Program Director Resume
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Austin, TX
SUMMARY:
- Senior Leader with Powerful Contributions and Proven Success In IT Operations Project Management High - impact IT and operations innovator, leading the way to “best practices” and providing the training that unlocks results.
- Develop exceptional technical and business solutions on a process, team, and business unit level.
- Transform performance and profit with industry-leading PMI, ITIL, and Agile knowledge.
- Deliver hands-on leadership backed by an outstanding record of project performance, turnarounds, and high-value account rescues.
- Industry insight from demanding government and Fortune 500 engagements, ensuring excellent operational outcomes on tight timelines and budgets.
- Providing expertise for critical “bottom line” functions including ...
- Vendor Relations Cost Reduction Budgeting & Financial Analysis
- Restructuring Process Improvement Internal Controls
- Team Leadership Risk Management Workforce Planning
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Austin, TX
Program Director
Responsibilities:
- Managed, motivated, and led a team of 130 resources, with full profit-and-loss, forecasting, and Wall Street guidance for the Confidential .
- Provided executive oversight for the Financial Service Center as part of improvement and strategy for the Confidential .
- Supervised Austin Information Technology Center.
- Revitalized the Confidential, which had been operating at a loss, and grew it by 24 employees. Today, unit is a consistent, sustainable profit engine—and staff size has reached an optimal 130 FTEs.
- Improved efficiency and outcomes by adapting Agile and SCRUM methodologies to work effectively with existing PMAS and ProPath methodologies. Trained and led IT teams in blended development.
- Reduced waste and provided valuable business intelligence to executive team by streamlining and quantifying monthly profit-and-loss reporting and forecasting. Saved hours, improved accuracy and reduced data entry.
- Analyzed and streamlined on-boarding to reduce time to billable hours 80% for new hires, cutting the average time to an unprecedented 8 days and optimizing the PIV background clearance requirements.
Confidential, Warner Robins, GA
Senior Program Manager
Responsibilities:
- Led multiple teams of up to 40 specialists total to realize a portfolio of critical defense infrastructure projects at military and government sites across the country.
- Accountable for timely realization of robust deliverables in challenging work environments.
- Controlled budgets and acted as communication hub for all stakeholders.
- Led team of 36 contracted and subcontracted personnel for installation, maintenance and support of base telecom system with a 26k user community.
- Developed, reported, and corrected metrics.
- Authored, delivered and trained to quality control and security plans.
- Created and disseminated performance plan and lessons learned on a monthly basis.
- Raised SLA response rate to 99% (3 days), a 33% improvement over the previous standard, 2 months.
- Accepted and completed government backlog of 485 work orders in addition to 4,400 current orders.
- Prepared staffing organization approach, created basis of estimate for cost and pricing volume of proposals.
- Devised “Program Management Approach” section and supported the proposal projects through development of WBS, RLN, and QRAM.
- Led 25 local contractors to retire 85+ applications from service on a variety of architecture platforms.
- Simultaneously managed 45+ dispersed contract resources while migrating 93 applications from obsolete technology to advanced Technical and Reference Architecture Platforms.
- Led team to institute and maintain the JAVA/J2EE Web-based AFSAS Mishap Repository.
- Directed implementation of Agile/SCRUM methodologies in CCMI Level 3 environment.
- Reported progress in monthly Internal Project Review (IPR) presentation to government peers, project stakeholders, and Confidential executive leadership.
- Recovered $1.3M GTX project from “Red” status to Green by end of Construction phase within budget.
- As Chief Training Officer, salvaged firm’s largest ($22M), oldest account by re-training 40+ employees.
Confidential, Irving, TX
Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Experienced rapid promotion after high-impact success developing new promotional discount software for invoice processing department.
- Entrusted with team leadership and later chosen to lead, design, implement, operate, and shut down Vendor Alliance Management PMO.
- Oversaw $110M budget, created IT infrastructure processes, and trained 200+ dispersed staff, managers, and executives.
- Developed and rolled out Earned Value Management System according to ANSI.EIA 748-98A EVMS.
