SUMMARY:

Over 12 years of experience with both technical and business aspects of Project Management Institute (PMI) and Agile development (Scrum Master certified). Possesses great interpersonal communication skills and works well with team members and clients. Work experience includes following standard PMI project management methodology, developing proposals, timeline, budget and estimate for prospective projects and managing team members. Skills range from IT software development, RF engineering and management. Industry experience includes Web/Mobile Development, Content Management Systems, Communications, Telecom, Public Sector, Software and Engineering Consulting.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software: Jira, Confluence, MS Sharepoint, MS Project, Version One, Conchango, Visual Studio/Team Explorer, SQLPlus, Visio, MS Office, ClearCase, ClearQuest, Visio, eRooms

Languages: HTML, PL/SQL

Network/Server/OS Platforms: Windows 2000/NT/XP

Database: SQL Server, MS Access, FileMakerPro, FrontBase

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Lead team of UX, Design, and developers to rebuild websites, CMS’s and internal tools for various clients. Worked closely with clients and internal team from research, concept, design, implementation and launch. Ensured business requirements were met, delivered. Responsible for budget and project timeline. Managed risks and constant communications with clients to ensure their needs were being met.

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Senior Project Manager

Lead CX projects centered on the integration of publishing systems to fulfill enterprise needs; frequently involving full - suite CMS implementations of SDL Tridion including Experience Manager as well as complex integrations to marketing and back-end data systems. Perform management duties both functionally for project-management staff and through the leadership of cross-functional delivery teams including business analysts, data scientists, UX practitioners, content strategists, front-end developers, Java/PHP/.NET developers, and quality assurance professionals.

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Senior Consultant

Serving as a Senior Consultant within the Web and Mobile practice, responsibilities include being the main point of contact for the client and project teams whether on or off-site. Helps identify business needs, requirements, and resource estimates through close coordination with stakeholders. Ensures all business and project goals are met while managing project schedule, resourcing and budget. Works as an ambassador to clients in helping anticipate their needs, business opportunities that can help better the client’s needs. Day to day activities include running daily standups, sizing meetings, manage backlog, lead sprint reviews for all project sprints and help mitigate any issues that may arise.

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Project Manager

Served as the frontline interface between the client, project lead for cross-functional project teams and serve as primary web consultant. Serves as the primary project expert ensuring all business and project goals are met while also managing all aspects of the project schedule, resources and budgets. Anticipate client needs, business opportunities and negotiate/secure new contracts with customers. Ran daily scrums, sizing meetings, managed backlog, lead sprint reviews for all project sprints and helped mitigate any offline issues that came out of daily scrums.

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Project Manager

Responsible for all new product development working directly with VP of Technology. Managed developer resources/planning, development, QA and deployment of product enhancements/new products using Agile methodologies. Defined project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders. Identified needed resources and coordinates efforts of team members and third-party contractors or consultants in order to deliver projects according to plan. Communicated with clients regularly in order to maintain strong working relationships and manage expectations. Lead sizing meetings, tracked team velocity, capacity, conducted daily scrums and lead sprint review meetings.

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Program Manager

Responsible for project management for the Business Office Solutions group at Confidential working directly with the PMO. Coordinated requirements gathering, development, QA testing and deployment for cross-functional teams to ensure on-time and successful product/project rollouts. Worked with Confidential legal to make necessary changes to Confidential tuition-pay products to ensure compliance with existing and changing federal regulations.

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Program Manager

Responsible for all project planning and managing impacts to cross-functional technology teams for product rollouts. Worked directly with the PMO. Program managed projects utilizing standard PMI project management methodology for the full project lifecycle (SDLC) as well as Agile Methodologies. Coordinates with Product Managers to determine product features / enhancements and identifies the impacts of these features / enhancements on other functional teams. Gathered and wrote all product requirements and identified applicable resources to include product purchase and fulfillment processes; reporting requirements; product escalation processes and product implementation processes. Worked closely with software engineers to optimize plans to minimize impact, reviews software design documents, reviews QA test cases and supports QA efforts as a subject matter expert. Influenced technical direction, strategies, and resource allocations across multiple programs.

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Senior Project Manager

Responsible for managing large, complex, cross-functional technology projects and product rollouts through the full project lifecycle (SDLC) following standard PMI project management methodology. Worked and coordinated directly with the PMO. Simultaneously managed several smaller to medium sized projects. Handled and maintained relationship management with client organizations. Monitored program schedule development in accordance with master schedule on a daily and/or weekly basis during implementation cycle. Planned and lead medium sized cross-team meetings and providing support to project teams to ensure constant cross functional collaboration among Marketing, Engineering, Service Delivery and Sales Support to support project control, project scope, project schedule and budget. Prepared and communicated program status relating to requirements, deliverables, issues, milestones and schedules on a regular basis to all levels of IT and Client management. Coordinated. Managed and tracked test cases and their results as part of the PMO UAT Team for quarterly UAT IT project Go-live releases.

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Project Management

Project manager for a start-up company that is developing a new technology to provide broadband over powerline (BPL). Responsible for coordinating, managing and implementing full life cycle development activities for both HW and SW groups. Ensured that project schedules were met and facilitated any communication between cross functional groups. Daily responsibilities include updating and tracking project schedules and project tasks, leading project meetings and taking action items, following up on action items to ensure they are completed in a timely manner. Assisted in the coordination of input/output management between various groups. Coordinated product release to customer including working with product management, sales and product marketing.

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Project Management

Worked as project manager at National Headquarters (NHQ) on Nextel’s Rebanding project. Supported the Program Manager to ensure that the requirements set forth by FCC are met. Acted as coordinating point of contact for two of the four Nextel national regions. Facilitated and lead meetings as necessary for regional level working teams to communicate N HQ direction and guidelines. Worked with cross-functional teams across Nextel’s Engineering and Operations division to gather requirements and develop enhancements for RF tools used in the field. Responsible for tracking ongoing processes for market specific retunes and ensuring timely completion according to project schedule. Produce quarterly reports to communicate project status to upper management.

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Project Management

Worked as project manager on simultaneous projects ensuring FCC Phase II compliance for e911 locating system. Responsible for successful design and deployment of multiple market based projects to maintain accordance with general purchase agreement and ensure client was in accordance with FCC e911 regulations. Responsible for coordinating equipment ordering and delivery for installation of hardware for market preparation to implement the Geometrix system. Headed up a team of test engineers and organizing drive test resources to ensure timely completion of project deadlines. Interfaced with client and coordinating with several internal departments to prepare equipment and data loading for cell site testing for particular markets.

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Project Management

Worked as project engineer on a Northrop Grumman naval contract performing project management, tracking and planning. Management included highlighting critical path tasks relating to Total Ship System Engineering (TSSE) processes to translate DD(X) operational requirements into a system design solution that integrates the Ship System, Combat System, C3ISR System and Total Ship Computing Environment into the total DD(X) System design. Tracking critical path tasks included keeping track of baseline deadlines within schedule as well as budget implementing EVMS methods.