Project Manager at Siemens Health Services
Greater Philadelphia Area
Project Manager at Siemens Health Services
Greater Philadelphia Area
Creative, innovative, and highly motivated Project Manager and Certified Scrum Master recognized for leading a multicultural team towards a specific goal, working well with people, solving complex problems quickly, and getting the job done with high quality. Communicate and work well in a global project environment using Agile methodologies. Strong organization, communication, and people skills, with an interest in building effective teams.
Agile • Scrum • Project Management • Configuration Management • Information Technology • Engineering • Software Development • Training • Decision Making • Results Orientation • Team Leadership and Facilitation
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SI; Medical Devices industry)
November 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)
•Lead two senior Software Development Teams toward release and sprint goals
•Promoted agile best practices on the teams and within the department
•Facilitated review sessions, planning sessions, and customer validation sessions
•Removed impediments that were blocking the team
•Communicated with Product Shusas to understand priorities
•Created global Agile blog within Siemens to promote dialog between practitioners of scrum
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)
•Increased the annual dues received by 20% from years 2006-2007
•Led team in raising $10,800 in just 8 months for Lake Stocking project after emergency draining of the lake
•Built www.pennlake.org website
•Spear-headed the sale of website advertising services to local area businesses
•Established a Lake Management Program and Committee with a mission of protecting, enhancing, conserving, restoring, understanding, and comprehensive management of Penn Lake
•Responsible for getting the Lake Management program recognized by the state of PA as an official program
•Organized community meetings, events, and activities
•Implemented online dues payments and fundraiser donations
•Worked with Board of Directors to fulfill fiduciary duties in best interest of the corporation
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2006 — October 2007 (1 year )
•Led team in performing Product deployment testing and certifications
•Interacted with customers and stakeholders to align work and expectations
•Created clearly defined certification entry and exit criteria for team and customers
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SI; Telecommunications industry)
March 2002 — November 2006 (4 years 9 months)
•Created support metrics framework used to measure team goals and performance
•Directed team, created team roles, communication guidelines, standards, and processes for CM Support Team, Environment Support Team, and CM Governance Team
•Scrum master of team assembled to improve quality of build and apply procedures
•Scrum master of team in resolving high-priority Configuration Management audit findings
•Aligned Bangalore, Kolkata, and Malvern sites to use centralized metrics reporting application
•Streamlined global CM Support processes and reduced ticket response times by 50+ percent
•Developed solution to automate the Quality Management System. Adopted as a best practice within Siemens Med HS. Reduced manual effort by 80 percent.
•Authored Configuration Management plans
•Designed and implemented the Document Control process in ClearCase used by 400+ users
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
1999 — 2001 (2 years )
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1997 — 1999 (2 years )
M.S. , Software Engineering , 2000 — 2003
M.S. , Information Science , 2000 — 2002
B.S. , Chemistry , 1995 — 1997
Siemens Most Industrious Award, April 2005
Siemens Employee of the Month Award, January 2005
Siemens Innovation Awards, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007
Siemens Community Excellence Chairman Award, 2003