business access.
BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
11/2014 –
12/2020
PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE LEAD/PROJECT MANAGER: ANSELL HEALTHCARE (Iselin, NJ) 11/2014 – 12/2020
Teamed with Congressman Chris Smith (via Council seat) to secure release of 41 million, vitally-needed, medical gloves from U.S. Customs hold during COVID-19 crisis/national medical glove shortage.
Served as sole Project Manager for Mechanical and Chemical Business units; created and trained managers in marketing, manufacturing, and sales on PMO best practices for new and existing product lines resulting in enhancing $100M+ annual sales. Leveraged StageGate, PMI, Agile, and Scrum to plan/execute projects. Cross-trained managers on PMO-best practices and methodologies.
Championed global adoption, training/deployment of PMO-driven, Smartsheet-based dashboards and automated tools for Mechanical/Chemical Business Units of 100+ products, pre-/post-launch initiatives. Helped drive “Voice of Customer” (VOC) and related data in a “call to action” among sales, operations, manufacturing and call centers. Product-oriented delivery (POD) delivery model prompted other business units to follow suit.
Designed detailed business process maps tied to House of Quality (HOQ), Commercial Packaging, and Finance resulting in over $100K of productivity cost-savings.
Organized and executed multiple large-scale business unit summits at international manufacturing locations resulting in improved business unit alignment for communication, manufacturing, and sales.
BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
08/1995 –
11/2014
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PROJECT MANAGER FOR PHARMACEUTICAL & TECHNOLOGY MARKETING & SALES INITIATIVES
(NJ-BASED COMPANIES) 08/1995 – 11/2014 (Diverse blend of full-time and consulting positions)
PHARMACEUTICAL HIGHLIGHTS
NOVO NORDISK (CONSULTANT) 07/2013 – 2/2014: Served as hybrid BA/PM that successfully created VISIO-based process maps for Global Sales Team campaign portal to track/monitor internationally-distributed marketing collateral in print and PDF format. (Products: Fiasp, Novolin, NovoLog; etc.)
INVENTIV HEALTH (CONSULTANT) 05/2011 – 07/2013: Sole PM that provided planning expertise, detailed requirements/testing documentation skills and sales support for 24 deployments of Veeva-Salesforce.com solutions for Merck, Novartis, Pfizer, Leo; etc. Created custom Acrobat sales tools and trained Pfizer Animal Health Sales Team that directly generated $1M in sales (20% increase from previous year).
DOUBLEBRIDGE TECHNOLOGIES (CONSULTANT) 07/2006 – 12/2007: PM for creating/executing business/user requirements of custom eCTD submission tool (adopted by Pfizer and GSK). Played key role in winning Pfizer’s Quality Team Award for custom SharePoint and Documentum back-end used for FDA submission tool which improved Pfizer’s global pharmaceutical portfolio’s compliance.
SANOFI-AVENTIS PHARMACEUTICALS (FULL-TIME) 08/2001 –1 2/2004: e-Business/Web Portal PM for Arava (rheumatoid arthritis) and Trained Sales Team on portal use; Team Leader responsible for redesigned Marketing Regulatory Review process of cancer treatment (Taxotere; Anzemet); Played instrumental role enforcing PMO quality-driven testing/release/training program for custom Sales Force Automation (SFA) software used by Global Sales Team.
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BUSINESS
EXPERIENCE
TELECOMMUNICATIONS HIGHLIGHTS
VONAGE (FULL-TIME) 08/2008–11/2009: Project Manager Lead for new call center customer promotion & on-boarding program that improved on-boarding rates by ~25% by training Call Center.
IEEE-ISTO (FULL-TIME) 01/2008–08/2008: Project Manager responsible for planning multiple, international Engineer Team summits; created SharePoint Quality Management (QMS) repository for global 17-member telecommunications consortium (Motorola, NTT, Nokia; France Telecom; etc.). Trained team on portal use, best practices, and promotional items.
TELCORDIA (FULL-TIME) 08/1995–03/1999: Internet Marketing & Communications Manager that Developed Company’s first indexed, PDF-based fulfillment library of all sales/marketing collateral material. Project Lead for promotional campaign of $150M software project; supervised online and print advertising vendor services.
MILITARY
SERVICE
JOURNALIST/BROADCASTER/PUBLIC AFFAIRS (Defense Information School Graduate): United States Navy
Commander-in-Chief U.S. Atlantic Fleet Public Affairs:
oGood Conduct Medal: 4 years of unbroken, good conduct in service to the U.S. Navy
oPublic Affairs Briefer: News and information provider to Admiral and Staff of Commander-in-Chief U.S. Atlantic Fleet Headquarters.
oLetter of Appreciation: from Admiral Frank Kelso, Commander-in-Chief Atlantic Fleet, for public affairs professionalism and support of commissioning of USS Chicago (SSN 721).
USS Enterprise (CVN-65) Public Affairs:
oEditor: Ship’s Newspaper, “The Shuttle”. Helped achieve 90+% participation in “Fleet Hometown News Program” resulting in creation and placement of 3,000+ crew members’ stories in newspapers across United States.
oLetter of Appreciation: from Commanding Officer USS Enterprise for creating United Way awareness campaign which helped achieve record-setting contributions from crew.
EDUCATION
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: (Piscataway, NJ)
oBA Communications with concentrations in Public Relations and Political Science.
AVTECH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: (Edison, NJ)
oProject Management Certificate with heavy concentration on best practices and ethics.
DEFENSE INFORMATION SCHOOL: (Indianapolis, IN)
oCertified U.S. Navy Journalist with concentrations in public affairs, news writing, and broadcasting.
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
Certified Project Management Professional (PMP# 309668)
Certified Scrum Master (CSM# 1620770)
Scrum Fundamentals Certificate
Agile Fundamentals Certificate
Agile Scrum Project Management, Master Scrum, Scrum Essentials, Fundamentals, Artifacts Certificate
Jira “Guru” Certificate
Jira Fundamentals Certificate
AI Foundations Certificate
Amazon Foundations Certificate
Smartsheet Intermediate and Advanced: Dashboard development/deployment; automated alerts; manufacturing and financial KPI reporting.
Industrial and Mechanical and Chemical Protection Product Sales Training
Salesforce/Veeva training and education
Local and State Elected Official Ethics Training
SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) Compliance Training;
21 CFR Part 11 Electronic Records Training
21 CFR Part 58 GLP Training
21 CFR Part 211 GMP Training
HIPAA Compliance Training
COMMUNITY SERVICE
BATTLESHIP NEW JERSEY (BB-62) SHIP & MUSEUM: Advisory Board Member responsible for Manalapan-Englishtown school awareness and visitation projects
PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE (New Jersey): NJ Chapter Member & Volunteer
AMERICAN LEGION (New Jersey/National): Englishtown, NJ-based Military Veteran & Civic Group
USS ENTERPRISE CVN-65 ASSOCIATION (National): U.S. Navy Veteran & Civic Group