PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Confidential has over 7 years of experience working as Project Management in a corporate environment with extensive experience in developing & maintaining project schedules, project forecast, project financials and managing project team meetings.
• Competent managing projects with the use of MS Project, Project Portfolio Management - HP PPM - Clarity & Plan-View.
• Expert in tracking project phases and deliverables.
• SharePoint expert and proficient using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Advanced Pivot table), Microsoft Project and Project Server 2007/2010, Microsoft SharePoint, Agile and Waterfall Methodology. Holder of a Master’s degree in Project Management.
• Experienced in the overall Project specialist, scheduling, Tracking resource hours and running weekly financial reports for the project/program.
• Experience in tracking project/program budgets and following-up with managers across the organization on variances.
• Experience in preparing formal project management documentation and managing risk, issues and Action Items and decisions
• Ability to recommend corrective actions to ensure project success and facilitate project change requests.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Assuming responsibility for the project as a whole
• Employing relevant project management processes
• Leading the team
• Organizational and planning skills
• Oral and written communication skills
• Data collection, analysis and management
• Problem assessment and analysis
• Critical thinking and decision-making
• Teamwork
• Negotiation and conflict management
• Easy adaptability
• MS Office
• MS Project
• Knowledge of project management methodologies, techniques and tools
• Knowledge of information technology applications, systems and processes
• Knowledge of resource management policies and practices
• Knowledge of change management techniques

SKILL MATRIX:

• Project Analyst/Specialist/ pm 7 Years
• MS Word 7 Years
• MS Excel 7 Years
• Pivot Tables 3 Years
• MS Visio 3 Years
• Microsoft Project Server 4 Years
• PowerPoint 7 Years
• MS Project 7 Years
• SharePoint 7 Years
• Clarity 4 Years
• Plan View 2 Years
• PPM/HPPM 4 Years

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel + Financial, PowerPoint, Outlook) 2007/2010/2013
• Microsoft Project and Project Server 2007/2010/2013
• Microsoft SharePoint
• PMBOK Knowledge Areas
• SDLC Process
• Good knowledge and Experience in Wiki
• Risk Management
• Microsoft Project Server
• Project Portfolio Management - HP PPM - Clarity, Plan-View.
• Earned Value Management
• Resource Management Skills
• Agile Methodology
• Waterfall Methodology
• Advanced Pivot table skills
• Excellent Communication Skills
• Bilingual, English and French
• Spreadsheets & Reports
• Scheduling & Calendaring
• Office Organization & Administration
• E-commerce Banking experience
• Supports e-commerce product to ensure accurate resource time reporting, spend forecasting, procurement, and payment
• Executing documenting benefits updates
• Assist in portfolio planning and funding request
• Assist in documenting quarterly Asset Net Book Value and In Progress reviews

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager/ Project Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Providing support to staff and members on special projects from the standpoint of training, support and documentation development.
• Gather, document and maintain project deliverables and documents
• Define and manage project objectives, scope, staffing, resources and deliverables
• Create, support and maintain project schedule
• Tracking and reporting project and budget status of assigned project
• Identify project issues and resources needed to provide solutions
• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones
• Escalate delay task and reasons for the delay
• Schedule and coordinate team review meetings
• Capture action items, track and assign owners to them
• Deliver training to new resources/ onboarding
• Ensure team follow business line processes and procedures
• Liaison between management and resources
• Able to multitask and prioritize tasks based on urgency
• Maintain close contact with vendors
• Manage project budget
• Documenting status reports
• Providing project management support to deliver projects within the established budget and time line. As a key members of the project team, I participate in program and project development as well as disseminate project information.
• Superior knowledge of policies, plans, procedures, products and regulatory requirements for assigned project/program.
• Ability to conduct an analysis of a business need, including scheduling meetings, planning agendas and conferring with business line leaders
• A thorough and Comprehensive understanding of project management, testing methodology and procedures
• Ability to develop test schedules, review testing plans, track test issues and report on test results
• Strong analytical and forecasting skills
• Ability to manage multiple tasks/projects and deadlines simultaneously with limited supervision
• Ability to work as a team leader
• Excellent verbal and written presentation and communication skills
• Excellent computer skills, especially Microsoft Office applications
• Experienced in the overall Project specialist, scheduling, Tracking resource hours and running weekly financial reports for the project/program.
• Experience in tracking project/program budgets and following-up with managers across the organization on variances.
• Experience in preparing formal project management documentation and managing risk, issues and Action Items and decisions
• Ability to recommend corrective actions to ensure project success and facilitate project change requests.
• Acting as a backup PM during vacation periods

