SUMMARY:

Accomplished and highly motivated Program/Project Manager & Business Analyst with a successful track record of tactical and strategic business transformation involving interrelated disciplines and functions. Proactive leader of powerhouse multi - functional teams in fast paced dynamic environments requiring substantial change, collaboration and communication. Highly skilled at developing and executing strategies to rapidly deliver visible, large, complex, global, cross-company, first-to-market, never been done before assignments - under demanding conditions - on time, within budget.. Identified by peers as closer of challenging projects. Considered Public/Private sector IT/Finance and Procurement expert.

KEY MANAGEMENT STRENGTHS INCLUDE:

• Technology Integration
• Policy and Procedure Creation
• Acquisition Professional
• Strategic Planning
• Organizational Analysis
• Performance Management / Metrics
• Process Improvement
• Program Evaluation
• Conflict Resolution

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Skills: Effective in verbal and written communications, Proficient in MS Office, MS Project, MS SharePoint, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Visio, SharePoint, Access, Database Management. Knowledge of Island Pacific, Xstore, Business Intelligence tools, Clarity, Websphere Commerce, and CWDirect. Experienced in Federal Acquisition Regulations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

IT Project Manager/Business Analyst

Confidential, Hampstead, MD

Responsibilities:

• As an IT Project Manager/Business Analyst, led teams through entire project lifecycle, including project initiation/proposals, project delivery, business liaison / stakeholder management, implementation of strategic planning initiatives, post implementation review and project close out / handover.
• Focused on the retail industry, but not limited to any particular department; the task set before me by management has been the remediation of outstanding projects that over the last two years have experienced issues related to scope changes, risk management tolerance, resource deprivation, and budget constraints.
• All custom files will have their store number field increased from three digits to five digits.
• Completion of this project allowed Confidential to open additional retail stores, cost centers, and fulfillment locations above and beyond the current constraint thus allowing for expected growth and expansion.
• Confidential current Business to Business Integration system required alternations and updates to continue to allow for the a stable file transfer through the use of secure data processing transmissions and transformation services.
• This project required a joint partnership with Wells Fargo to individually implement changes to two separate platforms affecting both catalog/online and retail sales.

Management and Program Analyst

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• As a Project Coordinator/Business Analyst, developed over 20 unique reporting systems including a procurement system utilizing MS SharePoint, MS Excel, and MS Access, including data gathering, quantitative and qualitative figures, analytical techniques, and system evaluation methodology to provide enterprise-wide status to facilitate regulatory compliance.
• Responsible for setting strategic direction for projects and developing project plans that identify key issues, potential problems, and approaches.
• Evaluated processes and integrated a Microsoft SharePoint based repository intended for long-term agency wide use with the in corporation of Microsoft Outlook integration that resulted in an estimated 25% decrease in man-hours.
• Improve reporting results by managing the Compliance database and analyzing data used by staff and management.
• Coordinated all Office of Compliance projects specifically to ensure agency and all banking institutions met regulatory requirements this included writing policies and procedures.
• Present Compliance data by creating metrics including KPI, scorecards, and standard reports.
• Assessed executive compensation and luxury expenditures of over 600 banks located across United States participating in TARP communicating directly with bank executives and reviewed all bank financial statements.
• Brief executive management including Assistant Secretary and Departmental Chiefs on program life cycles providing recommendations and conclusions that account for variables affecting long range program performance.
• Evaluate multiple agency processes and provide recommendations of technology integration and in corporation as a liaison across multiple agencies including IRS and departments communicating directly with both internal and external customers, developers, and contractors.
• Develop agency procurement database to track requests, reviews, and procurement completion in cooperation of interagency agreement which allows for system ratio communication between multiple agencies.
• Integrated SQL Server, Oracle eBusiness suite, OBIEE, Microsoft InfoPath, Microsoft Excel with built in macros and micros that included queries in all reporting systems and SharePoint based repositories.
• Review all procurement from solicitations to closeouts including task orders and modifications to ensure that all procurements meet Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) .
• Oversaw development of algorithms that were applied to data in an attempt to discover patterns.
• Coordinate system that tracks metadata to provide user configurable services to meet content management needs such as Confidential, correspondence tracking, and increased collaboration.
• Adapts analytical techniques and evaluation criteria within SQL Server.

Contract Specialist

Confidential, Frederick, MD

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership, guidance, and mentorship to personnel in all aspects of the procurement of supplies, services.
• Interprets contracting laws, regulations, principles, policies, and procedures for personnel for in corporation in solicitations and small purchase orders.
• Assist in advising program officials in planning and development of specifications and purchase descriptions and contract negotiations; analyzed proposals for conformance with solicitations.
• Develop system to track enterprise-wide VA spending to develop procurement standard and provide statistical information for divisional procurement policy development.
• Process Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS) documents by applying FAR, procedures, and policies to large contracting actions; wrote, processed, reviewed, and approved Justifications for Approval.
• Process modification and documentation for final close out of over # contracts and task orders