EDUCATION
Full Sail University - Winter Park, FL
Major - Entertain Business Bachelor of Science - 2012/Present -
Graduate/2014
Babbage Simmel - Columbus, OH
Project Management Training - PMBok Guide, 4th Edition - Completed/2009
PMI Association - Columbus, OH
PMI Exam Certification - PMBok Guide/Standard, 4th Edition - 5/2013
Project Manager/Business Analyst Expertise:
. Over 10+ years of progressive working experience in Project, Contract,
and Content Management with diverse projects, clients and industry.
. Over 15+ years of financial, media, legal, and healthcare experience
in Sony, Universal, Fox, Tristar, Paramount Studios; Bank One,
Huntington Bank, Bank of America, Union Bank of California, Suntrust
Bank, JP Morgan/Chase, PriceWaterhouse Coopers, KPMG, Deloitte and
Touche, Ernest/Young, Accenture, Thomson Reuter/Tax & Accounting;
Fields Howell Athans & McLaughlin, Hartman, Simons, Spielman & Wood,
Greenberg Traurig, Lord Bissell & Brook, King & Spalding, Cozen &
O'Connor, Hunton & Williams Family; Civil Litigation; General Trial
Practice; Appellate Practice; & Business Litigation; Real Estate
(Merger & Acquisitions; Defense Insurance; Information Technology;
Telecommunication; Intellectual Property; and Probate Law); HIPAA
(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) & OSHN (Ohio
State Health Network) Healthcare.
. Seasoned professional, with outstanding project planning, execution,
monitoring and resource balancing skills with ability to support
multiple simultaneous projects in a matrix organizational structure
with PMBok Guide/Standard.
. Manage project team resources through the development life cycle
including design.
. Manage and mitigate risks to keep projects on schedule and within
budget.
. Manage contract execution process, resolved problems, mitigated
delays, mediated disputes and escalated issues.
. Manage multiple project assignments simultaneously.
. Brought in supplemental service revenue of approximately $30 million
with projects averaging $500K-$5M.
. Extensive project management skills and expertise, skilled in concept
creation and development, experience with narrative research projects,
experience with board governance and compliance issues, excellent
people management skills, works well in diverse groups, exceptional
written and verbal communication abilities with training in conflict
resolution, technology savvy individual, proficient in Windows, Mac
and Linux platforms, and expertise in operation and management of a
wide variety of software.
. Agile/Scrum and Clarity CA project management methodologies,
processes, and frameworks.
. Perform project closing activities (e.g. lessons learned meeting) and
utilized Microsoft Project (e.g. created project schedule, allocate
resources, decompose tasks, baseline schedule, and accept task
updates).
. Experience in gathering business requirements, analyzing business
requirements. Develop detailed comprehensive test strategies to verify
system changes to meet the needs of the client. Provided regular
status reports to management
. Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources,
reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details,
abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and
distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
. Analyzes and reports key marketing campaigns (Direct Mail, Outbound
Dialing, Statements, Cross Channels, DVR Downloads, etc).
. Analyze and report on key SaaS metrics and unit economics, including
conversion trends, CAC, LTV, MRR per sales reps, ARPU and cohort
analysis on revenue retention and churn.
EXPERIENCE
05/2009 - Present Layered Dimensions Consulting Group, LLC
Columbus, OH
Project Manager
C & L Professional Consulting Services/Layered Dimensions
Consulting Group has been in existence for over 10 years,
and is a business and entertainment-consulting firm.
. Manage and consult with client, customer or stakeholder to identify
key requirements.
. Define project scope; identify deliverables and created
the work breakdown structure; and identify the
activities needed to complete those deliverables and
networking the activities in their logical sequence.
. Develop project plan and schedule.
. Maintain the highest standards in job performance,
quality control, adherence to procedures, etc.
. Schedule and allocate manpower, equipment and other
resources to multiple jobs.
. Track jobs to budgeted costs and time commitments
effectively.
. Actively participate in reallocation of resources as
needed to assure customer satisfaction.
. Maintain quality control standards as set by the
company.
. Develop project estimates, bids, and/or proposals on a
timely and efficient basis
. Evaluate processes through observation, assessment facilitation and
policy review.
. Provide effective, creative solutions to increase sales and customer
service through business process improvement.
