PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Corporate Experience

Confidential, Braselton, Georgia

Responsibilities:

• Directly accountable for P&L, and total customer satisfaction and retention of clients.
• Founder and President of the company, which provides project and portfolio management; project audit and forensics; enterprise risk management; statement of work/RFP development; project management outsourcing; earned value analysis; competency and maturity model development; and training services to both public and private sector clients. This also includes professional speaking and mentoring services.
• Designed and developed a customized project portfolio management (PPM) methodology to be used by all project and portfolio managers in managing their Information Technology project portfolio, which was in excess of $52 million.
• Authored and delivered an Introduction to Enterprise Risk Management course and facilitated the initial methodology development for these organizations.
• Assisted in standing up the PMO, which was responsible for planning the design and implementation of an Oracle ERP system to over 200 locations within Masco Contracting Services, a $2.0 billion home improvement and building products manufacturer. This included direct management of a team of 6 - project managers, 6-Oracle analysts, and 12-Oracle trainers responsible for system deployment and organizational change management to 31 locations in seven months.
• Conducted an assessment of ESI International’s Consulting Group and provided recommendations for growing the practice and assisted in developing a “go-to-market” strategy to improve their ability to attract new customers and increase profitability.
• Developed a customized solicitation package for the CIO’s Office for procuring a common directory and cloud based application services for all desktop applications for approximately 15,000 employees. Designed and developed a customized procurement methodology for the Department of Procurement for the county and the Confidential .
• Assisted Confidential, LLP in leading the design and development of the Enterprise Risk Management Pilot and Methodology for the Defense Logistics Agency, the Department of Defense’s largest combat support agency with over $35 billion in sales and services.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Managing Director

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading the Technology Advisory and Assurance Services (TAAS) practice in Washington, DC, which included Risk Management, Performance Improvements, IT Audit, and Information Security Services.
• Led a staff of 15 people (6 managers and 9 staff), which was the largest TAAS practice within UHY Advisors.
• Lead Principal for the U.S. House of Representatives IT audit engagement.
• Responsible for developing and leading the Enterprise Risk Management and Project Management Practice.
• Responsible for developing and leading the National Enterprise Risk Management and Performance Improvement Practice. - Accume Partners.
• Responsible for leading and growing the IT Audit Practice and associated services for the Atlanta Office - Accume Partners.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Global Director of Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for ensuring project management excellence globally, within Microsoft Consulting Services, with specific focus on monitoring the Company’s largest, most complex consulting engagements, including the U.S. Air Force (750,000 seats) and the National Health Services-UK (800,000 seats).
• Responsible for creating and implementing project management and consulting methodologies and supporting tools for assisting the field in supporting complex service engagements, including integrating these with SDLC methodologies. This also included development and delivery of the associated training in support of these methodologies and tools.
• Led the development and implementation of the Program Management Office (PMO) for the largest services contract ever awarded to Microsoft - $70 million in services for the United States Air Force. This included establishing the organizational structure of the PMO and overseeing the development of the necessary tools and templates required to manage the six-multiple project streams being delivered under this program.

Confidential

Senior Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led the delivery of numerous Risk Management and Performance Improvement engagements, including evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal controls.
• Responsible for the design, development, and deployment of both internal and external methodologies and associated training specific to the practice of enterprise risk, project, program and portfolio management.
• Firm wide Program and Project Management subject matter expert (SME) responsible for supporting the local Project Risk Management practices, regardless of geography, in selling and delivering quality Risk Management services to clients. This included assisting practices in Belgium, UK, South Africa, Australia, and North America on various engagements.
• Program and Project Management SME for Confidential ’s Federal Practice in Washington, DC. Responsible for assisting all of the Federal clusters (i.e. Army, Navy, Air Force, etc.) with meeting any specific program and project requirements for their engagements. Federal Practice lead for enterprise risk management issues and requirements within the practice, which included responsibility for working with a 3rd party on the development of a systems approach to risk management, including the Risk SMART tool and the associated training.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Senior Manager

Responsibilities:

• Established and led a Global Project Management Forum, consisting of 14 Partners and Senior Managers, for the purpose of developing project management policies and procedures, and identifying global “PM Best Practices”.
• Led the development of the Project Management Tools and Techniques Course and PM Toolkit, which is the standard project management course for Andersen Business Consulting. Served as the SME in the development of a project management simulation, project management tutorial, and earned value analysis courses.
• Led a multi-disciplined team (30+ members) in the design, development and deployment of the initial Arthur Andersen Architected Solutions Project Management Initiative.
• Served as the firm wide SME in project management assisting the line practices in selling various services to clients who required that the Firm demonstrate expertise in project management.

Confidential, GA

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Initiated a “Project Management Center of Excellence” in support of 12 Branch offices in 8 states.
• Established and led a national Project Management Forum, consisting of 11 representatives, responsible for developing project management policies and procedures, and identifying “PM best practices” within the organization.
• Led the development and implementation of the Project Office concept at the Region, Branch and Client offices.
• Developed a standard Statement of Work (SOW) for the organization and a 3-day training course, for ENTEX Institute, titled INCREASING PROFITABILITY WITH THE STATEMENT OF WORK (SOW). The standard SOW helped to increase profit on one account alone from - 5% to +20% for annualized revenue of $1,000,000.
• Initiated the South Region “Project Management Center of Excellence” in support of 12 Branch offices in 8 states.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the management and coordination of approximately 20+ project managers and their associated teams, which, in turn, equated to a total team size for both Programs in excess of 300 FTE’s.
• Instrumental in improving the quality and approval time of schedule and cost change requests (SACCR’s) by streamlining the information required to be submitted by the District offices.
• Staff liaison specialist, with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, on project execution issues, including execution of all PCA’s on assigned projects.
• National Program Manager responsible for managing the Central Division’s Civil Works Program.
• Responsible for managing the Jacksonville District’s Operations and Maintenance program with an annual budget in excess of $30 million.