SUMMARY:

• Confidential is an accomplished business professional with over sixteen years of broad range, practical business experience.
• His skills and experiences range from project management, business analysis, process improvement, financial analysis, human resources, and management consulting.
• Confidential has worked with leading companies in the healthcare, energy, professional services, transportation, aerospace and federal government industries and has consistently integrated with client teams to successfully deliver business solutions.

KEY SKILLS:

• Project Management
• Cost Control
• Project Leadership
• PMOs
• Budget Analysis
• Organizational Analysis
• Communications
• Contract Management
• Coaching & Performance Management
• Risk Management
• Task Management
• Customer Relationship Management
• Business Process Evaluation Mapping
• Scrum Fundamentals Trained
• Familiar with Waterfall & Agile Methods
• Requirements Gathering
• Training & Development
• Business Analysis
• Workforce Planning & Scheduling
• Highly Organized
• Employee Relations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Average 10 - 15 concurrently run projects across practice areas; ranging from $15K-$500K+
• Responsible for the management, success and client satisfaction for assigned projects
• Work closely with key client stakeholders and decision-makers throughout the life cycle of the project
• Initiate internal and client kickoffs, in addition to leading project status meetings
• Review and work with project SOWs/scopes/schedules/budgets
• Create project plans, communications, status reports, risk management, and change management plans
• Develop and monitor project budgets, timelines and critical milestones throughout the life of each project
• Monitor and track projects within MS Project and AutoTask PM tools
• Report project status to key stakeholders on services, schedules, and budgets using project management tools and best practices
• Ensure project deliverables are completed on time and meet client expectations.
• Manage several internal firm initiatives across locations to improve internal services and infrastructure upgrades.

Confidential

Project Manager/ Senior Consultant, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Provided project management expertise to an IT organization to help meet their goal to establish a Project Management Office for the management and facilitation of strategic IT projects
• Created a wide range of Project Management tools and templates including project plan templates, issue and risk logs, stakeholder identification, communication plans, test plans and test script templates.
• Provided guidance and approach to roll out PMO standards, tools and templates to be used in the delivery of strategic projects.
• Supported the Director of Enterprise Architecture in an initiative to create a learning and development tool targeting the Architecture community across a Multinational Energy sector client.
• Provided project management oversight to ensure the team performed and completed within deadline.
• Project Manager for an initiative to collect the relevant business practices and related IT requirements and deployment activities for multiple solution teams.
• Developed a common structure and approach to documenting business practices, IT requirements, deployment activities and guidance for solution teams.
• Customized a practical guidance document for each solution team to facilitate self-deployments to multiple, global business units planning to implement the respective solution.
• Led the effort to collect business requirements for a multi-million dollar, major IT development effort for a Transportation Industry client.
• Engaged business and IT teams through planned communication for the documentation of business requirements.
• Baselined business processes that impact the business and IT interfaces for the current back-end accounting processes.
• Provided project management oversight for the migration of the system from an external vendor to an internally managed function.
• Project Manager for a $17 MM post-merger initiative tasked to support the Managing Director for F&A systems.
• Developed a custom-built Excel-based tool to manage and report on 65+ IT initiatives to client senior leadership.

Confidential

Realtor, Centreville, VA

Responsibilities:

• As a Realtor, I represented a range of clients from first time homebuyers, investors, sellers and renters.
• Advised and educated clients on the home buying and selling processes, provide counsel to determine affordability, draft and negotiate contracts,
• Managed the overall process from search, client communications, contracting process and interactions with all related parties and vendors to ensure settlements occur on time.

Confidential

HR Business Partner, Fairfax, VA

Responsibilities:

• Strategic advisor to VPs and senior management on people related matters and broad range HR topics that affect the business.
• Actively interfaced with senior account team leadership to build connectivity, understand business drivers and people needs within the account teams.
• Collaborated with resource management and recruiting to ensure the proper balance of skills and resources are found to assist the account teams in determining workforce plans
• Managed quarterly salary review cycle, including making recommendations to senior leadership in regards to budget and market ranges pertaining to skills and applicable experience.
• Manage employee relation issues, conduct career discussions and when necessary develop and facilitate Performance Improvement Plans.
• Document HR processes and provide recommendations for improvement.

Operations Analyst

Confidential, Vienna, VA

Responsibilities:

• Key advisor to the Business Unit Managing Partner on monthly staffing and utilization metrics for the practice. Analyzed utilization trends and forecasted quarterly targets for the overall practice and each account team.
• Provide coaching and counsel to senior leadership in determining workplace practices, people strategies, and Great Place to Work initiatives.
• Managed/mitigated a range of employee-relations issues for market teams.
• Managed staffing and workforce planning processes across account teams, provided recommendations to senior management as well as partnered with Recruiting and Account Team Leadership to determine resource and skill requirements for projects.
• Conducted full life-cycle recruiting including successfully sourcing, interviewing, and determining appropriate salary/level and cultural fit for PwC and skill-level fit specific to requisitions.
• Managed the annual Performance, Coaching & Development Process, compensation structure and yearly salary process for the Advisory practice.
• Provided training and guidance on the use of scheduling tools, HR processes and employee on-boarding.

Client Service Senior Associate

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Worked on a cross functional team tasked to develop a current baseline assessment of over 20 major business processes for prime business units as well as develop an Activity Based Management model to be implemented across the organization.
• PM and process lead for a cross-functional team utilized to deliver recommendations and solutions to current organizational issues for the ( Confidential ) Defense Security Service. Baseline business processes for Procurement, Payroll, Travel Programs, and Human Resources and made recommendations for improvements.

Confidential

Senior Consultant, McLean, VA

Responsibilities:

• Major project accomplishments include capturing baseline business environments, collecting performance metrics and simulating key business processes.
• Facilitated focus groups in order to collect data pertaining to the ‘As-Is’ state as well as conceptualized the ‘To-Be’ operating environment for post implementation of a new financial operating system.

Consultant

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Primary skills and project work included development and documentation of ‘As-Is’ and ‘To-Be’ program wide business processes to reflect post reorganization changes.
• Developed a critical documentation mapping to illustrate inter-relationship between major business units as well as authoring various SOPs.
• Responsible for the implementation and transition of seven major IRS programs across the service centers including conducting a broad range staffing gap analysis projecting post implementation employment needs.
• Obtained and analyzed equipment and training resource needs required for IRS service centers.
• Contract Manager for a $5 Million/Year Consolidated Space Operations Contract ( Confidential ) where my primary responsibility was to determine contract funding requirements and allocation among major operating divisions.