PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Senior IT Project Manager with extensive experience in various verticals including Pharmacy Benefit Management, Hospitality, eCommerce, and Business Services. Adept at directing and motivating a project team with diverse personalities and talents to achieve results regardless of what obstacles must be overcome. Background includes a highly successful track record of delivering numerous applications with an in - depth understanding of the software development life cycle and associated methodologies, including waterfall and agile, with full responsibility for all aspects of a project including developing and managing budgets and executing the project within scope and schedule from inception to production. Project resources ranged from 10 to 50 + people, project budgets from $250,000 to $1 Million plus. Tracked budgets using Clarity on a weekly basis comparing actuals against estimated. Re-evaluated and adjusted budgets after each project phase and initiated change request for funding if needed.

Skills: Program/Project Management, Resource and Budget Management, Change Control, Risk/Issue Management.

Tools: Microsoft Project, Clarity, SharePoint, Jira, Microsoft office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook).

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager 

Responsibilities:

• Status, issues and risks were maintained in Jira for Oversight meetings and PowerPoint presentations were developed for review with Senior Management.
• Responsible for the release of features and enhancements on the Bed Bath & beyond websites which included the Cart and Checkout, Browse and Navigation, Search, and Product Inventory and Pricing features.
• Managed work streams from Discovery to Delivery which included Business Analysis, Development, QA planning and testing, and Production release.

Confidential 

Project Manager 

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple IT projects concurrently within the CVS Digital team including enhancements releases to their Desktop and Mobile Websites. Responsibilities included defining scope, building and maintaining project plans using MS Project, budget forecasting and tracking actuals using Clarity, managing resources, issues, and risks, running status meetings, and reporting progress to Senior Management on a weekly basis. Fully responsibility for managing projects from Inception to Production. Utilized project management tools including Clarity, MS Project, MS Excel, and SharePoint.

Confidential

Project Manager 

Responsibilities:

• Tracked budget on a weekly basis comparing actuals against estimated. Re-evaluated and adjusted budget after each project phase and initiated change request for funding if needed.
• Established a strong working relationship with both the business and the IT teams.
• Reported status on a regular basis to senior IT management and executive level business management.
• Utilized project management tools including Clarity, MS Project, MS Excel, and SharePoint.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager 

Responsibilities:

• Tracked budget on a weekly basis comparing actuals against estimated. Re-evaluated and adjusted budget after each project phase and initiated change request for funding if needed.
• Project included several sub-projects created as a result of additional and/or changing client needs.
• Replaced two PMs that were removed from the project due inability to work in a high pressure environment with tight deadlines and close scrutiny.
• Established a strong working relationship with both the business and the IT teams.
• Worked with multiple execution and QA teams developing hundreds of reports for dozens of clients at any given time.
• Worked directly with ESI’s largest client on a daily basis to review status and resolve issues.
• Reported status on a regular basis to senior IT management and executive level business management.
• Utilized project management tools including MS Project, MS Excel, SharePoint, and VPMI.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager 

• Project Manager in the Confidential Corporate Equity Solutions Technology Group working with QA, UAT, and numerous development teams to ensure the successful integration of the Smith Barney Benefit Access System from Citigroup to Confidential .
• Development consisted of Java, WebSphere Application Server on the frontend with a Mainframe environment for the backend processing. The QA and UAT teams used HP Quality Center for tracking defects and test cases.

Confidential

Project/Development Manager 

Responsibilities:

• All development was done using an agile development methodology.
• All development was done utilizing Microsoft technologies including VB.Net, Window Presentation Foundation, Window Communications Foundation, and Team Foundation Server.

Confidential

Senior Director of Applications Development

Responsibilities:

• Interfaced with senior executives on strategic planning and product initiatives; worked with management staff on marketing, documentation, training, support, quality assurance, deployment and web hosting to ensure alignment of project objectives with the overall IT strategy.
• Tripled the size of the application with the introduction of new features with each new release, increasing the user base to over 90,000 clients with annual revenues of over 2 billion dollars.
• Work as part of a committee responsible for defining and documenting the SDLC to be used by all of IT.
• Coordinated the integration of the system with the Confidential PC based Human Resource system.
• Improved scalability to increase system capacity from original design of 3000 employees to over 100,000 employees in a single database to address the needs of Confidential ’s largest clients.
• Established 3rd tier support group to expedite resolution of client issues.
• Led the career development and performance management of the development team and successfully retained key staff members.