BUSINESS ANALYST | PROJECT MANAGER Resume - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Results oriented contributor with diverse experience managing and supporting 20+ project, change and process initiatives with emphasis in following areas:
Gather requirements, define scope, establish schedule, identify resources, estimate budget, manage progress and track issues
Craft and execute stakeholder management plan, communications plan, process mapping, user stories and testing plan
Develop metrics to measure effectiveness of schedule - cost, identify problems, implement solutions and drive best practices
Coach leadership on benefits, expectations and impact; drive adoption of process, legislation, systems or technology initiatives
Develop and deliver training; manage communications, create documentation, facilitate workshops and engagement sessions
Certified Confidential Change Practitioner utilizing a structured methodology and tools to assess impacts, readiness and resistance
Evaluate actuals and forecast against budget, review variances, commitments, reconcile expenditures and allocate contingency
Develop and maintain detailed cost reports; monitor man hours, prepare and update schedule progress to meet deadlines

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

BUSINESS ANALYST | PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

Selected to proactively manage and support projects by serving as technical and business team liaison, engaging front-line managers to capture requirements, create scope, project schedules, identify problems, collect feedback and implement solutions
Managed 5+ SharePoint migrations; performed analysis, testing, mapped content, validation, go-live support and sign off
Served as PM to execute a high-visibility dashboard tool supporting multiple business units to increase compliance in real-time.
Led 10+ projects to perform metadata clean-up, configure site collections, develop site pages, libraries and term store metadata
Spearheaded folder conversion project to migrate 764 documents (30GB) stored in multiple locations in a single repository
Delivered training in corporate wide change initiative, records management, external sites, workflow tools and best practices

PROJECT COST ENGINEER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Generated ad hoc reports; lag analysis, man-hour weighted average rates, category run rates and cost coding
Co-led vendor cost estimate activities to conduct gap analysis, analyze deviations, track expenditures and deliver cost reviews
Reviewed financial data to perform forecast, benchmarking, allocations, data cleanup and reconciliation
Served as SAP focal to create team training and processes for vendor lag analysis, spend by vendor and run rate
BP Exploration & Production (Swift)

PERFORMANCE MANAGER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Oversaw daily operations of 13 resources to support field operations, planned activities and conduct performance analysis
Engaged with 8 first line managers to gather requirements and define current, transition and future state process
Created documentation, managed stakeholders, delivered coaching and training to 100+ users and measured performance
Co-led continuous improvement initiative to track changes, measure success and centralize repository to eliminate gaps

Confidential

PROJECT ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

Acted as lead project manager to manage multiple material change initiatives (40+) to identify design changes, negotiate solutions, initiate full cycle projects to meet legal requirements and manage delivery
Initiated contractual changes, developed schedules, established test plans, monitored progress and tracked changeover
Constructed change notice, facilitated workshops to 800+ suppliers and delivered user training to 200+ stakeholders
Developed project schedules, tracked cost, monitored task, change requests and validated project closure
Co-led initiative to streamline process globally to centralize work in India to reduce labor cost by 80%
Reduced obsolescence of 20K hex chrome parts and lead parts saving $10M

Confidential

PROJECT COST ANALYST

Responsibilities:

Wrote testing plan, coordinated with functional teams and suppliers to perform testing and report results
Identified vendors with material volumes, conducted site visits, prepared weekly cost savings status reports
Championed collaboration with experts to execute recycled material in parts, which reduced cost by $5M