SUMMARY:

• Accomplished individual with 32 years experienced in the areas of Business Analysis, Project Management, Software Development & Analysis, Quality Assurance, Unit and System testing, Documentation and Training.
• Results - oriented individual with proven analytical and problem solving skills; successful project management; Agile and Waterfall and change management techniques.
• Demonstrated ability to identify process improvements, establish ownership and implement change.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, capable of motivating individuals and teams toward stated objectives.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, St Louis, MO

Sr IT Project Manager

• Maintained budgets, within tolerances, up to $12 million dollars.
• Ran weekly project status meetings, creating project plans and meeting minutes
• Kept project status up to date & Reported status to management and business owners.
• Participated in creation and approval of all requirement documents.
• Validated status of technical project deliverables and resolves conflicts as they arose.
• Represented IT team in all project meetings.
• Managed projects during the complete SDLC, from the initial funding stage through analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and post-implementation support.
• All projects, both wireline and mobility, were managed utilizing the IT Unified Process (ITUP)
• Solid experience with PRISM including the financial module.
• Responsible for estimates, scope changes, weekly financial reports, and monthly true-ups.
• Performed Change Management by controlling, tracking target and actual dates, obtaining approvals, assessing cost and timeline impacts.
• Performed Risk Management by controlling, tracking, target and actual dates, developing mitigations and contingencies, determining probability of occurrence and reporting potential impacts to management.
• Environment: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project, PowerPoint, Outlook, PRISM, CM/PM, Citrix, ReqPro, Rally, Project Management in both Agile and Waterfall Platforms

Confidential, St Louis, MO

Sr IT Project Manager

• Maintained multiple project budgets, within tolerances
• Managed projects in both Agile and Waterfall platforms
• Assisted Account Manager with various special project research and issues
• Directed weekly status meetings to provide updates, discuss milestones, and address outstanding issues.
• Reported status to management and business owners.
• Participate in creation and approval of all requirement documents.
• Validated status of technical project deliverables and resolves conflicts as they arose.
• Represented IT team in all project meetings.
• Created project plans for all team projects

Environment: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project, PowerPoint, Outlook, PRISM, CM/PM,

Confidential, St Louis, MO

Sr IT Project Manager

• Maintained multiple project budgets, within tolerances, up to 4 million dollars projects
• Managed projects in both Agile and Waterfall platforms
• Assisted Account Manager with various special project research and issues
• Directed weekly status meetings to provide updates, discuss milestones, and address outstanding issues.
• Reported status to management and business owners.
• Participate in creation and approval of all requirement documents.
• Validated status of technical project deliverables and resolves conflicts as they arose.
• Represented IT team in all project meetings.
• Created project plans for all team projects

Environment: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project, PowerPoint, Outlook, PRISM, CM/PM,

Confidential, St Louis, MO

Sr Project Manager

• Maintained budgets within tolerances targeted by organization by incorporating Excel spreadsheets and vendor supplied Planview.
• Kept project status up to date & Reported status to management and business owners.
• Validated status of technical project deliverables and resolves conflicts as they arose.
• Represented team in all project meetings.
• Created project plans for all team projects
• Managed all projects for a team of 18 people
• Assisted with creation of SharePoint site for creation and tracking of action items, issues, tasks, defects, research, and report requests as well as complete management of the site
• Created the Process and Procedure documents for the above site and all the reports for which our team created
• Researched, document and create detailed specifications for new programs, as part of a large corporate initiative

Environment: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project, PowerPoint, Outlook, SharePoint, Planview

Confidential, Maryland Heights, MO

Sr Business Analyst

• Researched, document and create detailed specifications for new programs, as part of a large corporate initiative. Including Common Modules to be used by batch and online, that manipulated DB2 table records and data files.
• Worked with online and batch Cobol/DB2 programs and JCL corrections/enhancements.
• Follow change management, packaging, and security processes / procedures and submit required documentations in implementing solutions. Utilized Workbench for issue tracking and submit change requests. Used MKS Integrity Client to submit work requests to internal groups and to review application information, dependencies and defects.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, SQL, CICS, JCL, IDMS, TSO, ISPF, MKS Integrity Client, MS Word, MS Excel, PowerPoint

Confidential, Maryland Heights, MO

Sr Programmer Analyst

• As a member of the Ticket Resolution Support team - research and resolve production problem ticket submitted by the operations and customer support departments. These tickets included, abending online transactions, abending online and batch Cobol/DB2 programs and JCL corrections/enhancements.
• While writing new or enhancing existing programs, I have performed unit, system and customer testing. I have used Expeditor, as well as live and created data, when debugging production problems. Executed single step and job stream JCL in all different types of processing environments. (prod, test, clone ), promoting changes thru the environments using the Workbench tool. Environment: COBOL, DB2, SQL, CICS, JCL, IDMS, Xpediter, TSO, ISPF, MKS Integrity Client,