SUMMARY:

• Confidential offers 7 years of project management experience managing multiple projects and with multiple client contacts. Results - driven project-management professional with experience in data management, enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications and analytic/business intelligence applications to meet customer needs, as well as complex technology management and integration in a multi-platform environment. Software Development Life Cycle experience using Waterfall methodology and some experience with Agile. Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Scrum Master Certified (SMC). She has over 16 years of experience in Information Technology.
• Significant and progressive experience and expertise in such project-management concepts as project plans, scope management, estimating & costing, capacity planning, scheduling, risk management, contract negotiations, planning and tracking, quality, and change management
• Proven ability to gather requirements, within a complex matrix organization across multiple business teams and external software vendors
• Produce project status reports, identifying and communicating any performance variances to planned scope, timeline, and budget
• A broadly experienced business advisor experienced in enterprise systems integration, information delivery, automated process/workflow development, business intelligence (BI), reporting and data warehousing implementation.
• Led and managed a 15 person data warehouse team responsible for delivering high visibility projects for veteran claims analysis, veteran diagnosis analysis, workload management, activity based cost management, balanced scorecards and human resources (HR) analytics for Vetarans Benefit Administration (VBA). The VBA data warehouse consisted of data from disparate sources that were both internal and external.
• Managed business intelligence and reporting in a complex cross-functional matrixed environment at Confidential . The scope of projects included Student Enrollment Analytics, Sales Analytics, Financial Analytics, Procurement & Spend Analytics, operational reports and compliance student information reporting. Managed a team that consisted of onsite as well as remote employees, and consultants.
• Managed a team of 30 person for large PeopleSoft ERP implementation at Lee County Public Schools. The scope of project included all Peoplesoft Financial, HCM/Payroll and Inventory/Supply Chain modules.
• In program management support role for large Health and Human Services (HHS) financial business intelligence (FBIS) system, responsible for risk management, process improvement, supporting organization defined policies, procedures, and standards. Coordinated status meetings and provided project management oversite.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

TOOLS: /METHODS: Agile, Waterfall SQL MS SQL, Oracle, DB2 OBIEE, Business Objects Informatica, IBM Datastage Java, HTML MS Project Version One JIRA Visio Rational Tools MS Office INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS PeopleSoft Financials Financial Analytics Procurement Analytics HR Analytics Sales Analytics/ Salesforce Claims Analytics Balanced Scorecards Workforce Scorecards Workload Management Planning/Budgeting Student Analytics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Oversight Project Manager/Business Intelligence SME

Confidential, Silver Spring, MD

Responsibilities:

• As an advisor provided strategy, oversight, leadership, organization, coordination of day to day operations, review of project deliverables to support Health and Human Services, Office of Financial Policy and Oversight with project management of FBIS (Financial Business Intelligence System). Responsible for key activities such as planning, governance, data management, scope management, change management, project management, and risk and issue management. Two major releases and three minor releases delivered for project budget of $20 M.

Consultant (Technical Project Manager, Business Analyst)

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Technical Project manager and BI lead for the University of Miami. Led the BI User Committee meetings and provided a demonstration of Campus Solutions Warehouse to potential users. Gathered business requirements, conducted data analysis that involved identifying data sourcing, gap analysis, and coordinated technical tasks with offshore Oracle On-Demand team. Managed priorities, lead change management and overall project implementation. Established a data governance and data quality improvement process. Total budget for this project was $1.5 M.
• Conducted assessment for University of Pittsburgh data warehouse capabilities and provided recommendations on further expansion to meet department-wide business needs.

