SUMMARY

• PMP Certified Project Manager.
• Over Sixteen years of Project Management, Business Analysis, Risk Management and IS Compliance experience in the areas of Enterprise Wide Solutions and Client support.
• Extensive business, financial and managerial experience in the evaluation and application of upcoming computer technologies to improve business operations.
• Building and defining cross functional business processes
• Effective in building and directing teams to achieve targeted objectives and process improvements.
• Work well in liaison functions at all levels of management.
• Possess a record of accomplishments that reflects a strong business and profit orientation.
• Provide cross functional leadership and technical support to Systems, Initiatives and Work Streams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Management Tools: MS Office, MS Project, Visio, Rational Rose, Enterprise Architect

Methodologies & Frameworks: RUP, Waterfall, ITIL, COBIT 5, SCRUM, AGILE, SDLC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Manager / Bus Sys Analyst/IS Risk Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Define project management strategies to achieve project goals from concept, design through implementation
• Review Request for Proposals and evaluate bids.
• Evaluating vendors and ensuring the vendor meets the requirements criteria.
• Work with and lead cross functional teams in creating the vision, mapping the workflow, identifying solutions, budget management, change control process, managing project teams, testing and implementation of systems.
• Perform Cost - Benefit analysis on new projects.
• Manage project teams, vendors and consultants associated with projects.
• Manage the R&D IS Operation Council Meetings and activities to ensure minimal impact to business in regards to changes, releases, upgrades and maintenance activities.
• Map Business Critical Processes to Key IS Systems and ensure Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Plans are in place.
• Lead project teams to ensure that project goals, specifications and key milestones are achieved on time and within budget
• Review and approve detailed project schedules, estimates and budgets
• Oversee the knowledge transition of projects on implementation to the operations team
• Manage department budget and resource planning for IT Services and project implementation.
• Analyze data for reports and metrics.
• Prepare yearly, 3 years and 5 years forecast for department projects and budgets.
• Provide Metrics for key process.
• Provide guidance and improvement in the operations area.
• Facilitate at Steering Committees and Steering Councils in decision making across various functions.
• Evaluate Processes and identify gaps. Focus on continual process improvement
• Defined systems scope and objectives based on both user needs and business needs.
• Initiated and defined strategic goals to improve the business process, implemented planning and project tracking (pre and post launch), identified problems and brought resolution.
• Worked with cross-functional teams to develop and implement business solutions.
• Gathered and interpreted User Requirements across Business Units to develop clear and concise systems across Business Units.

Project Manager/Global Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Defined systems scope and objectives based on both user needs and business needs.
• Initiated and defined strategic goals to improve the business process, implemented planning and project tracking (pre and post launch), identified problems and brought resolution.
• Worked with cross-functional teams to develop and implement business solutions.
• Gathered and interpreted User Requirements across Business Units to develop clear and concise systems across Business Units.
• Identified gaps between Business Processes and software and provided work a rounds to meet the Business Processes requirements.
• Analyzed Business Processes for the implementation of Best Practices for the Facility Center project across all Global R&D sites in USA and Europe.
• Subject Matter Expert on Global Applications.
• Facilitated in providing a smooth flow of information across locations, divisions, processes, people, and projects that enabled Centralized Control of data.
• Compiled Test Plans, Functional and Technical Specifications to meet FDA requirements (21 CFR Part 11).
• Developed, reviewed and approved Use Cases, Test Plans, Test Scripts, Test Summaries, and Test Procedures and maintained Test Data across global sites. Ensured the Test Documents met the QA expectations.
• Managed data evaluation and data migration of Assets, Property and Organization.
• Evaluated and Analyzed COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) tools to meet customer needs.
• Analyzed new software for replacing and decommissioning of Legacy Systems.
• Oversee the retirement of legacy systems, data storage and data conversion.

Team Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Served as Business Unit Readiness Consultant and Lead Contact for assigned schools, offices and user-groups at the University of Michigan for the roll out of the People Soft HRMS module.
• Performed gap analysis for the new PeopleSoft HRMS system including analyzing user needs and requirements.
• Provided solutions for the smooth flow of university operations by understanding the business systems and identify potential problematic issues and areas.
• Ensured completion of action items by appropriate team members.
• Accelerated implementation by assisting the project leadership with the creation of multiple project schedules to reflect changes in project goals, dependencies, assumptions, timing and constraints.
• Managed client expectations and projects including monitoring tasks and post implementation follow-up plans.