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Douglas Barber

Minneapolis,MN

Summary

Accomplished, collaborative, results-driven technology leader + Senior level certified (PMP) Project/Program Management Professional with 25+ years of Know-How experience. Has a track record of offering insightful advice as a trusted advisor, delivering solutions to achieve business goals within multiple industries, across diverse organizational sizes. As a Business Relationship Manager, delivered to enterprises from $20M to $200 B with Change Management, Process Improvement, Compliance/Regulatory, Coaching, Mentoring and with the goal of bringing out the best in people. Assisting organizations make reasoned, informed decisions on difficult business, challenging & complex IT problems including Cloud transformation, Digital Transformation, M&A Data and application integration with demonstrated communication & presentation skills, working within multi-tiered, cross functional environments. This includes executive facing “corner office” Leaders, Project Sponsors, Stakeholders, Project Teams (local & distributed), Vendors and Business Customers. Expertise in Fortune 500 & global PMO project delivery, such as Thrivent Financial, Allianz, US Bank, NW Health Sciences University, Medtronic, Optum, Express Scripts, CHS, Target, Ecolab & many others. Has a very deliberate approach to planning, setting priorities, and working on what matters most, staying focused & delivering results. GETTNG THINGS DONE! Recognizes there is an art and science to project/program management. The Art: Leading, enabling, motivate & energize team, building a team leveraging the unique strengths they possess, managing, listening, communicating, pragmatic problem solving, proven ability navigating ambiguous situations “Grey” areas, (keeping the team going in the same direction). The Science: Planning, analyzing, requirements/scope, design, development, detailing requirements-project needs-resources-partners budget management, controlling tasks, project constraints, providing process improvements, meeting milestones, timelines, risks & issues solutions, change management, reporting. Strong App/Dev IT background, Agile application with Program Management Level execution. Develop & maintain strong business/IT relationships and stakeholder engagement, on prem or remote (Zoom/MS Teams, WebEx, Google).

Overview

41
41
years of professional experience

Work History

Project Manager

Highland Bank
01.2020 - Current
  • Worked as PM on a small target bank Merger & Acquisition project plan
  • Merger Completed

Project Manager

Enabling Technologies
01.2020 - Current
  • PM with a Major Microsoft O365, SharePoint/Intranet upgrade for the largest Utah Higher Ed University: Utah Valley University
  • Team Completed

Project Manager

Maurice’s
01.2020 - Current
  • POS System 900+ store Upgrade Planning Project
  • Planning Completed

Project Manager

Avionte Software
01.2020 - Current
  • Assessment & recommendations on Troubled Service Desk Issues
  • Assessment Completed

Senior Project Manager Consultant

Northwestern Health Sciences University
01.2019 - 04.2020
  • Company Overview: Colleague is a fully integrated cloud application (on AWS) that helps the institution by providing a seamless administrative solutions
  • Successfully Led a Major turnaround of a failed Higher Ed University ERP Implementation of a cloud based (SaaS) Ellucian Colleague Financial & Student system with a budget of $1.5 Million
  • Accomplished turning a flaming Red floundering Project to Green in 2 1/2 months
  • Engaged the Core Business Sr
  • Leadership Group (SLT) from all departments for ERP overall configuration decisions, communication, business resource participation, reporting weekly progress
  • Restored, reinvigorated and motivated the IT Project team with transparency, trust & integrity that was sorely missing in the past
  • Empowering my colleagues with Scheduled IT training & education so they can support the security, data migration and imports along with reporting/accessibility needs of the new ERP users
  • Developed a detailed implementation schedule timeline & project plan that rolls out the new ERP over 2019 – 2020
  • Worked with IT programmers & technical leads in the secure data migration of the previous ERP systems data, student data & reports
  • Coordinated with the ERP Software Vendor PM and consultants and other vendors on a strategy and scheduling for conducting user training & education in each department of the University
  • Successfully implemented with the CFO/Accounting staff the new user-friendly financial reporting system – Synoptix + Purchasing, AP, GL, with Budgets & Fixed assets planned
  • Engaged & organized other associated Higher-Ed applications integrated with Colleague (MS Teams, Salesforce, Softdocs, TouchNet Payment Systems, Ethos, Evisions)
  • Implemented SF.COM CRM for Admissions Dept
  • For tracking potential students for the University career fairs that generated possible graduates for their programs
  • Colleague is a fully integrated cloud application (on AWS) that helps the institution by providing a seamless administrative solutions

