Jane Hilleren

Experience

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  Deluxe Corporation

  Jan 1997 - Jan 2000

  Senior Programmer

  Created consolidated Year 2000 Evergreen compliance plan. Coded and unit tested COBOL and Visual Basics for Applications changes.

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  Jostens

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2004

  Project Manager

  Managed multiple projects through requirement definition, analysis, design, development, testing, and deployment phases. Functionality deployed ranged from internet transaction sites, mainframe printing, Oracle ordering/ manufacturing/ accounting/ sales commissions for yearbook, announcements, and jewelry products.

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  UnitedHealth Group - Uniprise Technologies

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2006

  IT Project Manager

  Managed $1 - 2M quarterly releases of a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) tool, containing multiple projects and 20 onshore and offshore resources. Negotiated scope agreement amongst three business stakeholder groups.

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  Cargill

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2007

  IT Project Manager

  Led multiple small to medium-large projects ($1.5M) within the DSO (Dressings, Sauces and Oils) division. Developed an "agility" project methodology to speed delivery.

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  UnitedHealth Group - Optum

  Sept 2007 - Jan 2017

  Utilized seasoned project management and communication skills to implement complex, multi-disciplinary, custom software development projects and programs. As program/project point of contact, involved monitoring and controlling projects including scope, schedules, budgets, risks and action items.• Guided nine software application teams (cloud/web, legacy) to establish design for systems integration and conversion project with $6m budget and set delivery two weeks early, using Agile Scrum methodology.• Led 45 application teams in analysis-design project, communicating $8m capital high-level capital requirements for implementation project two months ahead of schedule. • Stepped into a troubled nine application automation project to document risks with business-managed vendor and close out the project, saving $2m internal and approximately $3m vendor cost.• Utilized a web-based project management solution to reduce over 300 small to medium projects to 43 and mentor over 25 project managers. Achieved overall savings of $1m program funding. • Created and delivered presentation for over 600 onshore and offshore over multiple sessions as part of corporate agile transformation initiative. Show less Supervised a team of project managers in best practices, meeting project goals, maintain staffing, and staying within program goals. • Automated a process to balance resource workload of twelve project managers, resulting in effective project management (scope, schedule, budget within 5% for 75% of projects).• Promoted two employees and converted two contract professionals to employee status.• Developed transparent reporting to improve forecasting and delivery of web portals programs with heavy content management from 75% over-budget to 15%, proactively improving relationships with clients.• Established governance forum to highlight application concerns on new business automation project to right-size effort and better define schedule, allowing funding to be obtained and expectations to be set. Show less

  • IT Program and Cross-Application Project Manager

    Jan 2014 - Jan 2017

  • IT Program and Application Project Manager Lead

    Sept 2012 - Dec 2014

  • IT Portfolio Manager

    Dec 2010 - Aug 2012

  • IT Project Manager

    Sept 2007 - Dec 2010
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  Flatirons Solutions®

  Apr 2017 - Nov 2020

  Project Manager / Scrum Master
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  Retired

  Dec 2020 - now

  Retired