andrew affleck
Senior Project Manager/PMO at Pfizer
information technology leader - senior project/program manager | technical operation | development operation
throughout career , sought work client partner kind . approach philosophy simple : seek understand respect empathy . ensuring client chance feel listened , supported , cared , build trust provide far better service ensuring project team delivers excellence . experience design development , ’ considered subject matter expert project program management . ’ managed projects/programs higher education , big pharma , federal government , app development , startup . worked client kind including high-touch , vip customer . relationship designer , developer , rest project team important client relationship . care entire team make sure clear , concise , useful information always available remove blocker way . specialty : • executive management | team & department building | on-site , distributed , & matrix management | budgeting • project management | agile | scrum | pmi | sdlc | pmbok | requirement • program management | building pmos | reporting | training | mentoring • development operation | lamp | nginx | apache | aws | newrelic | cloudflare | ci/cd
Pfizer
https://www.linkedin.com/company/pfizer
Presently: US Support Lead for Pharmacovigilance Artificial Intelligence (PVAI), a system used for providing reports to Argus Safety, an Oracle system used for tracking COVID information inbound from sites around the world.

Presently & in 2021: Manage multiple, urgent, rapid change control projects on Argus Safety.

In 2021: US Lead for a Hypercare program providing intensive support for external partner processing COVID-19 data for Argus Safety.
Groton, Connecticut, United States
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Senior Project Manager/PMO
Affleck Design
With Affleck Design I provide WordPress development, Filemaker Pro, and general IT consulting services to clients.
Cranston, RI
Owner
Automattic
https://www.linkedin.com/company/british-telecom-recruitment
Managed communications across all lifecycle phases for high-profile partners and CEO referrals, including: outreach, strategy, kickoffs, design, builds, testing, and support. Collaborated with a globally-distributed design/development team to facilitate bespoke projects and applications built on WordPress and related products. Gathered real-world product feedback from partners, and worked with engineers to propose and prioritize feature changes and fixes to product teams across the Automattic suite of products.
Cranston, RI
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Technical Account Manager
Intermarkets, Inc.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/intermarkets-inc-
System Admin and Web Developer for multiple high-profile sites/apps ranging from WordPress content sites to a custom petition platform to a Facebook game.

Led migration of all hosted sites from conventional Linux-based hosting to Elastic Beanstalk Applications running in Amazon Web Services (AWS) saving the company well over $3K per month.

Optimized and improved code and system administration of one site to increase maximum load from 1,400 simultaneous users to over 40,000 simultaneous users (and counting).

Additional enhancements have led to savings of multiple thousands of dollars per month in hosting fees due to reduction in CPU load and bandwidth needs.

Designed and developed themes for two sites making sites responsive, accessible, leaner, and faster. 

Developed multiple in-house WordPress plugins to easily share common code between sites.

Managed a team of two system administrators/developers.

Developed and managed on-call schedule.  

Innovated effective dynamic instance scaling in AWS for automatic response to increases in user load.
Reston, VA
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Senior Systems Manager
Ozmott, LLC
https://www.linkedin.com/company/ozmott-llc
Hired and led 7-person iOS, Android, UI/UX, and back-end server development and testing team and led this small, agile team to a successful 1.0 launch of retail-centric iOS/Android application. 

Managed all subsequent requirements gathering, functional requirements generation, UI/UX, wire-framing, and prototyping saving the company money by not requiring designers or business analysts.

System administrator for the backend & WordPress developer for corporate website.
Rhode Island
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Senior Director Of Engineering
Pfizer
https://www.linkedin.com/company/pfizer
Microsoft EPM P11 to P12 Migration: Led large matrix team (15 people) across major IT divisions within Pfizer plus external off-shore team in upgrading one of the world’s largest installations of Microsoft EPM 2003 (P11) to 2007 (P12). $1M Project consistently on time and completed under budget by $10K. 

Contracted from Collabera to Accenture at Pfizer
Groton, CT
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Senior Project Manager
Merck
https://www.linkedin.com/company/merck
External Collaboration File Transfer: Delivered solution to problem of supporting large file transfer into and out of Merck to its external partners crossing many verticals including Molecular Profiling Research Informatics, External Basic Research, Global Technology Services, and Delivery Services. 

High Performance Cluster Project: Successfully delivered multi-million-dollar high performance Linux compute cluster for molecular profiling research through procurement, build-out, testing, and deployment.

