SUMMARY:

• A senior Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Scrum Master (SCM) with more than 20 years of professional experience in information technology, including more than 12 years in project management, having managed over 65 projects, 600 resources and 100,000 effort hours.
• Proven ability to lead co - located or virtual project teams.
• Experienced with project financials (estimation, forecasting, procurement) and diverse project implementations including infrastructure (servers, databases, network components, middleware), custom application development, Confidential and Cloud (IaaS, SaaS) using methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall.
• Excellent communication, team building, and presentation skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Word, Excel, Visio, SharePoint, Project, PWA, CA Clarity, PlanView, Basecamp, JIRA, Rally / Agile Central, BluePrint, TeamCenter PLM, PCAM, CPARS, CARS, Confidential, ITMS, MEARS, FAF

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with portfolio owners, infrastructure architects, network specialists and security analysts in a $9.4M multi-release effort aiming to reduce the footprint of active EOL systems, and reduce costs for extended support
• Implemented SaaS solution to monitor performance of SAP CRM components
• Upgraded operational technology software footprint; this included application servers, database servers, and firmware upgrades for meters and A/C switches to provide over-the-air update capabilities before the event season

Senior Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated daily with Program Managers, Line Supervisors, Tech Leads, Subject Matter Experts and peers to maintain a cohesive stakeholder management and communications approach regarding status of deliverables, milestones and priorities
• Provided weekly status updates regarding milestones, schedules, issues and risks using Clarity, AgileCentral or SharePoint, and monthly updates to actuals and forecasts using Confidential
• Managed tasks using PCAM, MEARS, CPARS, CARS, and ITMS
• Hosted daily standups to track test cycle progress and defect management
• Managed infrastructure requests to ensure all necessary environments were scaled and available to support scheduled deployments across the target global regions (NA, EUR, SA, AP)
• Coordinated monthly packaging and deployment activities from all work streams with shared services

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Supported the leadership team to review and improved project management methodology by adapting agile approaches
• Coordinated daily standup meetings to keep scope, schedule, costs, risks and issues up to date during specific phases of the project lifecycle in compliance with the company’s Confidential
• Ensured that licensing and infrastructure requirements were clearly communicated in order to build development, test and production environments

Project Manager Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed, monitored and updated project plans to determine project health and provide status updates to clients
• Used SharePoint and PWA to track scope, schedule, costs, risks and issues in compliance with the firm’s Confidential
• Actively participated in piloting process improvement for the Confidential

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed and maintained detailed scope, cost, risks, issues and project communications using MS Project and CA Clarity
• Developed and updated the risk mitigation and contingency plans regularly
• Approved functional and quality artifacts, and reviewed all project artifacts for Confidential compliance
• Compiled weekly project status reports to present and discuss the overall status pertaining to project scope, schedule, risks, issues, and quality with key project stakeholders

Senior Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led sprint planning sessions and guided developers in adapting relative estimation
• Established daily scrum sessions and promoted its benefits to the development team
• Led sprint retrospective and sprint reviews for internal and external stakeholders
• Developed detailed project schedules using MS Project and PMI/PMBOK guidelines and standards
• Provided weekly updates for scope, schedule, costs, issues and risk metrics
• Defined reports and compiled release notes for internal and external project stakeholders
• Led QA activities, conducted integration and regression testing, and developed quality metrics to manage product defects
• Monitored delivered value and team velocity to produce forecasts and track progress

Data Management Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Documented, configured and tested implementation deliverables and build artifacts prior to the transition to the account team
• Collaborated with customers and analytic consultants supporting business needs assessment and driving data quality issues to resolution
• Conducted data quality analysis and profiling, staging configuration, and developed ETL jobs using DataStage

Senior Project Implementation Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Met with customers to create workflow documentation per project requirements and guided acceptance testing in order to develop configuration and training documentation to support go-live activities
• Managed customer requests for changes to design specifications, customization of graphical user interface, report enhancements or customization, and also conducted regression testing for upgrades and hot fixes
• Drove JIRA issues and Remedy change and service requests to resolution by collaborating with project team members and customers
• Participated in daily standups with developers to clarify implementation issues

Senior Systems Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conducted requirement workshops, gap analysis and needs assessment to determine the scope and feasibility to migrate end-users to an improved graphical user interface, and established the baselines for the migration project including enhancements, business rules and business processes
• Reduced compilation time for training manuals from five to two days and improved the quality of the contents by identifying reusable training topics and developing templates in a central repository for standard training documentation across business units
• Planned and executed projects to deliver performance dashboards that improved compliance with safety inspections and preventive maintenance schedules, which provided information necessary to alert and plan for upcoming inspections and increased compliance with timely meter readings by 60%

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Hired and managed six team members and provided guidance in the completion of their development and training plans
• Managed internal and third-party resources using Agile SDM, and reported progress pertaining to screen customizations, regression and integration testing
• Collaborated with executive and cross-functional teams during scope definition
• Proposed and implemented a custom enhancement that improved the utilization of resources by 89% reducing data collection time for safety, quality, TPM and environmental inspections from nine hours to one hour per day.