SUMMARY

• An achievement - oriented professional with diversified industry technical of over 25 years’ experience in ERP systems with full life cycle development processes (SDLC).
• Ten-plus years in a Project management capacity which includes budgeting, designing and building of major ERP applications involving a wide range of vendors, stakeholders and management as well as other IT personnel and end-users.
• Experienced in 3rd party vendor management on various internally managed projects.
• Ability to turn proposals into reality based on a wide range of acquired experiences including, management, analysis and programming.
• Effective in communication, problem and crisis solver; process change initiator capable of providing leadership in a rapidly changing environment.
• Demonstrated expertise in project management methods, including those published by the Project Management Institute (PMI.org). Iterative methodologies such as Agile.
• Extensive experience in team facilitation, including team leadership, team chartering, and group problem solving.
• Working knowledge of process improvement methodologies.
• Demonstrated ability to build strong, lasting relationships with employees across various disciplines, including ability to manage responsibility without formal authority.
• Experienced in custom applicant development of projects from business case development to project closure.
• Projects included system integrations with other products or services.
• Excellent organizational, negotiation, problem-solving, verbal, written and communication skills
• Demonstrated ability and desire to coach and mentor others to achieve increased competencies and effectiveness.
• Working knowledge of business and financial accounting processes.
• Experienced in preparing project status reports and managing and reporting project cost and schedule metrics.
• Seven-plus years of Financial Reporting (Financial and Management Reports) experience.
• Experienced with JD Edwards, SAP, Dynamics AX & Peoplesoft with a financial background with emphasis in Shared Service Allocations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.
• Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments.
• Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures.

Environment: MS Project, SharePoint 2012, MS Visio and other MS office products, Netcracker, Oracle BRM 7.4, Java & .Net technologies, CORE Framework contributor.

Confidential, Las Vegas, NV

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Implemented projects involved in regulatory compliance gaming experiences commom known as Title31. This is a cloud solution that involves rollouts to 35 properties located in Canada and the US.
• Implemented a budget management solution for Ceasars Palace regarding the required changes for the 2014 fiscal budget year.
• Projects included the initation, planning, execution and completion phases using the defined process of the PMBOK methodology, User Acceptance.Including budgetary, resourcing, scheduling, development, QA and signoff of required projects.

Environment: MS Project, SharePoint 2010, MS Visio and other MS office products, Vendor Management - Title 31 compliance, Internal Resources - Budget Management system (BMS)

Confidential

RFID Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in an RFID start-up company. RFID can increase your level of accuracy and visibility at a reduced cost. Although implementing an RFID system requires initial investment, the investment in new technology can improve efficiency, reduce errors and show an improvement on operating costs. Within RFID, any movable item or asset can be efficiently automated in identification and tracking.
• Some of my involvement included sales, procurement, project planning and implementation of an RFID solution for companies. Also included the preparation & presentation of proposals to management on the feasibility of this new technology.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible as a program manager for a portfoliio of projectst that included external vendors used on 3rd party contracted resources and the in corporation of BVC project management standards. This included working with problem projects that need to be adjusted to get back on track and schedule and establish routine reporting including financial & project status’.
• Mentored junior staff members on utilizing best project management practices and training on the benefits of utilizing them. Presented to staff members new best practices in all future projects.
• Responsible for setting up the new created PMO office which includes creation of project templates, IT governance, knowledge database center, Project Management practices with integration to internal Sharepoint Sites.
• Lead & Implemented standard PM practices into existing including reporting, facilitating meetings, updates to schedules, assign resources, weekly status meetings with external vendors.
• Liasoned with executive committee on the feasability of proposed projects and what the benefits to the organization, would be including ROI.

Environment: MS Project, SharePoint 2003/2010,MS Visio and other MS office products, Aggresso- ERP.

Confidential

Project Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the evaluation & implementation of a project costing solution for a corporate solution. This involved performing process re-engineering, training, upgrading software, sandboxing & obtaining buy in of 28 business units throughout the city.
• Managed a small team (up to 6) to evaluate products, held product demos, conduct interviews with business units, perform gap analysis of each of these units.
• Presented to stakeholders routine reporting on project issues, strategies & made recommendations & established direction use.
• Created RFP and invited to tender on prospective products for the purpose of evaluating.
• Provided a roadmap that outlines the best time to in corporate the automation and integration of these recommendations.
• Implemented a pilot site of one of their business units to complete a proof of concept using the PS project costing features.
• Evaluated current release of Peoplesoft to current/future business needs, assited in configuartion of affected modules with Project costing including A/P, Purchasing, Payroll, PS Program Manager, Inventory & Billing.

