SUMMARY:

• Innovative, results driven Project Manager with 15+ years’ experience collaborating with diverse businesses while managing medium to large software development, application integration and data migration projects. Proven ability to successfully manage multi - million-dollar budgets with deep experience overseeing global employee and contract resources and directing merger and acquisition projects for HW/SW/Systems.
• Leverage high energy and refined organizational talents to lead teams in development of software, resulting in increased productivity and customer satisfaction. Excellent communicator and collaborator, demonstrating strengths in project/resource management, financial performance, customer solution delivery, CRM/ERP implementation, and legacy system data migrations.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Project Management
• Vendor & Resource Management
• Budget Planning & Financial Management
• Leadership & Team Building
• Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid Methodologies & SDLC
• O365 Migrations
• Cloud (AWS) Platform Migrations
• Leadership Communications
• Platform Operations Management
• Business Requirements Analysis
• PMO Development and Governance
• ServiceNow Upgrades and Application Integration

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Agile
• Waterfall and Hybrid
• User Interface (UI)
• Agile - Scrum Projects application development
• SDLC
• User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Google Suite
• Planisware
• Clarity
• Smartsheet’s
• Microsoft Office
• O365
• ServiceNow
• MS Project
• Visio
• Experience working with SAP and Workday
• PMO - helped develop PMO at Confidential
• Confidential and Confidential

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Kalamazoo, MI

Senior Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Implemented new PMO process for Global Genetics Team
• NGP Beef (New Genetics Order Processing) - Leading the projects activities along with our vendor partner in developing the new customer order entry solution for all Genetic Beef requests. Supports $25-30m annual order revenue.
• BBE (Beef Blockchain Ecosystem) - Leading the project activities and managing our development partner to create new Blockchain based - supply chain lifecycle of newborn calf’s, through breeding, processing, and packaging supply chain. This solution will capture key genetic / prediction data throughout the animal’s lifecycle - “Farm to Market”

Confidential, Allegan, MI

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed Merger and Acquisition (M&A) of Ranir, Inc’s ERP system integration (MS Dynamics) into current SAP ERP at Confidential .
• Oversee all Data Migration activities including extensive ETL iterations and managing user acceptance / data validation activities.
• Supervise all project and resource management operations including budget management and leadership communications.

Confidential, Benton Harbor, MI

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Portfolio: Implementation of Global Multi-factor Authentication for all Confidential employees (80,000 worldwide), PCI Compliance Solution at all Call Centers (North America, Mexico and Europe), Enhancement of RSA Archer (Risk Recon) integration, Initiation of CI project to improve CMDB (Asset Management), Mitigate System / Network Vulnerabilities (Cyber Threats) and develop PC, Laptop and Server Patching to limit vulnerabilities / Cyber Attacks. Cloud Migrations - Premise to AWS for Confidential cloud migration strategy, SAP GRC, Success Factors Upgrades, ServiceNow upgrades, and application integration.
• Enhanced PMO's project process approval process, instituting procedure improvements to expedite presentation and amplify project approvals help.
• Directed resource procurement process (Physical, Virtual and Human) that included RFP's, SOW’s, PO’s and Invoice Management as well as vendor assessment and management.

Confidential, Holland, MI

Manager Data Management Services

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded Oracle upgrade project from version 8 to version 12 for all data centers.
• Boosted operational performance from 95% to 99% resulting in amplified system up-times for four years.
• Managed Global SW licensing including maintenance fees for Oracle valued at $1.6M annually and IBM valued at $4.2M annually.
• Decreased fees by 50% over 2 years (IBM and Oracle) and saved $50M+ in potential license fines.

Confidential, Holland MI

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Executed delivery of development projects constituted of 1200+ hours within four to six months.
• Created Confidential 's first global mobile applications - Solutions won annual Frost and Sullivan - Mobility in Manufacturing Award.
• Held previous role as Team Lead (Software/Application Development- Web based Intelligence)

Confidential, Holland, MI

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed team delivering software and application development and business intelligence reporting solutions. Executed web and business intelligence reporting development including, data modeling, ETL, load scheduling, and Performance Monitoring.
• Developed user interfaces, gathering data and managing business processes while implementing dashboard reporting solutions for real-time assessment of manufacturing and financial KPI's.
• Procured and scheduled resource staffing for all projects, focusing on timeous and financially viable implementations. Directed onshore and offshore technical resources team comprised of 25-30 members while corresponding with management to deliver status reports.