SUMMARY

• An expert in driving results, leading change and challenging “not invented here” mindset, while focusing on achieving the bottom line.
• Leveraging over 18 years of Information Technology and management consulting experience into developing solutions and services for customers and stakeholders to meet project goals and business initiatives.
• Maintains flexibility, able to prioritize competing business goals, take concepts to fruition and produce during budget challenges in functional and matrix organizations.
• Highly proficient in assessing culture, building credibility and trust to foster partnerships to immediately add value and deliver on new ideas.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• RFI/RFP preparation & response assessment
• Project Planning, Monitoring and Control
• PMO - Restructuring & Improvement
• Executive Reporting - C level suite
• Client Management Relationships & Liaison
• Budget planning & financial reporting
• Business & Systems analysis
• Requirements development
• QA & Systems Testing
• Resource Management:
• Staffing & Utilization
• Cross Functional Teams
• Off shore resources
• Subcontractors
• Vendor Staffing Agencies
• Assessment & Development
• Workforce Reductions
• Process Adherence & Improvement:
• Agile
• CMMI
• SDLC
• Risk & Change Management
• Leadership & Commitment
• Accountability & Integrity
• Leadership Training & Development
• Performance Excellence & Management
• Coaching & Teamwork Development
• Affordability challenges & cost reduction
• Detailed Oriented
• Self-directed
• Impeccable interpersonal skills &
• Emotional intelligence

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Manhattan, NY

Program Manager/Events Tech PM

Responsibilities:

• Serve in the following concurrent above roles and perform the following functions: Develop and track dependency schedules with critical stakeholders to ensure timely releases of business initiatives and Nick Digital Brand Products delivery to market
• Ensure competing business initiatives among stakeholders are addressed during quarterly Agile programmatic increments
• Resolve competing business initiatives challenges that arise. Process platform releases legal paperwork and track in Workfront.
• Monitor and track the progress of the Nickelodeon Digital Brand Refresh initiatives
• Lead the Digital Publishing & Product and Nick Brand Creative and UXD Senior Stakeholders meetings
• Serve as Technical Project Manager for the 2017 HALO Awards & 2018 Kids Choice Awards (KCA)
• Projects: Sky Whale Game Video Rewarded Advertisement, Let’s Play, DNT AR Projects

Confidential

PMO/Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Initiation, Planning, Management, Monitoring, Cost Tracking, and Processes:
• Amended Statement of Work (SOW) and Statement of Requirements (SOR)
• Coordinated, facilitated, and led Project Kick-Off, including meeting materials and minutes
• Produced project plans for systems integration and hardware Implementation
• Developed Charters, Project Management Plans (PMP), Project Dossier, CMMi documentation
• Monitored Off Shore Supplier software development via JIRA board
• Performed accounting & cost tracking using PIVOT tables on financial extracts
• Tracked costs using Earned Value Management indicators. Monitored Azure Cost expenditures
• Created Cost dossier. Monitored and track Off Shore Supplier payment schedule and invoices
• Implemented use of SharePoint Workflow. Prepared CMMi audit documents for evaluation and compliancy
• PMO presentation on best practices for project monitoring and control
• Participated in organizational process redefinition for project estimating
• Off Shore Vendor Engagement & Management:
• RFP’s:Revised and facilitated RFP reviews, including responses to vendor questions
• Vendor Selection:Coordinated presentations, selection criteria, RFP responses and evaluated suppliers.
• On Boarding:Managed, monitored and tracked tool access (ALM, JIRA, SharePoint, TFS, MS Azure).
• Supplier Management:Supervised SOW delivery compliancy and Change Requests (CR).
• Delivery:Approved E2E deliverables, tracked stakeholders sign-off and supervised the CM authority.
• Asset Management:Submitted requisitions and tracked Purchase Orders(POs'). Oversaw software and hardware deliveries to India.
• Reporting and Management Stakeholders Collaboration
• Provided daily Senior VP reports, Test Defects, Weekly and Monthly Project Review boards
• Collaborated with SVP’s and management stakeholder across various departments; Software Development, Systems Integration, Architecture, Test, Quality Assurance, Operations and Product Management
• Project 2: Cloud Common Use Terminal Equipment (CUTE) Project: Served as the TPM, Acting End-to-End Project Manager for the Cloud Common Use Infrastructure solution project. The team was responsible for demonstrating architecture topologies as a proof of concept used to develop an enterprise architecture cloud solution.
• Core Responsibilities: Project Planning, Management and Monitoring, CMMi and Product Stage Gate Compliance
• Developed: Schedules, Project Charter, RAIDC, RACI, Weekly Status Reports, Risk Management Plan, Project Review Boards, Estimation Basis Document, Peer Review Workbooks, Stakeholder Analysis Workbook, Monthly “On Time - On Budget”, Metrics Measurement Reporting, Document Matrix Index, Project Kick Off Meeting and Minutes
• Reviewed: Systems Engineering Process (SEP), Configuration Management Approach, Statement of Requirements (SOR), CISO, Security Workbooks, Threat Model, System Architecture Document, Test Strategy and Plans
• Agile Methodology: Attend daily scrum meetings, relative size stories, review and track JIRA board and product backlog, develop sprint reports, review sprint retrospective reports
• Led weekly status and year end strategy planning meetings with customers and cross functional management leads (Software Development, Systems Integration, Testing, Certification, Cloud, Networking)
• Hosted project status and product demonstration for solution line Senior Vice President
• Cost Management: Develop ROM, Cost Management Plan, Staffing Plan, Evaluated Actuals from PF extracts, developed ETC and EAC’s, tracked work years against planned
• Developed, reviewed and submitted requisitions and purchase orders for equipment needed for the demos

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Performed strategic, business & technical analysis of current business operations processes for improvement or automation
• Performed as business technical liaison between vendor software providers and clients, negotiate & set up product demos
• Performed project, scope, planning and staffing for new software application projects and or COTS products
• Developed objectives & approaches to strategy and communication plans

Confidential, Bohemia, NY

PMO Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Served as Project Manager, Liaison, Coordinator and Communication facilitator for the Passenger iCheck project.
• Led & provided oversight on; Architecture Analysis, Host Abstraction Layer (HAL) Framework Updates, Passenger iCheck Transitions, Systems Integration (SIG) Bandwidth Analysis
• Led Process Improvement efforts: Agile Processes & Adherence, Problem Management, User Acceptance Test (UAT)

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Supervised the point-of-sales(POS) transaction data migration from the legacy platform to the preferred platform, consisting of 10,000 plus merchants on the Confidential Merchant Services Conversion Program (BAMS) with FDC
• Ensured compliance and secure deployment reliability for a 275 million dollar project with 10 billion annual transactions
• Facilitated collaboration and transparent interaction between three firms on a joint venture
• Led the delivery and implementation of activities across an integrated project team, cross-functional executives, managers, Technology and Operations to convert a merchant and its business units. Coached newly on - boarded project managers.
• Ensured all POS data was migrated seamlessly and business retail remained constant post conversion
• Reported daily progress of migrations at executive meetings and provided Root Cause Analysis status on project issues

Confidential

Business Start Up & Development Chief Operator

Responsibilities:

• Developed college plans for entry-level students and career plans for recent college graduates. Assisted entrepreneurs with business start up planning.
• Development Functions: Career Goals & Development Training, Personal and Professional Development Plans
• Business Development Functions: Filed and obtain Limited Liability Company status, Registered Company Domain, Prepared RFP for Logo Designs, Researched Website Development Products, Copyright Application process and Laws