Sonia Lynnette Wilson
Sr. Project Manager
Statesville,NC/USA
Summary
Overall experience consists of managing projects from initiation to closure, with over 16 years of experience working as a liaison between technical and non-technical customers and stakeholders. Over 12 years of managing Risk Control assessment for effective operations in areas of project management to maintain and monitor, projects and organizational risks. Currently have a Master of Science in Management in Project Management. Possess an excellent track record of leading successful projects that meet customer requirements, that stay on budget and delivered on time. Currently studying for Project Management Professional certification (PMP).
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Business Project Manager
Kaeppel Consulting - WellSense
02.2023 - 09.2023
- Overall Management of Projects from Intake to closure
- Execute assigned projects that delivers cost, service and/or process and efficiency improvements
- Effectively work across multiple business units and functional teams to drive results
- Utilize standard approaches to solving problems and enforcing process discipline
- Keep project teams on track relative to scope, schedule, and resources
- Coach and mentor team members in continuous improvement and data analytics
- Validate bottom line impact of improvements
- Resolve conflicts in any aspect of project work and process changes
- Positively impact the organization through focus on continuous improvement and operational excellence
- Serve as a change agent by leveraging influential authority with employees and stakeholders to accelerate program deliverables across geographic and functional boundaries.
Sr. Project Manager
Kforce - Nantt Health
08.2022 - 02.2023
- Overall management of the project working with a healthcare integration company and Ohio State University to prevent Medicaid fraud with oncology care
- Lead all activities in the product life cycle, that include, initiation, planning, execution, controlling, and closing related to long term business wide initiatives
- Consult and collaborate with product team, risk partners, technology, sponsors and business to define and clarify requirements and manage change
- Facilitate and assist in sprint planning, daily standup's, sprint reviews, retrospectives and demos with team, product owner/ stakeholders
- Responsible for removing all impediments that hinder team members from completing working a sprint
- Work in Jira to facilitate with Developers and Testers in sprint planning to determine story points, effort hours and definition of done
- Skills Used: Currently pursuing SAFe 5.1 scrum certification, Agile/Scrum environment, Jira, Confluence, MS Excel, MS Word
- Service Level Agreements (SLA’s), SharePoint
Sr. Project Manager
A2C Consulting, Independence Blue Cross
01.2022 - 08.2022
- Overall management of all aspects of project implementation from Initiation to Closure
- Control all Scrum artifacts, which include the following: Product backlog, Sprint backlog, increments (releases) and definition of done
- Managed federally mandated work that required Transparency in pricing for Independence Health Group
- The project focused was on IBC members with more complete information and more informed decision when seeking care.
Senior Project Manager
GAVS Technologies - Premier, Inc.
04.2020 - 01.2022
- Implemented scrum process and artifacts with development team and kept team focused on product goal
- Weekly communicated with the Product owner on product burn down and any known impediments that would hinder teams progress
- Demonstrated fiscal responsibility and accountability; overall management of project progress and budgets and necessary documentation; ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously of all sizes, durations and scope and demonstrates ability to deliver within budget in healthcare
- Collaboration with Applied research client-facing projects, ensuring the achievement of proper planning, execution, and results
- Project planning, including scoping, risk assessment, resource planning and allocation
- Organizing and assigning work, directing activities, controlling project execution, tracking and reporting progress, and analyzing, measuring and reporting results for all healthcare projects
- Maintain and manage all onboarding for all healthcare Senior research scientist, research scientist and research analysts
- Provide sales proposal support through execution of pricing tool
Project Manager
Northwell Health
10.2018 - 04.2020
- Overall management of all aspects of project implementation from Initiation to Closure
- Managed discovery and planning phases including generation and approval of project charters, business requirements, budgets, project plans and communication plans
- Risk and issue management including maintenance of the IARD log (Issues, Risks, Action Items and Decisions) as well as escalation to senior and service line leadership
- Creation and maintenance of project plans to track deliverables, resource assignments and go-lives
- Worked with Resource Managers to identify resource requirements for projects and associated tasks
- Met with Stakeholders and Leadership to review project status, issues, risks and outstanding decisions required
- Created project status reports and modified schedules and/or plans as required
- Prepared and presented project reports for management, clients or other stakeholders as required
- Tracked actual performance against planned project performance, analyzed variances and worked with project team to ensure all customer needs were met as well as identify any risks to the budget
Project Manager
Green Key Resources/Sundial Brands
05.2018 - 08.2018
- Manage and build new innovation project timelines to ensure all capabilities are tracked and monitored Track and monitor project timelines from product development lifecycles for all new innovation projects for Marketing
- Follow all product traceability for formula to production for Hair, Bath & Body and Skin projects Ensure that the supply chain has reached milestones based on Third Party Manufactures (TPM’s) and internal requirements
- Track and monitor all risk assessments to determine contingency plans for all projects at risk based on supply chain timelines Track all milestones for the application development of the interface (Central Product Unloader) for entering and approving all product data fields required for new product set up.
