PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL

Extensive experience Implementing PMOs, Portfolio Management IT Governance Processes and Enterprise PPM Suites focusing on Enterprise Visibility. In-depth understanding of organizational transformation. Adept at analyzing and formulating Business Solutions based on Technology Business Requirements. Competent team builder blending expert negotiating conflict resolution skills with a proactive leadership style that instills confidence in clients, peers and staff alike. Areas of expertise include:

CAREER ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Confidential

Sr. PPM Solution Architect

• Responsible for establishing Rapid Implementation approaches and Process Improvements for Clarity PPM System Implementations at major U.S. companies. Assisted clients with PPM System qualification and selection.
• Managed efforts at client companies encompassing PPM system selection and qualification. Defined pre-implementation Object Models data process and structural models to facilitate PPM system requirements design specification builds.
• Implemented Process Improvements for management of Strategic Portfolios Work Project and Non-project Resource Applications and Services for improved planning, tracking and control of IT System Deployments and continuing Operations.

Implemented Enterprise PPM Systems and Organization-wide Process Improvements at client companies including PNC Bank, ING, Del Monte, Johnson Johnson, and Consumer Energy.

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Clarity Solution Manager Michelin Tire:

• The Solution Manager role encompassed Program Manager, System Architect and Functional Consultant for Michelin's Clarity initiatives. Personally built the systems while managing training the organization.
• Concurrently managed Michelin's Industrial Projects Division Clarity v8.1 initial rollout 2500 users and IS/IT Division migration from v7.5.3 to v8.1 2000 users . Developed Specifications for convergence of the Industrial Projects and IS/IT Divisions onto a single Clarity v12 instance. Spent 3 months in France for initial planning and workshops.
• Implemented and migrated Demand, Portfolio, Project Resource Management. Established Time Tracking, Reporting Business Objects/Crystal Reports , Divisional Partition Model with Intra-Divisional Partitions, and Custom Processes.
• Managed numerous workstreams including: PPM Solution Development Personally configuring the systems and developing System Specifications Life-Cycle Project Management Deliverables Budgeting IT/IS Production System Maintenance

Defined the deployment of Clarity Enterprise PPM to major divisions of a major world-wide manufacturing corporation including rollout, migration and planned convergence to a single organizational view.

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Clarity Sr. Solution Consultant Dell Computer:

• Certified Consultant on Clarity PPM Suite v7.5.3 and v8.1, working within the CA Business Services Optimization Group assigned at Dell to reform a large Clarity Implementation to 7000 personnel.
• Implemented improved Project and Resource Management data models, processes and interface requirements to legacy systems. Redesigned Dell's Program concept into Strategic PPM framework using Portfolio Hierarchies.
• Designed a database Partition Model to accommodate Business Unit expansion and provide an integrated enterprise view. Constructed a complex security protocol satisfying data functionality access to organizational component and project role.
• Implemented the Financial Management Module to satisfy management user views and back-office ERP interface. Designed the Human Resource interface to transition and maintain Clarity Resource data for internal and external labor resources.

Took charge of Dell's Clarity Deployment considered to be in a state of failure by the client and drove a new implementation methodology and reformed the system approach leading to a major project success.

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PlanView Process Architect:

• Led the design and development of Six Sigma based PPM Best Practices, systems pre-configured with those standards the PRISMS Website and the management of numerous PlanView PPM System initiatives which included Marketing, Product Support, Inside Training, Pre-Sales, QA, and Software Engineering. Highlights include
• Major contributor to the world's first set of combined Portfolio Management processes Prisms designed to integrate Strategic, Work, Resource, Service, Application, Investment, and Financial Management. Prisms included a pre-configured PVE System and proved a vital Planview product offering and target model for organizations pursuing High Maturity PPM.
• Drove the ITIL process framework into PlanView's Service Portfolio Management SPM Product, resulting in functional reformation of the Service Catalog, Service Chargeback approach, Service Level Agreements and associated metrics, Service Asset Cost Management and Service Work integration.
• Developed the SPM requirements for Network Monitoring Service Desk and CMDB supporting heterogeneous infrastructure integration. Spearheaded integration of Earned Value Management and improved Financials into Planview Enterprise a cornerstone of Federal Sales and future corporate acquisitions.
• Personally designed and developed PlanView's Application Portfolio Management and Request Management tools - first as a standalone concept in Planview and later integrated into PlanView Enterprise.
• Drove PVE05 from an IT centric application to a total organizational solution encompassing the entire enterprise. Designed solutions for industries from New Product Development, Engineering Design, and Pharmaceuticals to Federal Acquisition.
• As Implementation Manager lead implementations at CitiGroup Financial, Aetna, NJ Manufacturers Insurance, Brown Foreman Liquor and State of CT DOT.

From managing large client system implementations to researching and designing major functional product and process improvements these efforts have proven critical to PlanView's sustained growth.

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Director, Project Management Office:

• Built and managed Amtrak Technology's PMO from the ground up including: PM Processes PM Information Systems Structure Functions and Organizational Development.
• Developed strategic and detailed implementation plans. Assessed Process Maturity across key performance disciplines and designed a maturity roadmap. Established top-to-bottom organizational buy-in. Managed organizational change.
• Designed Project Management Standards to include Project Proposals Business Cases, Planning, Tracking, Control and Closeout doctrines. Built approaches for Strategic PPM. Defined modern process approaches to SDLC, IT Project Cost Estimating, Risk Management and Cost / Schedule Controls. Defined the PMO's continuing service and audit functions.
• Managed the selection and deployment of Enterprise PPM Information Systems to over 1300 people. These systems eliminated redundancies and vastly improved work and resource management, reporting, workflow, communications and Portfolio Management. Implemented Rational Unified Process along with its suite of development support tools.
• Trained and Mentored Project Managers in formal PM Methodology. Developed Project Managers into PMI certified PMPs 22 individuals at two organizations. Provided leadership and coaching to PMs and teams regarding processes, tools and PM art science. Personally trained the organization from administrators through executives.

AMTRAK's PMO initiatives brought about significant improvements in organizational effectiveness and financial performance indicated by aggregate Project P L as well as the PMO's Return-on-Investment.

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Program / Project Manager:

• Managed software projects programs for IT/IS Departments across a number of industries including: Insurance, Financial, Manufacturing, Transportation, Software Development and Health Care. Highlights include
• Program Management Consultant for the Program development and software implementation of a large financial institution's internet banking system - its 1 strategic priority. Developed as an n-tier J2EE application using Websphere on AS-400s.
• Program Manager assigned to recover and re-plan a 27 Million dollar Integrated Manufacturing Control System program comprised of a portfolio of 40 shop-floor and business information system implementations and back-office data integration.
• Program Manager for a HIPAA Compliance and Implementation Program. The Program included Central Board Formation Analysis of HIPAA documentation GAP Analysis Program Definition 1st Phase Enhancements and transition of the Medical Records System. This included Executive Reviews and Current Procedural Terminology CPT compliance inspections.
• Program Manager for a Service Management initiative. This effort installed Hp OpenView modules for software distribution, release, configuration, change, incident/problem SLA management as well as system and network performance monitoring.
• Project Manager for a transportation company's Food and Beverage project to provide a retail point-of-sale system with wireless access to back-office supply chain and accounting systems.
• Project Manager assigned to the development of a B2B portal for a manufacturing firm using an n-tier architecture with clustered WebLogic application servers on a Solaris platform providing connectivity to mainframe Oracle databases.