SUMMARY:

An educated, adaptable and experienced Program Manager with 20 years of diverse project experience in managing multi - million dollar technical projects across multiple product sets. Skilled in Cable, Data Analytics, Telephone VOD, Confidential, and other IT product and software development and deployment initiatives. Expert in deploying products of high technical complexity. Experienced with VSM, SDLC, AGILE, LEAN, Waterfall and hybrid processes. An adaptable, positive and motivated professional, who is able to work within diverse environments to provide practical and successful approaches. Proven communicator who can integrate quickly into a culture and drive results through understanding, creative solutions with courteous persistence. Educated, with a Master’s of Science in Business Technology Management with a Project Management concentration. I do use humor to keep myself sane, if your work environment is stiff, stressful and humorless, I probably won’t fit in your organization.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Program Budgets, Capital Access Requests (CARs), Purchasing, Invoicing and Inventory Deployment Forecasting and deployment schedules.
• Developed model to forecast equipment shipment timing and location reports offering visibility to leadership for understanding aged inventory management at a glance
• Managed the Orchestration effort of pulling all projects into one application for NVDE taking our team from a disjointed and decentralized practice to a unified system allowing for KPIs and auditing.
• Managed inventory analysis for CTV Program from 2015 to 2017 which resulted in:
• Decreased obsolete equipment by 60% in 4 months (aged, consignment, & old designs)
• Brought “shipped equipment” percentage from 16% in April 2016 to 98% in October of 2016 reducing “reserved and unused equipment.
• Initiated CTV Optimization summit in 2015 resulting in reduction in design delivery time from 6 weeks to 1 week.
• Creator and Lead Project Manager for the Design Desk. The output of the design desk was all technical / engineering documentation for CTV Deployments, procurement and management of equipment for facilities and CTV deployments. RMA management and cross-organization coordination to meet product’s goal of 100% CTV market deployment by 2016.
• Reduced inventory shortages and quote quality issues by 95% is 2015 and 100% in 2016
• Produced 100% of on-time design documentation delivery in 2015 to present verses 5% in 2014
• Managed inventory purchase and deployment of $500 Million in assets
• Manage RAPID initiatives, a portfolio of projects, that ensure rapid response to process, practice, and deployment challenges in order to ensure quality, predictability, velocity and innovation of deployment delivery

Confidential

Senior Technical Deployment Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for multiple critical project deployments including but not limited to EAS, Live Cut, IP Linear and cDVR deployments across the Confidential National Distribution Network with responsibility for over 30 million dollars.

Confidential

Project Manager II

Responsibilities:

• Manage Confidential Business projects from Confidential initiation to implementation
• Coordinate across multiple lines of business, IT, Engineering, Dev, Operations etc.
• Work as a committed team member to support SPMO excellence and growth
• Manage budgets, vendor resources, Confidential capital, process, training and other support teams.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for yearly budgets of over 4 Million dollars.
• 3 years experience in IT software development
• Demonstrated skills in team building, collaboration, communication and motivational techniques
• Responsible for business analysis and software requirements for existing and new software. SDLC Experience: (Requirements 50% /Design 5% / Integration/testing 10%/ Implementation 30% / Verification and Maintenance 5%)
• Communicated with all levels of technical and non-technical staff to ensure the project goals and tasks are properly identified and understood across the project team/stakeholder audience
• Skilled in MS Project, Clarity, Excel, Visio, MS Project and Apple Applications
• Working knowledge in multiple process models Waterfall, Agile and familiar with RUP (Inception, elaboration, construction, transition and product phases and SCRUM (Project Managing the product backlog and features 90%, (Release backlogs)
• Respected as a customer advocate and someone who cuts through the red tape to solve problems creatively
• Able to translate complicated technical goals into actionable and measurable steps
• Demonstrated excellent customer relationship with Confidential .
• Within 2 months on the job, turned the customer experience from disgruntled to complementing the product

Confidential

Director

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for project budget of over 85M and a portfolio of 300+ projects in 2008 (completed 297 projects)
• Responsible for setting the strategic goals, planning, priority setting, staff hiring and management and driving results
• Defined and documented the project procurement process and improved purchase order request process time from 45 days to one week. Improved inventory ordering and receiving process by implementing a detailed tracking methodology and database
• Supervision of 19 + Project Managers, 2 coordinators and contracted employees
• Designed and built a PMO/ PPM from scratch for division engineering increasing visibility, management and control of division projects, increased project completion by 90% from 2008 to 2009
• Responsible for Confidential projects, Analog to Digital Conversion,

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for a portfolio of 20 to 79+ telephone engineering projects 2006/2007; new product development - proof of concept, lab and early field trial tests and deployment solutions management
• Responsible for training of technical systems, personnel and users for all new product development solutions
• Completed 40 projects for telephone engineering on time and within budget 2006
• Responsible for tracking telephone engineering deliverables within other Confidential cross- organizational projects
• Planned and initiated 10M savings project to convert Confidential internal phones to its own network
• Improved Telephone Engineering project delivery and communications by 78%