SUMMARY:

• A skilled, certified Strategic Project Leader in managing complex projects with an adaptive leadership and strong communication skills for transformation, growth, turnaround, and cost saving initiatives
• Successfully managed turn - around of failing $8 million vendor real estate management system implementation for commercial real estate holdings division of $10 billion client.
• Led entire Back Office (Finance, Treasury, Accounting, Legal, Compliance) implementation and organizational change management of $14 million total IT system replacement. Coordinated global integration with banks for global transmissions of $20 million in checks and direct deposits in first month of operations.
• Achieved multimillion-dollar revenue gains; cited in major industry publications for technology innovation & quality.
• Prevented $47 million in lost investments by delivery of failing projects. Published white paper on “How to Turn Stalled Projects into Positive Profits”.
• Realized $100 million ROI for global energy company by turn-around of stalled $15 million tax accounting project
• Spearheaded complex Nutrition product line to most profitable product category for 2 consecutive years while leading Holiday product line to highest profits in company’s half-century history.

SPECIALIZED IN:

• Strategic Planning and Alignment
• Agile & Scrum Methodologies
• Financial Tracking
• Sarbanes Oxley
• Customer Relationship Management
• PMI, ITIL, COBIT, Lean Methods
• Internet/E-Commerce/Mobile
• Legal and regulatory compliance
• Risk & Change Management
• Program and Portfolio Management
• Business Process Improvement
• Security and Privacy

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Newport Beach, CA

Project Director

Responsibilities:

• Leading delivery of ECM Documentum upgrades for public sector and non-profit organization clients.
• Focused on formal change order process to address adherence to scope in Statements of Works.
• Produced estimated profitability for Documentum, Kofax, ApplicationXtender, xCP upgrades via Netsuites

Confidential, Pasadena, CA

Sr Project Manager (PMO)

Responsibilities:

• Led delivery of custom biometric software and hardware to the Americas continent.
• Customers include federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies via PMO stage gate and Agile Scrum.
• Updated SOP. Interfaced with JMS vendors.
• Led team with high staff turnover, process changes due to M&A, and supply chain challenges to deliver biometric software and equipment, resulting in higher quality delivery.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Sr Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Promoted to manage global Nutrition, Holiday, and Cosmetic physical product projects within product marketing with 50 team members that included creative and digital marketing members.
• Skyrocketed Nutrition line to most profitable category. Holiday line reached highest profits in company’s half-century history. Gained recognition for Nutrition line leadership.
• Coordinated R&D, Supply Chain, Regulatory, Quality departments for SOP’s and Nutrition NPI process.
• Launched Nutrition line to Taiwan, New Zealand with growth of $2MM and increased brand awareness.

Sr Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Back Office (Legal, Compliance, Accounting, Finance) deployment and business readiness/change management in IT system transformation in AWS Cloud.
• Utilized PMO Leader’s approach for change management methodology. Led global integration with banks for transmissions of $20 million in first month.
• Directed Agile Scrum off-shore and co-located project teams and product manager for new event management system which improved significant efficiency in registration of several thousand consultants.
• Defined and directed company’s roadmap for high profile mobile initiative.
• Designed and delivered 4 augmented reality iPhone and Android event gamification apps to increase brand awareness by creating enthusiasm and excitement with 15k independent sales consultants.
• Led UX Design team on re-design of check-out and cart functions on global ecommerce site to improve customer experience.
• Consulted for Teksystems for replacement project of a two tier client server mid-office supply trading control system for British Petroleum refining and marketing.
• Worked on business development efforts for an IT Governance & Strategy position for federal agency.

Confidential, Honolulu, HI

ASSOCIATE / Senior Project manager

Responsibilities:

• Took control of a failing $8 million real estate financial accounting project (enterprise system integration of back office system) 4 months behind schedule and over-budget. Included data conversions from JD Edwards.
• Spearheaded to zero major production issues, generating high level of satisfaction from $10 billion client and recovery of millions of dollars of lost revenue while attending MBA program.
• Tackled fractured relationship and performance issues with vendor’s senior executives. Re-established relationship on a partnership level. Increased responsiveness of vendors from several weeks to one day.

Confidential, Honolulu, HI

PROJECT MANAGER Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw entire project lifecycle phases, with full accountability for achieving on-time, on-budget, and on-target goals under Project Management Office (PMO) in matrix environment.
• Strengthened company’s brand and enrollment base through development of MicroStrategy and IBM DB2 BI reports for Marketing Department.
• Seized leadership of IBM DB2 Data Warehousing project 2 years late in delivery and delivered on time.
• Propelled delivery of custom developed, pay-for-performance software program 1 month ahead of scheduled deployment. Program gave incentives to providers to deliver quality care

Confidential, Houston, TX

PROJECT MANAGER Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Achieved 400% ROI and $10 million annual costs savings with remote and co-located teams.
• Led development of tool that decreased inaccurate meter readings and saved $2 million annually
• Earned internal and industry-wide nominations for IT Innovative and Business Intelligence s,

Confidential, Houston, TX

Senior Technical Director

Responsibilities:

• Produced projected ROI up to $1 million as project lead for custom internet Global eContract solution that syndicated contracts of global energy company and Global eSupply Chain
• Facilitated forecast six-figure revenue gain by developing CRM solution strategy and business-process-driven EAI integration architecture for a telecommunications subsidiary of Telmex in Mexico City.
• Generated over $1 million revenues within 1st year of new Mexico City office.
• Saved $10 million annually for global energy trading client by streamlining business processes (LEAN) and transfer trading confirmation to on-line.