SUMMARY:

• 12 years of project management experience across several industries
• 6 years of healthcare experience
• 3.5 years of automotive experience
• Diverse library of PMO best practices from successful corporations
• Execution of multiple projects from inception to launch
• Manage $8 million dollars project budgets
• Seasoned leadership skills
• Excellent written/verbal communication and presentation skills
• Common Project Management Methods Training
• Published

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Microsoft Office
• SimProject
• Outlook
• MS Project
• Smartsheet
• Google Drive
• Visio
• SharePoint
• EPM
• Clarity
• Rally
• PeopleSoft
• Camtasia
• WebEx
• Skype
• GoTo Meeting
• WordPress

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dearborn, MI

Senior IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage over 1000 software migration application teams.
• Lead team discussions regarding Evergreen (Automated) Testing.
• Forecast and balance monthly project financials exceeding $8 million dollars.
• Lead software application assessment projects executed by a supplier.
• Use of Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall methodologies.
• Use of the Agile Rally application.
• Maintain schedule trackers of application migration and modernization tasks.
• Review and approve supplier invoices.
• Manage and facilitate new ITSA submissions and track RQ and PO approval chains.
• Run various monthly Financial Reports in Dorf.
• Update project plans in Clarity.
• Submit Change Requests for Governance approval.
• Generate Project Health Scorecards in Clarity for governance presentations.
• Update and maintain Critical Milestone Charts.
• Present Project Status updates in various Governance meetings.
• Approve time of multiple projects’ team members in Dorf.
• Administrate several SharePoint sites.
• Maintain, mitigate an escalate issues and risks.
• Host project Kick - off meetings.
• Work with several global teams

Confidential, Redford, MI

IT PMO/ Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of eight per project.
• Conduct Business Process Management.
• Prepare status reports and updates for the Management team.
• Supervise and maintain master program schedule via MS Project as well as multiple SharePoint and EPM sites.
• Create executive PowerPoint presentations for CIO to deliver to leadership teams.
• Prepare statistical reports conveying KPIs and other metrics using Excel
• Gather and document “as-is” business requirements through Visio and Signavio.
• Research and prepare Process Improvement methodologies.
• Conduct interviews with managers, suppliers, and the C-suite.
• Facilitate and prepare Corporate Audit deliverables, guidelines, and KPI metrics.
• Define, mitigate and quantify risk probability and impact
• Assist with the development of a localized Operating Model based on ITIL and CMMI.
• Knowledge of Agile (Scrum) and Waterfall methodologies.

Confidential, Sterling Heights, MI

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Spearheading a team of 20+ benefit administrators, vendors, and IT professionals.
• Using Smartsheet for developing plans, assigning resources, tracking progress, and analyzing workloads.
• Updating of PRDs for business solutions and process flow.
• Using MS Visio to create project process flowcharts.
• Using Excel for statistical data interpretation, and graph development.
• Leading web base application (online enrollment tool) portal migration projects.
• Managing weekly communications with COO and vice-president
• Creating and presenting weekly status reports.
• Coordinating and managing internal resources and third-party vendors.
• Identifying and mitigating risks to the project timeline.
• Escalating and reporting critical issues to management as needed.
• Defining project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders.
• Updating and maintaining project status logs of issues and software enhancements for deployment.

Confidential, Dearborn, MI

Project/ Workshop Facilitator

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated Innovative workshops, Value Analysis Value Engineering (VAVE), Functional Alignment, Designed Gap Analysis, CFIGS, plant line walks and GAP workshops.
• Used Microsoft Office Suite- PowerPoint, Word, and Excel for presentations, and reporting
• Led teams of 50+ at a time on various workshops.
• Assisted engineers and suppliers with brainstorming, idea generation and cost savings.
• Designed and delivered staff training/in-services workshops.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Prepared for the ‘Healthcare Marketplace’ to go live.
• Logged information into PeopleSoft.
• Referenced the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).
• Maintained legal compliance logs.
• Reviewed PowerPoint decks and other documents.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led a national and international team of 10 for multiple book publishing projects from concept to finish.
• Facilitated requirement meetings to gather/define data needs.
• Completed book projects on time, within budget.
• Managed scope creep mitigated risks, and delivered both tangible and virtual products.

Confidential, Dearborn, MI

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of six, linking mobile friendly technologies and web based applications.
• Simplified and automated existing business processes.
• Gathered and interpreted detailed technical requirements.
• Led IT deployment teams for several software integrations.
• Used MS Project for Systems Development Life Cycle, developing plans, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing budgets and analyzing workloads.
• Deployed four websites with reduced inefficiencies.
• Successfully collaborated with multiple IT platform service providers and consultants.

Confidential, Dearborn, MI

Director of Career Services

Responsibilities:

• Directed a regional roll-out of new software implementation.
• Ensured a timely launch through proper planning.
• Provided team kick - off meetings and training for over 60+ team members.
• Designed/delivered PowerPoint workshops/faculty training.

Confidential, Highland Park, MI

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Redirected a troubled $1 million project (No Child Left Behind) initiative and tutoring program.
• Coordinated a Human Resource Infrastructure for onboarding and accounting.
• Streamlined operations and contributed several business process improvements.
• Led a core project team of five, and 20+ regional sub-teams.