Summary

• Skilled, enthusiastic, PMP-certified management professional with over 25 years of experience directing teams, providing technical expertise and demonstrating leadership. Areas include end-to-end supervision of programs, projects, IT, operations, logistics and production in both government and private sectors. Expertise ranging from design and development through Production implementation, from concept through full SDLC implementation.
• Experienced with information technologies for commercial applications and government process re-engineering. Demonstrated record of success in facilities expansion, equipment upgrade and technological implementations. Defined and supervised project teams in excess of 20 members and project budgets in excess of US 8M in private/commercial and civil/Federal settings. Active Public Trust clearance.

Areas of Expertise

• Design, maintain and close technical and project documentation from Statement of Work SOW to User Acceptance Sign-off UAS . Proven track record of implementing vendor COTS packages.
• Identify and resolve project issues expediently. Proven track record of delivering IT projects within scope, budget and schedule.
• Schedule and plan milestones, goals and deliverables. Plan and direct program schedules and budget, monitoring project status in comparison to cost/time baselines.
• Assess and evaluate teams and individuals by client-specific metrics.
• Hands-on, end-to-end involvement with legacy system analysis and upgrading to Oracle/SQL by leading multi-location team in deadline-defined, high-paced environment.
• Striving for and obtaining continuous process improvement.
• Demonstrate leadership to investigate and define project risk areas.
• Provide strategies for risk analysis, risk mitigation and contingency planning for multiple scenarios.
• Manage client relationships for teams of consultants, IT professionals, analysts, project assistants and other professionals assigned to a client work site or project.
• Supervised and scheduled design, testing, and implementation of large, complex organization's print management system to re-route user data requests, creating client savings of 20,000,000/yr.
• Provide presentation, organizational and customer-centric service skills.

Project Best Practices

• Meet with clients to determine scope of project, analyze current systems/procedures and engage stakeholders, from end-user personnel to senior management.
• Supervise both contract and client programmers, provide executive-level C-suite interface.
• Utilize rapid prototyping to deliver proof-of-concept at the proposal stage as well as to verify design and solicit customer feedback.

Experience

Confidential

Clients and Projects:

Confidential

Senior Project Manager / Subject Matter Expert

• Insure smooth transition from Project to Functional stages.
• Balance local, state and national requirements into seamless solution.
• Provide independent, unbiased clarification of stakeholder perspectives.
• Supply engagement expertise for offshore development and local design/functional teams.
• Managed and coordinated teams to build SAP replacement of utility's legacy billing system.
• Managed multiple enterprise-wide teams.
• Actively applied advanced working experience of hardware- and software-related concepts to guarantee reliability and scalability according to standards.
• Incorporated workflow change into existing structures for maximum ease and efficiency.

Confidential

Project Team Lead

• Design, maintain and close technical and project documentation from Statement of Work SOW to User Acceptance Sign-off UAS .
• Identify and resolve project issues expediently.
• Schedule and plan milestones, goals and deliverables.
• Supervised and scheduled design, testing, and implementation of print management system to re-route user data requests, creating client savings of 20,000,000/yr.
• Managed research and development of new print management system from initial design to completion.
• Lead product teams ensuring project milestones were achieved on time and budget.
• Organized training and held weekly production reviews. Provided ad-hoc updates for senior management as required.
• Delivered final product on time meeting client specifications.

Confidential

Project Manager Senior Project Manager

• Demonstrate initiative to investigate and define project risk areas.
• Provide strategies for risk analysis, risk mitigation and contingency planning for multiple scenarios.
• Manage client relationships for teams of consultants, IT professionals, analysts, project assistants and other professionals assigned to a client work site or project.
• Provided leadership from initialization through implementation of 70,000-user payroll system upgrade and outsourcing.
• Planned, prioritized, assigned and managed projects administered by the Product Management team, assigning to contract or client personnel for completion.
• Facilitated weekly sessions and unit evaluations to assess progress, resolve problems and decrease meeting fatigue .
• Provided strong presentation and organizational skills along with customer-centric service attitude, manage upper-level management stakeholders, company management and project team expectations for agreed upon project performance.
• Ensured project goals and objectives were accomplished in accordance with outlined priorities, time requirements, and funding conditions. Designed and maintained project documentation, from Statement of Work SOW to User Acceptance Sign-off UAS .

Confidential

Project Manager

• Provide presentation, organizational and customer-centric service skills.
• Assess and evaluate teams and individuals by client-specific metrics.
• Hands-on, end-to-end involvement with legacy system analysis and upgrading to Oracle/SQL by leading multi-location team in deadline-defined, high-paced environment.
• Successfully restructured client's electronic inventory process from a stand-alone legacy system to an Oracle/SQL integrated application.
• Managed research and development of new system from initial design to completion.
• Developed schedule and reporting of goals, milestones and deliverables performed team and individual evaluations and assessments.
• Increased productivity and accuracy of group work by 100 through improvements in communication and documentation.
• Identified and resolved project issues expediently.
• Tracked and reported on financial aspects of program down to bi-weekly consumption burn-rate status.
• Provided alternate pathways for mitigation of risks and appropriate contingency management.