SUMMARY:

Senior Project Manager with extensive experience leading large ERP application development projects in the finance and supply chain areas including the matrix management of diverse and global teams for the technology, nonprofit, healthcare and energy sectors. Expertise in cloud - based and global technology deployments, cost reductions, large scale systems integrations, program/project management, staff management and the software development life cycle. Ability to collaborate and forge relationships with all stakeholder levels. Earned a certified scrum master designation.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• IT Cross-Functional Collaboration Software Life Cycle Management Staff Management
• Cutting Edge Technologies Risk Mitigation / Crisis Management Business Readiness
• Project Management & Planning Quality Assurance & Compliance Budget Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw the project management life cycle (PMLC) such as planning, organizing and managing the resources required to complete project objectives, Managed the global implementation of the SAP Concur Expense Management system. Gathered requirements for US, China, Mexico and UK user ERP Great Plains interfaces. Designed expense management User Interfaces (UI) for all countries, modified configuration settings, gathered and managed input and output feeder development, managed the cutover plan and functioned as the first point of contact for testing and production support.
• Led strategic enterprise effort to introduce Okta Single Sign On (SSO). Managed test and production configuration for Workday (Human Resources), Orange Logic, iCIMS (Talent Acquisition) and Blue Jeans (Video conferencing).
• Managed the transformation of a Digital Asset Management System (DAM) from Open Text and Trim to Cortex (Orange Logic). The system contents include documents, photos, video and links to an intranet search engine.

Confidential, Upper Saddle River, NJ

Senior IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Supported the first wave of a One ERP SAP S/4 HANA solution: record to report (R2R), procure to pay (P2P), order to cash (OTC) and master d Confidential management (MDM), all part of a $500-million-dollar transformation initiative. Coordinated risk management meetings with 27 product owners and associates within an Agile environment.
• 64% risk reduction realized by prioritizing risks and issues for 92 interfaces, negotiating due dates and action plans and ensuring on time delivery of applications critical to the project’s success.
• Maintained MS Project server plan and Excel Tracker for 475 functional, technical, product owners, line managers and senior managers assessing financial, procurement and legal application integration initiative and assigned resources for 100 interfaces.
• Facilitated weekly Agile requirements meetings and stand up meetings with five work stream product owners, 23 functional designers and 16 developers and transitioned 48 functional requirements to technical review within a six-week period. Agile requirements and user stories were developed and added to the product backlog.

Confidential, New Brunswick, NJ

Senior IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Implemented an interface solution. Served as testing activities primary point of contact for IT regional program/project managers, developers and financial analysts.
• $2.5 million in savings projected by improving productivity for the financial close process, abating regulatory compliance and implementing an automated balance sheet account reconciliation solution, Blackline.
• Created quality assurance test plans, validated results for two multimillion-dollar high profile initiatives and developed test d Confidential for more than 40 general ledger platforms, 75 legal/management entities and 12 business units.
• Led the software development life cycle (SDLC) including 47 components per project including the project charter, project plan, communications plan, test management plan, test results and more.
• 35+ issues closed within a 48-hour window enabling the of re-engineering and project milestones.

Confidential, Franklin Lakes, NJ

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed production support issues resulting from the Confidential and Confidential post-merger system integration. Performed statistical analysis and issue tracking from inception to resolution including business validation.
• 50+ critical and high priority tickets completed by using a SharePoint status tracker and risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies ( Confidential ) log and collaborating with process and development leads for issue resolution ensuring timely remediation and customer satisfaction for insurers and Confidential ts.

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Senior IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Served as a PMO lead and project consultant lead for critical initiatives.
• $12.5 million tax savings attained by directing $3 million deployment of PowerPlant, a fixed asset accounting system that maximized capitalization of assets under construction and reduced closing process and distribution of financial reports by 1.5 days. Managed development, testing and deployment of interfaces to and from the SAP ERP system.
• Developed deliverables for SOX and corporate compliance including compliance analysis and design, MS Project plans, system and user acceptance testing (UAT) protocols and reports and implemented all audit recommendations, limiting corporate risk exposure.
• Cut cycle time by five weeks, monitored risks and issues for high visibility and high ROI projects, coordinated mitigation plans and provided status reports to management.
• Governed the software development life cycle including 40 aspects including project charter, funding plan, budget forecasting, variance reporting and accruals, test plans, test validation, server allocation and change management.
• $1.8 million deployment of PowerTax Provision, an additional PowerPlant module replacing existing spreadsheets and CorpTax software, decreasing three full time employees.

Confidential, New Providence, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Assigned as the PMO lead for global finance SAP deployment as the ledger of record (LOR) for 75+ countries.
• $15 million drop in annual operating costs noted by deactivating 75 in-country legacy ledgers and approximately 125 sub-ledger interfaces.
• Directed diverse global matrix managed teams of five to 25 budgets ranging from $150,000 to $3,000,000.
• Oversaw business unit documentation requirements converting from legacy systems to distributed architecture by coordinating impact assessments, gap analysis for transition and end state architecture.
• Led global SAP finance teams through functional, end-to-end general ledger verification testing for 80 acquisitions, mergers and divestitures.
• Documented procurement and finance requirements for more than 75 countries.
• $320,000 lowering of the operating budget achieved by managing a $2 million project to verify the standardization of global prices throughout the corporation, driving accounting and reporting changes in multiple ERP systems for standardization of prices and the deactivating regional systems.