Sr. Project Manager Resume
EXPERIENCE
2008 - Present - Confidential,Springfield, Illinois
An innovative management consulting firm focused on solutions that provide outstanding results in challenging and ambiguous environments
Principal Consultant and President
- Serve as Sr. Project Manager. Providing management and staffing of client projects.
- Serve as lead Technical Resource for the design, architect, install, and deploy of physical and logical BI environments (Cognos, Infor, BaaN, MS, etc.)
- Educate / train users on applications and capabilities. (Cognos, MS DW/BI, CRM, ERP, etc.)
- Conduct research and gain knowledge of client’s existing business applications and processes to assist in identification of: potential data sources, business rules being applied to data as it is captured by and moved through the transaction processing applications, etc.
- Work with client’s end users and analysts to develop high-level business process documentation, which is used to define and manage project priorities.
- Manage Client’s expectations and relationships at all levels from CxO to Developer.
- Clients include: A leading Plastics Injection Systems Company, Toronto, ON Canada; A leading Human Resources Company, Milwaukee, WI; A Startup Financial Collateral Provider, Milwaukee, WI, A leading Bio Medical Device company in McGaw Park, IL and a leading Industrial Brush Manufacturer in Cresco, PA.
2002 - 2008 - Confidential, Springfield, Illinois
A global provider of innovative information technology solutions with more than 500 employees, whose software is in use at a majority of Fortune 500 firms, in 30 countries around the world. A Microsoft Gold / IBM Premier / Cognos Silver Partner.
Managing Consultant (Business Intelligence / Data Warehousing)
- Led the creation and development of the IBM / Cognos / Microsoft - DW / BI Solutions Practice.
- Architected, implemented & managed over 25 DW / BI projects for clients.
- Serve as DW / BI Technical Resource where needed to successfully meet client expectations.
- Served as Trainer for Cognos in both On-Site and Cognos Classroom training sessions.
- Managed, hired & led a team of 8 FT Cognos consultants & the needed, On/Off- Shore, hourly contractors to fill technical needs.
- Clients have included: GM, EDS, Harte-Hanks, Ingenix /United Health Group, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Wellpoint, Rehab Care, BCBS Kansas, Phonak, Tekada, Abbott Labs, Simon Properties, University of Illinois, Wichita Public Schools, AEIS, Weiler Corp, West Corp., DST, National City, Mercer.
1997 – 2001Confidential,Milwaukee, WI
A Fortune 500 company. A Leading global provider of industrial automation and manufacturing control systems
Senior Consultant Program / Project Leader, DW – BI - IT - 1998 – 2001
Successfully architected and managed the implementation and launch of a BI tools (Cognos) DW program (DB2 on Z series and Oracle farm in Unix) ($4.0 mil+) utilizing Ralph Kimball methodology to 4000 enterprise users in North and South America, Europe & Asia. The initial program realized over $10M ROI in six months.
Education
Bachelor of Science
Business Administration - Marketing / Economics
Technology Experience
Sales / Marketing
Account Management
Operations Management
Product Development Channel Development
P/L Management
IT and System Management/Architecture
Project Management
Program Management
Software Development
RFP/RFI Evaluation/ Response
Requirements Definition and Analysis
Business Intelligence
Business Analysis
Business Performance Management
Score Carding
OLAP Design
Meta Data design
DW Architecture Design and Planning
Product/Tool Evaluation
End-User Training
Data systems to 1 terabyte
Business Applications Development:
Sales/Marketing
Business Intelligence
Data Warehousing
Industrial Automation (PLC, SCADA, CMM)
Manufacturing
Human resources
Health Care (Provider / Payer)
Bio Medical Devices
Financial
Operational
CRM
ERP
Product Development:
Industrial Automation / Controls / HMI Software
PLC programming Software
Sales/Marketing App Software
Construction Tools / Fasteners / Systems
Electrical Generators
Mechanical Electrical Devices
Firefighting Apparatus (Quick Response Vehicles)
Environments:
Windows 9x / NT / 200x / XP / Vista / 7
UNIX- HP/Solaris
IBM AS/400 AIX
Linux - Ubuntu
Mac OS X
Languages:
VB Script
Java Script
SQL
HTML / XML
Applications:
IBM Client Access
IBM DB2 UDB EE/EEE v7.1
DB2
Oracle 7, 9, 10i
Cognos PowerPlay / PowerPlay Web Cognos Trainer
Cognos Impromptu / IWR Cognos Trainer
Cognos DecisionStream / Data Manager
Cognos Metrics Manager
Cognos ReportNet Cognos Trainer
Cognos Frame Work Manager Cognos Trainer
Cognos 8.x (All studio’s) Cognos Trainer
Hyperion Essbase
Infor LN
Infor (Baan) IV
Business Objects
PeopleSoft
Siebel
MSSQL Server 7.0 / 2000 / 2005 / 2008
MSSQL Analysis Services
MSSQL Report Services
Toad
Full Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel etc.)