Andrew Affleck
Senior Project Manager/PMO at Pfizer
Information Technology Leader - Senior Project/Program Manager | Technical Operations | Development Operations
Throughout my career, I have been sought after to work with clients and partners of all kinds. My approach and philosophy are simple: seek to understand with respect and empathy. By ensuring my clients have a chance to feel listened to, supported, and cared about, I build trust and provide far better service while ensuring the project team delivers excellence. 

While I have experience with design and development, I’m considered a subject matter expert in project and program management. I’ve managed projects/programs in Higher Education, Big Pharma, Federal Government, App development, and Startups. I have worked with clients of all kinds including high-touch, VIP customers.

My relationships with the designers, developers, and the rest of the project team are just as important to me as the client relationship. I care about the entire team and make sure they have clear, concise, and useful information and I am always available to them to remove any blockers in their way.

Specialties:
• Executive Management | Team & Department Building | On-Site, Distributed, & Matrix Management | Budgeting
• Project Management | Agile | Scrum | PMI | SDLC | PMBOK | Requirements
• Program Management | Building PMOs | Reporting | Training | Mentoring
• Development Operations | LAMP | NGINX | Apache | AWS | NewRelic | CloudFlare | CI/CD
Pfizer
https://www.linkedin.com/company/pfizer
Senior Project Manager/PMO
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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Affleck Design
Owner
With Affleck Design I provide WordPress development, Filemaker Pro, and general IT consulting services to clients.
Cranston, RI
Automattic
https://www.linkedin.com/company/british-telecom-recruitment
Technical Account Manager
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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Intermarkets, Inc.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/intermarkets-inc-
Senior Systems Manager
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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Ozmott, LLC
https://www.linkedin.com/company/ozmott-llc
Senior Director Of Engineering
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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Pfizer
https://www.linkedin.com/company/pfizer
Senior Project Manager
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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Merck
https://www.linkedin.com/company/merck
Solutions Manager
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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Pfizer
https://www.linkedin.com/company/pfizer
Senior Project Manager, Program Manager
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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Computer Science, Education
A.B.
Dartmouth College
https://www.linkedin.com/school/dartmouth-college/
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.
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Technology in Education
Ed.M.
Harvard University Graduate School of Education
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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.
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Take Control of Podcasting
Take Control Books
"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."
https://www.takecontrolbooks.com/podcasting/
Multiple Articles
TidBITS
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/
http://www.tidbits.com
Python and Zope in the EZRO CMS
python.org
Case study on how Python helped speed development of devIS EZ Reusable Objects (EZRO), a flexible content management system used in the eGovernment sector.
http://legacy.python.org/about/success/ezro/
Usable Accessibility in On-line Learning
White Paper
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.
Take Control of Podcasting on the Mac
Take Control
"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.
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Nominated for Best Male Lead for Dracula
Motif Magazine, Providence, RI
Nominated for Best Male Lead for my portrayal of Dracula in Swamp Meadow Community Theatre's production of Dracula in November, 2010.
Arts and Culture
Swamp Meadow Community Theatre
Executive Director, Actor, Dramatic Director, Producer, Sound Board Operator, Backstage Manager
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.
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
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Roxanne Fox
CIO & CFO  at ILYGuts Corporation: Owners of Museo -The Art Tourism App and Sr. Manager at Pfizer, Inc
New London County, CT
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Kathleen Zaleski
Program Manager at Pfizer
Queens County, NY
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Brian Newton
Senior Program Manager (Site Investigations Lead) at Pfizer
Ithaca, NY
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Kevin Fletcher
Sr. Program Manager at Pfizer
Greater Chicago Area
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Laura Zumpano
Director, Clinical Operations Program Lead at Pfizer
Rumson, NJ
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John Hwang
Senior Director, Corporate Compliance, Strategic Operations & Programs at Pfizer
New York City Metropolitan Area
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Gary Lombardo
Director Project Management - Pfizer Inc.
San Diego, CA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/liz-rogers-bb48aa7
Liz Rogers
Vice President, Head of Global Site and Study Operations at Pfizer
New York City Metropolitan Area
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Kevin O'Brien
Manager, Pharmaceutical Marketing Rotational Program at Pfizer
New York, NY
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Wennie Zhou
Senior Director Program Management at Pfizer
Greater Chicago Area
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Carol Schaffer
Director, Program Lead at Pfizer, Data Monitoring and Management
Ringwood, NJ
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Shivani Garg
Marketing Manager, Clinical Trial Experience
New York, NY
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Carla Emmons
Unabashedly making the world a better place
Portland, Maine Metropolitan Area
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Rain Minns
owner at Rain Minns Law Firm
Austin, TX
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Brian Coughlin
Mathematics Teacher at Sacred Heart Academy
Grand Rapids, MI
https://www.linkedin.com/in/threadedkernel
Joel White
Business Value Driver | Customer Advocate | Team Builder | #DataDriven | CTO | Application Hosting | ☁ Technology Strategist | Digital | Enterprise IT | SME | Coach | Servant Leader | Advisor | Thankful
Greater Chicago Area
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Brad ☼ Derstine
DevOps and Open Source
Denver, CO
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Amy Acevedo
Working Mom | Branch Director at Robert Half
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariogerard
Mario Gerard
Principal Technical Program Manager | Blogger & Podcast Host
Seattle, WA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-spight
Jason Spight
Sr. Customer Solutions Manager at Amazon
Atlanta Metropolitan Area
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        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.
Andrew Affleck
https://sg.linkedin.com/in/andrewaffleck
Experienced renewable energy investment professional
Singapore
Andrew Affleck
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Communications and Engagement Specialist
Cramlington
Andrew Affleck
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Human Resources Administrator at Dalhousie University College of Continuing Education
Halifax, NS
Andrew Affleck
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Emergency Physician at Thunder Bay Regional Helath Sciences Ceneter
Thunder Bay, ON
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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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