mitch aldrich

Special Projects Lead SQA.

Establish excellent working relationships with impacted financial business areas. Develop and execute very large MS Project SAP Cutover/Deployment plan focusing on planning and fostering business participation in the Cutover/Deployment process. Successfully partnered with technical partners and each business area to develop Business Process Contingency Plans and to plan and execute the transition to operational support. Results: Near flawless release meeting the expectations for minimal business impact, on time delivery and resource involvement.

Program Manager on $MM Knowledge and Information Management Program and subprojects scoped to identify, classify and organize sources of knowledge, metadata and ontologies across Mayo Clinic.

Augmented Release Management staff through a period of significant increase in project load including multiple, large special projects. Assisted the Release Management and Project Management teams throughout the complete project lifecycle. Release Management closely followed ITIL best practices and included coordination of monthly, enterprise wide shut down and deployment of software and infrastructure projects.

* Health Plan, Network Management Consulting * Managed team of VPs, Directors and highly experienced Health Plan SMEs tasked with creating or improving Health Plan operations focused in the area of Network Management. * Project Manager for the Expansion of a newly minted health plan to encompass larger regions * Results: Significantly improved team cohesion, on-time delivery and signing of provider contracts, State Plan certifications and successful initial open enrollment. * Project Manager for a team to shut down and transition a health plan to its new owner. * Results: Seamless membership transitions, transfer of provider contracts and member plan data.

MM program to transition business processes and systems across the entire company from ICD-9 to ICD-10. - Implementation of ICD10 Mapping, Terminology Management and Payer Analytics tools including OptumInsight I-10 Map Manager, HLI LEAP I-10, Trizetto NetworX Modeler Analytics (Payer’s Analytics) - Spearheaded the Financial Neutrality Executive Steering effort assembling VPs and Directors from across the corporation to establish a financial neutrality strategy and Risk Management process.

* Established and managed the Technology Project Management Office. * Radiology Information Systems Product Manager. * Release Manager/SCM.

Responsible for remotely based software development teams. Led the effort to streamline development practices and align technologies with corporate wide development best practices.

* Manager for the Release Management, SCM and SQA Teams. * Spearheaded multiple efforts to improve Release, SCM and SQA processes resulting in significantly reduced issues and increased department efficiency. * Successfully led the highly visible initiative to transform the Project Management Office's methodology into CMM, level 2 compliance.

* Allstate Insurance * Technical Leader on large scale (MM$, 200+ Developers) Microsoft ASP/VB Web Application Development involving 5-tier Systems Integration. Led the team of 16 that performed code management, application builds, application deployments and performance/load testing. Team was also responsible for setup & backend connectivity management on 130+ NT Servers. West Publishing * Developer / Business Analyst. Wells Fargo * Technical Analyst. B2B Database Development. Deluxe Corp * Marketing Analyst. Created new marketing plans. Northern Trust * End-to-end project planning for major systems upgrade.

* Program Manager – Delivery, Advanced Grid Strategy * Organize and lead executives through Strategy development and dissemination. * Managing 5 – 10 Project Mangers with portfolios/programs totaling 10 – 15 projects/$10M - $25M. Mentoring PMs to deliver on time, on budget and exceed customer expectations. Ensure full utilization of methodologies, steering & governance, planning, tracking and financial acumen. * Program Management * eGRC Archer, Enterprise Governance Risk & Compliance * Integrated Talent Management Talent Connect * Program Manager – PMO * Methodology, process and tool development and improvements focusing on project financial accounting in a multi-operating company, accrual based accounting environment. * Collaborate with Senior Management and colleagues on highest priority, highest impact changes in process, tools, communications and training to quickly and effectively reduce effort, turn around times and increase accuracy. Establish a release management cadence for change to 150 – 200 personnel.

Medicare/Medicaid Pharmacy Benefits Management, Government Programs, Retail, DOD and Commercial Programs Projects include Business operational changes, claims adjudication, adjustment processes, direct claims, controlled substance management, rules engine implementation, NCPDP influenced changes and regulatory/compliance implementations, Rx delivery, Pharmacy and Physician portals, Prior Auth and Support center portals Results: Successfully created collaborative project teams across 30+ departments and global divisions to deliver against tight CMS and State mandated deadlines within budget.

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Business at University of Minnesota-Twin Cities