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Pam Davis

Director, IT Project Management

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About Me
Highly motivated Senior Leader with a 17+ year track record of leveraging technology and data to solve business challenges in the Health Care, Pharma, State Government, and Professional Consultant industries.
Education

Certified

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Scaled Agilist, Product Owner/Product Manager, Scrum Master, Program Consultant and Lean Portfolio Manager

Bachelor of Science, Accounting

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

Graduated Cum Laude (FAMU) School of Business and Industry (SBI) in Accounting with an emphasis on Computer Engineering.

Certificate

Havard Medical School

Introduction to the Mechanisms of Health Disparities

Certified

Godhead Technologies

Rational Test Methodology Certified Trainer
Experiences
  • Lead a multi-year initiative to transition over 500 Cigna employees and consultant to the Experience-Led framework. Partnered with Cigna's Agile Transformation Office (CATO) to design Cigna's agile structures and implement a solution train consisting of 6 release trains, 7 system teams and over 45 agile teams, scrum and KANBAN. After 2 years of practice the majority of Core Systems teams and programs designated as either Gold or Silver.
  • Lead a matrixed team of agile coaches, data analyst and agile practitioners responsible for planning and implanting the organizations Agile Maturity Roadmap.
  • Championed the creation of several role based communities of practice (Cop) including Scrum Master, Release Train Engineers, Solution Train Engineers, and Product Managers/Product Owners. Partner with coaches and role based CoP representatives to define standards and best practices.
  • Delivered training across the organization: Agile 101, Agile Story Writing and Product Owner/Scrum Master workshops.
  • Maintained performance scorecards and socialized results with various stakeholders including Agile Value Management Office (AVMO), Core Systems Leads and all Core Systems team members.
  • Identified key projects that will have a big effect on the organization's goals and objectives and developed plans to push those projects to completion.
  • Charged with optimizing, right-size workforce by role and location.
  • Partnered with HR/ER to develop and execute business cases and communication plans.
  • Maintain and delivered quarterly to Executive management strategic roadmaps progress.
  • Directed quarterly ASG strategic planning sessions by partnering with Core Solutions leads to develop strategies and to define key initiatives.
  • Directed the development of an Operational Readiness Practice for IT. Partnered with Production Support and Delivery teams to develop a repeatable framework – processes, artifacts and activity schedules.
  • Lead the initiative to develop a multi-year strategic roadmap for production support focusing on Supplier Management, Talent Management and Process Optimization strategies.
  • Lead the initiative to move from a multi-supplier model to a single supplier model resulting in a 5 year agreement that yielding $35M in baseline savings.
  • Managed development of new agreements, change requests and requests for proposals.
  • Developed service level agreements with suppliers and customers. Ensured supplier SLAs were reported on a timely basis, provided independent verification as needed and addressed supplier SLA failures.
  • Managed weekly engagement touch-points and post-mortem engagement reviews.
  • Defined and managed outsourced vendor management program. Responsible for SOW reviews, processing annual contract renewals and defining SLAs to align with organizational roadmaps.
  • Lead an initiative to move from a Time and Materials contract to a Managed Services/Outcome agreement for a set of assets. Agreement expanded Supplier’s services from production support to include service request analysis, design, development and testing.
  • Lead an initiative to strengthen Supplier SLAs to ensure Cigna's ability to fully realize the managed services (outcome) model. Introduced business and customer centric metrics to ensure supplier performance was directly tied to business and customer satisfaction. Developed a repeatable methodology for annual SLA renewals.
  • Quality Engineering
    o Responsible for developing, implementing and managing the teams quality assurance program to ensure continuous process improvement.
  • Served as Project Manager for Claim IT Change Management initiative resulting in the integration of the Claim HMO and Claim PPO IT teams into 1 integrated Claim IT Organization.

Positions prior to Cigna

Consultant
2000 to 2006
  • Microsoft Corporation - Project Manager of Diversity Supplier
  • Godhead Technologies - Certified Trainer, Rational Test Methodology
  • Southern Bell Communications (SBC) - QA Manager
  • NC Office of the Courts - Business Analyst
  • NC DOT - QAQC Manager
Skills

Quality Assurance

  • Reviewing of quality specifications and technical design documents
  • Creation of detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases
  • Estimating, prioritizing, planning and coordinating quality testing activities

Change Management

  • Provided support and coaching advice to Executives and People Managers with instilling change in their teams, as well as directly supporting project teams during the transition period
  • Evaluated the impact of planned organisational change
  • Identified and managed anticipated resistance to change
  • Lead change management work streams with a structured methodology / process
  • Supported development of communications relevant to change initiatives

Project Management

  • Managed the application of processes, methods, skills, knowledge to achieve specific project objectives according to the project acceptance criteria within agreed parameters
  • Developed processes and techniques to initiate, plan, manage and deliver projects
  • Proven ability to coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects

Data Analytics

  • Developed strategies for effective data analysis and reporting
  • Expert at data mining and management
  • Developed and implemented analytics solutions, and generation of reports in an effort to improve performance and achieve business objectives
  • Partnered with coaches to develop a framework to track key performance metrics. Used results to identify areas in need of enablement and coaching
  • Maintained performance scorecards and socialized results with various stakeholders including Agile Value Management Office (AVMO), Core Systems Leads and all Core Systems team members
  • Maintained various LOOKER dashboards and visualization models to monitor capacity utilization and performance trends.
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