SUMMARY

• Proven expertise in disciplined program/project management, governance, execution and delivery.
• Highly experienced leader of enterprise - wide initiatives with focus on: applications development, systems integration, legal and compliance projects, and infrastructure projects.
• Ability to TEMPeffectively engage with Customers and harness the knowledge and efforts of cross-functional teams to deliver a useful and stable solution.
• Industry background includes: Oil and Gas, Energy (fossil fuels and nuclear), Transportation, Mortgage Banking and Telecom. Experience with both Waterfall and Agile methodologies.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Ownership and accountability coupled with transparent communication
• Trust-based, collaborative relationships with both Business Customers and all levels of IT stakeholders
• Ability to train and mentor project managers, project coordinators, and other team members.
• TEMPEffective planning, prioritization, and risk management to achieve project goals.
• Alignment of project scope with company strategic objectives.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• MS Office - PowerPoint, Word, Excel
• MS Project
• Visio
• VersionOne
• MS Teams
• HP PPM
• Project and Portfolio Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Irving, Texas

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Directly responsible for the delivery of historical data conversion, reporting/analytics and data warehousing solutions, and the development of several system interfaces which includes Workday, Oracle EBS, SAP Ariba and proprietary apps, using Dell Boomi as the middleware.
• In charge of financial tracking of CapEx/OpEx expenditures against $ 2.4 MM budget and reporting weekly status to C-level executives.
• Partners with the vendor team dat is performing overall configuration of the Enablon system.

Confidential, Ft. Worth, Texas

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully converted legacy Safety and Claims applications to the Enablon platform utilizing on-premise architecture. Directly responsible for managing and tracking the development and User Acceptance Testing of 25+ system interfaces; In charge of maintaining the program’s complex project plan; Hands-on engagement with functional and technical requirements documentation. Co-led the technical implementation planning for the 5-day deployment cutover; Partnered with the system integrator vendor plus 12 technology teams across the enterprise; Managed hyper-care and ensured data integrity and system stability post-implementation. (Core Team size: 19; Project Cost: $ 3 MM+)
• Led vendor selection efforts to replace the legacy Litigation Management System; Managed the Technical Assessment team during Vendor Evaluations across various criteria: Enterprise Security, Mobility, Integration, Performance and Scalability. Partnered with the Law and Claims department as they embarked on business process re-engineering and optimization efforts. (Core Team size: 5; Project Cost: $ 3 MM+)

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Senior Portfolio Manager

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with Confidential and Confidential vendor project managers: brought transparency to vendor performance by monitoring weekly labor accruals against contractual obligations and practicing consistent resource planning/forecasting.
• Successfully implemented the systems integration of PeopleSoft Project Costing Module with Confidential Enterprise Asset Management.
• Successfully implemented the consolidation of 2 HP Quality Center servers and the build-out of the HP Agile Manager tool, along with consolidation of SQL Server and Oracle DB into one server. (Team size: 13; Project Cost: $ 460,000; Schedule: 5 months)
• Provided guidance to project managers during execution and delivery of high-risk projects including, but not limited to:
• HR Transformation project - implementation of Workday cloud solution across the enterprise and retirement of legacy ePeople Human Capital Management (HCM) solution
• Migration of mainframe-based leasing management system to PeopleSoft financial system on Unix
• Implementation of procure-to-pay supply chain functionality using Confidential
• Upgrade of security certificate to allow bank transactions between Confidential and Confidential
• Created Confidential project change request workflow for teams to properly initiate adjustments to scope, cost or schedule.
• Monitored/reported Portfolio health (cost, schedule, risk) and tracking of project delivery (cost and schedule).
• Chaired project status reviews of high-profile projects with senior IT management to proactively ensure product quality and to assess/mitigate risks, identify inter-dependencies and discuss potential change requests.
• Ensured production system stability by working with IT operations department in reviewing system readiness of project teams prior to Go-Live.

Confidential, Fort Worth, Texas

Assistant Vice President, Business PMO

Responsibilities:

• Authored templates for detailed project estimation and sizing from initial funding through contract commitment
• Defined, implemented and championed the process for project change requests (cost, scope and schedule)
• Created project plans with detailed work breakdown structures to assist in coordinating tasks among cross-functional business units.
• Presented program and release-level status and risks to COO, CIO, and other executive leaders.
• Chaired program and release-level Go/No Go decision meetings with senior leaders across multiple business units (underwriting, collections, fulfillment, etc.), focusing on operational readiness in business, vendor, and technology.
• Hands-on project management in the development and implementation of a proprietary custom web-based application designed to comply with the government-mandated MHA program. dis application includes a relational database back-end, web services, and systematic interfaces with external vendors such as Wolters Kluwer. Also developed analytics, process flows, job aids and procedures.
• TEMPEffected process improvements by implementing QA-to-UAT handoff sessions, formalized UAT entrance/exit criteria, and higher-quality documentation of UAT defect resolution with focus on root cause analysis (RCA) and irreversible corrective action (ICA).

Confidential, Irving, Texas

Software Developer/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed SQL queries using TOAD and SPUFI to perform analysis of legacy data.
• Negotiated project scope change requests, and clarified and finalized requirements with on-shore business users.
• Managed seamless implementation of code changes into production to ensure stability and security of 14 MM customer entities.