SUMMARY:

PMO Professional with 20 years of experience within increasingly responsible positions. Noted for strong relationship building and motivational abilities, especially with off - shore and global teams. A strong focus on improving overall Portfolio Management in regards process and governance using the most effective PMO strategies and tactical implementation.

EXPERTISE AREA:

• Post - Merger Integration Experience
• Offshore Team Management
• Client Communications
• Vendor Relationship Management
• Relationship Management
• PMO Governance
• Project Management
• Regulatory compliance
• Stakeholder Commitment
• Change Management
• Process Standardization
• Infrastructure Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Create and manage PMOs, develop governance management models
• Manage complex client programs and initiatives
• Lead/mentor global, matrixed teams of client resources, consultants and vendor/partners0
• Document and measure existing client processes
• Recommend outcomes and improvements
• Design and implement processes to enable client to improve performance levels
• Advise boards of directors, investors and C-level executives on realigning projects, programs and portfolios
• Create project plans, manage and report on initiative finances

Confidential

Senior Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead dispersed team of resources to develop SaaS platform for insurance industry
• Work with business team to develop iterative delivery approach
• Translate business needs to technical documents
• Develop budget, identify resources (people, vendors and equipment)
• Developed and manage governance model
• Work with business stakeholders to develop cost analysis and pricing model
• Develop and manage executive reporting, including meeting cadences

Confidential

Program Manager/PMO Lead

Responsibilities:

• Key Responsibilities: manage financial data warehousing and data lake technology teams using hybrid Agile/Waterfall methodologies, develop governance model to realign in-flight projects
• Realign a portfolio of data warehouse and data lake projects for the Confidential post-merger integration of 6 properties and Confidential itself
• Advised Project Leads, Business Stakeholders, Project Managers of essential improvements in the use of RAG status reports, Milestones and associated Change requests, prioritized improvements and provided on-going guidance and support
• Create PMO governance model: create practices and procedures to onboard new projects
• Created robust and automated reporting engine using various tools, including SharePoint, Excel, Jira, Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Flow
• Resource Management: interview and realign existing resources, identify resource gaps/needs, acquire necessary resources and manage CapEx for the program
• Developed educational for line managers and Project Managers
• Manage program risk and issues, reporting directly to COO, CTO and other executives

Confidential

Enterprise Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Help to develop reporting and governance for Enterprise Project Management Office
• Managed portfolios for the post-merger integration activities for the Law Group and Revenue Management
• Developed synergy forecasts for shared services centers for Revenue Management
• Managed development of global shared services centers for Revenue Management
• Work with the on-premise Microsoft migration team to develop new enterprise collaboration environment
• Developed migration strategy and managed migration of the 2 departments to Office 365
• Created training strategy and implementation plan
• Managed internationally dispersed teams consisting of internal resources, consultants and various vendors
• Daily management of budgets (handling time and costs), risks and issues across all projects
• Lead team to implement global legal contracting solution, Icertis, including needs analysis for each company department

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage dispersed team to develop a SaaS platform for career management using hybrid Waterfall/Agile model
• Develop training model for service companies
• Work with marketing team to bring the product to market

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Plan and execute separation of the carve-out while minimizing disruption to the remaining entity and maintaining business continuity
• Develop change management strategy and precise transition strategy
• Create migration strategy moving from on-premise email to Office 365
• Develop tools, templates, governance, meeting cadences and budget
• Report directly to CEO Separation Management Office (executive shareholders). The project was completed on time and within budget, but the deal did not close.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Work with major toy manufacturer and licensor to develop a robust, web-based event management system
• Develop project plan, identify resources and testing models
• Manage a team of developers, engineers and data architects
• Develop and implement change management process
• Manage overall project governance

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team to develop and manage a robust, cloud-based Internet presence management platform offering business and technology services
• Using a hybrid Waterfall/Agile methodology, created a project plan to work with business stakeholders, developers and infrastructure resources
• Work with marketing team to showcase and market the PaaS model
• Manage quality assurance testing and user acceptance testing

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led international team to create global application architecture, including systems and application development technologies
• Replace existing architecture that enabled the Global Corporate Development team to maintain and match internal resumes to new business prospects
• Integrate a data library with access management to projects agreements, qualifications, proposals & opportunities
• Lead enterprise transformation of knowledge management infrastructure

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Act as trusted advisor to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
• Transition the company to move toward a formal Knowledge Management implementation
• Interview and recommend resource realignment
• Gather data and inventory company processes and curren information flow
• Hone requirements for the implementation of an Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
• Perform operational due diligence and develop optimization and evolution plan
• Worked with the CTO and direct reports to develop final technology strategy current and future infrastructure and support needs of the organization
• Led the team in implementing a new SharePoint 2013 platform, including end-user and administrator training
• Managed executive reporting, governance, budget, vendor management, risks and issues

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Work with executives to develop Information Technology transformation program for in-country South African resources
• Assessed in-country resources and provided guidance and mentoring to local management
• Conducted in-person interviews, assessed skills and capabilities and further honed the transformation plan
• Presented findings to London-based executive management to develop resource improvement strategies and career guidance advice to local talent. Provided a template to executive management to create repeatable processes across additional regions.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed dispersed resources for implementation of new credit risk and market risk analytics and management software, Kamakura
• Created and managed project plan and managed resources internal and external resources
• Worked directly with executive leadership to match overeall strategy to tactical implementation
• Developed and managed quality assurance testing
• Led application customization team to accurately provide acute Value at Risk (VAR) calculations
• Managed team in side-by-side cutover process from legacy Moody’s KMV to Kamakura using data stream from Blackrock and other sources

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led globally dispersed team to implement a Kamakura Risk Manager trial platform for over 3000 CUSIPS
• Worked with Confidential executives to develop trial success criteria
• Created iterative implementation plan and governance model
• Worked with internal and external vendor resources
• Developed and managed project plan, managed project meetings and cadences
• Worked with Confidential Risk Managers to compare potential losses with pre-defined values and limits all the assets, liabilities and derivatives associated with Confidential ’s Long Term Care Policies and match same on new Kamakura implementation