CAREER SUMMARY:

PMP certified leader of cross - functional teams using 25 years of global experience to implement solutions aligned with the business strategy. Known for a diverse skill set and as an innovative thinker who is consistently recognized as an advocate for IT and bringing value to the enterprise. A thorough understanding of key business drivers coupled with extensive knowledge of IT capabilities shaping demand into high value propositions and increasing the businesses understanding of possible opportunities.

SKILLS AND TECHNOLOGY:

• Project management
• Accounting
• Software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Waterfall, iterative, and agile scrum methodologies
• Project plans
• Budget formulation and tracking
• Risk/issue identification and mitigation
• Change management
• Testing (SIT, QA, and UAT) and transition
• Business analysis
• Record to Report (R2R)
• Procure to Pay (P2P)
• Order to Cash (O2C)
• E payables
• Root cause analysis
• Lean methodology
• Critical thinking
• Conflict resolution
• Effective leadership
• Adaptability
• Influencing
• Negotiation
• Communication
• Political and cultural awareness
• Team building
• Practical Process Improvement
• Resource allocation
• Problem solving
• Retail and wholesale power/gas
• Government
• Oil and Gas
• Transportation
• Manufacturing
• Consulting

TECHNOLOGY:

• SAP (FI, CO, FM, AM, PS, WM, MM)
• MS Office Suite
• MS Project
• MS Visio
• Service Now
• Quality Center
• Workday
• Team Foundational Server (TFS)
• Version One
• SharePoint
• Salesforce
• Sitecore
• QuickBooks

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr. Project Manager/Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Directed concept-to-launch of electronic payment optimization solution for the procure-to-pay process enabling the enterprise to reduce Days Payables Outstanding ( Confidential ) and recognize bottom-line rebates in alignment with the business strategy. Best-in-class product generating $550K annually. Full project life cycle implementation delivered on schedule and within 10% budget variance.
• Dynamic proficiencies allowing to serve multiple roles (project manager, business analyst, and testing coordinator) for several projects within the customer-facing, finance, infrastructure, commodities accounting, and sales spaces for North America drastically reducing project costs as much as 40%.
• Unique leadership abilities allowing the cultivation of cross functional teams with members from all management levels fostering an atmosphere of cooperation and collaboration. Increasing project team efficiencies and reducing time to market by up to 20%.
• Comprehensive understanding of key delivery methodologies (Agile, Iterative, and Waterfall) allowing projects to be married with the most advantageous framework.
• Instrumental project lead in the enterprise transformation effort aligning project methodologies (Agile and Waterfall) and processes, creating synergy, reducing redundancy, and improving customer satisfaction scores by an average of 7 points.
• Innovative spirit fostered a revolutionary approach to leading specialized projects. Developing project selection criteria, artifacts, and governance procedures which slashed project costs by up to 50% and decreased lead time.
• Consistently utilizing a deep understanding of stakeholder business objectives to articulate the product vision and building trust through accurate and achievable roadmaps.

Confidential, Marlton, NJ

Sr. Project Manager/Business Analyst/Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Introduced the first integrated pre-validation solution which set the standard for other agencies
• Developed and instituted an automated solution to pre-validate incoming vendor invoices within the procure to pay (P2P) cycle between Confidential and the Confidential Accounting Service (DFAS).
• Decreasing Days Payables Outstanding ( Confidential ) by 10 days and dramatically increasing financial accuracy by 35%.
• Radically overhauled the ordinance manufacturing process with the appropriate ERP modules while simultaneously streamlining the process. Consolidating vast amounts of materiel and component data into a sole source used across all Confidential for ordinance bill of materials eliminating redundancy, reducing costs, and increasing efficiency.
• Liaise with the Government Accounting Office ( Confidential ) for enterprise IT system audit activities and negotiating audit findings gaining an increase in favorable outcome of 40%.
• Serving as the face of the enterprise as the onsite subject matter expert for several military installations. Partnering with high-level civilian and enlisted personnel to align business process with technology increasing efficiency and effectiveness of operations and strategy.
• Thermo Fisher Scientific (Multinational biotechnology product development company)
• Project Manager/Functional Consultant
• Utilizing diverse skill set and cross functional leadership to provide project guidance and serve as conduit between business vision and technological execution for teams up to 10 resources.
• Timely and successful SAP implementation and upgrade of Budget and Finance component of the ERP system for this manufacturing organization.
• Using innovative process improvement techniques to identify and rectify low profit product offerings reducing cost of goods by $150K annually.
• Project Manager for Lean Manufacturing and Accounting initiative streamlining processes and reporting, giving executive leadership timely and relevant enterprise information.
• Spearheading critical fixed assets initiative to inventory, valuate, and record disparaging asset maintenance systems into a single-source, providing transparent and accurate valuations.