SUMMARY:

Senior IT Project Manager & Transformation Leader with extensive professional experience in Waterfall and Agile methodologies, Lean Six Sigma (L6S), cross - functional team leadership, and strategic change management for international transformations. Tactical and process-driven Scrum master with a record of building effective teams capable of carrying out global data conversions by leveraging advanced, cloud-based technologies and SaaS and IaaS delivery methods. Collaborative leader adept at coordinating internal and external stakeholder across an array of industries to achieve program success.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Change Management
• Business Intelligence (BI)
• Strategic Management
• Waterfall &Agile Methods
• Digital Transformation (DT)
• IT Project Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw a multimillion-dollar strategic business transformation project related to infrastructure and data transfer migration, facilitating the transition from Waterfall to Agile and Scrum methodologies that consequently enabled global executive directives to be delivered on time.
• Helped turnaround a fledgling project, bringing on a new team to define project scope, standardize project components, develop the demo, and lay the foundation for future releases.
• Instilled a team that previously had minimal Agile and Scrum exposure with the skills necessary to implement a successful Agile program.
• Monitored and secured Agile and Waterfall environments.
• Coordinated closely with an array of stakeholders, including external vendors, to develop an effective transformation project roadmap that upheld data integrity and eased data transfer.
• Maintained statement of work (SOW) adherence, training vendors and employees to determine and convey the current system configuration while outlining an optimal end result for the project.
• Successfully managed resource constraints, scheduling, and budgetary matters, thereby enabling a largescale database conversion, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) transformation, and the realization of optimized dashboards and infrastructure monitoring tools.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior Consultant - Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with vendors across multiple industries to design and implement a largescale infrastructure solution, consolidating remote data centers into a single, central location that facilitated the transition from an outdated data management system to a virtual cloud environment.
• Leveraged IaaS and SaaS delivery strategies to deploy a cloud-based architecture into a service-oriented architecture (SOA) environment.
• Conducted networking analyses to assess and determine the ideal transformation approach; maintained compliance with regulations and industry standards, including HIPAA and PCI DSS.
• Ensured that the solution was compatible with the preexisting procurement process.
• Upheld operations readiness and assurance, preparing the system for launch by standardizing the requisite security tools and utilizing Lean methodologies such as Kanban techniques.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior Consultant - Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Developed and instituted a PCI DSS security tokenization method for cardholder authentication and end-to-end payment processing, acting as the primary resource for the project management office (PMO) in charge of up to 10 project managers (PMs) to ensure successful program implementation.
• Compiled metric data into dashboards that facilitated executive steering committee meetings.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior Information Technology (IT) Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Devised and implemented programs for Confidential ’s emerging technology division, utilizing Lean Sig Sigma (L6S) principles to execute projects related to infrastructure, e-commerce, and data warehousing.
• Migrated and consolidated e-Pay and e-Security Oracle database servers into a Real Application Clusters (RAC) environment, directing an infrastructure team to execute the transition and augment server performance.
• Improved the infrastructure to support 100K e-Payment transactions per hour for more than $6M in monthly electronic payments and improved SLA performance.
• Carried out electronic data interchange (EDI) for marketing campaigns; oversaw comparative data analysis.
• Received recognition on various occasions for innovation in process optimizations.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Project Manager| Retail Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed Confidential Business Enterprise projects that utilized service quality application and business intelligence (BI) data to develop metric data and negotiate SLAs to strategic business customers.
• Contributed to and helped execute large conversion projects related to retail, billing, and network projects, managing architecture flow, requirements, development, end-to-end testing, and implementation.
• Carried out enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects, ensuring that the latest technology was implemented within ERP systems and priced correctly for retail locations.