SUMMARY:

Accomplished senior professional with over 20 years of diverse project management experience in Information Technology and Business Consulting. Hands - on experience in SDLC methodologies including, traditional Waterfall, and SCRUM. Managed large and complex projects within the EPMO for multiple enterprise clients. Worked on software application projects such as implementation, customization, enhancement, upgrade, and integration.

EXPERTISE AREA:

• Project Implementation
• SCRUM
• AGILE
• Leadership
• UAT
• Financial Planning
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Business Acumen
• Resource Management
• Requirement Specifications
• Disaster Recovery

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Founder/Consultant, Fairfax, VA

Responsibilities:

• Work as Independent Consultant to various companies in a multitude of industries.
• Extensive focus on entire life cycle projects, implementation and delivery, resource management, financial planning, risk management, vendor management and enterprise wide cross functional coordination

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading initiative and overall delivery of the Confidential Debit Platform Transformation Project including planning for operational continuity.
• Organized and facilitated daily stand-up meetings, project reviews, and reporting progress to Business and IT stakeholders.
• Coordinate with external vendors for delivery support.
• Responsible for managing a budget of over $3.5 million
• Developed and maintained key project documentation including Project Charter, Project Plan, milestones, risk logs, budget variances and burn rates
• Extensive engagement with cross functional teams such as Architects, network engineers, IT security and business stakeholders

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led a target state initiative for Confidential to re-engineer the multi family business operations continuity.
• Responsible for developing and maintaining full-scale project plans and managing day-to-day activities with project teams.
• Worked closely with multiple stakeholders to deliver progress reports, reporting the variances and managing the budget.
• Created implementation plan
• Developed requirement traceability matrix
• Developed Project plan, risk matrix, meeting minutes, roadmap delivery and budgets

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Organized and facilitated a task force responsible for complete shutdown and backup of regional office upgrades at Confidential .
• Responsibility included overall project delivery, extensive stakeholder engagement and cross functional coordination and planning.
• Worked closely with multiple stakeholders to deliver progress reports and documents. Responsible for managing the budget and resources.
• Developed a comprehensive project plan with assigned roles and responsibilities for team members
• Successfully delivered a large cross functional initiative including DBA, network engineers, application owners, architects and security
• Developed and maintained key project documentation, to include the project plan, schedule, issue log, risks and implementation plan

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led multiple SDLC delivery projects for Confidential, within the Market Data and Access Control team.
• Extensive coordination with multiple groups within Confidential for project delivery
• Identified project tasks, milestones and deliverables for the service offerings. Responsible for budget throughout project lifecycle. Identified potential risks and issues. Devised contingency plans. Engaged extensively with multiple stakeholders to deliver progress reports.
• Successfully implemented multiple projects with a total portfolio value of about $5 million
• Developed reports and metrics for project initiatives
• Extensive coordination with the out of region operating team for disaster recovery planning and move to a different location

Project Management

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Part of the PMO leading a 22-member team for the Department of Homeland Security.
• Led business process re-engineering and the organizational transformation efforts. Worked closely with the project PM managing day to day project activities.
• Worked with various team leads to understand the process deficiencies.
• Mapped people, process and organizational responsibilities across 11 regions as part of stakeholder engagement model using Visio, RACI, SIPOC and other technologies.
• Created risk registers to identify and log risks. Highlighted mitigation plans. Prepared project reports, budgets, and identified revenue gaps.
• Successfully created progress roadmaps, project charters, milestones and updated the integrated project plans

Confidential, Washington, DC

Project Management/Business Architect

Responsibilities:

• Led Compliance and OMB reporting efforts at DOL on the OSHA Information system project.
• Managed capital planning and budgeting exercise on the OIS project. Collaborated with OCIO to assist in the re-baseline of project.
• Worked with PMO for assessing the project progress and performing the quarterly control reviews for OMB compliance.
• Created and maintained the risk register and logs with mitigation scenarios.
• Performed monthly and quarterly analysis of cost and schedule data and submitted status reports to OMB

Confidential, Washington, DC

Project Management/Business Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for kicking off contact center consolidation project at Confidential .
• Involved in extensive tactical presentations and meetings with stakeholders for managing risk.
• Oversaw the development of project plans, risk plans and project documentation.
• Assisted in benchmarking the current costs and identifying synergies for savings
• Developed a high-level project plan for consolidating contact centers within Confidential

Confidential, Mclean, VA

Associate

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading project management of Confidential and its clients in various areas.
• Oversee the outsourcing strategy, PMO, and project management deliverables.