SUMMARY:

Dynamic Project Manager with over 19 years of experience leading technical, complex, multifunctional teams in the development and implementation of strategic solutions that increase efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance bottom line. Analytical leader who rapidly determines business needs and presents clear, actionable technical solutions. Expert consensus builder who effectively communicates project value to senior management, “in - the-trenches” technical teams, and non-technical stakeholders. Milestone-driven professional who consistently hits the finish line on time and on budget - on every project.

COMPETENCIES INCLUDE:

• Waterfall/AGILE/SCRUM/SLDC
• Project Planning / Prioritization
• Application Project Management
• SPRINT Planning
• Project Management Office (PMO)
• Facilitation and Presentation
• Cost & Budget Management
• Program/Organization Planning
• Change Mgmt./Jeopardy Mgmt.
• Global / Virtual Team Mgmt.
• Managing Complex Projects
• Full Life Cycle Management

COMPETENCIES:

PM Tools: PMBOK, PERT/CPM, Comparative Initiative Ranking, WBS, Project Charter, Project Initiation Form, Risk Analysis, Risk List, Communication Plan, Stakeholder Analysis, Project Estimating, Change Control, Meeting Agenda, Milestone Chart, Project Status Report & Project Close Out Form.

PM Methodologies: PMI, Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, SDLC, Staged Delivery, Phased Approach and Full Life Cycle Management.

Software/Tools: Symantec Endpoint (SEP), Splunk, MS Office, MS Project, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, MS Access, JIRA, Lync, Omega Time Reporting, SharePoint, HP Project and Portfolio Management Center (PPMC), Mercury Test Director (Quality Center), SharePoint, Quick Base, and Primavera

Technologies: Endpoint Protection, Cyber Security, MS Office 365, Data Loss Prevention, SIEM, LAN, WAN, TCP/IP, Ethernet, Cloud Services, Virtualization, MPLS, Fiber Services, VoIP, Metro Ethernet, DNS, Cisco Routers, Cisco Switches, Firewalls,, Frame-Relay, VPN, Voice/Data Integration, L2/L3 Switching, 2G/3G UMTS, GSM, T1, and OC3-OC48.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the delivery of Full Lifecycle projects and financials for the Network Security, Operations, Identity Management and compliance team for Coke CCE PMO Organization.
• Managed all aspects of Hardware and Software Security projects management and project life-cycles by effectively initiating, planning, scheduling, controlling, and bringing to closure multiple large, high - profile, high-priority projects.
• Generated work order and change request and time estimates. Executed Statement of Works and Contracts.
• Facilitated team meetings with design, development, quality assurance, and company/vendor/client support groups to route and resolve issues, identify and mitigate risks, and to create and follow project schedule.
• SDLC software project management (LOE’s, user stories, requirements, design, QA, backlog and release management.
• Full budget management and forecasting with yearly costs ranging from 100K to 1 Million.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the delivery of technical projects for the End User Services (EUS) Program Team.
• Responsible for full-life cycle project management to include: writing and delivering BSOW, ESOW and SOW for quoted services projects.
• Provided PM support to sales team as they prepared RFQ/RFP responses and statements of work.
• Generated work order and change request and time estimates. Executed Statement of Works and Contracts.
• Engage with clients’ executive leadership as necessary to communicate project objectives, strategy, tactics, change management and ongoing progress.
• Led and/or performed requirements gathering, information architecture sessions, technical solution design, site configuration, documentation, and training for SharePoint projects.
• Working directly with stakeholders to drive a project from initiation through delivery.
• Ensured deliverables were complete, accurate, on time, and in compliance with SDLC and SOX policies.
• Facilitated regular status meetings between business and technology organizations; distributed meeting minutes.
• Communicated project status to project sponsor, all team members, and other relevant stakeholder.
• Lead large, cross-organization project teams towards targeted and scheduled outcomes.
• Provide daily support for managing delivery of project tasks, activities, milestones and resources using MS Project.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Brought into support high-value EFM products generating over 30+ million in annual revenue in the first year.
• Lead project planning sessions including the creation of the project definition, project charters and project plan to clearly identify the project’s scope, resources, weekly team status meetings, tasks and responsibilities.
• Managed cutovers of sites to include reviewing changing with change control board, opening bridge and managing change and providing updates to program manager on a daily basis.
• Manage large programs and complex projects involving multiple parties/organizations with conflicting agendas and business priorities.
• Worked as a team utilizing Scrum framework, coordinating with IT, Operations, and executives to deliver the project on time and within the scope and budget.
• Established a lightweight Scrum project management process and helped team meet sprint goals.
• Daily stand ups
• Collaborated with business stakeholders to assess new requests or technology needs, formulated business cases, prioritized projects, identified potentially impacted systems, gathered ROM, final estimates and worked with PMO and Demand Management team to prioritize for deployment pipeline.
• As a member of PMO team, managed the following meeting: Work Entry (new request), Change Control Board (CCB), Release War Room, Release Management, Release Planning and Stakeholder Prioritization Meeting.
• Facilitated questions and answer sessions with the Quality Assurance (off-shore) and Test Architects (on-site) when needed.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Sr. National Technical PMO Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Selected as the Lead Project Manager for the network capacity build for the initial Launch of the iPhone by senior management.
• Execute and manage large complex projects through Confidential &T TNRP, PDP and BAU project management processes as governed by the MNPMO (Mobility National PMO) ranging from $500k to $4 million.
• Develop detailed project plans and schedules, status reports, migration dashboards, templates, jeopardy and issues reports; Create and manage project SharePoint websites.
• Interfaced with upper management and highly technical groups within cross functional and matrix teams
• Execute change control management issuing yellow and red jeopardies, change requests and change notifications to keep the project within the approved scope and cost baselines.
• Collaborate with technical staff to define functional requirements.
• Responsible for managing vendors, content providers, scheduling deliverables, resource acquisition and management.
• Conduct lessons learned, project survey and formal hand-off/acceptance to Implementation and Ops Teams.