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JOEL CLIBURN

Gainesville,GA

Summary

High-performing Enterprise Project Manager with a track record of directing $5M+ portfolios of complex, high-stakes SaaS implementations for Tier-1 healthcare organizations. Expert in accelerating Time-to-Value (TTV), navigating multi-system integrations, and aligning executive steering committees. Proven ability to standardize PMO governance, drive generative AI strategies, and manage cross-functional technical teams to deliver seamless clinical and operational transitions.

Overview

1
1
Certification
8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Enterprise Project Manager

QGenda
01.2024 - Current
  • Enterprise Portfolio Ownership: Command a $5.1M contract-value portfolio of concurrent enterprise SaaS deployments for Tier-1 healthcare systems (including Mayo Clinic, Emory, and St. Jude), directing cross-functional delivery teams, technical resources, and third-party integrators.
  • Time-to-Value (TTV) Optimization: Maintain a 95% on-time delivery rate across all complex enterprise accounts by establishing rigorous critical-path dependency mapping, proactive risk-escalation frameworks, and scope-creep mitigation strategies.
  • Executive Steering Governance: Facilitate and direct Executive Steering Committees with health system C-suites, delivering strategic deployment roadmaps, managing high-stakes stakeholder alignment, and resolving critical program blockers.
  • Organizational Change & Adoption: Spearheaded clinical workflow transitions and operational readiness initiatives, achieving 75%+ user adoption within 14 days of go-live for over 9,000 end-users.
  • Crisis Management & Portfolio Recovery: Led strategic escalation for high-risk enterprise accounts facing deployment delays; overhauled timelines, renegotiated delivery milestones with client executives, and realigned cross-functional technical teams to safeguard at-risk contract value.
  • PMO Scalability & AI Leadership: Acted as PMO AI Champion and SOP Committee member to design and standardize PMO methodologies; integrated generative AI training and tools that enhanced project manager delivery efficiency.

Senior Project Coordinator

QGenda
01.2023 - 12.2023
  • Scalable Program Delivery: Orchestrated the simultaneous delivery of 77 SaaS implementations representing $1.5M in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR), managing up to 35 concurrent project lifecycles from kick-off to successful go-live.
  • Technical Integration & Deployment: Coordinated complex product deployments and third-party software integrations across up to 35 concurrent project lifecycles, aligning client infrastructure with technical teams to ensure seamless data flows and zero-downtime go-lives.
  • Cross-Functional Risk & Scope Governance: Managed project scope boundaries and resource allocation across high-volume queue; identified delivery bottlenecks and aligned customer stakeholders to prevent timeline slippage.
  • PMO Methodology Design: Partnered with executive leadership to mature PMO by creating and standardizing implementation playbooks and governance models, enhancing organizational delivery efficiency.

Customer Success Consultant II (Implementation & Delivery)

QGenda
04.2022 - 12.2022
  • Directed end-to-end SaaS implementation lifecycles for mid-market healthcare systems, ensuring successful project execution, effective multi-tier stakeholder communication, and seamless technical cutovers.
  • Led technical delivery as the primary resource, auditing complex clinical workflows and engineering custom system configurations to translate legacy operational models into optimized, scalable SaaS solutions.
  • Executive Alignment & Risk Management: Facilitated operational reviews with customer leadership to present performance benchmarks, risk-mitigation strategies, and change management best practices to maximize platform adoption.
  • Recognized for exceptional project delivery and leadership; executives selected me to pilot the organization's Senior Project Coordinator framework, leading to a promotion within 9 months.

Sales Executive / Project Initiation Specialist

Paycom
06.2020 - 03.2022
  • Managed complex 6-month enterprise sales and transition cycles, aligning integration specialists, software engineers, and customer stakeholders for seamless handoff to implementation teams.
  • Led initial discovery and requirements scoping for mid-market and enterprise workforce management transformations, collaborating with client C-suites to align software solutions with organizational objectives.
  • Presented product solutions tailored to client needs, enhancing customer satisfaction.

