SUMMARY

• Extensive leadership experience leading projects, programs, people and departments
• Exceptional ability to prepare executive level material and presentations
• Extensive experience rolling out Enterprise level initiatives
• Excellent planning, execution and delivery of complex programs on schedule and budget
• Drives innovation and integration of new technologies to reduce cost and improve products
• Extensive vendor management experience
• Extensive knowledge of both theoretical and practical aspects of PMO
• Transformed Project Management Office (PMO) and software development departments
• Lean/ Confidential
• Experience implementing Agile (Kanban/Scrum), ITIL and CMMI level 3 processes
• Successfully managed direct reports and teams in matrix
• Excellent soft skills
• Demonstrated leadership skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed the Rollout, Communication and Training Plans to bring a huge change to the entire workforce of the Enterprise.
• In the first week, was able to achieve 90% compliance for resource allocation and 100% for time card entry.
• The project was very successful and Confidential is managing their Portfolio by monitoring the financial and resource information provided through
• Clarity and starting projects only when given the best chance for success.
• Performed the PPM Admin functions/role
• Design Dashboards for Executive Management, Project Management and Resource Management.
• Defined/developed JasperSoft Studio and Ad Hoc reports required for Financial Reporting,
• Roadmap Reporting, Status Reporting, Stop light Reporting, Risk Management and Executive Management Roadmap reports.
• Designed the SAP to Clarity interface to get actualized financial information into Clarity.
• Enterprise deployment of Compliance Management tool. A large scale initiative that integrates governance, risk and compliance.
• Control the reporting of compliance incidents and risks and define the workflows for automation, monitoring and reporting.
• Managed many large concurrent projects and kept them on schedule and budget by building effective relationship with team members and sponsors.
• Mobile App for Gas Infrastructure maintenance, Automation of Safety Indexes
• Data Center migration/decommission. PRI to SIP Telephony, Mobile Data Management, Upgrade of Citrix.
• Managed $1M procurement and installation of power monitoring equipment, Procurement and installation of $2M of Voice Recording/Analytics.
• Installation of Underground Fiber, Meetup Lockers, installation cable runs and equipment racks.

Project Manager/Portfolio Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Portfolio Manager for Confidential and Employee Experience
• Managed $6.7M in yearly Research and Development (R&D) portfolio budgets.
• $3.5M yearly portfolio of Confidential Innovation research IT projects to help prevent 1st Party and 3rd Party fraud.
• $3.2M yearly Employee Experience portfolio of new software initiatives for Employees.
• Scrum Master/Project Manager for EIMT and ICE development teams in Salesforce
• Scrum Master/Project Manager for new software initiative for the Business (Employee, Bank and Insurance)
• Managed and helped to design Service Now catalog requests and workflows for Confidential Labs Operations
• Managed the Confidential Labs website development for Innovating with Members
• Responsible for developing, forecasting and maintaining portfolio budgets.
• Assisted in the development and deployment of Agile Kanban/Scrum processes to the entire portfolio in the Research and Development (R&D) PMO.
• Identified and applied best practices and process improvements; established efficiencies where possible.

Program/Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Management of teams to develop mobile capabilities, IDAM development and federation, Confidential, Web development, SOA and web services.
• Oracle E - Business Suite, Oracle FedHR, SAP Business Objects (BOBJ) and Asset Management.
• Managed Waterfall, and Agile development projects.
• Managed teams to sustain and upgrade the Denver Data Center for large HR and financial systems 24/7
• Infrastructure, Asset Management, Disaster recovery planning, procurement planning, license management and packaging, performance evaluations of equipment, trade studies for upgrades, and lifecycle replacement of network equipment and server hardware.
• Responsible for the requirements and scope, estimation of time and cost, developing schedules, risk and mitigation planning and formal approval with the customer and upper management. Provided and monitored monthly measuring activities using Performance Metrics and Earned Value to ensure that all projects stayed on schedule and on budget.
• Prepared or reviewed all cost, budget and variance reports to the customer and executive management.
• Provided the primary interface to the customer to manage customer expectation and satisfaction.
• Prepared proposals, BOE and ROM estimations along with technical descriptions of proposed work.

Software Manager/Program Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for administration of the contracts, maintaining the right personnel to achieve the highest performance under budget and on schedule, ensuring all contract deliverables were completed on time and on budget.
• Prepared or reviewed all cost and budget reports to the customer and executive management.
• Performed personnel management functions such as mentoring, hiring, performance appraisals, and termination processing for 30 FTE employees and contractors.
• Participated in proposal writing and red teams.
• Responsible for vendor and contract labor management.
• Analyzed all procedures and policies for the program for CMMI compliance.
• Developed the Risk and Opportunity Management for the program including the risk repository and mitigation plans.
• Created the Decision/Analysis and Resolution policy for the program along with creating the trade study policy and repository.

Software Lead/Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead Software, Project Manager and individual contributor for both major and minor software projects for the airborne Confidential Shuttle landing simulator called Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA).
• Responsible for requirements definition and project planning, scheduling, preliminary and critical design, code development, test planning and acceptance testing.
• Used various software development models and became intimately familiar with the pros and cons of each.
• Modified software development and CM processes to improve the build process.
• The platforms for delivery include Windows, Unix, Linux and embedded real-time systems.
• Developed software for a wide variety of applications to support web, database, enterprise, scientific modeling, low level hardware control and real-time embedded systems.

Software Analyst / Software Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed software in almost all aspects of simulation, including display, computation and control, weapon interfaces, raw disk recording, bomb simulation and scoring, communications, executive timing and control, 10ms frame control, low level UNIX device drivers for SUN and Silicon Graphics workstations.
• Arinc-429, high-speed synchronous communications boards, printer drivers, Codec audio capture boards, security and encryption, ESRI GIS, state plane projection conversions, etc.