Senior Integration Project Manager Consultant

Wealth Enhancement Group (WEG)
07.2018 - 01.2019
  • Created, organized & stabilized the due diligence, integration processes, actions, measures, procedures with company technologies from all departments: Investments, Planning, Operations, Finance/HR/Accounting, Marketing, Compliance, Technology
  • Met with Dept
  • /Leads assessing & documenting integration processes
  • Created & updated integration steps/tasks 'playbook' (Project Plan) by dept
  • Within Pre-Acquisition, Pre-close, Closing, Post close & Transition to WEG systems
  • Formed weekly project task (project status) reporting and accountability system, issues and risk assessment by dept
  • With Smartsheet app that provided weekly status updates for Executive Leadership on each acquisition & playbook development/execution

Senior Project Manager Consultant

Medtronic EPMO
08.2017 - 06.2018
  • Due to the Covidien Acquisition (M&A), working with Microsoft, implemented a cloud-based SharePoint system and MS Dynamics that would allow secured access and availability to mutually different & inaccessible SP documents, intellectual property, reports and customer data with migration to the Cloud
  • Led a team of BA’s Developers & business SME’s working a business integration of processing Rebates to Field Sales MDT Representatives
  • Working with Vendor on replacement of MS Exchange Universal Messaging to Cisco Unity Voice Mail System (Infrastructure)
  • Implementation of Nuance – a Voice to text enablement software application which allows a caller to ask for a person’s name & dial their number

Business Project Manager Coordinator

RBC (Royal Bank of Canada)
05.2017 - 07.2017
  • Interim business PM on DOL Financial Advisory Organizational Change – Coordinating Training, Marketing, Promotional and Educational Calls to Wealth Mgt
  • Financial Advisors in the field and their teams

Senior Project Manager Consultant

US Bank (Wealth Management Div.)
05.2016 - 05.2017
  • CAPEX prep and approval with the business, ramp up and delivery of highly integrated, strategic, complex, new hosted cloud based Financial Advisors & Client Planning Tool called Money Guide Pro
  • Multiple DOL mandated Website required content updates working with agile team

Senior Project Manager Consultant

Optum (Div. of UHG)
10.2014 - 05.2016
  • Part of a large corporate wide data security undertaking to improve overall IT and business operating environments, by remediation from workstations of strategic data analysis tool - SAS
  • Managed a team where remediation involved working with business groups, identifying their environments, understanding the processes & requirements
  • Managed multiple highly critical database integrations & migration into a Unified Db (UDW)

Senior Project Manager Consultant

Express Scripts
09.2013 - 09.2014
  • Managed highly complex, cross application Government (HCR) Health Care Reform Program
  • Projects in Pharmacy related applications & data migration including: Health Care Claims, Eligibility, Adjudication, Post Adjudication Processing, Billing and Remittance, Client, Patient services, Pharmacy Audit applications and associated Data Warehouse Maintenance

Senior Project Manager Consultant

Target
04.2013 - 08.2013
  • One of 3 project managers that drove a group of 15 IT professionals to successfully rollout the first Portal of 'MerchIQ' (SaaS) Reports into Production, despite a very aggressive timeline

Senior Project Manager Consultant

CHS, Inc. (Cenex – Harvest States)
05.2012 - 04.2013
  • JD Edwards Major Financial ERP upgrades & Hyperion tool replacement + integration with Salesforce
  • Implemented a troubled global G/L standardize chart of accounts within all business units while orchestrating a purpose-oriented accord amongst divisional leaders

Senior Project Manager Consultant

Lifetouch (National School Studios)
08.2011 - 05.2012
  • LDx on Spectrum for Canada, E-Commerce: This was an Agile project upgrading an existing, dated Portal for parental portrait selection with new unique backgrounds & options for student photos

