Samantha Lindsey

Experience

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  Perrigo

  Mar 2012 - Dec 2012

  Project Manager

  Collaborated and assisted program managers with any of their needs.Complied with stagegate- project methodologies to complete the correct deliverables for successful project implementation.Assisted with several internal IT projects that were necessary to implement a private cloud infrastructure, as well as external business projects that enhanced the quality of manufacturing processes.Coordinated both core-team and sub-team project meetings, invited relevant attendees, created and distributed meeting minutes and agenda.Generated reporting for projects and portfolios, including weekly status reporting presented to stakeholders, capacity and metrics reports for project planning, landing map report, and portfolio reporting for project selection.Generated project requirement documents with assistance from any other responsible, supportive, and consulted team members. Reviewed and edited project requirements, ensuring completeness and quality, often with the support and guidance of the lead project manager and any other relevant team members. Updated all necessary project requirement documents, while following cGMP requirements, with any changes to the project or team decisions. Obtained signatures from stakeholders in top management in order to validate project scope and plan, as well as any project changes. Show less

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  Whirlpool

  Jan 2013 - Jun 2013

  Project Manager

  Manage process improvement efforts with several infrastructure processes, including the mainframe job obsoletion process, the batch job change management process, the project delivery process, and the process on reporting critical jobs. Worked directly with multiple large scale vendors with both on-shore and off-shore resources to ensure project delivery on time and within budget. Manage projects for the Performance and Data Management team, completing reports, managing tasks and work completion, deliverable accuracy, and ensuring correct budgets. Utilized Rational RequisitePro to develop use cases, requirements and functional specifications with the business and the project engineering team from the scope of the project. Facilitate and manage project reporting on earned-value driven methodology within the operational discipline program. Report on SAP online metrics to aid with process improvements and trends with data and metrics, enabling less remediative work and more preventative work. Show less

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  Auditrax - Integrated Healthcare Supply Chain Consulting and Auditing

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2013

  Project Manager

  Manage supply chain part of the project to implement a new Enterprise Resource Planning system to replace the AS400 mainframe system that is currently in place, including contract validation, item locations, perpetual location builds, and managing an item universe database. Coordinate with other project towers, including Human Resources, Finance, and the Board of Directors to ensure that all aspects of the project follow the requirements set forth by ownership company, Ascension. Communicate status of the project and provide weekly reporting to nearly 40 stakeholders of the project. Manage tasks and work completion with a team of 20 people. Show less

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  Sears Holdings Corporation

  Jan 2013 - Apr 2014

  Project Manager SYW

  Administer project intake requests from the business, determining all affected front-end systems, an estimate of the project cost according to a scope outline. Oversaw the relationship between the business unit requesting a project through the loyalty program and IT, ensuring that business requirements were thorough and accurate and that functional requirements coming from all front- and back-end systems aligned with the business’ requirements. Directed front- and back-end system PMs to deliver upon the functional requirements outlined in project documentation. Secured vendors, ensure thorough requirements, and report to project sponsor on vendor efforts as they relate to project delivery. Presented change requests to project stakeholders for project scope or budget changes, ensuring their approval.Managed issues and risks, any associated or potential budgetary changes, and related change requests and with all front-end systems associated with the project. Coordinated and approved all end-to-end user acceptance testing for requirements in the quality environments after soapbox testing, ensuring that projects release with perfect quality, right-first-time. Show less

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  Auditrax - Borgess Hospital

  Jul 2013 - Nov 2013

  Project Manager
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  Kellogg Company

