SUMMARY:

My recent experience was being an integral part of a PMO during an implementation of Clarity and providing project management, scheduling, reporting and resource planning at a major healthcare provider. I am a professional with over 28 years of program and project management experience. This experience includes hands on application development, testing, UAT and deployment as well as budget development, analysis and reporting. Demonstrated leadership and supervisory abilities with highly developed problem solving and interpersonal skills. I am skilled in MS Office applications.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Linthicum, Maryland

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• PMO lead to major business domain for assigned healthcare client.
• Provide project management, scheduling and management reporting to assigned healthcare client.
• Assist in forecast and resource allocation analysis and metrics reporting.
• Design reporting capabilities on projects using advanced MS Office functions and SharePoint
• Provide advanced support and implementation of MS Project and Clarity integration.
• Mentor other team members in project management processes.

Confidential, St. Petersburg, Florida

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided analytical support for the Business/IT governance process including gathering and preparing data and risk management at the program and enterprise level for monthly Change Board meeting.
• Designed, created and maintained overall IT project metrics including capacity hours, project status, Change Request status and capacity vs. demand reports.
• Identified and created workflows around project requests using activity diagrams (UML). Designed, built and maintained project request database in SharePoint based on workflows.
• Designed and maintained auditing and compliance reports of IT published SDLC in support of SOX compliance.
• Developed and maintained project dashboards, roadmaps and enterprise project reporting metrics for Corporate and the Employment Screening division.
• Managed IT Financial Analysis resources providing overall ownership for regular financial reporting and analysis and creation and implementation of efficient reporting processes.
• Contributed to senior leadership meetings and communications by creating effective and efficient communication decks.
• Built and cultivated relationships across multiple business segments to support alignment, collaboration, and integration.
• Built and delivered new and objective project portfolio reporting, measures of performance and analysis reports to support leadership visibility and decision support.

Confidential, Riviera Beach, Florida

Project Manager/Service Manager

Responsibilities:

• Put into operation a means of identifying and assigning appropriate resources management plans and developing schedules and procedures to ensure timely completion of projects.
• Implemented a process for timely invoicing of installation/service accounts as well as verification of account status prior to project or service initiation.
• Managed service department consisting of 30 people.

Confidential, Miami, Florida

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Created business requirements, assembled project teams, identified and assigned appropriate resources, developed schedules and status reports using MS Project and Project Server.
• Projects included iExpense implementation, Oracle HR and Financial patches, database consolidations and Informatica related projects.
• Developed and implemented group policy and procedures as related to project and resource management.

Confidential, Tampa, Florida

Project Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Projects included an overall training environment for retail on - line applications and order entry system for retail Lines of Business, as well as desktop application national deployment to PC/Workstations. Projected annual savings from those projects were $4.5 Million and $11.6 Million respectively.
• Used Lotus Notes on daily basis for workflow and documentation retention for various projects.
• Created budget reporting and tracking for retail IT capital and expense budgets.

Confidential, West Palm Beach, Florida

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project managed as many as five concurrent application development projects Dynamic Systems development Method (DSDM) Agile methodology encompassing 12 - 14 releases per year including management from initiation through integration.
• Given projects encompassed the use of Sybase, Oracle, Cold Fusion, Java and Web Applications.
• Managed geographically diverse team of technical professionals including web site development, software development teams, infrastructure teams, and external resources.
• Established communications plans with customers, project teams, and sponsors.
• Proposed application enhancements based on user needs, requests and usability analysis increasing user efficiencies by 50% with cost savings up to $500,000 annually.
• Documented and modeled workflows using UML to identify processes to enhance products.
• Created and/or reviewed and edited functional requirement specifications, interface control documents, use cases and test plans.
• Performed budget development, cost-benefit analysis, business justifications, and tracking budget variances for projects using MS Project, Access, Excel, Fox Pro and Brio.
• Managed projects with budgets of $2-4 million annually that yielded as much as $10 million annually in decreased re-work, decreased resource requirements, and increased work-package efficiency.
• Working as focal point for internal audit department in preparation for SOX auditing implemented reporting measures to audit lease management data for completeness and accuracy.

Confidential, Boca Raton, Florida

Project Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Documented and created work flows using activity diagrams (UML) as healthcare client supervisors and directors define them.
• Project managed the development and rollout plans of the client’s training curriculum for a new performance measurement system.

Confidential, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

Project Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project manager for the consolidation of all tax roll remediation activities into one system.
• Project manager for the set up of data transfer between client's two main offices.

Confidential, Boca Raton, Florida

Project Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed project schedules, logistics and rollout plans to client for the development, implementation and deployment of a major DB2 Data Warehouse application and reporting system.

Confidential, West Palm Beach, Florida

Senior Computer Systems Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of 5 people in the evaluation of PC hardware and related cost analysis for a joint acquisition with two other divisions of Confidential & Confidential . This resulted in cost savings of $3.5 million.
• Project managed the selection, budget and installation of an imaging system.
• Provided project plans and schedules using Feature Driven Development Agile methodology, UAT and functional test plans and scripts for various development projects.

Confidential

Program Planner

Responsibilities:

• Developed cost and schedule status and variance reports used for reporting to government agencies.
• Gathered requirements, programmed and implemented an integrated cost and schedule proposal system.

Confidential

Program Planner

Responsibilities:

• Led selection committee for project management software.
• Customized project management software based on project management principles and requirements gathered from senior management.
• Designed and created schedule and cost status and variance reports provided to the Confidential .