SUMMARY:

• Senior Technical Project/Program Manager skilled in the design and delivery of technical solutions that drive business value.
• Adept at managing relationships with employees, executives, and outside vendors & consultants.
• Comfortable communicating and engaging with both business and technology stakeholders.
• Expertise in coordinating and managing diverse teams and functions to execute projects. 15+ years of managing full lifecycle business intelligence, cloud computing and financial performance management solutions. Managed onshore and offshore teams of up to 50 resources and up to $20 million in scope.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Project Management
• Program Management
• Process Design
• IT Governance
• Business Intelligence
• Requirements Gathering
• Offshore Delivery
• SDLC
• Change Management
• Stakeholder Management
• End User Training
• BICC Setup

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating systems: Windows, Mac OS

Software: JAMA, JIRA, HPALM, Service Now, IBM Maximo, IBM Cognos Versions 4.5 thru IBM Cognos 11, Report Studio, Query Studio, Framework Manager, Analysis Studio, PowerPlay, Transformer, TM1, Impromptu, IBM Cognos TM1 9.4 thru 10.2 (Performance Modeler), Optio Software, Microsoft OfficeDatabases: Hadoop, Oracle, Teradata, SQL Server, Progress, DB2, VSAM

Programming Languages: C++, and SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Assistant Vice President Project Manager

• Accountable for multiple programs and projects with average budgets of $2 million annually; led multiple teams in delivery of quality software and technology solutions for business stakeholders
• Led onshore and offshore teams of 15+ employees and contractors through entire systems development lifecycle; facilitated requirements gathering, systems design, build, testing, and managed go - live and go live support for multiple systems implementations
• Coordinated and managed quarterly meetings with senior leaders business functions such as finance, HR and marketing to understand priorities and develop roadmaps
• Worked closely with business and technical teams to design, build, and deliver software solutions under budget and on-time
• Served on Special team for IT Leadership that took over distressed projects; turned around 3 projects
• Proactively coached and trained junior practitioners; hosted knowledge transfer sessions, conducted training and Q&A sessions, and served as mentor and role model to 5+ practitioners

Senior BI Developer Consultant

• Provided Business Intelligence and Amazon Web Services consulting to Federal Sector

BI Project Manager

• Successfully led the research, construction and deployment to production of IBM’s Maximo as part of a $500M business transformation project; which provided accurate reporting and streamlined financial reporting processes for entire finance and accounting organization
• Led team of 30 technical and functional resources to design, build and deliver G/L and other Financial Reporting functionality to CFO and direct reports; responsible for delivering over 300+ reports and dashboards utilized in financial reporting process
• Managed team throughout all phases of the software development life cycle with Agile method
• Facilitated all requirements and design meetings with Nuclear, Supply Chain, Transmissions, and Generation business units
• Served as liaison to senior management by providing status reports, presentations and triaging issues, risks and key decisions with senior leadership
• Responsible for interviewing, hiring, and onboarding 30+ project resources

Senior BI Trainer Consultant

• Provided Cognos 8.4 Report Studio and Framework Manager custom training
• Analyzed data model and determined inefficiencies with relationship constructs which caused long running reports; Modified model and improved report performance by 90%
• Developed data model to provide insight to student movement throughout their academic matriculation, which provided insight to a student’s complete academic history
• Established Business Intelligence center of competency for school districts

Consultant

• Built Cognos Report Studio Query’s and Transformer Cubes to support the sales organization tracking of consumer goods throughout North America
• Created a multi-dimensional data model which captured 3 billion rows of data, previously unattainable; provided insight to millions of rows of data previously not available

Consultant/Trainer

Responsibilities:

• Delivered BI solutions to multiple Fortune 500 Financial Services companies enabling accurate and efficient reporting for stakeholders and end users
• Led design and delivery of 5+ BI Reporting and Analytics solutions; led project and program management; delivered engaged project scope, engaged with IBM and client leaders to drive key project decisions
• Developed Assessment methodology for migrations and upgrades which was used by multiple clients to upgrade to Cognos, 5,6,7, 8, and 10
• Led multiple projects to design and deliver functional solutions; led teams of 15-20 resources and on average $8M cost to deliver 10+ business intelligence applications generating over $2.3M in fees
• Facilitated all aspects of systems development lifecycle across multiple projects; led requirements gathering sessions; managed design and building of solutions, led testing teams and managed multiple successful go-lives
• Identified inefficiencies in the manual process of disseminating HR reports by printing, and postal mailing by automating the process with business intelligence and output management solutions, which saved $60MM over a 20 year period
• Mentored an aging workforce of 40 workers supporting legacy mainframe Cobol reports to SQL programming language to proficiently utilize the current technology