SUMMARY

• PMP - certified Project Manager offering a proven record of success leading all phases of diverse projects. Strategic planner managing multimillion-dollar projects, aligning business goals wif solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage, and bottom-line gains.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills allowing for TEMPeffective interaction wif executive level management and their respective teams. Proficiency wif Primavera P6, MS Project, Milestone Professional, Word, Excel, Power Point, and Outlook.

Core Competencies

• Problem Management | IT Escalations & Delivery | Leading and Management | Microsoft Office | Risk Management
• Strategic Planning | Organizational Management | Scheduling | Cost Estimation | Scope Development | SharePoint
• InfoPath | Visio | Primavera P6 |Microsoft Project 2003 & 2007 | Access | Flow Charts and Diagrams

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential | Colorado Spring, CO

Project Coordinator/Test Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Assisted test coordinators wif all aspects of defect tracking and management in both HP-ALM and JIRA tools.
• Provided weekly updates to management and work group leads tracking release software development and lifecycle.
• Materially assisted test coordinators in maintaining corporate enterprise standards and practices.
• Proficient in both commercial and in-house tracking tools used by corporation.
• Track 230 projects

Confidential | Denver, CO

Assistant Project Manager/Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Created templates and reports for month end financial reporting, including accruals to be presented to leadership for forecasting and variance analysis.
• Developed and presented to senior leadership, forecast models using Confidential tools and SAP Business Objects; extracted and converted SAP data into meaningful metrics to be used for decision making and business growth.
• Created and developed processes for tracking all change requests in Confidential ’s system, mechanism was designed to follow teh change order throughout teh change request process, ensuring a complete process.
• Designed documentation sign-off processes for 150 detailed design documents, tracking wifin SharePoint, and working wif management teams to guarantee efficient sign-off process flow.
• Developed and implemented on-boarding processes for new team members and all 180 team current team members.
• Streamlined process for purchasing all hardware and software totaling $18M.
• Created framework for program artifact organization.
• Acquired lead duties for testing, quickly gaining knowledge teh IBM Rational tool; created requirements, imported test cases, linked requirements to test cases, and test case execution for Factory Acceptance Test (FAT).

Confidential | Colorado Springs, CO

Responsibilities:

• Built client relationships while providing pet care, resulting in an upward growth of clientele.
• Supervised and trained new staff members.

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Organized activities for a team of 12, facilitating inter-departmental status meetings, and coordinating communications across multiple verticals.
• Monitor and control allocated human and material resources, maintaining financial and progress forecasting in order to ensure projects are delivered according to schedule and wifin budget. Ensure resource availability
• Utilized Workamajig, customizable web-based project management software, to update specifications, create schedules and templates, and manage agency projects.

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Planned and facilitated over 90 program governance meetings to secure leadership and management approvals and provide status of individual work packages of teh program.
• Assisted project managers and engineers wif information prep for governance meetings; documented meetings, and communicated approvals and outstanding action items to program staff.
• Managed two comprehensive annual updates to program management document plans, including Program Management, Program Controls, Quality, Construction Administration, Document Controls, and a SharePoint-based workflow and standard operating procedures system.
• Performed monthly maintenance of land acquisition schedules using Primavera P6.
• Supported schedule risk analysis, compiling and classifying technical risks associated wif work package delivery.

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Quality Assurance Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated multiple test planning meetings wif all teams involved wif testing.
• Prepared daily/weekly reporting metrics and presentation content for upper management review.
• Uploaded test cases into Quality Center (database of record) and uploaded test data into Quizinator (Verizon-owned tool).
• Accountable for creating/tracking/resolving defects and consulting Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) driving test cases.

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed integrated project plans, and documented functional and technical specifications/requirements for project deliverables based on operational analysis and engineering requirements for manufacturing, testing, and validation updates.
• Managed a diverse project team of 7, including mechanical designers and electrical engineers.
• Coordinated stakeholder relations for project planning and buy-in of project baseline validation, Factory Acceptance Test of all systems and reporting of all testing activities.

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided risk management across Confidential by supporting 21 software and sustainment projects wif identification of a risk portfolio of approximately 75 risks, totaling $5.4M, saving teh Air Force $5M.
• Supported System Engineering/System Architecture team endeavors wif engineering estimates as part of teh Project Description (PD) process, producing $64.2M in estimates and saving teh Air Force over $3M.
• Produced weekly Conflict Report of Confidential launches and site maintenance activities resulting in a savings of over $3M.
• Demonstrated understanding use of Earned Value Management (EVMS).