SUMMARY:

A strong track record of meeting deadlines on high - impact projects that saved money, increased revenue and delivered project results that satisfied the customer. A strong leader who has brought together colleagues of various professional disciplines to work as a team and achieve corporate goals. Brought in to take over failing projects. Consistently lead project teams in order to meet the scope, milestones, and deliverables.

SKILLS:

• PMI Project Management Body Of Knowledge
• Agile Methodology
• MS Project 2010
• MS SharePoint Services 2007/2010
• MS PowerPoint
• MS Visio
• MS Excel
• MS Word
• Project Server
• Windows 7 Enterprise
• Windows Commands v6.1
• Windows File Shares Services
• Windows Live Meeting
• Windows Office Communicator
• DRI Accepted Practices
• SDLC
• Business Analysis Body Of Knowledge

PROJECT MANAGEMENT STRENGTHS:

• Team building
• Customer focused
• Organized and detailed
• Motivating and directing others
• Planning capabilities
• Time management
• Drives for results
• Strong interpersonal skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Document business requirements and collaborate with IT in the creation of functional requirements while working with the business stakeholders to gain approval.
• Identify and resolve issues and risks, manage timelines in collaboration with IT, and communicate status to management and business stakeholders.
• Communicate effectively and make actionable recommendations to management, business groups and marketing leaders.
• Manage project to redesign company Intranet site.
• Determine the company’s ability to recover from a disruption or disaster.
• Identify the company’s critical business processes and how a loss of those processes would have quantitative and qualitative impacts.
• Oversee disaster recovery plans, developing plan requirements and coaching the recovery team in writing plans.
• Schedule, conduct and oversight of DR tests and exercises.

Confidential, North Chicago, IL

Business Process Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Conducted approximately 25 Business Impact Analysis (“BIA”) analyzing multi-million dollar critical business processes and how a loss of those processes would have financial and qualitative impacts to Confidential .
• Determined the required Recovery Time Objectives (“RTO”) and Recovery Point (“RPO”) for these processes.
• Identified and monitored appropriate business continuity criteria across Confidential to assess the effectiveness of Confidential IT business continuity programs related to critical systems.
• Conducted BIA peer deliverable reviews.
• Created BIA documents in accordance with Business Continuity Planning (“BCP”) policy, process and procedure as per project request.
• Reviewed BIA documents to assess compliance with applicable IT BC Policy.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Documented business requirements and collaborated with IT in the creation of functional requirements while working with the business stakeholders to gain approval.
• Identified and resolved issues and risks, managed timelines in collaboration with IT, and communicate status to management and business stakeholders.
• Communicated effectively and made actionable recommendations to management, business groups and marketing leaders.
• Managed project to develop B2B web application for clients to order products and exchange product and financial data in a secure environment.
• Determined the company’s ability to recover from a disruption or disaster by conducting a Gap Analysis.
• Identified the company’s critical business processes and how a loss of those processes would have quantitative and qualitative impacts, by planning and driving a Business Impact Analysis.
• Created documented disaster recovery plans, developed plan requirements and coached the recovery team in writing plans.
• Scheduled, conducted and oversight of DR tests and exercises.

Confidential, Arlington Heights, IL

Owner Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project Management
• Business Process Engineering
• Business Analysis
• Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity program assessment, strategy and planning.
• Crisis Management Planning.
• Crisis Communication.
• Risk Assessment.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Disaster Recovery Analyst - Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• I ncreased computing and data capacity by managing migration to a new data center.
• Developed cars.com ability to recover 100% of website capabilities through driving infrastructure improvement project.
• Achieved high availability of technology systems and critical services through strategic planning for recovery of all production data centers.
• Enhanced emergency communication with over 800 employees by implementing a system whereby employees could be messaged via text, phone, voice mail or email in approximately 5 minutes.
• Drove for the first time:
• A project to identify over 100 mission critical business processes and how a loss of those processes would have quantitative and qualitative impacts on the company.
• A project to create over 50 documented disaster recovery plans by developing plan requirements and directing recovery teams in writing plans.
• The evaluation of disaster recovery plans, by leading disaster recovery tests which identified gaps and deficient plans.
• Planning and driving a BC/DR risk assessment, identifying the threats, vulnerabilities and risks to technology, facilities, and people.
• A crisis management plan and team, preparing the company for loss of office facilities, significant IT outages, environmental disasters, human threats or terrorism.

Confidential, Arlington Heights, IL

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed projects and led teams, utilizing Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) methodology, and initiated planned, executed, monitored, controlled and closed projects.
• Delivered new systems and software utilizing System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Enhanced subscriber and advertiser experience and/or reduced operational expense by managing several process improvement projects such as subscriber and advertiser billing, marketing materials, advertising verification, and distribution processes.
• Managed several successful software upgrade projects.
• Met project deliverables on time and budget, by leading cross-functional teams.
• Regularly presented project status to executive leadership.
• Interacted with stakeholders and staff at all levels of the organization.
• Drove for the first time the following, through PM methodology:
• Determination of the company’s ability to recover from a disruption or disaster by conducting a Gap Analysis.
• The establishment of company Recovery Time Objective (RTO) by conducting a Business Impact Analysis.
• The creation of disaster recovery plans for systems and critical business processes, by collaborating with the IT and functional area teams.
• The establishment of a high availability data center and warm site by leading the project team in implementation.
• Preparing the company to respond to realized threats, whether technical, environmental or human in nature by creating a crisis management process and team.