. Conduct project planning (Development of Objective, Scope, Approach
and Measurements).
. Align process and project goals with changing business requirements,
technology changes, and identified environmental/safety concerns..
. Agent/Business Manager of Artists, Performers and Athletes; collect
fees, commissions, and other payments, according to contract terms.
. Keep informed of industry trends and deals; manage business and
financial affairs for clients, such as arranging travel and lodging,
selling tickets, and directing marketing and advertising activities.
. Train and manage artists and achieve significant improvements in their
productivity.
. Negotiate with managers, promoters, union officials, and other persons
regarding clients' contractual rights and obligations.; schedule
promotional and performance engagements for clients.
. Advise clients on financial and legal matters such as investments and
taxes.
. Confer with clients to develop strategies for their careers, and
explain actions taken on their behalf; conduct auditions and
interviews in order to evaluate potential client.
Environment: PMBok Guide/Standard, MS Suite 97-2003 & 07-
2010, MS Project, Visio; PeopleSoft Project; Saegis;
Lotus 1,2,3 & Lotus Notes; & Landtech; ORACLE; Niku
(Clarity CA) Methodology; Agile Methodology; SAP; Java;
CMS & RMS; Corel WordPerfect 9/11; Quickbooks Pro; ADP
Payroll; RFID Readers; Adobe Reader & Suite; IManage;
Tabs3, Tableau and Microsoft SQL Server (Database)
8/2013 - 11/2013 J. P. Morgan/Chase/Data Management Administration
Columbus, OH
System Business Analyst/Project Manager
. Liaison between the lines of business and the
Development team.
. Analyzes, and create Business, and System Requirements
to understand the business needs, and determine
applications functionally needs.
. Evaluate the quantity and quality of inherent risk
against established tolerance levels; monitors
outcomes/risk levels for operational areas.
. As new processes are developed, ensure proper controls
and procedures are in place to mitigate risk, and that
the framework is updated for ongoing testing.
. Review existing and created processes and procedures for
efficiency and effectiveness and assist in implementing
improvements when required.
. Track progress on Action Plans to ensure they are
completed timely and accurately - escalate to senior
management when needed. Validate completion of Action
Plans.
. Participate in process improvement initiatives; monitor
and identify process gaps
. Preparation of materials for the regular schedule of
reporting, and identified, quantified and resolved
project-related issues.
. Provides complete project cost, allocations, and finance
updates.
. Supports the annual long-term projects planning process.
. Collation and processing of reporting data from across
the Risk and Controls organization.
. Production of internal and external reporting and
metrics for the Risk and Controls area.
. Lead and take ownership of critical initiatives.
. Design and develop large scale Big Data analysis engine
for analyzing millions of records.
. Investigate and implement best of breed algorithms for
categorization, correlation, and search.
. Develop innovative methods to systematically identify
and solve problems across hundreds of systems.
. Build web applications to manage and monitor complex
distributed systems.
. Optimize database performance.
. Proficient in WebEx Meetings
. Combine knowledge business wants with knowledge of how
systems are built and used.
. Create functional designs across applications.
. Data analyst and management.
. Experience in Excel, Macros, Pivots, and Charts in
Excel, and developed and designed queries (including
update, append etc.), tables, import and export various
Excel spreadsheets, and build whole databases in Access.
. Responsible in creating processes to capture monthly
volumes by platform, requirements to automate volume
pull, and design/create dashboard in Tableau.
. Determined the volume allocations for SAS, BI, Cognos,
Ab Initio, Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server, Info1
Platforms for LOB Budget whereby forecast, YTD-Actuals,
Variables, Trending Reports, and Various Charts and
Dashboards are developed.
1/2013 - 3/2013 J. P. Morgan Chase/Customer Experience Measurement/Retail
Operations
Columbus, OH
Sr. Business Analyst
. Supported the analytical, reporting, and process needs
of Consumer and Community Banking's Customer Experience
Measurement team by Participating in the execution of
the daily processes associated with collecting customer
feedback (surveys, complaint tracking, other).
. E-Commerce services by coordinating with the National
Product Managers to execute the changes/additions in a
timely manner, creating and launch strategic on-site and
social media promotions, developing strong relationships
that result in partnering with internal teams to produce
accurate marketing messages across all channels.
