PMO ANALYST / PROJECT MANAGER Resume

SUMMARY

I offer more than twenty years of Information Technology and Project Management experience.
I have hands - on experience driving large cross-functional Information Technology projects and several high-value programs.
I am certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute (PMI), have a Bachelor's degree from Eastern Illinois University, and a Master's Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University.
I believe that my leadership capability, knowledge of technology, excellent organizational and communication skills will be valuable assets to your organization.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

PMO ANALYST / PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

Confidential

MANAGER, IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE

Responsibilities:

Direct and oversee all IT infrastructure and application projects to ensure project delivery on-time and within budget.
Continuous delivery improvement.
Financial reports, project scorecards, progress, budgets, actuals and commitments, and forecast spend.
Established key KPI's and performance measures for IT management.
Reporting of all IT project portfolio Capital and Expense project budgets, annual budgets, accruals.
IT Project Manager delivering a critical Oracle software development project using Agile / Scrum methods: Inter-company AR & AP Loan transaction to simplify the global accounting process and aging account visibility.
IT vendor management - consolidated software development services and procurement expenses and negotiated a 35% reduction in monthly costs.

Confidential

MANAGER, IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE

Responsibilities:

Successfully delivered a portfolio of 74 IT infrastructure and application projects resulting in a business value of $94 million in one year.
Ensured consistent and predictable outcomes through project management best practices.
Delivered a $24 million dollar on-schedule the strategic M&A program to split Confidential into two companies
Increased IT organizational throughput delivery capacity 150%. Drove the PMO continuous process improvement to identify opportunities, root cause analysis, and proactively engaged stakeholders to satisfy business expectations.
Developed a demand management SharePoint site to capture and track all business proposals from project sponsors.
Engaged in project activities from start-up, defining the overall project scope and major milestones, project planning, creating the timeline, establishing stakeholder expectations and building a stakeholder partnership, identifying risks and dependencies and developing solutions, testing (Functional, Integration, UAT, PROD), stakeholder communications, production deployment, post production support, and closing.
Successfully delivered a major $6.3 million dollar global Oracle ERP 11i to R12.2.3 upgrade that was delivered on-schedule in nine months, on-budget, and fully operational after the production deployment.

Confidential

IT&S CTO PORTFOLIO MANAGER

Responsibilities:

Portfolio analyst (CTG contractor) for the Track & Trace Program at Confidential IT&S Chief Technology Office (CTO) Innovative business solutions through technology.
Successfully delivered $130+ million in business value.
Project portfolio strategy planning and proposal prioritization.
Quantitative analysis of investment opportunity selection based on NPV, cost/benefits, and financial risk modeling of aggregated risk, technical risk, delivery risks, financial risk, and company exposure risk to facilitate maximizing business value.

Confidential

SR. MANAGER IT PMO

Responsibilities:

Responsible and accountable to improve the delivery capability of the IT projects and programs.
Successfully developed and delivered a project management training program to improve the delivery capability, improve stakeholder communication, set required documentation expectations, Key Performance Indicators, and establish a standardized the way of working.
Developed the Confidential program management methodology and standards aligned with PMI and NEAF / TOGAF.
Presentations at the 23rd IPMA World Congress, June 2009 on "Risk Management in Information Technology"

Confidential

DIRECTOR OF PROJECT SERVICES

Responsibilities:

Independent consultant providing Information Technology project and risk management consulting and training services in the EMEA Financial Services industry.
Clients Included: Confidential, Confidential pharmaceuticals, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, and Confidential .
Project Management Institute (PMI) Information Systems SIG Director of Communications.
Developed a direct marketing and advertising strategy and goals to increase value for the 14,000 members, create a professional industry image.
Awarded the "SIG of the Year" (2004) from PMI for outstanding leadership. P/L responsibility.

Confidential

SENIOR IT PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

Managed numerous software development and infrastructure projects and responsible for all customer recovery products, developing and implementing process improvements resulting in direct annual savings exceeding $170 million dollars.
Clarity, Plainview PPM tools, and Rapid Application Development methods.
Received the corporate "Customer Experience" award in 1999, Silver Star Award in 2000 & 2001

Confidential

UNIX AND NETWORKS

Responsibilities:

Subject Matter Expert on the RS-6000 "AIX UNIX Networking & Communications" IBM's Global Solution Developers Organization.
Consulted with client development teams to resolve issues: UNIX OS, networking, and 'C' software applications, TCP, IP, security, distributed network topologies, Ethernet, LAN, WAN.
Awarded "Best Site Manager" of the year in 1998 and responsible for managing 16 technical experts.
Published technical briefs in the 3rd qtr. 97, 4th qtr. 97, and 3 qtr. 98, "IBM's AIXPERT magazine".

Confidential

UNIX ADMINISTRATION

Responsibilities:

UNIX Administration of HP clustered systems supporting over 280 global data centers in the world-class global logistics and distribution organization.