Senior Project Manager Resume

SUMMARY

An accomplished, results - orientated professional offering 15 years’ experience in the IT industry with the last 13 years focused on project management, directing complex large-scale projects for numerous international organizations, providing an exemplary track record of success in the leading and mentoring of team members that consistently produced within the time constraints, budget and quality standards.
Confidential with experience in Agile and Prince 2 methodologies aiming to leverage my considerable experience and efficiency at an organization that is surrounded by dynamic and motivated people.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Setting up the special projects team, in terms of resource identification, process and documentation creation, 3rd party vendor agreements, creating standard operating procedures.
Team leader to six staff members as well as mentoring all junior project managers.
Assist in the creation, improvement and development of project office strategies.
Managing multiple million-dollar Wide area network and Local area network projects at any given time.
Negotiating contract and managing vendors through to sign off of services.
Take projects from sales engagement through planning, executing, monitoring and close out.
Carefully orchestrate successful change management and risk management strategies from start to finish on projects.
Construct relevant project documentation including, project plans, project management plans or charters, budgets, cost management plans, Risk registers, change controls, status reports and close out reports.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Sourcing project support partners and vendors for the Cape Town office, including service level agreements and costing.
Creating and implementing performance optimization standards for project team and 3rd party resources.
Managing 3rd party resources and capacity planning for projects. Often working within joint venture project teams.
Deliver solutions to global organization, involving multiple multi-million dollar projects.
Deliver client satisfaction across multiple clients and site operations.
Develop and continue strong relationships with project stakeholders and sponsors.
Reporting directly to the CEO but I was the ultimate decision maker on all operations related activities.
Ability to work independently. Take projects from sales engagement through to final implementation and sign off.
Managing project budgets accurately.
Ability to harness my technical knowledge within the project environments.
Required to relentlessly negotiate with clients, stakeholders, internal staff and 3rd party resources.
Adhering to and often delivering within the strict project deadlines.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Conform to in house methodology, which is built around the AGILE, Confidential and Microsoft dynamics sure step framework.
Leading staff compliment of four, implementing performance measurements and providing mentorship. This included analysts, developers, solution architects and consultants.
Effectively communicate with all stakeholders and project sponsors at all stages of project delivery.
Managing financials, risks, project management plans, change controls, resource scheduling and executive reports on each project.
Managing Multi-site operations.
Implementing team building strategies.
Continuously exercising strong relationship management skills, across project resources and stakeholders.
Ability to work independently.
Because of tight deadlines projects were often stressful environments which required me to be a calming influence on the project resources as well as a creative thinker and problem solver.
I had to be seen as the leader to my team.
Focused supervision of my project resources to ensure the tight deadlines are met.
Ability to exhibit crises management qualities.