SUMMARY:

Decisive, action - oriented and results-focused professional with 8 years as a leader in project management. I offer outstanding talents in team building, team problem solving, developing and controlling project scope, budget, client relationships, continuous design improvements and delivering successful results. I am driven by new challenges and the desire to make my teams successful in all endeavors.I immensely enjoy navigating all aspects of complex projects.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, MI

Sr. IT Project Manager

• Authored respective business related project charters, integrated schedules and business cases, to obtain approval for project initiation
• Conducted business and system requirements gathering sessions ensuring the capture of user needs and a successful scope
• Identified risks and potential impacts to already in use systems and overall business processes and tracked/managed to closure
• Established requirements traceability, utilizing formally approved business and system requirements along with Use Cases, which allowed full coverage in the creation and assignment of test cases for all phases of testing (Unit, SIT, Regression, UAT and Performance Testing)
• Created dashboard reporting for test results
• Established staffing plans for each phase of the projects/programs
• Interviewed, contracted and managed supplemental staff provided through sourcing vendors
• Developed and presented Program and Project Status Reports to CIO level leadership
• Tracked and managed all project related status including risks, issues, and governance activities
• Maintained all project related documentation
• Maintained multiple project related forecasts and created purchase requests when necessary
• Conducted Audit compliance activities to ensure all projects, applications, etc., were in compliance with Ally Corporate Standards, as well as Audit Compliance with the Fed. These included, but were not limited to: EAC Annual Audit and D&T Audit activities.
• Facilitated instructor-led (on-site and WebEx) end-user training sessions with users
• Worked efffectly with all levels of Ally management, peers and staff across the organization
• Ensured that all Ally PMO methodologies were strictly adhered too
• Oversaw project SDLC and prepared for migration to a sustain teams
• Created necessary project related Work Authorization Requests in order to receive adequate and timely project funding and managed purchase orders and payments to closure
• Led multiple programs/projects in the enterprise with wide stakeholder management and communication plans

Confidential, MI

Resource Analyst / Project Manager

• Interfaced with staffing vendors to acquire contract resources
• Assist in project scheduling across all Comerica IS and IT Units and Comerica external Business Clients
• Systems Analyst for Comerica’s Compuware Changepoint tool
• Maintained Retain Management System in order to allocate available resources to the currently active Comerica Bank IT projects
• Monitored and maintained all resource staff allocation in order to support the IT staffing levels and to keep manpower utilization at a maximum. This was done for Current and Forecasting purposes
• Submitted resource requests, advised necessary parties of the need thereof, for additional talent when the need arose
• Held meetings with Senior Executives advising of project risks and issues
• Lead Resource liaison for Comerica IT and various units external to IT
• Assist in multi-seasonal forecasting of Comerica IT resources
• Wrote and held for review the newly adopted Policies and Procedures for Comerica’s recently implemented Changepoint tool
• Reordered project(s), task(s), and priorities by obtaining status updates from deployment project managers
• Managed reporting for timelines, critical paths, and budget overruns
• Core Team for the Compuware Changepoint implementation. These tasks encompassed:
• Interviewing and documenting the needs of the system users and technical staff
• Identification, gathering, organization and writing of the necessary business requirements necessary for implementation
• Processed and disseminated status reports and meeting minutes relative to the project implementation
• Maintained all project related documentation
• Established work plan and staffing for each phase of the project
• Participated in testing new software to ensure that integration with other software programs worked as designed
• Delivered instructor-led (onsite and WebEx) end-user training sessions to users with varying levels of computer knowledge
• Worked closely with all levels of Comerica Management and resources within technology

Confidential, MI

Lead Coordinator

• Lead Coordinator to the Vice President and General Manager
• Processed all Purchase Requests
• Oversaw the 5m Research & Development Forecast/Budget
• Assisted in developing, preparing, analyzing and controlling the budget
• Produced a myriad of documentation using variety of software packages including VBA to manipulate data in Excel
• Managed information gathering into various partnerships and acquisitions
• Led and conducted weekly new product sales status meetings with sales associates located in all Magna time zones/regions (US, UK, Korea, Germany, etc)
• Worked closely with all levels of Magna Donnelly Management, as well as that of various Magna divisions

Confidential, MI

Lead Training Coordinator

• Assistant to the Director of Lean Enterprise
• Processed all Purchase Requests
• Maintained and balanced the 11.85m Industrial Engineering Forecast/Budget. Assisted in developing, preparing, analyzing and controlling all aspects of the annual budget
• Coordinated all aspects of the Manufacturing Academies
• Created and maintained all Manufacturing Academy training materials
• Created all SOP’s (Standard Operating Procedures) relating to the redesign Plant line for the Delphi Saginaw Chassis facility. This redesign led to increased productivity for our internal customers and higher accuracy for our external customers. This increase in Manpower Utilization led to reduced costs (via increased Run Rate) and Plant organizational inefficiencies.
• Prepared various Quality and Productivity reports that were required by all levels of Delphi Management. This reporting consisted of all 68 Delphi Energy and Chassis facilities located worldwide

Confidential, MI

Training & Project Coordinator

• Updated, edited and maintained 9 different WMS Training manuals
• Collected the quarterly SQRCP (Safety/Quality/Responsiveness/Cost/Productivity) updates and provided to the Division Director
• Created, wrote, and improved business policies and procedures. Revised outdated processes and guidelines in order to achieve compliance
• Coordinated the yearly SQRCP board/Scorecard for dissemination to the 21 PDCs/Processing Centers around the US
• Wrote and followed through on all Purchase Requests, as it related to the 100m dollar WMS project. This effort consisted of, but was not limited to: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, contract negotiation for both products and services, billing reconciliation, etc.
• Planned directed and coordinated activities of the respective project to ensure that the goals and objectives of the project were accomplished within the time frame and funding allowances
• Processed and tracked monthly time & material invoices for the 35 consultants
• Tested and worked through many WMS issues on the Inbound and Inventory Control side