Rosetta Migration Project: Completed a successful migration of all IT assets for large molecular profiling research team from Seattle, WA to Boston, MA (staff) and Charlotte, NC (IT assets) with smooth transitions, minimal downtimes, and high customer satisfaction. 

Contracted from Atlas to Merck
Boston, MA
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Solutions Manager
Pfizer
https://www.linkedin.com/company/pfizer
Research & Development Medical Informatics PMO: Excelled in triple role as a Senior Project Manager, a Project Manager Mentor, and as founding member of the Program Health Reporting team. Regularly stood in for Operations Managers overseeing portfolio of over 300 cost-reduction projects with a value of $265M reducing Pfizer’s annual operating budget by $132M over three years. This team expanded to add an additional $114.7M in Research and Development projects in 2008.

Program Health Reporting Team: Achieved greater insight into program health by implementing reporting system for project managers utilizing SharePoint, Excel, and Access enabling faster reporting, greater compliance, and automated report generation.

Project Manager Mentor: Mentored around 20 project managers in the Pfizer Enterprise LifeCycle (ELC) and portfolio server and was their point person for any project issues or questions.

Senior Project Manager: Successfully completed three overlapping projects (infrastructure migration and application development-based) while rescuing a fourth, replacing the original project manager. 

Contracted from Sykes to SAIC at Pfizer
New London, CT
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Senior Project Manager, Program Manager
A.B.
Glee Club, Handel Society, Chamber Singers, Marching Band, Held many elected offices as member of Phi Tau Coeducational Fraternity. Created an independent study on User Interface Design and another on Teenage Male Moral Development in Single-Parent (Mother-Only) Families.
Computer Science, Education
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Dartmouth College
https://www.linkedin.com/school/dartmouth-college/
Ed.M.
Teaching Fellow for 3 out of 4 semesters at Harvard GSE (a role normally reserved for Doctoral students). Implemented a database system using FileMaker Pro to allow students to create databases on the fly for web-based learning projects.
Technology in Education
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Harvard University Graduate School of Education
https://www.linkedin.com/school/hgse/
"Start podcasting or take your podcast to the next level with start-to-finish guidance from Andy Affleck. You’ll learn tricks of the trade as you assemble your hardware and software, make recordings, edit and mix the audio, and encode and publish your shows. This book covers all the steps needed to make a podcast using a Mac, iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch."
Take Control of Podcasting
Take Control Books
https://www.takecontrolbooks.com/podcasting/
Author of many articles over the last decade plus. Of special note: When Should We Introduce Social Media to Kids? at https://tidbits.com/2010/10/04/when-should-we-introduce-social-media-to-kids/
Multiple Articles
TidBITS
http://www.tidbits.com
Case study on how Python helped speed development of devIS EZ Reusable Objects (EZRO), a flexible content management system used in the eGovernment sector.
Python and Zope in the EZRO CMS
python.org
http://legacy.python.org/about/success/ezro/
White paper on making sites accessible without sacrificing graphical richness, following web and CSS standards, and how accessible sites benefit everyone. It was prepared for the Department of Labor and is not now online anywhere.
Usable Accessibility in On-line Learning
White Paper
"Beginning a podcast is easier than starting a radio station, but it's still hard to assemble your hardware and software, and learn the tricks of the trade. You can easily meet that challenge with start-to-finish guidance from long-time podcaster Andy Affleck."  Revised through 2016.
Take Control of Podcasting on the Mac
Take Control
http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/podcasting-mac
Nominated for Best Male Lead for my portrayal of Dracula in Swamp Meadow Community Theatre's production of Dracula in November, 2010.
Motif Magazine, Providence, RI
Nominated for Best Male Lead for Dracula
Arts and Culture
Swamp Meadow Community Theatre
I have appeared as Henry Albertson (The Fantasticks), Dracula (Dracula), Randall Patrick MacMurphy (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), Mr. Mushnik (Little Shop of Horrors), Lenny (Rumors), Chip (Putnam County Spelling Bee), and numerous other smaller roles.
Executive Director, Actor, Dramatic Director, Producer, Sound Board Operator, Backstage Manager
Troop 66, Garden City, Cranston RI
Assistant Scoutmaster
Dartmouth College
Class Webmaster
Dartmouth College
Representative to the Alumni Council for my Dartmouth Class
Cub Scout Pack 6, Cranston RI
Assistant Cubmaster
Cub Scout Pack 6, Cranston RI
Den Leader
https://www.linkedin.com/in/roxanne-fox-b04a332
New London County, CT
Roxanne Fox
CIO & CFO  at ILYGuts Corporation: Owners of Museo -The Art Tourism App and Sr. Manager at Pfizer, Inc
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathleen-zaleski-b944808
Queens County, NY
Kathleen Zaleski
Program Manager at Pfizer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-newton-8aa064a2
Ithaca, NY
Brian Newton
Senior Program Manager (Site Investigations Lead) at Pfizer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-fletcher-a76b86115
Greater Chicago Area
Kevin Fletcher
Sr. Program Manager at Pfizer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-zumpano-04aba37
Rumson, NJ
Laura Zumpano
Director, Clinical Operations Program Lead at Pfizer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hwangj
New York City Metropolitan Area
John Hwang
Senior Director, Corporate Compliance, Strategic Operations & Programs at Pfizer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lombardogary
San Diego, CA
Gary Lombardo
Director Project Management - Pfizer Inc.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/liz-rogers-bb48aa7
New York City Metropolitan Area
Liz Rogers
Vice President, Head of Global Site and Study Operations at Pfizer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-o-brien-06305557
New York, NY
Kevin O'Brien
Manager, Pharmaceutical Marketing Rotational Program at Pfizer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/wennie-zhou-699a623
Greater Chicago Area
Wennie Zhou
Senior Director Program Management at Pfizer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/carol-schaffer-6567ab9
Ringwood, NJ
Carol Schaffer
Director, Program Lead at Pfizer, Data Monitoring and Management
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shivanigarg1993
New York, NY
Shivani Garg
Marketing Manager, Clinical Trial Experience
https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlaemmons
Portland, Maine Metropolitan Area
Carla Emmons
Unabashedly making the world a better place
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rain-minns-1752948
Austin, TX
Rain Minns
owner at Rain Minns Law Firm
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-coughlin-96926545
Grand Rapids, MI
Brian Coughlin
Mathematics Teacher at Sacred Heart Academy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/threadedkernel
Greater Chicago Area
Joel White
Business Value Driver | Customer Advocate | Team Builder | #DataDriven | CTO | Application Hosting | ☁ Technology Strategist | Digital | Enterprise IT | SME | Coach | Servant Leader | Advisor | Thankful
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradderstine
Denver, CO
Brad ☼ Derstine
DevOps and Open Source
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyacevedo
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Amy Acevedo
Working Mom | Branch Director at Robert Half
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariogerard
Seattle, WA
Mario Gerard
Principal Technical Program Manager | Blogger & Podcast Host
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-spight
Atlanta Metropolitan Area
Jason Spight
Sr. Customer Solutions Manager at Amazon
Michelle Langston
      
