Justyna Curran, PMP

Experience

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  Alliance for Children and Families

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2009

  Marketing Director

  New business development (prospecting, price negotiation, extensive public speaking).Account Management (needs assessment, orientation, and member engagement).Developed annual operations plan, in conjunction with executive management.Staffed the Board Strategic Positioning Committee.Leveraged director/executive level relationships with existing member base to promote organizational goals.Managed internal relationships to execute company’s marketing objectives (staff and project management).Customized written correspondence and presentation materials for prospective and new members. Show less

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  The Benefit Services Group, Inc.

  Feb 2009 - Oct 2013

  Account Manager

  Analyzed health and welfare plans and claims experience to formulate appropriate recommendations. Collaborated with financial analysts to prepare utilization and enrollment exhibits. Presented strategic and renewal planning proposals to executive stakeholders. Primary service contact to assigned client base.

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  Advicent Solutions

  Oct 2013 - Jan 2016

  Senior Project Manager

  Managed custom software projects from initiation and planning through execution, monitoring, and closure. Worked closely with clients to identify and understand the business needs driving project requests. Contributed to professional services department’s strategies and processes. Prepared project schedules, project plans, estimates, resource plans, and status reports. Led sprint planning and kick off meetings. Assessed impacts to timeline and cost of change requests. Tracked and managed project risks and roadblocks. Trained and mentored new project managers. Show less

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  Red Arrow Labs

  Feb 2016 - Jul 2016

  Infrastructure Project Manager
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  Froedtert Health

  Aug 2016 - Jul 2019

  Senior IT Project Manager

  Led high-visibility and complex clinical systems projects, involving large and diverse teams of analysts and technicians, impacting three hospitals, over 20 ambulatory clinics, and 9,000 clinical and administrative staff. Planned and facilitated weekly executive project steering committee meetings. Proactively identified risks and issues, analyzed potential impacts to technology delivery, and escalated as appropriate. Worked closely with vendors to ensure team followed implementation best practices. Managed technical implementation planning activities, and acted as commander for production go-live events Established and documented post go-live communication and support processes. Show less

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  Northwestern Mutual

  Jul 2019 - now

  Managed all aspects of a data and financial conversion from a legacy system to the firm’s primary custodian, representing over 3,000 accounts and $5B in assets.Developed the detailed technical and operational implementation plan with input from multiple internal technical and operations teams, as well as the four vendors involved in the conversion.Managed the roll-outs of a series of complex investment products aimed toward high net-worth clients.Led and facilitated various workstreams, to include technology, legal and compliance, operations, and cutover. Created materials for and facilitated weekly executive steering meetings.Created post-live support plan in conjunction with program stakeholders. Show less

  • Lead Technical Program Manager

    Dec 2021 - now

  • Lead Project Manager

    Mar 2021 - Nov 2021

  • Senior Project Manager

    Jul 2019 - Mar 2021