SUMMARY:

• Project Planning
• Work Integration Management
• Scope, Schedule, Cost and Quality Management
• Issue Management
• Change Management
• Risk Management
• Vendor Management
• Co - creator of after school program at Fenger High School, 1989-91
• Mentored CPS Students in college engagement strategy for Youth Communications, 1985-86
• Projects Earned Front Page Annual Report for Confidential, 2 years
• New Product cited by HUD as Best Practice in Communitty Development
• Developed Asset$Illinois Homeownership Project as free standing business
• Developed Asset$Illinois Educational Project as free standing business
• Developed ShoreBank Wealth Creation Initiative as free standing business
• Created ShoreBank Asset Building Local Consulting Practice as free standing profit center
• Created ShoreBank Asset Building National Consulting Practice as free standing profit center
• Created ShoreBank State Wealth Creation Consulting Practice as free standing profit center
• Managed ShoreBank Individual Development Account profit center and expanded it
• Created MidAmerica Leadership Foundation Community Development Initiative with private capital
• Project Management Professional certification from the Project Management Institute
• ITIL Certification
• Certified Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance
• Experienced with all project resource models - traditional/cross-functional/matrix.
• Expert in gap analysis and risk management, managing projects that include training development and risk registers
• As needed, creates information system infrastructure that can accommodate new building construction, moves and changes and building modifications
• Innovative leader, team builder and results-oriented problem solver.
• Fifteen years of experience as point person for new product development, leading to millions of dollars in new products being made available for public consumption, with healthy profit lines
• Three years experience as a teacher of business management, marketing and new product development

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Project Manager

Confidential

• Initiated, planned and executed ITIL strategy for CA Systems Upgrade service desk software modification
• Executed and managed project strategy for instituting Shareware modification of federal army recruit electronic system
• Planned, executed monitored, controlled and closed project instituting new federal security management system utilizing CMMI procedure
• Planned, executed, monitored and controlled scrum product installation of Adobe software database readiness utilizing SCRUM methodology
• Instituted, managed and performed gap analysis related to software training for new ITIL help desk solution
• Led teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.
• Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments.
• Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures
• Project-managed large-scale initiatives involving the transition of programs to new platforms and the merger of disparate systems from acquired client companies.
• Managed all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) for custom solutions.

Confidential

• Created a business case analysis for a faith based community development loan fund within the city of Chicago
• Identified stakeholders needs through interviews and the delpihi technique
• Composed and lobbied for the approval of a project charter
• Identified and collected requirements of potential stakeholders
• Managed projects for Village of Riverdale Department of Economic Development
• Coordinated property purchases for three businesses relocating to Riverdale
• Coordinated and projecft managed city distribution of city owned property as part of a complex 600,000 square foot supply chain strategy
• Read maps and blueprints and developed action plans for wastewater remediation within the village’
• Coordinating the development of a grocery outlet in a major intersection of the village

Confidential

Project Manager

• Initiated, planned and executed relationships with schools throughout Cook and Will County for the purpose of evaluating after school offerings
• Executed and wrote reports on Illinois elementary schools conducting after school programs, including Chicago Public Schools at Stagg elementary and programs affiliated with Central States SER Corporation
• Conducted appreciative inquiry at twelve Chicago area schools in order to perform SWOT analysis concerning program performance
• Compiled reports for the Confidential and the prime vendor
• Created an approved business case analysis for a faith based community development corporation
• Identified stakeholders needs through managing a formal stakeholders analysis
• Composed and lobbied for the approval of a project charter
• Identified and collected requirements that would determine the ultimate success of the project
• Developed three separate projects to run concurrently under my supervision for the development of the CDC
• Identified risks through conducting a qualitative risk analysis
• Defined overall scope of the project
• Created a comprehensive work breakdown structure that is one year in duration and involves the work of three project teams under my supervision

Confidential

Project Director (Consultant)

