PERSONAL SUMMARY:

• I am a decisive action - oriented and results focused Project Management Professional offering 15+ years of program and project management experience.
• My PM expertise spans across multiple industries and project implementation types(Infrastructure, Business Intelligence, Data Center Operations).
• I have an excellent command of managing the full project life cycle from documentation of high level business requirements through Project deployment and closure.
• I have strong proven qualifications with managing and monitoring baseline scope, budget and timeline and administering established Change Control procedures when necessary.
• I have a strong command of the required verbal and written communication skills and demonstrated leadership capabilities.
• I am a highly organized professional with exceptional multi-tasking skills.
• I am seeking a long term position with an organization who is committed to the value that Project Management processes provide and where I can continue to expand on my current skillset and have opportunities to train and mentor other project managers.
• Ideally I would like to take on a lead role within an established or up and coming Project Management Office.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• MS Windows
• VPN and Citrix Server Connectivity
• MS Outlook
• MS One Note
• MS Project 2010
• MS Word
• MS Excel
• MS PowerPoint
• Clarity PPM
• Oracle/ERP
• SQL Server
• Sybase

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Livonia, MI

Senior IT Project Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Work with Senior Management and Executive leadership to define project objectives
• Develop, maintain and status to the project schedule
• Project financial management
• Weekly financial reporting on actual and projected spend via Clarity PPM
• Scope and Change management
• Identify and manage project risks/issues to closure and report to Executive management when required.
• Support of the Procurement process providing timing and resource needs for Statements of Work and Purchase Orders
• Providing regular weekly and monthly status updates to Senior Executives and other key stakeholders
• Implementation of a commercial off the shelf(COTS) software for supply chain management, which required modifications to accommodate client specific reporting and PO processing needs
• Vendor Management - There were 4 outside vendors for this ERP implementation
• Developed and maintained integrated project schedule - Each of the 4 vendors for this ERP implementation maintained their own project schedule. The integrated project schedule called out where there were interdependencies on testing, data migration and customer training
• Managed the Cutover and Go Live project tasks providing key factors for the Go/No Go Decision
• Participation and when needed facilitation of Daily Stand up meetings

Confidential, Southfield, MI

Senior IT Program Manager

• Administration and management of full project life cycle from Business Case development to Project closeout, utilizing Agile Project methodology.
• Maintaining multiple project budgets, scope and timelines providing executive staff weekly reports on team actuals against forecasted budget
• Working closely with the Finance team to establish baseline financial budget
• Providing weekly financial updates to the leadership team providing up to date financial data with respect to total approved budget, total spent to date and expected spend to project completion
• Using Microsoft Excel to graphically depict current project financials and expected trends. This assisted Leadership team in determining if budget increases were needed or if funds could be returned to assist other projects that were trending over projected budgets
• Maintained integrated project schedule in MS Project and Clarity PPM
• Maintained project IRAAD(Issues, Risks Assumptions and Decisions Log)
• Single point of contact for IT and Business stakeholders
• Facilitated weekly IT and Business Project meetings
• Facilitated monthly Project and Project Governance meeting with project business sponsors and C Level Executives
• Monitoring project scope, schedule and budget and administering change control procedures where necessary
• Preparation and distribution of weekly project status and executive PMO summary reports
• Project team coaching and mentoring

Confidential Southfield, MI

IT Project Manager

• Managed multiple IT projects as a IT Consultant for United Healthcare
• Maintained project budget and MS Project Schedule
• Managed scope and followed established
• Effectively managed offshore and on shore project resources
• Led Joint Application Development sessions with technical and business stakeholders to document project requirements
• Conducted presentations for senior leadership to communicate status and issue escalation

Confidential, Michigan, Detroit, MI

IT Project Manager

• Assigned to the Business Intelligence Department where I managed several datamining and data warehousing projects
• Maintained project budget and MS Project Schedule
• Managed scope and followed established scope and change management processes
• Communicated status weekly via written reports to Program Manager

Confidential, Southfield, MI

IT Project Manager

• Facilitated JAD session with business and IT to document project requirements
• Maintained project budget and MS Project Schedule
• Managed scope and followed established scope and change management processes
• Communicated status weekly via written reports to Program Manager
• Managed scope, schedule and budget for a major data center operations project which involved d the relocation of data center operations to a new facility.
• This involved the purchase of new servers and the relocation of current servers
• Purchase and installation of cabling and cooling systems
• Planning for server backups and updating of disaster recovery plans
• Vendor and Facility management

Confidential, MI

Automotive IT Project Manager

• Managed multiple IT projects for several Automotive companies and their Suppliers
• Facilitated JAD session with business and IT to document project requirements
• Maintained project budget and MS Project Schedule
• Managed scope and followed established scope and change management processes
• Communicated status weekly via written reports to Program Manager