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WORK EXPERIENCE
Senior Manager, Davis Consulting, Chicago, IL (1986-1993)
Managed small to large system projects, from proposal to full implementation.
Project Planning and Management
Regional telephone Company
Large Personal Computer Manufacturer
County Human Services Agency
Regional telephone Company
- Developed multi-year project planning strategy acros several interdependant organizations to achieve benefits as early as possible by identifying palatable phasing stategies negotiating with individual projects to determine feasibility, identifying dependancies and developing action plan.
- Supervised the developement of the conversion plan, including preparing the technical master conversion schedule to match a phased implementation and obtaining approval from affected departments.
- Managed the development of field support software for sales representatives and developed opportunity to jointly market the software to other local exchange carriers.
Large Personal Computer Manufacturer
- Achieved management consensus on action plan for funds and commissions project by defining feasible alternatives, negotiating approach across several internal organizations and gaining approval for implementation tasks.
- Completed requirements phase, including documenting key features and functions, reviewing and obtaining approval of documentation and defining an implementation approach.
County Human Services Agency
- Managed the technical architecture team that designed and developed the county's expert system/workstation-based welfare eligibility system and determined the feasibility of the multi-vendor hardware/software solution.
- Successfully developed and managed complex implementation schedule which incorporated procuring $3.5M in hardware and software, selecting a site preparation vendor, installing a 350-workstation network across three sites, coordinating mainframe installation and training 350 users.
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