Sales Representative

Cintas
06.2018 - 05.2020
  • Managed high-volume portfolio of concurrent client accounts, balancing competing priorities and stakeholder engagement, consistently meeting operational milestones.
  • Conducted needs assessments with business and operational leaders, designing and delivering tailored regulatory compliance and medical device solutions across B2B territory.
  • Coordinated product delivery with internal logistics, service, and supply chain teams, resolving deployment issues and ensuring adherence to service timelines.

Education

Bachelors - Organizational Leadership, Communications

University of North Georgia
Dahlonega, GA

Skills

  • Agile
  • Waterfall
  • Hybrid
  • Project Planning
  • Integration Management
  • Scope Management
  • Schedule Management
  • Quality Management
  • Resource Management
  • Communication Management
  • Risk Management
  • Change Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Smartsheet
  • Jira
  • ClickUp
  • CRM Management
  • Google Workspace
  • Microsoft 365
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Zoom
  • AI Project Integration

Certification

  • International Project Management Certificate - International Institute for Learning (IIL)
  • Certified Customer Success Manager II - SuccessHACKER
  • OSHA 10 Compliance Certification

Affiliations

  • Mayo Clinic

    Scope & Complexity: Led a massive, multi-site enterprise provider scheduling transformation for thousands of clinicians, coordinating technical deployment tracks across complex, multi-specialty medical departments and matrixed clinical divisions.

    System Integration: Engineered a highly complex, multi-system integration roadmap linking advanced scheduling platforms with central EHR (Epic), HRIS, and clinical communication ecosystems to build a unified enterprise source of truth.

    Impact & Execution: Successfully optimized provider workforce capacity and reduced administrative overhead, delivering a flawless technical cutover while securing strict data integrity and alignment across executive and medical steering leadership.
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  • St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

    Scope & Integration: Directed a 1,200+ user enterprise deployment across St. Jude and Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, managing complex Epic On-Call Finder, SSO, and Microsoft 365 integrations to standardize all clinical service lines.

    Execution & Methodology: Selected to pilot the new high-governance "Design & Discovery" framework, delivering a flawless 100% on-time milestone completion rate and 100% pre-go-live schedule publication.

    Impact & Governance: Secured a 75% user adoption rate (900+ active users) within 7 days of go-live with only 19 minor HyperCare issues, winning formal business goal validation and sign-off from the Executive Sponsor and Steering Committee.
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  • Ernest Health

    Scope & Scale: Commanded a multi-state enterprise deployment across a 40-site healthcare footprint, directing the simultaneous rollout of complex nurse/staff scheduling software and physical time clock hardware.

    Technical Integration: Orchestrated high-stakes technical workflows, engineering custom API architectures and Workday ERP/HRIS integrations to automate end-to-end demographic data imports and real-time syncing.

    Impact & Optimization: Standardized workforce time tracking and labor management across all 40 locations, eliminating critical payroll data silos and maximizing operational tracking efficiency for clinical teams.
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  • Orlando Health

    Scope & Scale: Managed a highly complex enterprise provider and On-Call scheduling deployment across a 21-location hospital network, successfully scaling operations to support 3,000+ clinical and operational users.

    Technical Integration: Engineered a matrixed integration framework, successfully linking real-time schedule architectures directly into Epic On-Call Finder and PerfectServe clinical communication ecosystems to establish a unified source of truth.

    Workstream Governance & Impact: Directed a multi-tiered, highly complex workstream structure to standardize distinct divisional policies, dramatically accelerating clinical communication speeds and eliminating administrative duplicate work enterprise-wide.

Timeline

Enterprise Project Manager

QGenda
01.2024 - Current

Senior Project Coordinator

QGenda
01.2023 - 12.2023

Customer Success Consultant II (Implementation & Delivery)

QGenda
04.2022 - 12.2022

Sales Executive / Project Initiation Specialist

Paycom
06.2020 - 03.2022

Sales Representative

Cintas
06.2018 - 05.2020

Bachelors - Organizational Leadership, Communications

University of North Georgia
JOEL CLIBURN