SUMMARY:

• Over 20 years of information technology and project management experience for diverse industries including education, oil & gas, governmental and high - tech environments.
• Certified expert in information systems technology, project planning, strategic planning, business intelligence and reporting, systems analysis and troubleshooting, quality control, forecasting, scheduling and planning, and tracking of results.
• Highly knowledgeable in systems integration, software development, requirements analysis, and database design, as well as in project management and controls. Excels at creating, implementing, and monitoring technical and operational plans and strategies.
• Competent liaison between management, clients, and personnel, including communication with and between people of diverse cultural backgrounds.
• Strong communication, presentation, analytical and problem solving skills.
• Proven track record and hands-on experience in project management and coordination, handling progressively larger and more complex projects all the while consistently meeting delivery schedules on time and on budget.
• Responsible, flexible, hardworking, international in outlook and scope, trustworthy and ethical.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10/Mac OSX

Applications: Microsoft Office, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Project Server, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Access, Crystal Reports, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, IMS DB/DC/ADF, SAP, Primavera, Rational Portfolio Manager, Microsoft Business Intelligence Tools, Informatica

Languages: COBOL, Microsoft Visual Basic, Java

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, North Mankato, Minnesota

Senior Project Manager

• Senior Project Manager, as member of a corporate Project Management Office (PMO), responsible for providing core deliverables, process improvements, and technology solutions, that meet detailed customer requirements, primarily in the area of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects within the Print industry, with subsidiary company customers, vendors, and project resources located across the US.

Confidential, Saint Paul, Minnesota

Project Manager

• Co-Project Manager responsible for Oracle Data Warehouse and Reporting (Business Intelligence) Solution implementation for the Minnesota Healthcare Exchange MNsure .

Confidential, Roseville, Minnesota

Project Manager

• Project Manager responsible for delivering the latest in leading edge Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) and SharePoint solutions for varied high technology savvy customers across such diverse industries as consumer services and healthcare. Project teams consist of leading edge practitioners in both technical and business areas of expertise, including both onshore and offshore resources.

Confidential, Las Vegas, Nevada

Project Manager

• Project Manager responsible for planning the Student Information System Implementation of the Infinite Campus District Edition product at Confidential . Tasked with collaborating with the professional implementation team from infinite Campus to develop an all-encompassing overall active implementation plan, that both allows for comprehensive requirements gathering, as well as testing of the derived detailed solutions both in the product as well as in internal procedures.
• These activities, followed up by extensive training, are meant to ensure a quality software product, as well as to minimize the impact to the district as a whole, and yet to maximize the overall and individual benefits to the staff and teachers around the entire school district.

Confidential, Columbia, Missouri

Project Manager

• Project Manager at Confidential 's Columbia Delivery Center in Missouri managing multiple simultaneous small to large size SAP infrastructure projects for the Strategic Outsourcing (SO) Delivery within the GTS organization supporting the Amtrak commercial account.

Confidential, Blaine, Minnesota

Project Manager

• Responsible for multiple concurrently executed projects of K-12 educational web-based (Java and MS SQL Server) packaged COTS software for various state-wide and school district implementations across the USA.
• Continued refinement of project methodology and creation and monitoring of new deliverables. Developed new Food Service implementation processes including complete set of tasks, activities with timeline, including automated tools used for initial project scheduling and planning.

Confidential

Project Coordinator

• Provided project controls and monitoring activities on complex multi-phased Saudi Arabian/Japanese Joint Venture (JVC) Petrochemical SAP implementation project. Responsibilities included initial project set up and continued implementation maintenance within SAP Solution Manager, as well as other varied project management office tasks including project scheduling and quality assurance of ASAP methodology project deliverables.
• Coordinated activities between Saudi Aramco provided SAP Consultants, external outsourced SAP Project team members, and PETRORabigh internal project staff.

Confidential

Project Manager

• Managed a $4M SAP HR/Benefits implementation project converting a legacy Home Ownership Financial system on an outsourced fixed price contract.
• Provided project management consulting services to other Project Managers in support of four additional outsourced SAP HR and SCM projects. All these outsourced projects used ABAP developer resources based back in India, activities that had to be closely coordinated and monitored between all projects.

Confidential

Project Control Manager

• Established a Project Control Office (PCO) at the overall company level, to provide scheduling and planning assistance, establishment of financially related controls and processes, and creation and monitoring of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and related reporting of Earned Value (EV) metrics, for all existing and future major programs and projects.
• Organized a Project Management Office for a $35M automated fingerprint identification and application re-engineering program for the Confidential . Responsibilities included providing communications and status updates, project and team scheduling and planning, and overall project management assistance to individual project and team leaders.

Confidential

Project Coordinator

• Coordinated SAP Salary Planning & Administration implementation project, as well as Project Management Office (PMO) Coordinator of all major SAP HR implementation efforts, responsible for overall budgeting, scheduling, and in providing planning and project management assistance and mentoring to individual project managers.
• Provided services as ASAP Methodology SME (subject matter expert) on SAP Solution Manager 3.2 implementation project. Primary responsibilities included identification and preparation of required standard deliverables and templates to be common to all Saudi Aramco SAP projects.
• Provided coordination activities for $30M SAP Payroll and Benefits implementation including responsibilities related to project management, methodology, budgeting, and coordination. This multinational project team was organized around functional and technical areas and numbered in excess of 100 experienced and new SAP Functional and Technical Consultants and Developers.
• Coordinated a SAP Finance & Reporting organization supporting already implemented and developed applications for SAP FICO/TR. Responsibilities included working with Project Controls Group responsible for overall project roadmap and deliverables.
• Technical Lead responsible for the conversion of legacy Capital Programs and Financial Master related data for the SAP PS module implementation.
• Responsible for high-level coordination and project scheduling of the Conversion and Interface developments for the overall company-wide $750M SAP R/3 Implementation project.

Confidential, New Orleans, Louisiana

Project Leader/Lead Developer

• Developed the Small Tool Control System (STCS) using Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0 and Microsoft Access 2.0.
• Provided maintenance for all Inventory production systems, including use of advanced systems analysis and construction tools for generating CICS IMS/DB2 COBOL programs.

Confidential, New Orleans, Louisiana

Lead Developer

• Provided continuing maintenance and support for developed Customer Information System (CIS) using IMS DB/DC, COBOLII, and IMS/ADF.

Confidential

Project Leader/Lead Developer

• Technical Lead of the original implementation of the Salary Planning & Administration (SPA) system, the first Saudi Aramco kingdom-wide client/server system developed using PowerBuilder and DB2/Oracle.
• Implemented the mainframe based Workman’s Compensation Claims Processing System (CPS) using extensive IE techniques along with IMS/DB2.
• Developed the Personal Effects Tracking System (PETS) using IMS/DB2, the first Confidential mainframe system developed at Saudi Aramco using advanced Information Engineering (IE) systems analysis tools and methodologies.
• Developed the Reclamation Sales Tracking (RETRAK) System, the first Confidential mainframe system at Saudi Aramco to be implemented using DB2.

Confidential, New Orleans, Louisiana

Lead Developer

• Developed the initial Customer Information System (CIS) using IMS/ADF.
• Lead Analyst for the conversion of initial ADF online programs to COBOL.