SHARON ARCHIBALD, PMP

Vienna, VA ***** . 703-***-**** . acdtl0@r.postjobfree.com

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Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with over 10 years of

experience managing projects to deliver quality products to ensure

successful implementation of corporate goals and objectives. Experienced

in applying formal project management standards (PMBOK) and methodologies

to deliver win-win solutions in Healthcare, Financial services and non-

profit industries. Areas of expertise include:

. Tracking & Control . Change Management

. Scheduling & Budgeting . Evaluation & Improved Implementation

. Requirements & Data Analysis . Conflict Resolution

. Risk Management . SDLC - Software Development Lifecycle

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sunrise Senior Living, McLean, VA March

2012 - Present

Sunrise Senior Living provides senior living communities, assisted living

facilities, and senior care services. The company serves nearly 30,000

residents in communities in the United States, Canada and the United

Kingdom.

Project Manager

Responsible for planning, managing and implementing projects using the full

software development lifecycle.

. Lead the planning, execution and implementation of projects with

members from cross-functional teams

. Create, execute and revise project plans as needed

. Provide oversight, direction, control and support to project and

project team

. Collaborate with project team to identify tasks/WBS/backlog, level of

effort, risks, dependencies and constraints

. Identify the need for and gathered resources as needed

. Collaborate with project team to monitor and mitigate risk

. Handle the resolution of conflicts (requirements, schedule and people)

. Primary point of contact (for project team, management, clients,

stakeholders and other departments)

. Coordinate the creation, review, signing and storage of all project

documentation

. Conduct regular status meetings with project team

. Communicate regularly to stakeholders, management and customers

regarding project activities

. Manage ongoing support activities including upgrades as needed after

initial project implementation

. Created process flow and templates to support a repeatable project

management process

Projects include a Learning Management system which facilitates and tracks

the training of team members, a Home Care system which tracks patient home

care, a web application which allows user to create budgets and multiple

projects initiatives for Data Warehouse reporting.

UNITY III Vienna, VA Aug 2011 -

Feb 2012

A privately held company providing project management services.

Sunrise Senior Living Project Manager (Aug

2011 - Feb 2012)

Responsible for planning, managing and implementing projects using the full

software development lifecycle.

. Lead the planning, execution and implementation of projects with

members from cross-functional teams

. Provided oversight, direction, control and support to project and

project team

. Collaborated with project team to identify tasks/WBS/backlog, level of

effort, risks, dependencies and constraints

. Created, executed and revised project plans as needed

. Identified the need for and gathered resources as needed

. Collaborated with project team to monitor and mitigate risk

. Handled the resolution of conflicts (requirements, schedule and

people)

. Primary point of contact (for project team, management, clients,

stakeholders and other departments)

. Coordinated the creation, review, signing and storage of all project

documentation

. Conducted regular status meetings with project team

. Communicated regularly to stakeholders, management and customers

regarding project activities

Projects include a Learning Management system which facilitates and tracks

the training of team members, a Home Care system which tracks patient home

care, and multiple projects initiatives for Data Warehouse reporting.

UNITY III Vienna, VA

A privately held real estate investment company focusing on providing

funding for commercial income producing acquisitions and the purchase and

resell of below market single-family properties.

Director (Aug 2010 - Aug 2011)

Responsible for the strategic, financial, administrative and day-to-day

operations of a real estate investment company. This includes providing

consulting services for a commercial hedge fund and the identification,

analysis and acquisition of below market properties.

. Gather and analyze financial information for funding requests

(commercial properties valued between 2MM - 30MM) to determine

viability and risk in funding

. Field incoming requests from prospective clients to understand their

needs and goals

. Submit request to hedge fund for further analysis and funding

. Provide ongoing status updates to client and to hedge fund analyst

. Analyze properties to determine if they could provide an acceptable

ROI

. Determine strategic approach of company by leveraging industry

expertise

. Submit proposal to purchase and purchase if approved

. Market to sell and close as appropriate

. Market for prospective clients & properties

NRECA, Arlington, VA Apr 1999 -

May 2010

The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) is the national

service organization for more than 900 not-for-profit rural electric

cooperatives and public power districts providing retail electric service

to more than 42 million consumers in 47 states.

Project Manager (02/2007 - 5/2010)

Responsible for planning, managing and implementing projects using the full

software development lifecycle.

. Lead the planning, execution and implementation of projects with cross-

functional project teams

. Instrumental in creating PMO standards, procedures and metrics

. Provided oversight, direction, control and support to project and

project team

. Collaborated with project team to identify tasks/WBS/backlog, level of

effort, risks, dependencies and constraints

. Created, executed and revised project plans as needed

. Identified the need for and gathered resources as needed

. Collaborated with project team to monitor and mitigate risk

. Handled the resolution of conflicts (requirements, schedule and

people)

. Facilitated daily scrum meetings

. Managed & monitored day-to-day aspects of project to ensure completion

& adherence to requirements/goals

. Primary point of contact (for project team, management, clients,

stakeholders and other departments)

. Coordinated the creation, review, signing and storage of all project

documentation

. Facilitated the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables

. Coordinated and in some cases facilitated the Requirements Review

sessions

. Identified and tracked critical path and critical milestones

throughout the project

. Coached project team including contractors as needed

. Conducted regular status meetings with project team

. Communicated regularly to stakeholders, management and customers

regarding project activities and status via meetings or dashboard

reporting

. Conducted "lessons learned" and other close out activities

. Implemented change management process for all requested changes

. Solicited vendors, collaborated on vendor contract and managed vendors

. Identified, tracked, analyzed and facilitated resolution of

operational issues (data and system)

Projects included initiatives to improve the presentation, selection and

implementation of yearly health benefits and to increase the efficiency of

benefit document creation and publication. Key projects - Benefit Plan

Rating, Summary Plan Description, MOSS 2007 and ActiveDocs upgrades. Used

both Waterfall and the Agile methodologies for development.

