SUMMARY:

• Detail and task - oriented energetic Project Manager with a wide range of experience and knowledge in gathering requirements, designing the project plan and schedule, identifying the deliverables,
• Tracking the project through to completion.
• Communicate effectively with both internal and external clients, including high level executives.
• My core competencies include: Project Management, Project Coordination, Process & Procedures,
• Business Analysis, Waterfall, AGILE Development, Key Communicator, Effective Relationship Builder, Presentation Design, Liaison, and Reporting

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

MS Project & Project Server Word Excel PowerPoint Clarity Outlook Lotus Notes SharePoint Planview FileMaker SAP Workflow Visio Maestro Adobe Adobe PRO* Photoshop Edit Host Quality Center DMS JIRA MS Team

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Oak Brook IL

Jr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Co-Manage day-to-day lifecycle (development, delivery, risk/issues, project / testing schedule, reporting and tracking status, resources allocations, and scope) in close collaboration with internal / external business partners. based on changing environment of the project.
• Support Kellogg’s Keebler Brands project team and $20M budget acquisition to Ferrara.
• Support Skype to OS365 and MS Teams conversion. As well as PC Revive Upgrade of 14,000 plus laptops and desktops.
• Facilitate meetings with Key Project Stakeholders to provide a forum for effective communication, including coordinate resource activities, roles, and responsibilities and identify and resolve risks / issues provide detailed contingency plan and communicate to all level of team members.
• 3rd Party Vendor Management/Site Assessments: Collaborate with Procurement, Legal, and Project Team to vet and onboard vendors.
• Prepare Month End Financial Reconciliation in collaboration with Program Manager, IT Finance, Procurement, and vendors to resolve invoicing issues, Budget Actuals, Accruals and Forecast Planning. Track and submit Capital / Expense for Quarterly Capitalization include Assets/Depreciation Management.
• Maintain accurate and complete SharePoint and MS Teams sites for all documentation including pre-implementation and post implementation, schedules, dash board reports, approvals, guidelines. Utilize SAP, Primavera Unifier, and MS Teams daily.
• Provide individual and/or group assistance for modifying reports, dashboards, and scorecards for Project Managers to Senior Management; as well as update process documentation, process maps and business requirements. Submit health reports to portfolio manager and Leadership
• Assist with special projects within and outside of department when required

Confidential, Rolling Meadows, IL

Project Manager Associate

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple Waterfall/Agile project simultaneously in close collaboration with Project Managers, collateral owner, and Legal, client and third-party vendors from kickoff, execution and customer acceptance.
• Work with internal/external team members to help define and manage project lifecycle including gathering business requirements to define functionality of the program and ensure deliverables met client requirements and budget.
• Facilitate daily/weekly status meetings with cross-functional internal/external stakeholders to review and update project and release schedules based on the changing environment; including track risk/issue and provided detailed contingency plan and communicate to all level of team members.
• Prepare Month End Financial Reconciliation in collaboration with Program Manager, IT Finance, Procurement, and vendors to resolve invoicing issues, Budget Actual Accruals and Forecast Planning. Track and submit Capital / Expense for Quarterly Capitalization include Assets/Depreciation Management
• Worked with legal and cross functional teams to ensure campaigns are within legal compliance prior to market release and audit regulations. This includes legal review, internal/external feedback, engage in creative audits/testing and mapping prior to campaign release.
• Maintain accurate and complete database for all documentation including pre-implementation and posted implementation, schedules, dashboard reports, approvals, guidelines and exact number of printed campaigns sent to customers.
• Assisted with special projects within and outside of department when required.

