SUMMARY:

Business & Information Technology Leader with proven track record delivering customer results. Experience in business transformation and optimization through relationship management and collaboration with IT, application teams, accounting, sales, marketing, finance, engineering, production, operations and vendor managed services. Background includes building, developing and managing high - performing teams.

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:

• PMO / PMP Project Management
• Cross Functional Business & IT Background
• Global IT Experience
• Change Management
• Process Improvement
• Project Risk & Scope
• Documentation Management
• Data Consolidation
• Quality Assurance
• Report Generation
• Vendor Management
• Contracts
• Jira
• IBM BigFix
• Rapid7s
• Report Writer
• MS Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio
• Clarity PPM Optics, Planview Enterprise, SharePoint, Fieldglass VMS
• Ariba Enterprise Sourcing & Procurement Platform
• Tableaue
• Project Management Institute Member

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the execution of IT and Application Projects that ensures alignment with the company’s strategic objectives and for successfully delivering projects supporting technology as well as architecture development.
• Successfully delivered each project on time, within budget, required functionality and operational specifications.
• Provided leadership and worked directly with Project team members, Business Relationship Managers, management, and partnering firms to execute projects.
• In delivery of these projects, ensured adherence to standard project methodology, practices, and tools utilized by the project team.
• Partnered with Confidential -One vendor in leading both Apria’s Revenue Management team and Application team, in Implementing 8 Week Fast Path Robotic Process Automation Software in Development Environment.
• Managed project team I installation and Configuration of Robotics Process Automation (RPA) Software.
• Leading project team in creating automation process for secondary claims electronic rejections in Installation and validation of Automation Anywhere software (AA).
• Directing Apria’s Robotic Process Automation and IT teams in fully documenting manual process to automation through creation of process definition documents, Solution Design document, and videotaping narration of step-by-step process.
• Working with the business segments in completing User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Collaborated with AppDynamics vendor and application teams in implementing AppDynamics performance management software for providing server monitoring tools and, troubleshooting capabilities across ten (10) high availability application modules.
• Led project team in Installing and configuring Controller, MySQL databases, Events Service, and End User Monitoring (EUM) Server.
• Ensured project objectives, schedule, resource requirements, and budget were accurately collected, understood and properly executed.
• Monitored project work and distribution of communicating risks, contingency plans, roadblocks, and resource constraints to internal and external stakeholders.
• Facilitated decision making process and provided direction on resolution.
• Developed status reports and metrics to team and senior management.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead project team in configuring upgrade work activities in Planview application.
• Partnered with Planview Vendor in integrating Financial Planning system.
• Manually completed entry of 36 Approved Baseline Budgets into Planview.
• Facilitated weekly vendor status meetings and published meeting minutes.
• Managed and maintained Project Issues Log for review at weekly status meetings.
• Facilitated and coordinated project meetings, reviews and sessions.
• Organized, managed and updated Repository for accessing best practices, e-learning Courses and Planview Enterprise One version 15.
• Collaborated with Vendor Specialist in scheduling sessions for Project Managers.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with Trace3 vendor in upgrading AppDynamics application and application teams in upgrading application across ten (10) high availability application modules.
• Ensured project objectives, schedules, resource requirements, and budgets were accurately collected, understood and properly executed.
• Monitored project work for development/distribution of communicating risks, contingency plans, roadblocks, and resource constraints to internal and external stakeholders.
• Facilitated decision making process and provided direction on resolution.
• Developed status reports and metrics to team and senior management.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with Confidential -One vendor in upgrading Automation Anywhere application from Release 10 to Release 11.3 in development and production environment.
• Monitored and controlled project work for development and distribution of communicating risks, contingency plans, roadblocks, and resource constraints to internal and external stakeholders.
• Delivered quarterly forecasts for large programs with budgets of $5.3 million.
• Facilitated weekly vendor status meetings and published meeting minutes.
• Managed and maintained Project Issues Log for review at weekly status meetings.
• Facilitated and coordinated project meetings, reviews and sessions.

Confidential

Orange County Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led migrations to include application and software upgrades affecting 60 capital projects and 135 onshore and offshore resources.
• Defined, developed and ensured project objectives, schedules, resource requirements, and budgets were correctly gathered, understood and properly executed.
• Responsible for identifying project's Key Success Indicators and successfully managed the work within scope, quality, time and cost constraints.
• Monitored and controlled project work for development and distribution of communicating risks, contingency plans, roadblocks, and resource constraints to internal and external stakeholders.
• Delivered quarterly forecasts for large programs with budgets of $5.3 million.
• Created and managed project document library to ensure SOX compliance.
• Worked with Enterprise Sourcing & Procurement to process vendor statement of works, requests for quotes and purchase orders.
• Managed multiple vendor contracts & maintenance agreements. Negotiated pricing & service level agreements as well as RFP processes.
• Responsible for and Managed all Technology & Software purchases, acquisitions, contracts & maintenance agreements. Partnered with Enterprise Sourcing and Procurement to Negotiate Pricing & Service Level Agreements.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing support to Director of Operations department, by performing audit of project processes that resulted in improving deployment methodologies.
• Created process tables and maps which ensured accurate overview and streamlining of Operational processes.
• Developed and presented PowerPoint Presentations that resulted in successfully adopting new processes.
• Created and distributed Monthly Operations Newsletter to internal business segments.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led transition of ownership and physical move of 300+ systems between datacenters from St. Louis to Minnesota.
• Gathered and analyzed business requirements and translated them into reporting solutions.
• Planned project stages and assessed business implications for each stage by successfully monitoring progress, resulting in meeting project deliverables on time and within budget.
• Communicated Project Status to Project Stakeholders through weekly project and milestone review sessions, and weekly status reports.
• Implemented & established a Disaster Recovery Plan across the environment. Setup a secure hosted collocation & installed all required technologies within a racked facility.
• Established associated policies, procedures & guidelines. Managed & improved existing Data Center Backup technologies & associated offsite location & service for data retention.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led transition of ownership and physical move of 300+ systems between datacenters from Cypress, CA to St. Louis.
• Gathered and analyzed business requirements and translated them into reporting solutions.
• Planned project stages and assessed business implications for each stage by successfully monitoring progress, resulting in meeting project deliverables on time and within budget.
• Communicated Project Status to Project Stakeholders through weekly project and milestone review sessions, and weekly status reports.