SUMMARY:

Experienced executive level Project Management Professional utilizing structured methodologies with 14+ years of technology experience. Recognized ability to solve problems and work in a deadline driven, fast - paced environment. Communicates and works well with business and technical audiences. Proven record of accomplishment in coordinating high impact projects to completion.

PROJECT COMPETENCIES:

Business Process Re-engineering Government Contracting International Projects Risk Management Confidential Systems Contract Negotiation ITIL Release & Change Management Vendor Selection & RFP Program and Project Management Budget Analysis Program & Project Governance PPM Implementation SDLC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Guided the team through the Software Development Lifecycle process
• Defined, documented and managed changes to project scope and objectives (this includes requirements, specifications, designs and implementation plans)
• Validated and monitored the project cost and benefit assumptions
• Controlled product quality and monitored for any compromises that may happen
• Managed project risks and risk changes, keeping the sponsors aware at all times of the project status
• Monitored team member satisfaction with the project and morale of the team through the life of the project
• Continuously worked on defining and refining the project management model employed by the firm as our service offerings expand and our PMO continues to evolve and mature
• Recommend and implemented any new standards, policies, processes and tools in line with strategic direction and to ensure company’s continued success
• Lead periodic project status meetings with management and clients as required
• Created and managed change requests for every project scope change to ensure that management knows of changes and clients are informed of changes as well as any additional charges incurred due to changes
• Un-blocked project issues by engaging appropriate management and resources where necessary

Confidential, Houston, Texas

PMO Operations and Compliance Manager

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Project Governance; developed a Project Governance Framework.
• Developed project management best practices, ensured standard processes and documentation were in place.
• Tracked and report key metrics;
• Generated and delivered executive reporting and dashboards on a monthly basis.
• Identified strengths and areas for process improvement, established links between business strategies and improvement initiatives.
• Developed metrics that provided data for process measurement, identified indicators for future improvement opportunities.
• Assisted with achieving overall Department and Business goals.
• Provided leadership and expertise throughout the design and improvement of PM processes.
• Facilitated the standardization of process and PPM tool(s).
• Created project templates for agile, waterfall, third party, and implementation projects.
• Provided training and guidance in project management.
• Project Managed PMO process improvement projects and ensured solutions were achieved on time, on budget and within scope.
• Interacted and collaborate with employees across the enterprise from project managers, to department heads, as well as the executive team.

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Enterprise Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business needs and worked with stakeholders to propose and deliver cost effective solutions.
• Designed and implemented a Microsoft Private and Public cloud solution with System Center, Windows Server Hyper-V and Microsoft Azure. Focused on building the necessary infrastructure and management tools to deploy a hybrid cloud environment.
• Managed Automating the Migration from Windows XP to Windows 7
• Completed immediate remediation and stabilization of ATS (Advanced Title Search) application, and transition all services currently running on Solaris systems for ATS to a Microsoft based technology.
• Managed the development, implementation, and maintenance of project management policies, standards, procedures in compliance with state, federal regulations and PMI standards.
• Provided leadership for the introduction of project management methodologies in IT product and process development.
• Managed client expectations and collaborated with the client to acquire needed information and direction on their projects.
• Managed an operating budget up to $2.5m and is responsible for subordinate’s salaries of $140k to $180k.
• Ensured project requirements are achieved with a high quality and in a timely fashion within budget guidelines.
• Actively influenced an integrated approach to project management and business analysis with Quality Assurance, Security, Application Development and Operations teams.
• Monitored compliance and consistency with lifecycle, architectural and enterprise standards.
• Served as a member of the Senior IT leadership team to improve the overall quality of processes and tools within the organization.
• Led Infrastructure Business Continuity Planning for Mobile Recovery Unit Setup and testing in College Station TX.
• Provided guidance on process improvements for the PMO.
• Responsible and accountable for the coordinated management of all projects directed toward strategic business objectives.
• Successfully planned corporate card project resulting in $141Million spend earning $80+ Million in annual rebates
• Successfully managed an Confidential migration of Solomon in to Lawson.
• Managed the deployment/release of Confidential Lawson International.
• Successfully managed HR Payroll integration from ADP into Confidential system Lawson and Solomon.
• Successfully managed the security services provider onboarding project.
• Successfully managed the implementation of Confidential Lawson Procurement

Confidential, Fort Worth, Texas

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Served as the go-to person for all things in the receiving site related to the incoming migration from the source site.
• Managed a program consisting of multiple projects and sub-projects in support of large scale migrations of applications from legacy environments to a high-density virtualized environment.
• Administration and allocation of network assets including 42 satellite packages, 3,000 computers, 1000 VOIP phones, and 100 server sets
• Draft Project Planning Estimates for various requests including:
• DCMA support
• Fire Alarm repair, support and installation missions
• Giant Voice system planning, purchase and installations
• Confidential departmental growth planning, purchase and installation
• Executed and completed forensic searches, reports and archiving of Confidential internal investigations in coordination with Confidential Security and Legal while maintaining chain of custody requirements.
• Developed disaster recovery plans.

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided project and personnel direction in all phases of Change & Release Management.
• Responsible for planning, coordinating, managing and risk mitigation of release code deployment activities across pre-production, production and production support environments.
• Created project plans for deploying multiple applications through a four week release cycle.
• Worked with various technology staff- DBA's, deploy engineers, developers, QA and Technical Managers to resolve issues and ensure application availability throughout environments.
• Performed various roles in IT Services Management supporting integration and implementation of 3rd Party Professional Services Automation on-demand application.
• Created detailed deployment tasks and change tickets to facilitate application deployments across environments.

Confidential

SAP Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Full life-cycle implementation of procure-to-pay system (SAP 4.7 MM module)
• Contributed to Supply Chain business processes and analysis
• Developed training materials, process diagrams, bpps
• Presented training courses to end-users and vendors.
• Managed all Middle East deployment activities including team travel logistics. Traveled extensively throughout Kuwait, Dubai, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
• Managed transition into operational support and provided ongoing Subject Matter Expert support post go-live.

Confidential

Procurement Systems Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead supply chain e-business strategy/plan to gain maximum long term value through technology selections/enhancements combined with optimal work processes.
• Represented the Supply Chain on IT Governance/Work Process Steering Committees to determine/prioritize process opportunities, system improvements, e-business strategies, and vendor/customer collaboration development that adds value and improves position of company
• Managed a 5 person “Subject Matter Expert” team responsible for functional application support of supply chain management software applications.
• Developed and delivered training materials in addition to on-site support.
• Conducted Supply Chain process mapping exercise in preparation for SAP procure-to-pay project.
• Responsible for coordinating and maintaining automated procurement and e-commerce systems and the procurement card program.
• Provided SAP Materials Management and Warehouse Management training, process improvement, KPI and metrics creation while serving as liaison between business and SAP technical and configuration leads.