SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Insightful, intuitive and responsive PROJECT MANAGER / FINANCIAL MANAGER with a proven track record.
• Innovative problem solver who thrives on challenges, excels under pressure and gets the job done.
• Consistent, flexible and financially - oriented team player who possesses outstanding interpersonal and good communication skills.
• Accustomed to a fast pace and multiple projects, fulfills priorities and balances competing agendas while consistently providing value-added advice to management enabling them to meet their strategic business objectives

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE

Basking Ridge, NJ

Senior Project Manager - PMP

Senior Project manager responsibility for all activities associated with ensuring the project deliverables are on time, within budget and at the required level of quality, also provided leadership for testing of the regulatory compliance and business management platform migrations.

• Direct and coordinate activities of project teams to ensure project progresses on schedule and within prescribed budget.
• Monitors and reports progress throughout the project life cycle (Agile & Waterfall) using appropriate project plans and scheduling tools
• Developing detailed project plans; determine project milestones, time frames, funding needs, approach and procedures for accomplishing project and anticipate and proactively address potential schedule and resource risks, manage overall projected budget.
• Develop the Quality Management Organizations Test strategy document, test scope definition, test planning, test case development and test execution and identify risks/issues.
• Manage and coordinate the quality related activities for the various testing phases, System Test, Integration Test, User Acceptance Testing, and Performance testing, including documentation and quality gates criteria.
• Perform Defect management (using HP ALM & Rally), defect triage, capturing & presenting test metrics, status reporting,

Piscataway, NJ

Senior Finance Project Manager 

• To reduce the response time in the pre-sales process and improve our competitive position identified then established key personnel for proposal development. Monitored proposal development from start to finish including the initiation of new processes. Result: reduced time to turnaround RFP’s offers 35%.
• To cut development time for the annual Life Cycle Program, created multi-feature offering, combined the entire program from individual packages to a combined single offer. Result: reduced the turnaround time for LCP program development and high level reviews; consolidated the time to create the LCP program by more than 30%.
• During the downsizing/cost containment of our business unit, identified key “franchise” employees and continuously trained them in pre & post-sales management. As employee reduction continued closely monitored performance. Result: achieved a greatly reduced project team but fully capable of meeting contractual commitments.

Confidential

Director

• To reduce project manager time for developing the P&L statement for all proposals, conceived, developed and implemented a new P&L, Excel-based tool that allowed multi-year, multi-product and multi-feature to be incorporated into one P&L tool. The previous tool required separate versions for each product and feature. Result: project management time required to prepare solution type P&Ls were reduce by up to 50%.
• To help increase the win rate of our customer proposals, conceived and negotiated management approval and instituted new response documents (RFP & RFI) that included value statements. Result: provided customers with Return on Investment time periods to help customers with funding requests.
• To improve the margin of our software enhancements, and provide consistent prices for off the shelf software to our customers, developed software solution pricing principles that was approved and issued as corporate-wide policy. Result: provided each Business Unit with specific pricing principles that gave consistent customer pricing; increased profit margin by 10-15%.

Piscataway, NJ

Manager

• Established the Business Unit specific pricing principles. Incorporated these principles into the

corporate-wide objectives. Performed quality reviews of contracts including verification of the appropriate pricing methodology, terms and conditions for RBOC customers.

• Implemented an online electronic (Lotus Notes database), to improve the tracking of customer contracts and make available an online system. Staffed and trained employees on the new system. Result: created a centralized database for thousands of contracts, thus reduced user time for locating contracts.
• Performed contract status reviews with the Project Management Office as well as corporate executive members which consisted mainly of quantitative analysis, deliverable, costs, and schedule targets

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Established the Basking Ridge Buddy Ball Division (2007): a Little League baseball program established for special needs children. Have managed the league for 11 years.

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