• Successfully assisted state of Illinois in composing $1 million initial request for proposal for federal funding
• Raised $1 Million in private matching funds faster than any other service provider in the country- six months
• Wrote project scope
• Wrote Illinois State law for asset development
• Wrote Illinois State rules for administering the program
• Collaborated with seven divisions within IDHS during the project execution stage without utilizing formal lines of power
• Delivered the project at a record level of performance, with performance rates 300% of the national benchmark
• Raised an additional $.5 million to execute a new project in education
• Planned and executed plan for high tech system to coordinate financial debits & credit execution for project
• Planned and secured additional $1 million to fund education asset development project
• Elicited business requirements for software package to be used with the project, eliciting input from project stakeholders and making necessary project modifications as requested by senior management
• Wrote and executed contract with state of Illinois tax counseling agencies to merge benefits of asset and tax projects
• Planned, reengineered and executed operating system resulting in the best savings rate in the nation
• Planned, reengineered and executed marketing function allowing for statewide distribution of product from a centralized location, drastically cutting cost per customer expenses related to the project
• Planned and executed relationships with HUD certified counseling agencies throughout the state of Illinois
• Conducted feasibility studies
• Identified new business opportunities
• Scoped and defined new business opportunities
• Prepared the business case s and funding proposals
• Conducted initial risk assessment s
• Created new training products leveraging current federal product design against needed design to comply with federal law

Confidential

Project Manager

• Successfully wrote business case, then negotiated $500,000 contract with City of Chicago for project
• Successfully wrote business case, constructed project charter and negotiated $750,000 contract with Community Bank of Lawndale for project
• Negotiated and wrote product charters for more than $1 million in additional contracts over the past decade
• Project Initiation / Business Development
• Initiated, planned and executed a strategic alliance between the US Federal government and Employ America Corporation that leveraged first private investment of corporate earnings into AFI IDA project.
• Provided project initiation and planning strategy as a consultant to the United States Department of Human Services, providing technical assistance support to existing faith-based and/or community grantee organizations
• Initiated, planned, executed, monitored and controlled ShoreBank Wealth Creation Institute as the primary business within Confidential Chicago’s non-profit, accounting for 75% of revenues earned from 2003-2005.
• Designed 18 modules and 45 hours of modular training curricula across subject areas that include homeownership/real estate investing, investing basics, credit rehabilitation, wealth building basics and entrepreneurship.
• Marketed wealth creation training to institutional and private banking customers within ShoreBank targeted communities leading to dozens of new real estate loans from 2003-2005
• Solely executed and managed the project system development life cycle for the Choose Wealth project
• Served as sole technical assistance consultant to the National Center on Poverty Law and the Confidential in creating a pilot asset development and financial literacy project for moderate-income families throughout the State of Illinois. This project included curriculum design, executive leadership coaching, performance evaluation, outcomes reporting and statistical analysis of all relevant project performance data.
• Conducted feasibility studies
• Identified new business opportunities
• Scoped and defined new business opportunities
• Prepared the business case s and funding proposals
• Conducted initial risk assessment s as sole technical assistance consultant to the Local Initiatives Support Corporation for the “Banking on Family Child Care” Project, merging the need for family financial assets with the need for quality child-care in the Chicago metropolitan area. This project included performing training needs assessments, instructional design, training delivery and designing training measurement tools
• Executed project on time and on budget at a higher performance level than any comparable bank based asset building project in the country
• Executed and managed the Systems Development Lifecycle and the project development life cycle for the Asset$Illinois project
• Received commendation from Chicago Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development for performance on city contract
• Closed federal consulting contract with US Department of Health and Human Services on time and on budget
• Provided financing and educational initiatives that led to the purchase of more than 400 appreciating assets by moderate income families throughout the state of Illinois
• Solely executed and managed the systems development life cycle and product development parameters for the ShoreBank Savers Club
• Provided recommendations to the state of Illinois for improving record performance of the Asset$Illinois project
• Used customer evaluation data to make constant improvements to training curriculum offered by ShoreBank Neighborhood Institute to perfect the training system created