SUMMARY

• Experienced Project Manager / Coordinator / Project Controller / Scheduler / Accountant with the ability to quickly understand complex project objectives, generating project scope documentation, building stakeholder consensus to delivery approach.
• Proficient in ORACLE, EMPAC, Hyperion, Microsoft Office (Word; Excel including Vlookups, Pivot tables and macros; PowerPoint) QuickBooks, and UNIX, Visio, MS Project 2010, SharePoint.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Houston, TX

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with business and system analysts and/or functional managers to define and vetprojectbusiness and technical requirements.
• Focal point between C - level management and project teams.
• Custodian of SharePoint- ensured all project artifacts were reviewed, validated and archived in SharePoint.
• Lead and managed contract resources assigned to projects.
• Identifiedprojectand program risks and collaborates with thefunctional/technical managers to mitigateprojectrisks.
• Managedprojectand program communication, planning and execution
• Prepared and maintained project documentation: project plan, project charter, status reports, risk assessment plans, project schedules in MS Project 3500 line items, change requests and resource requests.
• Tracked, reported and communicated Project issues, deliverables, action items and key project milestones.
• Compiled lessons learnt with enterpriseprojectmanagement standards.
• Managed & updated CCB on project issue / risk tracking logs, change request to monitored project execution and escalated project issues as necessary.
• Documentedprojectdecisions andprojectmeetings. Ensured knowledge sharing and leveraging of lessons learnt within project management teams.
• Developed, executed resource management plans and managed cross team resource dependencies
• Developed and implemented TEMPeffective communication plans Ensured Projects adhered to and complied with all applicable PMO, Company, and federal / state laws regulations.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Lead Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Developed and managedprojectdesign, schedule and budget to the plan.
• Built strong partnerships with key stakeholders, business units and technical staff.
• Communicated TEMPeffectively with stakeholders regardingprojectprogress and risk.
• Collaborated heavily with business partners and technical partners to deliver high quality solutions.
• Ensured completion of Project deliverables
• Ensured project adherence to project timelines, task and resource management.
• Tracked milestones and timelines across projects and instituted necessary work flow, personnel and financial resource allocations
• Met with project teams to review and make alterations (project re-plan) where necessary to meet expectations of clients.
• Analyzed and resolved issues dat have the potential to jeopardize performance and ability to meet agreed upon deliverables.
• Ensured timely communication of project status to both clients and executive management
• Managed the Execution of several HIMA application projects and acted as single-point of accountability and escalation for overall project activities, including problem, change, incident management, and project issues.
• Established and maintained cross-business relationships and provide critical communication to key leaders and stakeholders for IT projects.
• Ensured dat all projects adhered to all PMO/SDLC standard processes and budgetary practices
• Defined project approach, effort, scope, schedule, team member roles and expectations to ensure dat resources are used efficiently and meet project plan objectives.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Project Controller / Scheduler

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for tracking hours and milestones, project planning of resources and timelines, project progress reporting, identifying time constraints, milestones in jeopardy, mentoring developers and business analysts.
• Managed Project resources with a team size around 30 people.
• Led the development and establishment of a WBS and cost tracking system for the PMO dat maintained, analyzed and reported on budgets, change orders, expenditures, commitments, work progress and performance, cost variances and estimate at completion.
• Experience on large complex engineering and construction in fixed price environment.
• Converted project estimates to control budgets in accordance with the applicable code of accounts and work breakdown structure.
• Monitored the coding of timesheets, purchase orders and vendor invoicing.
• Updated, maintained, and analyzed project commitments and expenditures.
• Analyzed cost data, physical progress data and schedule data in order to predict the prospective financial performance of the project and support the company accrual and SOX processes.
• Assigned resources to project deliverables and oversees their progress on project tasks and deliverables
• Managed customer project delivery of Medium risk and complexity applications development projects.
• Managed and dealt with 5 Project Managers.
• Maintained 5 separate Project Schedules.
• Acted as POC between Project Manager and Project team for medium to high risk deliverables.
• Managed both client relationships and mid to upper level client delivery relationships.
• Frequently represents the organization to external customers/clients
• Completed regular status reporting to client organization on projects/deliverables.
• Developed, communicated, and monitored project implementation schedules, and resource plans.
• Created, maintained and controlled the Program Master Schedule with 9800 line items.
• Custodian of SharePoint, uploaded and maintained all project artifacts and executed document control.
• Worked with the schedulers and progress specialists to identify project performance metrics, monitor progress and performance indicators.
• Identified and TEMPeffectively communicated progress, and developed corrective action plans as necessary.
• Developed and maintained an TEMPeffective change management system dat establishes an orderly and timely process for identifying, reporting, and controlling potential changes.
• Assisted with preparing formal trends and change orders.
• Reviewed and enhanced existing PMO policies, procedures and analysis techniques dat will enable the successful project controls management of major engineering and construction work within the Corporation.