SUMMARY

• Innovative, results - driven project management professional with 25 years of progressive business experience with a proven track record in project management, change management, real estate management, vendor management and payables / finance operations.
• A strong versatile leader, leveraging broad business experience and comprehensive analytical skills to transform high-level corporate strategy into actionable working plans.
• Adept at building and executing strategic projects ensuring to infuse new ideas to bring about process improvements and efficiencies.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Agile & Waterfall
• Risk Management
• Real Estate Management
• Mergers
• Acquisitions & Divestitures
• Change Management
• Third Party Vendor Governance
• Financial Analysis / Forecasting
• Contract Negotiations
• Technology Implementation
• Strategic Planning & Business Assessment
• Payables / Finance Operations
• Process Optimization

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Microsoft Applications (including Projects
• SharePoint and Visio)
• Oracle Financial Accounts Payables
• General Ledger and Hyperion
• SAP
• Ariba Buyer
• T&E and Analysis
• Concur
• Manhattan
• Micro-strategy
• SalesForce
• Primavera
• ServiceNow
• Archer
• Zycus
• Clarity
• PCM various Data Repositories.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Confidential, PA

Vendor Management Manager

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with Third Party Risk Management, Vendor Governance, Information Security, and Deloitte to develop and enhance a comprehensive Vendor Due Diligence Security Assessment tool enabling a more targeted approach to diligence; generating process efficiencies and reducing diligence timelines.
• Developed, documented and implemented Standard Operating Procedures and process flows for vendor management due diligence strategies in coordination with system enhancement and process redesign.

Confidential, Pennington, NJ

VP, Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed and documented business requirements and program milestones to implement a standard Corporate Services divestiture / outsourcing process achieving successful collaboration with critical business partners and cross functional teams ensuring contractual obligations were achieved, risks mitigation, and internal controls maintained during execution
• Led Real Estate activities from negotiation, purchase / lease agreements, legal review, construction and decommissioning, environmental phase 1 and phase 2 activities, employee moves, budget and finance, through project close out; impacting over 8,000 employees, 400 retail offices, 100 admin locations and over 10 million square feet of real estate.
• Led Vendor Management activities from contract review, assignments, vendor negotiations, and terminations; impacting over 2,000 contracts with annual spend of over 45 million dollars.
• Lead Enterprise Services activities through analysis of services, transitions and terminations based on business needs for each of the 42 unique divestiture/outsourcing events.
• Led Corporate Security activities associated with building physical security ingress/egress access and employee badge access in coordination with all impacted real estate locations.
• Confidential Wealth Management impacting 23 countries, 320K square feet with annual costs of $49MM and over 500 vendor contracts with annual spend of $31MM.

Confidential, Pennington, NJ

VP, Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed real estate merger activities in correlation with the Confidential transition; documented current and target environments for corporate rent, capital projects, depreciation, facilities management, facility call centers, sub tenant rent allocations, and 3rd party utility payment processing.
• Coordinated 3rd Party Utility Bill Pay Processor RFP and implementation program. Transitioned 22,000 accounts ($19MM) and 5 years of history data and images, including documentation of procedures and staff training.

Confidential, Pennington, NJ

VP, Business Project Controls Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed, implemented and tracked service level agreements, key performance indicators, and performance surveys for 40+ construction vendors.
• Managed vendor sourcing contract management, RFI / RFP preparation, analysis, award selection and contract negotiation.
• Supported business initiatives including Six Sigma, LEED and Diversity Spend.
• Facilitated business case requirements documentation for Construction Project system and Environmental Sustainability system technology implementations.

Confidential

VP, Senior Manager

Responsibilities:

• Implemented multiples versions of Oracle and Ariba Invoicing and Travel and Entertainment systems, domestically and internationally, including: documented business requirements, re-engineered existing processes, established standardized test scripts, UAT testing, documented procedures, developed communication plans and user guides, provided user training for roll out of applications and system upgrades.
• Optimized and automated manual invoice processing; reducing manual process from 85% to 20%.
• Administered Global AMEX Corporate Card Program (8,000 active cards) and Corporate Procurement Card program (1,500 active cards)