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Project Manager Resume

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Chicago, IL

SUMMARY:

  • Large Scale Project Management experience, including: requirements gathering, facilitating status meetings, resolving schedule conflicts and close interaction with stakeholders. Documenting meeting minutes to be distributed to stakeholders. Utilization of MS Project, Clarity and Visio for project documentation. Ability to work in a fast paced environment with little to no supervision.
  • Technical aptitude and skilled proficiency as a Project and Process Coordinator utilizing: Microsoft Office (Excel, Word and PowerPoint), MS Project, Adobe, Clarity and Visio.
  • Preparing forecasts and trend analyses to support financial projects and business operations. Able to update resource plans and adjust estimates and timelines accordingly.
  • Performing stakeholder needs assessments, and cost/benefit analysis; as well as analyze complex business needs, define business requirements and recommend business solutions and strategies. I have managed strategic projects and was involved in ongoing evaluation, research and resolution of workflow needs.
  • Organized and efficient with exceptional follow - through abilities and detail-oriented; able to plan and execute projects that contribute to area’s objectives. Responsible to schedule requirements gathering and project status meetings; resolve schedule conflicts through close interaction with stakeholders.
  • Strategic & Tactical Planning for Project Plans; Solution Scope Definition and Execution. Managing and tracking budget for accurate resource tracking.
  • Team leader and liaison with the ability to motivate, energize, and engage. Ability to guide project team on deployment processes and identify areas of improvement for tasks going forward.
  • Ability to successfully manage a large workload while being adaptable and a quick learner. In addition to completing project related tasks and initiate project tasks.
  • Process Management utilizing Six Sigma and Continuous Improvement Principles. Including tactical documentation and reporting.
  • Documentation during and post meetings for process analysis and mapping. Ensuring all takeaways and action items are captured and communicated to stakeholders.
  • Meeting facilitation skills with the aptitude to provide succinct updates, capture new status updates and provide detailed summaries for team and business partners. Preparing presentations to be distributed to team and stakeholders.
  • Data Analysis using Excel and other necessary tools to capture and distribute data and research.
  • Financial Forecasting to support budget, timelines and resources for the project as needed.
  • Marketing & Communications Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Expert Capability utilizing social media to achieve business goals such as: Twitter, Yammer, and Instagram.
  • Energetic, team-oriented individual contributor who is sought out for interpersonal skills and relationship building competencies.
  • Quick learner who is able to hit the ground running with little or no direction
  • Asset Management
  • Vendor Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for managing project plan tasks relating to six month implementation of Confidential telephony project.
  • Create Reports from the Project Plan to present at a weekly status meeting.
  • Run two reports for tasks still pending at the end of the current week, and items due in the next 2 weeks.
  • Create Reports from the Project Plan to present at a weekly status meeting.
  • Documentation with Requirements gathering.
  • Keep record of requirements that the business is keeping or getting rid of used for another utility.
  • Monitoring the Project Financials.
  • Create and maintain the Project SharePoint page.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

  • Daily support to Program Manager and seven Project Managers for AML & Risk projects.
  • Accountable for supporting the effective management and control of projects by acting in various roles such as team leader, project coordinator, and project administrator on small to large projects.
  • Assisting in the planning, preparation, and maintenance of project team schedules, documents work plan updates, maintains project issues logs and databases, estimates activity duration and risks, to meet BMO standards. Escalate early warning signs and deviations from the plan to the project manager.
  • Acting as the point of escalation on administrative matters and operating requirements.
  • Analyzing and resolving more complex issues efficiently and effectively in accordance with Bank and industry standards.
  • Recommending/implementing process and project improvements.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

