SUMMARY:

• Results - driven information technology specialist with wide-ranging hands-on expertise in strategic IT initiatives, Program and Project Management, Business Analysis and Business Process Transformation, with the demonstrated ability to successfully manage the implementation of multiple complex projects varying in size, technology and scope, on time and within budget.
• Respected strategist, innovator, consultant, thought leader, innovator and visionary.
• Strong inspirational leader, team builder and mentor, inspiring teams to collaborate effectively in order to deliver high quality deliverables on or ahead of schedule under severe pressure. Focused on excellence & superior client satisfaction
• Applauded practical program, project, technical, and resource manager, with hands-on experience in management of several multimillion dollar strategic projects, business analysis, enterprise architecture; frameworks, modeling, tools and techniques and solution design & software development.
• Proactive, deliverable driven leader with excellent interpersonal, facilitation, and communication skills.
• Methodology specialist leading global collaboration to in corporate best practice. Effective coaching, and mentoring.

COMPETENCIES:

• Charters
• RFP’s
• Business cases
• ROI
• Package evaluations
• Data and business modeling.
• Motivator
• Strong Interpersonal skills
• Analytical
• Group facilitation
• Vendor Management
• Conceptual thinking
• Creative problem-solving
• Business Process Transformation
• Global, Multi industry experience
• Tested & Presentation skills
• Conflict Resolution Management
• Team Building Dynamics
• Methodology Specialist
• Knowledge Transfer
• QA and UAT testing
• MSProject, Microsoft Project Server
• Clarity Project and Portfolio Management system
• MSOffice suite (MSWord, MSExcel, Visio, MSPowerPoint)
• SharePoint
• Lotus Notes
• Integrify
• Popkin,
• ProVision
• Zero Chaos

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Senior Project Management Consultant

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Senior CPMO lead of an Confidential “Flagship” strategic product, collaborating with Business Groups to plan, perform gap analysis and provide strategy for integration of all aspects of the business, product and software alignment with a recently acquired vendor. Responsible for the overarching role to synchronize all business groups / ”Work streams” from the program project management perspective.
• Full Program / Project management of a number of Winsight business groups: Item and Test form development, Student recruitment & registration, Test Administration and Client support, Scoring, Statistical & Psychometric Analysis of student test results, Research into market al needs, and Business Operations which provides product documentation, reporting of student results, test standards monitoring. Participant in the Leadership Core Team meetings. The project is developed using the Agile methodology.
• Full Project Management of the Confidential K12 - Full Service Project aimed at setting up and configuration the “infrastructure systems” required to enable States to conduct Test Administration, Scoring and the Statistical Analysis of test results, and related analytical reporting.
• Assisting Confidential Assessment programs in conducting User Acceptance and Operational testing prior to launching Student Administrations.
• Project Management of the Confidential Item development and Assessment Administration of the Confidential portfolio of projects that aims to assess students’ current performance, and point the way to what students need to learn by graduation so they are ready for college and/or a career.
• Developed 13,000 Mathematics and English Language Arts items
• Successfully met all project deadlines
• Exceeded financial targets
• Completed the 2014 field test Assessment administration project that:
• Constructed tests for Confidential ’s 2014 Field Test Administration and conduct psychometric analysis and special studies based on the field test results.

Director of Demand Management and Business Analysis

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Directed the Business Analysis group to deliver high quality, stakeholder approved business requirement deliverables covering all the core Business areas.
• Managing the tracking, prioritization and approval all requests for IT resources and services across all business units determined at the annual strategic portfolio planning session, and any new requests submitted throughout the year, impacting the priorities and allocation of resources.
• Work requests are categorized by business portfolio and potential release cycle, prioritized, estimated, resourced and submitted for executive approval on a monthly basis.
• Instituted a more scientific approach and methodology to Requirements gathering improving communication and avoiding misinterpretation across business and IT groups. A Team (~20) met all extremely stringent targets and successfully completed requirement gathering sessions for multiple major releases and several minor releases.
• Team was commended in person by the CIO.
• New IT Demand Management process avoided launching projects doomed for failure due to lack all required resources.
• Created an automated tool to manage workflow, authorization and gather metrics.

Senior Project Manager

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Brand website projects, Rewards / Member Loyalty program - Vendor management, Google paid search marketing. Mobile website RFP.
• Connectivity (Pull, Push and Hybrid model) data communication to external agents. External agent on-boarding
• Strategic alliance with market competitors to drive revenue across "partners"
• Salesforce implementation (CRM)
• Customer Service (Care) System rewrite
• SOX compliance project
• Infrastructure and software upgrades.
• SOW contract execution, RFP’s, vendor management

Senior Project Manager

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Property Management Systems two way interface to Central Reservation System
• Clarity / Niku migration project