PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

An experienced Engagement Manager and Sr. Program/Project Manager 18 yrs. PMP . Has delivered Enterprisesolutions to a broad range of healthcare,financial, industrial, university, and government clie nts with emphasis with largemultinational corporations and federal government level. Mr. Stefura's projects have ranged from 20-45 MM with durations of 6-24 months. He has worked on many key presentations pre post-sales and with C level and Board Members to secure funding support. Deep expertise in the design and implementation of large scale worldwide, Financials, HRMS, University, Healthcare, and Enterprise solutions 18 yrs. . He has a proven track record of managing multiple, concurrent complex projects where time to market is a key consideration. Thoroughly experienced in Project Management/PMO, RFP's and contracts, risk/quality, Steering Committees, Board Reviews, Governance, and motivating teams toward goals. An excellent communicator and proven technical and presentations skills. A business problem solver and team leader. Oracle/PeopleSoft Certified consultant and other packaged solutions as well Workday, Oracle BI,SAP, Salesforce . Also, experienced in web, dbase, ITIL, and network architecture API, iPaas, SOAP. .Net Framework , Oracle/PeopleSoft Installations, Training, Finance, and Organization Change in multi-national corporations.

ASSIGNMENT HISTORY

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Sr. Project Manager

Sr Project Manager for their large project to satisfy Basil requirements. This involved combining many various information sources through data certification to a Teradata environment. This was then used as ultimate source for satisfy Basel III Risk reporting and management.

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Sr. Project Manager

Sr Project Manager for their Decommissioning Program as a result of the Express-Scripts/Medco merger. All applications were compared, analyzed, and rated. Then the approximately 118 applications designated for decommissioning had to be careful done with regard to medical, federal, and DOD requirements. Projects were carefully done with business owners, Optim archiving and Business Objects Reporting.

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Engagement Manager/ Sr. Project Manager - Assignments:

CIBER WashingtonState Board of Colleges Engagement Managerwith CIBER for their contract with the Washington State Board of Colleges implementing Oracle/PeopleSoft 9.2 HR/Finance/Campus Solutions/OBIE.Develop and oversee the contracts, SOW's, deliverables and staffing. Work with client daily on additional scope business, pricing, and ensure client satisfaction.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

• Sr. Project Manager for their PeopleSoft Implementation of Finance modules 9.1 , Oracle Business Intelligence BI , and Salesforce. This project is for a large DC based Philanthropy /Lobbying/Research company. Oversaw a team of client and IBM consultants. Managed and drove the project through stagegate life cycle management, from requirements gathering, funding through solution infrastructure designs, and Go-Live . Organized Steering committee meetings and Executive reviews. Promoted team morale to ensure success. Oversaw the Salesforce project for the Philanthropy/Lobbying efforts for PEW.
• Sr. Project Manager for their PeopleSoft Implementation of HR modules 9.1 w/MSS/ESS, T L, Absence, Payroll, Base Benefits, eComp and Salesforce. This project is for a world-wide London based services company. Oversaw a team of client and other consulting company consultants. Selected ATT for technical work and SOAIS for functional for all applications. Managed the project, from RFP and Board funding to vendor evaluation and Kick-off through process reviews, life cycle management, configuration reviews, and infrastructure solution designs. Organized Steering committee meetings and Executive reviews. Secured executive/board backing funding.
• Sr. Program Manager for their PeopleSoft Implementation Finance/Grants 9.1 incl. OM , SCM 9.1 , EPM Warehouse OBIEE , Oracle 11gR2 and Upgrade of their HR Modules 9.1 . This project is for the world's largest hospital and under the University of Texas. Oversaw a large team of client and other consulting company consultants. IBM for technical work and PWC for functional work. Managed and drove the project, from Project Charter thru process reviews, life cycle management, infrastructure solution designs, and Go-Live . Organized Steering committee meetings and Executive reviews. Securedlarge executive funding, client purchased recommended 2.5MM architecture, and promoted team morale to ensure success. Informatica was the tool used for selecting any type of data, with most any format, from any secure source.
• Consultant for the DOD's organization on various broad, span of control, projects. Reporting to the DoD Program Director. Worked with the Armed Services, DOD, Northrop Grumman, Booze Allen Hamilton, Spry, Revelytix, and many other federal government vendors. He has worked on the DIMHRS Defense Initiative Military Human Resource System PeopleSoft HR/Fin/Global Pay , and on the Enterprise Information Warehouse EIW DoD secure web enabled with Ab-Initio, Cognos, W3C, Triple Store, mapping to PeopleSoft HR, and SAP in all areas of overall project planning including scoping, feasibility, requirements, risk analysis, quality assurance, all integrations incl. ITIL , and overall WBS schedule. He was also the PM for the Workday, Salesforce, and SAP implementation projects, with the BEA Business Enterprise Architecture , IRB Federal Investment Review Board process, MILHDBK 881 A ,and BIP Business Investment Plan
• On the Workday Implementation, oversaw all activities from gathering HR requirements to data integration, iLoad of data, EIB and Studio for the Integrations, testing, production support and training. On the Salesforce project, oversaw the implementation and started as a small proof of concept and then built out. Currently have both DoD Homeland Active Secret Security.
• Most recently, completing a project with the Dept. of the Navy on their HCM 9.1 project Global Payroll, ePerformance, and ePay, were among the modules implemented .
• Other major project work has been with COCOM Command Control , Warfighters, Compensation DoDFMR , Teradata for the Navy, and the Armed Services EA Enterprise Architecture .

