SUMMARY:

• IT Project and Program Management functions in Billing, Energy, Defense, Finance, Government, IT (Services, Product Dev), Insurance, Mortgage, Telecom, & Wireless.
• Experienced project manager over 15 years of successful leadership in all phases of diverse technology projects; PMP and MBA credentials; Over ten years business intelligence, software development, business finance, and Lean Six Sigma experience.
• Business strategist, plan and manage multimillion - dollar projects aligning business goals withtechnology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets.
• Excellent communicator; leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicateeffectively with client executives and their respective teams.
• Expert in agile and waterfall project management methodologies; Ability to manage large project teams and known for high-quality deliverables including facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and transparency.
• Strong Program and Project management skills - traditional and agile, program finance, budgeting,accounting and expertise in technology and business analysis.
• In depth knowledge and experience in technical and project management standards, system reengineering projects in client server environments utilizing Lean Six Sigma methodology and Software Development Life Cycle standards, both in Waterfall and Agile development.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

ERP/Database: Oracle 11g, Oracle Financial 11i, PeopleSoft Financials Fin 9x IBM DB2

Utilities: Remedy, Autosys, Open Process, SQL* Navigator, TOAD, Rapid SQL

Programming: SQL, PL SQL, C, C++, Pro* C, Cobol, RDMSx, VB, Basic

BI Tools: Tableau, Business Objects XI, Hyperion HFM/FDM/Essbase, and Microstrategy

CM / Test Tools: IBM Rational, DOORS, and HP ALM, Quality Center, Clearquest /iCART

SCM Tools: Xansa CM, AM and BPM IDE tools, PVCS Version Manager, PVCS Tracker

PM Tools: MS Project, Rallydev, Version One, HP EPPM and Confidential ERPP

Presentation: SharePoint, MS Office Suites including Visio, IBM Sametime, Cisco Jabber

Data Management: Documentum, IBM Rational DOORS, Requisitepro, Data Compare Pro

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Consultant, Project Manager

• Create and maintain User Acceptance Testing Strategy, Plan and user acceptance test scripts
• Review and update business requirements using DOORS requirement management tool.
• Document action items, key business and system requirement discussions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional team to document system requirements changes.
• Review system requirement specifications to create User Acceptance Test Cases.
• Create & update data requirements, including transformation logic.
• Lead analysis of data impacts on requirement changes and system specification updates.
• Interact with the business and technology teams to resolve ambiguities on requirements.
• Participate in resource estimation efforts, planning and test execution timeline / activities.
• Support performance testing activities as needed by the project team.

Software: Waterfall project management methodology, MS Project and other MS Office Suites, IBM Rational DOORS, HP ALM, Rapid SQL, Remedy Change Management, Data Compare, Oracle and IBM DB2 databases

Confidential

Consultant, Sr. Analyst

• Manage Requirements Management Software such as DOORS & Version One.
• Document action items, key architectural discussions data mapping and solution specs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional team to document System requirements specifications.
• Experience leading interactions with the business to break down business requirements into.
• Create & update user stories and data requirements, including transformation logic.
• Lead the analysis of data impacts and data profiling, change requests and SSD updates.
• Interact with business and development teams to facilitate understanding of business reqs.
• Participate in resource estimation efforts and planning for development activities
• Create and update user stories based on change requests and SSD.
• Data mapping and document system and solution specifications.
• Participate in resource estimation efforts and planning for development activities.
• Review and update development / test progress, task assignment, and status on VersionOne.

Software: Agile project management methodology, Version One, MS Project and other MS Office Suites,IBM Rational DOORS, HP ALM, Rapid SQL, and Remedy Change Management, Plan View, CISCO Jabber

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst / Project Manager

• Manage software tool selection process working with business and tech leadership.
• Prioritize project deliverables based on stakeholder needs ensuring on time completion.
• Create and manage project plan including resource loading, project budget and schedule.
• Negotiate and decide on the issues between business stakeholders related to project content.
• Establish and maintain lines of communication with team members / business stakeholders.
• Plan and conduct pre-planning and planning sessions to review user stories for each sprint.
• Conduct post sprint retrospective to review start, stop and continue action items with team.
• Facilitate weekly status meetings with business sponsors, governance team and senior mgt.
• Work with product owner to prioritize / decompose requirements based on sprint planning.
• Conduct review session with project teams and stakeholders on solution specifications.
• Communicate regular and meeting updates on reports / wireframes with all stakeholders.

Software: Agile project management tools, Tableau, Rally, Lab49, MS Project and other MS Office Suites, DOORS, Orchestration Workbench / Gateway, Wireframes, ALM and Clear Quest /ICART, SharePoint,Documentum, IBM Rational DOORS, ClearQuest, Netezza, Selenium, Remedy Change Management.

Sr. IT and Business Analyst / Project Manager

Confidential

• Project initiation and scope definition, scope assessment and business requirements review
• Manage client relationship, contractor hire, project planning, and and client training
• Create test strategy, monitor development, and execute UAT of financial applications.

Software: BI Tools, Oracle Hyperion Essbase, FDM and Planning applications, SAP Businessobjects, MSProject, Hyperion Planning Enterprise Resource Planning Platform (ERPP), HP Enterprise Project andPortfolio Management (EPPM), PeopleSoft Financials, MS Office Suites, Remedy (Change ManagementTool), IBM Rational Software Configuration Management tool, Documentum (Records Management Tool)

Confidential

Consultant Project Manager

• As Project Lead and Data Warehouse consultant for the Asset Management upgrade Project (Enterprise Asset Management system upgrade from EMPAC 7.6 to 8.6) for Sprint Communications (formerly Nextel Communications, Reston) I was responsible for project management including business requirement review, functional & technical design, dev and delivery of mgt reports.
• While my initial engagement was for an year to work on data warehouse project to create asset tracking data mart and management reports, as I had experience in implementing Oracle Financials project, my contract was extended to work on ERP implementation project for ATLAS 2.0 release when Nextel migrated to PeopleSoft from Oracle 10.7 to integrate, with EMPAC and Cell Track.

Software: EMPAC, SAP Businessobjects BI Tool, Oracle, PeopleSoft Financials, Cell Track databaseBased on performance, and PM skills my 1 year initial contract was extended by 3 more years.