Gary Rice
Project Manager
Columbus,OH
Summary
Dynamic and team-oriented IT Project Manager with 8 years of experience in asset management, risk mitigation and project leadership. Innovative and driven with passion for delivering high-quality work. Detail-oriented and focused on maintaining organization and identifying opportunities for process improvements.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
IT Project Manager
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
02.2020 - Current
- Lead the project team to create and follow the project plan and schedule through the lifecycle of the project as part of the Initiation, Planning & Execution Phase activities.
- Follows methodology appropriate for project scope, including Risk Assessments and required as part of Monitoring & Controlling Phase activities.
- Manages the development of relevant sections of project charters.
- Leads and validates project deliverables to project scope.
Business Systems Analyst
Create, The Ohio State University Health Plan
01.2016 - 02.2020
- Conducts business process analysis, needs assessments, and preliminary cost/benefit analyses to better align information technology solutions with business initiatives.
- Develops, implements, and executes moderately, complex business-specific technology plans.
- Participates in projects involved in evaluating and researching new and existing products, procedures and/or workflows needs associated with business systems and intelligence for OSU Health Plan.
- Assists in the development, publishing and implementation of test plans.
- Writes and maintains test automation.
- Assists in the development of quality assurance standards.
- Defines and tracks quality assurance metrics such as defect densities and open defect counts.
- Determines, diagnosis, isolates and resolves applications resource and utilization problems and errors; develops fault diagnosis, isolation and resolution techniques.
- Provides technical support in response to user problems and questions regarding functionality, operations, input/output, reporting and general operating procedures.
- Maintains application security protocols; assigns users and provides application access as appropriate; provides assistance in account creation and security setup for data reporting tools.
Business Systems Analyst
TEKsystems – National Government Services
03.2015 - 09.2015
- Responsible for capturing requirements from the customer, managing tickets that are coming across and make sure that the releases accurately support the customer needs based on tickets and validate that the systems are fulfilling client needs.
- Participated in strategic planning for the retirement of multiple applications with the purpose of defining mission, vision, goals, objectives, stakeholders and resources.
- Facilitated meetings with business owners to review requirements and obtain signoff, deliver testing results and prioritize ClearQuest enhancements/defects in the queue for future IT releases.
- Acted as liaison between IT, end-users and stakeholders; facilitate projects and created process flow diagrams, use cases, test cases.
Sr. Business Systems Analyst
CACI
Millington, TN
08.2011 - 02.2015
- Developed/documented functional requirements for project Phase 1c for Web Enhanced Personnel Placement.
- Contributed to the completion and management of project Phase 1b functional requirements documentation in IBM Rational DOORS – Requirements Management Tool.
- Participated in the Web Enabled Personnel Placement (WEPP) workshops for functional requirements gathering and developed functional requirements for several WEPP request.
- Manages functional requirements in IBM Rational DOORS to ensure accuracy and track changes/updates.
- Baseline requirements and manage attributes when necessary.
- Imports/Exports functional requirements in MS Word and MS Excel documents.
- Perform at an advanced technical level on all phases of analyzing business and user needs, documenting requirements, and translating into proper system requirements specifications.
- Participated in all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC) including requirements analysis, architecture design, development, testing, deployment and ongoing support.
- Participated in requirements gathering workshops with Executive Management and user community in business process reengineering initiatives.
- Acted as liaison between IT, end-users and stakeholders; facilitate projects and created process flow diagrams, use cases, test cases.
- Granted a SECRET security clearance on October 17, 2011.
Education
MBA -
Webster University
MA - Information Technology Management
Webster University
MA - Human Resources Management
Webster University
BS - Management Information Systems
Park University
Project Management Professional (PMP) - undefined
Project Management Institute
PMI - undefined
Skills
Waterfall methodology
Documentation Management
Written Communication
Customer service
Teamwork
Cultural awareness
MS Office
Self-motivated professional
Affiliations
- Project Management Institute
Certification
PMP- Project Management Professional
Timeline
IT Project Manager
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
02.2020 - Current
Business Systems Analyst
Create, The Ohio State University Health Plan
01.2016 - 02.2020
Business Systems Analyst
TEKsystems – National Government Services
03.2015 - 09.2015
Sr. Business Systems Analyst
CACI
08.2011 - 02.2015
MBA -
Webster University
MA - Information Technology Management
Webster University
MA - Human Resources Management
Webster University
BS - Management Information Systems
Park University
Project Management Professional (PMP) - undefined
Project Management Institute