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A goal oriented professional senior project manager with over 15 years of management consulting experience assisting clients achieve best in class operational performance through integration of technology along with transformation of business policy and operating processes primarily in the pharmaceutical, energy and manufacturing industries.

Core Competencies Includes:

Cumberland Consulting Group, Edison NJ                                                                                                                                 2016 - present

Life Science Practice

Principal

§ Managed system implementations to support managed market contracts and related contract strategies.  Lead cross functional teams to align with PMOs to ensure projects were delivered on time and within scope and budget.

§ Provide program management leadership for client partners

IMS Health, Collegeville, PA                                                                                                                                                   2013-2016

Technology Applications & Managed Market Services                                                                                               2004-2011
Senior Project Manager

§ Managed system implementations primarily for life science clients utilizing Agile and SDLC methodologies lasting 3 months to 2 years with responsibility of budgets of up to $6.4 million and 12 resources.

§ Led operational and system assessments to determine financial and operational opportunities through gap analysis and risk identification, status reporting, identifying new opportunities, SOW creation and RFP responses.

§ Responsible for driving application integration delivery-including upgrades and migration-identifying and mitigating risks, reporting project status to stakeholders through utilization of tools such as MS Project and Clarity Workbench

§ Lead cross functional teams to align with PMOs to ensure projects were delivered on time and within scope and budget.

§ Led several consulting engagements to support client’s business transformation, including minimizing financial liability and revenue leakage, policy and contract & regulatory compliance, and implement industry best practices.

Select Client Experiences:

§  UCB: Led pivotal Reporting workstream as part of comprehensive IMS One data stewardship program to manage UCB’s North America master and sales data along with data warehouse that impacted over 700 users.  Oversaw task and budget planning of business and system requirements, platform definition and report designs, testing, risk identification/mitigation, deployment, hypercare, and supported user change management activities.

§  Gilead Sciences: Managed a 6 consultant project team as system integrator for Model N v5.6 application upgrade.   Worked with Gilead and Model N management in final stages of implementation planning including a successful UAT and final cutover to meet project budget and timelines.

§  Merck: Led strategic initiative to develop operational roadmap for integration with Schering-Plough for commercial and government contracting groups, including integration of processes, systems, and organizational roles.  Also, Co-Managed over 25 consultants in MMS’ largest contracting integration and implementation project. Led both the Institutional Contract workstream developing user requirements and design efforts, and Business Readiness workstream including user training, stakeholder and trade communications, and UAT/cutover planning.

§  Johnson & Johnson: Managed an organizational strategy engagement to develop a higher level of governance between J&J’s operating companies.  Deliverables included governance implementation plans with defined roles and responsibilities, resource options, and tools to ensure final decisions are made within the Contracting and Pricing Committee.  In addition, led the design, development, and implementation of commercial contracting policies, processes, and tools across the entire commercial contracting continuum for multiple domestic operating companies in order to sustain legal and contractual compliance.

§  Upsher-Smith Laboratories: Developed a Medicaid restatement recovery plan based on a Medicaid liability restatement performed over two years. Broke down the liability overpayment amounts participating state agencies by quarter and developed a non-system plan to allow the client reclaim state owned liability with a value of over $3.4 million.  In addition, developed and implemented government pricing policies and procedures.  Performed process analysis of all government pricing programs, including Medicaid rebate program. Developed risk assessment report around statutory non compliance reporting, process irregularities, and calculation methodologies.

§  Novo Nordisk:  Co-managed highly complex commercial contracting system migration and integration.  As result, all order management and revenue management activities were migrated from outsourced vendor to client site with newly implemented system application to support new business activities with newly created department. Management responsibilities included development of all revenue management user requirements, system design & design documentation, test script creation, execution of the application, development of Chargeback group and execution of user and stakeholder change management. 

HighPoint Solutions, Plymouth Meeting, PA                                                                                                                  2012 - 2013

Pricing & Contracting Practice

Director

§ Supported business development, project planning and the execution of system project implementation deliverables for consulting services supporting the managed markets contracting in the Life Science industry

§ Managed system integration projects for clients migrating to new applications or upgrading application version.

§ Select Client Experiences Includes:

§  Johnson & Johnson: Cutover Led for phase 1 during J&J’s $100+ million Phase 1 Model N implementation that includes merging six operating companies on a single contracting management system.

§  Forest Pharmaceuticals: Program lead accountable for cutover during implementation of Revitas module

Additional Consulting Experience

Independent Contracting Consultant                                                                                                                             2002 – 2004

§ Completed several small business consulting engagements to improve operational excellence utilizing inventory management, demand planning, forecasting, lean manufacturing and other methodologies.

KPMG, LLP, Chicago, IL

Supply Chain Manager                                                                                                                                                           2001 - 2002

§ Managed the business development and project delivery for consumer and industrial markets. Providing a variety of supply chain operational services including enterprise software evaluations, inventory/procurement cost reductions, vendor/supplier selections and evaluation.

Celerant Consulting, Cambridge, MA

Project Manager                                                                                                                                                                     1998 - 2001

§ Managed projects to deliver operational transformation to achieve and sustain world class business operational performance. Supervised over 12 projects and pre-sales engagements delivering measurable, sustainable results in various industries, including energy. 

§ Previous clients included: Coral Energy, LLC, TX, British Petroleum Exploration – AK, El Paso Energy, Aruba

B.A., Telecommunications/Marketing, Indiana University Bloomington, IN

Highly proficient in the following: PMP (certification in process), SDLC, Agile Practices, Revitas, Model N,  Business Objectives, QlikView, Word, Excel, Power Point, MS Project, Clarity Workbench, Visio, MS Outlook, , Black Belt Certified for Six Sigma, DOE, JIT, MRP, Kaizen, TMQ, Kanban, and Lean Manufacturing