Todd Merkel

About Todd Merkel

Todd has over 20 years experience in Program/Project Management and Consulting in a number of industries including Healthcare, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Software Development and Implementation, Supply Chain Logistics, and Healthcare. Todd has extensive experience in Program and Project Management with an emphasis in project and systems life cycle process improvement, SAFe and Agile methodologies, IT infrastructure, management information, and software develoment. Todd is a PMI Certified Project Manager (PMP) and has extensive experience in creating and implementing Project Management standards, tools, and processes where there have been none. He is also considered a strong mentor and teacher to junior Project Managers.Todd is a Lean Six Sigma Certified Yellow Belt and currently working ( slowly ) toward Black Belt Certification, with the intent on creating a sustainable process for marrying Project Management with Business Process Improvement methodologies.He is a proven Leader with strong planning, technical systems,Business Process, and planning and leadership skills. Todd is most effective when partnering with executive management and operations staff on programs which require strong leadership for creating transformational change across the enterprise.Specialties: Information Technology Management, Enterprise PMO, Program Management, Project Management, Business Process Improvements, Lean Six Sigma, Leadership Development, Project Management Professional Exam Preparation, Project Management Center of Excellence, Salesforce implementation, SAFe and Agile methodologies

Experience

1. Business Deployment Leader

   Kaiser Permanente

   Nov 2022 — Present

   Business Deployment Leader for the Common Provider Data Management Program (CPM 2.0), supporting the KPWA, NW, and CO markets

Education

• Fox School of Business at Temple University

  BBA, Rugby

  1996 — 1999

Skills

• Visio
• Program Management
• Business Process Improvement
• Process Engineering
• Business Analysis
• Six Sigma
• Ms Project
• Project Portfolio Management
• Leadership Development
• Sdlc
• IT Management
• Software Project Management
• Project Management
• Change Management
• Process Improvement
• Vendor Management
• Pmo
• Pmp
• Requirements Analysis
• Resource Management