SUMMARY:

PMI certified Project Management consultant with an FDIC clearance and twenty years of corporate and government MIS experience in project management, analysis of computer systems, and design of business process flows, seeking to provide expertise to navigate projects to successful completion.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Management: MS Project 2007, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, Outlook, Documentum, Provision, Clarity

Databases: MS SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access

Environment: Windows 2000, 2003 Server, XP, 98, 95, NT 4.0, UNIX, Linux, Agile

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New Jersey

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided oversight for project tasks, timelines, costs, workload allocation and change control management for this print and Direct Marketing manufacturing company.
• Managed complex program development from design and development to production.
• Defined resources and schedule for project and program implementation.
• Created strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning.
• Planned and scheduled project deliverables, goals, milestones.
• Directed and oversight for project engineering team and managed conflicts within the team.
• Performed team assessments and evaluations.
• Efficiently identified and resolved project issues.
• Provided leadership to define requirements for project risk.
• Develop Requests for Proposals (RFP) for external services.
• Designed and maintained technical and project documentation.
• Strong organizational, presentation, and customer service skills.
• Managed schedules and budgets, and provided management oversight.
• Provided oversight in the areas of application programming, database and system design.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing and delivering a project charter and established a baseline and organization for the integration of Confidential and Viant PPO networks.
• Project upgraded the ability to produce greater cost savings by enabling greater code detail in provider or practitioner contracts which will result in greater savings for healthcare payers.
• Managed agendas for multiple organizations including; SQA, UAT, and business executives in this matrix environment to meet milestones.
• Produced PowerPoint detailing organizational objectives including; Project Objectives, Pilot Objectives and JAD Objectives in a movement from a waterfall approach towards an agile methodology.
• Provided direction and oversight related to initial JAD sessions for this project.
• Project Management duties included meeting coordination, logistics, updating SharePoint documentation, project scheduling and working with outside vendors.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• As project manager responsible for all phases of project life cycle including project initiation, contract review, planning all phases of contract including financial tracking.
• Controlled vendor management costs and estimating project costs and hiring vendors for residential construction projects.
• Responsible for all phases of project including construction design, product quality control, vendor selection, and resolving issues with residential customers and project close out.

Confidential, Princeton, New Jersey

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading diverse and complex chemistry informatics information system projects with large cross functional project teams within the PMO. Projects consisted of more than 20 team members; client scientific, IS staff, offshore/onshore contractors and vendor consultants.
• Projects included implementation and integration of COTS software packages, custom software development, application enhancements and upgrades and infrastructure implementations.
• Collaborated with project sponsor in all phases of project management and aligned project goals with business objectives and acted as liaison to the business unit.
• Developed ROI measures and success criteria and gained funding and sign - off.
• As Project Manager, lead and directed a data Warehouse initiative to streamline access for Confidential ’s compound dispensary. Initiative included meeting with COTS vendors and developed gap analysis to determine contract award.
• Provided status to R&D management, and escalated issues as required. Identified options and recommended approaches to resolve issues.

Confidential, New York, NY

PMO Risk Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed oversight of IT Risk Management PMO processes to ensure compliance with OCC/FRB regulations, and standardized Project Management Methodologies.
• Directed Program Directors and Managers to ensure Program change requests, risks and issues met required processes and mitigation strategy.
• Performed systems analysis of processes producing Microsoft Access reports for this office, and developed new stop-gap procedures to correct errors and raise the standards of accuracy and efficiency. Analyzed trends and developed report summarizations for IT Security for top tier executives in the PMO, including Portfolio Managers and the Chief of Operations and Technology (COT) at this top 10 Confidential 500 Company.
• Compiled key performance indicator Program dashboard reports, and performed QA strategies to determine status and quality of Program’s project plans.
• Produced a weekly Detailed Milestone Report (DMR) to the COT, this report aggregated all Programs falling under the IT Security Portfolio highlighting top level risks and issues.
• Deployed the IT Risk Management agenda for diverse business groups for this organization.

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Infrastructure & Data Warehouse Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Management oversight of IT departments within the PMO to implement a Data Warehouse on a new infrastructure featuring; Data Marts, Business Intelligence methodologies including SAS, Data Mining, and Micro Strategy to enhance performance metrics.
• Data-Center relocation Project included SAN relocation and Disaster Recovery plans included redundancy at remote location.
• Directed Risk Analysis workshops to identify probability, impact, and risk ranking.
• Developed plans to mitigate, avoid, and transfer risks within CA Clarity.
• Acted as team lead to direct infrastructure development team in an Agile environment.
• Ensured security teams complied with privacy and banking PCI standards.
• Worked with COTS vendors to analyze solutions, perform gap analysis and award contracts.
• Managed COTS vendors and implemented solutions. Executive budgets reported with Earned Value Management (EVM).
• Presentations provided with PowerPoint and Visio. Directed weekly project team meetings and presented monthly to executives.

Confidential, Whitehouse, NJ

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for producing diagrams using Visio 2003 providing high level overviews of data systems and programs within the pre-clinical Program Management Office of Confidential .
• Project tasks and responsibilities include; the production of an agenda for each weekly planning meeting, alignment of the project within the objectives of the project, scheduling meetings of the Licensing Information Services division for both the internal team and the internal customer, and with vendors, documented all minutes of the meetings.
• Responsible for producing organizational charts for the PMO, that detailed each team member’s roles and contact information within each project.
• Integrated team member’s vacation schedules within the overall program schedule using MS Project 2003.
• Review functional requirement specifications with Business and Quality Analysts to align project objectives.

Confidential, Malvern, PA

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed projects within the PMO related to the development and implementation of health care products, COTS solutions, medical systems, internal and external customer information systems, while ensuring compliance with Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX).
• Managed the Knova Knowledgebase project supporting internal and external customers. Responsible for defining the scope of work, the SOW, project plans and schedules, reviewed vendor contracts, budgets, and project trends, and reviewed system architecture. Managed COTS vendors and produced gap analysis reports and awarded contracts.
• Produced agendas for daily status meetings, identified issues, and identified owners to resolve them, identified risks and reported them, and produced plans, and tracked risks within CA Clarity.
• Developed team members by mentoring and coaching, and conceptualized strategic project and program opportunities by producing recommendations and improvements involving project management processes and systems.
• Conceived project and program management design approach i.e.; defining scheduling, budget, risk, change, opportunity and resource management activities for strategic projects and programs.
• Provided technical guidance to associates and upper management.
• Cultivated client opportunities and executive relationships.
• Represented Confidential as the primary external contact.

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included recruiting and evaluating human resources and tasking employees during software development.
• Used MS Project to manage deliverables for implementation and track installation system upgrade.
• Analysis responsibilities included business process analysis and business process reengineering, development of new database platform, comparative analysis and recommendations of alternate systems.
• Performed release management oversight role in updating new SQL source code from existing system.
• As project analyst; provided documentation to support the following; entity relationships of the existing data structure, data process flows, and business process flows.

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for researching documentation supporting profitability for investors looking to invest in franchises targeting data recovery.
• Meet with vendors to determine business structure, investment outlines and potential for profitability in each geographic region.
• Review overall business plan to determine capital necessary for startup investment and ongoing business operations in a 5 year plan.
• Performed contract review, and determined what areas needed to be addressed and rewritten prior to signing of contracts.
• Developed market research and analyzed sales data, annual sales projections and future sales trends and integrated this information as research recommendations in PowerPoint for graphic presentations to investors.
• Developed business process flows, tracked projects with MS Project.