SUMMARY:

• Skillful Project Management Expertise in Infrastructure implementations, Product/Process Development,
• Accomplished, enthusiastic project manager with over 25 years of success delivering projects on time and within budget through improved productivity, performance, and cost control. Communicates effectively with all levels of management. Experienced ISO and PMO/ISO quality auditor and trainer.
• Cross - functional team leadership competencies span the entire project delivery lifecycle, from conception through product development and launch. Manage large complex projects, pulling disparate teams together to focus on execution and delivery. Effectively manage risks and apply mitigation strategies. Astute understanding of key success factors.
• Solid in project management essentials of initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, and closing as well as processes, methodologies, tools, scope of management, budgeting, financial tracking, scheduling, resource management, solution identification and assessment, vendor selection, procurement.
• Practiced and proficient in PMBOK, Waterfall, Agile, Automotive and Financial System Development Life Cycle management approaches. Innovator in launching strategies, products, and projects to capture new opportunities, maximize profit streams, and drive business growth.
• 17 years Certified Project Management Professional; co-founder of the Michigan Project Management Institute Thumb Chapter and facilitates Project Management training sessions for students and colleagues.
• Experience in electronics manufacturing environments and testing labs, acquiring knowledge of electronics at a design, quality, development component level.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

•  Multiple Project Life Cycle Management • Partner & Vendor Management
•  Cross-Functional Team Leadership • Quality Assurance
• New Product/Process Development • PMBOK, Waterfall, Agile
• Issues & Risk / Change Management • PMO and ISO quality auditor
• Microsoft Office suite of utilities • Adobe Acrobat
• Microsoft Project • ITIL process implementations
• Vendor Management • Schedule Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Troy,MI

Senior PMO Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Defining and interpreting performance metrics in an effort to communicate program performance
• Identifying process and performance metrics improvements
• Serve as the overall subject-matter expert in Project Management knowledge areas
• Establish and maintain a program for monitoring and reporting on compliance to adopted Project Management standards
• Provide a program to ensure continued utilization and maturation of best practice project management standards and methodologies
• Help ensure growth and success by providing mentoring and training in the established processes, policies and procedures, as well as the tools and templates
• Facilitating program review meetings with IT leadership, including Solution Delivery teams.
• Oversee the IT PMO Processes related to process compliance and facilitate the change control process
• Oversee IT PMO Analyst efforts to drive process compliance down to the program and project levels
• Oversee IT Tools and Reporting activities to configure and maintain the PPM tool
• Performing cost-benefit and return on investment analysis for proposed systems to aid management in making implementation decisions
• Ensuring the creation of systems models, specifications, diagrams and charts to provide direction to system programmers
• Helping to identify and establish scope and parameters of systems analysis in order to define outcome criteria and measure-taking actions
• Work closely with Architecture teams to ensure designed solutions are compatible with Confidential architectural plans and to provide the architecture teams with input based on solution challenges and experience to ensure appropriate consideration in forward architectural planning

Confidential, Troy, MI

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Creation, development and distribution of all project management assets from project initiation to closure.
• Organize and present project deliverables for System Development Life Cycle gate reviews.
• Facilitate client and stakeholder reviews, create communication plans.
• Manage project progress and compliance ensuring adhering to PMO procedures.
• Manage Risk, Schedule, Scope, Procurement, Issue and Quality Management.
• Implementation and Change management coordination and implementation.
• Coordination of matrixed organizational project deliverables.
• Resource management procurement and development.
• Create and implement procurement plans.
• Review new application certification deliverables and coordinate creation and implementation of certification testing.
• Improve and simplify process standards for agile project delivery.

Confidential, Confidential, Troy, MI

Project Management Office Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Account PMO development and evaluation of project and enterprise processes for Risk (ABCD methodology), Quality (Audits), Issues, and Communications.
• Facilitate communications for Confidential governance project status reviews, Change Request management coordination and meeting facilitation.
• Coordinate account implementation of HP PPMC tool for issue and risk management.
• Develop process tools to facilitate automated reporting capabilities for risk and issue reporting.
• Facilitate Management of Confidential Server Transformation program schedule, risk and issues.
• Process coordination and implementation for ITIL Server/Application Configuration Management Database.

Confidential, Troy, MI

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project manage Telecommunications Infrastructure projects, Voice and Data.
• Client communications- project status reviews.
• Track project progress and compliance with PMO procedures
• Risk, Schedule, Scope, Issue Quality Management
• Implementation and Change management facilitation.

Confidential, Troy, MI 

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project management for data network migration from ATT to MCI.
• DOW Project management coordinating implementation for Wide Area Network circuit delivery in Latin America, Asia Pacific.
• Scheduling, implementation, facilitate team communications
• Coordinate implementation activities
• Issue Scope Risk management
• Manage customer relationship
• Coordination of project vendor deliverables

Confidential, Flint, MI

Vehicle Program Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate Product Development team scheduling requirements for new product platforms. Experience with all aspects of vehicle development teams, BIW, Body Structures, Electrical Systems, Instrument Panels, Interiors, Power train.
• Create and implement product development team’s program and project plans for manufacturing of new future vehicle programs, from concept to PPAP.
• Facilitate management gate reviews of project deliverables.
• Coordination of project/product deliverables with design team, vendors, APQP.
• ISO Auditor and ISO trainer for quality audits.