Project Manager
Northwell Health
04.2017 - 10.2017
- Reviews project plan to determine time-frame, funding limitations, procedures, staffing requirements and allotment of resources to various phases of the project
- Facilitator the definition of service levels agreements (SLA’s) and customer requirements
- Conferred with project staff to outline work plan and assign duties, responsibilities and scope of authority
- Manage project budget and resource allocation
- Reviewed status reports and modifies schedules and/or plans as required
- Prepared and presents project reports for management, clients or others
- Tracks actual performance against planned project performance, analyzes variances, and work with project team to ensure all customer needs are met while maintaining control of the project
Senior Project Manager
AmerisourceBergen
12.2015 - 04.2017
- Manage technical projects from beginning to end
- Identify and supply detailed technical and functional/ non-functional requirements
- Define projects milestones/objectives
- Develop and maintain project schedule, project plan, communication plan, risk mitigation, lessons learned
- Work in Agile/Matrix environments
- Work closely with Software Development, System Integration and Quality Assurance, solution Architects teams to design, plan and implement technical solutions
- Participated in the design and testing phases and overall project management phases from start to close
- Provided timely and concise communication and documents for all project status, risks/issues, successes to all levels of the project team
- Developed project plans based on specifications provided by the Portfolio Management staff and managed effective execution of the initiatives
- Build consensus among multiple process leads relative to project scope task execution staffing and issue resolution
- Provided overall financial direction for the projects to manage the development of budgets controls and measurements to monitor project progress
- Identified potential risks within the project; proactively manages issues
- Participated in identifying project costs resource allocation project schedule changes and issue escalation
- Facilitator of the Change Control Board (CCB) for changes in all Strategic Projects under World Courier.
Technical Project Manager
TekSystems- SITA
07.2014 - 09.2015
- Manage technical projects from beginning to end
- Identify and supply detailed technical and functional/ non-functional requirements
- Define projects milestones/objectives
- Develop and maintain project schedule, project plan, communication plan, risk mitigation, lessons learned
- Work in Agile/Matrix environments
- Work closely with Software Development, System Integration and Quality Assurance teams to design, plan and implement technical solutions
- Accomplishments
- Awarded a Project Management recognition (3 months’ time)
- Successfully track Scheduling of delivery milestones of knowledge Transfer for Software Development
- Generate and manage the project plan (milestones), resource plan (people), budget and risk register (identify, analyze and quantify) as per the SITA Methodology and interlock with partners/resource pool owners
- Manage project budget and submit monthly Project Financial forecasts during the full life cycle Provide motivation and direction to the project team and monitor performance
- Provide weekly and monthly accurate progress reports and present the project status at the Project Review Board meetings
- Ensure effective transition to SITA operations and conduct a formal project close, including review of any lessons learned
- Responsibilities
- Manage technical projects from beginning to end
- Identify and supply detailed technical and functional/ non-functional requirements
- Define projects milestones/objectives
- Develop and maintain: project schedule, project plan, communication plan, risk mitigation, lessons learned
- Work in Agile/Matrix environments
- Work closely with Software Development, System Intergration and Quality Assurance teams to design, plan and implement technical solutions.
Project Manager
SwingTech Consulting /Center for Medicare/Medicaid
05.2011 - 07.2014
- Serve as the Project Management support to Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services for Department of Survey and Certification systems daily operation
- Provide support to the Learning Management System (LMS), which includes supporting Project Monitoring and control, Quality Assurance, Configuration Management, System Requirements, System Documentation and maintenance of the technical aspects of the systems and ensuring the proper processes are designed, revised, and executed
- Serve in Process Workshops as the reviewer the LMS process in gathering of workflows and documentation of the existing Learning Management system manual, and Help Files
- Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Using and Managing TotalLMS training
- Update course content, Manage system approval process for employees and contractors
- Instructional System Designer for the Learning Content Management System (LCMS) in the LMS in the building of E-learning classes
- Serve in Configuration workshops in the area of updating system configuration and customization
- Help desk Tier II support
- Assist in Requirement gathering participation and employee and contractor training
- Work in the area of quality control for Beta Testing of Webinars and System functional testing
- Collaborate with Instructional System Designers (ISD) to make courses 508 compliant and Manage Access control and system security for the LMS.
Education
Masters of Science - Project Management
Colorado Technical University
Colorado Springs, CO08.2006
Masters in Education - Instructional Technology
American Intercontinental University
Hoffman Estates, IL04.2004
Bachelor of Arts - Liberal Studies
Thomas Edison State University
Trenton, NJ05.2003
Skills
- Agile/ Scrum, JIRA, Confluence, Sharepoint, Waterfall, Clarity, Plainview/Project Place, Smartsheet, GIT Hub, Centralized Product Unloader(CPU), IBP (Forecasting database) Workday,
- Office, Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, Project, Timeline, Visio, SharePoint, Prism, Adobe
- Project Management Skills, Technical understanding, SDLC understanding, Agile environment, MS Project, MS Excel, MS Visio, Sharepoint (Agora), Azure
Additional Information
MILITARY EXPERIENCE
- US Army Reserves, 91D Operating Room Technician, 2290th US Army Hospital, -Honorable Discharge 1986-1994
- Operation Desert Storm, Feb 1991- May 1991, Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Timeline
Business Project Manager
Kaeppel Consulting - WellSense
02.2023 - 09.2023
Sr. Project Manager
Kforce - Nantt Health
08.2022 - 02.2023
Sr. Project Manager
A2C Consulting, Independence Blue Cross
01.2022 - 08.2022
Senior Project Manager
GAVS Technologies - Premier, Inc.
04.2020 - 01.2022
Project Manager
Northwell Health
10.2018 - 04.2020
Project Manager
Green Key Resources/Sundial Brands
05.2018 - 08.2018
Project Manager
Northwell Health
04.2017 - 10.2017
Senior Project Manager
AmerisourceBergen
12.2015 - 04.2017
Technical Project Manager
TekSystems- SITA
07.2014 - 09.2015
Project Manager
SwingTech Consulting /Center for Medicare/Medicaid
05.2011 - 07.2014
Masters of Science - Project Management
Colorado Technical University
Masters in Education - Instructional Technology
American Intercontinental University
Bachelor of Arts - Liberal Studies
Thomas Edison State University
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