PROFILE and EXPERTISE

Certified Project Manager with over 15 years of professional experience in all phases of Project and Software Development Life Cycles. Expertise in successfully planning, budgeting, scheduling, tracking and deploying projects. Exceptional interpersonal and influential skills have produced driven and productive cross-functional teams. Excellent written and oral communications skills have provided cohesive team environments resulting in the delivery of projects on time and within budget. Informative and well organized project meetings, team building activities, and project presentations as well as the proper facilitation of risk management and jeopardy management have aided in the delivery of engaged project team producing numerous successful projects.

Highlights

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

PBM Project Manager / Business Relationship Manager/ Consultant

• Act as a Business Advocate to ensure new projects are funded and implemented while managing day to day project tasks and deliverables.
• Managed over 75 Consume Driven Health Care CDH installation projects.
• Act as a liaison between IT and Business
• Manage Vendor and Client relationships
• Identify system GAP's and help facilitate solution
• Facilitate meetings and track progress of projects
• Create Project Charters and high level requirements documents
• Manage and monitor timelines and project cost
• Resource Planning and Portfolio Management
• Create conceptual designs for new projects
• Create and present documents to Upper Management to secure funding for new project requests
• Identify and mitigate project risk
• Work with project team to identify scope creep and potential cost overrun
• Drive financial decisions on resource, cost and scope for projects.

Project Manager / Consultant

• Managed off-shore developers for long and short term Automation Projects
• Managed 11 off shore developers.
• Coordinated and managed over 20 long and short term projects.
• Acted as liaison between clients and developers.
• Produced multiple weekly Management Report
• Created and maintained project plans for various health care initiatives.
• Created process improvements for reporting project timeline and status.
• Produced and delivered LOE's for proposed work to clients.
• Performed resource and job scheduling for projects

Confidential

Project Manager Consultant

• Manage security, storage and systems management solutions projects for Fortune 100 and 500 companies.
• Managed long and short term projects involving Symantec Solution Sets.
• Coordinated all project tasks while maintain timelines to ensure deadlines are met.
• Managed project costs.
• Managed local and global resources.
• Proactively mitigated, project changes and conflict.
• Identified, managed and monitored Project Action Items.
• Produced weekly Status Reports for Upper Management and Project Sponsors.
• Produced bi-weekly Client invoices.
• Addressed Clients concerns and resolved client complaints.

Confidential

Project Manager - Consultant 9 months temp position

• Managed Global Project Team through a 9 month BW implementation
• Managed a 600K SAP BW implementation for the US Pharmaceutical Division of Bayer.
• Developed and analyzed various elements of a project plan including schedule, budget and deliverables.
• Worked with in-house process experts to analyze and document requirements for reporting solutions.
• Developed user tests plans and managed User Acceptance Testing.
• Served as a communication liaison between the Accounting Departments and the US and Global BW teams.

Confidential

Project Manager Asset Management

• Managed budget expenditures, deployment of software packages, external and internal resource for the Finance department as it related to the Great Plains System.
• Improved system functionality and reliability by closing 97 of 120 open work orders in a 2 year period.
• Managed 2 virtual teams through the complete project life cycle.
• Provided leadership and guidance to Finance Department by managing 6 vendor and 8 internal resources through 3 successful projects in a 4 year period.
• Analyzed and identified business needs and participated in the development of plans, programs, and operating procedures.
• Provided continual communication and coordination of activities with other departments to ensure effective development and vendor support.
• Analyzed the impact of new or revised procedures, resulting in streamed lined processes within the Finance Department and Regional Operations.
• Identified potential problems and assumed a lead role in coordinating their resolution with appropriate departments.
• Streamlined the accounting functionality of booking and retiring assets by eliminated 3 manual job functions within the Finance Department. This was achieved by training 8 users on new and existing system functionality.
• Developed test cases and scenarios for system upgrade project.
• Performed Sarbanes-Oxley system compliance validations for the Finance Department.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst - Project Lead

• Managed resources during the implementation of an Accounting Sales Audit module for a Retail Replacement system.
• Ensured project deliverables were met on or before schedule by developing detailed business requirements, and test cases.
• Performed analysis of current business process and made suggestions for improvements.
• Acted as a liaison between Upper Management and the Vendor to resulting in clear communication regarding the project and its progress.
• Trained 10 end users on STS AuditWorks Sales Audit functionality.

Confidential

Managing Consultant - Project Manager

• Managed numerous resources and project through varying stages of the project life cycle. Worked on projects valued between 275,000- 4,000,000 with project teams in excess of 35 people.
• Designed and implemented SAP solutions in the Sales and Distribution, Materials Management, Production Planning, and EDI areas, within the General Retail, Manufacturing, and Travel industries.
• Managed a 4,000,000 project with over 35 team members.
• Performed project, definition, costing, team roles and responsibilities.
• Performed project risk analysis and financial review with clients and upper management.
• Created project plans, Work Breakdown Structures and network diagrams, for 9 projects.
• Created numerous Proposals and Statements of Work for new and existing clients.
• Communicated directly with clients regarding changes control, project time line and risk mitigation.
• Evaluated software options with team and presented finding to Steering Committees.
• Directly supervised and produced performance appraisals for 8 employees.
• Worked with clients to develop program specifications for SAP Modules SD, MM, PP, and FI .