Technical Environment

Environment: ITIL, SMART, MS Visio, Excel, Power Point, Word, Project, Peoplesoft Project Costing (FSCM & HCM) V8.8 to V9.1.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Promoted high standards of professionalism, integrity and leadership throughout the life of projects, both within and outside the organization, appropriately representing the company’s business philosophies, protocols and standards.
• Managed multiple projects simultaneously.
• Created and maintained project schedules, which define activities, sequence, dependencies, work effort, schedule and resources.
• Forecasted, tracked and managed project budgets.
• Negotiated, defined, communicated and manage the scope of the project.
• Instilled and monitored quality standards on all project deliverables.
• Defined, negotiated, communicated, implemented and monitored quality standards on all project deliverables.
• Managed project risks/issues.
• Planned and managed internal and external project communications, ensuring effective exchange of project information and deliverables.
• Managed internal and external team performance and dynamics as appropriate.
• Assisted in the ongoing development and management of the Project Management Office.

Environment: AGILE, Iterative, MS Visio, Excel, Power Point, Word, Excel, Project, Dynamics AX, 2009, Custom Application Development (Java).

Confidential

Project Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Assessed project change requirements by working in a consultation role with client across the organization.
• Developed change strategies and project plans and execute with limited supervision.
• Developed and executed project communication plans and tactics (e.g., website content, brochures, newsletters, emails, etc.),
• Provided change management education and coaching to develop change agents in the organization.
• Prepared and delivered presentations at all levels of the organization.
• Facilitated team, prioritization and visioning sessions.
• Participated as the change lead in on projects.
• Supervised and mentored junior staff Market change program; solicit new opportunities.
• Assisted in the maintenance and continuous business improvement of changes.
• Adapted methodology to project needs to minimize risks.

Environment: MS Visio, Excel, Power Point, Word, Project, Intelex, MS Dynamics AX 4.0, .NET Framework, SQL

Confidential, Plano, TX

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manages within the PMP infrastructure, initiating, planning, executing, controlling and closure of the project while using SDLC methodologies. Other application developments framework includes AGILE and other iterative methodologies such as RUP.
• Responsible for all activities, from project initiation through post-conversion support, of this one-year + project involving master and transactional (i.e., process re-design and procedures development, high level system configuration, unit and integration testing, conversion preparation and conversion, and end user training).
• Involved in the procurement selection and the contract negotiations process including RFPs & RFQs.
• Reports progress to project sponsors and stakeholders throughout the entire projects involving change requests, status reports and other personnel and project issues.
• Manages a Cross-Functional Team of over 6+ members consisting of Subject Matter Experts, Super Users, Business Analysts, and Quality Assurance personnel.
• Utilizes Agile or other iterative development approaches to the development and completion of projects.
• Manages Requirements Gathering, Business Process Analysis and Design, Business Process Procedures Development, Functional, Security, and Integration Testing, Data Conversion, Roles and User Security Definition, Revision, Validation, Training Development, Scheduling and Delivery, Cutover, Go-Live and Post Go-Live Support in a high level consulting capacity.
• Manages expectations & motivates the implementation resources when conflict resolutions are required while maintaining professional responsibilities.
• Manages vendor relationships during the implementation of projects.
• Scheduled training and post production support for business users.
• Successfully achieved Go-Live on time, in scope, and within budget.
• Directed, analyzed, designed, tested and implemented the Performance Network Rewards project allowing dealers to be enrolled in frequent rewards program
• This project was available for dealers throughout the United States and Canada
• Estimated savings to individual dealers varied based on performance level and volume
• Total savings is estimated at $4 million per annum; the automation of manual effort saving for $150,000 per annum
• The project was completed within budget, scope and timelines while adhering to standard project management principles and standards
• Planned, designed, and directed the implemented of SIP/SWR Adjusted Interest Program
• This involved registering inventory within a given allowable timeframe during periods of the year for each dealer
• This automated process was a cost savings of approximately $3 million annually to HDMC or Harley Davidson Motor Company The automation of manual effort saving for $100,000; on-time and on budget delivery
• ·Analyzed, designed, directed, programmed, tested and conversion of HDFSE ( Confidential Europe) Oxford, England acquired by HDE (Harley Davidson Europe. This included as list ERP changes required by the acquiring entity under a stringent deadline
• All targets were met, within budget and all deliverables were completed
• This also involved working with business units at an international level in a different geographical location
• Directed, designed, analyzed, tested and converted various ERP related issues including AR, GL and Payables Ledger, interfaces to SAP from legacy systems, SOX compliances, the creation of multi currency and multi lingual reports, etc
• Tasks were delivered on budget and within timelines defined

