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Certified PMP, MBA, Big 5, $55MM budget, 115 reports Resume
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| Desired Industry: Business/Management |
SpiderID: 10259 |
| Desired Job Location: Dallas, Texas |
Date Posted: 12/9/2006 |
| Type of Position: Full-Time Permanent |
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U.S. Work Authorization: Yes |
| Job Level: Management (Manager, Director) |
Willing to Travel: Yes, 25-50% |
| Highest Degree Attained: MBA |
Willing to Relocate: No |
Objective:
Decisive leader with hands-on technical experience in global business process re-engineering, structured project management methodologies, operations, P&L management, strategic planning, and enterprise integration. Managed budgets up to $55 million, up to 115 resources (6-9 direct reports), have Big 5 experience, and managed IT and non-IT projects. Meticulous and highly detail-oriented with proven ability to [review, analyze, interpret and extract essential information] from [business plans, reports, presentations, proposals, policies, regulations,] and based upon the conglomerate findings of the research, produce content, organize document flow, manage programs and projects.
Experience:
CA (Carl Ahmed) Associates, Dallas, Texas 04/2006 – present
Senior Program Manager
Consultant to Wall Street analysts since 2001.
Rolls-Royce plc
(Consultant Director - Head of Global Processes - Customer Interface). Reported to Global CTO and to the Director for Global Business Process Improvement for Services Center of Competence (CoC).
* Traveled twice monthly to London and Derby to meet with the President, Executive Management, and staff for meetings / 1-on-1 SWOT discussions to further competitive advantage and increase shareholder value.
* Created the business and technology roadmap to [institutionalize across 38,000 employees] effective customer interaction processes and technology to improve global services and customer satisfaction. Business process re-engineering, best practice methodologies, and change management techniques for people, process and technology, to interface with ERP, supply chain, forecasting & business planning, operational data, service information, technical publications, then use BI to output to portals & dashboards.
* Key participant in high-level 5-member core team to create a global solution to understand markets and customers, develop offering, acquire customers, and retain customers. This included budgets, identifying “as-is” and “could-be” core processes, metrics, business / technology requirements & business case.
Hudson Advisors LLC
(Consultant Global Project Manager) managed, serviced and added value to more than 155,000 secured and unsecured debt instruments and real estate related assets aggregating $31 billion.
* Managed and provided direction to technical resources assigned to various project aspects for Dallas, Dublin, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Munich, Brussels, Luxembourg, Guadalajara, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei.
* Planned, led, organized, and controlled global infrastructure enhancements, maintenance, and implementations across the business and technical areas for: RSA SecureID / Single Sign-on, SMS, SAN, Active Directory, Disaster Recovery, MPLS, VOIP, Airtight Wireless & Sourcefire Intrusion Protection.
* Managed problem escalation / resolution and relationships with vendor organizations.
Misys Healthcare Systems, Dallas, Texas 09/2005 – 04/2006
Senior Enterprise Project Manager and PMO Northeast U.S. Team Lead
Company develops software, same space as McKesson, Cerner, EPIC, GE-IDX, Siemens, MediTech, Philips.
* Responsible for leading and delivering strategic, high-impact, and complex enterprise-level electronic health / medical record (EHR / EMR) clinical software applications and hardware in acute care hospitals.
* Implemented strict project controls to manage budget, stop schedule slippage / scope creep, instituted change requests. Worked with clinical systems analysts to translate clinical requirements into technical specifications.
* Led team to integrate Misys CPR (Per-Se Patient1, HDS UltiCare), Misys pharmacy, Misys Connect, Misys Data Warehouse, CPOE, dept. Radiology / PIM / PACS, CoPath, Lab products with HL7 interfaces to numerous third parties (integrating Keane registration with Misys CPR, converting Eclipsys Sunrise to Misys CPR, Eclipsys Financials, PICIS, Pyxis, Quantum QuadraMed, IMPAC, Dictaphone, CBORD, MedQuist).
Baylor Health Care System, Dallas, Texas 10/2001 – 08/2005
Project Manager - Office of HIPAA Compliance - Office of Corporate Compliance
One of the 10 largest private health care systems in the U.S. with 14 hospitals and $2 billion in revenue per year.
* Analyzed all IT systems and created a map of the data flow between major systems and applications.
