SUMMARY

• Resourceful, client - facing professional with experience in project management, IT strategy, Business Case & ROI development. Offer an entrepreneurial, roll-up-the-sleeves attitude, and perform at a high level without much guidance.
• Strong skills in Business case and ROI Development
• Extensive experience in managing enterprise level IT projects with expert level skills in Waterfall and Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Proven ability to manage multimillion dollar budgets that yield the most optimal outcomes for the organization
• Excellent interpersonal skills in communications, client relations, and negotiation
• Presentations to upper management (VP, and C-level executives)
• Experienced Onsite Consulting Services
• Project Sectors: HR, Healthcare, Financial Systems, Data Migrations, and others

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Washington, DC

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementing the new kids reading product in South Korea by assessing business feasibility, obtaining buy-in from members of the organization, and developing milestones and project team for delivery in 2015 (In progress)
• Managing projects to migrate data from legacy systems of acquired companies to existing cloud based SalesForce platforms.
• Improve support pages on the web (Sales Force platform) in order to reduce support calls by 30% and costs by 7%.
• Lead User Acceptance testing by assuring active participation, establishing the criticality, and create platforms to document and resolve identified issues.
• Frequent presentations and strategic meetings with c-level executives

Confidential . Bentonville,AR

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing teams (cross-functional) of more than 50 resources, including offshore personnel, to deliver IT Projects on time and within budget ($500,000 - $10 Million) in a highly demanding and fast-paced environment
• Conducted Daily Sprint meetings, managed product backlog, and taught and championed use of Scrum methodologies within organization
• Developed and grew relationships by building credibility, establishing rapport, and maintaining communication with key internal and external stakeholders at multiple levels
• Developed RFI & RFP documents to evaluate products and presented findings to educate and guide executives in purchasing products optimal for the organization
• Performed full ROI analysis for initiatives corresponding to short term (current year) and long term (5 -10 years) strategic plans
• Optimized and adjusted projects midstream for change driven by external factors or executive mandates
• Effectively manage risks and issues in projects that lead to smooth implementations
• Helped embrace, instill, and ease tensions arising from change within the organization
• Reduce wait time at Wal-Mart Pharmacies by 30% in order to remain on par with competitors by implementing operational and software changes.
• Implemented new HR Compensation systems to better manager total compensation for $2 million Wal-Mart employees distributed throughout the world
• Update Wal-Mart logistics and pharmacy systems and operations in order to improve processing of schedule 1 drugs (narcotics) highly regulated by the FDA and US government
• Readied Wal-Mart HR systems in order to equip the organization to hire U.S. Army veterans (driven by executive mandate & highly publicized in the media).

Confidential, IL

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Grew the IT relationship by building credibility and relationships with key business customers and stakeholders
• Developed project management Plans, project charters, and business case documents
• Managed onsite and offshore teams (including developers, QA analysts, and BA’s) to deliver projects on time, within budget and expected scope
• Worked with various life software development life cycle models including Agile, Waterfall, and iterative
• Conducted Daily Sprint meetings, managed product backlog, helped optimize and teach Scrum methodologies specific to the organization
• Presented on project status and areas of improvement and inefficiencies to Director and VPs
• Actively participated in VP and Director level meetings to help determine feasibility of new requests and contribute to strategic initiativesKey

Confidential, PA

Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided onsite consulting services at highly regulated FDA pharmaceutical environments, such as Johnson and Johnson, Novartis, and Sicor
• Responsible for understanding client needs, making recommendations to solve business problem and implementing solutions as the primary contact
• Acquired $300,000 of new business for the company
• Developed Business Proposals, Business Cases, Project Charters and Project Management plans
• Led the offshore team in managing resources, assuring client needs were understood, and ultimately insuring successful delivery of tasks
• Helped leading companies build a version of Microsoft SharePoint for storage of data and manuals. Project was initially built for one branch of the company. Due to client usage, company implemented the product globally. Project cost was around $500,000
• Performed several data migration projects for very sensitive and HIPA regulated data in various pharmaceutical companies. The project cost for all data migration projects landed at $1 Million
• Validated the Baan ERP systems for a Pharmaceutical Manufacturing company
• Developed and authored user requirements, functional design requirements, system Specifications, IQ, OQ, PQ, protocols, validation process models, as well as business process models, validation reports, and validation plans
• Mentored and trained peers on client interaction policies