Summary

Project Management Professional with 5 years of expertise managing people and projects. Expert in driving multi-million dollar projects nationally and consistently meeting key program deliverables. Acknowledged for integrity, high professional standards, and remaining calm under pressure. Excels in managing multiple projects concurrently with strong detail, problem solving and follow-through capabilities. Demonstrated ability to manage, motivate and build cohesive teams that achieve results. Expertise includes vendor management and project execution.

Key Project Management Achievements

Professional Experience

Confidential

Managed and executed multiple projects with an average budget of 100,000 simultaneously. Worked closely with business units and technical IT teams to define and execute using both waterfall and agile methodologies. Managed project scope and change requests along with external client expectations. Worked closely with technical IT teams to manage the Software Development Life Cycle SDLC and ensured consistency with the Project Management Life Cycle. Managed project resources in a functional organization structure as well as supervised a direct employees. Coordinated all aspects of projects from developing charters, schedules, and budgets to vendor management and communication status to steering committee executives.

Confidential

Developed excel based project plans and reporting for executive level briefings. Analyzed system data for inaccuracies and implemented processes to make reporting more efficient. Coordinated with senior level project managers to ensure project plans were completed and processed for transitioning to local executing project managers nationally. Designed macro based/ automated excel spreadsheets for tracking of resource efforts by specific qualifications and categories.

Confidential

Developed project charters, timelines, and budgets for complex technology installations across all campus facilities including high visibility, business critical functions. Evaluated and mitigated risks and issues in regards to project deadlines and resource availability. Coordinated with project vendors to include preparing RFQs, and hosting site walks to relay project deadlines, scope, and expectations. Coordinated between functional area Subject Matter Experts to identify business needs, industry technology changes, and technology resource issues that are decreasing manufacturing effectiveness. Managed ad hoc projects based on the continuous change of industry standards, customer requirements, and company direction.

Confidential

Initiated and planned continuous deployment cycles for technology bundle installations with retail client. Responsible for executing and controlling the span of deployment related resources from technician schedules and cost effective project decisions to reporting of installation logistics tracking/status updates/change orders and routing of all equipment to the 2500 retail locations of client. Liaison between all stakeholders from procurement and technicians to high level management and end client.

Confidential

Supported UMTS project manager with tracking and deployment of at least 660 cellular tower site modifications continuously and assumed full leadership role when project manager was inaccessible. Coordinated the acceptance of completed sites in the AT T Operations network. Ordered equipment forecasted for tower modification and approved vendors to obtain necessary equipment from warehouse. Approved closeout packages assembled by vendors to ensure required documents and processes were completed per AT T policy prior to invoice payments. Confirmed and approved modification specifications in business terms of tower site lease contracts.

Confidential

Worked cross-functionally with the engineering, financial, and executive teams as well as other counterparts. Developed various reports that accurately depicted the results of network status. Coordinated and interacted with all project disciplines to design sites based on construction feasibility and cost effectiveness. Received and verified payments of all city, county and state fees. Facilitated all regional real estate negotiations with outside parties. Worked closely with vendors and accounts payable to ensure invoices are paid in timely manner. Supported the team with the preparation of documents, retrieval of signatures for new vendor approvals, and creating purchase orders. Prepared weekly status reports and maintained monthly purchase order spreadsheets.

Confidential

Prepared and filed all applicable lease/zoning applications or assembled documents from SAS that required additional filings. Created and tracked contracts, purchase orders, cost and revenues, submittals and complete project close-out manuals. Handled all correspondence between general contractor, owner, architect and subcontractors. Provided timely project status updates to the project managers and site acquisition director. Facilitated and coordinated the work of multiple project teams engaged in the establishment or implementation of collocation upgrades to support the project manager. Developed a market specific MS Excel tracker utilizing macros and VBA coding to track completion dates, financial milestones, and past deadline tasks as well as generate P L reports for Site Acquisition department.

Technical Proficiency

• l MS Office Suite Including Excel Macros VBA, Project, Visio, SharePoint l Oracle 11i l SAP l RFID
• l Managed Print Services l UMTS l LTE l Clarity PPM l Desktop Support l Computer Repair/Building
• l Novice in C , HTML, CSS