Richard Turi, PMP

Experience

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  Computer Processing Institute

  Mar 1989 - Aug 1989

  Instructor

  Served as Course Instructor for Adult Business Application Programming Courses.• Redesigned and improved the curriculums for the Intro to Business Programming and Basic Computer Programming Courses.• Instructor for Introduction To, Basic, Assembly, JCL, and Cobol Business Programming courses .

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  Fashion Business Systems

  Aug 1989 - Apr 1991

  Software Developer

  Served as Lead Developer of Point of Sale Solution, and Communication Polling Software for the Inventory Control Solution.

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  Texel System Inc.

  Apr 1991 - Dec 1993

  Application Development Consultant/Support Manager

  Following the termination of Fashion Business Systems (FBS) – Led client support team, provided technical support for FBS P.O.S. & I.C. solutions, and developed custom applications for clients by identifying customers’ needs and providing innovative solutions.• Retained 70% of Fashion Business Systems’ client base after company went out of business.• Redesigned Point of Sale system resulting in 50% performance improvement and increased stability.

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  Sharplan Lasers, Inc

  Jan 1994 - Sept 1996

  Application Developer/Network Administrator

  Managed office network infrastructure, automated and improved marketing processes, and provided support of company business applications including accounts receivable/accounts payable, inventory control and email systems.• Worked closely with VP of Technology to design and implement a physician, hospital, and HMO relationship application.• Automated electronic marketing process resulting in time reduction of marketing campaigns from 2 weeks to 2 days.

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  Skila, Inc.

  Sept 1996 - Oct 2001

  Sr. Manager of Technology Services

  Successfully maintained 98% availability of production and office systems during Chapter 11 organization restructuring and moved office and production systems with less than 2- hour downtime.• Migrated database from Delphi and Sybase to Oracle.• Improved office infrastructure uptime from 90% to 99% by upgrading equipment, and changing processes.

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  Skila, a Sela2 Company

  Oct 2001 - May 2009

  VP of Shared Services

  Moved from Skila Inc. to Skila, a Sela2 Company during Chapter 11 re-organization. Advanced rapidly through a series of increasingly responsible positions for organization that provides integrated solutions for global life sciences companies. Progressive responsibilities included managing client projects by providing analysis, design, development, implementation and support, supervising data integration projects, establishing new backup procedures, developing ETL processes and data matching procedures, and improving and maintaining global infrastructure and production environments.• Created strategy, goals, and budgets for global Shared Services, and QA teams.• Established new QA procedures that reduced product launch time by 75%.• Implemented new tracking software solution, and improved organization’s global infrastructure and product environments.• Established Shared Services Team in the Ukraine within 6- month time frame resulting in cost savings. • Led development of new performance measurement dashboard reducing response time from 1 week to 1 hour. Show less

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  EMC Consultant for Merck (Research Labratories, Animal Health and Consumer Care Divisions)

  Jul 2010 - Dec 2012

  Project Manager, MCC Global Divisional Rep

  Led a team of five to help turn around a struggling project to managed the migration of applications from Windows XP to Windows 7, ensuring availability and functionality within the Research Laboratory and Animal health corporate environments.Challenged with turning around a struggling project to manage the migration of applications from Schering-Plough to Merck and ensuring availability and functionality within the Consumer Care corporate environment.Prepared users for migration to ensure no data loss, supervised migration team through roles, responsibilities and deliverables, and worked with Data Center managers and Consumer Healthcare teams to plan and schedule consolidation of applications and systems. Returned operations to normal while working with external partners to ensure access to Merck environment. • Managed migration of 800+ users• Handled consolidation of 134 servers• Ensured readiness of 700+ applications including Siebel Trade Promotional Management System (STPM), and SAP Business Objects (Compass)• Supported users throughout migration process• Adhered to corporate compliance policies, Six-Sigma , and SDLC processes• Developed Triage processes for applications not identified prior to user migrations Show less

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  EMC/Advantage Consultant for Merck Manufacturing

  Jan 2013 - Apr 2013

  Project Manager

  Lead Project Manager for a Global Competitive Plant project for the Manufacturing Division Working closely with respective teams to develop new standards for Asset, Change and Lifecycle Management as well as Shop Floor, Lab Support, Client Computing, Infrastructure, Network Services and IT Risk Management. • Developed project timeline for minor and major releases and successfully delivered on time• Developed Change process using SharePoint to capture and track changes from feedback, surveys or other sources• Led finalization meetings to get final signoff on Blueprint changes for release• Attended and provided status updates at Bi-Weekly Core team meeting and weekly PMO meetings• Managed weekly team meetings with work stream leads to help ensure all milestones stayed on track Show less