SUMMARY:

PMP certified Project Manager with over 15 years experience leading Web Application and Infrastructure projects in a fast - paced, ever-changing business environment. Experienced IT professional with excellent Project Management, leadership, requirements gathering, problem solving, communication, and organization skills.

SKILL SUMMARY:

• Confidential Manager with 50 plus direct reports
• Team Lead at Confidential with 9 direct reports
• Full project life cycle management (initiation, planning, execution, controlling and closing.)
• Successfully managed Web application and Infrastructure projects of varying sizes from 100K to 6 million.
• Project Manager with responsibility for project schedules, issue tracking, change management, risk management, project budgets, reporting project status and facilitation of project meetings in a collaborative IT environment.
• Project Manager with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Interacts well with both non-technical and technical personnel.
• Project Manager with experience managing projects with offshore resources.
• Target - Target India
• Express Scripts - Cognizant India
• Project Manager with experience working with 3rd party vendors.
• Confidential Siemens
• Target Mettler Toledo
• Project Manager with Merger and Acquisition experience.
• Confidential
• Wells Fargo
• Project Manager responsible for development and implementation of a Peer Review process using the SEI/CMM model.
• Created, monitored and updated project plans utilizing Microsoft Project and NIKU.
• Participated in Joint Application Development Sessions at Confidential and NSP.
• Worked on Sarbanes-Oxley quality audit.
• Project Manager and Team Lead at Confidential managing staff of 9 and responsible for multiple production systems.
• Key business liaison communicating business needs and requirements to IT teams at Confidential .

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• PMBOK
• SEI/CMM
• AGILE
• Microsoft Suite of Products Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, AccessMS Project, SharePoint
• NIKU - Project Workbench
• Planview
• GPS
• Remedy
• Documentum
• Test Director
• PeopleSoft-JDE
• Model N
• Data Warehousing
• Business Intelligence - Business Objects
• IVR - Voice Response

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the project management of multiple top initiative Web application and Infrastructure projects in Healthcare, PBM, Retail, Banking and Utility industries with project teams ranging in size from 5-30 people.
• Created, maintained and monitored project scope, project plans, project requirements, project schedules, business process flows and use cases.
• Established work plan, forecasting and staffing for each phase of project.
• Managed the activities and resources associated with the project.
• Facilitated Project/Team status meetings and post project reviews.
• Monitored and reported project status to management. (i.e.: weekly and monthly status).
• Created and managed key project documents using SharePoint.
• Identified and tracked project issues, risks and change requests.
• Followed change management process when changes to project scope and design were requested.
• Created vendor RFP’s and vendor contracts.
• Managed Vendor outsourced tasks and resources.
• Champion for 3 areas of Project Management (SEI, Management Reporting, PL Handbook).
• Project methodologies used were Agile and PMBOK
• Created, maintained and monitored project schedules using Microsoft Project and NIKU.

Confidential

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage 10-50 consultants .
• Responsible for consultant retention.
• Partner with Consultants/Management in early identification of issues that need resolution.
• Conducted consultant annual performance reviews.
• Work with consultant to set annual goals. Support consultants in reaching these goals.
• Do consultant candidate interviews.
• Work with Consultants to ensure smooth transition between assignments.
• Communication to consultants keeping them informed on pertinent company information.
• Mentor consultants to be successful at clients.
• Negotiate consultant pay increases.
• Facilitate monthly updates and status with upper management.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed up to five Healthcare projects simultaneously.
• Created, maintained and monitored project plans, requirements and project schedules.
• Facilitated Project/Team status meetings and post project reviews.
• Monitored and reported project status to management. (i.e.: weekly status and dashboard).
• Identified and tracked project issues, risks and change requests.
• Key business contact for service requests, (prioritization, monitoring, tracking).
• Created, maintained and monitored project schedules using Microsoft Project.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the management of project schedules, system testing, project reporting, issue/risk/change management for implementation of a PeopleSoft-JDE system.
• Researched and proposed Project Management training for Confidential .
• Additional responsibilities include working on Sarbanes-Oxley quality audit.

Confidential

Consultant-Independent

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for development of a management reporting system using Microsoft Access and Microsoft Excel.
• Final product provided senior management on-line access to weekly dashboard reports.

Confidential

Project Manager - Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed staff of nine direct reports responsible for multiple production systems.
• Responsibilities included planning and leading all work associated with these production systems including evaluation, implementation and on-going improvement to these applications.
• Created, maintained and monitored project plans, requirements and project schedules.
• Facilitated Project/Team status meetings, user group meetings and post project reviews.
• Estimated effort and resources/staffing required for projects and enhancements.
• Monitored and reported project status to management and project office.
• Key business contact for service requests, (prioritization, monitoring, tracking).
• Identified and tracked project issues, risks and change requests.
• Participated in annual budget process.
• Coordination of necessary training for end users and staff.
• Developed and executed test plans, test cases and test scripts used for system testing.
• Created vendor RFP’s and interviewed prospective vendors.
• Created, Maintained and monitored project schedules using NIKU and Microsoft Project.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the implementation of solution to consolidate three control centers owned by Confidential .
• Created, maintained and monitored project plans and project schedules
• Facilitated Project/Team status meetings.
• Monitored and reported team/project status to management monthly.
• Identified and tracked project issues, risks and change requests.
• Created, Maintained and monitored project schedule using Microsoft Project and NIKU.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Directed and created Peer Review to be used enterprise wide.
• Trained moderators, facilitators and organization in the use of Confidential .
• Defined metrics and reporting for Confidential .
• Created, maintained and monitored project schedule using NIKU Workbench.
• Reviewed vendor RFP proposals and interview vendors to determine data warehouse solution.
• Created statement of work
• Facilitated requirements gathering and created requirements documents
• Worked and coordinate with offshore vendor, Confidential India.
• Developed project schedule using NIKU Workbench.

Confidential

Sr. Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all analysis, design, programming, testing and implementation on the Toyota account.

Confidential

Project Leader

Responsibilities:

• Managed staff of four direct reports.
• Responsible for implementation of a key clients marketing and loyalty program.
• Created, maintained and monitored project plans and schedules.
• Estimated work effort and resources/staffing required.
• Identified tracked and resolved issues.
• Provided technical leadership and training to staff.
• Reported project status to management.
• Planned and facilitated weekly meetings with the client.
• Responsible for annual reviews and goal setting of the team members.
• Maintained communication with client to secure their buy-in regarding enhancements and changes.
• Developed project schedules using Microsoft Project.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for development and execution of the system design (Business process model, data models), system specifications, programming, system testing and implementation of various billing and marketing support systems for a major utility company utilizing distributed and relational database technology.
• These systems provided senior management on-line access to strategic data.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included creation of system specifications, system analysis, process modeling, functional decomposition, data modeling, programming, system testing and documentation (user and technical).