SUMMARY:

• Senior Project Portfolio Manager at Ford Motor Company Global IT PMO. Primary projects in the portfolio: IT and Engineering IT systems design and rollout
• Additional Industry Experience: Department of Defense, General Motors, Chrysler Group, VW Group, Daimler AG, Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Navistar, AM General, General Dynamics, Volvo, Fujitsu, Boeing, Lockheed, TRW, BAE, Air Bus, and multiple other companies in NA, Asia Pacific and Europe.
• 25,000 + hours logged managing critical, complex, can’t fail, global technology programs for aforementioned corporations with primary responsibilities as following:
• Develop project charters, scope, create budgets, resource plans and establish technical & business leadership groups to oversee project teams, initiate project launches, follow defined SDLC methodologies (Agile & Waterfall), create/manage/ and monitor project and resource plans on a daily basis, coordinate and track project’s daily progress between globally distributed teams and service providers (scrum and sprints methodologies)
• Facilitate corporate approval processes, establish checks and balances for corporate compliance and oversight, lead weekly project team and middle management meetings, present monthly VP/CEO/COO level report outs, create: monthly financial/progress scorecards, quarterly corporate financial and regulatory compliance reports
• Develop and implement project associated disaster recovery and business continuity plans
• Managed project in the following domains: IT, Mobility, Healthcare, Engineering, Quality, Product Development, Product Reliability, Supplier Development, Design and Data Exchange, Supply Chain Management, Financial/Credit/Retail/Wholesale - Systems
• Post project transitions- successfully transitioned 30,000 + global supply chain stakeholders from as-is, to the new designed/desired environments
• Managed and directed portfolios of up to 21 concurrent, global projects with 400 plus multi-disciplined, globally distributed SME’s active on project teams.
• Fluency in 5 languages and on-the-ground experience managing programs in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Middle East

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PM Tools: MS Project, CA Clarity, MS Project/Clarity/Share Point Integrated Tools

OPP- Optimal Project Planning & Management- (AIAG PM Tools):

MS Office Suite: Word, Excel, Power Point, Share Point

PM Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile (PMI standards)

MS Project: Specific utilization to manage IT Applications Development (SDLC)

Agile: scrums, sprints, pull/push based coaching, waterfall to agile transitions

Product Quality Compliance: PPAP, FMEA, MSA, DVP&R, APQP, and TS 16949

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Program Manager, Ford IT-Program Management Office (PMO)

Confidential, Dearborn, Michigan

• As a senior project manager within Ford Motor Company’s IT Program Management Office, managed portfolio of collaborative global corporate projects between Ford’s - North America/Europe/Asia Pacific and Latin American operations. Responsibilities included:
• Ownership of Projects’ (IEBD) - Inception, Elaboration, Build & Deploy, phases
• Ownership of corporate Mobility, Financial, Quality, Regulatory Compliance projects
• Establish and manage project governance on L1, L2, L3 (CEO/CFO to Manager) levels via daily/weekly/monthly meetings and report outs
• Utilizing Agile/Waterfall methodologies, facilitate daily/weekly team meetings between globally distributed IT & Business units in NA, Europe & Asia. Teams’ size:50-300 SMEs
• Develop and manage detailed project plans, monitor and review project phase gates
• Create, distribute and communicate weekly project status and financial scorecards, quarterly corporate progress-to-budget reconciliation reports
• Monitor and manage project risk, issues and associated mitigation strategies
• Create and implement global business continuity and disaster recovery strategies
• Create/deploy/monitor, pre-launch, global UAT-User Acceptance Testing for each deliverable
• Manage vendor/supplier relations, including RFPs, RFQs and selection
• Managed individual project budgets ranging from $38 million to $500,000

Manager Business Development- Consultant

Confidential - Middle East

responsibilities:

• managed a portfolio of projects addressing: market expansion research, IT infrastructure platforms, factory and distribution center automation, design new and improved business and manufacturing processes, implement Quality Management Systems, supply chain integration, corporate responsibility and regulatory compliance.

Program Manager, Global Engineering IT & Product Development

Confidential, Southfield, Michigan

responsibilities:

• On behalf of 23 automotive, aerospace and defense OEMs and 1400 suppliers, directed, managed and led the consortium’s global portfolio of collaborative engineering, IT, product development, data exchange, healthcare and supply chain optimization projects for 13 years.
• Successfully managed 200 plus globally distributed, multi-disciplined, teams and oversight committees across international boundaries, disparate business models/cultures and time zones.
• From inception to launch, complete financial, business and technical ownership of 30 key OEM and Tier1 Supplier joint venture projects in Americas, Europe & Asia Pacific