CAREER PROFILE:

• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)
• 10 years of project management experience
• 12 years Automotive Industry experience
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills
• Critical Path Methodology and Risk Management experience
• Proven proficiency with Microsoft Project
• Excellent problem - solving and analytical skills

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Prepares and maintains Project Schedule, Resource Plan, Communication Plan, Weekly Status Report, Earned Value Reports, SAP Time Tracking Reports, Risk/Issues Log and Lessons Learned and other PM documentation for distribution and review by all key stakeholders.
• Responsible for maintaininginternal and external (International) relationships with key stakeholders to organize implement and execute various software development projects.
• Assisting Configuration Management Specialist with developing, defining, deploying and managing the CM processes for the ACF Programme.
• Responsible for performing project management duties for CM area and work closely with the CM Specialist to deploy and operationalize these processes across the ACF Programme.
• Engage and prepare delivery teams for StarTeam and CaliberRM implementation and deployment.
• Responsible for creating and implementing the first ACF Recognition Programme. Responsible for creating the voting process, the team and leader voting instruction documentation, the award procurement documentation, the voting forms, as well as creating several communiqués to be sent to the ACF team monthly.

Confidential

Project Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Prepares and maintains Scope Document, Change Log, Project Schedule, Resource Plan, Communication Plan, Weekly Status Report, Risk/Issues Log and Lessons Learned documents for distribution and review by all key stakeholders.
• Engage delivery teams prior to creating work tasks to discuss scope and plan for implementation.
• Responsible for tracking project hours on a Resource Plan and in Remedy Tool.
• Assists and aids in the preparation of class 40 Labor Estimates.
• Engage all delivery groups in a planning meeting prior to creating the WBS and Request for Service (RFS) Work Tasks.
• Updates Project Status in RFS Status Diary
• Responsible for archival of status reports and other project artifacts.
• Performs risks analysis and documents risks and mitigation in the Risk and Issues Log
• Conducts a lessons learned meeting and documents the results.

Confidential

Senior Program Management Analyst, Lead

Responsibilities:

• Attend assigned PMT/PAT Meetings (PST, Studio, Marketing, Color Harmony, Safety, Craftsmanship and Change Management (CM)) meetings maintain associated workplans and report timing status
• Update workplanning QOS deliverables in Integrator for each approaching FPDS Milestone
• Work with suppliers to obtain supplier workplans in order to assess compatibility with appropriate PMT/PAT timing expectations
• Support Timing PAT meeting to ensure workplan compatibility by identifying and resolving workplan conflicts
• Perform risk analysis to identify timing issues and elevate to appropriate forum (PMT/PAT Meeting) for discussion and resolution
• Work with Program Management and the Program Team on development of various adhoc timing studies/charts/reports
• Track P Authority Status for all new tooled end items
• Perform risk analysis to identify timing issues surrounding 2008 D3 Program and present findings at PMT/PAT meetings for discussion and resolution
• Utilize FPDS system to develop preliminary project plan for the Program

Confidential

Senior Program Management Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed and implemented automotive work plans and supplier templates utilizing FPDS (Ford Product Development System)
• Created custom views, filters, & reports utilizing Microsoft Project
• Provided weekly updates to Program Team on program status & assessments
• Analyzed proposed changes against baseline requirements to maintain program scope and objectives according to QOS (Quality Operating System)
• Identified potential risks; rate their probability & severity & present findings to Program Lead
• Interacted extensively with customer & suppliers to integrate various systems (chassis, fuel, brake, electrical, etc) during developmental phase

Confidential

Project Planning Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Developed and delivered metric and status report presentations to Program Team
• Conducted team meetings to review progress and to update project schedule
• Recorded and published team meeting minutes and action items
• Lead project planning, scheduling, monitoring, and reporting activities
• Assisted in the training of the project team on application of the procedures
• Analyzed project and cost to ensure budget and schedule compliance
• Investigate project date slippage, developed and implemented corrective action plan, if project exceeded cost or didn’t meet scheduled requirements
• Utilized System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) method to develop eBM system interface

Confidential

Project Deployment Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Identified and gathered requirements for process clarification and/or procedural detail
• Performed User Acceptance Test (UAT) for new releases and provided feedback on test results
• Documented, monitored and managed process and system changes for the Change Control Review team
• Conducted Kick-Off meeting and Gap Analysis for GM/Canada and Delphi customers

Confidential

Telecommunication-Project Planner

Responsibilities:

• Planned, scheduled and negotiated voice communication projects with Confidential project management and vendor support such as Ameritech, Octel and Lucent Technologies
• Interfaced with customers and corporate personnel to diagnose and resolve problems
• Utilized various mainframe and client server based systems to process, monitor and track customer requests
• Mentored new employees, provided training and advised of corporate policies and procedures
• Designed and developed departmental newsletter “News from the Cubes”

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Implemented decision making skills to determine proper case management for State Lemon Law Cases
• Demonstrated strong written and verbal communication to improve the quality of customer contact on behalf of General Motors Corporation
• Conducted tours and presented an overview of the facilities functions and operations to new hires and prospective business partners
• Trained new employees on Confidential policies, verbiage, telephone techniques and daily center activities
• Developed and implemented handbook to assist new specialist with case management
• Enhanced customer contacts by applying anger diffusion skills to develop a positive customer relationship