Project Manager

VINCENT J. VILLA

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Talented and accomplished Project Management professional, with extensive background in application development, full SDLC specifically within pharmaceutical and financial services industries. Proven PM skills to direct technical and business teams, consultants, and manage programs. Expertise in complete project management from conceptualization, requirements determination, development, testing, deployment and post production support. Experienced in leading development and implementation of technology systems. Adept at directing product launches, business development efforts, application design, content management, business process improvement and business integration by leveraging state of the art technologies and best practices to help drive business objectives and achieve goals. Manage program/project budgets, provide support for sales groups, and develop outside partnerships. Outstanding presentation, leadership, communication (verbal and written), status reporting and six sigma skills.

o Reduced implementation timelines 33%, and lowered implementation costs 20%

o Managed web portal content for over 6000 users

o Streamline business flows 20%

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Professional Experience

MERCK, Summit, NJ 2003 - 2011

Project Manager, Global Human Health Information Technologies

• Reengineered and streamlined business process flow by redesigning application data and infrastructure which produced reduced elapsed time from order to delivery by 20%

• Reduced implementation timelines 33%, and lowered implementation costs 20% by implementing project management principles that managed stakeholder expectations and created well defined timelines and deliverables.

• Managed diverse project teams that included internal and contracted system developers, vendors, off shore resources, junior project managers and business analysts in supporting new products and services for the global sale force.

• Designed scheduled/periodic integration packages to support Global Human Health strategic business functions for Field Resource Ordering.

• Used SDLC process for managing and documenting all IT projects (in Clarity).

• Facilitated Scheduled, Managed business requirements gathering sessions with business stakeholders. Managed business requirements review sessions (with business stakeholders) for the purpose of obtaining their signoff.

• Created PowerPoint presentations for management outlining project benefits and periodic status

• Facilitated, Managed functional specifications sessions with IT development teams

• Wrote detailed functional specifications documents and managed review sessions with IT and business stakeholders for the purpose of obtaining their signoff.

• Created the following project management documents:

• Microsoft Project Plan including timelines, milestones and project completion dates

• Project budgets

• Project Status Reports for management

• Periodic project status meetings (PowerPoint)

• Change Control Process/Logs

• Risk Management/Mitigation Process

• Training requirements and documentation

• Deployment schedule

• Production Support and Maintenance

• Work closely with business and technology groups to identify best methods for promoting/ implementing new products and services. Formulate best practices and provide sales teams with marketing and sales tools.

Vincent J. Villa 295 Amboy Road, Matawan, NJ 07747 • 732-***-**** (h) • 732-***-**** (c) • ********@*********.***

• Assumed project management position on company’s upgrade to Callidus’ Monaco Incentive Compensation application and reduced overall project timeline and overall cost by 20%.

• Designed SFA application for Global Medical Affairs Medical sales force for recording call details and subsequently performed GAP analysis when migrating to Dendrite SFA application.

• Managed content, user access and enhancements of Web Portal supporting domestic sale force (over 6000 users). Wrote application and technical manuals for portal users, help desk and development staffs.

• Ran training sessions for web portal user.

• Designed, Developed and Implemented new sales force targeting system allowing users to modify territorial targets to drive maximize value and increased efficiency.

• Verify Content and Navigation on 20 international E-Marketing team brand websites over 20 European and Asian countries.

• Managed on boarding process of Organon employees to Merck (LSP) applications.

• Successfully created over 100 SharePoint Sites for Sales and Marketing teams during Merck/Schering Plough merger.

Bear Stearns, New York, NY 1996 – 2002

Vice President, Business Analytics, Information Technologies

• Served as liaison between business sponsors and IT teams for all projects.

• Managed client’s internet global trading application project which successfully launched 2 weeks prior to target date.

• Designed, Developed and Deployed an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) application for retail customers

• Wrote User Guide and System Support handbook for the IVR

• Instituted IVR training course for the firm’s Help Desk

• Built process for performing and monitoring IVR client activity.

• Designed firm wide flowchart illustrating all periodic batch processes covering more than 50 mainframe job streams, internal/external feeds and nightly service bureau updates.

• Standardized management reporting tools for tracking project status.

Mellon (BNY), New York, NY 1993 – 1996

Assistant Treasurer, System Support Analysis, Mutual Funds

• Managed Portfolio Accounting department and developed department procedures for periodic management status reporting

• Reduced user request list 93% within 2 years.

• Supervised the data migration from in-house application to Sungard’s Invest One accounting system

• Developed conversion plans and schedules for the migration of data between the two accounting systems

• Served as primary point of contact between business and IT departments regarding daily maintenance, system enhancements and client requests

• Authored business requirements and functional specifications documents for accounting system enhancements for Wash Sale, Original Issue Discount and Global Security and Currency processing enhancements.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting, St. Peter's College, Jersey City, New Jersey

Minor in Economics and Business Management

Technical Skills

MS Office, Project, PowerPoint, Visio, SharePoint, Clarity, SAP, CATS, SDLC

Managed development teams for the following methodologies – Mainframe, Client/Server and web based software architecture, design and integration, Relational Database - Oracle, SQL, Java, J2EE and .net

Awards and Recognitions

Multiple Outstanding Contributor Award Winner

Certifications

Six Sigma Yellow Belt

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