SUMMARY:

• Program & ProJECT Management | LARGE SCALE PROJECtS| IT SOFTWARE, SYSTEMS & INFRASTRUCTURE DELIVERY
• An expert in driving results, leading change and challenging “not invented here” mindset, while focusing on achieving the bottom line.
• Leveraging over 18 years of Information Technology and management consulting experience into developing solutions and services for customers and stakeholders to meet project goals and business initiatives.
• Maintains flexibility, able to prioritize competing business goals, take concepts to fruition and produce during budget challenges in functional and matrix organizations.
• Highly proficient in assessing culture, building credibility and trust to foster partnerships to immediately add value and deliver on new ideas.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• RFI/ Confidential preparation & response assessment
• Project Planning, Monitoring and Control
• PMO - Restructuring & Improvement
• Executive Reporting - C level suite
• Client Management Relationships & Liaison
• Budget planning & financial reporting
• Business & Systems analysis
• Requirements development
• QA & Systems Testing
• Resource Management:
• Staffing & Utilization
• Cross Functional Teams
• Off shore resources
• Subcontractors
• Vendor Staffing Agencies
• Assessment & Development
• Workforce Reductions
• Process Adherence & Improvement:
• Agile
• CMMI
• SDLC
• Risk & Change Management
• Leadership & Commitment
• Accountability & Integrity
• Leadership & Development
• Performance Excellence & Management
• Coaching & Teamwork Development
• Affordability challenges & cost reduction
• Detailed Oriented
• Self-directed
• Impeccable interpersonal skills &
• Emotional intelligence

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Manhattan, NY

Digital Program Manager/Events Tech PM

Responsibilities:

• Develop and track dependency schedules with critical stakeholders to ensure timely releases of business initiatives and Confidential delivery to market
• Product Audience, Product Platform, Scrum Master, Scrum Platform teams, Standards, Audience Development, Marketing, Customer Support, Audience Development, Reporting, Analytics, Programming, Advertising and Sales
• Ensure competing business initiatives among stakeholders are addressed during quarterly Agile programmatic increments
• Resolve competing business initiatives challenges that arise. Process platform releases legal paperwork and track in Workfront.
• Monitor and track the progress of the Nickelodeon Digital Brand Refresh initiatives
• Lead the Digital Publishing & Product and Nick Brand Creative and UXD Senior Stakeholders meetings

Confidential, Manhattan, NY

PMO/Senior Project Manager (PM)

Responsibilities:

• Drafted RFQ for Information Security Evaluation and Assessment, reviewed vendor responses and participated in presentations for PS Infrastructure Hosting and Production support
• Confidential Consultancy Project, Demo of CRM Participant Monitoring System for Confidential
• Participated in Confidential process: vendor selection evaluation, presentations and reviewed responses to technical questions

Confidential, Bohemia, NY

PMO/Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Amended Statement of Work (SOW) and Statement of Requirements (SOR)
• Coordinated, facilitated, and led Project Kick-Off, including meeting materials and minutes
• Produced project plans for systems integration and hardware Implementation
• Developed Charters, Project Management Plans (PMP), Project Dossier, CMMi documentation
• Monitored Off Shore Supplier software development via JIRA board
• Performed accounting & cost tracking using PIVOT tables on financial extracts
• Tracked costs using Earned Value Management indicators. Monitored Azure Cost expenditures
• Created Cost dossier. Monitored and track Off Shore Supplier payment schedule and invoices
• Implemented use of SharePoint Workflow. Prepared CMMi audit documents for evaluation and compliancy
• PMO presentation on best practices for project monitoring and control
• Participated in organizational process redefinition for project estimating
• Revised and facilitated Confidential reviews, including responses to vendor questions
• Vendor Selection: Coordinated presentations, selection criteria, Confidential responses and evaluated suppliers.
• On Boarding: Managed, monitored and tracked tool access (ALM, JIRA, SharePoint, TFS, MS Azure).
• Supplier Management: Supervised SOW delivery compliancy and Change Requests (CR).
• Approved E2E deliverables, tracked stakeholders sign-off and supervised the CM authority.
• Asset Management: Submitted requisitions and tracked Purchase Orders(POs'). Oversaw software and hardware deliveries to India.
• Provided daily Senior VP reports, Test Defects, Weekly and Monthly Project Review boards
• Collaborated with SVP’s and management stakeholder across various departments; Software Development, Systems Integration, Architecture, Test, Quality Assurance, Operations and Product Management
• Attend daily scrum meetings, relative size stories, review and track JIRA board and product backlog, develop sprint reports, review sprint retrospective reports
• Led weekly status and year end strategy planning meetings with customers and cross functional management leads (Software Development, Systems Integration, Testing,, Cloud, Networking)
• Hosted project status and product demonstration for solution line Senior Vice President
• Develop ROM, Cost Management Plan, Staffing Plan, Evaluated Actuals from PF extracts, developed ETC and EAC’s, tracked work years against planned
• Developed, reviewed and submitted requisitions and purchase orders for equipment needed for the demos

Confidential, Bohemia, NY

PMO Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Served as Project Manager, Liaison, Coordinator and Communication facilitator for the Passenger Confidential project.
• Led & provided oversight on; Architecture Analysis, Host Abstraction Layer (HAL) Framework Updates, Passenger Confidential Transitions, Systems Integration ( Confidential ) Bandwidth Analysis
• Led Process Improvement efforts: Agile Processes & Adherence, Problem Management, User Acceptance Test (UAT)

Confidential, Melville, NY

PMO Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Supervised the point-of-sales(POS) transaction d Confidential migration from the legacy platform to the preferred platform, consisting of 10,000 plus merchants on the Confidential Merchant Services Conversion Program (BAMS) with Confidential
• Ensured compliance and secure deployment reliability for a 275 million dollar project with 10 billion annual transactions
• Facilitated collaboration and transparent interaction between three firms on a joint venture
• Led the delivery and implementation of activities across an integrated project team, cross-functional executives, managers, Technology and Operations to convert a merchant and its business units. Coached newly on - boarded project managers.
• Ensured all POS d Confidential was migrated seamlessly and business retail remained constant post conversion
• Reported daily progress of migrations at executive meetings and provided Root Cause Analysis status on project issues