  • Serving as the liaison between Business and IT Partners through the lifecycle of their program or project by utilizing both waterfall and agile project management.
  • Manage day-to-day success of 13 Client Commitments projects. Responsibilities including: meeting facilitation including securing rooms and video/tele conference needs. updating presentation decks in PowerPoint for meetings. utilizing Excel spreadsheets to track the issues, actions items and risk that are discussed within the meeting. publishing and distributing meeting minutes via email or storing to SharePoint. managing calendars for multiple Project Managers. attending meetings throughout the Client Commitment space (team, group and steering) and assist with all of project requirements (meeting minutes)
  • Maintain alignment to desired strategic outcomes of Confidential portfolio initiatives by maintaining budget, resources and timelines all tracked through Clarity.
  • Creating SharePoint site when Confidential moved from a local repository. migrating documents from Lotus Notes repository to SharePoint updating site as necessary in a timely manner to ensure all team members and stakeholders have access to the documents they need. maintaining team meeting and out of office calendar on SharePoint
  • Responsible for directing, organizing and controlling project activities, under the direction of the PMs and Program Manager.
  • Provide consistency of service delivery through the utilization of services and methods by establishing and meeting SLA’s.
  • Take on and complete ad-hoc requests from Portfolio Lead, PM and Program Manager such as catering requests, team training and travel arrangements.

Consultant

Confidential, Chicago, IL and Columbus, OH

Responsibilities:

  • Marketing and Social Media Consulting throughout the Midwest.
  • Creating Social Media Strategies
  • Growing a base of followers, "likes", fans and customers. Maintaining a "direct-to-fan" relationship on a day to day basis.
  • Mailing list management, newsletter copywriting and design, strategic implementation of email campaigns utilizing Mail Chimp, Smore and email.
  • Gathering and organizing data to make fact based decisions for strategic growth.
  • Building Client relationships through networking, training and service projects.
  • Actively participating in brainstorming sessions and strategy meetings with clients.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Consultant - Project Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Project Manager responsible for IT and Operations rebranding tasks related to overall Bank rebrand.
  • Responsible for creation of and maintenance of Brand Asset List in Excel for NCB rebranding initiative in IT Operations.
  • Determine project schedule and resources for 60 employees by mapping out a process in Visio.
  • Maintaining project schedule, tasks and updates with an Excel spreadsheet.
  • Serve as liaison between IT Operations and Marketing departments.
  • Responsible to schedule requirements gathering and project status meetings and resolve schedule conflicts through close interaction with stakeholders.
  • Facilitate meetings to not only provide status updates in person and through email, but to capture new tasks and provide a detailed outline of meeting outcome and new action items.
  • Meeting documentation captured in Word and distributed post meeting via email (Outlook).
  • Relationship building with current Vendors for ongoing project work and tracking through Excel.
  • Collecting and formatting data for 2014 Bank Vendor Review for 250 External Vendors.
  • Process mapping current Bank onboarding and offboarding procedures utilizing Six Sigma principles for all current and future bank employees.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

IT Business Process/Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

  • Created, supported, and executed projects and Six Sigma processes that enabled optimal execution of Nationwide IT programs and strategic initiatives utilizing tools built for NW by HP as well as Microsoft Office.
  • Provided reporting and analysis utilizing Excel for IT Business Operations Leader in support of department projects, collaborating with stakeholders to ensure accurate information and timely delivery for 300 employees.
  • Led and implemented project for IT Star Award Process across the IT Enterprise for 3,000 employees.
  • Led Voice of the Customer sessions using Survey Monkey and face to face meetings, resulting in multiple Corporate Real Estate improvements. Major improvement in the automation of service requests to manual effort time and provide ad-hoc reporting.
  • As IT project lead for community service, introduced events to drive contribution increase of 60% in only four months.
  • Facilitated process for administering and analyzing data in support of Nationwide IT thematic goals.
  • Responsible for planning, organizing, and executing meetings for up to 2600 associates with an annual budget of approximately $200,000.
  • Prepared and coordinated monthly financial and scorecard reporting, which was presented to an audience of 50+ including CIO.
  • Participated in scorecard automation project utilizing Excel to reduce monthly manual efforts for 20 employees by 50%.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Staffing Coordinator

Responsibilities:

  • Reviewed and critiqued resumes, telephone screened and administered interviews for job placement candidates.
  • Conducted in person interviews with all potential candidates to find them job placement.
  • Responsible for payroll processing and providing a summary to executive leadership
  • Served as liaison between companies and employees to ensure everyone was having their needs and performance goals met.
  • Maintaining relationships with internal and external vendors.

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