Phone (678) 778-1195
mjenkins@technologychef.com

Resume for Mike Jenkins

Technical team builder with project & product management, consulting, strategy, support, and operations leadership experience.  Lead by example mentor and instructor.  Strong business analysis skills combined with toolkit resulting in time-saving and accuracy.

 

          MBA/Technology Management, 2004

          BS/Computer Software, 1994

          PMP Certification, PMI, 2002

          Certified Rational Consultant/RMUC

 

Career Summary

Quilogy, Louisville, KY                                                                                                                        March 2005 -- Present

General/Operations Manager, National Healthcare Practice

Hire and build team of managing consultants responsible for project management, delivery, and client satisfaction.  Develop templates, best practices, and overall sales and delivery methodology for Healthcare Practice.  Review proposals, statements of work, and project documentation.  Develop worksheets to expedite project estimates.  Review and approve estimates prior to submission to internal legal workflow and client.  Assist legal team to redefine contract templates including assumptions, boilerplate, and variable sections to create a common format and simplify the creation of the contracts. Mentor project managers to manage 10-15 simultaneous projects involving over 50 consultants. 

Manage delivery operations, manage projects, participate in business development, and create requirements, functional specifications, and architectural strategies.  Architect and develop proof-of-concept solutions.  Grew total healthcare team from 3 to 30 within 18 months.  Manage monthly P&L with trending from investment to self-funded growth.  Analyze market and build partnerships with 3rd party vendors. 

 

Eclipsys Corporation, Alpharetta, GA                                                                                               July 2002 – March 2005

Product Manager/Project Manager for $300M Healthcare Software Company

Redesigned implementation methodology to deliver healthcare integration products on time and budget.  Provided lessons learned and specifications to development.  Managed up to 12 simultaneous projects totaling over $3 million.  Wrote SOWs and sold follow-on engagements valued over $1M.

Managed the deployment of a CDC initiated, National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) implementation with the State of Hawaii, Department of Health.  Provided guidance to several Midwest state  health departments on their NEDSS strategies.

Worked with client and internal Physicians, Nurses, and staff to identify, define, prioritize, and justify product direction and technical strategy for thin-client clinical management and secure messaging system.  Advised development, QA, documentation, and training staff.  Trained the trainer and presented product to clients and internal teams. Developed multi-version release plans that focus on time and quality enabling faster time-to-market with reliability and performance.

Participate in cross-vendor scope meetings. Design technical architecture for company participation in IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) proof of concept application. Write web services and XML/XSLT transformations along with browser logic to demonstrate interoperability.

 

BCE Emergis, Greensboro, NC                                                                                                            Nov 2001 – June 2002

Senior Solutions Architect for Major Credit Card Processing Project                                          

Architected B2B payment method enabling variable rate credit.  Helped clients understand technology strengths and limitations.  Wrote requirements, specifications, and service level agreements, and design documentation for multiple client solutions.   

 

North Highland, Atlanta, GA                                                                                                                May 2000 – Aug 2001

Principal Consultant for $50M Management Consulting Firm                                                       

Managed team to design a hybrid development methodology combining the best practices of RUP, CMM, and Six Sigma.  Presented concepts to department managers.  Train team to use new process.

Designed strategy and approach to migration of CRM solution from single to multiple solutions.  Helped secure funding to complete project.  Learned product, then trained internal staff to complete project.  Developed approach, estimates, and plans to complete engagement.

 

Prodigious Communications, Marietta, GA                                                                                          Aug 1999 – May 2000

Free-Lance Consultant/Entrepreneur for Startup

Rescued NYSE.COM project at IBM Global Information Services.  Performed project management, technical management and delivery of content management system and websites.  Managed proposals, project planning, project execution, architecture, development, launch, and production support.

Built project plan templates and trained other Project Managers to use MS Project. Critiqued Project Manager’s response to RFPs and client demands. Mentored team for risk management, status reporting, documenting decisions, and customer expectation management.

