SUMMARY:

• PMP certified Project Manager with more than seven years of experience driving the success of enterprise level application development and business process engineering initiatives. Expertise in applying the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) in developing scope, risk, communication, resource, and enterprise change plans. Fully versed in application development and project management best practices. History of on time, on budget product delivery.
• Full Life Cycle Project Management
• Systems Launch & Integration
• Application Development
• Process Development/Reengineering
• Client Relationship Management
• Best Practice Methodologies
• Budgeting & Cost Control
• Use & Test Case Development
• Technical & User Documentation
• Sarbanes - Oxley (SOX) Compliance
• Capability Maturity Models (CMM)
• Enterprise Change Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Business Tools: Microsoft Office Suite: Access, Excel, Project, PowerPoint, Visio, WordNiku/Clarity, Mercury Quality Center, Test Director, DOORS, Sharepoint, Documentum

Languages/ Environments/Operating Systems: Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), Java, XML, C++, SQL, Informatica, JavaScript, Visual Basic, VBScript, HTML, ASP, PERL, COBOL, AdaMacromedia Suite:DreamWeaver, HomeSite, Flash, Fireworks, UNIX, BEA Web Logic 8.0, IPlanet, Windows NT / 2000, DOS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Simultaneously manage the delivery of several projects to ensure initiatives meet schedule, budget, and quality commitments
• Coordinate all project activities including scheduling, estimating, forecasting, budgeting, monitoring, analyzing, and reporting associated with all projects
• Develop accurate status reports to track issues, risks, and action items using MS Project, Niku/Clarity, and Microsoft Office Suite
• Maintain a thorough working knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle process
• Coordinate activities and schedules between IT and clients
• Ensure the teams comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Confidential, Birmingham, AL

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the Production Support team to ensure that daily performance objectives were met
• Developed accurate status reports to track issues, risks, and mitigation plans
• Interfaced with Technical Architects to ensure requirements were developed
• Ensured all project efforts were scheduled and delivered as committed
• Developed OmniPlus and Plan Office 2.0 documentation
• Implemented Plan Office and Plan Manager at client sites

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Prime Integrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked with IT Operations to insure that the IT infrastructure met the existing and planned needs of Confidential
• Managed the delivery of projects to ensure initiatives meet schedule, budget, and quality commitments
• Analyzed the development, verification, and management of estimates for new technology applications and maintenance of existing project commitments for multi-million dollar budgets
• Coordinated all project activities including scheduling, estimating, forecasting, budgeting, monitoring, analyzing, and reporting associated with all major projects
• Developed accurate status reports to track issues, risks, and action items using MS Project, Niku/Clarity, and Microsoft Office Suite
• Handled all aspects of large, complex projects, from inception to production support including budgets, resources, dependencies, risks and constraints
• Interfaced with technical SMEs/Architects to ensure requirements are developed and that all project efforts are scheduled and kept on track
• Maintained a thorough working knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle process
• Consistently in corporate the use of Confidential tools in day-to-day project activities such as Niku/Clarity
• Simultaneously managed several data warehousing implementations from ideation through implementation
• Ensured the teams comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Project Manager - Release Management

Responsibilities:

• Monitored project progress ensuring project objectives are delivered on time through the SDLC process
• Determined project approach, staffing, responsibilities, and schedule
• Measured and monitor progress at clearly defined points in the process to ensure that the project is delivered on time, within budget, and that it meets or exceeds expectations
• Reviewed and manage all changes to the requirements through a formally defined scope change process
• Represented the project team at client meetings
• Created, facilitated, managed, and oversaw the development of the detailed project Plan, including a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Served as the primary point of contact for all Project-related issues and proactively work to resolve such issues
• Supported multiple locations including inter-country management responsibilities
• Simultaneously managed several data warehousing and software development implementations from ideation through implementation
• Ensured the teams comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Assisted in obtaining CMM Level 3
• Assisted in the creation of business, technical, and functional requirements to outline current and future system specifications
• Developed components using EJB, Unix, HTML, and VB script to implement services to outside vendors and internal systems
• Utilized SQL statements to test database functionality with components
• Utilized Mercury Test Director to track and monitor testing progress
• Facilitated communication between the client, external vendors, and the development team
• Assisted in the design and execution of test scripts and scenarios
• Traveled to India to complete Knowledge Transfer of Confidential applications to 4 team resources

Confidential

Production Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Ensured the availability and the productive use of UNIX based application for over 10,000 Confidential end users
• Collaborated with software developers and vendors to enhance application usage and migration to new versions of the application
• Provided accurate estimates for design and programming efforts
• Utilized COBOL is assist in report creation
• Confirmed that technical architecture supported all changes required by application enhancements
• Provided input to and documentation materials regarding latest technical and functional design changes

Confidential

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared an analysis of research centers and companies to identify competition
• Reengineered internal processes to improve both internal and external inefficiencies
• Developed and implemented a data mart to increase efficiency in the storage and retrieval of data

Confidential

Communications Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated communication between Phoenix Group and professors
• Developed shopping cart prototype
• Documented preparation and presentation for the Phoenix Group