Confidential

Program Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managing timelines, following up on items and driving process.
• Partnered with Senior PM aligned to a work-stream.
• Taking initiative geared towards driving projects timelines, following up on deliverables and tracking action items.
• Accurately and thoroughly documenting meeting notes.
• Identifying challenging areas and proposing changes to address them.
• Prioritizing multiple and concurrent tasks even under pressure.
• Followed-up on project issue and actions, tracking risks and decisions.
• Created meeting agendas and PowerPoint presentations.
• Creating and uploading bi-weekly project status report to the SharePoint Site.
• Managing and updating product management SharePoint Site.
• Developing and maintaining project schedules and calendars.
• Prepared project status reports for management and sponsors.

Confidential

Project Control Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Ongoing assistance on PPM and Staffing
• Requesting and getting resources assigned to tasks in PPM
• Under direction of Project/Program Manager, Request resource allocations, Assign tasks to allocated resources, Update project work plan, Schedule & milestones, analyze budget & spend, Resource utilization, Set-up Project Tasks, Assign resources, Update Staffing Profile to maintain appropriate allocation level, Create, Update, and Upload Scorecards, analyze project’s Status, Schedule, Forecast, Capture Issues & Risks, Close Project Tasks. Identify the project actual spend (Capital & Operating) and create future forecast. Tracking & Reporting on 3rd Party invoicing against budget and ensuring all methodology required documents are stored in appropriate Project Library
• Maintaining Staffing Profile and Work Plan as the year progresses
• Follow-up with project managers on resource allocations and adjustments
• Fulfill allocation requests in PPM; consult with managers as required
• Follow-up with individual contributors on missing time
• Verify resources are charging time to appropriate tasks
• Follow-up with project managers on timesheets pending approval
• Act as proxy to managers for approving time
• Work with Agile1 and PPM Support on any data updates in case of re-orgs or manager transfers
• Followed-up on project issue and actions
• Using excel for forecasting, compare planned vs. actual hours, use pivot tables to demonstrate weekly and monthly burn for projects, gathers financials and cost estimates for projects, and analyze and report financial data.
• Created RAID Logs and tracked risks, action items, issues and decisions.
• Use Plan View to manage and integrate the planning and execution of portfolios and used HP PPM.
• Managed risk with the use of Clarity tool
• Utilized clarity to update project status - Green, Red and Yellow.
• Weekly update of project timeline, scope and cost as well as add vendors and team members to the project using clarity.
• Use Microsoft office, Word, Excel and MS Project.
• Utilized Microsoft Project server platform solution to provide support for resource management such as for planning, reporting, and project team collaboration as using it as a centralized and unified repository for storing all project and resource data.
• Utilize project server for creating detailed project plans, tracking and analyzing the project’s budget, creating project’s financial reports as well as forecasting the projects resources and budget.
• Utilize project server for project Status, Schedule and Forecast reporting, assign tasks to allocated resources, update project work plan, Schedule & milestones, budget & spend, resource utilization, Set-up Project Tasks and assign resources
• Provide various PPM reports as needed to analyze and manage the project such as Resource utilization/actual time summary, identifying and analyzing labor/non-labor costs, financial Summary, Project Timeline/baseline comparison and other reports as identified by Project Manager
• Assist with establishment of Issue/Risk capture and resolution process tailored to the project
• Working closely with Project Managers to identify and manage issues and risks
• Configure SharePoint Lists to effectively track status and resolution
• Report metrics to Project/Program Manager
• Daily management of Issue/Risk database for accurate ad hoc reporting
• Assist with establishment of Confidential process tailored to the project
• Configure SharePoint Lists to effectively track status and approval process of project CRs
• Report metrics
• Document weekly Confidential Review Board meetings
• Daily management of Confidential database for accurate ad hoc reporting
• Coordinate meeting activities and take detail meeting minutes
• Coordinate meetings & team events
• Manage Project Calendar, create meeting ducks and assign action items
• Other duties as assigned by Program or Project Manager

Executive Reporting Support

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Prepare IT Steering Committee decks
• Prepare Business Steering Committee decks
• Prepare project presentations to management or business line
• Working closely with off-shore partners to identify and managed their needs to suit that of the project

