Project Manager/Business Analyst Resume Boulder, Colorado - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Highly accomplished professional with superior track record of success managing complex technology initiatives, operations, development, and deployment across widely diverse worldwide environments.
Drive state - of-the-art development programs, spearheading end-to-end project simplification and management.
Strengthen competitive edge in aggressive markets, learning and sharing knowledge on latest tools and trends.
Eliminate time, effort, and costs, directing continuous process improvements and high-impact change.
Maximize customer satisfaction and quality of product portfolios, proactively identifying and resolving issues.
Build, train, and lead world class onsite and virtual teams, uniting all parties on common visions and goals.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Boulder, Colorado

Project Manager/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Deployed enterprise content management systems, including workflows, and document capture solutions, for four Fortune 500 customers.
Successfully met customer acceptance criteria via Sprint Planning, Standups, Releases, and Retrospectives.
Improved customer acceptance of deliverables via weekly to monthly sprints based on customer/project needs.
Led assessments to understand business requirements and wrote up standardized proposals prior to implementation.
Improved Confluence wiki documentation for PM group to facilitate best practices and ease onboarding.
Delivered projects maintaining and/or increasing profit margins by up to 40% over average.
Documented “lessons learned” for better estimation for short duration projects with reduced margin for error.

Confidential, Palo Alto, California

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

Provided seamless project management for up to 5 Global Sales & Support projects simultaneously.
Localized and integrated SalesForce.Com with Teamsite and Ontram+; ensured successful completion of development, reviewing BRD and FRD, and providing expert recommendations.
Ensured consistency across group, co-leading standardization of processes; oversaw wiki site storing all process training and documentation.
Established best practices for new group of G11n Program Managers, co-leading variety of G11n Initiatives Projects; included developing templates using hybrid scrum methodologies.

Confidential, Broomfield, Colorado

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Revolutionized, as Product Owner / Scrum Master, entire team’s use of single software suite to manage end-to-end process; rated #1 for extraordinary achievement.
Cut 5-20% of costs for Oracle (up to $30M), providing key elements for business case to transition from paragraph- to sentence-based segmentation.
Saved +140 hours/week of PM resources, leading 4-member engineering team to deliver +130 RFE / User Stories via WorldServer API; utilized saved resources to fuel other initiatives.
Eliminated +$300K from $1.5M budget in 1 year, consolidating or engaging new vendors, and renegotiating contracts with existing vendors.
Simplified identification and costing of all assets necessary to deliver proven accurate budget numbers, reengineering budgeting process.
Improved team training on complex process, co-designing and delivering Visio Workflow with team of project managers; reduced project planning time, simplified complexity to mitigate risk, and boosted PM effectiveness.

Confidential, Gunbarrel, Colorado

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Instrumental in successful execution of Confidential .com’s web localization project, driving all technical aspects.
Enabled centralization of process and reduction of headcount in +25 GEO locations, deploying Confidential .
Drove ongoing optimization of products, championing product enhancement at product development meetings.
Recognized as key go-to person for resolving software issues.

Confidential, Boulder, Colorado

Project Manager & Localization Engineer

Responsibilities:

Coordinated and led some of company’s most high-margin projects.
Doubled profit margin on projects from 20% to 40%, expertly managing project budgets.
Motivated and led team of localization experts; achieved successful validation of localized versions of software.
Ensured maximum customer satisfaction, assessing and prioritizing client needs, and driving delivery to meet and exceed expectations.