SUMMARY:

• Project Manager with 16 years of international experience in strategic planning, mitigation management, operations analysis, status reporting, cost estimating, contract management, risk management, client relationship management, process improvement and hardware/software deployments.
• Skilled at quickly and successfully responding to changing environments and situations to consistently achieve goals within critical project deadlines. A natural team leader and mentor who excels at team building to achieve projects goals and deadlines, remaining pragmatic and focused under demanding environment.
• Results oriented and decisive leader possessing crisis management skills utilized in driving profitable and cost effective collaboration between business functions. Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) experience.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• MS Project
• Microsoft Word, Excel & Power Point
• MS Outlook, Lotus Notes
• MS Visio
• MS SharePoint
• WLAN, LAN, Firewall
• Windows NT & XP
• Clarity, SAP & Remedy
• Oracle
• Mainframe

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Atlanta, GA

Project Manager (contract)

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple projects for GE’s Monitoring, Software and Analytics Division. Project scope ranged from installing computer monitoring systems to upgrading software/hardware packages. Responsible for managing the projects schedule, budget and stakeholders in accordance with PMI standards on sites around the world.
• Provided strategic direction to multiple projects; established priorities, allocated resources for performance objectives and s.
• Planned project executions with high level GE managers, customers and other staff sections. Kept all stakeholders informed on project status through project dashboards and regular meetings.
• Organized a $2M Project Management Information System (PMIS) migration to enhance the management of all the projects within the Requisition Unit. Supervised 10 Project Managers and Requisition Engineers. Created migrations implementation steps and reported them to upper management. Developed the project schedules and status reports.
• Managed $10M - $50M computer monitoring systems installations for turbines internationally.

Confidential - Greenville, SC

Sr. Project Manager / Program Manager, PMO (contract)

Responsibilities:

• Provided strategic direction to IT projects for a leading Tire Manufacturing Company. Developed business plans and established operational performance goals. Monitored progress toward s. Established priorities and allocated resources for performance objectives s.
• Managed $800M IT Application Infrastructure project for the creation of a new fabrication plant for a major tires manufacturing company. Responsible for all project aspects, including cost and quality. Supervised 5 Project Managers remotely (India, Brazil, France and USA) and more than 30 software development resources around the world.
• Managed the transition from an AIX operating system to a Linux operating system in constrained time period of two months.
• Supervised Data center migration including control and maintenance. Developed the project schedules and status reports. Administered a data transfer migration and upgrades.

Confidential

Program Manager, PMO

Responsibilities:

• Strategically directed network projects for a leading Swiss Telecom Company provider.
• Created framework and methodology appropriate for the environments and developed project execution, reporting templates and status.
• Controlled and mentored team with risk management including identification, tracking and mitigating.
• Established priorities and allocated resources to achieve performances objectives.
• Directed annual $5M public phone booths closing and demolition project. Responsible for all project aspects, including estimates, cost, schedule, resource and quality. Managed 12 Regional Project Managers.

Confidential - Norcross, GA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Identified productive methods to achieve top performance, eliminate waste and reduce expenses. Worked in partnership with PMO to define project requirements and life cycle including deliverables, goals milestones and deployment. Led the execution of projects including budget, schedules, technical resource management and status reports.
• Oversaw $5M installation/upgrade project that reduced costs and increased functionality and user efficiency for 160,000+ users per month. Initiated and responsibility systems to enhance technician involvement with production processes resulting in an 8% decrease in production costs.
• Administered $5M infrastructure project. Major activities included: schedules, estimates, resource management, production support, hardware and software deployment and end delivery, keeping project under budget and meeting customer expectations.
• Supervised $2M manufacturing project for the creation of several new designs and assembly approaches which reduced production cost by 15% within 12 months and 19% within 24 months. Decreased project costs and scheduling execution time by 12% on a $50M project by implementing a more efficient project management methodology using PMI (Project Management Institute) tools and methodology practices.
• Established assembly protocols that reduced duration and achieved 10% late penalty savings (including SCADA).