  Apr 2014 - Feb 2017

  Loyalty Program Manager

  Partnered with 7 agencies to manage a code-on-pack based loyalty programManaged a backlog of stakeholder requirements for the Kellogg Family Rewards programAssigned local and offshore vendor resources to each agile release, every three weeks, based on expertise required for each changeTracked testing issues through JIRA and resolved prior to release or prioritized for future releases Ensured digital program quality with agency specific testing and integrated systems testing, managed issues with JIRACompleted integrated test plans and conducted integrated testing across 7 front-end systemsCommunicated prioritization and project deliverables to agency partners and stakeholdersPartnered with various internal corporate units (security, capital appropriations, IT leadership, marketing, business units, sales team, procurement, and human resources)Assisted procurement through the process of introducing new digital platform capabilities, reviewed master service agreements, change requests, contracts and negotiated SLAsLed a team of 10 agency project managers, 8 agency business analysts, 12 agency developers, and 5 agency QA/testers. Leveraged loyalty budget to meet organizational strategic goalsConducted planning impact analysis to determine prioritization and ensured post-deployment impact realizationPrioritized the program backlog to deploy hundreds of promotions, over 20 performance improvements and four complete site overhauls Led agency project teams to motivate them to complete a perfect development across multiple agencies developing different componentsTransferred knowledge of the new platform capabilities to agency partnersLeveraged global platform capabilities to design global promotional templates that reduced promotion digital creation costs by 50%Ensure program and platform changes aligned with corporate ROI goalsLeveraged analytics companywide to provide strategic real-time reporting to ensure program investment effectiveness Show less

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  Yanfeng Automotive Interiors

  Mar 2017 - Mar 2018

  IT Project Manager

  • Managed 4 projects from conceptualization to support transition:Chrysler IP plant build in Belvidere, ILNetwork separation for a tech center with more than 700 employees Switch refresh for a tech center with more than 20 IDFsStorage Array migrationVW MES implementation in Chattanooga, TN Approved bill of materials from infrastructure partnerAligned offshore resources and organizations to requirements, changes, and configurations required for each plant changeHeld daily scrum meetings to understand the project team's completion level, current issues, and complete roadblocksGathered project requirements, obtained budget, and ensured resource allocation through each releaseMonitored and reported on plant floor processes throughout different phases of the MES implementationLed a team of technical resources in gathering data, importing data into MES system, implementation, testing, and support transitionGenerated standardized MES implementation project documentation (questionnaire, project plan, timeline, cost estimation, etc.)Implemented a ticketing process for post project hypercare issuesReported weekly on project status, including project financials, risk/issues, key accomplishments, and escalation requirementsManaged project IT capital and expense budgetWrote Capital Appropriation Requests for future capital spending strategyTested integrated infrastructure pre-implementation and ensure quality by testing post implementationEnsured ongoing project expenses were accounted for in future yearsCommunicated and prioritized project tasks and issues to project team for completion and/or resolutionGenerated training and knowledge transfer documentation to be used by plant floor staff Partnered with business teams to ensure that project scope and budget meets business needs Partnered with customers to test and validate customer traceability requirements Show less

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  Bosch Automotive Service Solutions, LLC

  Mar 2018 - Oct 2018

  Project Delivery Manager R&D Software

  Managed 3 automotive diagnostic software projects concurrentlyIncreased team productivity by 200% through agile development process implementationDelivered regular reporting on burndown, velocity, and resource allocation to project stakeholdersAdministered JIRA for a team of 30, updated ticket processes, generated report templates and queries, and allocated permissionsManaged software testing, ensuring that quality products were released on time, modified processes when testing plans did not meet quality goals Show less

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  Priority Health

  Nov 2018 - Sept 2019

  Project Manager Contract

  Coordinate and lead the RFP process to identify the new CM/UM platform vendorManage a team of 15 to implement a new care and utilization management platform for a large health insurance organizationAssure quality, and deploy integrations with 4 other organization platformsEnsure digital program quality with agency specific testing and integrated systems testing, managed issues with JIRA Complete integrated test plans and conducted integrated testing across 5 integrated platforms Report project status at different levels of the organization daily, weekly, and monthly Partnered with various internal corporate units (provider management, advanced analytics, finance, IT leadership, marketing/sales, medical management, and procurement) Show less

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  Stryker

  Sept 2019 - now

  • Procurement PMO Senior Manager GQO

    Dec 2023 - now

  • Senior Project Development Manager

    Aug 2019 - Dec 2023

  • Contract Sr Project Manager

    Sept 2019 - Jun 2020