Technical Project Manager

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of 3 employees and 4 consultants and was a single point of contact for all data management projects at Confidential . Provided regular project status to customers, stakeholders and upper management.
• Managed complex integrations of Student data with third parties such as Blackboard, School Pathways, Scantron and school districts.
• Delivered standard student information reports such as student enrollment, student attendance, student grade, student progress, student assessment to meet school districts’ requirements for continuation of funding and to meet state specific compliance.
• Delivered Student Longitudinal Data Analysis for Student Enrollments, Student Class Enrollments, Student Attendance and Student Grade.
• Increased operational efficiency and accuracy of information by automating report generation and distribution to school administrators.
• Successfully delivered Student Enrollment and Sales Analytics for Sales and Marketing. Total budget for these projects was $1.5M. Both projects exceeded customer expectation and were delivered within budget and schedule.
• Responsible for delivering Financial, Procurement and Spend Analytics for newly implemented Oracle eBusiness Suite (EBS) application. Total budget for the first release was $0.5M.
• Designed enterprise architecture, provided hardware estimates, recommended newer softwares, developed project roadmaps and project plans. Responsible for vendor management and software evaluations.
• Responsible for staff development plans and performance evaluations.
• Introduced ‘Agile’ methodologies such as Lean and Scrum that resulted in significant process improvements to reduce life cycle time of development and align better to user needs. Performed the role of scrum master on student assessment analysis project for international schools business unit. Facilitated sprint planning, daily scrum, review and retrospective meetings with scrum team, and coordinated with product owner of International Schools on release and sprint planning
• Prioritized the queue of user request and defect tickets.

Functional Manager

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on manager and BI specialist involved in gathering user requirements, testing and conducted data validation for Financial Analytics pilot project for FDA (Food and Drug Administration.) Source data for initial phase of this project was UFMS (Unified Financial Management System) that consisted of General Ledger, Budget Execution, Accounts Receivables and Accounts Payables.

Senior Principal Consultant

Confidential, Reston, VA

Responsibilities:

• For customer UT Southwestern Medical Center: Lead Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) architect for PeopleSoft EPM 9.0 implementation for Financial and Supply Chain analytics. Designed the technical architecture for business intelligence and ETL (Extract, Transformation and Load) tools and provide hardware estimates and recommendations.
• For customer Lee County Public Schools: Project Manager for a large PeopleSoft 9.0 ERP implementation of a total budget of $200 M. Managed a team consisting of 30 consultants. PeopleSoft financials modules implemented were General Ledger, Commitment Control, Accounts Payables, Purchasing, Accounts Receivable, Billing, Asset Management, Projects, Cash Management, and Grants. Other modules included PeopleSoft HCM (Human Capital Management), PeopleSoft ELM (eLearning Management) and Supply Chain modules. Being a project manager and part of PMO (Program Management Office) conducted project planning, project/budget tracking, coordinating with functional and technical leads; and status reporting to upper management.
• For customer Johnson Diversey: Team Lead for Human Capital Management data warehouse. The data warehouse included integration of payroll data for 10 different countries to provide a global view of the company’s payroll expenses and benefit spending trends. The payroll data was further integrated with human resources data to provide further analysis of trends. I designed PeopleSoft EPM configuration, payroll and financial data integration. The analytic reporting tool used was OBIEE.
• For customer Hilton Hotels: Functional Lead for PeopleSoft GL and Asset Management upgrade. Conducted unit and system testing and was involved in resolving functional issues and reporting issues.
• For customer Star Tribune: Functional Lead for PeopleSoft GL and Asset Management migration project. Developed trim criteria for isolation of interunit transactions corresponding to the company from which Star Tribune was separating.

BI Specialist/Senior Functional Consultant

Confidential, Falls Church, VA

Responsibilities:

• For customer Department of Treasury, Office of Workforce Technology at the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Management: BI Specialist responsible for creating business case that led to formal initiation and government funding for an enterprise Human Resources (HR) Data Store.
• For customer Department of Defense: Senior Functional Consultant for PeopleSoft EPM Human Resources data warehouse implementation for the Defense Integrated Human Resources System. (DIMHRS). Used processes that adhered to CMMI Level 3.

Technical Project Manager

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Responsibilities:

• Led and managed a 15 person data warehouse team of ten developers, one DBA/system administrator, metadata lead, one team leader, two technical consultants, managing data warehouse projects and program budget.
• Responsible for delivering high visibility projects for veteran claims analysis, veteran diagnosis analysis, workload management, activity based cost management, balanced scorecards and human resources (HR) analytics for Vetarans Benefit Administration (VBA). Total estimated budget for the project was $4.5 M.
• Responsible for staff development plans and performance evaluations.
• Created annual capacity plans, project estimates, budgets, resource plans and reviewed technical architecture. Conducted software and hardware evaluations.
• Implemented processes that adhered to CMMI Level 2.
• Successfully converted and delivered PeopleSoft applications such as Asset Management and General Ledger for Washington Gas, PeopleSoft HR analytics for Department of Labor (DOL). Software engineer for PeopleSoft financials modules at PRC and Verizon.