Consultant Resume Phoenix, Arizona - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

More than 15 years of senior project management experience in planning, directing, and coordinating project and enterprise management activities, including but limited to, project scope, WBS, scheduling, earned value metrics, communication plans, stakeholder management, risk management, change management processes and project benefits realization for large and complex projects
Experienced working with business systems, IT, technology and engineering, integration, and implementation projects on cross - functional teams in a matrixed organization, completing projects on schedule, within budget, and with acceptable quality

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Confidential, Phoenix, Arizona

Consultant

Responsibilities:

Lead cross-functional teams consisting of mechanical, electrical, software, and manufacturing engineers to transform conceptual designs to a complete production ready product
Function as an Agile Product Owner interfacing with Software Development Team to ensure that product development intended benefits were delivered as intended and correct sequence
Implemented scrum and other agile methods

Confidential, Tempe, Arizona

Project Manager and General Manager

Responsibilities:

Established and managed 15 critical success factors, 35 key performance indicators for projects, programs, and operations, and modified or created operational processes by balancing competing project demands, resources, and customer expectations with organizational goals Operational efficiency increased by 20%
Managed five major infrastructure projects such as IT and facility data and communications using to ensure decision were being made using the most current data by implementing the Project Management Institute project management structure to manage stakeholder expectations, scope, schedule, quality, and risk where all stakeholders were satisfied with the project results As a result the overall reduction in operational errors increased profits by more than 10%
Established earned value project performance tracking methods to track all projects against performance targets while working with finance and accounting to validate actuals against the plan
Proactively managed contractors and vendors to implement various project hardware and software deliverables

Confidential, Arizona

Product and Project Manager (Temp Fulltime)

Responsibilities:

Created and executed new product project plans including all subsidiary such as cost, quality, scope, risk management, communications, change management and controls for three new telemedical products including leading design review meeting to align customer expectations with project efforts, resolving stakeholders issues, and negotiating conflicts.
Used Agile Methodology such as functioning as a Scrum Product Owner or Scrum Master in the Software Development Life-cycle to communicate requirements from stakeholders using product backlog stories enduring that software development integrated seamlessly with hardware development
Led Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective meetings
Worked with Cross-Functional Development Team and key stakeholders to resolve ongoing project risks
Insured resolution of project issues using issue logs, meeting minutes, negotiations, and building trust

Confidential, Phoenix, Arizona

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Managed project and operational benefit realization and project interdependencies to ensure that project end results contributed to the organizational strategic goal of having three related product have interrelated software modules and hardware
Managed robotic hardware and software projects as a program using the Project Management Body of Knowledge as well as Program Management processes resulting improved project controls and integration
Created project plans that consisted of both business and technical requirements which detailed the project scope, cost, work breakdown structure, scheduling, resource management, quality requirements, change management and performance measurement Managed the entire product life-cycle including risk management for all systems including IT interfaces
Managed six contractors and vendors project activities and used earned value project metrics to measure performance against schedule and budget while eliminating scope creep