Confidential

Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Created project WBS, schedules, milestones and delivery dates using Microsoft Project.
• Participated in project kickoff meetings and coordinating approvals.
• Prioritized and allocated project resources based upon timing, scope, and project requirements.
• Coordinated activities of project personnel.
• Utilized Microsoft Project server platform solution to provide support for resource management such as for planning, reporting, and project team collaboration as using it as a centralized and unified repository for storing all project and resource data.
• Communicated problems/issues that could jeopardize the project to project team.
• Identified process and workflow issues, and fine-tuned schedules as necessary.
• Prepared project status reports for management and sponsors.
• Scheduled project meetings and set-up conference calls.
• Utilized project server for creating detailed project plans, tracking and analyzing the project’s budget, creating project’s financial reports as well as forecasting the projects resources and budget.
• Created meeting agendas and PowerPoint presentations.
• Take meetings notes and distribute to team members
• Using excel for forecasting, compare planned vs. actual hours, use pivot tables to demonstrate weekly and monthly burn for projects, gathers financials and cost estimates for projects, and analyze and report financial data.
• Tracked projects and monitored progress using Microsoft Project and Manufacturing Execution System.
• Followed-up on project issue and actions
• Utilize project server for project Status, Schedule and Forecast reporting, assign tasks to allocated resources, update project work plan, Schedule & milestones, budget & spend, resource utilization, Set-up Project Tasks and assign resources.
• Track resource hours and provided weekly reports.
• Created RAID Logs and tracked risks, action items, issues and decisions.
• Use Plan-View to manage and integrate the planning and execution of portfolios and used HP PPM.
• Managed risk with the use of Clarity tool
• Utilized clarity to update project status - Green, Red and Yellow.
• Weekly update of project timeline, scope and cost as well as add vendors and team members to the project using clarity.
• Use Microsoft office, Word, Excel and MS Project.

Confidential

Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Developed and maintained project schedules.
• Created summary and sub tasks using Microsoft Project.
• Identify critical paths.
• Utilized Microsoft Project server platform solution to provide support for resource management such as for planning, reporting, and project team collaboration as using it as a centralized and unified repository for storing all project and resource data.
• Set baselines.
• Assisted in calculating earned value (project financials).
• Updated project plans (simple and master schedules).
• Using excel for forecasting, compare planned vs. actual hours, use pivot tables to demonstrate weekly and monthly burn for projects, gathers financials and cost estimates for projects, and analyze and report financial data.
• Support network security team to identify and guard against threats to Lowe’s.
• Prepared and/or edited meeting agendas/minutes, presentations, and tables.
• Facilitated project meetings, created project documentation.
• Created project calendars and organized conference calls.
• Utilize project server for creating detailed project plans, tracking and analyzing the project’s budget, creating project’s financial reports as well as forecasting the projects resources and budget.
• Arrange travel arrangements.
• Tracked project phase deliverables and published on SharePoint.
• Prepared project status reports.
• Recommended corrective actions to ensure project success and facilitate project change requests.
• Track resource hours and provided weekly reports.
• Defined, estimated and scheduled project tasks and dependencies.
• Identified project issues and escalated as required.
• Enter durations and assigned resources to activities/projects.
• Entered and tracked milestones.
• Project Portfolio Management - HP PPM - Clarity, Plan-View.
• Created RAID Logs and tracked risks, action items, issues and decisions.
• Use Plan-View to manage and integrate the planning and execution of portfolios.
• Weekly update of project timeline, scope and cost as well as add vendors and team members to the project using clarity.

Confidential

Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Tracked project budgets and followed-up with managers across the organization on variances.
• Prepared formal project management materials.
• Utilize project server for project Status, Schedule and Forecast reporting, assign tasks to allocated resources, update project work plan, Schedule & milestones, budget & spend, resource utilization, Set-up Project Tasks and assign resources.
• Collected and organized project deliverables from project teams.
• Utilize project server for creating detailed project plans, tracking and analyzing the project’s budget, creating project’s financial reports as well as forecasting the projects resources and budget.
• Kept project status information current.
• Followed-up on project issue and actions.
• Maintained risk and issue logs.
• Using excel for forecasting, compare planned vs. actual hours, use pivot tables to demonstrate weekly and monthly burn for projects, gathers financials and cost estimates for projects, and analyze and report financial data.
• Assisted project teams with schedule development.
• Project Portfolio Management - HP PPM – Clarity.
• Updated project plans.
• Created project meeting agendas and captured minutes.
• Communicated project status information to stakeholders.
• Helped in the enhancement and improvement project management processes.
• Communicated consolidated project milestones and deliverables for readiness.
• Generated detailed project status reports (including critical path impact, dependencies, milestones, resources, cost, work breakdown structures, etc.).