Principal Project Manager Resume Schaumburg, IL - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Leads cross - functional teams to achieve challenging business objectives.
Mentors project team members to drive aggressive work plans, commitments and timely project delivery.
Proactively manages stakeholders’ expectations, scope, risks, and communications through the full project life cycle.
Proven flexibility applying project management capabilities in a wide range of industry settings and roles.
Program management, portfolio governance, and resource management
Project scope management, cost management, budget controls, and scheduling
Strong oral and written communication skills
Collaborative team leadership and interpersonal skills
Monitoring progress, status reporting, and stakeholder management
Risk management, critical issue resolution, and creative problem solving
Business process improvement, organizational change management, and cost reduction
Expert-level proficiency with Microsoft Project and Primavera project controls tools and systems

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Earned Value project performance management and financial analysis systems.
Microsoft Office Suite proficiency (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio).
Google productivity applications (Gmail, Shared Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Hangouts) proficiency.
Waterfall and Agile Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies.
Lean Six Sigma process improvement tools and methodologies.
Data analysis and statistical process control tools and techniques (Minitab, MS Excel).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

Principal Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Led global cross-functional teams resolving public safety radio infrastructure critical quality issues.
Triaged, quarantined, and promptly resolved high severity hardware and software product defects.
Cleared $50M to $100M per year in product quarantines, enabling on-time customer deliveries and achievement of revenue recognition goals.
Provided Daily Watch status updates to executive management for all critical projects.
Determined root cause of critical product defects and implemented preventive process improvements.
Certified quality compliance and operational readiness for software maintenance release program.
Prepared project plans, risk plans, impact assessments, status reports, meeting minutes, and other project deliverables.
Collaborated with Marketing, Finance, and Field Operations to plan and execute field remediation and customer satisfaction projects.
Collaborated with Manufacturing and Supply Chain to resolve hardware and supplier product issues.
Developed new Field Supplier Chargeback process with Lean Six Sigma DMADV methodology achieving $ 500K initial hard cost savings in field labor, repair depot, and replacement equipment expenses.

Confidential

Principal Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Headed DMAIC Six Sigma initiative creating a common development process across six Networks divisions, decreasing time to market and costs by increasing resource portability and effectiveness.
Coordinated communications, status reporting, stakeholder management, and activity logistics for a team of 80+ cross-functional process team representatives.
Facilitated Six Sigma best practice workshops and teams driving common process development.
Developed and maintained Primavera and Microsoft Project process team development schedules.
Drove organizational change management program to ensure successful common process adoption.
Administered enterprise Process Asset Library (PAL).
Supervised PMO team members.

Senior Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Established Engineering Computing portfolio governance project selection and resource allocation process, aligning technical resource allocation with business strategy and priorities.
Created and deployed a formal project management process and methodology ensuring completion of projects on plan and within budget.
Developed Earned Value portfolio health and resource management reporting and analysis tools.
Deployed a Primavera-based Enterprise Program Management System (EPMS).
Supervised PMO team members.

Confidential, Everett, WA

Computing Process Specialist

Responsibilities:

Evaluated and coordinated computing system requirements for major facility expansion initiative.
Relocated 12,000 computing assets, consolidating new 777 airplane development team.
Converted 10,000 employees to automated timekeeping and payroll system.
Managed IT modernization projects (workstations, printer utility, networks, data, security, COTS).
Upgraded campus IT infrastructure for Lean Manufacturing initiatives and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system deployment.
Planned and coordinated facility computing relocation move and change support service.
Developed and maintained Primavera P3 and Primavera SureTrak critical path project schedules.
777 Computing Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) and 5S champion.