Manager (2/2002 - 01/2007)

Managed a Data Warehouse team of four, an Employee Benefit Website team of

seven and a team of up to 19 contractors. Directed the teams with a focus

on providing quality application development and maintenance to facilitate

successful implementation of corporate goals and objectives. Provided

project management support for projects as needed.

. Lead the planning, execution and implementation of projects with cross-

functional project teams

. Provided oversight, direction, control and support to project and

project team

. Collaborated with project team to identify project tasks/WBS, level of

effort, risks, dependencies and constraints

. Created, executed and revised project plans as needed

. Identified the need for and gathered resources as needed

. Collaborated with project team to monitor and mitigate risk

. Handled the resolution of conflicts (requirements, schedule and

people)

. Managed & monitored day-to-day aspects of project to ensure completion

& adherence to requirements/goals

. Primary point of contact (for project team, management, clients,

stakeholders and other departments)

. Coordinated the creation, review, signing and storage of all project

documentation

. Facilitated the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables

. Coordinated and in some cases facilitated the Requirements Review

sessions

. Conducted regular status meetings with project team

. Communicated regularly to stakeholders, management and customers on

project status via meetings and reports

. Conducted "lessons learned" and other close out activities

. Captured, documented and facilitated evaluation and implementation of

requested changes

. Provided day-to-day guidance on projects/deliverables, operational and

personal issues

. Partnered with business sponsors and management to identify, plan,

outline and prioritize deliverables for the year

. Collaborated with team to identify system upgrades and maintenance

needed annually (software and hardware)

. Integrated software & hardware upgrades into the overall deliverables

schedule for the year

. Resourced and tracked project and task level initiatives

. Monitored resource utilization and made adjustments where needed to

prevent under and over utilization

. Managed, tracked and executed team budgets

. Solicited, collaborated on vendor contracts and managed vendors

. Recruited, managed and terminated employees and contractors as needed

. Evaluated employees and provided feedback regularly

Projects included two Sharepoint pilot projects (which lead to the

enterprise wide deployment of Sharepoint), the Conference Center Audio

Visual Equipment upgrade, a Broadcast Fax and Email system (COTS) selection

and implementation and a Contact Management system (COTS) selection and

implementation.

Senior Systems Integrator (04/1999 - 1/2002)

Performed all phases of project life cycle which included analysis, design,

development, testing and implementation.

. Collaborated with team to create database designs

. Used Erwin to document Logical and Physical database designs

. Created and tested ETL scripts to load data files into warehouse

. Worked with the team to gather high level requirements from the

business for data warehouse reporting

. Analyzed existing documentation to determine elements needed for data

warehouse reporting

. Documented proposed data elements including metadata and received

customer agreement and signoff

. Created and tested data warehouse reports using Brio and SQL;

validated report data against source data files

. Created and executed ETL scripts to load data monthly; resolved issues

as needed

. Collaborated with team to create design of implementation needed for

NEB (NRECA Employee Benefits Website)

. Prepared process flow diagrams as needed

. Identified task and level of effort for assigned modules and provided

information to project manager

. Coded and unit tested modules as needed to support NEB (NRECA Employee

Benefits Website)

. Used SQL to validate the data and the process

. Worked with team to integrate coded modules into testing environment

. Supported testing team and environment as needed during SAT and UAT

. Implemented approved changes into production (database and code

changes)

. Reviewed requirements documents, participated in requirements review

sessions and performed gap analysis as needed

. Identified, tracked, resolved and/or facilitated resolution and

implemented of production fixes

. Systems supported included the Data Warehouse which used Informatica

with SQL Server and Brio for reporting and the Employee Benefits

Website (NEB), which used VB6 and SQL Server

OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

VIRTUALOGIC, Bethesda, MD Senior Consultant

Aug 1996 - Apr 1999

Small IT services and integration company, founded in 1993 with revenues of

12MM and about 100 employees. Clients included Fortune 1000 companies,

primarily in financial services, banking and insurance.

DATAFOCUS INC., Fairfax, VA Senior Consultant (Programmer)

Apr 1993 - Aug 1996

Privately held software development services company, established in 1988

with annual revenue up to 20 MM and staff of about 49.

I-NET, INC., Rockville, MD Programmer/Analyst

May 1989 - Apr 1993

Government services organization providing services in communications and

information systems with revenues of $23MM and about 450 employees.

VANGUARD TECHNOLOGIES, Fairfax, VA Programmer Aug

1988 - May 1989

SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS, Alexandria, VA Jr Programmer-Programmer/Analyst

Jan 1987 - Aug 1988

Small software solutions company.

SOFTWARE

Microsoft Project 2007, SQL Server 2005, Snag-IT, Microsoft Office 2007,

MS-Visio, MS SharePoint 2003 & 2007, ActiveDocs, HTML, Visual Basic, MS Visual

Source Safe, Informatica, Brio, ERWin, VB Script, HTML, MS Access,

PowerBuilder, dBase

EDUCATION & TRAINING

> B.A., Computer Science, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

> PMP Certification, 10/2004

> Certified Scrum Master, 5/2009

> Basic Six Sigma and Business Process Classes, 4/2014

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