SUMMARY

With over 25 years of experience in project management, which includes project planning, requirements gathering, funding proposals, cost-benefits analysis, cost estimations, risk management, stakeholder and change management. As part of my responsibilities was financial forecasting and progress reporting. I have extensive experience with managing multi-million dollar complex projects while utilizing project management tools and working with a number of formal methodologies. Led Project Management Office PMO team that developed and implemented methodology effort within IT organizations. Possesses excellent communication and leadership skills.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

TECHNICAL SKILLS

TRAINING AND CERTIFICATIONS

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential,

Sr. Project Manager

• Managed a blended both client and consultant team of Window 7 deployment coordinators in a hospital system
• Responsible for managing complex, ever-changing device deployment schedules across numerous facilities
• Led the deployment of virtual device deployments in a second hospital system
• Work with client's senior management to address issues
• Managed the deployment scheduling for the locations in both hospital systems
• Mentor team members
• Reported status to the executive level in the client
• Internally conducted PMP certification training, and standardized PM processes

Confidential

Assigned General Motor, Sr. Project Manager

• Managed various size application development projects and programs for General Motors.
• Developed and managed resource allocations for both projects, and programs.
• Managed multi-matrix organizations including vendors and sub-contractors.
• Oversaw financial budgets including managing monthly forecasts.
• Worked with the PMO assisting on processes and procedures.
• Use GM enAble as the project management methodology.

Confidential,

Sr. Project Manager

• Managed various size projects and programs for a client of Verizon Business services which include cloud computing, disaster recovery systems, and web based development.
• Implemented two disaster recovery systems, which consisted of deploying servers, network, san, databases, and applications.
• Managed the financial budget including developing forecasts.
• Developed and managed resource allocations for both projects, and programs.
• Managed multi-matrix organizations including vendors and sub-contractors.

Confidential

Assigned to Ford Motor Company, Sr. Project Manager

• Managed multiple projects in the BOM Foundation BOMF program at Ford to migrate multiple BOMs into one Bill of Material database that interfaced to multiple applications.
• Oversaw the financial budget including developing forecasts monthly.
• Using the PMO tool Clarity to provided weekly reports to management.
• Managed multi-matrix organizations including vendors and sub-contractors.
• Mentored a PMP study group of Ford Employees.

PMO Advisors, LLC President/Founder

• Created a Web portal for project management which contains templates, processes, procedures, training, and governance.
• Marketed the product to different companies in the Detroit area.
• Conducted Project Management training classes for companies.
• Conducted MS Project training for different individuals and companies
• Taught PMP Certification classes.

Confidential

Assigned to GMAC, Sr. Project Manager

• Managed the migration of 11,000 business users from Lotus Notes to Outlook 2003. Used SDP R10 methodology from the planning through construct /test phases.
• Managed the financial budget and presentations to senior management for approvals.
• Using the PMO tool Clarity with Open Workbench provided monthly reports to the PMO.
• Made status presentations to Senior Management VP Level on bi-weekly basis.
• Managed multi-matrix organizations including vendors and sub-contractors.

Confidential,

Sr. Project Manager

• Managed a project for the actuarial group to implement an off-the-shelf rating engine for new and renewal business positioning the company's competitive position in the industry.
• Led JAD session with the actuarial groups to develop the business requirements.
• Integrated PM methodology into company's processes.
• Weekly presentations to stakeholders, the client and the vendor.

Confidential,

Sr. Project Manager

• Managed to successful completion the development of a repository using SharePoint technology, for the storage of the Compuware's intellectual property and the information for the sales team.
• High visibility project Minimized cost by utilizing on bench consultants to implement project in a compressed timeframe and at minimum cost and exceeding expectations.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager PMO

• Oversaw the introduction and integration of project management methodologies into IT.
• Directed, designed and provided content to develop the Corporate PMO Web Portal.
• Defined an IT Governance plan to monitor, measure, and support all projects.
• Instructor for PM methodology, and MSP Enterprise and responsible for all class content.
• Subject Matter Expert for the Capability Maturity Model Integrated CMMi Level 2 Certification implementation.

Short Term Contract Work

Confidential -

Senior Project Manager - Contracted through COMSYS

• Managed six complex projects using Method/1 within the organization.
• Served as advisor to the PSO Project Support Office as well as the PMO.

Confidential -

Methodology Consultant

• Developed, implemented and maintained the project management practice / PMO.
• Developed and authored marketing, best practices, and project management-training materials.

Confidential -

Manager

• Developed a PMO for the Central Region of Commerce One.
• Mentored the PMO leadership and staff, SME for the Ann Arbor location for all project and program management, including Rational Unified Process RUP .

Oracle Corporation

Confidential,

Program Director

• Managed the first implementation of the Oracle 11i suite using AIM 3.0 methodology.
• Had weekly session with the VP of CRM development in Oracle.

Confidential,

Program Director

• Developed and managed the overall project for a large insurance company that was implementing CRM OSC Oracle Sales Compensation and HR on Rel. 11.
• Developed courses for project/program management and mentored project leads.
• Developed and deployed a standard toolkit for use by all project / program managers.

Confidential,

Program Director

Managed a 6.5m ERP implementation for multiple locations in Canada and the US.

Took this troubled project from the brink of litigation to successful completion.

Corporate Staff, Project Manager

Multiyear project consisted of the consolidation of 60 separate instances into one global single instance.

EDS

Operational Sponsor,

Collaborated with sales executives as an operational sponsor for sales pursuits of Call Centers, Desktop Deployments, System Administration, and LAN/WAN Deployments with revenue in excess of 50m.

Confidential

Project Manager

• Managed a project that consolidated 11 different Truck locations to a single Truck Product Center TPC that housed almost 4000 people, valued at 60 million.
• Directed the activities of 12 project managers with teams of 25 people for this consolidation, who were responsible for the installation of CAD, and PC Servers, Unix Engineering and PC Desktops, telecommunication and construction of a data center.

Confidential

Managed various different projects for Truck and Bus, assigned be the C4 deployment manager. The projects ranged between 1 million to 5 million dollars in size.