SUMMARY:

• Experienced Technical Project Manager with over 20 years of experience and, proficient in all aspects of Technical Project Management including managing software development projects, implementing ERP and infrastructure projects.
• Excellent interpersonal, presentation, verbal communication skills
• Results oriented with a fast - paced approach, and a creative manager with strong orientation towards customer service and strategic planning
• Hands on experience in requirements elicitation, design and development following Agile and traditional Waterfall methods in delivering projects
• Technical and project management experience executing PeopleSoft HR and Financial implementations, upgrades, patches.
• Proficient in Rally, MS Project, SharePoint, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, WebEx, Clarity, PeopleTools, PeopleCode, SQR

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Vienna, VA

Sr Project Manager (consulting)

Responsibilities:

• Managing multiple projects within the Mortgage Loan Origination System program with an overall $5.5MM budget. Delivering the projects on a multi release cycle enabling a series of products with increasing functionality enablement for each release.
• Responsibilities include managing project schedules, project resources, conducting meetings, updating risks and issues log, providing weekly status reports and contributing to biweekly steering committee reports.

Confidential, Columbus, GA / Birmingham, AL

Sr Project Manager (consulting)

Responsibilities:

• Synovus is a conglomerate of 30 community banks spread across the south east with a centralized mortgage group that supports the mortgage and other banking loan origination and processing needs.
• Managed multiple projects within the Phase II LoanSphere program with $4M budget for 2016. Delivered the projects in multiple iterations within timelines.
• Delivered Synovus mortgage’s $5M 3rd party vendor product BlackKnight LoanSphere Empower .Net implementation project to be compliant to the federal CFPB TRID TILA/RESPA acts by Oct 3rd,2015.
• Managed 30+ resources including vendor contractors from Black Knight Financial Srvs, WoltersKluwers, CoreIP, and Cigniti resources.
• Managed project financials, project plan, scope, risk assessment and external partners.
• Followed Waterfall SDLC for configuration, development and delivery of the project.
• Utilized MS Project, HP QC, ServiceNow, SharePoint and Vignette for collaboration of project artifacts.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Sr Project Manager/ Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Concurrently delivered several $0.5 to $4M projects for Consumer Deposits, Small Business Banking and Credit Card portfolios with 10 to 50+ resources.
• Delivered BofA Preferred Rewards Deposits Program DotCom development project effort. From bofa.com click Banking and select Preferred Rewards on the second rail.
• Followed Agile as well as Waterfall development and delivery methodologies.
• Managed baseline scope, risk assessment, Infrastructure impacts and, managed external partners, vendors on all projects.
• Well versed with Rally, IBM Rational Team Concert, MS Project and, utilized SharePoint for collaboration of project artifacts.

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the Consumer Lending Program, BKFS’s latest product offering, with 8+ projects and 60+ resources with a projected budget of over $3.5M
• Followed Iterative and Waterfall development/delivery methodologies as applicable
• Identified bottlenecks and, address with respective resource managers on schedules.
• Created and managed Project Plans and collaboration sites (SharePoint).

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

COTS Packaged Applications Manager/ Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Resource manager for 40+ resources that included Project managers, Developers, QA and Production Support teams with an yearly department budget of over $1.1MM to maintain eBiz Intranet’s COTS applications - PlanView, Aprimo MRM & Rational Tools.
• Managed $3.5M program to automate Statement Marketing operations by implementing Aprimo MRM application following Iterative methodology
• Responsible for Production Support operations following ITIL methodologies in maintaining Operational Excellence and negotiated a vendor maintenance contract that reduced over $1MM of the operations expenses over a period of 3 years
• Managed relationships with customer service, finance, PMO, senior management, and, offshore TCS and Satyam contract vendors

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Technology Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Thought leader for process improvement in supporting the financial department: conducted training, enabled 24/7 production support for all PeopleSoft HR and Financials suite of applications leveraging offshore vendor (Wipro, India) resources
• As PeopleSoft Technical Project Manager, successfully delivered AR and Billing modules in three phases for a total of 6 different billing sources
• As Project Leader, successfully migrated PeopleSoft HR, Financial and reporting systems to WaMu’s HR and MainFrame GL systems using SQR’s, DataMover scripts

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Technology Consultant

Responsibilities:

• PeopleSoft HR Implementation Lead to customize and implement Base Benefits, Payroll Interface to ADP and Custom Immigration & Visa Process modules.
• As Team lead implemented GL and AP modules of PeopleSoft Financials with 6 developer resources. Mentored several junior and senior programmers in to PeopleSoft.
• Consultant @ Confidential Universal Card Services: As senior key member in the Statement Rendering & Billing Department for over 3 years, performed various roles as Project Lead, BA and Sr. Developer.