. Big Data Analyze, report and communicate metrics on
merchandising efforts
. Ensuring the highest data quality by performing front-
end and back-end audits.
. Developed actionable insights and key trends through the
analysis of attitudinal and behavioral customer
information.
. Developed procedures manual.
. Updating, developing, modifying and automating reports
using Business Objects, modeling analysis, earning
projections, cash flow projections on Excel and Access.
. Gathers and interprets relevant data and presents
results in an unbiased manner.
. Organizes and synthesizes large amounts of information
in a logical manner
. Lead efforts related to MCAS audit/reporting and assists
on State Regulatory Reporting as required.
. Created, Update and Monitors dashboards and scorecards
for department.
. Drove efforts to develop Management action plans based
on Complaint Trends and outputs that include process
enhancements and recommendations for training.
. Responsible for business requirement review and user
acceptance testing on system enhancements to meet
stakeholder needs.
. Build and maintains positive relationships with business
partners, stakeholders, and project team members.
. Advanced SQL query and data analysis/reporting
experience.
. Responsible for overall solution design, build and test,
root cause analysis, and advanced performance tuning
complex business processes and functionality.
. Consulted with users to identify current operating
procedures and to clarify program objectives.
. Perform monthly and quarterly trend analysis for the
company and business units versus Plan, Prior Year,
Prior Period, Forecast and High Performance targets.
. Performs variance analysis on budgets to monitor cost
performance and updates and review invoices and
processing activities
. Tracks and evaluates financial spending and budget
forecasting for all department projects.
. Ensures that management is provided with accurate and
timely valuations for all projects, both current and
potential
. Produces and analyzes project reports
. Collect various industry data and compare to business
unit financial performance to identify any variations.
. Analyze and support business unit forecasts and plans
and provide the Executive Team with insight to
historical variations, upside/downside and other major
issues.
Environment: Webstat, Complaint Repository, Tracking
System, Sharepoint, Visio, Excel, SQL, Access, Microsoft
Suite 2010-(MacPro)2011 (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint,
Excel and Suite)
08/2011 - 11/2011 Trinity Broadcasting Network
Columbus, OH
Public Affairs Director/Television Segment Producer
TBN is the world's largest religious network, delivering
the Christian message of hope around the globe via
television, Internet and mobile devices.
. Produced the "Joy in Our Town" Program, created topics
for taping of the Local Program for Trinity Broadcasting
- Network - Columbus/Newark, OH - WSFJ/TV51.
. Contacted local participants for scheduled Television
Programs, created Run Sheets for all "Joy in Our Town"
Programs.
. Reviewed local daily newspapers articles and clips
relating to FCC issues, and draft Graphic Guides for
Post-Production Taping, and sent finalized Television
programs/Run Sheets to Corporate Headquarters for
approval.
. Represented TBN-Columbus at local public outreach
events, and acted as Trinity Broadcasting Network
liaison and representative to the community Columbus,
Ohio and it government.
. Planned, wrote, produced, and supervised the editing of
updates for Segments of the "Joy in Our Town" Television
Programs, and produced polished day-of-air turnarounds
in times of breaking news stories, and backup scripts by
providing documentation from Research Department that is
acceptable to Legal department.
. Demonstrated high attention to detail and accuracy while
juggling multiple assignments in dynamic, fast-paced
environment and directed the gathering of SOTS and b-
roll (clips, photos, legal documents, etc.) for recut
scripts and edits.
. Revised timing sheets and show slates for all recuts,
and verified that shows were delivered.
. Wrote questions for and conducted interviews and
suggested and brainstormed future updates with
management and Recuts team.
. Consulted with Supervising Producer, Station Manager,
other management members, and Recuts team to locate and
acquire all necessary elements - including SOTs, b-roll
including photos, clips, graphic art, etc. - for planned
Recuts.
. Worked nights, weekends, and/or overtime when needed,
and worked well with others in a large broadcasting
network industry setting, in addition to taking on
additional duties assigned by management when needed.
03/2009 - 05/2009 Nationwide Insurance/Property & Casualty
Columbus, OH
Business Analyst
. Developed and maintained longitudinal forecasting
models, and did variance analysis for budgeting and
forecasting to provide the functionality necessary to
drive business objectives. Supported the initiative in
improving and developing new statistical models to solve
business problems.