          



            
              
        
              
  

    
        Andy is an enthusiastic, smart, and hard-working project manager. I really enjoyed collaborating with him on projects. He brings great passion, energy, technical knowledge, and humor to his work.  Carla Emmons
      
          



            
              
        
              
  

    
        Andy built our DevOps team from the ground up from hiring to process to systems. His experience as a project and product manager were leveraged every day, it seems, to ensure we were taking the right steps for the business as well as the technology side. Andy and the team excelled at supporting our organization's platforms and sites, despite resource and technology challenges they faced regularly. Andy was able to adapt quickly to changes in priorities, evolve processes to meet business needs, and establish efficient best practices that far surpass what I would have expected from a team and organization of our size. Necessity is the mother of invention and Andy analyzed and answered business and technology needs with solutions that were tailored for our needs, priorities and resource availability. Andy is creative and adaptable. He’s a brilliant problem-solver who will tell you what your best options are, what your other options are, and also the scenarios for when you don’t have the ability to execute on the best option.
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Singapore
Andrew Affleck
Experienced renewable energy investment professional
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Cramlington
Andrew Affleck
Communications and Engagement Specialist
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Halifax, NS
Andrew Affleck
Human Resources Administrator at Dalhousie University College of Continuing Education
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Thunder Bay, ON
Andrew Affleck
Emergency Physician at Thunder Bay Regional Helath Sciences Ceneter
The Project Manager Network - #1 Group for Project Managers
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Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE)
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RI Nexus
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Technology, Innovation, and Education Program (TIE)
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WordPress Developers
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Software Project Management Group
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SAIC CONNECTIONS
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Rhode Island-Network Group
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PMI Project, Program and Portfolio Management
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Web Accessibility
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Dartmouth College Alumni
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Buck's Rock Alumni
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Fordham Preparatory School Alumni
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Ivy League Alumni
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