PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential, Beaverton, OR

Responsibilities:

• Liaison for internal/external business challenges and utilized past experience to recommend best practices to improve products, processes or services
• Liaison for managing Nike's collaboration tools with factory partners
• Demonstrated success in partnering with business owners to develop detailed business requirements and functional specifications using the SAP platform
• Managed several projects over the past year (approx. $1.5M projects each)
• Managed Finance technology teams to ensure forecasts/pricing was aligned with correct technical solutions
• Managed 10 functional teams and worked as a team to seek support from each other and coach team members as necessary.
• As a Product Manager, specified product requirements, oversaw product lines lifecycle and overcame issues, responsible for the strategy, roadmap, and feature definition of the product. Worked with cross - functional teams (Nike Costing Framework (NCF) team, Nike Finance team, Manufacturing factories, Nike Cost Engineering team, Nike Margin Planning team, etc. )
• Created time-integrated plans for product implementation as well as developing product roadmap strategies identifying product launches, and collaborated with stakeholders constantly to introduce the launched products.
• Collaborated with several business units from various areas together to work on implementing PTC FlexPLM tool for Nike’s costing framework for the Apparel/Footwear product engines
• Experienced in managing and completing tasks in support of multiple simultaneous projects for different project sponsors
• Expert in SDLC, Waterfall, Agile, Lean, Six Sigma projects
• Expert in defining and executing on project goals, scope, and task planning.

Environment: ADV (Analytic Data View), Teradata, Informatica, SQL, EDW (Enterprise Data Warehouse), BI (Business Intelligence), ERWIN (Data Modeling), Source to Target Mapping (STM’s) analysis

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential, Dayton, OH

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated/facilitated project based meetings & technical requirements for the Data Management team
• Assisted in resource leveling across multiple efforts, prioritized & mitigated project risks
• Communicated & partnered with the Executive committee on tasks/projects and proactively managed resolution to complex problems
• Lead the preparation of presentations and briefing materials to summarize effort scope, status, issues for assigned projects and tasks
• Ensured completion of project activities, developed and managed budget and scope of work
• Mentored junior project managers/technical coordinators
• Worked across multiple teams within the company including IT, Finance, Marketing, Sales & built strong collaborative networks across the company
• Managed business requests, multiple projects, priorities, planning meetings & project groups
• Acted as the liaison between the Business and the IT teams
• Performed role of a Business Analyst, captured requirements for non-governed internal projects
• Recommended business decisions based on the market and critical analysis
• Utilized Agile methodology to track projects from initiation to production
• Captured Business requirements into functional and technical specifications for the development teams.
• Implemented BPM (Business Process Management) standardization processes for the Data Management team by researching existing processes.

Environment: ADV (Analytic Data View), Teradata, Informatica, SQL, EDW (Enterprise Data Warehouse), BI (Business Intelligence), ERWIN (Data Modeling), Source to Target Mapping (STM’s) analysis

Consultant

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a liaison between Requirements Lead and Business Leads to clearly identify any gaps in the functional requirements
• Managed a Testing Team of 8 resources
• Attended and Participated in Program Meetings
• Facilitated QA Test Strategy development, QA Test Plan development, and educated HNB QA team on best practices of the application testing
• Reviewed and provided feedback on QA test cases based on prior testing experience
• Created QA Test Status reporting to the Program Lead and other leadership teams
• Overlooked QA Test Execution
• Acted as a liaison between the QA and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) teams, and educated the UAT team on differences between QA and UAT testing
• Consulted on the correct sequencing of functionality to be tested
• Consulted on QA best practices as seen from prior experience
• Conducted manual testing and implemented QTP for automated testing

Environment: ADV (Analytic Data View), Teradata, Informatica, SQL, EDW (Enterprise Data Warehouse), BI (Business Intelligence), ERWIN (Data Modeling), Source to Target Mapping (STM’s) analysis

Consultant

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Responsibilities:

