SUMMARY:

• Experienced IT Project leader in the Retail and Manufacturing industries.
• 12+ years of experience with project, program and portfolio management.
• High involvement in managing IT resources for support, service, and project management.
• Extremely focused on ensuring portfolio delivery across the organization domains, by proactively building customer relationships, as well as customer engagement at all levels of the Organization.
• High experience in managing teams under project management and technical/development areas.
• Highly responsible with direct customer engagement.
• Accountable for the overall planning, budgeting and execution of projects covering all business domains.
• Also accountable for managing large - scale project deployments in order to ensure that change control procedures are properly followed for successful implementations.
• Highly involved with the project teams during deployments.
• Strong knowledge and experience on both Waterfall and Agile methodologies under a matrix organization.
• Experience with Agile processes and principles.
• Strong experience managing projects/programs related to application consolidation due as part of a Mergers & Acquisitions.
• Also, significant experience managing SAP Integration Projects (SAP x Legacy Systems).
• High accountability in managing and monitoring performance of external and off-shore resources, by defining the right policies in alignment with the domestic and international business domains.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Springdale, Arkansas

Senior Project Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Planning, Coordinating and Overseeing multiple SAP projects integrated with Legacy systems and JDA solution.
• As well as ensuring projects are delivered within scope, quality, time and budget requirements.
• Also in charge of the overall use of resources.
• Managing a portfolio of functional and technical projects relating to its SAP systems Integrated with Legacy Systems.
• Working with clients to determine project definition and business requirements.
• Managing client and stakeholder relationships at project level.
• Providing leadership to project teams and clients in a SAP environment.
• Developing work plans and coordinating the activities of the project team and sub-team.
• Managing project planning and scheduling, using MS Project and SAP life cycle methodology. PMO aligned on project governance.

Confidential, Bentonville, Arkansas

IT Manager - Project and Program Delivery

Responsibilities:

• Managed and supported portfolio delivery, including support, service, and project/portfolio management.
• Accountable for the overall planning, budgeting, execution and deployment of projects/portfolios under Confidential ’s Retail and Technology Enablement domains.
• Manage and mentored 20+ project management resources, including project managers, scrum masters, and project teams on Agile adoption.
• Also managed career development goals and plans, performance, and methodologies to support efficient project delivery.
• Managed upcoming project resourcing demand and allocation, identifying business needs to ensure project delivery on budget and on time.
• Accountable for managing and montoring performance of third party suppliers including off-shore resources.

Strategy Applications Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Accountable to lead and support business integration for International markets.
• Acted as liaison between the Confidential technology division and the International Markets (IT and Business teams) organization in identifying and gathering business requirements and process modeling.
• Established an Application Support team, including Development teams for the International Markets.
• Directed and aligned in-country IT strategy with corporate strategy.
• Drove specific country implementation needs based on corporate and regional IT business-planned roadmaps, as well as market requirements.
• Collaboratively aligned with Confidential ’s Finance, Retail, and Techology Enablement domains’ strategies.