Paul L. Stevens,
Stevens, PMP
26 Longfield Drive, Hillsborough, NJ 08844
paulstevenspm@gmail.com
(908) 655-7816
Program Manager / Project Manager
Are your projects and programs as successful as you would like? Let me provide the leadership
and oversight to deliver strategic and tactical programs, projects and solutions that achieve
optimal business results that matter most to sponsors, stakeholders and management.
Utilizing techniques that extend traditional project management allows me to deliver successful
projects on time and on budget that deliver business results for stakeholders.
Employment History
Aetea Information Technology, Inc., Kenilworth, NJ
April 2012 to Present
Project Management for Merck’s IT Informatics and Scientific Information Management (SIM) Groups
Project Manager supporting the Scientific Information Management (SIM) and IT Informatics groups at
Merck. Managed portfolio of projects related to Data Stewardship, Data Governance, Integrated Data
Analytics, Semantic Web Technologies, and cutting edge Search technologies. Initiatives included:
Scientific Data Stewardship program; SALAR Integrated Data Environment (SIDE) project; Information
Landscape Knowledgebase project; Axon Data Governance software Pilot; Merck Knowledge Network
Search Center (MKNSC) project; Surveys of MRL Scientists concerning Information Needs and Scientific
Search; Quantitative Pharmacology Knowledgebase (QUICK) project; Early Stage Prospecting (ESP)
Semantic Web (Anzo) dashboard solutions; Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) pilot; and
Scientific Search proof of concept.
The Judge Group, Princeton, NJ
March 2011 to April 2012
Program and Project Management Consultant for Bristol-Myers Squibb
Program Manager - Biologics Process and Product Development (BPPD) Information Architecture
Program. Provided program leadership, oversight and control; led Program Management Office (PMO);
conducted monthly status updates for the PMO and Steering Committee; hosted bi-weekly Integrated
Core Team meetings; responsible for program/project budgeting and financial reporting; responsible for
project portfolio management; established program standards and best practices for managing projects
within the program; administered program SharePoint portal and subsites for projects.
Project Manager – Procure-to-Pay business intelligence reporting project. Project manager for the
Analysis Phase of the project to implement business intelligence reporting for Global Procurement.
Aetea Information Technology, Inc., Whitehouse, NJ
May 2009 to March 2011
Project Management Consultant for Merck’s Enterprise Content and Knowledge Management Group
Led program to consolidate and migrate information from 247 legacy eRoom, Documentum, web site,
team site and network share data sources to 114 SharePoint Team Sites for pharmaceutical drug
development franchises and teams.
Led program to migrate 140 Documentum eRooms to SharePoint Team Sites to facilitate merger with
Schering-Plough.
Led fast-track project to implement FAST search technology for new Merck.com deployed with ScheringPlough merger.
Led project to deploy Merck’s Team Site Release 2.2 collaboration SharePoint environment.
Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ
2010, 2001 to 2003
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Adjunct Professor, Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management
EMT 751 – Project Management and Leadership
MGT 610 – Project Management Theory and Practice: Strategic Project Management
MGT 550 – Introduction to Project Management
NRG Energy, Inc., Princeton, NJ
December 2004 to December 2008
Program Management
Program Manager for the IT Systems Integration of acquired Texas Genco Corporation. This program
comprised over 40 integration initiatives and 25 full-fledged projects with a budget of $16 million.
Responsible for administration; planning; budgeting; scheduling; management reporting; interfacing with
the corporate integration program and oversight of contracted project managers. The program
completed successfully within 12 months, was delivered $6 million under budget, had no significant
unplanned system outages and experienced no major business issues or problems.
Provided regular and ad-hoc management reporting for the Texas Genco integration program and IT
portfolio projects including generation of weekly dashboard reports, weekly action items and monthly IT
reports for the executive Enterprise Resource Allocation committee.
Project Management Office
Co-managed a group of contracted project managers during the Texas Genco integration including hiring,
firing, training, mentoring and providing administrative oversight.
Project office for IT Controls group responsible for: oversight of and management reporting for all IT
projects; compliance with established Sox controls and SDLC process; and definition of SDLC processes.
Partnered with IT Controls Manager on a successful proposal to establish an IT Project Management
Office.
Developed and delivered an Introduction to Project Management course for IT employees.
Project Management
Project Manager for a 3-person management team assigned to rescue a troubled PeopleSoft Enterprise
Asset Management implementation project. Overcame many obstacles and successfully completed
implementation, training and deployment of the system at two power plants within the aggressive two
month target timeframe.
Led project to move the company’s intranet site to the SharePoint (MOSS) Enterprise Content
Management System (CMS) where each department could manage their own content. Led the project
from project charter through requirements development, implementation, content transfer, system
integration testing and user acceptance testing. Designed and implemented the taxonomy of the sites,
the security models and approval workflows. This project involved coordination, content
transfer/development and testing with 40 different corporate departments.
Implemented a scanned invoice processing system, using KnowledgeLake Capture desktop and
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS), on an emergency time-frame when Accounts Payable
(AP) was consolidated and moved to a new location.
Project manager for Maximo Enterprise (MXES) system implementation for the South-Central region with
a budget of over $1.5 million. Guided the project through concept development and a prolonged
corporate approval process. Drafted procurement documents (RFP), evaluated proposals and selected
winning vendor. Kicked off and staffed the project at the power plant then recruited a project manager of
superior reputation to take over after being reassigned to the Texas Genco integration program.
