SUMMARY:

Energetic and self - motivated with strong relationship building, project/vendor/risk & issue management skills. A proven track record of driving projects to completion as well as delivering on-time and within budget.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project/Vendor Management: Supplier Selection, Conflict Resolution, SOW Negotiations, Financial\Procurement\Schedule\Transportation Management, Cost Comparison Analysis

Project Management Processes: APEX, SSP, SDP-21, PIM, CMMI, ITIL

Project Management Frameworks: Waterfall, Agile, Kanban

Procurement Tools: Ariba ( Confidential ), CPARS (Ford)

Microsoft Products: Access, Word, EXCEL, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Project and Visio

Time/Financial Reporting Tools: Clarity, SAP, Fieldglass, PFMA and Nexus

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior (IIII) Project Manager

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Responsibilities:

• Exceeding the number of PMO High Frequency Release metrics on-time
• Working with cross functional teams to define technical solutions, establish project plans to meet business requirements and ensuring compliance requirements are met
• Leading initiatives to resolve application security vulnerabilities
• Participating in portfolio planning initiatives for ASET
• Successfully deployed Verint DPA Volume Capture Tool for SAM and Collections on-time

Applications\Skills: MS Project/Outlook/Word, APEX, PFMA, Clarity, Service Center, Agile/Waterfall

Senior (IIII) Project Manager

Confidential, Southfield, MI

Responsibilities:

• Worked with cross functional teams to define technical solutions, establish project plans to meet business requirements and ensuring compliance requirements are met
• Oversaw vendor deliverables and drove projects to completion
• Coordinated vendor POC’s with Telephony Technical Teams and Confidential Supply Chain
• Participated in portfolio planning initiatives for multiple Telephony Projects
• Successfully launch the Wichita Upgrade Telephony/Infrastructure Project (2015)

Skills: MS Project/Outlook/Word, APEX, PFMA, Clarity, Service Center, Agile/Waterfall, Ariba

Senior (IIII) Project Manager

Confidential, Southfield, MI

Responsibilities:

• Managed Confidential business deliverables and drove projects to completion
• Oversaw vendor project management activity
• Resolved issues and risks related to the project
• Maintained the Product area’s SharePoint site and supported quality access audits

Skills: MS Project/Outlook/Word, Kanban, APEX, Clarity, Service Center

SR Process Project Manager

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Responsibilities:

• Led and deployed releases to multiple OnStar environments
• Reported current and future state gaps, issues and release timelines in order to reduce unnecessary business costs
• Created/Maintained the Release Program Teams Kanban System
• Implemented a new deviation process for the Release Management Team which provide line of sight on the approval status
• Managed communication and coordinated support for several large OnStar Major Releases with Supplier Executive Teams to establish support during releases

Skills: Windows, Project, Visio, Outlook, PIM, Kanban, Agile Training

SR TECHNICAL Project Manager

Confidential, Dearborn, MI

Responsibilities:

• Led the Enterprise Architecture Team (EAT) Managed File Transfer Proof of Concept (POC) with multiple vendors for several of Ford’s Enterprise Applications. Handled the logistics of the POC as well as worked with the EAT to evaluate the POC. Presented the final recommendation.
• Drove the utilization of Ford’s standard project management tools and processes to provide consistent and quality services using SDM, Agile and Waterfall
• Established project metrics/measurements to manage project delivery and effectiveness
• Managed central project management resources using a shared services model for collaboration on new application process redesign for EDI Applications

Skills: Project, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook, Clarity, DORF, Interviewed Consultants to ensure they met job role requirements, Leveraged Agile Methodologies

TECHNICAL Project Manager

Confidential, Warren, MI

Responsibilities:

• Selected to negotiate contractual agreements between the equipment, packaging and transportation companies for Confidential ’s Financial Department as well as evaluated Supplier Performance
• Worked with cross functional technical teams, HP and GM Application Teams, Vendors EMC and IBM, UAW Management and Confidential hardware vendors to deliver projects on time utilizing Agile methodology
• Executed project Sprints following Agile and GM’s SDP-21 processes and ensured project issues were managed to resolution and risks mitigated appropriately

Skills: UNIX, LINUX, HPC, Project, Celerra, Visio, Lotus Notes, Waterfall, Agile, CPARS, Vendor Management

TECHNICAL Project Manager

Confidential, Troy, MI

Responsibilities:

• Managed budget to a minimum/maximum 3% variance in addition to providing monthly and yearly forecast
• Worked with cross functional technical teams, contractors as well as Business Technology Groups to implement projects according to Treasury - Line of Business requirements
• Implemented projects following the DMAIC process and ensured project issues and risks were managed/mitigated appropriately

Skills: Windows, UNIX, LINUX, SharePoint, MS Project, MS EXCEL, Oracle, Clarity, NAS, Visio, WebSphere, PHP, ColdFusion, Hyperion and Java, Waterfall

PRogram/Project Manager

Confidential, MI

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw communication and managed the technical teams, vendors and suppliers to ensure optimal project timeline adherence for the clients Fax Servers and Citrix Blade Infrastructure
• Managed the procurement, delivery and asset management schedules to ensure no impact to equipment tagging/identification and overall schedule
• Monitored project performance issues and resolutions to meet customer expectations, deliverables, project budget and presented results to HP and Customer Senior Leadership

Skills: Windows, UNIX, LINUX, AIX, HPC, MS Project, MS EXCEL, SAP, SharePoint, WebSphere, PHP, ColdFusion, Oracle, and Java, Agile, Waterfall

Product MANAGER

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Responsibilities:

• Maintained accountability for problem resolution, growth opportunities, developing and enforcing process standards and global project management deployment teams
• Led Quality Investigations to review release data, established technical teams to identify problems, developed interim containment action plans and defined\verified root cause for Senior Leadership. Implemented resolutions to meet the clients Service Level Agreement to prevent re-occurrences
• Consolidated and delivered McAfee Suite application status reports to HP and GM Senior Leadership

Skills: Windows, UNIX, MS Project, MS EXCEL, McAfee, PowerPoint, Waterfall