PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• A senior information technology project leader directing and coordinating project management activities for all project phases and sprints.
• Performs as Scrum Master and Waterfall project manager.
• Establishes story boards and work plans.
• Outlines tasks, assigns duties, responsibilities and scope of authority.
• Reviews status reports and prepares project reports for management and client.
• Verifies and manages changes to the project scope schedule and cost.
• Conducts post event reviews and communicates lessons learned.
• Proven Top Performer Achievement and Accomplishment Oriented Problem Solver
• Goal Directed Leader Productivity Improvement Seeker Large Technical Solutions
• Adaptive Management Style Expertise in Project Planning and Management
• Relationship Focused Works Well in Fast - Paced and Demanding Environments

METHODOLOGIES AND TECHNICAL EXPOSURES:

Methodologies: SCRUM, Agile, SDLC Waterfall, Capability Maturity Model (CMM 2.0), Express One, International Organization for Standardization (ISO 9001), MS Project, MS Project Server, Clarity, PlanView, SciForma, JIRA, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), Rational Unified Process (RUP), Method 1/BI Methodology.

Software: Mulesoft, Visio, Word, Excel, Outlook, MS Access, PowerPoint, SharePoint, SMP, SMS, MS Project, MS Project server, MS Exchange, Net system interface design, Data Warehouse design, Mercury Winrunner, Unix, IBM, WebSphere. Rational Rose, RequisitePro, ClearQuest, ClearCase, UML Modeling/ Data Modeling (various), Cognos, Tibco, ETL/ WebMethods, EDI, FTP, ATG, Service Oriented Architecture, Cascading Style sheets, COBIT, ITIL, SOAP, IFX, WEB 2.0.

Databases: MS SQL, Oracle, DB2, Data warehouse, Data mart

Operating Systems: AIX, UNIX, Windows XP, Windows 2008/10/15 Server, Windows 7/10/16 Professional.

CAREER EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• As Scrum Master, led schedule, budget, reporting, change and risk monitoring management functions for Mulesoft middleware efforts.
• Matrix with over 10 individuals and vendors using agile methodologies.
• Using Mulesoft Cloud architecture, led integration efforts across SaaS vendors and Confidential infrastructure for eCommerce and HR efforts.
• Agreed an Agile approach with the team sponsors, and led best practice discussions. Agreed ‘steps to done’ included increment intake agreements, backlog/ story identification, points allocation, prioritization, and code reviews.
• Reporting included agreed task burndown chart. Facilitated standup meetings for maintaining project velocity.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led OBIEE and data warehouse team in migration and re-architecture effort. Effort included migration from OBIEE Oracle to MS, and Informatica to SSIS conversion.
• Converted job scheduling from AppWorx to JAMS. This included 10 interfacing applications.
• Testing effort was 10 weeks.
• Led merger integration effort with 3 teams and 5 vendors and Confidential resources integrating revenue, payable and analytical systems.
• Using Mulesoft Cloud architecture, led the migration from WebMethods to Mulesoft middleware packages.
• Agreed an Agile approach with the team based on best practices.
• This included increment intake agreement, backlog/ story identification, points allocation and task burndown chart. In 10 sprints, delivered 18 interfaces, plus clients to production.
• This included customized managed file transfer and error logging functionality.
• Facilitated standup meetings for maintaining project velocity.

Confidential, Downers Grove, IL

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Designed and led schedule, budget, reporting, change and risk monitoring management functions for retail Web site and integration efforts. Matrix with over 16 individuals and groups managing on shore and off shore, vendor contract resources using multiple methodologies.
• Led merger integration effort with 6 teams and up 50 resources integrating retail order and delivery functionality across North American and offshore locations.
• Led multiple teams in 4-6 concurrent projects implementing ordering, and distribution on tablet and mobile functionality.
• Led the requirements capture and package selection process for an enterprise-wide project and program management suite.
• This package was implemented as SaaS integrated into the company's LDAP environment.
• Built primary system interfaces with JD Edwards. A $1 million budget.
• Developed and tracked scoping estimates, project plans, schedules, and resource allocations utilizing multiple methodologies including FTDs 5 stage SDLC Waterfall process.
• Budgeting and management tools included Clarity and MS Project 2010 and Visio, Word, Excel, Outlook, MS Access.
• Facilitated project scrum meetings for maintaining project velocity. Maintained burndown chart.
• Identified risks, issues, action items and assumptions ensuring timely assignment and completion necessary to maintain project timeline. This included reviews and input from Stakeholders.