Confidential, Lincolnshire, IL

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with communication and technical consultants, analysts, Web developers, data administrators, and clients building relationships by providing hands on management during design, development, testing, implementation as well as identifying needs, and providing solutions that support business goals.
• Assisted communication lead in gathering business requirements from clients to define functionality of the program and ensure deliverables met client requirements and budget while working within hybrid Waterfall/Agile methodologies for multiple projects simultaneously.
• QA/UAT testing of website to ensure accuracy of content, functionality and ensuring customer vision and requirements are approved. Ensure customer goes thru QC/UAT and approves. Track defects and inconsistencies against marketing material.
• Develop project and testing schedules, manage budgets, coordinate with other practices and outside data vendors, update technical site requirements. Including perform risk management, capacity planning and financial management for various projects that impact internal / external teams.
• Facilitate creative review status meetings with internal/external teams to review issues, site content changes, create action plans, and outline next steps for resolution; including sign off on changes /approvals from stakeholders.
• Main point of communication for third party vendors Bright Cove and Media Morie, who created and hosted Enterprise and Mobile device customer videos.
• Provided individual and/or group assistance for modifying reports, dashboards, and scorecards for Project Managers to Senior Management; as well as update process documentation, process maps and business requirements

Confidential, Deerfield, IL

Sr. Project Coordinator III

Responsibilities:

• Manage day-to-day campaigns within routing system, address inquiries and concerns, and provide feedback to collateral owners to ensure agreed-upon schedules and deliverables are met for HIE, Mobile and Direct Mail campaigns
• Understand the working knowledge of the campaign routings platform to ensure related files are available, accurate and up to date for assigned campaign.
• Communicate across multiple functional teams via weekly/daily meetings providing visibility to stakeholders on campaign release and sprint goals, progress and changes to goals and priorities, as well as issues and risks
• Work closely with internal/external teams providing hands-on management during design, development, testing, and implementation for HIE, Wireframe, and Mobile devices.
• Utilize JIRA to track the development of project progress as well as create dashboards on weekly basis.
• Confirm copy and design align to brand and ensure follows legal and regulatory guidelines.
• Manage multiple Waterfall and Agile project schedules simultaneously in close collaboration with all team members.
• UAT testing review of marketing campaigns websites to ensure accuracy of content, functionality and ensuring customer vision and requirements are approved. Track defects and inconsistencies against marketing material
• Develop process procedures manual for Jr. Marketing Associate which includes UAT testing of process including system, functional, performance, regression and integration testing. (Web, Android and IOS)

Confidential, Oak Brook, IL

Jr. Project Manager / SharePoint Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Co-Manage day - to-day lifecycle (development, delivery, risk/issues, project schedule, reporting and tracking status, resources allocations, scope) in close collaboration with all team and management for two project managers.
• Facilitate status meetings with internal/external teams to review risk/issues, change requests, create action plans, and outline next steps for resolution; manage, review/sign off approvals, update and track issues via SharePoint and Planview.
• Communicates with project sponsors and key stakeholders on project progress on weekly basis. (dashboards/scorecards)
• SharePoint Administrator for team members; including new user-setup, documentation review, material, templates and guidelines. Ensure all project teams utilize the correct process standard forms to pass end of project audits.
• Manage, create and update project schedule based on changing environment of the project; including track risk/issue, and provided detailed contingency plan and communicate to all level of team members.
• Apply best practices and standards in the development of processes, tools and standards for Project and Program Management, or in support of Program Office procedures.

Confidential, Lincolnshire, IL

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with communication and technical consultants, analysts, Web developers, data administrators, and clients building relationships by providing hands on management during design, development, testing, implementation as well as identifying needs, and providing solutions that support business goals.
• Assisted communication lead in gathering business requirements from clients to define functionality of the program and ensure deliverables met client requirements and budget while working within hybrid Waterfall/Agile methodologies for multiple projects simultaneously.
• QA/UAT testing of website to ensure accuracy of content, functionality and ensuring customer vision and requirements are approved. Ensure customer goes thru QC/UAT and approves. Track defects and inconsistencies against marketing material
• Develop project schedule, testing schedule, manage budgets, coordinate with other practices and outside data vendors, update technical site requirements. Including perform risk management, capacity planning and financial management for various projects that impact internal / external teams
• Facilitate creative review status meetings with internal/external teams to review issues, site content changes, create action plans, and outline next steps for resolution; including sign off on changes /approvals from stakeholders.
• Main point of communication for third party vendors Bright Cove and Media Morie, who created and hosted Enterprise and Mobile device customer videos.
• Provided individual and/or group assistance for modifying reports, dashboards, and scorecards for Project Managers to Senior Management; as well as update process documentation, process maps and business requirements.