Project Manager Resume

SUMMARY

Senior PM with an 20+ year record of successful launching, directing, managing and implementing programs.
Strong skills in business development, managing stakeholder expectations, governance, feasibility, project planning, scheduling, organizing, process tracking, and effective communication and presentation with groups of any size.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Responsible for cost estimating activities
Work with executive management on additional resources needed for efforts in portfolio.
Schedule and facilitate project kick off meetings.
Develop or ensure business and functional requirements are gathered, reviewed and signed off.
Daily engagement with technical team members.
Develop, monitor and track project plan.
Meet weekly with technical and business team members consistently regarding status, risks, issues, action item(s) follow-up, etc.
Schedule, present and lead weekly project stakeholder meetings
Proactively hold risk identification sessions so project team can identify, document and monitor risks that could impede progress.
Ensure the risk and issue logs are managed, updated and corrective actions are taken if necessary.
Provide weekly status reports to the full project team.
Handle all change control process tasks.
Develop or ensure test cases/test scripts were developed and completed. Managed Defect resolution.
Ensure all projects artifacts are stored in the project repository.
Conduct lessons learned session and make sure all project closeout activities are complete.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Facilitated business solution discussions with key stakeholders. Developed business analysis for key stakeholders to review comparisons and decision-making.
Handled contract negotiations, pricing proposals, and other procurement activities.
Handled Cost Estimating and completed Governance items to present in Governance meeting to request project funding.
Managed vendor relationships and monitored contract performance for deliverables.
Led kick off meetings.
Develop or ensure business and functional requirements are gathered, reviewed and signed off.
Developed, monitored, and tracked the project schedule.
Monitored and tracked the project budget.
Scheduled and facilitated weekly meetings with project team
Scheduled and presented project status, risks and issues in key stakeholder meeting.
Loaded or ensured technical resources have loaded user stories into Rally.
Proactively conducted risk identification sessions to identify, document and monitor risks that could impede project progress.
Ensured risk and issue logs were managed; updated and corrective actions were taken if necessary.
Handled all change control process tasks.
Developed and distributed weekly status reports to the full project team.
Worked with the Training Team to ensure all training manuals were developed and provided to users.
Ensured test cases/test scripts were developed, completed and managed defect resolution.
Conduct Lessons Learned session and ensured completion of all project closeout activities.

Confidential

Project Manager| PMO Consultant

Responsibilities:

Developed communication documents.
Provided support and consultation to new and existing Project Managers regarding project communications, specific tasks expected, and PM Process documentation on their projects.
Scheduled and led kick off meetings
Scheduled and led requirement gathering sessions.
Developed use cases from the requirements.
Identified and documented end-to-end business flow to improve process optimization.
Scheduled and facilitated project risk identification sessions for specific projects.
Handled escalation of all critical issues and risks to project leadership and if necessary to senior leadership and communicated the received final feedback to the project core team.
Developed, monitored and tracked project plan
Monitored project budgets.
Facilitated project team status meetings
Led and presented weekly status meetings for executive management.
Developed test cases, test scenarios, scheduled and led test showcase for stakeholders.
Handled all project closure activities.