SUMMARY:

Project Management Professional PMP with extensive SDLC full life cycle experience in the management, development, design and delivery of IT solutions for the pharmaceutical, aerospace, manufacturing, financial, billing and telecom industries. Strong skills in the areas of project management, business and data analysis, data modeling and data warehousing, software design integration and quality assurance. Managed the efforts of in-house development as well as third party off-shore teams in a truly global environment. Most recent experience has been in the management and delivery of IT applications for the financial organization of a major aerospace company.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

As a Technical Director/Project Manager

• Served as an IT contract professional and was assigned to the following projects:

PROJECTS:

As a Project Manager/Technical Director

• Served as a Consultant for the company's New Business Line Development organization.
• Engaged 2 new clients for contract opportunities. Formed business teams and directed project management activities.

As a Project Manager

• Provided project management responsibility for numerous ERP/SAP projects which included the staffing, budgeting, deliverables, timeliness of delivery and quality of delivered product.

AS a Project Manager/Technical Director

• Worked in-house for Confidential as technical advisor/trainer in the project management division. Trained 11 new PMs and assisted them in getting them to obtain PMP certification. All 11 received their PMP certification within 6 months.

As a Project Manager

• Served as Project Manager for the implementation, merger and migration of two separate document repositories into one shared validated document management system. Both source systems utilized different versions and applications of the third party Documentum management system, which necessitated the arbitration of user requirements and a total user training program to be developed and delivered. Team was composed of in-house staff IT development groups and supplemented by a 3rd party off-shore maintenance organization. Responsibilities included staffing, budgeting, delivery and quality of deliverables.

As an SAP BW Project Manager

• Served as Project Manager for a Confidential charged with developing a raw materials-to-finished product traceability tool for the Confidential Supply Chain organization and rolling it out to 75 SAP and 28 non-SAP locations across 4 global regions. Was responsible for the successful delivery of a Time Tracking Vendor Reporting application within the BMS Graphics Production Studio. Managed and directed third party vendor application activities and integration of the product into a web based J2EE/JAVA presentation environment. Received a Confidential spot award for excellence upon completion of this project. Managed third party development activities and the rollout of t applications to the entire Confidential community. Application modules in eight languages were presented in a J2EE/JAVA environment. Managed the detection and remediation of security role conflicts within the Enterprise SAP production system in accordance with the terms of Sarbanes-Oxley SOX government specifications. Ensured compliance with Confidential corporate guidelines for project development standards and procedures as part of the Supply Chain Optimization Program SCOP .
• Tracked the execution and control of Confidential initiatives and serve as the link to the Project Management Office PMO .

As a Data Warehouse Project Manager

• Managed the design and implementation of a retail and merchandising data warehouse migration to a more current hardware and software technology. Prepared the overall project plan, project schedules and resource requirements. Prime contact with the Project Management Office PMO to ensure project conforms to corporate standards. Managed the 3rd party contract obligations for the upgraded database development.
• As a Business Intelligence Architect/Project Manager Designed, developed and implemented a 3-tier MicroStrategy application for a consulting company's in-house training requirements. Developed the overall system architecture. Provided test plans and procedures for the validation of test data. Developed dimensional model, tables, attributes, elements and procedures required for application. Designed and created report templates for the production of test results. As a Data Warehouse Project Manager
• Managed the design and delivery of project data deliverables for a pharmaceutical Enterprise Data Warehouse Confidential. Delivered the Business Intelligence functional requirements and design for the prototype front -end financial analysis tool. Participated in the overall design of data architecture. Designed the dimensional database Confidential . Developed and created data cubes, designed reports and developed testing and user training materials Cognos Suite . Designed/implemented prototype data delivery processes Unix/Oracle scripts . Participated in the design and development of data extraction and cleansing ETL logic Informatica . Designed and developed ETL test logic, test data and test procedures. Developed the overall QA test plan, test cases. Developed and executed test scenarios and managed the defect resolution process.
• Managed the independent test for ETL compliance validation. Established standards and procedures for meta data, data definitions, data dictionary and data element naming conventions.
• Performed independent test for ETL validation.

As a Project Manager/Data Warehouse Consultant

• Performed data analysis, gap analysis and mapping requirements. Developed functional specifications. Negotiated requirements and delivery milestones with a diverse user community of clinical and financial analysts. Combined data feeds from existing clinical and financial data structures to populate a new corporate data warehouse. Developed the conceptual, logical and physical database design and data models. Managed the progress and compliance with requirements of the front-end development team. Performed the quality assurance function on the delivered product, resolved defects and managed the resolution process.

As a Data Architect/Project Manager

• Delivered the first enhancements release of an Operational System Reporting Application for financial analysts in a web-enabled environment. Developed business requirements for phase 2. Enhanced the existing data models conceptual, theoretical and physical . Developed software release requirements for enhancements and required defect analysis. Served as the direct link between the user community and the development group UAT . Scheduled work and planned for incremental deliveries of software. Developed and delivered a QA test plan. Developed and managed the implementation of the overall QA test plan. Generated test script and scenarios. Executed test cases and managed the resolution of defects through the development team leaders.

As a Project Manager/Data Warehouse Consultant

• Researched, benchmarked, and selected several current OLAP business intelligence tools for implementation to established the new data warehouse environment. This included the designe and managed the delivery of a four-tier MicroStrategy OLAP web based reporting environment. Created the data models and data warehouse schema design. Designed and developed data load, refresh and edit processes, backup and restore procedures, summarization process and metadata database for the OLAP tool.

As a Project Manager/Data Warehouse Consultant

• Served as Project Manager and Technical Lead for a team responsible for integrating Confidential billing collections data from multiple data sources into a Confidential data warehouse for Confidential. Developed data requirements, interface agreements and performed gap analysis. Developed reporting and analysis requirements. Designed and developed the dimensional environment for a Confidential web based application. Managed the coding, testing and delivery of the application. Managed an Confidential team that was charged to perform a proof of concept effort with data warehousing, data mining and Confidential OLAP technology. Formed the team, extracted user requirements, established the warehouse/OLAP development and user environments. Managed the delivery of Phase 1 and 2 of the application. Designed and developed load processes to populate SAS datasets for financial statistical analysts Integrated a state of the art data mining tool for statistical data analysts. Created an analytical environment for SAS and data mining Clementine statistical users.

As a Project Manager/Business Analyst

• Served as Project Manager/Business Analyst for the SAP conversion of the corporation's manufacturing and materials management processes. Performed a business analysis, generated business requirements and developed data conversion procedures. Performed a gap analysis and identified needed interface agreements. Identified and generated metadata for inclusion into the data warehouse

As a Project Manager/Business Consultant

• Designed, developed and delivered a front-end management tool for the collection, summarization and analysis of Confidential educational demographic data for the Confidential Learning Network. Served as the MIS Technical coordinator for the Learning Network Steering Committee. Negotiated terms and conditions of data contracts with internal organizations as well as outside Confidential vendors and data providers.

As a Project Manager - Data Warehouse Consultant

• Managed the design and delivery of an Confidential to provide a Confidential tool and selected dashboards for the Chief Financial Officer's staff organization within the Network Systems Division of Confidential. These financial tools facilitated the development and management of a Confidential operating budget for Confidential.