Environment: SDLC, AGILE, RUP, PMBOK, MS Visio, Excel, Power Point, Word, Project, DeaLLink, SAP FI/CO SAP CRM, SAP - HR, Peoplesoft Financials, .NET Technologies, VB.NET, C#.NET, ABAP, Kronos Time and Attendance, SQL, Crystal Reports

Confidential, Hyannis, MA

Sr. ERP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Identified the needs of clients and makes recommendations for the development of an integrated computer system (project management). Involved in full life cycle development of projects.
• Advised, converted, coded, tests foreign interfaces to and from various applications with third party vendors & software.
• Performed upgrades & codes custom modifications on various applications to other foreign ERP software platforms such as - AR, P/L, G/L. including PY/PE and Benefits Administration.
• Provided detailed study reports on the existing processes and align it with corresponding ERP system processes. Became chieftain who dealt with the selection and implementation of ERP system and business re-engineering for the organization.
• Tasks that were performed can be classified as follows: * Development and implementation of ERP system. * ERP package selection. * Analyzing business requirements. * Preparation of the functional specifications for ERP program development * Systems analysis and documentation. * Application configuration and installing ERP throughout the organization. * Assessing the competence level of the users of the ERP system. * Performing Gap analysis and related studies. * Imparting training to employees of the organization. * Conversion and configuration. * Identifying the requirements of the users of the ERP system. * Product design and operations review.
• Instrumental in the completion of corporate mergers and acquisitions and the software transition to aquired company. This varied dependent on the client needs. These applications were primarily core business software.
• Lead several Y2K projects that required rewrite or conversion of legacy system projects to be compatible as required.
• Completed several ERP installations for various clients across the US and Canada.

Environment: Project Management, IBM Mainframe, AS/400, ERP s SAP, Peoplesoft Financials,Oracle, JD Edwards SQL, SQR, Java

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the implementation of several ERP systems which included the installation of casino player, table game and back office software
• Ensure application development of software was completed and accurate.
• Ensure training of all team members on new products.
• Held user testing session for application development of customized processes.
• Completed several implementation of enterprise wide software which included the administration of all casino location within corporation.
• Standardized and re-engineering business processes and improve corporate financial reporting capability.

Environment: AS/400 (I-Series), RPG400, Novell Networks, Project Management, AS/400 ERP - Infinium, LGS Systems.

Confidential

IT Manager

Responsibilities:

• Was responsible for the day to day responsibilities of the AS/400 (I-series) and Novell network operations.
• Three individual reported which included operations and contract personnel.
• Responsible to coding & programming standards written in RPG. This included all implementation experience and improvement of processes and new development.
• Involved in the development of coding projects, performed as a hands on manager as well as mentored and coached individuals as required.
• Advised on new software strategies to provide competitive advancement within the business. .
• Installed first novell network with assistance of vendor to provide MS office tools usage which included Word, Excel, etc.
• Migrated new business into existing previously developed business processes.
• Completed software projects as business requirements were met. This include the administration software of medical claims system for several union organizations.

Environment: I-Series - RPG/ILE and various flavors of RPG - ERP Infinium Financial Suites, HCM, JD Edwards World, IBM PC s, Novell Network.

Confidential

Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the day operations of staff and processes in the accounting department.
• Programmed software changes and new development on the system 36 using RPG II as required and requested.
• Maintained necessary computer backups, security and environments as needed.
• Involved in the development of new program for a ERP manufacturing and distribution software using RPG/400 and RPG III.
• Provided technical support to various clients including troubleshooting and custom programming in RPG.
• Installed software upgrades as required and retrofitted code as needed to obtain correct and accurate results.
• Completed transition for S/36 processor to migrate software to AS/400 platform.
• Traveled to various sites as needed.

Environment: S/36 & AS/400 - RPG/ERP Infinium Financial Suites HCM 9.1, JD Edwards World In House coded software on AS/400, IBM PC s