PROFILE:

• Methodical, forward - thinking, and seasoned professional with expertise and career-long experience in project development and management.
• Well-versed at establishing connections with key stakeholders to mitigate risks, cognitive decision maker, develop strategic plans to streamline processes, and control costs.
• Equipped with the aptitude to work at ease in high stress, fast-paced environments with simultaneous tasks coupled with the ability to manage multi-multimillion dollar projects with composure.
• Armed with sound knowledge of the project management body of knowledge (PMBOK), Scrum/Agile procedures and AWS - Cloud infrastructure.
• Known for well-honed communication and interpersonal abilities essential in motivating, coaching, and leading top-notch teams to accomplish set-forth goals.
• Skilled in MS Project.
• Experienced in cross function Metrix environment.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

Process Analysis and Redesign | Risk Management | Change Control | Costing and Budgeting Operational Leadership | Resource Allocation | Scope Formulation | Needs Assessment

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Microsoft Office Applications (Project, SharePoint, Visio, Access, and Excel) | QuickBooks SAP | TurboTax® | American Fund ware | Waterfall | Agile Scrum | SQL | Expert Choice Prochain Enterprise | Microsoft Dynamics (SL and GP) | Mission Control | Expert in MS Project and Jira.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Play an instrumental role in managing multiple and simultaneous projects of diverse sizes and complexity across several businesses and IT areas.
• Render support to programs, which involve global integration of over $100M animal health acquisition for a Confidential 130 pharmaceutical firm.
• Establish positive relationships with sponsors, work stream, and execution leads to attain first-rate stakeholder engagement.
• Oversee all facets of project planning, charter creation, and scope administration.
• Preside over project requirement meetings and network build sessions in coordination with internal and external project team members to determine deliverables, project phases, initiatives, and assigned duties.
• Leverage organizational skills in mapping project plans while utilizing resource-based scheduling approaches.
• Make use of Microsoft Project and Prochain Enterprise in creating, monitoring, and updating project schedules.
• Closely monitor all phases of the project cycle from initiation, planning, execution, monitoring & control and closing based on project management body of knowledge (PMBOK) processes.
• Administer major project scope changes and metrics; overall risks and opportunities; and project enterprise level interdependencies.
• Promptly resolve resource constraints, effect schedule modification, and road blocks impacting deliverables by ensuring alignment with all protocols.
• Efficiently convey project status, risks, and issues to provide recommendations to the PMO and senior management.
• Monitor and control budgets, governance policies and procedure to execute and deliver project successfully.
• Skilled in coaching and mentoring teams into Agile Frameworks.
• Facilitated Scrum daily standups ceremonies, sprint planning, Sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Tracked and communicated sprint/release progress.
• Kept track of team’s progress and relay information to the leadership.
• Work comfortably with remote/virtual teams.
• Administered project risks and provided alternatives for reducing risk, along with communication to the stakeholders.
• Reported current or future impediments to the team. Lead the team on backlog grooming, estimation and all other Agile and Scrum process driven activities.

Confidential, New Jersey, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led the planning and development of the company’s enterprise asset management (EAM) solution which involved nine modules to be integrated within set-forth timelines and budget. Waterfall PM methodology was used and MS Project was used to plan and monitor projects.
• Handled the complete system development life cycle (SDLC) for EAM solution which standardizes and simplifies HR operations corresponding to time and attendance, tasks, scheduling, and organizational structure
• Identified gaps between business needs and capabilities along with areas of improvement for post-implementation
• Recorded dependencies and interrelationships between requirements while structuring requirements for traceability
• Capitalized on industry skill in handling various tasks which included:
• Stakeholder assessment and scope development.
• Work breakdown structure (WBS) formulation to detail project activities, such as proposed requirements; estimated tasks, project schedules; phases, and milestones, work-units; degree of effort and duration.
• Employed critical thinking skills in resolving various issues such as the requirement conflicts to ensure schedule compliance and generate project financial reports to present variances between budgeted and actual figures
• Conducted weekly meetings with project team members, which involved server engineers, application engineers, solutions architects, release managers, and database engineers to guarantee cohesive and efficient efforts

Confidential, Bartlett, IL

Agency Principal

Responsibilities:

• Took charge of stakeholder and risk management initiatives; effective communication promotions; process streamlining

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Director of Finance

Responsibilities:

• Headed the Ceridian electronic timesheet system on Windows server in the successful conformance with timeline and budget expectation
• Instituted a new system utilizing Access database to oversee more than 125 budgets across multiple departments and programs while working closely with programmers to develop a cost allocation system
• Carried out feasibility studies and business cases to evaluate provided approach to issues; risk and reward analyses through project risk scoring

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

Corporate Controller

Responsibilities:

• Performed comprehensive analysis to identify the best process for solving issues, opportunities to improve processes, system enhancements, user trainings, and software procurements
• Oversaw project-wide initiatives, which included, stakeholder collaboration, project progress monitoring and reporting as well as task delegations.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Director of Finance

Responsibilities:

• Drove efforts in the execution of Great Plains accounting software which include conversion of Confidential software