SUMMARY:

• Self - motivated and extremely organized individual with specific attention to detail, offering years of experience serving as a project manager in the IT arena.
• Experienced in fostering smooth relationships between the Business and IT teams.
• Superior organizational skills, with proven experience prioritizing work and coordinating multiple project tasks in parallel.
• Expert in documenting and processing project information accurately and efficiently, and at planning, organizing and maintaining project data.
• Ability to multi-task and maintain up-to-date documentation in an ever-changing environment.
• Comfortable in communicating with Executive Management, third party vendors, product SMEs, developers and off-shore resources.
• Well-versed at creating/delivering status reports and project updates to the Executive Management team and other stakeholders.

SKILLS:

Highly effective task planning and prioritizing

Excellent communication skills within tech and business teams

First class problem solver

Excels in chaotic environment

Superior documentation management skills

Team player: does what is needed

Extremely detail: oriented

Strong multi: tasking ability

Commendable time management skills

Reliable, punctual, dedicated

Easily adapts to change

Works well in fast: paced environment

COMPUTER SKILLS: Microsoft Project, Microsoft SharePoint, JIRA, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook, Confluence, Skype, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Flash, Lotus Notes, Documentum, HTML, CSS, Windows and Mac OS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Recruited to help create a Confidential specific approach to employee readiness in the first 30 days on the job, including maintenance of Confidential log, train the trainer activities and
• Manage and execute schedule for all new hires, including composition and release of necessary communications
• Track and report passage of over 400 new hires through the various project gateways, onto completion

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Recruited to execute and manage project documentation and project governance processes for multiple project phases, create and maintain status reports, presentations, risk logs, requirements and specification documentation, manage the governance process with the PMO, coordinating meetings, quality gate updates and reporting within the Confidential 5 project until project completion. Retained as coordinator/administrator for the VISTA 2.0 project.
• Design, manage and execute dealer roll out schedule
• Write and edit and support documentation for Security Administrators, dealer users and home office personnel
• Administer, manage and update project team Confluence site
• Assist in updating JIRA based upon sprint planning sessions. Schedule and participate in Agile sprint activities such as retrospectives, grooming and planning sessions and end of sprint demos.
• Coordinate and conduct events such as the Project Status, Leads and Steering Committee meetings.
• Utilized SAP to monitor and manage project budget line items, submit purchase requisitions, track progress of SOWs and purchase orders.
• Participated in the procurement process utilizing RFPs and Scorecards to determine the best vendors for the requested services.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the coordination, integration and documentation of deployment tasks and data across application development and implementation work streams for distribution of secure printing and printers across 35 different countries, with over 400 locations worldwide.
• Served as point of contact for all program metrics and processes.
• Coordinating with ten to fifteen project managers internationally to track schedules and implementation progress
• Communicate status of milestones and update the appropriate tracking worksheets
• Accumulate information for weekly status reporting such as Confidential logs and resource allocation

Project Coordinator/ Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Recruited to take responsibility for tracking the implementation of key aspects of multiple projects throughout the F1 program for the IT Design Team.
• Provide project management coordination, support, and assistance to Vice President of Business Solutions/IT Design group with tracking project deliverables, dates and tasks
• Work directly with the Business to obtain and compile the project data
• Develop and maintain resource planning documents

Project Coordinator/Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Serve as BMW’s central point of contact with Verizon for all schedule related activities
• Utilize Microsoft Excel to create and maintain an accurate, organized and detailed Project Controls spreadsheet. This spreadsheet consisted of the detailed roll out schedule, contact details and technical data
• Responsible for creating and maintaining project management data including the structuring, baselining, storage and retrieval of data when requested by a project team member
• Serve as project librarian for both project and technical documents, ensuring the integrity of data
• Manage day to day implementation schedule: handle changes, moves and rescheduled cancellations
• Assist with project communications, manage action items and perform issue resolution with Senior Project Manager
• Provide timely and accurate project documentation and reports to vendor when requested by the Senior Project Manager
• Generate regular reports on status of installation schedule, tasks and completed implementations
• Interact with internal and external project team members through written, verbal and in-person methods

Web Administrator/Project Coordinator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Held requirements gathering sessions with customer to ascertain project requirements in order to capture and understand needs
• Created business requirements specification, reviewed with stakeholders and obtained sign off
• Served as the liaison between the development team and interpreted technical terminology for the less technically minded
• Created, organized and managed content release schedule within Microsoft Excel and proprietary Content Management System (CMS)
• Edited and coded text for HTML and PHP pages
• Performed QA testing of changes prior to propagating to the website.
• Provided support for the development team throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Supported all website development and maintenance activities

Web Administrator - Owner

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Started business which developed and ran a successful affiliate program where webmasters were aligned with advertisers in order to generate click-thru traffic for the advertiser.
• Met very aggressive goals set for delivery of website updates.
• Wore multiple hats in this role such as, developer, content writer/reviewer and editor of the sales-oriented web pages.
• Prepared bills and invoices, as well as budgetary and progress reports
• Tracked website related issues and coordinated necessary actions for timely resolution
• Developed graphical images for emails, display advertising, and website images