Professional experience

Qualifications:

• 10 years of relevant IT experience
• 5 years of Project Management experience
• Knowledge of managing large teams consisting of consultants, employees, and off shore resources
• Knowledge of creating business cases and estimating project cost and effort
• Proven domain expertise within project management and IT delivery
• System and Functional knowledge within the Supply Chain domain

Confidential

• Planned and executed the User Acceptance Test for their major rollout of the statewide financial ERP system to replace their ageing mainframe based financial system. The name for the new ERP system is CGI Managed Advantage which has integrated components of Vendor Self Service VSS , infoAdvantage business warehouse , and Performance Budgeting. A similar solution has been implemented by CGI at in other States.
• Directed the work of the UAT testing team made up of 19 work streams for Accounts Payable, Asset Management, Accounts Receivable, General Accounting, Treasury Accounting, State Budgeting, Performance Budgeting, Cost Accounting, Cost Allocation, Procurement, State P Cards, Inventory, Vendor Customer Management and Vendor Intercepts, Banking and Warrants, Security and Workflow, Data Conversion, Statewide interfaces, and Forms and Reporting. The work involved test script writing, test execution, and incident management. The UAT testing team was made up of technical, cross functional, and functional, and business personnel from the State and main project vendor.

Accomplishments:

• Used my expert knowledge of testing and best practice project knowhow to develop a framework and methodology for completing the scripting effort within a short timeframe. 512 UAT test scripts were completed in a 6 week period without using automation tools.
• Soundly demonstrated command of project management and testing excellence by completing UAT test execution within a very limited amount of time of 8 weeks.

Daily Activities:

• Conducting the Daily status meeting to track test execution.
• Conducted the Daily Incident Management Call to review incident status.
• Tracking, Compiling and reporting out test execution metrics to project stakeholder.
• Daily meeting with State controller to discuss issues for escalation.
• Facilitating with any issues encountered daily during testing planning and execution.

Other Activities:

• Conducted methodology training to State testing team and Vendor team
• Conducted kickoff presentations/meetings and methodology presentation for the scripting phase, and the execution phase
• Mentored Testing team member on the testing methodology
• Conducted Weekly progress/strategy meetings with the Colorado State Controller
• Participated in Weekly meetings with the Project Management Team

Confidential

• Organizational Startup Role for Testing Center of Excellence at Consumers Energy in Michigan. Played key role in hiring, capacity-building and in design and rollout of Consumer Energy's structured Testing Methodology and Tools for use by the Smart Grid Program and the entire company. Included hands-on Methodology education and training to entire Smart Grid business and primary vendor integrator participants
• Proven delivery excellence of testing artifacts and execution for multiple Releases and Multiple Projects at Consumers Energy in Michigan. Responsible for key Quality Assurance Testing artifacts such as Detailed Test Plans, Requirements Traceability Matrix, Daily Test Execution Metrics Reports, and Daily Defect Management Reports. Held multiple roles and responsibilities as Smart Grid Program Test Lead and Smart Grid Testing Program Defect Lead
• Smart Grid Program QA Test Lead responsible for planning and execution of Unit, String, Integration and UAT on concurrent multiple projects including SAP Billing, SAP Device Lifecycle Management, Head End, MDM, Operational Data Store, and Customer Billing Portal

Confidential

• Project Management experience by successfully delivering a SAP project
• Project execution using ASAP Methodology - Blueprint, Configuration, Final prep and Go-live
• SAP Functional Lead roles and hands-on configuration experience in Procure-to-Pay, Plan-to-Deliver and Order-to-Cash process streams
• SAP QA Test Leading experience on various SAP Implementation projects
• SAP Technical Team Project Lead covering the following modules: MM, PP, PP-PI, SD, PS, QM, PM, and FI/CO
• System Integration, Business, Technical, Test and Training support for US Rollout of SAP ECC6 implementation project in the Renewable Energy Industry

Confidential

• Hired as Senior Consultant by Top 'Big 4' Management Consulting firms IBM Global Business Services and E Y Management Consulting Services
• Demonstrated ability to plan and execute JAD workshops for business blueprinting.
• Hired as COBOL programmer by a traditional SDLC IT Department of a company
• Proven Commission Sales experience with Best Practice Retailer Nordstrom
• Hired as Program QA Test Lead at various US firms
• Hired as a Lead consultant and SME for Supply Chain Management to design procurement and warehouse management processes and to conduct end-user training
• Held responsibilities as Defect Management Lead