Confidential, Chicago IL

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led Process and Governance integration effort with 8 teams and up to 16 resources integrating Change Management, Release Management, Configuration Management and Admin Simp 27x across integration effort.
• Managed Infrastructure Security work effort across 7 teams integrating security policies, disaster recovery plans, business recovery plans, access policies and audit exception management.
• Managed proto-type CA SiteMinder Federation Manager effort. Effort included 3 month design and configuration process with 160+ port configuration items and dedicated VLAN.
• Developed and tracked scoping estimates, project plans, schedules, and resource allocations utilizing multiple methodologies including HCSC’s SDM, 5 stage SDLC Waterfall process. Budgeting and management tools included Clarity and MS Project 2010 and Visio, Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Facilitated project planning meetings for maintaining project scope. Functional teams participating: System Architecture, System Infrastructure, SDM Consultants, ITG technical development, Infrastructure Deployment.
• Provided work break down structure guidance to functional team leaders for identifying resource requirements, and deliverable dependencies in preparing project schedule.
• Led End to End Quality Assurance scope, schedule, and common infrastructure design. This included reviews and input from Stakeholders.
• Identified risks, issues, action items and assumptions ensuring timely assignment and completion necessary to maintain project timeline.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Headed schedule, budget, reporting, change and risk monitoring management functions for a $13.5 million global variable award pricing system.
• Lead OBIEE-data warehouse development work stream of 8 resources developing 48 reports in an integrated reporting data base.
• Scope also included SAS cube refinement.
• Developed and tracked scoping estimates, project plans, schedules, and resource allocations utilizing multiple methodologies including Iterative/ Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC Waterfall). Budgeting and management tools included HP PPM, SharePoint and MS Project 2010 and Visio, Word, Excel, and Outlook..
• Facilitated project planning meetings for maintaining project scope. Functional teams participating: Loyalty PMO, Marketing, Mileage Plus, System Architecture, System Infrastructure, Software Development, Infrastructure Deployment, Enterprise Quality Assurance.
• Provided work break down structure guidance to functional team leaders for identifying resource requirements, and deliverable dependencies in preparing project schedule. Performed scrum master role for sprint implementation efforts, including facilitating interactions between the product owner and the development team.
• Led End to End Quality Assurance scope, schedule, and common infrastructure design. This included reviews and input from Stakeholders.
• Facilitated reviews of project status and quality documents as required by Software Development methodologies. Representatives from all functional teams attended.
• Identified risks, issues, action items and assumptions ensuring timely assignment and completion necessary to maintain project timeline.
• Provided daily, weekly and monthly project progress reports to program, line of business, senior management stakeholders, steering committee members and multiple executive levels.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed and tracked scoping estimates, project plans, schedules, and resource allocation / assignments utilizing the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC Waterfall) methodology. Budgeting and management tools included MS Project Server, SharePoint 2010 and MS Project 2010.
• Facilitated project planning meetings for maintaining project scope. Functional teams participating: Product sponsorship, System Architecture, System Infrastructure, Software Deployment, Software Quality Assurance.
• Provided work break down structure guidance to functional team leaders for identifying resource requirements, and deliverable dependencies in preparing project schedule.
• Facilitated reviews of project status and quality documents as required by Software Development methodologies. Representatives from all functional teams attended.
• Identified risks, issues, action items and assumptions ensuring timely assignment and completion necessary to maintain project timeline.
• Provided daily, weekly and monthly project progress reports to program, line of business, senior management stakeholders, steering committee members and multiple executive levels.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led the data warehouse requirements capture and implementation process for an enterprise-wide SOX compliant economic capital scenario capture and capital allocation system as part of Basel II.
• Led a $3 million system integration and retirement program for the enterprise risk data warehouse.
• Effort included data modeling and Informatica ETL development.
• Lead OBIEE and Oracle 11c database reporting development work stream of 12 resources developing over 24 reports.
• Effort included managing on shore and off shore, vendor contract resources.
• Recommended and led efforts to improve existing processes, and recommend new processes, to improve quality and on-time delivery.
