Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Certification
Disclaimer
Winner of two consecutive year, of GEMS award for outstanding accomplishments.
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Don Gregory

Brooklyn,New York

Summary

Dynamic and results-oriented Senior Project Manager with over 15 years of experience leading IT projects in healthcare and corporate environments. Expertise in budget management, resource planning, and fostering cross-functional team collaboration drives successful project outcomes. Notable achievements include directing technical analysis for major system upgrades and spearheading large-scale Enterprise Integration projects using Agile and Waterfall methodologies. Committed to enhancing organizational efficiency and service delivery while leveraging strong project management skills to transform business needs into actionable technology solutions that optimize user experiences and elevate customer satisfaction.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior IT Project Manager

JetBlue Airways Corporation
10.2021 - Current
  • Led the design and development of a comprehensive hybrid cloud migration, to convert multiple existing applications to AKS by changing the underlying infrastructure from physical servers to virtual machines
  • Worked with the Cyber Security team, Dev Ops and Development, to integrate SOC2 compliance for all Inflight Production Implementations, to track cloud services, identify providers, and task trackers as pre PMO governance
  • Define and manage the Innovation workstream and documents of projects (schedule, tasks, cost, changes/risks/issues) via existing PMO processes, procedures, and tools for assigned projects. As needed, manage all project workstreams.
  • Worked closely with Program Manager in composing and prioritizing, Project Charters, Business Cases for Inflight Technology
  • Employ Innovation processes, procedures, and toolsets (DevOps, configuration management, change management) to deliver stable, hardened, and scalable solutions.
  • Prepare exceptional, highly polished written and oral communication for executive-level presentations for EVP and Board level audiences
  • Worked with Product team development, planning and Management of Inflight Project Roadmap
  • Fulfill requirements for the existing PMO and Governance process including PPM Pro entries, project documentation standards, project reviews, gate promotions as defined in the PMO Playbook.
  • Led Inflight Project team in the analysis, development, testing and implementation of JetBlue weather services. Leveraged in-house data (integration with Databricks) to configure Tomorrow I/O APIs to eliminate the need for Third-Party software costs
  • Led Project team in JetBlue’s Quarterly PI Planning sessions and collaborated with Scrum Master on Sprint Planning
  • Worked closely with multiple Product team in leading a cross-functional resources in the analysis, testing and implementation of JetBlue’s MYB System (Manage Your own Booking) collaborating with Sabre Corporation
  • Manage Innovation project financials - project budget and forecast for external resources, hardware, software, labour.
  • Worked with Systems Architects in composing Architectural Requirements Form to apply Governance to Projects
  • Supported Airport/Inflight teams in defining requirements, purchasing managing, configuration, implementing mobile application devices
  • Promote and maintain communication between project team members and stakeholders and manage expectations. Prepare correspondence, presentations and/or reports as required. Follow-up on correspondence and outstanding requests for resolution.

Senior IT Project Manager

Mount Sinai, Health System
03.2019 - 06.2020
  • Manage & Enhance Event Management &Workflow Automation Management SaaS solutions
  • Manage & Enhance SAP Success Factors Learning Management System (LMS)
  • Worked with Cerner vendor to identify Hardware, Software and Infrastructure requirements for all Phases of the e Millennium Windows Infrastructure environment
  • Lead a Global cross-functional team in Scrum Daily Standup
  • Collaborated with Third Party vendor in the configuration of custom software to update the schema needed to access Patient Access and Patient Accounting information stored within the Cerner Millennium database removing the need for separate third-party applications and interfaces
  • Lead the technical analysis and development of the Post Cerner Upgrade Disaster process for the new Cerner Millennium Windows Infrastructure environment
  • Worked with Cerner vendor and Mount Sinai Engineers in the planning and implementation of the new Windows Application Server, AIX and Citrix Server requirements needed for the Cerner Windows Upgrade infrastructure
  • Worked with Cerner Technical team to identify the Application requirements needed for the Cerner Application Phase of the 2018 Millennium Upgrade
  • Worked with the Business Units to identify, plan and implement Program / Project requirements needed for Mount Sinai’s 3M Software Framework needed. In addition, to be the Primary Liaison with the 3M vendor for all Program related issues.

