Vincent G. Cedrone

About Vincent G. Cedrone

With extensive experience delivering sophisticated application development…

Experience

1. IT Program Manager

   Aetna, A Cvs Health Company

   Jul 2012 — Present · Blue Bell, PA, US

   Currently, I shape IT strategies and priorities while marshaling 70+ engineering professionals across 7 project teams in executing interdependent, multi-unit development initiatives. To accomplish this, I coalesce and inspire a highly productive team in exceeding expectations, fulfilling milestones, ensuring quality, and achieving time-sensitive objectives. Employing both Agile and Waterfall best practices to facilitate efficiency and effectiveness, I control and mitigate all scope, technical, and budget/cost Highlights Enabled production of 215+ 100% on-time deliverables a over a 6-month period by turning around underperforming program management team and keeping projects on track with customized metrics featuring early warning indicators. Maintained business continuity and averted major workflow interruption by assembling and guiding a team of 12 in completing 2 major Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) data migrations over the course of a year. Improved quality of deliverables by instituting Deep Dives and weekly \"Cross Talk\" meetings among 7 project managers to share issues and help one another. Magnified visibility into resource utilization. Enhanced consistency, accuracy, thoroughness, and timeliness of work estimation process by spearheading a multi-domain team of 30+ in documenting and distilling diverse approaches into a standard procedure; later adopted enterprisewide. Adopted Agile principles developing Epics, Features, Stories, and Tasks using Rally Defined skills and behaviors of top project management professionals; instilled best practices and discipline; instituted use of MS Project; developed tools and standardized techniques; as part of founding program management center of excellence. Identified improvement opportunities and drove remediation of findings after CMMI Level work practices assessment.

Education

• Drexel University

  BS

Skills

• Configuration Management
• Engineering Management
• Project Planning
• Team Building
• Management
• Software Development
• Earned Value Management
• Military
• Program Management
• System Architecture
• Strategy
• Information Assurance
• Technical Leadership
• Project Management
• Government Contracting
• Process Improvement
• Aerospace
• Operations Research
• Pmp
• Leadership
• Process Development
• Defense
• Resource Management
• Proposal Writing
• Functional Analysis
• Analysis
• Integration
• Process Simulation
• Ms Project
• Systems Engineering
• Government
• Agile Project Management
• Enterprise Architecture
• Requirements Analysis
• Dod
• Sdlc
• Requirements Management
• System Design
• Testing
• Security Clearance