SUMMARY:

• PMP with 10 plus years of experience in Program/Project Management for Commercial and federal organizations.
• Highly skilled listener and communicator able to assess project/program needs and concisely convey necessary information.
• Strong background in budget planning, procurement and project handling, with excellent analytical and communication skills.
• Proven ability to identify, analyze and solve problems to control costs through: Cost reduction and avoidance, Operations Management, Quality Assurance, IT Governance, Offshore development.
• Experienced in IT project implementation using SDLC/Agile/ Waterfall methodologies; Vendor management, PMO set up and management.
• Manage portfolio of 10 security related projects valued over $5M; reporting bi weekly on cost, schedule and risks. Develop roadmap/schedule for two - year implementation with associated cost and resources.
• Deploy $4M Records Management SharePoint platform to 5000-person organization in 2 years- consisting of 20 business area departments. Met with C level executives weekly.
• Create PMO to be utilized by 12 project managers; Implemented: Bi weekly project reporting; consistent cost management; resource management; change control; uniform SDLC/ project mgt processes.
• Manage technology integration of acquired $20M insurance company. Evaluated current application & platforms/ ERP systems for disposal or transferring to acquiring company’s portfolio. Onboarded 50 employees.
• Lead offshore effort to replace 90 back office positions in Accounting & finance with offshore vendor. Manage knowledge transfer effort to vendor, deploy solutions to continue work streams in India locations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• MS Word SAP MS Project SQL
• Excel, PowerPoint, Access Database management Clarity Big Data
• MS Project, MS Project 2007 Earned Value Management (EVM) Planview Web page programming
• Budget Forecasting JAVA Python SAS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Program & Project Portfolio Delivery Lead, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Served as Program Manager for $15M implementation of multiple Cyber Security Projects due to 2017 transformations strategy.
• Established and maintain working relationships with 10 plus departments, project stakeholders and external customers and third party venders & integrators to collaborate successfully. (IT, Finance, Accounting, strategy, Security Deloitte, multiple venders)
• Developed program budget and quarterly spend of $4M in 2017 and $5M in 2018; work with strategy group on corporate budget allocations for fiscal years.
• Managed the initiation, planning, execution, control and close out of project activities & milestones.
• Defined document and verify scope, create project plans and timetables and assign resources to projects using responsibility matrix. Establish needed PMO management models.
• Managed $4.5M SharePoint 2010 Record Management implementation with 11 business areas in 5000-person globa firm.
• Met with C-level executives to develop project scope, budget, charter and provide bi-weekly project status presentation.
• Created overall project management strategy for implementing and upgrade of technology platform having 3000 users.
• Engaged executive leads for 11 business units/manage relationships with stakeholders during SharePoint implementation- document
• Gathered technical requirements / change requests for 40 Plus SharePoint search platform modifications- translate business requirements into functional specification for SharePoint developers to create and deploy needed code to the record center.
• Created project schedules using MS Project, monitor project cost and quality issues- asses and manage technical risk of project deployment/ release dates of enterprise wide implementation/updates of new SharePoint based business processes.
• Provided PMO with support on 22 technology programs and provide strategy and status reporting to senior management.
• Assisted in the creation of a PMO project strategy & Risk Management- estimated financial impact to projects
• Created basic project plans and PMO deliverables such as: Risk& Issue logs, project meting minutes, action item reports, lead team meetings and follow up with open items as needed
• Presented project status weekly /bi weekly to high level project sponsors- red/green/amber status and communicate high level schedule, risks & issues
• Met with C-level executives to develop project scope, budget, charter and provide bi-weekly project status presentation.
• Led business/IT integration efforts on merger/acquisition- large complex project- Asian insurance company merged into a 30,000-person organization, project budget was $1.8M dollar, project team had over 20 IT professionals.
• Created infrastructure merger and application development plan to integrate existing infrastructure and enterprise applications with new company. Develop project plan and track financials activities with HP PPM, follow waterfall and CMMI standards.
• Lead team of 5 stakeholders to create Business Requirement for new communication application tool, part of SDLC process.
• Managed $1.5M project to integrate insurance claims data into core product application including: Pharmacy, Claims, payer and
• Analyzed 15 IT application contracts & function from acquired Insurance Broker worth $150K/year to evaluate for synergies, cost savings with acquiring Confidential Inc. firm- made recommendations saving 30% / year- $50k cost saving. applications used for Personal lines, P&C; employee benefits, reinsurance, property insurance and risk.
• Managed project financial tracking / resource estimates for $2.5M offshore Global project- 90 finance positions moved to India. Developed numerous project artifacts for project/ process. Created project plans in MS Project and updated.
• Integrated and led IT web application migrations from in house finance functions: SAP, FI-AP, FI-AR, FI- GL, FI-CO and purchasing to India. Extensive coordination with 3 off shore teams and the deliverables from the off-shore groups.
• Modified SAP Functional Design spec during re-evaluation of GAP analysis due to off shoring of SAP FI processes- modify FI structure/company codes, FSVs, pay periods, create documents types with Transaction Codes (T Codes).
• Deployed multiple web application workflow products for work processing overseas, global environment Project Management.
• Evaluate invoice processing SOX SAP compliance requirements for financial controls- create SOW for IT vendor.

Confidential

Acquisition Project Manager, Senior Consultant, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Managed procurement planning & for multiple $3Million IT projects.
• Create and coordinate RFP, RFQ, RFI & SLA documents though approval workflow, collect and analyze spend data with financial models—analyze proposals.
• Negotiated contracts with 7 vendors, and used score card tools to evaluate supplier performance- Implemented Procure to pay system (P2P) to optimize procurement and supply chain system. Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) heavily used.
• Applied strategic sourcing method to new multi-year projects to aide in future cost management savings.
• Managed Web Based IT requirements process for $5M Defense Disability Evaluation System.
• 10 Stakeholders consolidated technical regional/global server configuration with Veterans Administration.
• Devise transition plans for new vendors.
• Coordinated Web Base application testing with web developers, reviewed & create contract deliverables.
• Utilized input from Medical Doctors, and health care practitioners to further develop enterprise wide process implementation for over 3000 users per day