SUMMARY:

• Motivated and effective IT Professional with extensive project management and supervisory experience. Outstanding record of delivering efficiency and cost savings in various organizations through a wide range of IT projects. Managed multiple concurrent IT projects, including application development, third - party (SaaS) solutions implementation, infrastructure/hardware and various other deliverables.
• Hold certifications as a Project Management Professional (PMP) and Scrum Master (CSM).Collaborative problem solver who uses proper project management techniques (Scope/change control, budget and time oversight) to ensure the successful delivery of the projects. Expertise in taking over challenged projects and applying proper project management methodology to realign towards a successful completion.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Project Management
• Employee Management
• Vendor & Stakeholder Management
• Scope & Requirements Management
• Leading Global Team
• Risk & Change Management
• Waterfall & Agile Methodology
• Management Status Reports

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Proficient with MS Office Suite (MS Word, Excel, Outlook, Access), MS Project, MS Visio, and PowerPoint.
• Extremely strong PC skills, software, hardware and peripherals installation and support

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Ensured business continuity for multiple EU branches by successfully delivering business-critical, enterprise-level Explosives Asset Tracking system within a fixed and extremely aggressive deadline.
• Increased cost savings and improved management visibility through development of multiple Asset Management dashboards for the various internal business units.
• Realized delivery cost and schedule reductions through leveraging common development areas and lessons learned, reducing overall effort, streamlining delivery, and improving quality of the end product.
• Improved efficiencies of internal operational business units through delivery of multiple mobility applications across multiple platforms (iOS, Android).
• Reduced delivery costs and timeline on numerous projects through engaging third-party vendors for solutions and product delivery.
• Enabled cost-overhead savings through multiple infrastructure projects, such as integration of new business units to existing application platform, transitioning applications to new platform and server/data center decommission.
• Managed multiple projects involving integration and/or data sourcing with the current SAP system, ensuring compliance and consistency with existing enterprise system.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Reduced cost overheads and ensured operational excellence by managing data center relocation and application migration to new, safer and more stable environment with minimal end user interruption.
• Realized extensive cost savings through implementation of IT Asset Management tool that allowed discovery and categorization of all IT assets nationwide while improving customer satisfaction and support center efficiency.
• Promoted project management ideology and peer collaboration through creation of PMO Book club for exchange of Project Management-related topics, concepts and challenges.

Confidential, Houston, TX

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Achieved technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) status on GMC/PrintNet software tool in developing, testing and providing complete end-to-end solutions to external clients.
• Increased productivity through successful utilization of PrintNet software during project lifecycle, achieving decrease of 60% on overall delivery timeline and over 70% reduction in client change requests.
• Improved efficiencies through mentoring of multiple Project Manager peers in the use of the PrintNet software
• Conducted group and individual training sessions of other Project Managers, peers and resources of other teams on use of the GM/Print Net software tool and methodology.

Confidential, Houston, TX

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Reduced overhead costs by overseeing timely decommission of servers in selected data centers as part of the consolidation effort and ensured business continuity during application transfer, or sun-setting, through thorough communication with application stakeholders and end-user groups.
• Maximized engagement of local Data Center teams through regular meetings and site visits to ensure proper communication and full team alignment with expectations.

Confidential, Houston, TX

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Increased branch operational efficiency by 35-40% and reduced employee errors by replacing previous manual entry system through deployment of the D-Trak system.
• Ensured proper and timely deployment through overseeing installation and testing install and test D-Trak hardware and software in over 60 branches nationwide.
• Developed and conducted employee training, ensuring user acceptance while providing branches with daily support, troubleshooting and training coordination.

Operations Manager

Responsibilities:

• Assistant to the branch manager, responsible for the overall operation of branch. Managed team of 30-80 employees and a fleet of 30 trucks. Responsible for employee recruiting, training and evaluations. Maintained employee scheduling, route assignment and payroll.