SUMMARY:

Experienced and goal - oriented Project Manager with a demonstrated track record of defining and leading mission critical business and technology efforts with a focus on innovation and quality. Proven expertise in driving efficiency through thorough evaluation of IT processes, vendor relationships, and governance processes in support of overall corporate goals.

CORE COMPETENCIES INCLUDE:

• Strategic Analysis & Planning
• Research & Development
• Mentoring & Leadership
• Business Analysis
• Problem Solving
• IT Budgeting
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Quality Implementation
• IT Governance Processes
• Product Owner
• Technology Integration
• Vendor Management
• Process Excellence
• Project Management
• SDLC
• Iterative (Agile) Development

TECHNICAL SKILLS INCLUDE:

MS Office Suite including Access and Excel, MS Project, MS Visio, Jira, Planview, Daptiv, Clarity, Service Now and Share Point experience.

CAREER EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked on a multi-million-dollar unsecured lending project for Confidential .
• Managed project financials and followed rigorous SDLC and governance processes including phase gate approvals.
• Led both on shore and off shore resources across many teams.
• Followed an iterative waterfall and agile approach.
• Worked with the teams to coordinated requirements gathering, design sessions, lead application development teams and deployment planning for the project.
• Successfully completed 3 deployments in a 6-month period.
• Quickly came up to speed on a very large and complex in flight project that did not currently have Project Management oversight.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated requirements gathering, design sessions, lead application development teams and deployment planning for the project.
• Worked with diverse teams located in various locations (on shore and off shore).
• Managed project financials for the migration project track which is a multi-million-dollar effort.
• Follow an iterative (Agile) development methodology for application development.
• Document user stories, backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily standups.
• Completed phase gate reviews.
• Identified problem areas in project financial reporting. These issues were related to incorrect Capital and Operating breakdowns that were negatively impacting the program budget for 2016. Worked with Finance PMO and Operational accounting to resolve issues.
• Led a team of application developers to create a custom application to integrate with a vendor’s platform/payment gateway. This custom application is now used for multiple business units to securely process credit card payments for the organization.
• Worked on a payment token conversion project as part of migrating to the new solution. Successfully converted over 6 million payment tokens.
• Deployed new credit card payment solution including Ingenico devices that reduced PCI impacts for the organization and provided an improved member experience.
• Worked with telecom vendors and IT team to install and validate dedicated lines for communication between vendor data centers (primary and secondary) and KP data centers (primary and secondary) The KP IT team use Splunk and other tools to troubleshoot connectivity issues upon installation.

Confidential, Chandler, AZ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked with System and Data Integration team to gather requirements for process improvements.
• Also reviewed and updated the SDLC process to be used by the team and needed create document templates for integration projects.
• Completed phase gate reviews. Sprint planning, backlog grooming, user stories/story points, daily standups and reporting as part of Agile methodology.
• Designed, built and implemented process improvements in Jira to manage work requests for the System Integration team including workflow and reporting.
• Managed multi-phase Informatica upgrade project including new hardware and changing OS from Windows to Linux and database from SQL Server to Oracle.
• Led application development teams to develop custom applications for use by the organization.
• Led efforts for newly requested Informatica jobs and changes to existing Informatica jobs.

Confidential, Tempe, AZ

IS Project Mgr.

Responsibilities:

• Managed a Confidential Nautilus upgrade project which involved new server infrastructure and moving a very large amount of data (check and document images) from a data Center in Omaha NE to a data center in Tempe AZ.
• Execution of numerous custom software applications and utilities in conjunction with lines of business, technology resources, and IT strategy.
• Executed a large conversion project which included data migration from the existing Fidelity systems to new Confidential systems.
• Along with executive leaders, fostered support for increased focus on IT Governance processes resulting in improved delivery and support of technologies.
• Team leader for numerous organization wide initiatives including project planning, budgeting, and custom software and web application deployment as well as infrastructure projects including new hardware and SAN installation.
• Supported several initiatives resulting in cost savings and SLA reduction.
• Participated in two mergers and acquisitions efforts involving bank acquisitions from the FDIC.
• Frequent recognition for results-oriented leadership and team coaching skills.