Highly skilled Project Manager with over six years experience in project related activities. Projects include system implementations, software development and upgrades, business consolidation, and process improvements.
Work Experience
Confidential
Project Manager II
Managing the transition from manual invoicing to an automated system solution.
Appointed as a point of contact for circulation issues to help the overall circulation process for newspaper delivery become as efficient as possible. Duties include facilitating brainstorming sessions, tracking issues, prioritization of the issues, resource allocation and status updates.
Coordinated four rounds of system upgrades for the circulation system.
Developed and implemented a repeatable process for circulation system upgrades.
Worked with core project team to develop a readiness checklist to sign off prior to implementation.
Established a formal process to kickoff projects which include defining project goals, roles and responsibilities and processes and procedures.
Confidential
Project Manager I
Assisted the core project team in defining and documenting test plans for data verifications.
Coordinated data verification cycles testing for the implementation of a new circulation system.
Acted as the liaison between the core project team and third party implementers.
Facilitated weekly stakeholder meetings to provide updates on the project.
Managed the newsroom reconfiguration by helping to define tasks, maintaining the project plan and facilitating meetings.
Worked with subject matter experts of the Adbase system to develop test plans and a repeatable testing process for upgrades.
Confidential
Project Coordinator
Acted as a co-project manager with a technical lead to implement the new Enterprise Content Management System. Duties include facilitating meetings, gathering estimates, budget tracking and creation and monitoring of the project plan.
Helped to define and document the project request process and automate via a Project Server 2010 Nintex workflow.
Assisted IT project leaders in adhering to the Division's Systems Development Life Cycle SDLC and created a Microsoft Project Plan template and custom report to provide metrics to the CIO.
Assisted in identifying key business requirements for a new Enterprise Content Management System ECM and evaluated vendors to determine a recommendation. Developed formal recommendation to present to Senior Management and compiled data for a Cost Benefit Analysis CBA .
Supported the implementation of the Financial Statement Close improvements by identifying key processes and corresponding dependencies throughout the financial close process and monitored to ensure all were complete to support the one day close.
Coordinated activities for the largest merger assets totaling 18 Billion with the Back Office Lead and various areas across the Investment Division.
Aided in the Merrill Lynch Acquisition to successfully incorporate two companies and their processes into the AEGON environment within a tight timeframe affected systems included the securities accounting PAM and trading Aladdin systems.
Acted as a liaison between the business unit subject matter expert and IT to ensure compliance reports were accurately converted to the latest release of Business Objects.
Coordinated training for the implementation of Project Server 2010 including general user, resource manager and project manger trainings .
Performed administrator duties for Project Server 2010 which includes creating projects, resource allocation, trouble shoot issues and front line support for both the general users and resource managers.
Collaborated with many levels of the organization from project team members to Senior Executives.
Partnered with project leaders to provide guidance in project management methodologies and suggest the use of templates where appropriate.
As part of the Project Management Team continued to assist in the development of templates. Examples include a change management template, risk register and implementation readiness checklist.
Confidential
Project Analyst
Maintained database of all project information, requested status from project leaders and provided management reporting of all projects in the division.
Assisted Back Office Lead in Investment Division legal entity simplification initiatives which included preparing agendas, facilitating meetings, documenting meeting minutes and determining and monitoring project plan tasks.
Facilitated discussions between AEGON Divisions to ensure the top priority projects were being worked.
Part of a project team which implemented Project Web Access 2007 PWA to track time across the entire division.
Created templates for various project management processes including cost benefit analysis and change management process.
Developed project leader informational SharePoint site which housed information on general guidelines of the project management process.
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