PROFILE:
Over 25 years in Information Technology including 15 years of Fortune 500 project management/managerial experience and specialization in large complex multi-platform financial, insurance, manufacturing, marketing and airline systems. Expertise in all phases of project management, system design and implementation. Excellent communication and leadership skills.
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE:
12/01 – 09/11 Confidential,Northbrook, Illinois
Project Manager within Project Management Office (PMO) – Responsible for partnering with technology and client areas to support implementations of large, complex initiatives while maintaining aggressive program and release goals.
provided consulting to project managers in all areas of project management responsible for governance of over 60 project managers across IT solid experience in business requirements gathering developed processes for project plans, capacity management, change control created ad-hoc reporting of Business Objects Universe expertise in program budgets, capacity management, P12/PRISM/PWA solid experience in demand management/work-in-take processes experience with SOX processes and ITIL expertise in vendor management process re-engineering expertise in written/verbal communication with all levels of leadership responsible for delivering multi-million dollar PMO projects assisted QA in testing, trouble-shooting to ensure timely resolution of defects technologies include: web-based apps, client-server based apps, mainframe apps, other skills: MS Project, Project Server, PowerPoint, MS Office Suite, SharePoint, Business Objects Universe Project Manager – Responsible for delivering various large, complex Enterprise, Claims and Litigation projects on-schedule and within budget.
delivered projects successfully by implementing rigorous project governance delivered projects while maintaining project budgets ranging from 2.5K – 5K identified vendor over-billing resulting in $100K project savings delivered hardware/OS upgrade to over 22,000 desktops countrywide delivered litigation management system to 83 offices country-wide; 1100 users provided governance of issue and risk mitigation and change control management cultivated relationships with key business partners to develop requirements solid experience in business requirements gathering managed team of over 24 including local, remote and virtual resources engaged all stakeholders to develop budget, scope, timelines and deliverables expertise in written/verbal communication with all levels of leadership prepared and presented steering committee presentations implemented vendor management skills to ensure accountability managed QA testing to ensure timely resolution of defects daily engagement with customers with a strong focus on customer service technologies include: web-based apps, client-server based apps, mainframe apps, other skills: MS Project, Project Server, PowerPoint, MS Office Suite, Share Point 10/97-11/01 Confidential,Chicago, Illinois
Confidential,Rosemont, Illinois
Confidential,Portage, Indiana
Confidential,Cleveland, Ohio
Consultant
project manager of in-house developed financial, airline & inventory systems systems were comprised over 1000 modules involving multi-platform architecture project manager of Year 2000 Domestic & International Fare Quote Systems project manager for Year 2000 CAS Accounts Payable & General Ledger systems managed teams comprised of 25-75 resources including local and off-shore 5/96 – 10/97Confidential,Merrillville, Illinois
Project Manager – Responsible for delivery of enhancements to Billing/Invoicing, Land Rental, Work Order, Charting, Fixed Assets and Commission systems.
project planning activities managed 4-6 programmers partnered with key business partners to define business requirements for LR participated in LR detail design assisted in testing, trouble-shooting to ensure timely resolution to defects test execution of the complete Pre-Ops system testing, trouble-shooting to ensure timely resolution to defects developed training material & conducted regional staff training sessions for LR technologies included: COBOL, embedded SQL 11/85- 5/96 Confidential,Rosemont, Illinois
Project Manager/Systems Analyst – Responsible for delivery of numerous Domestic & International Fare Quote projects and management of production support team
authored RFP and RFI for various projects managed 16 developers (local and remote) delivered projects successfully by implementing rigorous project governance cultivated relationships with key business partners to develop requirements engaged all stakeholders to develop budget, scope, timelines and deliverables expertise in written/verbal communication with all levels of leadership implemented vendor management skills to ensure accountability for 6 vendors managed production support staff of 14 developed production support procedures provide feedback on staff performance evaluations partnered with client to prioritize daily support issues conducted interviews and aided manager in hiring decisions participated in product planning sessions. participated and conducted presentations at Industry meetings designed innovative scheduling technique EDUCATION: Bachelor of Science – Information Systems & Computer
Programming; Minor in Management
Project Management Boot Camp Certification
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