SUMMARY:

• 15+ years project management experience
• Experience leading project teams and managing all activities in a project life - cycle
• Managed all activities on highly visible projects across MULTIPLE business lines
• Experience developing and revising project plans and budgets on projects
• Experience creating and delivering presentations on program or project goals and plans
• Experience with end-to-end program or project management and experience demonstrating ownership of the entire process from beginning to end
• Experienced in developing, implementing, and managing Project Management training

CORE COMPETENCIES:

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Quality Management and Process Improvement

Business Analysis/Requirements Definition

Project Budget Costing & Management

Project Planning/Execution/Tracking

Stakeholder Communications Skills

Risk Planning & Management

Change Control Management

Scope of Work Creation & Management

Negotiation and Influence Skills

Project Management Training

Agile Knowledgeable and Practitioner

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chandler, AZ

Project Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provide PMP/AGILE/Risk Management Preparatory Instruction to various private businesses and individuals (over 95% success pass)
• Provide project management consulting, including framework discovery, process improvement, and process roll-out via templates
• Provide pre- and post-project sales for third-party organizations
• Provide organizational consultation for third-party organizations
• Develop web-based PDU training modules

Confidential, Phoenix, Arizona

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Support pre- and post-project sales
• Direct site authorization, land usage, FCC, and FAA permitting processes
• Prioritize and organize work efforts, based on strategic organizational plans and contractual obligations
• Responsible for leading and managing multiple and simultaneous two-way radio communication installation projects through initiation, planning, execution, monitor/control, and closing phases via established SDLC (rolling-wave)
• Provide planning and coordination of technical installation teams, as well as regular stakeholder communications to senior management, business customers/partners/vendors, and project teams
• Lead and manage up to 20+ member teams
• Provide direct project interface to customers/users (municipalities, public safety, and private organizations)

Confidential, Phoenix, Arizona

Project Management Instructor

Responsibilities:

• Provide Project Management training to individuals seeking to earn their PMI certification/credential
• Propose, implement, and teach two new school programs (PMI Agile Certified Practitioner and Risk Management) resulting in 200% business program offering growth
• Initiate, maintain, and coordinate communication with other contract Project Management instructors
• Initiate Implementation and provide monthly Project Management course metrics to support grant funding requirements
• Imitate and implement post-class study sessions to support students up to and through completing their exams
• Initiate creation of project management implementation methodology as basis for future project management business consulting

Confidential, Phoenix, Arizona

Contract Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Initiate creation of project management implementation methodology as basis for future project management business consulting
• Prioritize and organize work efforts, based on strategic organizational plans and contractual obligations as member of Confidential ITG Project Management Office
• Manage highly complex projects as mandated by state legislator and/or interdepartmental initiatives through all phases of SDLC
• Lead and manage up to 20+ member teams
• Lead analysis and development to recommend Web Configuration Management System solution for Arizona Highways Magazine
• Introduce project management metrics to increase work effectiveness
• Participate on Confidential ITG Process Improvement committee

Confidential, Tempe, Arizona

Contract Lead Project Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Member of Confidential 's leadership team for the Airbus A350 aircraft program, including schedule development and tracking for two major aircraft subsystems
• Achieve on-demand schedule performance, metrics, forecast analysis, and schedule closeout prior to contract closure
• Manage multiple highly complex outsource projects including design, implementation, test and customer approval for aircraft ventilation and heating systems
• Interface intensively with both major subcontractors, Honeywell engineering (mechanical, digital, and software), and Airbus colleagues ($12M project budgets)

Confidential, Phoenix, Arizona

Contract Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading and directing multiple simultaneous IT infrastructure and telecommunication projects through Best Western IT project management office SDLC
• Introduce project management concepts to infrastructure/telecom department to increase work visibility and business results
• Introduce Earned Value metrics to increase work effectiveness

Confidential, Tempe, Arizona

Program/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead, manage, and complete highly complex commercial CDMA, LTE, and WiMAX, and cross-functional cellular Base Station hardware/software development projects ($1M-plus project budgets) through all SDLC phases including requirements, design, implementation, system integration and user acceptance test, and full deployment to various international factories
• Achieve success via emphasis on on-time delivery and high quality, utilizing effective earned value management, communications, risk management, and stakeholder management methods
• Lead and manage multi-site teams, up 50+ members
• Introduce blended AGILE and Waterfall development coordination to PMO
• Mentor new Project Manager through two hardware development projects