SUMMARY:

• A seasoned Project Manager and Analyst with over 28 years of experience to include Workday implementation testing and SAP HCM, SAP Financial, SAP PBF, SAP MM, and Ariba Procurement, Contracts, Purchase Orders, Supplier Information and Performance Management implementation and infrastructure and application deployments, upgrades, and data integrations/uploads in insurance, healthcare, transportation, government, medical industries. Expertise/skilled in SDLC and Agile project management methodologies. Managed functional and technical requirements gathering processes, conducting JAD sessions with various groups of users (Accounting, Finance, Procurement, and Legal)
• Procured hardware/software using the Ariba software
• Procurement process management using the Ariba software
• Billing approval process using the Ariba software
• Developed the SOWs for the replacement solutions
• Worked with various Procurement organizations for technical solutions RFP development and publishing
• Worked with various Legal organizations in the wording of the Service Integration Agreement (SIA) contracts

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Principal

Responsibilities:

• C - Corp Filing and Real Estate Development

Confidential, Hanover, MD

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led the project team (Finance, IT, and Ariba) that implemented the SAP Ariba Supplier Information and Performance Management (SIPM) module and established criteria for each milestone within the product roadmap to measure developmental progress
• Measure and track using Enterprise MS Project, Project Server and SharePoint.
• Successfully managed client and stakeholder relationships and maintaining relationships with third parties/vendors.
• Manage and coordinate User Acceptance Testing
• Developed project plans, charters, project governance planning and execution roadmaps, organizational change management plans
• Developed test plans, use cases, test data, testing checklists and continually performed quality control activities to insure accuracy of deliverables

Confidential, Columbia, SC

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Established the SC DoT project roadmap and foundation for the SC DoT National Transportation Database RFP Development project
• Identifying, documenting, and managing project risks and issues and reporting on status for each to senior management
• Developed comprehensive sets of as-is and to-be business process models for the NTD grant reporting process plus gap analysis reports between process models
• Functional and technical requirements gathering processes, conducting JAD sessions with various groups of users (Accounting, Finance, Procurement, and Legal)
• Gathering detailed use cases and requirements through regular on-site visits and virtual meetings

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Established the Marketing Asset Project (MAP) project roadmap and foundation
• Developed comprehensive sets of as-is and to-be business and workflow process models for the Marketing Asset Project (MAP) with gap analysis reports between defined Ariba and SAP to-be processes and legacy business processes
• Worked with project teams that included Accounting, Finance, Procurement, and Legal to enhance Under Armour’s Ariba & SAP application, web portals, and dashboards for Confidential ’s contract management and procurement applications areas
• Led functional and technical requirements gathering processes, conducting JAD sessions with various groups of users (Accounting, Finance, Procurement, and Legal) and documented detailed use cases and requirements through regular on-site visits and virtual meetings

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Director

Responsibilities:

• Full organization start-up for medical product distribution and establish the Confidential medical startup roadmap and foundation
• Led the status reporting meetings with Confidential senior leadership and team members
• Collaborated with the business support team members to launch products selection and distribution networks
• Established criteria for each milestone within the roadmap to measure startup progress
• Identified, documented, and managed company risks and issues and reporting on status for each to business partners and led daily and weekly senior leadership and team status and planning meetings to develop team strategies and define area goals
• Evaluated business product contracts in terms of contract impacts on business for resource demands and cost to Confidential
• Developed business and product execution plans, organizational structure charts, high and detailed level Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), high and detailed level business schedules and identified business and technical resources to for each line item within the schedule and product development activity Lists
• Established procedures for managing the risks, issues, and mitigation strategies and communicated business and contractual risks in terms of their impact on the business
• Collaborated with business and technical teams to drive development and messaging

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

QA and Testing Lead

Responsibilities:

• Quality Assurance (QA) and Testing efforts for the Statewide Personnel System (SPS) project (Workday HCM implementation) project that implemented the Workday HCM product for the Confidential
• Collaborated with the business and technical teams to complete project tasks and deliverables on time and to specifications
• Conducted quality gate reviews in accordance with Confidential PMO standards
• Developed detailed functional and technical test cases and test scripts against defined requirements that were specific (must have and optional), measurable, prioritized, achievable, connected, and signed off by the project management team for the Workday HCM configuration
• Translated business goals, feature concepts, and customer needs into prioritized enterprise requirements and use cases and technical specifications into detailed product requirements

Confidential, Washington, DC

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project teams (Human Capital Management, Finance, Procurement, and Materials Management) that enhanced Confidential ’s Labor Management System (LMS), Ariba, SAP applications, web portals, and interfaces for the entire Confidential enterprise applications areas. Some modules implemented/upgraded were LMS, SAP HCM, SAP PBF, SAP MM, SAP BI, Ariba Contracts Management, Ariba Procurement, and all systems integration and security points
• Developed multiple SOWs for procuring vendor resources for project work; procured hardware/software, contract management and the billing approval process using the Ariba software
• Managed functional and technical requirements gathering processes, conducted JAD sessions with various groups of users (HR, Legal, Procurement, Payroll, Finance, Crew Management, Finance, SAP Implementation Management).