Ron H. Porter

Experience

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  RANAC Corporation

  Feb 2004 - Feb 2006

  Senior Software Developer Team Lead

  Responsibilitieso Coordinated all phases of the software development lifecycle for business applications and processes using Visual Basic 6 and SQL Server.Accomplishmentso Skillfully developed automated EDI electronic claims submission for healthcare providers and automated imports of the patient, provider, insurance coverage, charges, payments, and various other healthcare related data.o Conducted client data conversion, initial setup of client systems and databases, and resolved any SQL or electronic claim submission regarding client production issues. Show less

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  CNO Financial Group

  Feb 2006 - Sept 2019

  Responsibilities • Identify, scope, and implement strategic IT programs and projects. • Manage project teams, contractors, and vendors to deliver IT programs and projects on time and on budget Accomplishments • Significantly reduced IT Infrastructure maintenance costs by consolidating and decommissioning redundant document ingestion and routing systems. • Enhanced IT Infrastructure maintenance and support by transitioning 700+ external claims processors to a virtualized environment. • Strengthened Security vulnerability management by revising and publishing new processes, guidelines, tools, and methodologies for system and desktop patching, as well as establishing new metrics for ranking and remediation of vulnerabilities. • Worked with the End User Computing team to manage device replacements for over 6000 remote and on campus associates. Coordinated migrations from current Citrix and VMware Horizon Win7 environment to upgraded VMware Horizon Win10 environment. • Developed and executed implementation plan to refresh desktop platforms such as MS Windows 10, Office 2016, Internet Explorer 11, and Skype. Deployed O365, OneDrive and Teams to support collaboration, off-premise MS Office application access and document storage. • Develop and implement security policies & procedures for controlling administrative passwords and • Implemented upgrades and additional TrendMicro technology for the Enterprise including Office Scan XG, Control Manager, Deep Discovery Analyzer, and CloudApp Security. Show less • Responsible for the initiation, planning, execution, control, and closure of high priority enterprise level IT projects. • Specifically requested by sponsors and directors for project rescue efforts and other special assignments of a complex or critical nature. • Managed IT Transformation program for harmonization of internal IT demand and workflow processes to align with external service providers as part of recent partnership agreement. • Managed IT project to standup an internally hosted Citrix environment and transition over 700 external partner users at multiple geographic locations for application compatibility and supportability purposes. • Worked with EMC vendor and internal resources to complete a mandatory upgrade of the key enterprise InputAccel system responsible for all document ingestion, workflow routing, and storage in content management system. Show less

  • IT Project Manager

    Feb 2012 - Sept 2019

  • IT Project Leader

    Feb 2009 - Feb 2012

  • System Analyst

    Feb 2008 - Feb 2009

  • Software Developer

    Feb 2006 - Feb 2008
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  International Medical Group (IMG)

  Oct 2019 - Jan 2022

  Senior IT Project Manager at International Medical Group

  Responsibilities • Evaluate, scope and prioritize enterprise programs and projects that provide high quality solutions and technical enhancements • Complete all required project documentation including charter, schedule, resource plans, RIDA log, implementation plans and change management plans. • Act as a liaison with executive management and program sponsors, produce and distribute regular status reports, facilitate status and steering committee meetings. • Act as a change agent for all programs and facilitate enterprise communication and training to Business Operations. • Provide overall program management strategy, vision, and strategic direction to IT leadership and Business operations. • Track project elements such as milestones, deadlines, schedules, resource utilization, budgets, risks, issues, scope changes, and quality of deliverables. Recommend corrective actions to the schedule, resource requirements, and budget as required. Accomplishments • Advanced enterprise to current version technology by simultaneously managing upgrades of 2 key applications for Windows 10 compatibility while working with Infrastructure to distribute upgraded physical devices and virtualized environment access to all users. • Significantly enhanced network security through coordination of complex PaloAlto firewall replacement and cutover along with implementation of IPS/IDS. • Ensured compliance with PCI credit card security standards through coordination of program including 12 separate workstreams for addressing all information security gaps with PCI requirements. Completed and distributed SAQ self-assessment of PCI compliance to financial partners. • Secured 500+ enterprise physical devices by implementing Microsoft InTune for system patch and application update management, device compliance tracking, and regular reporting. Show less

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  Byrider Franchising LLC

  Feb 2022 - now

  Senior Technical Project Manager

  Responsibilities • Align and coordinate multiple cross-functional agile teams, vendors, and business SMEs to deliver large-scale enterprise IT programs • Perform cost-benefit analysis and enterprise impact analysis on all new IT project and program requests • Conduct monthly governance meetings to review IT requests with executive leadership for approval and prioritization • Manage vendor and partner engagements to ensure cost-effectiveness and alignment with internal workstreams • Refine and enhance PMO department processes, procedures, and project documentation templates • Facilitate quarterly planning sessions to breakdown and forecast technical workstreams to align with current business priorities Accomplishments • Provided governance, oversight, and vendor management for migration of on-prem hardware data center to vendor managed private cloud with disaster recovery as a service. Coordinated hardware and circuit delivery, facilitated weekly collaborative sessions between vendor and infrastructure team, knowledge sharing, network mapping discussions, impact analysis, mock cutover testing, implementation punch list development, and ongoing support responsibility mapping • Coordinated cross-functional agile and marketing teams for delivery of a new mobile application to provide customers with mobile payment functionality. Customer payments via the new mobile application surpassed 1 million dollars within 4 weeks of launch date • Collaborated with the Compliance department, IT department, external partners and vendors to implement data retention policies and deletion processes for both physical documents and backend data storage per FTC requirements • Managed vendor engagement for the purpose of testing and implementing point upgrades, process enhancements, and bug fixes to the enterprise D365 system • Worked with external partner Twilio, IT, and Marketing teams to integrate SMS texting via core enterprise customer engagement applications Show less