Danielle Okonkwo

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Senior Program Manager with 11 years driving enterprise-scale technology and operations programs across SaaS, fintech, and healthcare verticals. Specializes in cross-functional alignment, OKR-based roadmapping, and risk mitigation for portfolios exceeding $40M. Delivered three platform migrations on schedule and under budget, reducing operational overhead by an average of 22%.

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Senior Program ManagerMar 2020 - Present

Vantara Health Systems, Austin, TX

Orchestrated a 14-month EHR platform migration across 6 hospital sites, coordinating 4 vendor teams and 120+ internal stakeholders, delivering 3 weeks ahead of schedule and $1.2M under the $9.8M budget.
Built and maintained a portfolio-level risk register covering 18 concurrent initiatives, reducing unplanned escalations to executive leadership by 41% within the first year.
Introduced bi-weekly OKR review cadences and a centralized Jira/Confluence dashboard, cutting status-reporting overhead by 6 hours per week per team lead across 9 departments.

Program ManagerJun 2016 - Feb 2020

Meridian Software Group, Denver, CO

Led a $14M multi-year SaaS infrastructure modernization program, coordinating 7 agile squads and aligning delivery milestones to three consecutive annual budget cycles with zero mid-cycle scope overruns.
Championed a PMO maturity uplift initiative that standardized intake, prioritization, and retrospective processes, increasing on-time delivery rate from 58% to 84% across the portfolio in 18 months.
Negotiated a revised SLA framework with two strategic cloud vendors, recovering $380K in annual service credits and reducing P1 incident resolution time from 9 hours to 3.5 hours.

Associate Program ManagerAug 2013 - May 2016

Clearfield Financial Technologies, Chicago, IL

Supported delivery of a regulatory compliance program (Dodd-Frank reporting) spanning 5 business units, tracking 200+ workstream tasks and ensuring zero missed regulatory deadlines across a 22-month timeline.
Coordinated UAT cycles for a payments processing upgrade affecting 1.4M end-user accounts, consolidating defect triage across QA, engineering, and operations to compress test cycles by 30%.
Developed a resource capacity model in Excel and Smartsheet that identified $620K in contractor redundancy, enabling reallocation to two high-priority product initiatives.

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