. Merchandised newly launched products, managed content
for website, and coordinated with Sales, Marketing and
Distribution in distribution network and multi channel
promotions, for new product in E-Commerce retail
operations.
. Gathered, analyzes and interpreted a wide variety of
underlying data for business objects to support business
customers and/or financial objectives.
. Interpreted statistical/analytical results and creates a
feedback loop for modeling improvement.
. Prepared/automated Big Data reports, charts, tables and
other visual aids to support business needs.
. Designed proper statistical analysis to provide modeling
analysis, earning projections, cash flow projections to
meet business requirements.
. Validated and updated models periodically and provides
validation reports.
. Worked closely with internal business partners and
external vendors in modeling projects.
. Performed other duties as assigned.
. Collaborated with various business units to share and
incorporate analytical findings to improve business
operations.
Environment: Microsoft SQL Server/Microsoft Access &
Excel, SAP, SAS, SPSS, Business Objects, Brio, and MS
Suite 2007
08/2007 - 03/2008 AT&T Mobility/New Cingular Wireless
Norcross, GA
Project/Contract Manager
. Distributed analysis to key stakeholders across the
business.
. Supported ARPU (Average Revenue Per User) program by
analyzing, reporting and forecasting on campaign tests
. Maintained the Retention Marketing campaign calendar and
data input processes of E-Commerce.
. Prepared executive-level analysis, reports, and project
status overviews for presentation to senior decision-
makers within the company.
. Developed financial models and reports to monitor key
metrics (KPIs), projections and highlight areas of
concern and/or opportunity.
. Utilized MS Excel and other modeling tools to generate
financial reports and trend analysis.
. Provided root cause analysis and drives other analytical
projects that will set in motion new retention and
revenue initiatives across the company.
. Managed and developed and negotiated contract terms,
conditions, modifications, penalties and incentives,
while working with key stakeholders to ensure, and met
requirements.
. Managed contract execution process, resolved problems,
mitigated delays, mediated disputes and escalated
issues. Established contract management objectives,
procedures, templates and workflow processes for vendor
contracts and deliverable schedules.
. Managed outside and on-site vendors by negotiating
contracts for services and leasing requirements for
special events, vendor/consultant contracts,
requisitions and equipment rentals, of E-Commerce
services.
. Maintained Critical Date tickler system and email
notification system.
. Reviewed estoppels and Subordination Non Disturbance
Agreements (SNDAs) for accuracy and compliance; track
and resolve issues with landlords and subtenants and
escalate.
. Prepared, distributed and facilitated compliance with
Landlord and Tenant introduction letters; generated and
distributed required portfolio, critical date, and other
reports; verified lease compliance, mathematical
accuracy and industry alignment of CPI, operating
expense, real estate tax, utility and other expenses.
. Managed the timely renewal of recurring contracts versus
business requirements. Worked with legal representatives
to develop and insert appropriate legal documentation in
contracts, as warranted.
Environment: PMBok Guide/Standard, Oracle Systems; Agile
Methodologies; MS Suite 2007; Niku Clarity/Workbench
Methodologies, & MS Project
05/2007 - 08/2007 Thomson Reuters - Tax & Accounting
Atlanta, GA
Tax Content & Product Manager
. Managed the transaction tax domain's research
requirements and delivering timely tax rate/rule
applicability for all targeted industries and for
interfacing with both internal and external reference
sources to support production requirements for all
transaction tax related E-Commerce products and
services.
. Managed and developed and executed research strategies
in support of domain revenue and production goals, as
well as customer requirements. Analyzed and interpreted
new content for validity.
. Identified and managed defect reports, and documented
and tracked action items identified during requirements
and other project meeting sessions. Extensive knowledge
of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) methodologies.
. Reviewed, evaluated, formulated and executed project
plans, schedules and budgets for small to mid-size IT
and organizational projects.
. Coordinated software design and development activities.
. Analyzed database performance related issue escalations;
and created tables, triggers, indexes, stored
procedures, & query debugging all through Microsoft
Access and Microsoft SQL Server.