• Developed and tracked scoping estimates, project plans, schedules, and resource allocation / assignments utilizing the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC Waterfall) methodology. Budgeting and management tools included Clarity, SharePoint and MS Project 2007.
• Facilitated project planning meetings for defining project scope. Functional teams participating: Product sponsor, System Architecture, Software Development, System Test, Software Quality Assurance.
• Facilitated reviews of system requirements and design documents as required by Software Development methodologies. Representatives from all functional teams attended.
• Provided daily, weekly and monthly project progress reports to program, line of business and senior management stakeholders. Identified risks, issues, action items and assumptions ensuring timely assignment and completion necessary to maintain project timeline.
• Coordinated offshore resources in two locations. Implemented new handoff and reporting process assuring quality outputs and status.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead data warehouse reporting development work stream of 6-15 resources developing 90+ reports based on 11 rollup tables.
• Managed through multiple data granularity refinements. Technologies utilized included Informatica, OBIEE, stored procedures and Oracle 10.1 database.
• Effort included managing multiple vendor groups for onshore and offshore and off shore development and testing.
• Coordinated developing, consolidating and tracking of 12 work stream plans.
• Provided highly detailed, base-lined MS Project schedules in support of overall project plan.
• Facilitated daily Quality Review Board meetings providing defect prevention and resolution during the Software Development Unit testing, Systems test, and Systems Quality Assurance testing phases.
• Facilitated Weekly Project Status review meetings with representatives from all functional teams for monitoring project progress (planned vs. actual) to ensure project remained on schedule. Functional teams included; System Architecture (as required), Software Development Engineering, System Test, Software Quality Assurance test, Technical Documentation.
• Identified risks, issues, action items and assumptions ensuring timely assignment and completion necessary to maintain project timeline.
• Provided daily, weekly and monthly project progress reports to program, line of business and senior management stakeholders.
• Implemented documentation and coding remediation efforts reflecting changing standards for requirements and designs.
• Recommended and led efforts to improve existing processes, and recommend new processes, to improve quality or on-time delivery. Project methods used include SDLC Waterfall, SharePoint, PlanView and MS Project 2007.
• Coordinated offshore and onshore contract resources for testing efforts. Testing encompassed 30 resources using HP Quality Center.
• Build PeopleSoft APIs in Java for Planview bi-directional dataflows.
• Designed request for proposal process and an adoption management strategy leading 6 managers, architects and analysts.
• Developed prioritized budget, and multiple option schedule to maximize resource allocations,
• Lead presentations to corporate stakeholders, multiple stakeholder program managers and technical directors to meet strenuous deadlines and budget hurdles.
• Facilitated project planning meetings for defining project scope. Functional teams participating: Product Planning, System Architecture, Software Development, System Test, Software Quality Assurance.
• Recommend and lead efforts to improve existing processes to improve quality or on-time delivery. Project management methods and tools used include SDLC Waterfall and MS Project server, SharePoint and MS Project 2007.
• Identified risks, issues, action items and assumptions ensuring timely assignment and completion necessary to maintain project timeline.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed a 4 project manager project to architect new middleware, component-based layer architectures spanning multiple systems, subsidiaries and North American regions.
• This was implemented on an IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 5.0.x server with Oracle 10.1 staging servers integrated into Confidential ’s LDAP environment. The middleware, based on a subset of the CORBA 2.0 interface definition language (IDL), supporting Java via EJB classes, and COBAL via Business Integration Services CORBA proxies and an iPortal ORBIX tool.
• Managed cross-continent iterative effort implementing new functionality in U-Verse, customer-facing enterprise order object.
• Tracked and monitored scope from inception to completion using Gantt charts and other technologies. Track multiple projects against their schedules, budgets and phase review objectives, reporting status to director and stakeholders regularly and executive staff on an as needed basis.
• Facilitated reviews of test plans as provided by Systems Test and Software Quality Assurance to ensure testing would be accomplished in support of the project scope and defined features. Representatives from all Functional teams attended.
• Identified risks, issues, action items and assumptions ensuring timely assignment and completion necessary to maintain project timeline.
• Achieved corporate goal of less than 10% project cost variances.
• Recommend and lead efforts to improve existing processes, and recommend new processes, to improve quality or on-time delivery. Project management methods used include Capability Maturity Model 2.0, SDLC Waterfall and MS Project.