Profile of Qualifications

Program / Project Management Scope

• Risk Management Strategic Analysis / Planning Software Development Cross-Functional Team Building Communications Management
• Expertly lead multiple cross-functional teams consisting of staff, consultants, 3rd party vendors and service providers to achieve scope, budget and schedule requirements.
• Ambitious self-starter who contributes superior attention-to-detail and sharp analytical abilities, along with regularly taking the initiative to lead value-added efforts to resolve business / technical / process challenges.
• Integral leader in large-scale SDLC IT projects, programs and processes.
• Out-of-the-box thinker who offers experience in finance, telecommunications and government contracting industries.

Professional Synopsis

Confidential

• 3 month contract to baseline implementation schedule for new Line of Business LoB launch and to lead RFP activities for ERP/CRM vendor down selection between vendors and Business Units.
• Facilitated Steering Committee status meetings with C levels/Executives and distributed weekly dashboard.
• Organized and communicated assignments and timelines for community rehabilitation program CRP contract and RFI creation, LoB branding and CRP training development.
• Arranged, coordinated and participated in vendor customer reference meetings.

PM Consultant

Simultaneously managed an average of 3 remote cross-functional projects with budgets ranging from 500,000 - 2M each, with an average of 10 15 team members each, while supporting PMO portfolios. 95 on-time delivery over 6 years.

• Facilitated communications between sponsors, stakeholders, business and technology to ensure project goals aligned with scope, budget and schedule requirements.
• Championed PMO governance processes while certifying alignment with enterprise governance processes.
• Conducted Initiation, Change Review Board and Production Readiness sessions to gain sponsor and Steering Committee approvals and prepared executive scope, schedule and budget dashboard briefings.
• Maximized project efficiency by planning and managing budgets and schedules, monitoring scope and project progress for intervention and resolution of risks and issues, making course corrections when necessary using defined change control procedures and ensured project artifacts were accurate, SDLC compliant and auditable.

Senior Managing Consultant

Simultaneously oversaw 12 top corporate initiative projects with budgets ranging from 500,000 1M to strengthen internal controls and achieve accurate and timely financial reporting while supporting Finance PMO.

• 100 on-time delivery over 1 year.
• Monitored scope, budget and schedule baselines to ensure program health and conducted executive-level briefings to report portfolio status.
• Directed weekly status meetings with 12 PM's as well as provided PMO governance guidance and mentoring.

Senior Manager

• Directed cross-functional team of 15 Verizon technical professionals integrating four databases into one Teradata system while identifying revenue-impacting processes to resolve problem areas.
• Conducted regular status briefings with sponsors, stakeholders, interfacing development staffs and production support, while driving project to completion on time and within budget and scope.

Program/Project Manager Seeking Valuable Role

• Managed development of new data-rating engine for the Sprint Integrated On-Demand Network ION initiative, delivering on time and within budget with level of effort triple any estimate previously accomplished in organization.
• Directed portfolio development effort that supported an application architecture strategy for migration to an N-Tier environment from various other platforms.
• Consolidated three applications into one, eliminating contracting staff by 40 .
• Responsible for all aspects of project, budget and personnel management of 20 Java professionals tasked with developing front-end business solutions in a web-based environment.
• Achieved recognition for job excellence with 2 concurrent peer-nominated annual awards and retention bonus.
• Central point-of-contact for management, upstream/downstream interfacing organizations and operations.
• Simultaneously directed and delivered 4 client-server releases in 5 months while leading 12 technical professionals in development activities which segregated AT T and BT Settlements Tracking and Resolution System STARS .
• Gathered project requirements, set direction and oversaw small software maintenance efforts.
• Supported 2003 Close-the-Books effort in several concurrent capacities, including serving as a Resource Manager administering forecasts for staff of 125 staffing resource requests maintaining resource repository, contact lists and organization charts and providing executive analysis and reporting.
• Managed the first divisional iterative development project converting an Oracle Forms Port Configuration Automation PCA application into a web-enabled application that was instrumental in decreasing transaction times, streamlining processes and reducing cost of doing business.
• Improved Employee Attitude Survey score 18 by implementing standard processes and procedures for administrative and technical activities and created innovative organization-wide customer management procedures to enhance deliverable accuracy and client satisfaction.

Technical Manager

• Provided e-commerce technical consulting and strategic planning for executives in NIH and DOD while supporting EDS' Federal EC market segment.
• Managed the development of the Federal Government's Contractor Registration System supporting E-business initiatives, as well as software enabling small businesses to do business with the government electronically.
• Supervised the design of an internet-based procurement system incorporating online catalogs and secure credit card processing for the National Institutes of Health that integrated commercial off-the-shelf products into existing administrative and financial systems to decrease procurement cycle and reduce cost of doing business.
• Represented EDS at various electronic commerce and Internet forums.
• Systems Development Supervisor - Participated in two large competitive procurements.