SUMMARY:

• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with more than 18 years of information technology experience and over 16 years of project management experience in both the public and private sectors.
• Solutions - oriented IT professional who excels at effectively managing projects from planning through execution/completion, collaborating project teams, interfacing with clients, and deploying technology to build successful solutions for clients within scope, budget, and schedule.
• Decisive, energetic, focused team leader/player that has successfully led and mentored large teams of direct reports and cross functional resources with maturity and professionalism.
• Proven track record of hands-on management and getting into the weeds to understand complex projects from the bottom up.
• Demonstrated leadership skills combined with an exceptional ability to communicate and interface effectually with vendors, clients and key stakeholders; and mentoring team members.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Project & Program Management
• Vendor Management
• Change Management
• Proposal Management
• Strategic Planning & Execution
• Continuous Process Improvement
• Requirements Management
• Project Communications
• Budget Oversight and Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided oversight of day to day operations and leadership of project tasks and resource management.
• Responsible for managing and mentoring cross-functional team and serving as main point of contact for all project related activities.
• Maintained responsibility for administrative tasks which included meeting monthly reporting requirement and managing project financials.
• Served as the meeting planner and main travel point of contact for the Division’s conferences both in and out of the state of Georgia.
• Managed all travel related initiatives and presented cost proposals from hotels and audio visual resources along with handling all negotiations with hotels and vendors and provided options and resolutions.
• Prepared, communicated, tracked correspondence and drafted responses to information requests requiring Manager and Director attention assuring timely response or actions and assuring deadlines were met consistent with management policies.
• Facilitated and managed the administrative functions related to the processing of all group and individual travel communications and travel reporting for all travelers.
• Served as the coordinator for any travel that may be necessary for team members.
• Monitored travel related requests provided oversight of and contribution to internal tracking and processes.
• Provided QA support and functioned as tester for the Community Based Organizations (CBO) and Health Department databases by completing data entry and a series of test cases to ensure the database functioned properly based on client specifications.

Confidential

Senior project manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed the day-to-day operations for $20M/3-year project.
• Responsible and accountable for the subcontracts with 13 state cancer registries to enhance data collection for public health applications and comparative effectiveness research (priorities established by the Institute of Medicine) by expanding the data currently collected to include completed and detailed treatment, stage, biomarker and demographic information.
• Provided technical and contractual oversight of project tasks.
• Completed and submitted the monthly and quarterly reporting requirements, including meeting specialized reporting requirements under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
• Served as liaison between CDC and subcontracted states; main point of contact for all project related activities.
• Functioned as budget manager for $20M contract by negotiating and establishing contracts with all 13 subcontractors.
• Ensured that states and internal technical staff remained on task and within budget.

Confidential

Project manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed all aspects of project management and project lifecycles by effectively initiating, planning, scheduling, controlling, and bringing to closure multiple large, high profile, high priority projects.
• Consulted with stakeholders to identify key requirements, define project scope, and develop project plan and schedule.
• Created and maintained an effort-driven project schedule for each project by identifying and monitoring: overall project timeline, project milestones, tasks, budget, resources, task dependencies, and critical paths.
• Managed cross-functional project teams including programmers, business analysts, and database managers as well as other internal project staff.
• Built credibility, established rapport, and maintained clear communication with stakeholders at multiple levels, including third party vendors, earning confidence with reliable follow-through.
• Presented weekly dashboard reports on the current project status, budget analysis, future opportunities and client issues and risks.
• Served as the IT service delivery focal point for the procurement/contract’s team, customer, and the vendors.
• Ensured the project remained focused on key objectives and goals and complied with established methodologies. Developed and managed project expectations ensuring all applicable functional areas were engaged on the project.
• Accountable for budget management, contract management, and invoice review.
• Controlled and tracked project performance, time allocations, cost, and quality by constantly evaluating project progress and conducting regular team status meetings.
• Identified risks and issues that may have impacted deliverables, and developed and implemented mitigation and corrective actions.

Confidential

Project manager

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for the Project Execution Plan and development estimates for the program effort.
• Developed detailed project plans for major enhancements and new development efforts.
• Managed scope of the project and approvals of scope changes.
• Controlled all project activities for scheduling, estimating, forecasting, budgeting, monitoring, analyzing, and reporting costs.
• Documented and maintained all technical and project documentation in Documentum.
• Developed, managed and executed an integrated project plan and budget which reflects the total IT portion of the project.
• Translated customer’s long-term requirements to schedules and budgets.
• Determined and scheduled customer resource projections for the project lifecycle.
• Ensured effective communication of status, issues, and risk through the duration of both the project and or program.
• Monitored project progress against budget and plan, identified and addressed any deviations from process and kept senior management informed.

Confidential

Business analyst/test lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked on all phases of development cycle from defining both high-level and detail level requirements, completion of unit code and testing, writing and executing both unit level and system level test scripts and writing user and system documentation.
• Assisted application testing team in the testing efforts of new software products for the client by following and contributing methodologies and processes that test and verify the product functionality.
• Involved in testing, debugging, implementation, enhancements and user training throughout the entire project life cycle ensuring that business requirements were met.
• Wrote detailed design documents that outlined required changes as coding specifications.
• Reviewed functional documents and translated them into design documents to be used in programming.