* Established and project managed the enterprise PMO [for HIPAA compliance project management methodology, master project plan and schedule, and business process re-engineering] for the Privacy Rule, EDI (Transactions, Code Sets, and Identifiers), and the Security Rule.
* Reviewed and edited all enterprise information [system] security plans, policies and procedures [gap analysis, strategic design and plan, risk assessments] to ensure alignment between NIST-800, HIPAA & ISO-17799.
* Facilitated 21 teams to create enterprise-wide policies / procedures / forms.
* Audited and project managed business process re-engineering to create change across the enterprise.
* Development and delivery of initial and subsequent on-line HIPAA Computer-Based Training (CBT) to all 18,000 Baylor staff and contractors using Rapid Instructional Design methodology.
* Authored / presented over 50 innovative HIPAA seminars to audiences as large as 125, incl. physicians.
* Responsible for reviewing and maintaining over 800 legal contracts and business associate agreements.
* In absence of Director, performed responsibility of Acting Director HIPAA Compliance (HIPAA Privacy Officer & HIPAA Security Officer.
CA (Carl Ahmed) Associates, Dallas, Texas 08/1999 - 10/2001
Senior Program Manager
* U.S. Govt. - (Senior Program Manager) Wrote proposal from scratch to the military to assume management and maintenance of military 1-800-GO-GUARD.com Web site. Subsequently short-listed and invited to make oral presentation. Of fifteen proposals submitted, we won 5-year $25 million contract but contract not awarded on 09/20/2001. Congress diverted funds due to 09/11/2001.
* Citibank / The Associates - Wrote strategic feasibility study with an action and transition plan for implementing "as-is" and "to-be" for people, technology, and business processes.
* Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical School - Wrote proposal to create medical /academic Web site.
* Rave Motion Pictures - (Senior Project Manager) New business development, wrote proposal to create Web site; contract awarded. Led the client and team to define strategic targets, maintained and verified that everyone was on track. Shaped and managed stakeholder expectations. Advised client and company stakeholders to do what is necessary to make the engagement a successful balance of strategic and tactical goals. Coordinated internal and external relationships.
* HealthSouth Corporation - (Turnaround Specialist and Senior Program Manager) Largest provider in U.S. of surgery, rehabilitative and diagnostic health care services, with more than 2,000 locations.
* Provided structured project management methodologies and leadership to build HealthSouth.com from scratch in five months, for the delivery of a new major strategic revenue channel of business and increase shareholder value.
* Managed 68 resources, established priorities, arbitrated conflicts, and interface issues for the strategy, architecture, design, application development, and implementation of a BroadVision content management B2B & B2C Web site.
Education:
EDUCATION
M.B.A., Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
B.S., Aerospace Engineering, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Certified EIT (State of New York)
Certified PMP (Project Management Professional), Project Management Institute
Currently pursuing certification for PgMP (Program Management Professional), Project Management Institute
Affiliations:
ASSOCIATIONS
Project Management Institute, Dallas Chapter, Sixth largest Chapter in the world (>3,800 paid members): Former i) Member-Board of Directors, ii) Director, IT & Webmaster, and iii) Member, Education Committee. Appointed Chair of ByLaws Revision Committee.
Skills:
SYSTEMS IMPLEMENTATION EXPERTISE WITH
Applications (MS Office, MS Excel pivot table, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, PageMaker)
Data modeling tools (ERwin, Visio) and Project scheduling tools (MS Project, Hydra Manager)
Markup languages (SGML, HTML, XML, UML) and Editors (MS FrontPage, Author / Editor)
Database / connectivity tools (SQL Server, Oracle, Access) and Architecture (SOA, Web Services)
Network (network cards, bridges, firewalls, hubs, switches, routers, HP OpenView) and Infrastructure (RSA SecureID, RSA Single Sign-on, SMS, SAN, Active Directory, Disaster Recovery, VOIP, Airtight Wireless & Sourcefire Intrusion Protection, Sniffer)
Programming languages and others (ASP / JSP, Java / C++, JavaScript, Visual Basic, COM, ActiveX, Visual Interdev, Crystal Reports, EDI, FORTRAN)
Hardware, OS / Web server platforms (mainframe, midrange, PCs, Macintosh, servers (Netscape Enterprise Server (iPlanet), Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), Sun Solaris Unix, Windows NT Server, Windows Server 2003))
Internet connectivity (dialup, ISDN, frame relay, MPLS, VPN, DSL, T-1, cable modems, wireless).
