Project Manager Resume
Boston, MA
PROFILE:
IT Manager, developing and executing strategy, governance, and operations with extensive project management, across software development, database management, and enterprise systems and experience in financial services, academia, the public sector, and consulting. At Confidential developed 7 year project roadmap, and collaborated with CIO to establish project prioritization and timeframes. Developed business cases and feasibility based on resources, scope and timeframe. Experienced in structured stage gate environments and managing change.
COMPETENCIES:
- Managed complex application development projects to successful implementation through the SDLC.
- At Confidential managed over 42 major projects, winning recognition as one of the country’s top university IT departments.
- At Confidential, established a university - wide Information Security Compliance Program, including a formal risk assessment and risk mitigation strategy; directed the analysis of disaster recovery risks, and led implementation of a robust data protection/system recovery plan.
- At Confidential, managed Governance Committee action items to completion; secured input from nine academic/business divisions; applied COBIT process to identify risks and prioritize projects; conducted gap analysis to identify critical issues of system maturity and investment needs.
- Kanban, daily standups, impediment resolution, product reviews, team retrospectives
CAREER HISTORY:
Confidential, Boston, MA
Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Managed multiple simultaneous software projects, major change to ERP & interfacing systems; packaged solution implementations, data integration. Within a matrix environment provided SDLC waterfall project plans and custom designed plans to accommodate aggressive/firm deadlines.
- Managed issues resolution, including scope issues and issues between application teams. Provided QA and was instrumental in success of test plans and implementation plans by identifying and advocating essential components.
- Supported technical teams and project by answering several technical design questions.
- Implemented new Outcomes Assessment (Taskstream) SaaS system to customer delight, integrating it with two major applications.
- Developed customized implementation plan to support accreditation readiness. Iterative date-driven delivery with continuous customer review and feedback. Partnered and collaborated closely with Director of Outcomes Assessment and IT to develop and implement the new product strategy and roadmap, and managed iterative and incremental IT product delivery
- To meet aggressive and fixed deadline, developed a customized project plan with overlapping deliverables to install the Starfish student retention SaaS system and beat the vendor’s implementation timeframe record.
- Business-driven information setup was integrated with complex interactive changes to two onsite applications. Supported growth of School of Online & Continuing Education. Daily standups. Impediment resolution.
- Instrumental to success of several major successful implementations.
- Contract extended several times, to nearly two years, which was longer that HR policy of 18 months maximum.
Confidential, Waltham, MA
Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Managed overall plan and RAID for Operations and IT for Confidential, developing new Integrated Care Organization to serve the dual-eligible Medicare and Medicaid population.
- Plan included revisions to existing software applications, developing new applications, infrastructure for new lease buildout, and vendor interfaces.
- Project Team of 87 IT and business staff.
- Identified RFR requirements.
- Responsible for cross-organization issues tracking and resolution.
Confidential, Shrewsbury, MA
Senior Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Managed $2.3M Cyber Security Project, and Business Intelligence Projects.
- Improved vendor relationship and project team response time.
- Team of 20 included offshore vendor to consolidate BI Services onto DataStage and OBI EE (ETL).
- Utilized Kanban and daily standups.
- Projects included system upgrade and process workflow cost savings.
- Reduced risks and improved testing.
Confidential, Providence, RI
Program Manager
Responsibilities:
- Recommended changes to program structure.
- Delivered Readiness Assessment and Stabilize the Foundation recommendations to improve program performance.
- Developed MS Project plans for Chart of Accounts and User Interface.
- Functional administrator for MS Project Server 2010.
- Developed IT Resource Allocation planning.
- Lead IT Steering Committee to prioritize IT Projects.
- Presented Business Drivers (Criteria) process to integrate drivers into project proposal and prioritization processes of MS Project 2010 server.