SUMMARY:

• Experienced, results - oriented project manager with extensive experience working for Fortune 500 companies. Expertise in project management, CMMI and quality processes. Possess proven leadership and team-building skills and a solid work ethic.
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Commitment to excellence
• Quality assurance processes (GAD QMS/CMMI)
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills
• Diplomatic and professional customer relationships
• Excellent Team player
• Leadership and integrity
• Microsoft suite of products

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager, Detroit, MI

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements for NetSuite financial systems implementation.
• Identified global team for training.

Business Analyst

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Responsibilities:

• Data Mining - Analyzed the Confidential ’s Requests for Proposals from Confidential and competitors, looking for patterns in bid acceptance.
• Conducted numerous discussions and information gathering sessions to better analyze the bid responses.

Business Analyst

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and documented portal functionality of Liferay’s Open Source Software, version 6.1.
• Tested and documented the usage flow of software from user’s perspective, and captured associated screen output to be used by the Testing Team to write Test Cases.

Business Analyst

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and documented the Confidential which is a manufacturing forecasting system that forecasts long-term volumes for GM products as represented in the GM Product Planning Portfolio Database. This documentation was written to capture the overall architecture and flow of an existing system to be used as a baseline, should future enhancements be written.
• Worked with team to capture the related menus, stored procedures, tables, business rules and functionality.

Project Manager

Confidential, Auburn Hills, MI

Responsibilities:

• Developed project plan, work breakdown structure and schedule.
• Identified applications to be converted from newly purchased banks.
• Established project directory to capture documentation of requirements, issues, risks, accomplishments, status reports and test plans.
• Established traceability log to track requirements thru to the test plans.
• Stimulated the team to think about test cases as they learn the business and define the requirements.
• Prepared weekly status reports for management to report accomplishments, issues, risks and metrics.
• Created and maintained strong relationships with clients and vendors.

Confidential

Project Manager, Troy, MI

Responsibilities:

• Supervised new technical team - new to company, new to code.
• Worked closely with the PMO (Programme Management Office) to educate team on documentation and following processes, i.e. documentation of requirements and tracing thru to test plans.
• Set-up project directory to capture the system development life cycle documentation, including risks, issues and the disaster recovery plan.

Confidential

Project Manager, Troy, MI

Responsibilities:

• Supervised Technical Team of 40 people in deployment of two of GM’s top 10 manufacturing projects, encompassing 7 plants which produce full sized sports utility vehicles. Existing applications were reconfigured and new hardware and software were deployed during production, while maintaining zero lost units.
• Interfaced with clients, technical support teams and senior management.
• Responsible for the complete Project Life Cycle, from start-up to implementation to close-down.
• Assisted in budget proposals.
• Wrote the project charter, business design, risk plan, and disaster recovery plan.
• Captured customer business requirements and traced thru to test plans.
• Identified and managed project dependencies and the critical path.
• Prepared the weekly senior management reports, MSPS schedules, risk assessments and issue resolution documentation.
• Wrote the Measurement Plan for the manufacturing division.
• Monitored change controls for updates to project scope and budget.
• Obtained consistent quality audit results above 95%.
• Recommended and wrote process improvements for the PMO to increase productivity and reduce overhead.
• Trained team members in use of processes and enforced project directory maintenance for project quality and intelligence.

Senior Project Leader

Confidential, Troy, MI

Responsibilities:

• Defined and analyzed Customer’s business requirements.
• Identified issues and assessed risk.
• Supervised Business Analysts and Technical Leads.
• Performed/supervised User Acceptance Testing.

Senior Project Leader

Confidential, Troy, MI

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and refined customer’s business requirements.
• Created proposals, identified issues and assessed risk.
• Defined required skill sets and managed resources.
• Created project implementation plans.
• Validated integrity of team’s work.
• Managed changes in scope.

Advanced Business Analyst

Confidential, Southfield, MI

Responsibilities:

• Created implementation plans.
• Managed changes in scope and documented project risk.
• Validated integrity of team’s work.
• Analyzed and prepared duty drawback claims submitted to U.S. Customs.

Advanced Business Analyst

Confidential, Troy, MI

Responsibilities:

• Identified 500 users, their existing desktops and WAN environment.
• Led team to determine the number and complexity of applications to be migrated.
• Prepared proposal recommending migration of existing applications.
• Lead consultant for an on-line intercompany accounting application for 31 Confidential Divisions.
• Trained over 200 GM Customers in use of this application.

Confidential, Troy, MI

Senior Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Maintained the general ledger.
• Performed annual inventory at select Confidential plants.
• Supervised three junior accountants.