Additional Information:
* Federated - (Senior Program Manager) Operates Bloomingdale's, Macy's, and Fingerhut.
* Provided leadership to build FingerHut.com/espanol from scratch in six months. Bridged the gap between business strategy / business planning and Internet technology, by designing and implementing a vision and transforming core processes, to create a new major strategic revenue channel of business.
* Led 21 professionals for the strategy, design, development and implementation of a large, complex fully translated Spanish-language BroadVision content management Web site, integrated with Spanish-language call center and back office legacy systems.
* Provided leadership to build Univision.com shopping channel from scratch. Designed, developed, and implemented a second Spanish-language B2C Web site for a Univision.com joint venture, integrated with legacy systems, establishing company for success with niche audience. Developed the business plan, managed the project plan and budget for implementation, leveraged content and infrastructure.
* iXL Inc. / Shop at Home TV Network - (Turnaround Specialist and Senior Program Manager) Shop At Home reaches over 61 million unique households.
* Provided leadership and management skills to direct, at the strategic and tactical levels, e-Commerce site development (ShopAtHomeTV.com) to create a new major strategic revenue channel of business. Led delivery team of 25 technical and business professionals from inception through successful on-time implementation, which resulted in increased shareholder value.
* Performed project planning - scheduling - budgeting - staff project - managed the development and implementation of enterprise systems - managed team - managed client - performance feedback - defined roles specific to project. Built follow-on and new business. Interim project manager for FritoLay ePloids.com.
Sterling Commerce, Dallas, Texas 06/1998 - 08/1999
Senior Project Manager
Sterling Commerce provided electronic commerce EDI software products and services.
* Teamed with senior management on development of a new strategic partnership proposal to create a new business unit valued at more than $800 million.
* Led cross-functional team to create a standardized delivery process for new products to enable many departments to work effectively together.
* Recruited and managed 15 technical / curriculum writers, providing guidance, enabling them to complete special B2B Web-based EDI payments application project on time for sale to banks.
The Internet Zone, Dallas, Texas 05/1996 - 06/1998
Senior Program Manager
The Internet Zone provided end-to-end Internet e-Business and e-Commerce solutions.
* Wrote business plan (including developing detailed financial model), private placement and presented to venture capitalists and investors to obtain equity capital financing for $45 million new venture.
* Successfully created written and signed strategic alliances with America Online, Netscape, IBM, Cisco, Sony, and Intel, to increase market share with small business customers.
CA (Carl Ahmed) Associates, Dallas, Texas 01/1986 - 05/1996
Senior Program Manager
* Deloitte & Touché, Andersen Consulting, Price Waterhouse, NationsBank (acquisition), MBNA Bank, The Associates / Ford Motor, Texas Instruments (DSP chip), Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, Bell Northern Research / Nortel, GTE, Sprint - (Project Manager) Consulting assignments in strategy, process & technology, structure, markets, business profiles, staffing; "as-is" and "to-be" initiatives.
* Cray Research Inc. / CraySolutions. Responded to RFPs with proposals. Created 300-page Standard Project Engagement Methodology Manual (ISO-9000 compliant). This contained the anatomy of an engagement: how to scope for, prepare for, manage, and terminate project engagements.
* U.S. Govt. Superconducting Super Collider - (Senior Program Manager) $10 billion high-energy physics project to confirm the existence of the sixth quark and thereby confirm the Unified Field Theory.
* Planned and coordinated implementation of emerging technology activities, creating complex international strategic collaborations with North American organizations and governments of Russia, China and India. Budget responsibility of $55 million. Designed and conducted Internet training seminars.
* Coordinated and created statements of work (MIL-STD-245), technical specifications (MIL-STD-490), cost estimates, work package data and schedule profiles. Created and analyzed work progress reports against operating projections, and provided / presented management reports / briefings. Prepared and reviewed monthly progress reports.
Candidate Contact Information:
| Name: Carl Ahmed MBA PMP |
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| Street: - |
Phone: 214-995-7654 |
| City: Dallas |
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| State: Texas |
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| Zip: 75248 |
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