SUMMARY:

• I am a goal - oriented Project Manager. I am a PMI certified PMP, a certified Scrum Master and Certified CISA. I have over 15+ years of Project Management experience, as a project manager and a scheduler/planner and several years of varied IT experience (mainframe programmer, systems designer etc).
• I have recently completed a 12-month assignment with a manufacturer of large earth-moving and farming equipment as a project manager, looking after several concurrent projects varying in size from about a hundred hours to several hundred hours.
• Managing, planning and coordinating multiple concurrent projects from start to implementation, Coordinating projects ranging from about $45k to $2.75m, involving teams of up to 20 or more resources (500hrs thru 25,000 hrs).
• Ensuring all projects meet quality standards and guidelines of the organization.
• Worked on SharePoint projects & Support
• Creating and managing schedules and plans, and project dashboards. Facilitating regular meetings with teams and sponsors
• Ensuring adequate resources for the project; transitioning resources off when no longer required
• Estimating project requirements in time, effort, resources etc. Maintaining project financials, creating analysis reports (budget-vs-actual etc). Creating ROIs and cost-benefit analysis, creating EVAs, dashboards, reports and analysis etc.
• Facilitating & Coordinating risks and issues, on mitigation of risks.
• Extensive experience with coordinating & liaising with offshore and off-site teams
• A skilled experienced Project Management Professional (PMP) with proven expertise in project life cycle development, with several years of varied experience in various industries.
• Been cited and recognized by peers as a senior management professional, with expertise in managing concurrent large & small IT projects, managing an IT department, budget management, people management, off-shore and off-site management, operations, program management, business development, etc..

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES:

Functional: Infrastructure upgrades, Claims Processing, Business Analysis, PMO, Project management, IT Manager

Verticals: Banking, Automotive, Insurance, Finance, Communication, Health

Roles: Project manager, project coordinator, PMO, Project lead, Programmer/Business Analyst, Systems Programmer

Databases: DB2, SQL server, MS-Access, Oracle, VSAM, Natural AG

Software: Lotus Notes, MS Office/MS Visio/Project, MS Outlook, MS SharePoint, Cognos, Rational, ClearCase, HTML/XML, SQLPL, Natural AG

Systems Engineering: Requirements Analysis, Specification Development, Design, Development and Testing

Methodologies: RUP, SDLC, Waterfall, Iterative, Agile & SCRUM, ITIL, Rational Use Cases

Other: Primavera P6, CRM, PeopleSoft, sourcing new initiatives, Offsite-Offshore management; Financial systems (GL, AR, AP etc), gap analysis for CMM initiatives, E-Commerce, knowledge of COBIT, Software Quality Audits and Process implementation, HP Quality Center, MS Office Project, and MS EPPM, knowledge of SOX, knowledge of CMMI, some knowledge of ITIL, Gaining knowledge of SOA.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I have recently completed an assignment as a project manager at Deere & Company, managing several portfolios with several projects within each portfolio.
• Managed a 6-month Java project that enhanced security for dealers and customers to log into Confidential 's web portals.
• Proficient in MS Projects, as well as using Agile and Scrum methodology, full project management life cycle and SDLC.
• I managed a 4-months Java Parts Management project, upgrading the application to enhance security and accessibility of parts and related information. The project was scheduled for 6 months, but was brought in in less than 5months and under budget.
• Another project was a Non Compliance Corrective Action (NCCA) project that was created to manage quality of manufactured products. This was a several thousand hours project with teams across the USA & Offshore, which was also brought in on time and within budget and received high grades from all stakeholders upon completion.
• Other projects were small upgrade type of projects that were mainly initiated at the head office but most of the technical work is done off-shore in IndiaThe project management required extensive coordination with the off-shore and on-site members, constant liaising with the business partners and other stakeholders. The projects were of small nature, typically 4-6 months durations, but I am managed multiple projects of this nature (8-10 concurrent projects).
• I was involved and responsible for budgeting every project in the portfolio, as well as monitoring the expenses of the portfolio.
• Microsoft EPPM is used for portfolio and project management.