Senior Project Manager /Scrum Master

FJA, Inc.
02.2017 - 03.2019
  • Develop and manage resource plans, estimates, change controls, budgets, and forecasts with the customer and for internal and external reporting purposes.
  • Lead a Global cross-functional team in Scrum Daily Standup
  • Develop and submit Statements of Work and Change Controls for internal review before submission and negotiation with the client.
  • Accurately maintain a monthly analysis to budget against actual for the overall Statement of Work and each resource type within the Statement of Work.
  • Develop action plans with the Development, Business, Modeling and QA Leads to manage and address the aged defect backlog in JIRA.
  • Develop and maintain a register of project risks and include risk status, triggers, and mitigation plans on the status reports.
  • Provide feedback to teams and organizations to identify and facilitate process improvements.
  • Establish and maintain daily project scrum meetings and, as necessary, but at a minimum of 1x/month, full project team meetings.
  • Composed and maintained all project artifacts updated and available.
  • Within established deadlines, accurately manage resource planning activities, reports, etc. Develop inspection/examination procedures for specific applications with established ASME and API specifications

Senior Project Manager / Corporate IT Lead

Affinity Health Plan, LLC
09.2015 - 02.2017
  • Planned, and managed the Migration and Consolidation of vendor hosted Member Portal Application and Provider Portal Application
  • Lead Implementation of Consolidated Member / Provider in-house via Single Sign-on
  • Lead new and existing projects through the companies on boarding process through comprehensive planning and engagement activities with the goal of completing projects on time and within budget
  • Coordinated the day-to-day IT activities, oversee the planning, development and within Information on Management (IM) operating model and related operating models (EPMO, IT Infrastructure & Support, and IT Operations
  • Participate in developing strategies to improve API development life cycle and governance processes
  • Follow and implement systems development lifecycle methodology, and external governance processes & procedures
  • Assess and analyze business requirements to produce desired results and oversee the development of policies and procedures results as per business requirements using appropriate methodologies.
  • Develop functional and technical design documents to meet business specifications
  • Contribute to testing strategy/test planning with ability to prepare unit test plans and test data.
  • Function as a business liaison for IM and associate Data Warehouse/BI applications by providing functional assistance in the pursuit of identifying production problems. Research and propose solutions including cost projections, expense analysis, feasibility studies, etc. Provide widespread support for IM and associated data warehouse/BI applications

Senior Project Manager / Corporate IT Lead

Emblem Health, LLC
09.2011 - 09.2015
  • Led a cross functional matrix team of development resources (Web, Client Server, EDI Reporting, Data warehouse etc.) while assigned to the project
  • Responsible for ensuring project compliance with IT architectural standards and strategic direction and provide the technical solutions to achieve the project goals
  • Provided cost estimates, task breakdown structure, duration measurement of risk and status of all IT components during the complete lifecycle of the project
  • Worked closely with Project Owner and Project Managers during the decision making and planning process
  • Supported the technical infrastructure and integration teams on unit, systems and integration testing and production deployment
  • Coordinated day-to-day IT activities, oversee the planning, development, and delivery of IT components of a project
  • Supported the Project Manager in the resolution of all system related decisions and issues
  • Participated in Steering Committee, Change Control Board (CAB) meetings for approval to move IT components of a project to Production
  • Ensure adherence to Project Plan by all project participants and escalate when commitment dates are going to be met
  • Work with Project Manager to develop an integrated IT schedule to ensure IT work is aligned with the overall project schedule, assigned, and completed on time and within budget

Education

Bachelor’s Science - Architecture

COLLEGE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK

Skills

  • Operating Systems: iOS, Windows NT, Windows, SharePoint, SOLAR, UNIX, AIX, Open/VMS, STRATUS, SAP
  • DB Management Systems: MS SQL Server, ORACLE DBA, DB2, SYBASE, ODBC, Operational Data System
  • Data Warehouse Systems: MSSQL 70, OLAP
  • Programming Languages: J2EE, JAVA, SQL, VB, JCL, API, COBOL, EDI
  • Communication: AKS, BizTalk, TCP/IP, IBM MQseries, CICS, EDA/SQL, and Crystal Reports WEB Development: J2EE, HTML, XML, JAVA, API, WebLogic, WebSphere, SOAP
  • Tools: JIRA, EXCEL, VISIO, SAS, EPIC, Keane, UML, VISIO, MS Project, Confluence, ServiceNow, SaaS
  • Hardware: IBM Mainframe, AS/400, SUN, DEC, VAX, IBM OS/390, 3090/200E/300E/400J, 308X, 43XX, 370 SERIES, PC, Bridges, Routers, Token Ring, Firewall, RACF

Accomplishments

  • Saved the company $50,000. over 0ne years by implementing a successful productivity improvement plan.
  • Presented with the GEMS Award for outstanding work effort over 24 consecutive months.

Certification

PMP

Disclaimer

Please Note: Prior Professional background and experience will be provided upon request.

Winner of two consecutive year, of GEMS award for outstanding accomplishments.

PMP Certification, BABOK certified

Timeline

Senior IT Project Manager

JetBlue Airways Corporation
10.2021 - Current

Senior IT Project Manager

Mount Sinai, Health System
03.2019 - 06.2020

Senior Project Manager /Scrum Master

FJA, Inc.
02.2017 - 03.2019

Senior Project Manager / Corporate IT Lead

Affinity Health Plan, LLC
09.2015 - 02.2017

Senior Project Manager / Corporate IT Lead

Emblem Health, LLC
09.2011 - 09.2015

Bachelor’s Science - Architecture

COLLEGE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK

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