SUMMARY:

• Certified Project Manager, Scrum Master, and SAFe Agilist with strong communication and leadership skills in successful delivery of project milestones being on time and within budget. Over ten years experience in Information
• Technology (IT); product deliver, project management and process re - engineering. Strengths include team building, negotiating and focus on the big picture of the Enterprise strategic goals.
• Energetic, loyal and eager to learn as a team member and leader.
• MS Share Point 2013
• Agile and Waterfall SDLC
• CMMI
• Six Sigma (Lean, DMAIC)
• PMBOK, Scrum Alliance, SAFe
• Mobile Applications
• Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
• Unix
• MVS/TSO
• Citrix
• SAP
• RACF
• Nexsure
• BizTalk

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Sr. Project Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Program manager for the organization transformation to agile including development of plan, cost, resources and progress.
• Coordinated a core team of Enterprise Agile transformation Coaches, Scrum Masters, SME’s, and management to plan and implement an organizational Agile transformation.
• Program manager of managed the Agile transformation plan and reported progress to senior managers.
• Conducted organization assessment for Agile readiness.
• Lead the design of an organizational compatible Agile Life Cycle process model with supporting Agile processes.
• Coordinated the development of, and co-taught a suite of targeted Agile s.
• Created agile program plan to kick-off 10 Agile teams in 2015.
• Lead the assessment of Agile tools and metrics for seamless management of Agile projects.
• Acted as Scrum Master for several small to mid size projects, leading standup meetins, reporting on sprint Burndown, and all ceramonies to support the four week sprints.
• Vendor Management for offshore resources.
• Designed and implemented a strategy to report statuses of open issues that were high profiled.
• Managed issue resolution process from open to closing.
• Developed process diagrams to identify process gap and duplicate work streams.
• Complied meeting minutes and posted to Share Point.
• Managed process improvement request from inception to implementation.
• Lead Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions to review maintenance items.
• Created Change Control documents from end users request for correction.
• Designed screen mockups from user change request for developers to code from.
• Scheduled elaboration meetings between SME’s and vendor representatives to document and approve process changes.

Confidential - New York, NY

Project Analyst/Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interviewed Subject Matter Experts (SME) to elicit and document functional business requirements.
• Managed requirement traceability in Hewitt Packard Quality Center (HPQC).
• Designed and implemented a strategy to report statuses of open issues that were high profiled.
• Managed issue resolution process from open to closing.
• Developed process diagrams to identify process gap and duplicate work streams.
• Complied meeting minutes and posted to Share Point.
• Managed project defects and Issues from JAD sessions in Hewitt Packard Quality Center (HPQC).
• Lead Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions to review maintenance items.
• Created Change Control documents from end users request for correction.
• Designed screen mockups from user change request for developers to code from.
• Scheduled elaboration meetings between SME’s and vendor representatives to document and approve process changes.

Confidential, New York, NY

Project Manager/Business Analyst Lead

Responsibilities:

• Developed Scope and Vision statements for Con Edison Estimating System (CEES) Phase 0 deliverables.
• Developed high level requirements.
• Documented current workflow processes to identify gaps in current and future processes.
• Developed and managed project plan from Initiation to Closeout.
• Facilitated Change Management workshops from nine cross functional departments to elicit high-level requirements.
• Developed CEES Use Cases to demonstrate activity of system requirements to user actions.
• Led Functional Specifications walk-thru with developers to calculate the estimated cost in building the application in-house.
• Developed detailed Functional Specifications document (BRD) for input to request for proposal. (RFP).
• Managed acceptance and approval of deliverables.
• Assisted in the RFQ to vendors.
• Managed vendor demonstrations and scripting.

Confidential, Baldwin, NY

Project Manager/Business Analyst Lead

Responsibilities:

• Developed project scope and project plan for process improvement project.
• Identified gaps in current process to future process.
• Developed detailed requirement list.
• Identified industry best practices for Accounting Firms of like size.
• Assisted in hardware selection.
• Administered product procurement.
• Conducted User Acceptance Test.
• Re-engineered process to service client’s monthly billing and reporting processes.
• Designed workflows for processing applications for Home Loan Modifications.
• Supervised customer financial audits.
• Coach, educated and train office personnel on accounting/tax changes.

Confidential, Long Island City, NY

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed project portfolio.
• Performed quality audits and reviews.
• Tracked actual cost to budgeted cost for future funding needs.
• Updated project plan schedules.
• Managed risk and issues logs.
• Managed stakeholder communication.
• Reported performance measurement metrics.
• Developed dashboard reports.
• Facilitated working sessions to identify process improvement opportunities.
• Developed and Managed SharePoint dashboard templates for reporting funding of projects.

Confidential, New York, NY

Business Analyst Lead

Responsibilities:

• Developed User Stories for several lines of business (LOB) to demonstrate expected system response.
• Managed issue log to track risk/issues from open to close related to change management.
• Developed current and future process diagrams for over twenty one cross functional teams using VISIO.
• Facilitated Change Management sessions for branch conversion from a mainframe application to a web base application.
• Managed change control documentation and approvals for quality assurance.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing for Product Release of Nexsure.
• Lead status report meetings to identify risk and issues related to “Go Live”.
• Created PowerPoint presentations for management decision of “Go/No Go”.
• Performed data mapping of Acord forms to NID tables for conversion process.
• Managed project documents in MS SharePoint and setup user access rights.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

PMO Lead

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated review sessions for selection of process improvement framework Tools: ISO 9000, BPM, CMMI, ITIL, and Six Sigma.
• Facilitated Root Cause analysis to identify Asset Utilization process for order and delivery of equipment.
• Designed Asset Utilization process change to improve time of order to installation of equipment.
• Managed the reporting of Key Process area performances.
• Collaborated with subject matter experts (SME) to create governance standards, policies, and procedures, to meet Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) requirements.
• Managed configuration changes in Clear case.
• Developed estimates and cost savings analysis for business case presentations.
• Managed Work Breakdown Structure and dictionary.
• Developed process flows to identify process gaps using CMMI frameworks.
• Documented Software Quality Assurance (SQA) guidelines in evaluating the quality of deliverables for merger of Michcon energy services to DTE energy services
• Conducted sessions for project managers to introduce and apply process changes for SQA at Nuclear Plant and IT departments.
• Developed and tested, test scenarios for Lotus Notes Implementation.
• Managed project schedules in MS Project as a PMO coach for project Managers.
• Conducted lesson learned project close out meetings