PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a professional project coordinator with over 4 years of project management experience working in a corporate environment developing and maintaining project schedules, project forecast, project financials and managing project team meetings.
• Competent in managing projects with the use of MS Project, Project Portfolio Management - HP PPM - Clarity.
• Extensive knowledge in tracking project phases and deliverables.
• Very proficient using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experienced in the overall Project specialist, scheduling, tracking resource hours and running weekly financial reports for the project/program.
• Experience in tracking project/program budgets and following-up with managers across the organization on variances.
• Experience in preparing formal project management documentation and managing risk, issues and action items and decisions
• Ability to recommend corrective actions to ensure project success and facilitate project change requests.

SKILL MATRIX:

Project Coordinator / Project Control Analyst

MS Word

MS PowerPoint

MS Excel

MS Project

MS Visio

Pivot Table

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel + Financial, PowerPoint)

Microsoft Project and Project Server 2007/2010/2013

Microsoft SharePoint

PMBOK Knowledge Areas

Risk Management

Project Portfolio Management - HP PPM - Clarity, Plan-View.

Earned Value Management

Excellent Communication Skills

Bilingual, English and French

Spreadsheets & Reports

Scheduling & Calendaring

Office Organization & Administration

Supports e-commerce product to ensure accurate resource time reporting, spend forecasting, procurement, and payment

Executing and documenting benefits updates

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Developed and maintained project schedules.
• Created summary and sub tasks using Microsoft Project.
• Identified and monitored critical paths.
• Set project baselines and updated project timelines, scope and cost
• Assisted in calculating earned value (project financials).
• Prepared and/or edited meeting agendas/minutes, presentations, and tables.
• Facilitated project meetings and created project documentation.
• Prepared project status reports.
• Recommended corrective actions to ensure project success and facilitate project change requests.
• Tracked resource hours and provided weekly reports.
• Defined, estimated and scheduled project tasks and dependencies.
• Identified project issues and escalated as required.
• Enter durations and assigned resources to activities/projects.
• Entered and tracked milestones and updated project plans (simple and master schedules).
• Project Portfolio Management - HP PPM - Clarity, Plan-View.
• Created RAID Logs and tracked risks, action items, issues and decisions.
• Use Plan-View to manage and integrate the planning and execution of portfolios.
• Updated weekly project timelines, scope and cost
• Tracked project phase deliverables and published on SharePoint as well as add vendors and team members to the project using clarity.
• Created project calendars, organized conference calls and arrange travel arrangements
• Utilize project server for creating detailed project plans, tracking and analyzing the project’s budget, creating project’s financial reports as well as forecasting the projects resources and budget.
• Utilized Microsoft Project server platform solution to provide support for resource management such as for planning, reporting, and project team collaboration and using it as a centralized and unified repository for storing all project and resource data.
• Using excel for forecasting, compare planned vs. actual hours, use pivot tables to demonstrate weekly and monthly burn for projects, gathers financials and cost estimates for projects, and analyze and report financial data.

Confidential

Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Assisting in ongoing PPM and Staffing and requesting and getting resources assigned to tasks in PPM
• Under direction of Project/Program Manager, request resource allocations, assign tasks to allocated resources,update project work plan, schedule & milestones, analyze budget & spend, resource utilization, set-up project tasks, updated staffing profile to maintain appropriate allocation level.
• Created, updated, and uploaded Scorecards, analyzed project’s status,schedule, forecast, capture issues & risks, close project tasks. Identified project actual spending (capital & operating) and created future forecast. Tracking & reporting on 3rd party invoicing against budget and ensuring all methodology required documents are stored in appropriate project library
• Fulfill allocation requests in PPM; consult with managers as required and follow-up with individual contributors on missing time
• Created risk assumptions issues and dependencies (RAID) logs and tracked risks, action items, issues and decisions while utilizing clarity to update project status - Green, Red and Yellow.
• Ensured weekly update of project timeline, scope and cost as well as add vendors and team members to the project using clarity.
• Provide various PPM reports as needed to analyze and manage the project such as resource utilization/actual time summary, identifying and analyzing labor/non-labor costs, financial summary, Project Timeline/baseline comparison and other reports as identified by Project Manager
• Using the MS Project to monitor and keeps track of project progress on the critical, late, on schedule and milestones
• Assist with establishment of CR process tailored to the project
• Effectively track status and approval process of project CRs
• Reporting on metrics
• Document weekly CR Review Board meetings
• Daily management of CR database for accurate ad hoc reporting
• Coordinate meeting activities and take detail meeting minutes
• Coordinate meetings & team events
• Manage Project Calendar, create meeting ducks and assign action items
• Other duties as assigned by Program or Project Manager
• Prepare Business Steering Committee decks
• Prepare project presentations to management or business line
• Working closely with off-shore partners to identify and managed their needs to suit that of the project

Confidential

Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Developed and maintained project schedules.
• Utilized Microsoft Project server platform solution to provide support for resource management such as for planning, reporting, and project team collaboration as using it as a centralized and unified repository for storing all project and resource data.
• Set baselines.
• Updated project plans (simple and master schedules).
• Using excel for forecasting, compare planned vs. actual hours, gathers financials and cost estimates for projects, and analyze and report financial data.
• Support network security team to identify and guard against threats to Lowe’s.
• Prepared and/or edited meeting agendas/minutes, presentations, and tables.
• Facilitated project meetings, created project documentation.
• Created project calendars and organized conference calls.
• Tracked project phase deliverables and published on SharePoint.