Vincent Irokwe

Results-driven Project Implementation Manager, Senior Business Analyst, and Product Owner with 9+ years of progressive experience leading end-to-end delivery of enterprise technology, EHR/EMR modernization, data migration, and process improvement programs across public health, healthcare/managed care, and corporate banking. PMP, CBAP, and SAFe POPM certified, with deep fluency in Agile/Scrum, SAFe, Waterfall, and Hybrid delivery, requirements elicitation, vendor and contract management, risk mitigation, and data-driven decision-making. Proven record of delivering complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives on time, within scope, and on budget, driving 15 to 20% operational cost reductions and $2M+ in annual savings.

Skilled at bridging clinical, technical, and executive audiences and translating ambiguous business needs into clear requirements, actionable roadmaps, and measurable outcomes, with HIPAA/PHI compliance built into every phase.

Project Implementation Manager at CDC Foundation (WAI Program) (2026-06 – Present)

Lead the AHD EHR Modernization Initiative, a full migration of a ~300 GB legacy clinical database (3M+ records in the largest table alone) from Netsmart Insight 8.0 on SQL Server to a modern EHR platform, on a multi-year program running through June 2027.

• Own the end-to-end implementation roadmap across discovery, vendor selection, contracting, data migration, validation, and go-live, coordinating a confirmed 11-person stakeholder matrix spanning clinical end users, IT security, infrastructure, and reporting specialists.
• Drove vendor evaluation, scope negotiation, and contract execution to signature, sequencing a nine-month implementation against a June 2027 go-live target and aligning the vendor's Smartsheet delivery workspace with department governance.
• Partnered with municipal IT and database administration to stand up an isolated migration test environment, enabling iterative extract-and-validate cycles with zero impact to production clinical systems.
• Negotiated and locked migration scope with clinical leadership, prioritizing laboratory data and bulk clinical document (PDF) conversion as mandatory deliverables against a defined chart-note retention window, protecting both timeline and budget from scope creep.
• Established program governance from the ground up: RAID logs, a version-controlled migration scope tracker, a full SharePoint document library, and executive status reporting, giving leadership a single source of truth on progress and risk.
• Produced 25+ project artifacts within the first three weeks, including a Knowledge Transfer Plan, vendor evaluation materials, discovery planning documents, meeting minutes, and action-item trackers.
• Embedded HIPAA and PHI safeguards, data retention policy, and records-governance requirements (including permanent-retention record classes) into every phase of migration planning and data handling.
• Coordinate with the assigned data engineer and municipal DBA on data mapping, schema changes, and validation planning, translating clinical and reporting requirements into migration specifications.

Senior Business Analyst / Product Owner at CDC Foundation (WAI Program) (2024-12 – 2026-05)

• Led cross-functional teams through requirements gathering and solution design, aligning stakeholder needs with technology capability and compressing project delivery timelines.
• Owned and prioritized the product backlog alongside product managers and engineering, running sprint planning, backlog refinement, and sprint reviews for a 10+ person development team and sustaining continuous delivery of high-priority features.
• Facilitated stakeholder training on new processes and tooling, lifting user adoption 40% within the first quarter post-implementation.
• Negotiated third-party vendor contracts, cutting software licensing costs 15% while strengthening ongoing vendor relationships.
• Delivered in-depth analysis using SQL, Tableau, and advanced Excel, surfacing insights that reduced operational costs and streamlined core departmental processes.
• Designed and implemented process improvements that automated manual workflows, increasing throughput and eliminating recurring system inefficiencies.
• Authored comprehensive BRDs, functional specifications, epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria, holding delivery to quality standards and on-time release commitments.
• Facilitated requirements elicitation workshops and stakeholder interviews, documenting current-state and future-state workflows in BPMN 2.0 process maps to drive alignment on solution scope.
• Served as the primary liaison between public health program staff and technical teams, translating business needs into prioritized, testable requirements in Jira and Confluence.

Business Analyst / Project Manager at Citigroup (2019-10 – 2024-04)

• Managed project backlogs and delivery within an Agile framework across the Corporate Banking division, achieving a 95% on-time project completion rate.
• Coordinated and executed user acceptance testing (UAT) for major system upgrades, delivering a seamless transition with a 99% post-launch functionality rate.
• Generated actionable insights from large datasets using Excel and Tableau, informing executive decision-making and contributing to a 5% revenue increase through improved client intelligence.
• Led design and implementation of automated financial reporting systems using SQL and Excel, improving data accuracy and sharply reducing reporting errors.
• Authored BRDs and functional specifications that bridged technical teams and business units, keeping implementations aligned to stated goals.
• Performed gap analysis on business and financial processes, proposing solutions that streamlined operations and increased team productivity across the division.
• Tracked project risks, issues, and dependencies, escalating blockers and presenting status and mitigation options to project leadership to keep releases on schedule.

Business Analyst at Molina Healthcare (2017-01 – 2019-10)

• Managed project timelines, milestones, and resource allocation for system enhancement initiatives, contributing to a 10% improvement in on-time project completion.
• Partnered with compliance teams on proactive audits and process improvements, reducing compliance-related issues 12% across healthcare regulatory standards, including HIPAA.
• Delivered production support to business stakeholders and analyzed claims processing workflows for inefficiencies, cutting incident resolution time 30% through structured root cause analysis and targeted automation.
• Captured an

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Public Administration

Abia State University, Uturu, Nigeria