SUMMARY:

• Proven project, business and PMO analyst with 15+ years experience in Multi - national and Multi-industry Fortune 100 companies. 15+ years experience in Financial/Banking industry, Media and Healthcare.
• Extensive experience navigating highly complex organizations to achieve results. Collaborative and self motivated team player.
• Results driven Certified Project Management Professional meeting and exceeding customer expectations. Confident leader who has led Programs (up to 30 member team), Projects (up to $5 Mill), Process Quality Improvements, Business Process Management, Project Management Offices/Organizations, PM Career Development, extensive experience data management, data governance and analysis

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• MS Excel
• MS Word
• MS PowerPoint
• MS Access
• MS Project
• MS Project Server
• Sharepoint
• Business Object 6.0
• Clarity PPM
• Open Workbench
• Adobe Acrobat (Reader and Creator)
• Great Plains Dynamics
• TITAN Inter-Company Expense Management
• Ariba Buyer (Epurchase Procurement system)
• Quality Center
• SAP
• MAnMan Supply Chain Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Content Programming Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and research programming options via major studios and distributors content management and screening portals
• Establish relationships with studio and content distributors to facilitate rights distribution purchases
• Screen programming options, create edit notes for discussion with management
• Prepare programming charts for recommendation to clients
• Worked with account managers to influence client content choices to maximize margins
• Manage quality control through content delivery to clients

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Researching and analyzing data via system databases, license agreements, product distribution contracts and agreements
• Provide data analysis using advance excel functions for highly visible data migration project from legacy TV distribution and Warner Home Video Rights Management system (source) to new integrated SAP Intellectual Property Management/Contracts Rights Administration, Participation and Residuals (target)
• Review distribution contracts to identify key points as it relates to IPM requirements including distribution territories, contract duration, media, sell off periods and options.
• Fill gaps where necessary by researching titles, contracts and agreements using additional Warner resources

Confidential

Project/Process Manager, Hollywood, CA

Responsibilities:

• Client onboarding, assessed client needs (requirements gathering), create and execute plan to manage branding effort through delivery of all digital content
• Worked with Glassrock Studios on requirements gathering and the development of a video and photographic studio

Confidential

Senior Project/ System Manager, MONTEREY PARK, CA

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Basel II Technology Group PMO’s effort to establish end to end data lineage for important data elements that impacts both Risk Weighted Asset calculations and enterprise wide consumption of key elements (end to end PM via EPM methodology using Clarity)
• Managed project financials in accordance with IT Risk Management PMO
• Created business cases, define budget, baseline plan, track variance (actual vs. plan)
• Lead Data Integrity Metadata Repository team in creating a more scalable and robust MDR
• Successfully managed the implementation of additional instances of test and development environments for the Metadata Repository and the Code Maintenance Hub
• Successfully managed multiple code releases via the Enterprise Project Management Process (EPM)
• Led building & management of metadata repositories
• Working directly with data management office (DMO) & business users, creating requirements, use-cases & design documents.
• Managed the testing process including creating manual test scripts and documenting results
• Worked with development team and system managers in implementing metadata standards to ensure completeness and accuracy
• Managed the Design of custom solutions for non-compatible components like Mainframes etc. For complete end-to-end data lineage.
• Building data glossaries of important data elements and creating searchable links to its physical locations in data stores.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Gathered user and technical requirements, managed day to day deliverables in implementing various EMP tools including MS Project Server
• Financial Management via PMO standards
• Current state assessment/Process re-engineering
• Performed and/or coordinated user acceptance testing
• Prepared and managed user training and executed rollout plans
• Creation and management of project plans across multiple work-stream and identified cross functional dependencies and created solution to integrated plan
• Clarity Implementation - multiple modules
• Created standard Change Management Process
• Moderate cross functional and cross Program weekly team meeting
• Assisted in the overall development of a robust PMO
• Delivered Altiris implementation project using Agile Methodology
• Developed relationship with other corporate PMO’s to standardized project tools and Project Delivery Framework
• Managed 20 member project team to implement Altiris (end to end PM), MS Project Server
• Created and presented PMO templates (RACI Matrix, Four Box Reports, Resource Engagement plan)
• Organized application deep dive in effort to ensure readiness for transition

Confidential, New York, NY

Project Manager/PMO Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Led Engineering and Product Solution’s effort to identify $1.9MM in saves or cost avoidance and present high and granular level management reports
• Project lead - 75 Wall Street exit (data center move)
• Project Manager: Digital Fax Environment Refresh (global project team). Created and managed SDLC project plan
• Managed testing process; creating test scripts and documenting results
• Worked closely with the Center of Excellence to introduce various PM methodologies to EPS
• Worked closely with data center resources and EPS engineers to determine hardware requirement and potential data center impact. Created WBS, SOW and forecast documents, prepared business funding requests. Created high level scope and requirements documents, determined tasks dependencies and communications requirements, facilitated communications between project resources to ensure timely resource engagement requests, worked with the technical team to determine procurement needs and worked with Epurchase (Ariba) to secure hardware, software and peripherals. Maintained and tracked time and cost estimates using advanced Excel functions and complex cross functional project plans (15+ project team with $5MM budget)
• Weekly monitoring of the EPS Project Pipeline to ensure compliance to GTI PMO standards
• Worked closely with GTI PMO’s Center of Excellence (Methodology and Framework) on several initiatives including defining project categories based on required rigor, dollar threshold, compliance and reporting standards. Developed Responsibility Matrix and a revised Project Delivery Framework.
• Ensured that all EPS projects are fully compliant with the firms project delivery standards
• Assisted in the development design, testing and implementation phases of a new web system developed to track legal entities (OTS Web and Corporate Ownership) adhering to the line of business PMO Project Delivery Standards
• Assisted programmers in developing Schema and identifying problems based on the application’s specifications
• Reconciled entries in the ownership and general ledger systems to ensure synchronization (analysis done via relational tables in Access)
• Entered maintenance for the supporting files added to the systems (Data scrubbing)
• Checked general ledger system for legal entities financial activities to determine if a cost center or general ledger company can be submitted for closure