Robbins-Gioia, LLC, Alexandria, VA
January 2004 to December 2004
Program Management and Scheduling
Senior Consultant for the Project Management Office (PMO) in the Knowledge Engineering Integration
Lab in the U.S. Army Program Executive Office Command, Control and Communications - Tactical, at Fort
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Monmouth, New Jersey. Developed: Program Management Plan; Communications Management Plan;
Risk Management Plan; MS Project Implementation Plans; scheduling processes and system
architecture development processes. Implemented MS Project macros to: provide Traffic Light status
indicators on schedules; generate status report worksheets in MS Excel from MS Project files; and
generate large format graphical milestone charts in MS Excel from the linked MS Project files.
Cotelligent, Inc., Irvine, CA
April 1987 to September 2003
Project Management and Operations
Project Manager of due diligence for potential acquisition of a Field Force Automation company.
Developed comprehensive management plan and business processes for managing and executing
pipeline of strategic research and development projects. Project manager for Sales Force Automation
R&D program, charged to identify, develop and document reusable software components for company’s
Sales Force Automation application and middleware (Jasware).
Documented company business processes, using process mapping techniques, for compliance with the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act and process improvement analysis.
Led efforts to redesign corporate chart of accounts to provide management reporting metrics aligned
with corporate balanced scorecard and established key process indicators.
Developed Knowledge Management Plan for: managing intellectual property; document sharing and
approval; online collaboration; and customer project portals.
Project Manager for modernization and cost reduction of corporate infrastructure systems:
Replaced corporate accounting system with Solomon V to automate financial and project
accounting; eliminate use of parallel systems to consolidate accounting and management data;
and provide measurement metrics for Key Process Indicators (KPIs).
Implemented web-based timesheet and expense report processing with Solomon Desktop.
Designed and implemented a corporate knowledge management portal using Microsoft
SharePoint Portal System (SPS) that replaced the company intranet site and shared drives.
Designed a standard SharePoint Team Services (STS) platform for implementing project portals
for customer communication supporting development and support projects.
Software Development Management
Led development of several applications for ViroPharma including systems to track and manage clinical
trial test samples with a Pocket PC PDA equipped with a bar code scanner.
Managed NJ web development group focused on Websphere and Microsoft technologies. Responsible for
proposal development and working with sales management to ensure proposals meet customer needs.
Led TNDS/TK Y2K conversion project for Telcordia. Project was delivered on time, under budget and with
high quality which allowed client to ship software maintenance release a week early.
Software development manager for Ortho Clinical Diagnostic’s Ortho Assay Software application, a nextgeneration system for automated blood screening tests in blood banks. Received Director’s Award for
development of testing tool to aid development of robotic lab instrument.
Project manager and lead developer in a project to port and enhance a networked data collection
application for clinical test instruments and interfaces to laboratory information systems for MetPath.
Project manager and lead developer for a protocol conversion server which allowed ADSI-compatible
telephones (display screen, keyboard and smart-card interface) to access home banking applications for
Philips Home Services and Bell Communications Research.
Consulting
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Program manager at Hewlett-Packard for porting HP-UX operating system from proprietary CPU
architecture to Intel’s IA-64 platform. This effort involved coordination of over 40 program partners
representing 1,000 of engineers across the globe.
Project manager for Inferno network operating system project at Lucent Technologies.
Led Credit-Suisse First Boston Y2K assessment of 128 Equity Technology applications, developed
remediation strategies, project plans and schedules. Client was first organization in the corporation to
successfully complete QA audit of assessment and project strategies/plans.
Designed and implemented the Reference Data Delivery System for Bell Communication Research’s
SWITCH project. RDDS allowed configuration, database and schema data to be delivered and managed
using standard source code control and delivery systems.
Successfully led a strategic team of consultants hired to ensure Bell Communication Research’s
struggling COSMOS development team would complete a major feature release on-time. Led
performance team responsible for turning 65% performance degradation into an 11% improvement.
Regal Data Systems, Middlesex, NJ
December 1983 to April 1987
Design and implementation of AT&T Information Systems’ on-line marketing branch support applications
running on UNIX-based minicomputers, including marketing support tools and order placement system.
Designed and implemented a system for translating a special-purpose, mainframe, interpretive language
into program code that was automatically cross-compiled, transmitted to and installed in branch offices
for AT&T Information Systems.
Western Electric Company, Greensboro, NC
June 1978 to December 1983
Software design, documentation, planning and implementation of a shipboard, cable deployment
monitoring system utilizing real-time navigation systems and color graphics for the U.S. Navy.
Education, Certifications
Certifications and Memberships
Memberships
Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute (PMI)
Master of Science, Computer Science, Kansas State University
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Certified Divemaster (SCUBA), Emergency First Responder, Rescue Diver (PADI)
Member of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA)
Proven Areas of Knowledge
Project Management and Program Management
Project/Program Management Office (PMO)
Project Portfolio Management
Project Management Methodology and Template Development
Budgeting and Financial Reporting
Strategic Project Management and Leadership
Extending Traditional Project Management Techniques to Ensure Successful Projects
Leading projects and programs with off-shore and outsourced resources
Leading virtual teams
Communicating Up and Down the Management Chain
Leading Cross-Functional Project Teams
Project Management and SharePoint Training Development and Delivery (Academic and Corporate)
Process Improvement and Process Mapping
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)