CHRISTOPHER D. WREN

317.833.7125     |     chriswrenli@hotmail.com

Innovative, results oriented leader / technology focused / senior delivery and project manager with over eighteen years of experience and a passion for building relationships and exceeding client and management expectations

·                Leadership ·                Business Continuity	·               Software and Product Development ·               Executive Dashboards	·               Project Management ·               Vendor Management
·                Staff Development ·                Offshoring and Outsourcing	·               Enterprise Architecture ·               Capacity Planning	·               Information Strategies ·               ITIL

Medical Company Confidential - Indianapolis, IN                 4/2015 – Present

VP of Technology

 

·               Maintaining and managing team for cloud operations and software products

·               Providing leadership, vendor on, and offshore management for all aspects of company technology

·               Responsible for day to day maintenance of technical operations and decisions

·               Formulated provisioning workflows and system maintenance activities

·               Responsible for all product technologies including strategy and enterprise architecture rollouts

·               Defining and executing operational plans, preventative maintenance for products, and leveraging outsourced services and cloud technologies

·               Standardizing the company delivery methodology around Agile Scrumban (Scrum + Kanban)

·               Lead company in enterprise-wide IT strategy to obtain release and support management efforts

·               Reducing product implementations by 10%

·               Establishing 100% product visibility improvement and SaaS demo awareness

·               Execute a "lift-and-shift" of on premise products and technology services

·               100% reduction of on premise infrastructure assets to a completely virtual office and team in the cloud

·               Overseeing product offerings in order to better align with the market and our client capabilities effectiveness

 

Medxcel - Indianapolis, IN    9/2013 – 3/2015

Enterprise Information Architect

 

·               Created Information Architecture strategy for a $600M clinical and facilities management company

·               Evaluated risk and managed Agile projects in alignment with information data strategies

·               Guided PMO team data information project planning, prioritization, development, and implementations

·               Conduct team meetings to perform project backlog shaping

·               Guided data cleansing projects, defined estimates, and implemented change management practices

·               Supported and led internal work information processes, applications, new development

·               Managed development teams per data project needs

·               Provided technical leadership across the enterprise

·               Lead technology and vendor assessment efforts

·               Reviewed EA environment for existing tools by enhanced awareness and documentation

·               Improved new opportunities for open communication in regards to information data sharing 

 

 

 

Zanett/KPMG - Carmel, IN            2/2009 – 4/2013

Consulting Delivery Manager

 

·               Defined the road map for product migration services and led services center of excellence for products

·               Developed new commercial Healthcare Computerized physician order entry (CPOE)/BI product software

·               Managed product line, delivery, and upgrades worth over $2M in product sales

·               Directed staff of 10+, improved retention, contract negotiations, implemented change management practices

·               Successfully managed, staffed, various sized projects ranging from $100K to $600K

·               Managed resources to meet daily delivery schedules

·               Effectively managed multiple projects through to delivery on time, within budget, and to the Clients satisfaction

·               Provided guidance to subordinates on company goals and policy

·               Looked after post sale client relationships

·               Built strong, lasting client relationships with clients

·               Managed successful hospital network BI and Data large deals of project services

·               Defined project structure, provided pre-sales engagement, estimates, and project budgets

·               Enhanced development templates and practices that reduced IT costs through to project execution

·               Established high level partnership, business development services, and secured technology data services for Oracle/Microsoft BI practice

 

Allegient - Carmel, IN                2/2008 – 2/2009

Senior Project Consultant

 

•Managed Enterprise Content Management project efforts, and sustained IT partner relationships

•Advanced company’s enterprise content market presence by providing strategic solutions worth over $300K

•Improved project timelines by implementing cost-saving content templates, reducing project cost

      by several weeks and ensured projects were delivered on time and on budget

•Accountable for managing technical projects according to scheduled customer goals

 

United Healthcare - Indianapolis, IN                      1/2006 – 2/2008

Enterprise Web Architect/Project Manager

 

•Directed custom software projects, and teams in building a custom CRM solution to over 5,000 brokers

•Delivered enterprise architecture processes for large team in e-commerce

•Set and managed timelines against allocated budget for larger projects

•Implemented a peer to peer training program to introduce new concepts and improve adoption

 

Fusion Alliance - Indianapolis, IN                                              6/2004 – 1/2006

IT Architect Consultant

 

•                  Accelerated the delivery of new consulting technical services to market while meeting company's risk and cost reduction objectives

•                  Managed and developed neonatal care application, worth over $200K, for large hospital using Microsoft .NET

•                  Supported all pre-sales initiatives, on-going development delivery tasks, and staffing of professional services

•                  Reduced development time in weeks by implementing best practices and applying cost-saving approaches

•                  Managed enterprise project teams, drove development cost-reduction initiatives, mitigated project risks through to execution

 

First Databank - Indianapolis, IN     5/2003 – 6/2004

Senior Systems Engineer

 

•                  Managed all project aspects including development and maintenance of electronic drug content systems

•                  Performed design and system analysis, requirements definitions, interface and data architectures, lifecycle cost estimation and analysis, and governance

•                  Provided technical leadership to local and offshore team

 

Consulting – Indianapolis, IN     5/1997– 6/2003

EDS, Kforce, Bell Tech Logix, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, RCG Consulting

Senior Consultant

 

·               Lead ETL Developer/Data developer, custom database, and web development projects

•Managed various sized projects, prepared work estimates, and guided communications

•Led database design and web development for large pharmaceutical laboratory operations

•Performed design, system analysis, and requirements definitions

Project Methodologies:  WBS, Cost Breakdown, Waterfall, SDLC, JAD, RAD, Agile, SOW, MSA, RFQ, RFI,

RFP, forecasting, resource planning

Project Types:

·               Budgets to $1.5M	·               Large custom installs	·   Change & Control Management
·               Life Sciences and Healthcare	·               Banking and Manufacturing	·   Market and Business Development
·               Utilities	·               Government	·   20+ team members
·               Data Migrations	·               High availability systems	·   Custom software

B.A., Japanese and Concentration in Computer Science, Ball State University, Muncie, IN