Program/Project Manager

Managed many successful implementations, and development projects Oracle/PeopleSoft, SAP, etc and with cross-organizational, world-wide project teams. He has managed relationships with multiple stakeholders assembled and managed cross-functional teams of business analysts and technical consultants. He has defined implementation plans, detailed work breakdown plans, project schedules, effort and cost assessed work quality, managed progress, risk, baseline variances, EV, EAC, etc. analysis, and continuously met business challenges throughout the project life cycle. He has worked out of IBM and client PMO office and managed multiple concurrent projects with shared resources, margin challenges, and ensured the customer's satisfaction.

• cleansing. Oracle said this was the largest implementation of PeopleSoft 8.9 EPM yet and was very successful. GM then renewed IBM's contract for this EPM work to be expanded further and was credited to this team's success.Ascential Datastage ETL tool was used to obtain data from multiple sources. The integration involved cleaning, resolving redundancy, and checking against business rules for integrity. The ODS was used for low level data of pricing transactions. Global Payroll, T L, ePerformance, and ePay, were among the applications.
• Commitment Acctg Implementation Project Manager of all development/Implementation work 6 consulting professionals for a key successful go-live . This successful project ensured IBM continued contract which was in danger of losing due to previous problems with the project.
• and Financials for this Private University The Campus Solutions project included team members in the areas of Financial Aid, Academic Advisement, Student Financials, Campus Community, Recruiting Admissions, Campus Self Service, Contributor Relations, Student Admin, and Student Records. Financial modules included GL, AP, AR. An additional special project here was Planning, Evaluation, Designing, and Customizing for special private university endowment needs i.e. ensuring integrity of endowments, shares, draws, fund allocations/performance, etc. . Trinity College VP Finance and President was well pleased and told IBM we should take the custom evaluation and solution to all other private colleges. This successful project also secured additional business for IBM and personal recognition.
• Pay/T L/Benefits/AbsenceImplementation. Included all hardware, dbase, Servers, Mercer, WFA Lite, and ODM 117 member team in 60 Countries with 8 core languages. Used IBM and Oracle/PeopleSoft Implementation methodologies. This 10 billion revenue international company with 5.4 worldwide employees project also included Global Payroll, Commitment Accounting, ePerformance, eTime, ePay, eProfile, and eRecruit among the other modules.
• this large Univerisity in San Francisco. The Campus Solutions included team members in the areas of Academic Advisement, Campus Community, Campus Self Service, Contributor Relations, Financial Aid, Recruiting Admissions, Student Admin, Student Financials, and Student Records. Financial modules included GL, AP, AR, Billing, OM, etc. Led both technical and functional team leads as well as a diverse group of Higher Education team members in various roles. Held client and separate weekly team status meetings to bring up issues and resolutions. Hosted controlled Fit-Gap, development efforts, and training sessions for all the modules. All team members learned and benefited near and long term from working with each other while on this project in this organization. Created and managed project management documentation and deliverables such as the Project Charter, Scope Documents, Risk log, Issues Log, Change Control log, Deliverables document, Status Reports and other IBM, PMI, and Oracle/PeopleSoft project management office documentation, methodologies, tools, and techniques.Ensured project success in the areas of team skills, project compression, financial margins and budget, and academic schedules.
• implemented and managed the Finance and CRM. Finance modules included GL, AP, AR, Billing, Purchasing and others incl. OM . The CRM was also very well received. After planning and designing the CRM system with the various Business units, we began the development and installation of basic system tables, and security options. Then further design and development set up using common features to multiple CRM applications, such search collections, alternate character, interactive reports, and diagnostic reports.Worker information was then developed and populated. 360 degree views with notes call messages for CRM internal vs external customers staff userssuch as salespeople, call center agents, and field service was also implemented. Self-service, managing relationships with customers tools, setup agreements, and warranties were also ultimately featured during this project. All client's staff was fully trained in the new system.

State of Delaware Proposal for PeopleSoft Statewide Government Implementation. Worked on the initial through final proposals as well as formal presentations on-site.

California State Personnel Proposal for PeopleSoft Statewide Implementation. Worked from the initial contact through final proposals.

