SEEKING:

Confidential currently lives in Amsterdam and is seeking either a free - lance or full-time position as a (Senior) Project Manager in Amsterdam, or another major European or American city.

SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a Certified Project Manager, with more than 20 years of experience within the software development branch.
• Approximately 15 years of which have been managing projects with teams from 2 to 25, on both fixed or time and material budgets up to 3 million euros.
• He has a university degree in Finance and Banking, coursework towards an MBA in IT management information systems, and is currently working towards obtaining his PRINCE2 MSP and Scrum Master Certifications.
• In addition to being able to carry out any role in a project from Business Analyst to Tester, he has successfully managed projects through all phases of their lifecycles.
• Confidential works well on his own, as well as in teams, and has performed a number of rolls as a liaison between functional and technical teams, as well as between clients and development teams.
• Confidential came up the ranks from a Cobol Programmer to a Technical Team Leader, Test Leader and eventually a Senior Project Manager, able to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Confidential can be put into a new environment and pick up any procedure, methodology or policy quickly.
• He can work both hands-on and hands-off, when needed.
• While Confidential is results driven, he still expects his team to enjoy their work and be proud of their results.
• Confidential ’s current interest lie in web based application development (of which he has more than 5 years experience), and finds challenge in learning new methodologies and motivating his team towards a worthwhile goal.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Technical Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed two technical team leaders in the delivery of web-bases software supporting the bank’s Confidential and Customer applications (Portal Dashboard and GRID).
• Teams developed using Waterfall and Scrum methodologies.
• Responsible for delivering long-term as well as Sprint planning, status reports, financial and delivery (quality, financial, way-of-work) evaluations.
• Ensured the projects were following the department’s quality (CMMI based) and development procedures and methodologies.

PMO & CMMI Support / Process Assurance / Quality Assurance

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Delivered process flow overviews for environmental change management.
• Executed Root Cause Analyses for Confidential raised issues.
• Proposed and implemented a standardize incident registration system.
• Acted as Process Assuror for the implementation of Confidential /Prince2 within various departments.
• Acted as Quality Assurance for one of the department’s development teams (Scrum).

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed a 2 man project team responsible for the specification and implementation of an interface containing Customer data to the bank’s lending application (LoanIQ), and the loading of supporting data.

Senior Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Project Initiation Document (PID) for implementation of one of Confidential being delivered by Backbase. Backabase supports the Agile methodology of software development. Member of a SCRUM team using JIRA for backlogs, story tracking and burn down charting, for developing the Backbase Portal Content Hub product.

Senior Business Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed 2 project teams supporting and developing the bank’s Confidential department web-based Portal.
• On a day-to-day basis, lead a two-man team of Business Analysts in the production of Business Requirements and Functional Specifications.
• Responsible for all Project Management documentation, including project plans, status reports, and budgetary estimates.
• Coordinated weekly meetings with development, testing and implementation teams and attended monthly status meetings with Program management.
• Managed development through all phases in the project lifecycle from Project Initiation, thru to User Acceptance Testing and Aftercare (support).

Business Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed 2 project teams in the realization of web-based applications supporting the Confidential department’s Confidential and providing Generic functionality to other modules within the Portal.
• On a day-to-day basis, lead a two to five-man team of Business Analysts in the production of Business Requirements and Functional Specifications.
• Responsible for all Project Management documentation, including project plans, status reports, and budgetary estimates.
• Attended weekly meetings with development, testing and implementation teams and monthly status meetings with Program management.
• Participated in the training of end users.
• Managed development through all phases in the project lifecycle from Project Initiation, thru to User Acceptance Testing and Aftercare (support).

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead multi-disciplinary +/- ten-man project team, including graphic designers, content editors and programmers, in the realization of the Corporate Web site for Confidential .
• The site is in two languages (Dutch and English) and includes the Confidential micro site.
• Developed, implemented and managed project plans and ensured delivery.
• Prepared and updated additional project management documentation including but not limited to change requests, resource updates, budgetary estimates and project status reports.
• Met with the client on a regular basis to discuss project status and issues.
• Updated and managed content in the content management system (CMS) Tridion.

IT Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with the business team to determine the functional and technical requirements for a Global Cash Management and payment processing system (Auros payment factory) accessible via the intranet.
• Wrote Requirement Specifications, Functional Specifications, Test Specification, Presentations and project evaluations.
• The proposed system would be used in the US and throughout the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) by Confidential ’s Treasury departments as a tool for managing cash on a day-to-day basis.
• Worked closely with the Treasury department in the execution and coordination of system testing activities of the payment factory.
• Developed tools and procedures for the control, monitoring and reporting of those activities.
• Worked closely with the development team correcting defects identified during testing, and implementing changes.
• Based on a business need, wrote Requirements and developed and tested a web site for the logging and tracking of deposit quotes relating to Treasury Cash Management using DreamWeaver Ultra Dev and MS Access.

Internet/Intranet Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed a two-man development team responsible for the realization of a centralized Internet/Intranet platform for a major Dutch airline.
• Activities included the production of a Project Plan for a Request for Proposal (RFP) to suppliers for the implementation of a Web Farm Infrastructure, Request for Proposal for the Platform, bi-weekly Project Status reports to higher management, a Project Plan for the execution (i.e. processing responses from suppliers) of the RFP, and the plan's presentation.
• Co-ordination of technical (architecture) resources for the RFP and related component placement modeling activities.

Confidential Coordinator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed a two-man team and was responsible for coordinating the Functional Specification, Development and unit testing of an Confidential .
• Activities included the production of the EDI Technical Annex as a part of the standard EDI contract (Interchange Agreement), unit testing the EDI Order entry programs and together with an external bureau, specification of the Entry Instructions and In-house file layouts for all messages.

Integration Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed a one-man team, wrote the Functional, Interface and Testing Specifications and was responsible for coordinating the Development and Testing of the systems interface. Activities included participation in functional and technical discussions pertaining to the order entry/warehouse interface, production of a Project Plan, Charter and Interface Specification, development co-ordination, unit, integration and systems testing and monthly status reports to higher management.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the day-to-day management of the project for the Systems Integrator.
• Coordinated activities between four project teams, each consisting of up to 25 persons.
• Activities included production and execution of an overall project plan and quality plan including acceptance procedures and change control, monthly status reports including progress and budgetary information for the multi-million guilder budget and creation and management of project deliverables, documentation and time registration system.

Confidential

Test Team Leader/Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Managed a 3-man team in the integration and system testing of the Klantenkaart application.
• The team designed, produced and implemented a test strategy and specifications for testing chip card production and use within the retail environment.
• This included the production of Test Specifications, Test Cases and Evaluations.
• The card included loyalty and electronic purse functionality (chipknip).