SUMMARY:

• 8+ years of proven talent in business and solution development, project management with extensive experience in project program governance, including effectively managing projects and program budgets, stakeholder communications, organizational change management, project health metrics and methodologies for both Scrum, SAFe, Waterfall and ASAP projects.
• Ability to manage complex projects simultaneously from start to finish in a fast - paced, matrixed environment effectively and efficiently.
• Strong interpersonal, problem-solving skills with excellent analytical and presentation skills, ability to synthesize complex data into actionable presentations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, SharePoint, Visio)
• MS Projects
• Atlassian JIRA & Confluence
• Procure
• Minitab
• Primavera P6
• SmartSheet

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, TX

PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Developed and collaborated on pre-construction planning, budgeting, including building and updating construction schedule, recognizing constraints and clarifying each project assumptions with relevant stakeholders.
• Developed, coordinated, implemented and managed all facets necessary to deliver each project on time, within budget, and to the specified level of quality.
• Provided leadership and served as liaison between project team members to promote the interest of both the business and clients in all matters.
• Prepared and managed project budgets, project implementation plans, requirement definition, scope development, resource allocation, risk analysis, as well as quality assurance for each project under my domain.
• Tracked vendor deliverables across multi-sites projects to ensure that each deliverable conformed to requirements.
• Established job processes (RFI’s subcontracts, and pay applications) including approving pay applications and negotiating subcontract change orders.
• Conducted project meetings, setting milestones and formulating owners report for each project.
• Conducted quality assurance audits in support of project quality plan, including project post-mortem assessments, suggested improvements in process and procedures.

Confidential

PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Gathered, analyzed, negotiated and documented accurate and comprehensive business requirements from sponsors, users, transformed these business requirements and requests into software requirements.
• Developed comprehensive project plans that merged customer requirements and company goals, and coordinated with various managers, and technical personnel during all project phases from initial planning development through implementation.
• Created and maintained organized documentations pertaining to business requirements, business processes, and system functionalities and testing plans.
• Facilitated agile ceremonies including iteration/release planning, daily Scrum, backlog grooming, iteration review/retrospective.
• Effectively communicated project expectations, risks, to team members and stakeholders in a concise and timely manner on all projects.
• Supported project owners in managing expectations for deliverables, managing stakeholder’s communications as well as implementing an effective framework for project governance.
• Ensured that all projects meet accepted best practices in usability and digital design as well as support each clients developed branding and strategic initiatives.
• Actively managed project plans, quality of deliverables, dependencies and outcomes for selected projects to ensure that the project goals and objectives are achieved within the project timeframe and guidelines as established by the relevant stakeholders and management committees.
• Defined and implemented schedule configuration management processes and procedures; such as creating product build scripts and procedures, and integrated those scripts with the schedule build process, managed the product build, staging, testing deployment, and integration.
• Prepared communication plans and related project status reports to key stakeholders, providing risks and mitigation strategies, and project updates on activities and deliverables.
• Coached, mentored and supervised project team members and influenced them to take positive actions and accountability for their assigned tasks.
• Proactively anticipated, prevented, and solved problems during each project life cycle using risk management tools as well as quality control tools with team members at various levels.
• Created and managed an effective governance framework to ensure the appropriate level of oversight and control was in place across all project activities including status reporting, client calls, and program reporting.

Confidential

ASSISTANT PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in managing project scope and deliverables through a structured change management process to ensure stakeholders’ expectations are met.
• Helped manage risks, issues, and change resolution processes and worked with relevant stakeholders to take corrective actions as needed.
• Performed on-site inspections of local work locations at the project start, mid-point and completion.
• Estimated resources needed to achieve project goals and determined need for additional staff.
• Ensured project compliance with internal organizational process assets, and improved those processes throughout the life of the project.
• Assisted with creating Rough Order Magnitude (ROM) budget, activity duration estimates, and cost benefit analysis for each project.