PROFILE:

Dynamic Project Practitioner seeking role with an innovative business focused on industry leadership and growth. Over 10 years of project accomplishments in a variety of verticals, use functional experience to facilitate and direct diverse teams through the project life cycle. Extensive experience with global projects with budgets upward of $1M where focus drives business value and iterative improvement.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technologies: Microsoft Projects, Atlassian; JIRA, Bitbucket, Hipchat and Confluence. Trello, Smartsheet, Teamgantt, Clinch pad, Basecamp, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook), Document Management System (DMS), Proficiency with Visio diagrams and decision trees, working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, working knowledge with Google Analytics and AdWords.

EXPERIENCE:

Project Manager/Product Owner

Confidential, Evanston, IL

Responsibilities:

• Tailor agile methodology framework to meet business and technology needs through programmatic automation for the automotive vertical.
• Manage cross - functional projects concurrently, owning the scope and schedule plans from design to deployment.
• Determine project strategy, manage stakeholder reporting, coordinate issue closure effort, and organize project closure.
• Translate business requirements to technical specs with development partners.
• Prioritize feature requirements into epics, organize user stories by business value and labor savings.
• Collect stakeholder input for product grooming and backlog prioritization.
• Develop testing criteria for UAT; prioritize fixes or backlog for future releases.
• Lead process improvement sessions with project team as part of project closure and operational efficiency.
• Accomplishments: performance dashboard automates campaign performance reporting, aggregates metrics multiple channels, Salesforce/MAP platform Integration

Agile Project Manager

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Established cross-functioning project management framework for a merged Teradata Marketing Application division and Revenue, a category-leading provider of marketing operations management software.
• Collaborated with key stakeholders to set objectives for integrated digital content management for merged teams.
• Created agile processes to rollout brand identity, website launch and introduce digital display content.
• Performed routine system gap analysis and value stream maps to increase efficiency for content production.
• Facilitated WIP meetings and individual coaching sessions to enhance team performance and accountability.
• Implemented progress tracking for large simultaneous project pipeline of 60+ integrated digital projects employing accessible online management tools and status reports.

Agile Project Manager

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Managed workflow and release planning for digital marketing platform and marketing resource management products.
• Used adaptive planning tools to advance strategy for this $200 million applications division and integrated marketing solutions firm.
• Demonstrated agile adaptation methods, increasing business value by 30% in user acceptance ratings in 90 days.
• Durations varied from 4 to 9 weeks ranging $100-250k.
• Drove program management accountability for 40 simultaneous projects assigned to virtual team distributed globally.
• Provided activity timelines to sustain timely release of creative content marketing products.
• Introduced progress project-reporting tools to sustain planned release delivery, minimizing project backlog and waste.
• Established shared vision with leadership on prioritization of projects, monitoring performance and team efficiency.

Technical Project Manager

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Led agile transformation to improve project efficiency for this ad-tech start up.
• Used continuous improvement tools to foster team engagement to facilitate projects and to enhance cross functional collaboration with marketing, sales and technology.
• Implemented test driven development process to increase sprint velocity and release frequency.
• Served as scrum master and product owner grouping product backlog grooming using project software to refine track and monitor deadlines.
• Employed lean methodology principles to manage 18 concurrent projects with a development team of 12. Facilitated sprint reviews and client demos with a approval rate of 86%.
• Standardized development process for of UI/UX template for SaaS product. User persona profiles designed to

Project Manager

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Created road map for database application modification and enhancements to track reporting, milestones for project leadership.
• Led 10-month enterprise expansion for resource group program in 32 US locations. Facilitated the development and approval of project definition and scoping with stakeholders.
• Developed templates and procedures for managing risk, cost, and time Estimation. Co-designed implementation of IT resource system and repository for activity analysis, project document configuration management (SharePoint)
• Participated in Review meetings, provided project status to stakeholders; exceeded expectations on all projects delivered on time within budget and scope.