SUMMARY:

Over 20 years total Project Management and Scheduling/Cost experience managing implementation of projects, including Control Systems, Network, Systems, Application development and Security Operations. Prepared Schedule, Budget and Cost Controls, WBS Coding, Risk Management, PMO, Earned Value Management, Contracts, Quality and Change Management in IT and non - IT environments.

SKILLS SUMMARY:

• Custom Software Development
• System Migrations/Integrations
• Systems Engineering
• Enterprise wide Implementations
• Requirements Analysis - Collection of Data
• Preparing Scope and Project Charter
• Develop Project Plan with resources and work hours
• Costing & Budgeting
• Project Scheduling
• Application Server and Client installation
• Data Logging
• Commissioning & Deployment
• Troubleshooting of application
• Testing/QA/Rollout/Support
• Cross-Functional Supervision
• Team Building & Mentoring
• Client Relations & Presentations
• Business & IT Planning
• Vendor Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Six Sigma Quality Management (ISO 9001) Trained
• Microsoft Project/Primavera
• Global Virtual Teams
• Active Directory
• MS Office
• Knowledge Management - MS Sharepoint / SQL eProcurement
• Special Course & Training for calculation of EBIT - Earned before Income & Tax
• Lean Six Sigma Training
• IT Security
• PMO documentation
• SAP - Project Systems, Finance module
• Scrum team management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Project Management Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Prepare Internal Business cases and/or Charter, identify project scope and deliverables, estimate cost and benefits and calculate financial measures. Evaluate alternative analysis by doing EASOP modelling and get acceptance from stakeholders.
• Provide Level 3/4 estimation of project costs including labor, procurement, resource planning and contingency using tools and guides.
• Build Baseline Schedule and budget with phases like Project Initiation, Design, Execution/Deployment, Monitoring Control and Close out. Track current schedule against baseline.
• Reconcile actual cost data and project budget from SAP. Prepare reports, compile and analyze data.
• Tracks and manages time and cost efforts through activity duration, sequencing, estimating, schedule development and control, resource planning and cost estimating and budgeting and control using formal project management practices.
• Evaluate total and weighted risks and its mitigation, plan Contingency and Change requests on projects.
• Measure KPIs (CPI/SPI/productivity) in Dashboard and calculate Earned Value. Tracks metrics, reporting and administration. Reporting to senior management and stakeholders monthly.

Confidential, Bakerfield, CA

Project Management - Scheduler

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple IT projects and cross functional Scrum teams siting in one room and collaborating,
• Track task status with start and end dates with resource utilization using MS project scheduling software.
• Track tasks / action items / discussion points / issues
• Be able to roll-up multiple projects viz. VOIP, Security Compliance, application Upgrades into department resource use reports.
• Create ticklers to ensure that items are performed by the right people, in the correct order.
• Communicate the ownership of items due and outstanding, resolve mis-understandings, and escalate issues to the project management team.
• Coordinate activities with other team members. Prepared Baseline schedule in MS Project / Primavera P6 software for projects.
• Built Control Budget/Cost table/CTRs/WBS/Cost codes/equipment schedule/ /Work Order documentations
• Develop progress management system with background data from resource loaded Project schedule.
• Prepare/Manage Master schedules and Critical Paths and evaluate alternative schedule options with inputs from PM, disciplines, Sub-contractors and As-sold budget estimate sheet.
• Weekly / monthly Reports using Baseline/Actual S curves, histogram and productivity curves.
• Knowledge of extensive Cost Coding system.
• Evaluate change requests and Risks for engineering work.
• Performed complex Cash Flow Analysis of inflows, outflows, earned values and payment terms. Strong Analytical and Computing skills. Calculation and Analysis of Earned Value and Cost Reports, Forecasting, multipliers, Major Financial / Profitability Ratios and Project Performance Indices (CPI & SPI) using data from project Systems, SAP.
• Demo functional enhancements for key stakeholders.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Project Management Trainer

Responsibilities:

• Taught Project Management Classes, Networking, Programming and Database Classes
• Developed and implemented daily and unit lesson plans for undergraduate Business, Project Management, MIS and Information System classes, administered tests and evaluations, and analyzed student performance.
• Fostered a classroom environment conducive to learning and promoting excellent student/teacher interaction.
• Conducted group/individual reading, math and science activities.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Project Manager (Infrastructure)

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager in the design/development of technology projects involving cabling, VOIP, LAN, Voice, desktops and server setup, migration of data and application scripting.
• Prepared Master Schedule in MS Project. Managed over 35 resources including employees and contractors with a project cost of $ 3.2 millions. Completed project before delivery date resulting in savings of 12% of project cost.
• Merger project involved in migrating legacy Lockbox applications to new RemitOne Systems nationwide from Bank One to Chase environment. Managed scrum teams in both banks. The project involved e-procurement of new laptops/desktops/servers and configuration, building fiber optic networks and creating database.
• Completed project one month before baseline finish date.
• Lead PM to coordinate all aspects of 75 Wall St.NY Office Exit in conjunction with our migration of roles from primary to secondary sites in North America. Included the entire real estate agenda, HR / Contractor agenda, assets/inventory, hold weekly status meetings on progress and provide aggregated reporting to all areas involved.
• Initiate projects in Oracle Accounting and Project Control Systems with Control Budget/Cost table/CTRs/WBS/Cost codes/Work Order documents working with Team Leads.
• Updated Project Systems including MS Project, earned value calculation software, CPI, SPI and configuring accounting package, Enterprise Document Management System, Prepare
• Calculation and Analysis of Earned Value, Financial / Profitability Ratios (EBIT) and Performance Indices (CPI & SPI).

Confidential, Houston, TX

IT Project Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on PMO to improve visibility and insight into project performance and increase Security confidence in planning and improved status reporting based on reliable data.
• Saved costs by instituting proper PM processes for Deer Park Refinery Outages and not taking risky projects and not 'reinventing the wheel' for project processes. Effectively manage changes to ensure deviations are based on a clear understanding of impacts and also manage continuous improvement.
• Interacted with clients on SLAs (Service Level Agreements), CPI, SPI and appropriate contract terms and pricing arrangements for projects to South American countries
• Led Six Sigma projects for process improvement to address quality problems and improve satisfaction ratings in Global Customer Service department. Identified and corrected problems and improved Customer service ratings by 9%.
• Performed in PMO providing services in project controls, enterprise project management, risk and interface management, Knowledge management, contract management and business process/methodology development and implementation. Also worked on Sarbanes-Oxley and security issues.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Project Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Planned, scheduled, implemented and served as Team leader in migration to MS Exchange Server System and NT deployment. MS project software for building schedule. MS Exchange server and Outlook deployment team in Americas and desktop migration. Connected and configured Exchange server systems in Houston to 10 South American countries.
• Coordinate development of project plans and other documents, assignments of tasks to team members, monitoring work efforts on a daily/weekly basis, performing quality reviews, identifying project issues and facilitating resolution.
• Assigned to coach and develop team members
• Involved in implementation of DNS, TCP/IP, DHCP and MX records enterprise wide
• Setup and manage Centralized Administration for NT, Mail (Exchange and Internet Mail) and Backups for WinNT and directory management and content management of website.