Senior Project Manager Consultant

Thrivent Financial - Special Initiatives for EPMO
09.2010 - 08.2011
  • Led & successfully delivered these major initiatives: SEC ADV Forms, Rule 206(4) A, Pay to Play-regulatory and compliance requirements
  • Strategic New Business Development Project: 'Thrivent Essentials', a pilot for Board of Directors

Senior Project Manager Consultant

Allianz Life of North America
04.2006 - 09.2010
  • SAP G/L & Financial ERP Reporting System – Replacing PeopleSoft
  • Led and successfully delivered highly sensitive, with short delivery timelines, initiatives related to product, suitability and regulatory gaps mandated by MN AG

Technical Lead, Client Project Manager, President/CEO

IBM Business Partner (Diversified Technologies)
01.1984 - 01.2006
  • Led project consulting group OF 20 consultants working with IBM Global Services: Installed/Upgraded hardware, installed industry specific ERP applications & software while providing technical services

Education

History & Psychology -

U of North Dakota – U of Minnesota

PMP Certificate -

PMI-Project Management Institute
10.2024

Hybrid Project Management Certification -

08.2021

Agile Training -

01.2015

Certificate in Systems Analysis -

IBM
01.1999

Certificate of Project Management -

IBM
01.1997

Certificate Business Analysis -

IBM
01.1993

Skills

  • Strategic Planning
  • Project/Program Management
  • ERP Solutions
  • E-Commerce
  • Data Warehouse & Migration
  • Cloud Computing
  • SDLC
  • Application Development
  • RAD
  • Waterfall
  • Agile
  • Scrum
  • CRM Applications
  • Vendor Management
  • Project Portfolio Management
  • MS Office
  • MS Project
  • Teams
  • Clarity
  • Rally
  • Planview
  • Smartsheets
  • SharePoint
  • One Note
  • Sales Force CRM
  • SAP Sales Cloud CRM
  • MS Dynamics CRM
  • SAS
  • SaaS
  • Informatica
  • Business Objects
  • Micro Strategy BI

Professionalmotto

Think – Plan – Organize – Execute

Personal Information

Title: Sr. Project Manager / IT Consultant

Industryexperience

  • Financial Services/Banking/Wealth Management
  • Health Care/Medical Device
  • Insurance
  • Manufacturing
  • Distribution
  • Higher ED

Timeline

Project Manager

Highland Bank
01.2020 - Current

Project Manager

Enabling Technologies
01.2020 - Current

Project Manager

Maurice’s
01.2020 - Current

Project Manager

Avionte Software
01.2020 - Current

Senior Project Manager Consultant

Northwestern Health Sciences University
01.2019 - 04.2020

Senior Integration Project Manager Consultant

Wealth Enhancement Group (WEG)
07.2018 - 01.2019

Senior Project Manager Consultant

Medtronic EPMO
08.2017 - 06.2018

Business Project Manager Coordinator

RBC (Royal Bank of Canada)
05.2017 - 07.2017

Senior Project Manager Consultant

US Bank (Wealth Management Div.)
05.2016 - 05.2017

Senior Project Manager Consultant

Optum (Div. of UHG)
10.2014 - 05.2016

Senior Project Manager Consultant

Express Scripts
09.2013 - 09.2014

Senior Project Manager Consultant

Target
04.2013 - 08.2013

Senior Project Manager Consultant

CHS, Inc. (Cenex – Harvest States)
05.2012 - 04.2013

Senior Project Manager Consultant

Lifetouch (National School Studios)
08.2011 - 05.2012

Senior Project Manager Consultant

Thrivent Financial - Special Initiatives for EPMO
09.2010 - 08.2011

Senior Project Manager Consultant

Allianz Life of North America
04.2006 - 09.2010

Technical Lead, Client Project Manager, President/CEO

IBM Business Partner (Diversified Technologies)
01.1984 - 01.2006

PMP Certificate -

PMI-Project Management Institute

Hybrid Project Management Certification -

Agile Training -

Certificate in Systems Analysis -

IBM

Certificate of Project Management -

IBM

Certificate Business Analysis -

IBM

History & Psychology -

U of North Dakota – U of Minnesota

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