SUMMARY:

• Accomplished Project Manager with 8+ years of growing revenue and providing quality deliverables and results.
• Focused on fulfilling global enterprise solution needs in accordance with the organizational long - term vision with optimal resource utilization and successful on time, on-budget project delivery and deployment.
• Highly skilled in Business Analysis, Budgeting and Resource Management within medium to complex environments. With a diverse industry and technology background, able to effectively bridge the IT / business communication gap. Expert at turning around and delivering at-risk projects.
• Competent communication liaison between executive management, clients, and resource personnel for large and small-scale projects, which deploy innovative technologies that result in improved systems, increased production, and decreased business expenses.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Proficient in Waterfall and Agile, Scrum, MS Project, CA Clarity, Daptiv, Rally, MS Office Suite, Keynote, Google Docs
• Work Breakdown Structures
• Requirements Analysis
• Costing and Budgeting
• Project Scheduling
• Strategic Planning
• Resource allocation/analysis
• Testing/QA/Rollout/Support and Maintenance
• Exceptional Verbal and Written Communication Skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project manager

• Manage a portfolio of large-scale online technology based learning projects for internal Federal Reserve clients, as well as U.S Government agencies such as the U.S. Treasury and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
• Led a highly successful project for IT to introduce a new software pilot program to help secure external email for employees and prevent phishing attempts from entering the Federal Reserve systems.
• Develop detailed work breakdown structures, project schedules, budget estimates, resource plans, and status reports to ensure timely completion of project milestones and deliverables.
• Defined new processes and tools best suited to each project by moving between agile and waterfall methodologies based on: client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures.
• Improved existing project management processes by implementing hybrid iterative project schedules to keep clients informed more often and allow for more detailed reviews of the product, which resulted in 65% higher client satisfaction surveys.
• Successfully delivered completed projects to clients within approved budget range and timeline, while managing risks and resources to a detailed level.
• Perform detailed resource allocation analysis to ensure resource availability for projects with tight deadlines and strict milestones.
• Strategically plan and manage multimillion-dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and recoverable budget.
• Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving banking supervision environments.

Project manager

• Project Manager for a large Smart Factory - 777x Composite Wing Center project by tracking budget, schedule tasks/deliverables/key milestones, capital equipment charges, resource headcount, laboratory budget, critical path trend analysis, and leading weekly project team status meetings.
• Monitor project risks and issues to identify potential problems and proactively identifying solutions to address them and put mitigation plans in place.
• Improved Lean processes and project flow by implementing an agile/scrum methodology and Kanban board to track project schedules and tasks. Started daily team stand up status meetings to make sure everyone is on track and happy with their work load.
• Produced and implemented a new useful tool using MS Project to schedule and manage resource utilization by week to make sure projects are fully utilizing all available engineers and resources.
• Lead an organization Lean initiative project by managing and beta testing the release of a new Project Management web based tool along with the Project Management Organization which will ultimately reduce the engineer’s administration and overhead time when managing their projects/tasks and provide a better portfolio reporting system.
• Produce and deliver high level analyses on the advanced production systems project/portfolio across the Materials and Manufacturing organization including various trending analyses, project budgets, scheduling, risk/issues, yearly planning, and Project Authorization Documents (PAD), and status report creation and management.

Portfolio/Business analyst

• Conducted high level analysis and trend reports on IT project/portfolio data for reporting needs of executive managers and the CIO.
• Gathered detailed SDLC project requirements by meeting with project and program stakeholders and customers to make sure the project will meet their expectations and reduce overall rework.
• Prepared monthly executive project management reports that gives an overall summary and status of all current active projects in Scottrade IT organization. These reports are presented to the CIO and all project/program managers in a town hall setting every month.
• Managed portfolio budget forecasts for each entity of the IT business and performed complete complex “what-if” scenarios based on resource availability and project scope and provided detailed forecast reports.
• Governed the Project/Portfolio Management PPM tool for the IT organization and make sure all departments are compliant and up to date with information.
• Established new LEAN processes and documentation for IT organization that helped improve overall quality of data in and out of the project management tool which saved the organization upwards of $1 Million.

Supply chain analyst

• Consultant working onsite at BJC Healthcare corporate headquarters in St. Louis.
• Performed complex value analyses and market research related to healthcare supply chain, providing numerous savings opportunities for members and reporting the results.
• Led major initiative to help identify over $80 million in savings opportunities and solutions by reviewing current contract data, analyze hospital contract tier pricing, and overall top 10% benchmark pricing opportunities for similar sized hospitals.
• Recognized over $3 million a quarter in misreported sales by managing project of researching sales reporting variances based on quarterly PRS sales reports, financial statements, and contract renewal agreements.
• Proposed high-level recommendations to Strategic Sales Executive regarding potential project opportunities for value and savings across the system.

IT Data analyst/administrator

• Oversaw quality control and data analysis and backup of data for major direct mail marketing campaigns for the AAA Corporation.
• Led 3 team members in data center environment to ensure tight analysis projects and marketing mail deadlines were met, and the customers were fully satisfied with our service.
• Responsible for helping with an average 5% increase in memberships per quarterly mailing through complex analysis on the overall market.
• Collaborated with external customers on a daily basis to provide various marketing related data reports and statistical analyses.