SUMMARY:

• Dynamic Project Manager wif over 19 years of experience leading technical, complex, multifunctional teams in teh development and implementation of strategic solutions that increase efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance bottom line. Analytical leader who rapidly determines business needs and presents clear, actionable technical solutions.
• Expert consensus builder who effectively communicates project value to senior management, “in - teh-trenches” technical teams, and non-technical stakeholders. Milestone-driven professional who consistently hits teh finish line on time and on budget - on every project. Competencies include:

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PM Tools: PMBOK, PERT/CPM, Comparative Initiative Ranking, WBS, Project Charter, Project Initiation Form, Risk Analysis, Risk List, Communication Plan, Stakeholder Analysis, Project Estimating, Change Control, Meeting Agenda, Milestone Chart, Project Status Report & Project Close Out Form.

PM Methodologies: PMI, Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, SDLC, Staged Delivery, Phased Approach and Full Life Cycle Management.

Software/Tools: Symantec Endpoint (SEP), Splunk, MS Office, MS Project, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, MS Access, JIRA, Lync, Omega Time Reporting, SharePoint, HP Project and Portfolio Management Center (PPMC), Mercury Test Director (Quality Center), SharePoint, Quick Base, and Primavera

Technologies: Endpoint Protection, Cyber Security, MS Office 365, Data Loss Prevention, SIEM, LAN, WAN, TCP/IP, Ethernet, Cloud Services, Virtualization, MPLS, Fiber Services, VoIP, Metro Ethernet, DNS, Cisco Routers, Cisco Switches, Firewalls,, Frame-Relay, VPN, Voice/Data Integration, L2/L3 Switching, 2G/3G UMTS, GSM, T1, and OC3-OC48.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. Project Manager - Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Managed all aspects of Hardware and Software Security projects management and project life-cycles by effectively initiating, planning, scheduling, controlling, and bringing to closure multiple large, high - profile, high-priority projects.
• Generated work order and change request and time estimates. Executed Statement of Works and Contracts.
• Facilitated team meetings wif design, development, quality assurance, and company/vendor/client support groups to route and resolve issues, identify and mitigate risks, and to create and follow project schedule.
• SDLC software project management (LOE’s, user stories, requirements, design, QA, backlog and release management.
• Full budget management and forecasting wif yearly costs ranging from 100K to 1 Million.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. Project Manager - Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Provided PM support to sales team as they prepared RFQ/RFP responses and statements of work.
• Generated work order and change request and time estimates. Executed Statement of Works and Contracts.
• Engage wif clients’ executive leadership as necessary to communicate project objectives, strategy, tactics, change management and ongoing progress.
• Led and/or performed requirements gathering, information architecture sessions, technical solution design, site configuration, documentation, and for SharePoint projects.
• Working directly wif stakeholders to drive a project from initiation through delivery.
• Ensured deliverables were complete, accurate, on time, and in compliance wif SDLC and SOX policies.
• Facilitated regular status meetings between business and technology organizations; distributed meeting minutes.
• Communicated project status to project sponsor, all team members, and other relevant stakeholder.
• Lead large, cross-organization project teams towards targeted and scheduled outcomes.
• Provide daily support for managing delivery of project tasks, activities, milestones and resources using MS Project.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Brought into support high-value EFM products generating over 30+ million in annual revenue in teh first year.
• Lead project planning sessions including teh creation of teh project definition, project charters and project plan to clearly identify teh project’s scope, resources, weekly team status meetings, tasks and responsibilities.
• Managed cutovers of sites to include reviewing changing wif change control board, opening bridge and managing change and providing updates to program manager on a daily basis.
• Manage large programs and complex projects involving multiple parties/organizations wif conflicting agendas and business priorities.
• Worked as a team utilizing Scrum framework, coordinating wif IT, Operations, and executives to deliver teh project on time and wifin teh scope and budget.
• Established a lightweight Scrum project management process and helped team meet sprint goals.
• Daily stand ups
• Collaborated wif business stakeholders to assess new requests or technology needs, formulated business cases, prioritized projects, identified potentially impacted systems, gathered ROM, final estimates and worked wif PMO and Demand Management team to prioritize for deployment pipeline.
• As a member of PMO team, managed teh following meeting: Work Entry (new request), Change Control Board (CCB), Release War Room, Release Management, Release Planning and Stakeholder Prioritization Meeting.
• Facilitated questions and answer sessions wif teh Quality Assurance (off-shore) and Test Architects (on-site) when needed.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Sr. National Technical PMO Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Selected as teh Lead Project Manager for teh network capacity build for teh initial Launch of teh iPhone by senior management.
• Execute and manage large complex projects through AT&T TNRP, PDP and BAU project management processes as governed by teh MNPMO (Mobility National PMO) ranging from $500k to $4 million.
• Develop detailed project plans and schedules, status reports, migration dashboards, templates, jeopardy and issues reports; Create and manage project SharePoint websites.
• Interfaced wif upper management and highly technical groups wifin cross functional and matrix teams
• Execute change control management issuing yellow and red jeopardies, change requests and change notifications to keep teh project wifin teh approved scope and cost baselines.
• Collaborate wif technical staff to define functional requirements.
• Responsible for managing vendors, content providers, scheduling deliverables, resource acquisition and management.
• Conduct lessons learned, project survey and formal hand-off/acceptance to Implementation and Ops Teams.