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Project and Portfolio Manager, Marketing Business Developer and Support

Lash Group is a healthcare consulting firm.

Over 10 years of business and IT Project Manager experience with a proven track record of exceeding expectations for timeline, budget, quality and overall customer satisfaction. A results-oriented certified PM with experience on a wide range of large complex projects, methodologies and resource models. Leverages the power of collaboration through team building, innovation, leadership, and analytics to identify and mitigate issues proactively and take advantage of opportunities for speed of delivery, cost efficiencies and ROI. Serves as point of contact to communicate effectively with clients and internal stakeholders at all levels regarding status as well as strategic and tactical planning at the portfolio and program levels. Applies extensive business and IT experience in healthcare, insurance, retail and consulting to build trusted business partnerships and align strategy across Operations, Finance, HR, and IT. •Change and risk management •Cross-functional teams, resourcing •Facilitation, training, mentoring •Onshore, offshore, vendor mgmt. •Attention to detail, meet deadlines •Ability to prioritize and multi-task •Strong focus on process improvement •Use Cases, user stories, workflow •Data migrations and conversions •Waterfall, Agile, SDLC, PMBOK •MS Office, MS Project, Visio, Clarity •QlikView, Tableau, SSRS, SQL •SharePoint, MS Access, TFS •KPIs, dashboards, ETL, data models