SUMMARY

Solutions - oriented professional IT consultant who excels at managing projects, collaborating with project teams, interfacing with clients and stakeholders, deploying technology to build successful solutions for clients on time. Self-motivated achiever with over 15 years project management and IT consulting experience, focusing on web-based, client/server, COTS and full lifecycle software development/customization projects, as well as providing technology solutions from requirements-gathering through to implementation and support. Team builder and “big picture” thinker, juggling multiple tasks in high-pressured environments; strong communicator who maximizes productivity and team spirit.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Software Life Cycle Management
• Software Engineering
• Vendor Management
• Project Management/Consulting
• Matrix Management
• Process & Performance Improvement
• Technical Team Building
• Team Leadership/Motivation
• Cost Reduction & Profit Optimization
• Strategic Planning / P&L Management
• Earned Value Management
• Budget Forecast/Savings

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential Holding, Gathesburg MD

Sales Project Consultant

• Responsible for managing, monitoring and controlling day-to-day Functional Aspects of Confidential in-home consultations utilizing Confidential Sales Force Automation software and complete Ten Step Selling Process in order to achieve required performance expectations
• Develop and maintain product technical and selling skills competence within defined product categories
• Daily strategize in the attainment of the projected personal sales goals by building knowledge, skill and capabilities around sit ratios, conversion percentages, Ten Step Selling Process, dollar-per-lead attainment and close rate
• Analyze stakeholders needs and expectations and capture the project requirements as completely as possible
• Work with team members to create the WBS and estimate the project baseline
• Establish priorities and negotiate contracts, identify risks and provide timely review and reassessment of project risk to correct deviations from performance baselines and field evaluations to mitigate them and builds capabilities around profitable sales
• Prepare and present status reports, communicating clearly and effectively (both orally and in writing) with stakeholders and others

Confidential Script Inc, Franklin Lakes, NJ/St Louis, MO

Application Project Manager - Systems Retirement and Data Archiving Project

• Responsible for managing, monitoring and controlling day-to-day Functional Aspects of Application Project Plans along with oversight and scheduling of application work interfacing with vertical managers and other customers and stakeholders;
• Provide guidance and directions, achieving contract goals and objectives.
• Conduct formal and Management reviews as well as coordination of resource requests;
• Create WBS to develop scope estimates and maintains the scope and work plans for the project
• Tracks project action items to ensures proper status reporting for project including team members status
• Facilitates, develops, maintain and/or baselines project plans and track till successful delivery
• Identifies and disposes project risk and/or issues, monitor quality of contact work;
• Coordinate work product for projects, responsible for project deliverables
• Facilitate project meeting, effectively communicating status to stakeholders

Confidential Ventures, Upper Marlboro, MD

Project Manager

• Responsible for day to day operating activities interfacing with customers
• Led requirements gathering sessions used to form a high level conceptual model to determine hardware, software for a CRM system to support corporate sales and marketing efforts.
• Map out deliverables from requirements, managed workflow to achieve project objectives and milestones. Built and managed successful client relationships, ensuring all business needs meet clients satisfaction.
• Identifying project risks finding solutions, mitigating risks
• With the use of vTiger 5.1 CRM(Sales Force) software, track sales leads and potentials; analyze sales pipelines and analytics dashboards and reports using Business Objects; Prepare/present status and reports showing progress for customer and management review
• Monitors team work to ensure on time delivery within budget, participating in customer meetings and resolving project issues
• Develop strategic plans, identifying new business opportunities, prepare sales training manual; conduct sales and marketing training, mentoring new sales executives
• Develop schedules, determine project team assignments, monitoring quality of work, providing support to team members as necessary
• Develop and mentor staff, closing identified gaps during regular staff appraisals;Motivate staff, determine salary changes, bonuses etc

Confidential Company, Lagos/London/Bonny

Enterprise Ar chitect/Project Manager - Implementation for dWISE™ Project

Project: Installation, Data Migration and conversion, Implementation and Training for dWISE™ HR management software solution.

• Responsible for and facilitated all aspects of project management including the definition of project mission, goals, tasks, scope, schedule, resource requirements, budget, risk, quality, HR, communication management and project documentation. Involved with analysis and requirements gathering. Creation of Statement of Work(SOW), work breakdown structure(WBS),quality assurance plan(QAP) including migration strategy, estimates and timelines for successful migrating dWISE software(PowerBuilder/Java).
• Actively participate in the overall system and support: Extract data from the existing SQL Server and other disparate data sources; Importing the data into Oracle database and schema. Reworking MS SQL to Oracle SQL compliance and Migration of stored procedure code into PL/SQL. Tuning Oracle database.
• Maintained relationships with several stakeholders and cross functional resources, both internal and external and within multi-disciplinary teams coordinating project phases(SDLC) including requirements gathering, design, development, unit and system testing, data migration, UAT, and operational turnover. Build coalitions and obtain buy-ins from project stakeholders and recommend/manage resource allocation, negotiate authority to move the project forward..
• Championed the identification of process risks; Facilitate decision meetings to inform and advise project team members, business team and senior management of actions required; Proactively achieved timely mitigation of the risks associated with information and IT assets through appropriate standards and security policies.
• Select, mentor and motivate project/implementation team members conducting reviews and promoting mutual trust, standards and best practices as well as resolve conflicts, creating a sense of belonging and ownership among them to accomplish work objectives. Document client issues and conduct user education as it pertains to new Business Information development and maintenance