OBJECTIVE:

• To leverage and grow 28 years of project and program management leadership skills, experience and capability. To join an organization I can grow and achieve with, an organization that can grow with me.

SUMMARY:

• Program leader with experience and capabilities in Projects and Organizations
• International programs Developed and optimized five - year Strategic Plan
• Clear communication with stakeholders Developed and projectized organizations, according to
• Leadership in weak matrix environments industry best practices
• Multiple industries and their technologies Reengineered processes and procedures, according to
• Multiple simultaneous projects industry standards
• Experimental, and product developmental projects Developed and implemented methodologies and standards
• Project Tools: MS Project, MS Office, etc. Developed and instituted organizational policies
• Salvaged damaged projects Evolved program objectives within changing organizational
• Detailed planning and WBS creation objectives
• Risk analysis, management and control
• Earned Value Management
• Cross-functional teams, including multiple engineering disciplines, quality, contracts
• Complete cradle-to-grave P/L program management, including requirements, schedule and budget development

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Director of Elections, Project Management Institute

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Responsibilities:

• Updated chapter website for announcement of upcoming events, monthly newsletter, etc. Updated and maintained website archive of chapter events.
• For the Project Management Institute, developed a process map for the monthly presentation process, which included summarizing parts of the process currently in place, forcing specificity where the process was vague or undefined, and instituting components to cover gaps.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Responsibilities:

• Created the organizational plan for an insurance giant, who wished to integrate a newly acquired 403b business with an existing 401k line of business. Mapped the final target organization, and developed a step- by-step strategic plan to achieve these objectives.
• Served as program manager for a group of investors for their consumer electronics concept, developed functional specifications, qualified vendors and performed patent search to identify commercial licensing potential.
• For a small software development organization, created the documentation that linked the company's project management software to the accounting function of a major steel manufacturer, to provide general accounting control and reliable estimates of cash-flow needs, among other benefits.
• As Grants Director for a small not-for-profit organization, developed the plan for professionalization of their grant acquisition process, and integrated it with on-going balanced scorecard initiatives and other process improvement initiatives.
• Created the organizational plan for an insurance giant, who wished to integrate a newly acquired 403b business with an existing 401k line of business. Mapped the final target organization, and developed a step- by-step strategic plan to achieve these objectives.
• Developed a process map for the monthly presentation process, which included summarizing parts of the process currently in place, forcing specificity where the process was vague or undefined, and instituting components to cover gaps.
• Senior Project Management Consultant, Electronic Data Systems (EDS), Pittsburgh, PA
• Managed and directed planning and startup of IT projects, and improvement initiatives in development environment: s--CMM levels 2 and 3--in the finance, communications, power, transportation, government support industries, and others, under ISO development standards.
• Earned Value Management process improvement

Director of Operations

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Responsibilities:

• Reorganized and projectized internal operations of the company, whose major product integrated law firms and insurance companies in areas of massive litigation, redefined and definitized its strategic management processes, procedures and project methodology.
• Contract management and client relations management
• Developed and implemented standards of practice in all areas of product development.

Program Manager

Confidential, Brackenridge, PA

Responsibilities:

• Developed a continuous improvement culture, a component of the Strategic Plan, in the company's quality program, using ISO 9000 and the Baldrige criteria as basis.
• Reconstructed documentation and traceability for a spares contract that had last been active in 1974.
• Managed several R&D projects, and developed white papers
• Developed the organizational infrastructure to support the profitability of new business and the company's largest contract ever, with estimated yearly impact of $2 Million—component of the Strategic Plan.
• Contract management and client relations management

Program Manager

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Responsibilities:

• Identified and analyzed engineering, contractual, manufacturing and systems issues for multi-party international program, and functioned as liaison to keep parties informed of needed actions and decisions.
• New business impact anticipated to be $122 Million.
• Responsible for contract management and client relations management
• Reorganized, managed and directed program with extensive and detailed manufacturing and documentation requirements that ensured all tests and measurements were performed at the proper places in the sequence.

Technical Writer

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Responsibilities:

• Corporate Communications Department
• Prepared communications for top-level executives.