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Scott Macdonald

Scott Macdonald

Media,PA

Summary

Seeking opportunity in an organization where I can showcase my talents in organizing and managing work and solving complex business challenges to help the company continuously improve and grow.

Technical program management professional with track record in leading cross-functional teams and driving successful project outcomes. Skilled in project planning, risk management, and process optimization. Strong focus on collaboration, adaptability, and delivering measurable results. Known for reliability and effectively navigating changing project requirements.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience

Work History

Principle Technical Program Manager / Agile Coach / Software Development Manager

Oracle / Cerner Healthcare
01.2002 - Current
  • Lead/Coach/Mentor 10 agile software development and support teams developing software enhancements and providing quality support for Oracle Revenue Cycle clients. Responsible for a large planning group (Contract Management and Reimbursement) of over 100 development resources. Work continuously with product managers/owners, engineering managers and system architects/developers to ensure teams deliver high quality software and client defects on-time and within budget. Manage Client expectations and assure the value of the product is maximized. Remove impediments on team members and enable productivity increases. Implement continuous improvement processes. Provide and present key metrics to stakeholders on a regular basis. Lead/mentor other Program Managers in my organization.

Project Manager/Senior Systems Analyst

Data Executives International, Inc.
01.1997 - 01.2002
  • Key Consulting Clients
  • Delaware Valley Financial Services, Inc. (DVFS), Berwyn, PA. Project Leader/Systems Analyst on implementation of financial administration system. Lead team of analysts and developers to gather system requirements, write Use Cases and implement a new application. Work closely with external customers to ensure accuracy and quality of system. Prepare and run regular demonstrations of product to upper management at timed intervals (time boxes). Train and support internal customers (Quality Assurance, Customer Service and Production Support areas). Wrote excel application for testing purposes which was called by application saving company thousands of dollars in development costs.
  • ING Group, Minneapolis, Minnesota (Client). Project Manager on the development of a new methodology to charge back information technology infrastructure costs to the ING business units. Responsible for the overall success and day-to-day management of the project. Develop and manage the project plan and issues log, provide work direction to the team, review project deliverables, prepare project presentations and report to the executive steering committee and sponsors.

Senior Consultant/Business Analyst

Price Waterhouse
01.1995 - 01.1997
  • Key Consulting Clients
  • TIG Insurance, Dallas, Texas (Client). Senior Business Analyst on a project to “build or buy” a new administration system. Facilitated requirements gathering work sessions with TIG employees to develop process models of the “AS IS” environment. Design new and improved processes through the creation of “TO-BE” process models. Present the business requirement models to TIG management for technical review and sign-off. Utilize the Price Waterhouse System Management Methodology (SMM).

Senior Consultant

Computer Sciences Corp
01.1993 - 01.1995
  • Senior Business Analyst on modifications and enhancements of the Vantage-One insurance and annuity administration systems. Tasks include client data gathering, specification writing, test plan development, testing and client training. Extensive experience with all financial transactions including Loans, Fixed and Variable Fund Transfers, Refunds, Cancellations, Surrender of Cash Value and the calculation of charges. Build testing tools in Excel to expedite testing efforts for complex products.
  • Skills/Technology used: Paradox, MS Excel, MS WORD.

Business Analyst

CIGNA, Corp.
1986 - 01.1989
  • Support CIGNA agents and brokers with CIGNA insurance product information, tax law documentation and interpretation. Write detailed business specifications, design test plans, test output and support users. Extensive experience with Whole Life, Universal Life, Variable Universal Life and Corporate Owned Life insurance products. Regularly make presentations to management and users.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Finance

University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT
05.1986

Skills

  • Requirements gathering
  • Agile methodology
  • User acceptance testing
  • Stakeholder management
  • Predictive modeling
  • Project management
  • Team collaboration
  • Release planning
  • Consulting
  • Process improvement
  • Software development lifecycle
  • Staff management

Affiliations

  • FLMI, (Fellow Life Management Institute) LOMA (Life Office Management Association) 1990

Work Availability

monday
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morning
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evening
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Certification

Release Train Engineer (RTE) SAFe 5.0 Dec 2022

Certified Scrum Master Scrum Alliance June 2005

Timeline

Principle Technical Program Manager / Agile Coach / Software Development Manager

Oracle / Cerner Healthcare
01.2002 - Current

Project Manager/Senior Systems Analyst

Data Executives International, Inc.
01.1997 - 01.2002

Senior Consultant/Business Analyst

Price Waterhouse
01.1995 - 01.1997

Senior Consultant

Computer Sciences Corp
01.1993 - 01.1995

Business Analyst

CIGNA, Corp.
1986 - 01.1989

Bachelor of Science - Finance

University of Connecticut

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