Experience

I am a Senior Project Manager who helps organizations deliver complex work under real constraints: regulatory oversight, fixed deadlines, distributed authority, and incomplete information.

My experience spans regulated enterprise delivery, live event production, data-driven advisory work, and large-scale systems design. Across these domains, my focus has been consistent: clarifying what matters, coordinating stakeholders with competing priorities, and supporting decisions that lead to durable outcomes rather than short-term fixes.

I have led long-running enterprise implementations, produced high-stakes live events with immovable deadlines, advised within opaque and probabilistic systems, and designed complex fictional worlds for immersive experiences. Each context sharpened a different aspect of my judgment, adaptability, and leadership, and together they define how I operate as a senior practitioner.

Enterprise Project and Program Delivery

I have led complex, mission-critical initiatives in regulated healthcare and enterprise environments where delivery failure would carry legal, financial, or operational consequences.

This includes multi-year implementations of vendor platforms supporting billing, enrollment, and claims across Medicaid, Medicare, Pharmacy, and On-Exchange lines of business, as well as enterprise modernization efforts involving data migration, testing, cutover, and stabilization for systems with no tolerance for extended disruption.

In these roles, I regularly operated with:

  • distributed decision authority;

  • multiple external vendors;

  • strict regulatory requirements;

  • and competing business priorities.

I learned to manage decision flow, risk visibility, and cross-functional alignment in environments where delays accumulate quietly and judgment matters more than process compliance.

Takeaway: JP can be trusted with regulated, high-consequence systems and understands how to move work forward when authority and accountability are distributed.

Selected Outcomes

Delivered regulated, enterprise-scale systems without service disruption
Led multi-year implementations of billing, enrollment, and claims platforms supporting Medicaid, Medicare, Pharmacy, and On-Exchange insurance lines, coordinating vendors, IT, and business teams while meeting regulatory, audit, and market-readiness requirements.

Improved delivery predictability in complex programs
Supported earlier, clearer leadership decisions by making dependencies, readiness, and tradeoffs explicit, reducing late-cycle rework and instability during testing, cutover, and launch.

Built teams that held up under pressure
Led and supported cross-functional delivery and operations teams in high-stakes environments, improving continuity and follow-through while navigating escalations, performance challenges, and sensitive situations.

Live Event Planning and Producing

In parallel with enterprise work, I have planned and produced live events and experiential projects with immovable deadlines, public visibility, and real-time risk.

Event production sharpened my leadership in ways few environments do. There is no abstraction in a live room. Decisions about scope, safety, sequencing, and contingency must be made with incomplete information and immediate consequences.

Through this work, I have:

  • coordinated vendors, performers, technical teams, venues, staff, and volunteers;

  • built run-of-show plans and contingency paths

  • managed budgets and logistics under time pressure

  • made rapid tradeoffs when conditions changed

This experience strengthened my ability to prioritize clearly, communicate decisively, and lead calmly under pressure. Those skills directly inform how I manage high-stakes enterprise delivery today.

Takeaway: JP stays calm, prioritizes clearly, and makes defensible decisions when things go sideways.

Data-Driven Advisory and Systems Thinking

I have led independent advisory engagements focused on helping individuals and organizations operate more effectively within complex, opaque systems, particularly data-driven and algorithmic environments where rules are partially visible and outcomes are probabilistic rather than guaranteed.

This work is practical rather than theoretical. It centers on understanding how systems actually behave, identifying which signals meaningfully affect outcomes, and helping decision-makers act with clarity without overstating control or certainty.

In this context, I have:

  • clarified how shifting incentives and incomplete transparency affect behavior and risk

  • helped stakeholders distinguish actionable signal from noise

  • designed lightweight tools and interpretive frameworks that support defensible decisions under uncertainty

The net effect of this work has been improved decision quality in environments where traditional planning models break down. It strengthened my ability to explain complex dynamics clearly, maintain ethical boundaries around certainty and risk, and support sound judgment when data is abundant but clarity is scarce.

Takeaway: JP helps others make better decisions in uncertain, opaque systems without overselling certainty.

World-Building and Systems Design

I am also the creator of large-scale fictional worlds used for tabletop role-playing games, LARP experiences, and immersive storytelling.

World-building at this level is systems work. It requires:

  • designing internally consistent rules

  • anticipating emergent behavior

  • balancing freedom and constraint

  • maintaining coherence across time, players, and narratives

This practice has sharpened my ability to think in systems, model downstream effects, and design structures that support meaningful interaction without over-control. These skills translate directly to senior-level project work in complex organizational environments.

Takeaway: JP thinks in systems, anticipates downstream effects, and designs structures that balance freedom and constraint.

Growth Across Contexts

Earlier roles in employee relations, recruitment, consulting, and executive leadership grounded my work in the human realities of organizations: conflict, motivation, fear, incentives, and power.

Across my career, I have grown from executing defined work to designing the conditions under which work succeeds. I have learned when to push, when to pause, and when to reframe problems so better decisions become possible.

That growth is cumulative. Each domain reinforced the others.

What This Adds Up To

As a Senior Project Manager, I bring:

  • experience delivering under regulatory and operational constraint;

  • the ability to lead across technical, creative, and human systems;

  • strong judgment under pressure and ambiguity;

  • a track record of learning and adapting rather than repeating patterns.

I am not interested in performative project management. I am interested in work that is clear-eyed, defensible, and durable.