• Provided expertise from planning to execution of testing methodologies, process improvements, guidelines, and the team's overall test objectives, resulting in high productivity and efficiency
• Drove the Agile initiative for production support issues, and acted as a liaison between the line of business and the IT developers
• Worked with several business units to accurately document all of their needs to develop user requirements
• Gathered highly descriptive requirements to describe what the product must do in order to fulfill business requirements
• Developed a traceability matrix for the client to keep a record of requirements through each stage of the requirements gathering process
• Ensured defect repository is tracked accordingly and kept up to date to increase quality of work performed
• Facilitated communication of the various applications within Retail IT to increase efficiency and reduce redundancy
• Leading team discussions/meetings, providing innovative solutions to current processes minimizing cost and driving greater value to the client
• Resolved complex client issues, and maintained technical expertise
• Built excellent working relationships with client lead and team leaders from various applications
• Utilized business and functional methodologies to track client's administrative reporting

Environment: ADV (Analytic Data View), Teradata, Informatica, SQL, EDW (Enterprise Data Warehouse), BI (Business Intelligence), ERWIN (Data Modeling), Source to Target Mapping (STM’s) analysis

Health Care Analyst/Consulting

Confidential, Marietta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Drafted Request for Proposals (RFP) and other deliverables for lead consultant review
• Acted as Hewitt Health Value Initiative (HHVI) LLC, gained experience in loading data and analyzing initial results primarily on core clients and checked for data accuracy
• Led core clients (Healthcare of America (HCA) and Verizon) strategy and design consulting to capture bid/selection projects, health plan management (vendor management) and problem resolutions
• Assisted in a high level analysis of plan designs and benefit strategies, pricing strategies, and led in the delivery of client work
• Performed final accuracy review of plan information (rates/benefits) before being sent to the client or HRO
• Coordinated with client teams to request a Discount Analysis, Health Need Index, Benefits Index or other benchmarking reports and assist lead consultant with client presentation of results
• Reviewed the preparation of client documents, including initial results report based on RFP responses for the client
• Performed service area analysis and reporting including GeoAccess analysis, Provider Disruption analysis, Migration/Election Analysis (for non-HRO clients)
• Assisted with carrier negotiations (i.e. led negotiations for smaller plans and assisted in large plan negotiations)
• Resolved complex client issues, maintained technical expertise and actively engaged in peer review
• Built excellent working relationships with Account Executives, other Sales & Accounts associates, Team Leaders from different practices/departments
• Participated in local and national training events and teleconferences to advance my understanding of the business

Environment: Visual Basic, Disruption Analysis, MS Office, GeoAccess Analysis, RFP’s (Request for Proposals) & Migration/Election Analysis

New Product Process Development Engineer/Quality Engineer

Confidential, Douglas, GA

Responsibilities:

• Worked with external vendors to ensure capable processes are developed at the supplier.
• Analyzed blueprints and their specifications to develop the desired product by use of Solidworks software.
• Worked with quality control to ensure all products manufactured meet customer specifications
• Maintained a quality system to ensure compliance with ISO-9001 standard
• Evaluated efficiency and effectiveness of various processes through the proposal of Six Sigma methodologies.
• Identified improvements to processes to increase throughput, quality and price.

Environment: Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, AutoCAD & SolidWorks.

Product Process Improvement Engineering Manager

Confidential, Gainesville, GA

Responsibilities:

• Lean process implementation to increase service levels, minimize errors and manage operational costs.
• Redesigned processes to minimize cost variation, increase efficiency and reduce errors.
• Identified opportunities for with equipment, materials, methods and layouts
• Evaluated product quality to match customer requirements and eliminate nonconformities
• Worked with plants’ reporting systems and interfaces to analyze present variance analysis and profitability impact of proposed processes.

Environment: Six Sigma, 5S, AutoCAD, Lean Manufacturing, & Kanban.

Fall Internship - Textile/Industrial Engineer

Confidential, Gainesville, GA

Responsibilities:

• Initiated INSQL software for a more accurate measure of current processes.
• Acquired leadership and management skills when interacting with plant operators, managers, and executives.
• Analytically resolved problems associated with the yarn manufacturing processes, resulting in vast profitability.
• Employed Six Sigma & 5S initiatives within processes to comprehend and resolve non conforming/non efficient processes.

Environment: Six Sigma, 5S & Lean Manufacturing.

Summer Internship - Textile/Industrial Engineer

Confidential, Calhoun, GA

Responsibilities:

• Conducted time study evaluations (utilizing Industrial Engineering best practices) to optimize product efficiency and minimize cost
• Implemented lean manufacturing principles for Broadloom production and proposed a more consistent process methodology.
• Assisted in the evaluation of machine capacity and operated SQS software for data examination

Environment: Time Studies, Lean Manufacturing & SQS (Software Quality System)