SUMMARY

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Business Administration – Decision and Information Sciences
Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Sciences

CERTIFICATIONS

Project Management Professional (PMP)
Process Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Oct 2008 – Present
Project –Project Manager: Confidential,
Developed initial corporate mobile short-term and long-term strategy
Worked with C-level and VP executive team to ensure mobility roadmap aligns with corporate initiatives
Developed recommendations around mobile application development, Center of Excellence, and employee skillset

Project –Project Manager: Confidential,
Developed corporate IT strategy and long-term roadmap
Developed overall project plans to track time and development activities
Led status meetings with the executive team
Identified and managed multiple projects’ risks and issues
Helped lead and facilitate client meetings to determine requirements

Project – Program/Project Manager: Confidential,

• Responsible for daily website revenues of over $2M
• Initiated process improvements to create efficiencies, saving over $8M in yearly costs
• Oversaw development/testing efforts of over 40 employees
• Developed company-wide PMO to enhance program/project management activities
• Worked cohesively with a geographically dispersed team (IL, NE, TX, GA, Europe and India)
• Led weekly status meetings with the client executive teams
• Ensured all business requests (risks/issues, UI and functional enhancements, data and architecture updates) were managed and prioritized properly
• Helped lead and facilitate client meetings to determine requirements for various projects

Project – Project Manager/Business Analyst: Confidential,

• Developed strategy to help client gain access to a new vertical revenue stream, which increased revenues by over $20M
• Developed project management initiatives to track and manage all project work for the fiscal year
• Facilitated weekly status meetings with the executive client team
• Developed detailed page specs for use by the technical team
• Helped lead and facilitate client meetings to determine requirements

Project – Project Manager: Confidential,

• Responsible for helping to develop company-wide PMO
• Managed portfolio of projects that impacted over $30M in revenues
• Developed project plans and managed the team’s performance of project tasks
• Communicated status reports, risk management, and management issues to executive teams
• Responsible for delivering the project within budget, on schedule, and within scope
• Worked with the IT and Testing teams to ensure that all deliverables were completed
• Facilitated weekly calls with customers, executive team, and individual stakeholders

Business Analyst/QA Analyst, Confidential,May 2008 – Oct 2008

• Identified business needs and problems and proposed solutions to improve efficiency and effectiveness of their custom online reservation system
• Provided technical leadership to business executives, project teams, and IT technical teams
• Led functional testing efforts for enhancements of the online reservation system
• Acted as a liaison to bridge the gap between the executive business team and the technical project teams
• Participate in daily and weekly status meetings with business leads and project team leads

Consultant, Confidential, Apr 2005 – Apr 2008
Project – Functional Testing: Confidential,Lead Functional Test Analyst

• Implemented and led functional testing efforts across a newly developed application
• Built and managed re-usable execution tracking documents for client executives
• Created and executed test conditions, test scripts, and test steps
• Facilitated and lead training courses
• Tracked financial budgets and overall work plan

Project – Supply Chain Assessment: Confidential,Lead Technical Analyst

• Developed and tested tools needed to support analyses, including MS Access queries and Excel models
• Implemented re-usable analysis tools to perform different analysis
• Performed data cleansing, consolidation, and analysis to validate hypotheses for transportation margin improvements
• Formulated business cases, conclusions and recommendations based on analysis
• Communicated project status to client executives
• Facilitated client team meetings

Project – Supply Chain Assessment: Confidential,Functional Analyst

• Single-handedly owned all spend data analysis, which sold a multimillion dollar project
• Analyzed data and compiled discrepancies through pitfalls in purchasing spend
• Developed and managed sourcing roadmaps and implementation plans
• Processed large amounts of data using databases
• Documented spend analysis methodology, best practices, benchmarks, results, and findings
• Finalized purchasing interview/survey questions and schedules
• Arranged the identification, quantification, segmentation, and prioritization of savings opportunities
• Created presentation materials and documentation for client meetings
• Responsible for time and budget tracking

Project – Supply Chain Assessment: Confidential,Technical Analyst

• Analyzed and integrated Spend Data from over 60 facilities through Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access
• Created potential savings estimates
• Facilitated training courses and created training documents

Project – Confidential,Technical Analyst

• Directed functional, technical, and user review during the Assembly Test phase
• Coordinated coding of new modules or enhancement of existing conversion modules
• Organized unit testing efforts until all unit test conditions were satisfied and thoroughly documented
• Successfully executed conversion tasks using Informatica, Unix, Oracle, SQLPLUS, PL/SQL
• Worked collaboratively with other team members from different disciplines and backgrounds while learning new applications, technologies, and skills through hands-on experience
• Responsible for quality and timeliness of assigned deliverables
  

Executive, Management – Confidential, Jan 2002 – Present

• Increased the property value of 12 properties by an average of over 125%
• Managed a multi-property portfolio, valued at over $75M
• Responsible for the overall strategic long-term goals of multiple properties
• Managed the budget and work plan of over 40 employees

Primerica Financial Services – Confidential,Feb 2003 – Nov 2004

• Helped to start the first office in Gainesville
• Managed work plan for 8 employees
• Received two promotions within the first 3 months on employment