Owner/Consultant

Chosen by clients to oversee and manage 20-35 million projects with approximately 15-25 person teams and reporting to VP level executives. Create and manage project documentation and deliverables such as the Project Charter, Scope Documents, WBS, Risk log, Issues Log, Change Control log, Deliverables document, Status Reports and other project management office documentation.

Assignments:

• project was necessary due to the business decision to separate from the County and for accreditation. After creating the Project Charter with the Stakeholders, we formulated the Scope Plan, Goals, and deliverables. Developed the Project Plan and then drove the project with bothfunctional and technical team leads as well as a diverse group of Higher Education team members in various roles. Held client and separate weekly team status meetings to bring up issues and resolutions. Hosted Steering Committee reviews, controlled Fit-Gap, development efforts, and training sessions. All team members learned and benefited from working with each other while on this project in NY. Created and managed project management documentation and deliverables such as the Project Charter, Scope Documents, Risk log, Issues Log, Change Control log, Deliverables document, Status Reports and other IBM, PMI, and Oracle/PeopleSoft project management office documentation, methodologies, tools, and techniques.Ensured project success in the areas of team skills, Issue resolutions, financial margins and budget, and academic schedules. A special issue here wasresolvingthe Data Migration issue between disparate databases including portals. Managed the project team, and Stakeholder interests, to a very successful completion with all training for the new system for their needs. The HR modules included Payroll/Benefits/T L.
• modules Finance HR incl . Worldwide, multi-currency and multi-language. Enterprise Warehouse, Budgeting, and Business Planning were included. Key person responsible for go-live, world-wide, production issues that were resolved in a timely contractual manner. Global Payroll, Benefits, ePerformance, and ePay, were among the modules.
• Implementation GL/AP/AR/PO/INV/OM Oracle/NT
• for GL/AP/AR/AM/PO/INV Oracle/NT. Also managed the project with the client's personnel. A feature at the time for this was remote access to PeopleSoft application from very high heat and high altitude locations at this pulp mill.
• the control point. This implementation was done by another consulting company and the client called in Mr. Stefura and others to correct the great quantity of issues. Oracle/Unix.
• GL/AP/AR/AM/PO/INV/Billing/Contracts/Projects. Also provided post Go-Live Production Assistance.
• PeopleCode Customizations.
• Oracle/Unix Hands-on Project Mgr. for this successful project. Included managing some 15 IBM developers among other team members.
• According to PeopleSoft, this was the first 8.9 anywhere and had to resolve many initial release issues. Hands-on Project Manager for this successful project. Reported to the 3rd level from the Governor of Massachusetts for this project.
• Implementation/Development/Customizations/Interfaces. Project Managers on large PM team for the largest PeopleSoft Implementation to-date DIMHRS . This required fairly high federal government security clearance which was subsequently elevated. Recognized by the Secretary of the Navy talking about the New Navy and publicly acknowledged for his work there. Global Payroll, ePerformance, and ePay, were among the modules. Informatica was the tool used for the EPM data warehouse efforts.
• Implementation/Customizations/Interfaces. One major difficulty was the transfer of date from legacy db2 to Oracle dB due to licensing rights. Retained in an ongoing capacity to continue project management on this large scale project.EPerformance, and ePay, were among the modules.
• Implementation. Project Manager assigned to gather requirements and implement systems packages. Production Support Fin incl. GL/AP/AR/AM/Billing/Contracts/ Purchasing/Projects HCM/Payroll/Benefits/T L, ePerformance, and ePay, were among the modules.
• HR/BEN/Payroll/T L Oracle/Unix. This project also required Fed Govt security clearance.

Project Manager/Consultant

Project Manager for PeopleSoft Implementation to scope out the Project plan, tracking progress, resolving problems, and assigning work to others as needed. Training, issue resolutions, development, risk analysis, and quality assurance included.

Assignment:

DSI McManus Group - Detroit, MI GL/AP/AR/INV/PO Hands on Project Manager for this successful PeopleSoft Financials Implementation Sybase. Managed the team of 20 and helped resolve a major issue with the brand new release of Sybase.

Sr. Consultant

• Techno/Functional Consultant, with HRMS, Finance, and other modules.
• Then, as Sr. PeopleSoft Consultant, he worked as the Project Manager on many HRMS/and Financial Upgrades and Implementations from version 5.x on . He also developed SQR's, PeopleCode, nVision reporting, legacy converting, and troubleshooting for business clients.
• Also a Sr. PeopleSoft Consultant he was on loan as the Instructor for in-house PeopleSoft Boot Camps for the functional and technical courses including PeopleTools, PeopleCode, Data Management, Process Scheduler, SQL/SQR, Business Process Design, and Web Client and HTML. He also instructed major business partners, consulting firms, and Fortune clients. Comprehensive analytical skills, including knowledge of applications software, systems software, networkarchitecture, and databases. Extensive interaction with end-user, technical, and managerial constituencies.