PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 8 years of IT experience within a Project Environment with proven ability to complete projects within scope, time, budget and quality. Have performed as Project Manger, Project Coordinator, Project Analyst, Information Analyst, and Business Analyst.
• Over 3 years Experience in planning, directing, and managing System Development Projects in the automotive industries (GM) utilizing Structured Methodologies of EDS.
• Leadership roles have been highlighted by Structured full life cycle methodologies, project start up, plan, define, construct thru deploy project documentation development.
• Coordinated simultaneous development of several projects including management of multiple vendors like Covansys, Bearing Point and EDS.
• Superior coordination of QA Audits on Project Workbook deliverables through Project Define Process.
• Conducted reviews and project status reports during all phases of a project.
• Ensured effective reporting to higher management and proper project profiling and performance counters.
• Knowledgeable of GM’s internal quality directives and SDP 21 Quality Model. Also substantially familiar with CMMi.
• Experienced in coordinating and motivating outside vendors and off - shore resources in support of timeline and IT project deliverables.
• Highly proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint.
• Tracked budget, man-hours and task costs for GM/VCAMS using Microsoft Excel. Updated Microsoft Project Schedules.
• Processed Supplier invoices including validation of time, travel, material spending and costs.
• Assessed accuracy of invoices prepared for EDS/GM contract including locating and correcting significant errors.
• Created and maintained Microsoft Project plans for components, and tools to support GM sponsored project, VCAMS. Reviewed in weekly meetings the impact of changing program timing vs. milestones and program launch. Worked with various groups to meet timing deadlines. Used Microsoft Project and MS Project Server
• Assessed suppliers in meeting quality and production.
• Communicated proposed changes using standard ECM, Enterprise Change Management Database.

TECHNICAL SKILLS SUMMARY:

PROJECT MANAGEMENT: SHAREPOINT, MICROSOFT PROJECT 98/2000, MICROSOFT POWERPOINT,MICROSOFT PROJECT SERVER, ENTERPRISE CHANGE MANAGEMENT DATABASE, PRESAGE, PVCS, BORLAND STARTEAM

HARDWARE/OS: IBM MAINFRAME (MVS/ESA, OS/390 AND Z/OS),WINDOWS (95, 98, 00, XP)

LANGUAGES: OS/VS COBOL, VS-COBOL II, JCL, SQL, EASYTRIEVETOOLS TSO/ISPF, CICS, IMS, EXPEDITOR, FILEAID, CLIST, CA-7, CA-11, FTP, Endeavor, EZTRIEVE, FILE-AID

EXPERIENCE HISTORY:

Confidential

ENGINEER, dESIGN AND tESTING cOORDINATOR

Responsibilities:

• Administer/ Review approvals of design and verification budgets for various global programs
• Interact with various global groups; including Finance, Engineering and Program Mgrs. to ensure that various program milestones are met.
• Involved in implementation of Global ED&T Process documentation to ensure that the North America ED&T budget Review process is adapted by South America and Asia Pacific.
• Provide guidance to global programs with Engineering Tasks( picks) on a weekly basis
• Updated & Created Global Presentations for various groups within Ford Mgmt.
• Administrator of two Global SharePoint sites.
• Provides technical assistance, analysis and interpretation of data to engineering community
• Confidential Vehicle Cost Analyst and Management System (VCAMS)

Project Manager/Project Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked w. GM Project Manager to Coordinated Program deliverables from Warren, Michigan via teleconferencing.
• Created spreadsheets to track project timeline and coordinate with GM Project Manager and Covansys Technical Lead Analyst.
• Managed several small work projects utilizing Borland StarTeam.
• Provide direction to Third party suppliers in order to meet deadlines.
• Tracked Issues/Risks/Milestones and Deliverable and provide weekly detailed status reports to EDS Management.

Environment: EDS GAD QMS PROCESS, MICROSOFT PROJECT, MICROSOFT WORD, EROOM, BORLAND STAR TEAM, MS PROJECT SERVER, PRESAGE PROFILE AND METRICS, ENTERPRISE CHANGE MANAGEMENT DATABASE

Confidential

Project Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for reviewing SDP21 deliverables for Plan Phase, Define Phase, Design, Phase, Build Phase, Deploy Phase, and Close Phase.
• Responsible for participating in Project Quick Start for Project Updates, requirement gathering and problem resolution.
• Participated in formal change control, version control, configuration management and release management methodologies.
• Responsible for Manage project using a structured methodology, EDS GAD QMS Process Set as well as Supplier Mgmt.
• Created Project Management Process documentation which included updating and maintaining WBS, activities, tasks, dependencies, milestones and managed multiple concurrent plans to ensure deliverables are reviewed and approved according to the schedule and methodology.
• Utilize PreSage Profile and PreSage metrics to track resource hours as well as tracking milestone and deliverables.
• Maintain PMX Excel tool for tracking of Issues, Action Items, and Risks etc.
• Responsible for communication by providing project management status on s, issues, project quality and budget utilizing Eroom repository.
• Maintain proper configuration items using Borland StarTeam.
• Responsible for participating meetings for Project Update, requirement gathering, and problem resolution.

Environment: MICROSOFT POWERPOINT, MICROSOFT EXCEL, EDS GAD QMS PROCESS, MICROSOFT PROJECT, MICROSOFT WORD, EROOM, BORLAND STAR TEAM, MS PROJECT SERVER, PRESAGE PROFILE AND METRICS, ENTERPRISE CHANGE MANAGEMENT DATABASE

Confidential

Project Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Monitored progress on task and Deliverables to ensure meeting deadlines.
• Maintained open communication with Confidential regarding suggestions, issues and guidance.

Environment: MICROSOFT POWERPOINT, MICROSOFT EXCEL, MICROSOFT WORD, AND MS OFFICE

Project Analyst

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Responsibilities:

• Ensured that Confidential Project Workbook document and deliverables conform to existing standards and procedures.
• Maintained Project Workbook utilizing PVCS Dimensions.
• Served as backup to Project Manager as required.

Environment: MICROSOFT POWERPOINT, MICROSOFT EXCEL, MS OFFICE, AND PVCS DIMENSIONS

Confidential

Information Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Maintained communications with the project leader and other team members regarding phases of the Data Center Migration Project.
• Developed communication plan for Management for Data Center Migration Deployment.
• Maintained project documentation and project plans utilizing E-Room.
• Created and Updated risk management documentation utilizing Excel worksheets for by Project Managers.

Environment: MICROSOFT POWERPOINT, MICROSOFT EXCEL, EROOM

Confidential

Business/Information Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Actively researched and resolved daily transaction errors.
• Produced reports created from Microsoft Excel to communicate current project updates to ensure distribution to other systems in a timely manner.
• Maintained project & technical documentation using PVCS.
• Work revolved around meeting with the customer, gathering requirements, following Confidential & QMS to be a CMM-Level 3 corporation.
• Conducted Inventory Control & Management for Client Delivery Executive.
• Single Point of Contact person for Enterprise Change Management (ECM) meetings for Payroll Systems.
• Facilitated, Reviewed and rendered decisions on Changes brought to ECM meetings.
• Utilized Microsoft Excel to Plan and assign new projects as part of Workload.
• Management.
• Coordinated and monitored workload for off shore resources.
• Researched, Tested and Maintained Cobol programs as well as JCL.
• Troubleshoot production abends and escalated helpdesk problems.

Environment: COBOLII, CICS, JCL, TSO/ISPF, CA7, Endeavor, IMS, EZTRIEVE, WORD, EXCEL, FILE-AID