PMO & Project Coordinator / Scheduler

Confidential, Denver, CO

Responsibilities:

• I have been involved in several Industrial ERP projects that would load data into SAP of the many projects undertaken by Confidential and its subsidiaries and/or wholly owned companies.
• I was also involved in setting up the PMO, standardizing project templates, reporting structures, standards etc.
• The projects were scheduled on Primavera P6. Projects created ranged from short 2 months to over 12 months duration (approx 150 hours to 20k+ hours).
• Creating and analyzing Earned Value numbers and trends, and reporting accordingly.
• Also, assisted in transferring MS project schedules to Primavera schedules, adding proper resources, proper WBS structures, data dictionary etc.

Project Management Consultant

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Responsibilities:

• Planned and managed several concurrent projects independently and collaboratively ranging from about $75k to $2.5m, managing from about seven people to more than 20 across multiple functions in a matrix environment. The projects have ranged from about four months to over 18 months.
• Ensured that all projects had clear and defined requirements from the client and ensuring that all those requirements (and more) were captured in the KRT (Key Requirements Table).
• Ensured that all project changes (timelines, resources, requirements, scope etc) were adequately documented and concurrence from business partners and key stake holders were received.
• Worked on evaluating charters, ensuring all projects adhere to enterprise compliance, evaluating project risks and its mitigating factors.
• Managed project using EVM, comparing planned costs against actual costs, planned vs. actual durations etc.
• Ensuring that project costs were tightly controlled and planned deviations were agreed upon by all concerned.
• I have been involved in specifying resource requirements, including expertise, types and number of resources, acquiring and releasing resources as and when required, upgrading talent by education and training. Often managed team members that would be based offshore or off site.
• Prepared weekly reports,dashboards, expenses-vs-budgets, presentations etc for stakeholders and project sponsors.
• Worked a project to upgrade CISCO firmware using Agile and Scrum methodology. Over 1500 items were required to be upgraded and it was decided to use 3-weeks sprints to achieve this. The initial roll-out took 5 weeks as most of the team members were new to agile; however after the first roll-out delay, we were able to keep to the 3 weeks sprints and the project was well on track.
• Managed regulatory projects such as ensuring French language communications were offered to clients based in some provinces of Canada; elevated levels of security to be provided to banking clients doing their banking over the internet; banking project interfacing with Confidential . The banking project used Java & XML extensively.
• Managed infrastructure projects such as upgrading access to all company facilities nation-wide. This project involved working with vendor resources off-site, ensuring they had adequate level of security to complete the project.
• Managed a data conversion project, converting database and data elements from one proprietary banking system to another. The work involved mapping common data elements and databases, creating 'missing' elements and then populating the databases.
• Proficient in Primavera and MS Projects, as well as using Agile and Scrum methodology, full project management life cycle and SDLC.
• Involved in ensuring that the projects are executed within the scope of time, money and quality. Where the projects have been extended due to any one of several reasons, the stakeholders' and business partners' concurrence was obtained.
• Ensured that all implementation and transition documents were thoroughly reviewed by all impacted parties, including service desk, clients and business partners.

Project and Scheduling Consultant

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Managed several short term projects at various customers in the building and construction industry - taught project management and MS projects, been involved in creating plans for web-based applications, written statements of work (SOWs), resource requirements, created backup procedures and disaster recover procedures, and many other standard day to day activities.

Project Lead

Confidential, Tulsa, OK

Responsibilities:

• As a project leader involved in the migration of a db from DB2 to Oracle, using Informatica as an ETL tool.
• Also involved in reviewing use case diagrams and models, using Rational Tools.
• Added to the existing team a database expert, rational experts, and some Java developers.
• Had developed an aggressive time-line to develop and implement our version of CRM.
• Assisted and participated in developing Use Cases using Rational Tools

Project Manager

Confidential, Malvern, PA

Responsibilities:

• The corporation also specialized in being an outsourcing provider to the education and higher learning industry, and to the utilities industry.
• They had marketed several proprietary software packages to these industries.
• Also managed a similar local-government project at Ft. Myers in Florida. This project was also completed ahead of time.
• Also involved in scoping clients' Y2K readiness and advised on remediation efforts, as well as advising them on backup and recovery procedures.