SUMMARY:

I am an experienced project manager with 10+ years’ experience managing projects across a diverse portfolio of business lines. I am a change agent proficient in leading large - scale agile and waterfall projects consisting of 25+ resources, $1-20M budgets and project schedules spanning 1-3 years in duration. I am a highly motivated self-starter that requires minimal supervision or direction to achieve goals and objectives.

CORE SKILLS:

• Agile and Waterfall Project Management Continuous Improvement
• Software, Application and Web Development Change Management
• Excellent Communication and Presentation Skills Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Project Planning/Execution Budgeting, Estimating and Forecasting
• Proven Sales and Negotiation Skills Financial Planning and Execution
• Change Management Six Sigma Methodology
• Stakeholder Management Risk Management
• MS Office Suite (Project, Excel, Visio etc.) Team Leadership
• Business Development and Consulting Schedule Management

TECHNOLOGY:

Microsoft Office Tools: (MS Project, Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access, Visio ) Smartsheet, SharePoint, Salesforce, Oracle EBS r12, SciQuest, XML, cXML, HTML and CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, MySQL, C++, PHP, ASP.net, Apache, Perl, AWS. SOAP, REST API’s, Jira Experience

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. IT Project Manager

Confidential, Muscatine, Iowa

Responsibilities:

• Managed large-scale information technology programs and projects across a diverse portfolio of business.
• Effectively managed scope, time and cost for multiple concurrent agile and waterfall projects to ensure successful delivery of project goals and objectives
• Acquire, develop and manage project teams consisting of departmental resources, cross functional teams as well as 3 rd party vendor resources
• Led a team of 25+ resources consisting of solution architects, business analysts, QA engineers and cross functional resources in the management of business systems, logistics, supply chain, manufacturing execution & financials.
• Implemented software systems designed for electronic fulfillment utilizing Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and subsequent management of customer orders to drive revenue growth
• Managed project costs, estimated costs, determined budget and controlled costs. Responsibility.
• Effectively managed and controlled communications based on stakeholder needs and requirements
• Led governance, risk management and internal audit compliance initiatives across the organization to ensure adherence to mandated laws, regulations, company policies and procedures.
• Created, analyzed and reviewed functional specifications and requirements based on customer needs
• Led successful delivery of a wide range of technology projects consisting of a large ecosystem of portals, web applications, eCommerce sites and order to cash business systems.
• Led enterprise wide initiatives across the full stack (DWH, CRM, IDM, Asset management, ERP etc.).
• Procured vendor resources, developed RFP’s, reviewed and approve SOW’s and negotiated improvements to costs and SLA’s.
• Responsible for management of eProcurement catalog and B2B ecommerce utilizing Ariba, SciQuest, Coupa, SAP, Oracle and other CXML environments.
• Responsible for branching and merging strategy for all code deployments, maintenance of source control of all code builds and distribution for all projects.
• Technology Used: HTML and CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, MySQL, C++, ASP.net, Apache, Perl, AWS. SOAP, REST API’s, Jira, Microsoft Project, Visio, Smartsheet, Sharepoint, Salesforce, Oracle,
• Provided Database development support in Windows Server, MS SQL Server environments.

Sr. IT Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the overall direction of large client facing IT projects impacting the financial services, banking and insurance industries.
• Effectively managed scope, time and cost for agile and waterfall projects to ensure successful delivery of project goals and objectives for a leading SaaS platform and cloud managed services provider.
• Lead implementation projects as Scrum Master and applied agile project management principles, techniques and best practices and championed the software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Implemented systems designed for electronic fulfillment utilizing Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and subsequent management of customer orders and processes for leading SaaS platform and cloud service provider
• Developed regulatory processes and solutions to ensure compliance with regulatory laws and managed integrations that ensure PCI Compliance and information security of customer payment information. Act as liaison between internal audit team and internal business units.
• Led all facets of agile projects consisting of daily standups, management of backlog, lead sprint planning meetings, status meetings, calculate burndown and ETC, sprint reviews and sprint retrospective etc.
• Responsible for facilitation and approval of technical requirements and functional specifications based on the voice of the customer.
• Experience in troubleshooting and resolving database integrity issues, performance issues, blocking and deadlocking issues, replication issues, log shipping issues, trouble-shooting logs, connectivity issues, start/stop service, security issues etc.
• Led data analytics initiatives and business intelligence programs to increase revenue, improve operational efficiency, optimize marketing campaigns and effectively respond to market trends.
• Led enterprise wide initiatives across the full stack (DWH, CRM, IDM, Asset management, ERP etc.).
• Used Microsoft SQL Server, HTML, ASP.net, Microsoft Azure, Windows Server, Tomcat (Java EE 6 Web Profile), Glassfish and JBoss (Java EE 6 Full Profile).

Consultant/ Senior Business Development Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided project based consulting in the analysis of complex IT and engineering problems for large equipment manufacturers and service providers.
• Identified business inefficiencies, accelerate processes, design and deliver effective solutions that improve quality, increase velocity, and control or improve costs.
• Manage software development life cycle consisting of planning, analysis, design, implementation, testing, integration and maintenance.
• Led successful delivery of a wide range of technology projects consisting of a large ecosystem of portals, web applications, eCommerce sites and business systems.
• Led business intelligence projects and data analytics initiatives, CRM integrations, ERP implementations and various business intelligence programs to increase revenue, improve operational efficiency, optimize digital marketing campaigns and effectively respond to market trends.

Operations Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw day to day activities and implementation of systems and policies to effectively drive revenue growth via federal, state and local government contracts
• Managed cross-functional resources and functional project teams in mission-critical process-redesign projects to meet demand
• Serve as liaison between IT departments and corporate leadership
• Successfully aligned business planning with financial goals to gain an advantage for the organization.
• Managed project costs, estimated costs, determined budget and controlled costs. Full P&L responsibility.
• Deployed TPS and JIT manufacturing to continuously improve process and costs
• Applied lean and six sigma best practices and automation techniques to impact cost reduction, cost avoidance, process improvement, supply chain optimization, and quality assurance.
• Utilized CAD software for 2D and 3D modeling mockups such as PTC Creo, Matlab, SolidWorks, ANSYS Design Modeler and TurboCAD

IT Program Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the management of IT programs utilizing technology to support critical business systems and applications
• Effectively managed scope, time and cost for agile and waterfall projects to ensure successful delivery of project goals and objectives
• Lead implementation projects as Scrum Master and applied agile project management principles, techniques and best practices and championed the software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Provided strategic planning for program and portfolio management with the goal of aligning skills and resources of project based teams to successfully deliver projects within the PMO.
• Managed and delivered IT programs utilizing fiber based technology to support the management of digital projects.
• Managed the scope, time, cost and overall coordination and strategy of IT projects
• Provided strategic planning for program and portfolio management aligning skills and resources of project based teams to successfully delivery of projects within the PMO
• Managed project costs, estimated costs, determined budget and controlled costs. Full P&L responsibility.
• Successfully implemented digital transformation platform in the largest Confidential .
• Developed processes that increased customer satisfaction and lowered customer churn for 4 consecutive years.
• Spearheaded process-improvement projects to ensure accurate, timely delivery, reduced on-boarding expense, and improved standard work.
• Managed implementation of electronic business systems, policies and processes that increased ROI by 25% in 2009.