Professional Experience

IT liaison and consultant to the leadership and process owners for highlighting sound technology options and aligning IT goals with business objectives. Proficient in facilitation, preparation, and presentation of technical and business material such as Project Plan, Budget, Strategic IT Plan, and Project Status Reports dealing with IT staff. Excellent interpersonal and team building skills for dealing with customers and attracting quality IT professionals, mentoring, influencing the team’s dynamics and participation. CSC’s PMI Catalyst trained Project Manager, Systems Development Methodology. Proficient in using project management and IT tools, techniques and methods.

Excellent management and leadership skills, coach/develop/elevate staff, lead by example, training and mentoring skills

Ability to quickly learn new material and master new skills, accustomed to working closely with senior management and being in position of responsibility, ability to acknowledge needs for change, champion change.

Excellent analytical, reporting, trending and research skills, impact assessment and formulation of recommendations

Excellent program/project/release management, project methodologies and life cycle, meet aggressive deadlines, negotiation skills, ability to lead multiple priorities and competing demands simultaneously.

Results driven, a can-do attitude, decision maker, self-motivated, great work ethics, highly organized, flexible/adaptable, problem solver, time management, detail oriented, strong presentation skills, solid verbal and written communication.

Academic Education

2000 MBA, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

1980 BS Computer. Science/Math, WKU Bowling Green, KY.

Professional Experience

Legend Information Solutions, Los Angeles

Sr. Consultant/Project Manager

Manage large, complex, programs and projects with extensive budget/hours. Manage performance and execution of teams’ daily activities consisting of multiple Lines of Business SMEs, Technical SMEs, Developers, QA, Systems Analysts, UAT testers, Vendors. Lead concurrent projects from initiation through post implementation phases, warranty production monitoring/support.

Manage large pool of resources across the enterprise, partnership with various Lines of Business, internal, outsourced,offshore, enterprise release management, compliance change agents. Hold resources accountable, mentor/train/coach throughout project life cycle, requirements elaboration, testing strategy/scripts/data prep/cycle plans, provide direction & guidance, drive efforts towards expected results, inform stakeholders’ for decisions, manage Risk/Issues/Actions/roadblocks, operational readiness.

Set clear goals & expectations, build productive teams, team building, recognitions, lead team meetings, agendas & minutes, program strategic reporting, steering committees & summits PowerPoints

Computer Sciences Corporation/Technology Management Group

Sr. Technical Consultant/project Manager

Managed team, goal setting, performance reviews, development plans, hiring, team building & collaboration, coaching, staff meeting, timely courses completion, elevate skill sets, empower associates to achieve maximum capacity and challenge skills sets, resource management, workload prioritization, backup support, escalation support, project management, production stabilization.

Managed project portfolio and priorities, initiatives, strategies, program deployments, implementations, multiple concurrent projects for financial applications.

Managed daily team’s activities and successful deliverables execution. Managed test files, marketing file processing, production queue monitoring, provided 24x7 support as needed, determined workarounds, defect resolution, impact analysis.

Created operational business controls & systematic solutions to comply with regulations, state/federal laws, compliance adherence.

Partnership & proactive collaboration with Executive team, IT management, Business Units, Compliance, Risk, Legal, internal & external resources on risk assessments, exposure mitigation plans, gap analysis, systems processing optimization, evaluate & implement permanent solutions, strategic planning, forecasting, contingency plans, process maps, process improvement and modeling.

Project Manager of medium to large scale complex high-profile projects, implemented strategic operations & technology solutions, release management process streamlining, defects management, budget management.

FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP, Los Angeles

Sr. Business Systems/Analyst

As a member of BPS team for auto policy processing system, participated in analysis and collection of systems requirements, which included business process modeling to create a model conceptual design. Created a data conversion strategy including system objectives, development priorities, and a phased implementation plan.

Participated in technical system design and construction of data conversion modules.

Led gap/fit analysis, business reengineering, project requirements, and design

Led the development of conversions, interfaces, extensions, and reports

Responsible for methodology, progress tracing, activity planning, QA, and release

Developed Specs and Wrote new mainframe applications for Auto Development Project New Business System.

Northrop Grumman, Previously LITTON INDUSTRIES

Sr. Business Analyst/Programmer

Responsible for the IT support of MIS manufacturing and Financials. Additional responsibilities included input to the annual IT strategic plan, and participation in the operational support planning for the sector and the SBU.

As a Business Systems Analyst/Programmer participated in analysis, evaluation and collection of system requirements for MRPII system for A.E.S.G (Advance Electronics Systems Group) Divisions.

This included evaluation of vendor software with open system architecture in on-line transaction processing environment.

Analyzed operations and participated in the formulation of a plan to upgrade the environment.

Participated in design and development of cooperative processing architecture for labor collection system. Participated in analysis, design and maintenance of on-line manufacturing Standards/Routing Application, enabling the user to define, maintain and track routing specifications for new and existing products.

Utilized CASE tools to create a model system conceptual design.

ENTERGY MIDDLE SOUTH UTILITIES, New Orleans

Senior Programmer/Analyst

As a Senior Programmer Analyst for an energy utilities management company.

Participated in Multi-Company enhancement of operations applications.

Created the external design and functional specifications for enhancements.

Participated in customization of material management, inventory and purchasing system.

Developed complex, rule-driven revenue analysis system for financial accounting, which allowed users to analyze revenue through market segmentations and rate decomposition.

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