Perry Gonella

About Perry Gonella

It is rare to find one company whose range of services encompasses the areas of communications, health, and information technology. TRI is a fast growing company serving some of the world’s largest clinical research organizations.I consider myself fortunate to be a part of such a great company. As a Technology Leader, I manage employees for our largest contract designing, implementing, and managing new technologies. I also provide IT Planning and Governance leadership to help sustain our growth and wide array of services.To accomplish this, I surround myself with gifted team members. I have had to recruit, hire, train, and mentor these teams and develop strategies. Together, we have expanded service lines and tools that resulted in scalable infrastructure to enabled enterprise-wide growth. Together we formulate effective, unique business solutions for large key-to-the-mission initiatives and execute them in both stable and unstable environments. Through our performance we instill customer confidence and promote relationships that have proven to fortify, drive, and sustain results for our c••••••••@yahoo.com 30••••••04Areas of Expertise• Technology Leadership• Business Transformation • System Integration• Analytics• Service Line Expansion• Product Development• Strategic Partnering• Cloud / Big Data / BI• Strategic Planning• System Architecture Design• Vendor Management• Contract Management• Process Development• IT Transformation• Project Leadership• Information Security

Experience

1. Associate Director of Information Technology

   Technical Resources International, Inc.

   Jun 2014 — Present · Bethesda, MD, US

   Corporate Profile: A Clinical Research Service company. Provides technical support to bring needed healthcare products to market.Information Technology Divisional Profile: Provides IT and Information Security services to internal and external clients.IT Planning and Governance Departmental Profile: Provides staffing for project and program management, software development delivery, and best practice development. Responsibility Profile: Responsible for providing oversight to the organization’s largest contract, establishing best practices, and managing design and implementation of new technologies and processes.ACCOMPLISHED IN THIS ROLE• SERVICE LINE EXPANSION: Tasked by VP Strategy to establish a scalable IT Service for internal and external clients. Created catalog based on ITIL framework and collaborated on external sales opportunities and educated internal functional leaders on capabilities. This quadrupled growth and established a marketable, new line of business. • BIG DATA / ANALYTICS / BI: Assigned to establish a new enterprise capability: Analytics / Business Intelligence to both internal and external clients. Setup evaluation process, built and executed strategies to establish scope of work, projects, and best practices. This new service delivery met client needs and increased annual revenue.• STANDARDIZATION / COMMUNICATIONS: Commissioned with integrating data sharing and standardizing technologies. Developed roadmap to integrate or replace legacy products. This led to addition of new service offerings that improved revenue and nearly eliminated duplication, while increasing client satisfaction and lowering maintenance costs. • CULTURAL EVOLUTION / COACHING / MENTORING: To improve scheduling and delivery, developed a strategy, project parameters, improved problem solving, risk management, and planning skills. This evolved into a team-centric system.

Education

• University of Pittsburgh

  B.S., Electrical Engineering

  1986 — 1990

• The Johns Hopkins University

  M.S.C.S., Computer Science

  1998 — 2001

• Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business

  M.B.A., General Management

  1991 — 1994

Skills

• Agile Methodologies
• Cmmi
• Management
• Requirements Analysis
• Pmo
• Pmp
• Sharepoint
• Ms Project
• Project Planning
• Process Simulation
• Project Portfolio Management
• Project Management
• Process Improvement
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Governance
• Software Project Management
• Sdlc
• Business Analysis
• Change Management
• Program Management