SUMMARY:

• Strategic Planning Cycles
• Communication and Confidential Reporting
• Vendor Relations and Negotiations
• Forecasting and Analyzing Information

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Bolingbrook, IL

Project Manager, Merchandise and Planning

Responsibilities:

• Managing and implementing of over $5 million in projects for Floor and Space Planning, Enterprise Planning System, Unit of Measure SAP and Supply Chain Implementation, and other Product master data programs.
• Create Project Kick - Off Materials and facilitate meetings, developed and delivered high level project milestones and detailed project plans.
• Clear communication of project plans, status, and critical risks and issues to project stakeholders, sponsors and Leadership teams.
• Provide weekly project plan and schedule updates to Portfolio Manager and project team.
• Collaborate with IT and Business partners to get all dependent tasks identified and resource allocation.
• Partnered with Portfolio Managers to maintain resource forecasts and updates in Innotas.
• Assist and facilitate Change Requests with external contractors, Merchandising Director, and Portfolio Manager.

Confidential, McDonalds Oak Brook, IL

Sr. Project Manager, Digital Mobile and Web

Responsibilities:

• Managed a New Global Mobile Application that replaced the current iOS and Android mobile applications which are available in the US and other markets such as China, UK, and Australia.
• Managed multiple teams in order to identify dependencies across the Digital IT Department.
• Defined project schedules at a Release, Project and Program Level.
• Participated in defining scope with the global digital team and assigning the work effort in manageableagile sprint cycles.
• Guide interdependencies across client departments that share resources and deployment needs.
• Reported to senior leadership weekly on overall release and individual project progress including issues and risks that impact schedule, budget and resources.
• Lead both IT and business meetings to resolve issues, mitigate risks and keep within schedule and budget.
• Participated and champion PMO improvements as the team develops an agile development framework for mobile technologies (iOS and Android).
• Created Agile development sprints in JIRA to manage with Development and QA teams.

Confidential, Walgreens, Lincolnshire, IL

Sr. Project Manager, Customer Loyalty Program and Web

Responsibilities:

• Managed small or large cross-functional technology projects across a broad range of business issues, from start to finish within budget and on time to meet business units’ needs.
• Collaborated with multiple internal teams across a broad range of business issues.
• Created and monitored project plans and establishes communication mechanisms to keep work streams and leadership apprised to the progress and health of the project.
• Identified and resolved issues and risks, manages timelines in collaboration with IT, and communicates status to management and business stakeholders.
• Partnered with business teams to understand and document business requirements formulates User Acceptance Test plans and serves as the liaison between the business and IT teams.
• Partnered with various teams and leaders from across the organization to understand both long term and short term business needs and ensure that goals are met.
• Drive strategic roadmap to develop long term vision and prioritize projects and resources to meet both short and long term business needs.
• Managed Releases with portfolio of projects in order to remain on timelines and budget.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Created and Managed a Project Management Team within the IT POS organization to implement a process for project requests across multiple business areas.
• Implemented 5 high level projects in a 12 month period.
• Established a PMO team, and implemented a PMO Process to an upcoming Confidential organization.
• Manager for Planning and Project Management within the organizational structure.
• Liaison with City of Chicago, Ventra Card Vendor, and Department of Confidential Institution.
• Initiated SCRUM implementation with the entire organization.

Confidential, Lincolnshire, IL

Responsibilities:

• Established POS tracking process with 4 different areas EPS, NextGen, Existing POS, and Credit Settlement / Online Reporting.
• Liaison with IT POS functional area teams and the Business driven marketing and merchandising areas.
• Responsible for managing areas of IT, Marketing, Merchandising, Store Operations, and external vendors pertaining to the projects.
• Partnered with different areas of the internal organization to collect data, develop customer insights, and drive business performance with a new Loyalty program introduction.
• Led the Operating Committee meetings on 8 different strategic projects from BOGO Gift Card Promotions, ECA, eWIC, Loyalty, Expanded Refund, Web Pick-Up Linked Orders, PayPal, and Google Wallet.
• Collaborated with the internal IT POS team to create new workflows and structures to present to internal teams for better understanding to changes in the process.