. Delivered assigned rules research for content operations
and production use. Build efficiencies and collaboration
within the transaction tax domain to consolidate rules
research efforts across all products & services (Tax
Rate Subscription, Insource Sales & Uses Tax, and
Insource Express RS Sales & Use Tax), and rate and
taxability rules of ordinances, rules and statues
(telecom tax; franchise tax, and license fees; property
tax, retail tax, business occupation tax, real estate
tax etc.).
Environment: Software Development Life Cycle, Microsoft
Access and Microsoft SQL Server, and tax software (Tax
Rate Subscription, Insource Sales & Uses Tax, and
Insource Express RS Sales & Use Tax).
01/2003 - 03/2009 C & L Professional Consulting Services
Los Angeles, CA/Atlanta, GA
Project Manager Consultant
. Managed and consulted with client to identify key
requirements, defined project scope, developed project
plan and schedule, provided leadership to internal teams
on projects and daily production issues; facilitated
issues resolution; prepare and present timely status
reports to client and internal senior management.
. Managed contract execution process, resolved problems,
mitigated and managed enterprise wide HIPAA & OSHN Risk
Assessment and Gap Analysis, the development of a
comprehensive HIPAA compliance project plan, and the
delivery of a recommendations report on the
organizational approach and strategy for HIPAA
compliance.
. Controlled project variances through root cause analysis
and correction.
. Implemented and managed project changes and
interventions.
. Managed and controlled project budgets, and developed
and presented reports on project progress.
. Maintained communication with project stakeholders and
managed expectations, and evaluated projects and assess
results.
. Managed contract resources and vendor relationships in
HIPAA Compliance initiatives, Policy and Procedure
development, Implementation and Audit and project
business case development.
. Developed and negotiated contract terms, conditions,
modifications, penalties and incentives, while working
with key stakeholders to ensure, and met requirements.
. Defined specific activities to be performed to produce
project deliverables and maintained project schedule and
oversees implementation schedule.
Environment: MS Suite 97-2003, MS Project, Visio;
DeltaView; IManage; LEXIS NEXIS/Thomson West, Saegis;
Lotus 1,2,3 & Lotus Notes; & Landtech; ORACLE; & RMS;
Corel WordPerfect 9/11; Filemaker Pro; CompareRite 70;
Quickbooks Pro; ADP Payroll; RFID Readers; Adobe
Reader & Suite; IManage; Tabs3, WorldDox; Time Matter;
Timeslips; E-File, Transcription; Legal Solutions; Niku
(CA Clarity)/Workbench; Agile, E-Discovery; Summation;
and Concordance; Various Scanners; and Microsoft SQL
Server (Database)
01/1999 - 01/2003 20th Century Fox Studios
Los Angeles, CA
Infrastructure Project Manager
. Created and managed closer relationships with consumers
and efficient, user-friendly e-commerce sites for News
Corp.; evaluated material requirements.
. Managed infrastructure type projects for United States,
Europe, Australia, and China: from network cabling to
LAN, Server and PC integration and consolidation
activities.
. Managed project plan, management and implementation of
the North America LAN/Cisco upgrade ($5 M, including
VOIP projects).
. Helped to bring together the various arms of this
multinational, multi-media company to create an
integrated communications system that efficiency and
prospects for new technology-dependent businesses
throughout the company.
. Managed all deadlines and made all necessary design and
configuration modification needed to meet internal user
requirement.
. Managed testing efforts for the deployment of a Portal
worldwide quoting tool, created business test plan and
processes, and worked with sales representatives on
implementation issues.
. Managed work plans and defined/tracked key performance
indicators to secure expectance and worked with IT
project management team in implementing technology
projects.
. Initiated a comprehensive issue tracking process that
improved communications, and issued resolution for cross-
functional teams and senior management.
. Facilitated operational needs for new/old TV sitcom
shows: maintained all Primetime, Fox Kids, Fox Sports
program schedules and changes for 150 Fox TV Stations,
as a Network Scheduler. In sales/out sales marketing
for popular radio sitcom shows.
. Created closer relationships with consumers and
efficient, user-friendly e-commerce sites for News
Corp.; evaluated material requirements. Suggested method
to lower purchasing cost, purchased & imported
materials.
Environment: Avaya, Lucent, Cisco, Sanyo Systems, MS
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