SUMMARY:

• Hands - on seasoned Program and Project Manager with more than 20+ years’ significant success leading complex business initiatives to develop improved business processes and technology driven services.
• Business Analyst and Strategist skilled in developing well-functioning and productive cross-functional business and technical teams to facilitate the identification of business requirements and success in translation of business needs into documented engineered solutions, integrating people, processes and systems.
• Professional with proven record in design and development of program and project methodologies and standards that ensure feasibility, effective launch, and completion of objectives.
• Expert in conducting risk and gap analyses that deliver data to guide delivery of enhanced business capabilities.
• Strong communicator with organizational and interpersonal skills necessary to influence and involve all levels and stakeholders .
• Manage full SDLC, inception through warrantee, budget creation through closeout.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Wayne, New Jersey

Senior Manager - IT, Supply Chain PMO

Responsibilities:

• M anage Agile based effort to deliver immediate intervention to process deficiencies and/or performance improvement.
• Lead infrastructure buildout for application performance, established schedule and budget.

Confidential, North Bergen, New Jersey

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led cross functional teams through Sterling 9.2 to 9.5 upgrade project; development, testing, deployment and closure steps and their related PMO phase gates
• Directed efforts for Omni-Channel new functionality delivery. Supported detail designs, development, vendor integration and technical and business testing. Enhanced functionality for Confidential, and BOSS
• Managed Vendors activities; SOW, PO, tracking budget to actual, and invoice review. Program budget $4.4M.

Confidential, Bridgewater, New Jersey

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead international R&D medical device schedule integration project spanning 2 portfolios and 6 functional areas.
• Compiled independent schedules into a consolidated 8000-line project plan.
• Developed custom project dashboard and critical path reports for project management and leadership updates.

Confidential, Florham Park, New Jersey

Project Management Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Managed 32,000 hour Buy Online Pick-Up in Store ( Confidential ) initiative.
• Managed business and technology 24,000-hour 140 resources Omni-Channel project composed of multiple development streams. Resource cost $1.44M. Team spanned employees and onshore and off shore consultants. Customized IBM Distributed Order Management package. Full SDLC responsibility.
• Directed 8,000-hour 30 resources infrastructure projects with capital budget over $2.4 million. Procurement, acquisition, rack & stack through hardening scans along with application penetration testing

Confidential, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led digital Confidential .com speed improvement projects. First project integrated speed enhancements from Akamai. Second project focused on code optimization.
• Guided IT, facilities and networking teams on deployment of Innovation Lab. Small project to establish POS and foundation for customer experience innovations.

Confidential, Plano, Texas

Project / PMO Practice Leader

Responsibilities:

• Led cross-functional business and technology teams in the definition and execution of project objectives.
• Acted in Project Manager and Business Analyst roles for 3G/4G and Satellite infrastructure engagement. Documented logical environment contextually and via Visio for public sector clients. Prepared for Physical environment write-up.
• Managed on-site and remote program and project engagement engagements, and related internal, vendors and client resources.
• Created program integrating Aliado’s PMO/Project Management methodology into third party COE improving and streamlining delivery processes while strengthening governance.
• Managed domestic and international program and project engagements, and related vendor and client resources. Most focused on install of Imperva security appliances at customer sites.

Project Manager

Confidential, Somerset, New Jersey

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple Salesforce.com projects to improve business processes used to perform Human Resources Talent Acquisition and Marketing initiatives.
• Lead the integration of a prospect contact management system and marketing database conversion from FoxPro and Access to enable MS support of applications interfaces to Marketing systems.
• Direct all business units, vendors, and technical personnel responsible for the integration of new systems.
• Identify and establish all program and project lifecycles, including requirements gathering, system specification, and leading the development, testing, and integration of new systems.
• Utilized Clarity for project status reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and maintenance of project plan.
• Reduced Marketing Data Services Repository teamwork requirement 50% by leading the automation of manual processes, cutting processes that required monthly and weekly processing down to daily processes through automation.
• Directed all business units, and technical personnel responsible for the integration of Salesforce.com applications.
• Identified and establish all program and project lifecycles, including requirements gathering, system specification, and leading the development, testing, and integration of new systems.
• Documented technical environment current and future state.

Confidential, Somerset, New Jersey

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Directed a program consisting of two projects focused on delivering workflow automation using the Pega Systems Business Process Management (BPM) software solutions.
• Created portfolio dashboards to enable primary stakeholders to view program-related data about resources, business areas, and the status of deliverables and milestones, facilitating better PMO visibility.

Confidential, Parsippany, New Jersey

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led post-acquisition Marketing integration projects spanning all functional areas Project team consisted of 7 areas and 30 resources.
• Accelerate transitions from unique activities to business as usual.