SUMMARY:

• Proficient and organized IT project manager with 5+ years of project management experience.
• Great communication skills with subject matter experts and clients. Excellent project management, client relations, data analyst skills, and training skills.
• Directly worked with cloud SaaS vendors.
• Work well independently and in team environments.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with professionally handling confidential and sensitive materials.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• MS Word
• MS Access
• MS Excel
• MS Project
• Earthsoft EQuIS
• Earthsoft Alive
• Earthsoft Edge
• Earthsoft SPM
• EPA SCRIBE
• SharePoint
• VISIO

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential, New York

• Worked directly with cloud SaaS vendor.
• Prior technical experience working directly with SaaS vendor to modify current out - of-box software to meet the client’s requirements when software cannot be locally customized. Working with vendor to suggest “wish list” recommended add-ons for next release of software.
• Collected and documented requirements from department leadership to write a proposed budget for the client.
• Applied organization project management governance to manage and control project changes according to organization methodology.
• Routinely update management team of weekly status for the project milestone tasks, and deliver project progress reports based on inner organization and external client project dependencies (schedule, budgets, risks, etc.) to maintain realistic timeline for project completion.
• Led project teams for defining project scope and goals during project kick-off meetings.
• Led project teams for 24-hour turnaround projects to projects lasting a few months to 1+ years.

SENIOR DATA PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

• Worked directly with SaaS vendor.
• Responsible for documenting hours burned versus hours estimated in budget, project progress according to established schedule, tracking of risks and issues, and lessons learned documentation after project closure.
• Experience with maintaining project plans (statements-of-work) and project requirements, documenting change orders, issues list, project risk management lists, status reports for project milestones, and meeting agendas in an organized structure on Sharepoint for executive management and project team access.
• Strategic planning to establish detailed plan (schedule) with milestones to deliver projects on time and within budget. Experience with managing projects in MS Project and utilizing SharePoint to display status of ongoing project tasks and project risks to meet goals of sponsor.
• Great communication with executive level (CEO) and principal owners (department managers) during project planning and client meetings.
• Experience with developing and presenting presentations for client and executive management for business development to propose additional services to the client.
• Experience with execution of projects, writing proposal (contracts), writing project plans, developing detailed project budgets, reviewing timelines for completing detailed project schedule before deadlines, leading technical team meetings, and leading client meetings.
• Utilized PMP technical project life cycle from documenting requirements for project scope, to maintaining budget and milestone schedules, to reviewing billed time, risk analysis, to sending out invoices and following up with client concerning invoice payments.
• Applied organization project management governance to manage and control project changes according to organization methodology. Recommended methodology to executive management for approval when methodology was not established by the organization.
• Technical skills included developing several multiple functional Access databases for a large oil client to analyze environmental data stored in an Earthsoft EQuIS database. Responsible for data migration and establishing valid value lists to maintain integrity of databases. Established protocol to control procedures for maintaining the quality assurance and integrity of multiple large-scale project databases.
• Developed several environmental databases to manage and analyze data.
• Developed a quality assurance data management process.
• Worked effectively with team members to organize creative solutions and processes new assignments. Excellent training skills for other project managers, technical analysts, and programmers.
• Highly skilled with developing relational databases, creating VSIO flow charts, designing SharePoint page structures, programming Excel macros, and designing processes to utilize macros and databases.

DATA INPUT ENGINEER

Confidential, Marshall, Michigan

• Worked as a contractor on-site for the EPA on a 800,000+ gallon oil spill at the Kalamazoo River to coordinate data input into the EPA’s SCRIBE database. Worked with other contractors to train contractors how to access data. Excellent communication skills used to train contractors and employees how to use the database and manage input and output of soil, water, and air sampling data.
• Worked in an emergency response situation with the Regional EPA Remediation Manager as a contractor on an EPA START team.

ENVIRONMENT: AL ENGINEER/DATA MANAGER

Confidential, Greenville, South Carolina

• Worked directly with SaaS vendor.
• Worked with air compliance, pharmaceuticals, and environmental remediation databases.
• Worked responsibly on team projects.
• Proficient skills with EQuIS, ERIS, ERPIMS, Access, and Excel; including designing and creating relational databases, crosstab tables, and pivot tables.
• Created data migration queries using Access databases.

INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT

Confidential, Greenville, South Carolina

• Independent sales consultant for Confidential, a retail home décor company.

IT ANALYST

Confidential, Herndon, Virginia

• Worked with development team and project managers to test code for customized marketing software for a start up internet company. Worked with project managers and IT professionals to set-up targeted marketing logic to send B2B marketing advertisements to newsletter subscribers.
• Excellent communication skills with project managers and IT professionals to support the delivery of targeted marketing advertisements in the Confidential ’ newsletters during a 24hour/7 days per week time-frame with on time delivery.
• Led and managed the company help desk to answer newsletter subscriber questions.

ENVIRONMENT: AL ENGINEER

Confidential

• Revised permits to comply with site modifications during a retrofit of a power plant. Modified reporting plans to accommodate new modifications to the power plant. Developed and presented environmental health and safety training programs for all employees at the power plant. Wrote SPCC plans for several oil storage facilities. Assisted in collecting field information for local school FEMA estimates.
• Excellent communication skills with clients.
• Managed time and worked independently.

STAFF ENGINEER

Confidential, Sterling, Virginia

• Managed proposals, budgets, and field work for the Phase I and Phase II projects.
• Maintained data management process in Excel to manage soil, groundwater, and air sampling data for an environmental remediation project.