 

Manhattan Associates / Kurt Salmon Associates, Atlanta, GA                                                               Sep 1996 – Aug 1999

Director for $100M WMS Developer                                                                                              

Built and managed a team of WMS software developers focusing on high morale, teamwork, longevity, and quality products.  Facilitated an overall quality program that decreased errors out-of-the-door and minimized design errors before coding began. Technologies used included AS/400, DB2, RPG, and MQ Series. Led on-campus and industry recruiting efforts growing staff from 10 to 30.  Implemented methodologies and helped achieve CMM levels 2 and 3.

ClientLink, Alpharetta, GA                                                                                                                     Jan 1996 – Sep 1996

Director for $10M Software Development Company                                                                      

Project manager that led the successful turnaround of a $2M AS/400 to Visual Basic/Oracle, Client/Server financial management system by developing and managing the budget, project plan, documentation, and deliverables.   

 

Sprint, Atlanta, GA                                                                                                                                Aug 1994 – Jan 1996

Senior Product Manager for Big 3 Long Distance Carrier                                                             

Recruited to rescue software development projects

Managed the design and deployment of hardware and software for the network, infrastructure, and value-added services in support of Sprint’s video conferencing service. Led the team that designed and developed Sprint’s T.120 data conferencing services. Developed technical solutions, created the marketing plan, integrated these services with other Sprint products, wrote the service level agreements, and built the support team.

 

WICAT, Orem, UT                                                                                                                               Mar 1990 – June 1994

Director of Engineering for $20M Computer Based Training Company

Reduced product development time from 24 to 9 months by orchestrating a team of senior electrical, mechanical, software engineers, and vendors to build a 3D aircraft cockpit trainer. 

Reengineered worldwide product development, support, and systems installation department.  This reduced product discrepancies from 250 to 20, decreased the average help desk call time open from 16 to 8 minutes, and increased customer satisfaction survey results.

Chief architect, hands-on developer, and QA lead on teams that created object oriented client/server products in C, C++, Visual Basic, Assembler, and Smalltalk for DOS, Windows, Novell, and WMCS (a Unix derivative).  Handled pre-sales support providing customer specific technical solutions and proposals. 

Other

Chattahoochee Technical College                                                                                              s             (Aug 2002 – Present)

Instructor (PMP, Microsoft Office) (part-time)

Designed curriculum and facilitated PMP Certification Course for local technical college with 100% pass rate.

Keywords

 

Methodologies/Frameworks

6 Sigma, CMM, DSDM, MSF, PSP, RUP, PMBOK, RAD, SEI, UML, XP

 

Activities

Budgeting, Business Analysis, Customer Support, Design, Helpdesk, Implementation, Hiring, Integration, Interviewing, Planning, Product Management, Programming, Project Management, Software Architect, Sales Support, Strategic Planning, Systems Testing, Team Building, Testing, Unit Testing

 

Industries

688, Aegis, Army, Aviation, Business Credit, Coast Guard, Consumer Credit, Department of Defense (DOD), Financial, Healthcare, Mortgage, Navy, Networks, Power Systems, Submarine, Telephony, Videoconferencing, Weapons Control

 

Technologies

AS/400, DEC, HP, IBM, Palm, PC, Pocket PC, Sun, UYK-7, WICAT

DOS, HP-UX, Linux, OS/400, Palm, Pocket PC, Solaris, Windows, WMCS

Access, DB2, MySQL, Oracle, Office, Paradox, SQL CE, SQL Server, Sybase

Avaya, B2B, B2C, Client/Server, Content Management, CRM, EAI, eCommerce, n-Tier, Thick Client, Thin Client, Web

IIS, SharePoint, InfoPath, Eclipse, WebSphere, JBoss

 

Languages

.NET, Ada, ASP, Assembler, Basic, C, C#, C++, Delphi, DHTML, FORTRAN, HTML, Java, Javascript, Pascal, Smalltalk, VBA, Visual Basic, WISE, XML, XSL

 

Regulations

HIPAA, FCC Part 97