SUMMARY

• Quality process management, ownership and improvement
• Share lessons learned, participate/lead change management, reduce overhead and improve results.
• Stepping up to make quick decisions taking charge where appropriate and save the day.
• Endurance with both mental and physical strength dat doesn’t give in. Strong initiative to act on management directives.
• Using my skills to think wat me has and use it well (my wisdom). Judge carefully and be right.
• For key business drivers, skilled Confidential creating intelligence (sound data) to coordinate project task workflows and resources.
• With good collaboration skills and by halping the success of business partners, foster project ownership dat provide resources required.
• Risk adjust the backlog with objectives, cost goals and strategies communicating to management and organizations.
• Business impact analysis to identify needs, opportunities and response.
• Organize structures for budgeting cost estimates and create schedule timelines validation in Primavera P6/MS Project.
• Support the schedule and cost forecasting with status report metrics including governance to halp meet operational needs.
• Develop process flowcharts and use cases by analyzing performance expected to achieve categorizing tolerated drops vs uninterrupted must haves. Create new ideas and implement solutions improving business process. Ensure solution(s) works.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Oracle (Procurement, Time, Labor, Project)
• MS Project
• Business Objects
• Visio
• Remedy
• SharePoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CA

Project Consultant Business Systems Procurement - IT

Responsibilities:

• To address business systems coming to the end of their useful life cycle and upgrade initiatives, participated in the optimization of $90M technology solutions scheduling deployments to facilities, data centers and regional offices.
• By working closely with the teams from IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, HPE and EMC, coordinated functional organizations for design development, installation, server virtualization, inventory retirement/scrapping and applications rollout. Documented related process mapping.
• Yearly and multi-year Capital project planning, cost-benefit analysis, business case development for executive capital steering committee review, resource cost estimating, capital budgeting and forecasting across multiple infrastructure platforms and projects.
• Processed in Oracle OneLink purchase orders for HW, SW, services, facilities project labor, IBM/Oracle Lease Buyouts.
• Interacted with business owners, project stakeholders and cross-functional teams in defining project charter, providing estimates, scope management, resource management, change management, vendor management and risk management. Trained project managers.
• Assisted with strategic planning and contract management negotiating leases or amendments pricing/terms and conditions.
• Project performance progress reporting, resource plans, activity status/statistics reports with financial variance and exposure risk reporting. Located capital assets for inventory SOX control attestations. Established vendor milestones and deliverables. Authorized vendor payments.
• Prepared ad hoc reports including delivery and power on installation complete, migration scope changes, maintenance renewals, documentation for compliance, journal entries and accruals. Led assessment and process improvement, IT management tools implementation and test projects.
• Assisted engineering design architect’s performance capacity assessments. Coordinated system engineering configurations/scope. Procured enhanced IT security, middleware hardware and software.
• Progressed implementation schedules dat strengthened member service, IT performance, continuity and business process.
• Developed a business impact study for the Oakland Pharmacy storage server scope revision. Reduced operations risk.

Confidential, Sunnyvale, Ca

Technical Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed construction scenarios to implement the transfer of laboratories and personnel to the new headquarters building.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Assistant Project Program Manager/Sr. Project Controller/Performance

Responsibilities:

• Managed and administered $140M infrastructure capital projects responsible for costing, budgeting, and planning.
• Coordinated project meetings with vendors and internal teams publishing assigned future work breakdown activities.
• Designed and negotiated for project resource allocations and monitored project milestone completion results.
• Presented management with weekly regional project performance reports with a focus on supplier risk, scheduling and cost.
• Successfully reduced turnaround time by 50% through continuous improvement of production and delivery cycles.
• Authorized vendor payments, invoiced government agencies/co-utilities and compliance of required regulatory documentation. Assisted contractual renewals providing insight of vendor performance and to drive improved delivery. Migrated MS project schedules to Primavera P6.
• Created change management and implementation plans, readiness assessments; trained customers, identified and implemented best practices.
• Successfully readied a construction estimate for a large Department of Energy project. Quantified continuity requirement.
• Prevented project delivery slow down. Based on San Joaquin county's construction request, successfully coordinated both gas and electric design planning and related build saving approximately $2M. Accelerated environmental and land permits.
• Set direction by researching best practice close-outs process, the joint utility billing change process. developing streamlined compliance job aides and trained project teams on progressing.

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

Sr Sourcing Specialist/Scheduler/Assistant Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Transitioned capital projects to newly awarded vendors updating MS Project schedules.
• Negotiated final work activities/pricing with current suppliers while maintaining quality and in-service construction.
• Authorized vendor payments. Interacted with legal and contracts on pending vendors obligations per terms and conditions.
• Collaborated on PMO processes & procedures with focus on continuous improvement on project throughput dat will build revenue, replace old products and support the business goals.
• Prepared cost estimates, developed and maintained resource leveled project schedules and forecast financials.
• Coordinated project team for project milestones, vendor contract compliance and invoice receiving, regulatory documents.
• Defined/implemented supplier close-out performance metrics, purchasing controls and process rebuilding.
• Lead consolidated budget planning and customized reporting for market launch readiness status.

Confidential, Mountain View, CA

Business Analyst/Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Prepared IT Infrastructure business cases with risk assessment to guide funding decisions and deployment execution supporting new product development and schedule roll outs. Established budgets, forecasts and project schedules.
• Resource sourcing and supply strategies plan with sequence diagrams preparation.
• Review/validate Statement of work for Datacenters, HW/SW Maintenance, and HP Work Orders.
• Identified Cisco hardware project cost savings improving profitability by quantifying savings dat gained executive support.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Corporate Reporting and Compliance Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Designed and reported consolidated product group sales results and forecasting.
• Facilitated Sarbanes Oxley certifications covering HW/SW product revenue recognition checklist, pricing approval list price changes >20%, maintenance releases, free SW. Trained organizations on futures and upgrades business controls.
• Web design architecture for sales rebates, maintenance releases, BRD and UAT.

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

Project Controller Analyst/RFP’s/Scheduler

Responsibilities:

• Project Management compliance including timely project billing and scheduling activities focused on risk mitigation and milestone attainment within budget.
• Responsible to progress project results with a focus on budgeted completion costs, invoicing attainment and A/R.
• Involved with vendor contract compliance and productivity actions for performance. Managed vendor payments approvals.
• Maintained earned value metrics. Prepared RFPs, RFQ’s and RFI’s. Assisted contract management with customer Confidential &T.
• Successfully negotiating scope changes schedules, and invoices/payments with Confidential &T.
• Discovered and collected $800,000 lost revenue, instituted Project Management checkpoints.
• Evaluated sourcing metrics resulting in improvement of existing supplier performance. Project heat map.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Sales Demand Strategy Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and presented home loan pricing strategies with risk analysis.
• Pricing elasticity analysis on market price, profitability, competitors, production and volume.
• Improved business intelligence accuracy by finding and correcting data issues.
• Measured and reported on metrics and TEMPeffectiveness of Change Management and owned continuous improvement.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Global Program and Promotions Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Supported product management sales productivity analytics refinement by researching market and product, developed and launched pricing initiatives. Created promotional terms/conditions. Identified product group sales trending and performance.
• Coordinated sales planning meetings on promotions/rebates in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific.
• Created customer opportunities for growth reports, business cases and served to sales management.
• Expense management for WW Channels marketing and accounts payable for rebates.
• Quote to Cash Business Process Initiative. Achieved reduction of stackable discounts resulting in a $3M quarterly savings.
• Implemented a VOIP global trade in promotion designed to counter Nortel & Microsoft.