SUMMARY

• Results - driven project manager with 17 years proven success in business process improvement, operational transformation, and project management of strategic initiatives. Creates revenue growth and cost containment by instilling a culture of continuous improvement. Maintains flexibility and team performance under high-pressure and changing situations.
• Solid background successfully managing large, complex projects.
• PMI-certified project manager who addresses significant business gaps. Relationship builder who quantifies benefits across the organization to ensure buy-in of stakeholders.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Managing International Teams Team Building Change Management Team Leadership
• Vendor Oversight Cost Control Risk Management Organizational Awareness
• Matrix Organizations Problem Solving Client Relations Strategic Planning

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Planview
• ABT
• MS Project
• Microsoft Office Suite

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Denver, CO

Responsibilities:

• Leading US local phone provider, serving about 10 million access lines in a 14-state region. Confidential customers consists of nearly 3 million broadband Internet subscribers and about 1.7 million wireless and video subscribers
• Managed multiple IT projects and programs for Finance, Billing, Legal, Payment, Security, and Human Resources departments. Successfully delivered projects with budgets ranging from $100K to $7 million, and having 25 to 640 employee resources plus contractors and outside vendors. Managed dissimilar teams dispersed across the continental US, Europe, and Asia.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated and negotiated conflicting development, test and release schedules for several vendors and 25 internal applications resulting in deliveries that met client time and quality expectations.
• Successfully integrated an international team of clients, vendors, development and test teams in the US, Asia, Denmark and Lithuania.
• Delivered the Outsourcing Project $300K under budget through strict and detailed requirement management, changes, resources and contracts.

Confidential

Intake Manager

Responsibilities:

• Reduced new project intake time from 3 months to 10 days.
• Streamlined seven months of project backlog into a meaningful prioritization.
• Orchestrated resource assignments, high-level requirement gathering, initial Rough-Order-of-Magnitude (ROM) estimates and assignment of permanent resources to initiate and develop the project.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead the initial integration of the Confidential ordering and billing systems with internal systems.
• Managed interdependency testing and release planning/timing for 55 internal applications, three vendors and Confidential .
• Delivered revenue stream of $1.4 M per year through the successful on time and under budget delivery of the new Confidential interface.

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Re-factored priorities and deliverables from the original scope definition to focus on precise and controlled program delivery.
• Established program control through improved decision making processes to include stakeholder input.
• Reduced cost by identifying and correcting erroneous contractual payments and hourly labor charges.
• Improved communications and reporting of sub-projects allowing for the early identification and correction of serious issues.

Confidential

IT Project Manager II

Responsibilities:

• Delivered multiple projects within cost and schedule expectations that accommodated Confidential order entry systems and re-brand in-house services and billing systems for seamless transition to Confidential customers.
• As first tier escalation contact for Confidential 's IT Help Desk, ensured Confidential Service Level Agreements were adhered to.

Confidential, Greenville, SC

Responsibilities:

• World's largest professional services company providing engineering, procurement, construction and maintenance expertise, as well as project management services on a global basis.

Confidential, Denver, CO

Responsibilities:

• Developed initial leasing, engineering, procurement, permitting, and construction strategies allowing the efficient start of several hundred telecom construction projects located throughout the continental US.
• Created cost and resource what-if scenarios.
• Confidential Project Management interface seconded to the regional Confidential.
• Responsible for cost and schedule implementation and analysis, estimating and change management for the Western United States Region.

Confidential

Lead Project Controls Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed budget and cost issues.
• Developed and managed engineering, procurement and construction schedules that were integral to meeting all major milestones and contractual obligations.

Confidential

Lead Project Controls Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed engineering, construction, procurement and debug project plans.
• Created and optimized project schedules and spending profiles as to best leverage Irish governmental financial incentives.

Confidential, Denver, CO

Cost/Schedule Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the creation, progress and reporting of decontamination and decommissioning schedules and cost profiles in addition to contamination survey schedules.
• Worked with all management levels to create and maintain manufacturing production schedules.

Confidential, Golden, CO

Lead Program Cost and Planning Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed and integrated engineering, procurement and construction schedules for three $50 million projects.
• Integrated detailed engineering, procurement and construction schedules with 10 vendors.
• Previous responsibilities included Cost Lead for the Major Project Team. Construction planner for Environmental/Waste Management, Construction and Commitment Projects.
• Held Top Secret Security clearance.