Kathleen Larkins
***** ********* **** ? Bowie, Maryland 20715 USA ?+1-919-***-****
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OBJECTIVE
Seeking a full-time IT Project Management or Project related position in
Raleigh NC., Washington DC., or New York NY.
Open to travel - domestic and international
EDUCATION
Marymount University, Arlington, VA, USA
BSc, Computer Information System - May 2002
PROJECT SKILLS
Project Management:
Management - Delivery Focused, Pragmatic, Organized, Active Involvement in
Full Project Life Cycle.
Project Planning - Stakeholder & Resource Engagement / Management, E2E
Planning / Management, Full Lifecycle Delivery, Scoping, Governance,
Milestones, RAIDS, Task Planning, MSP, Change Management, Requirements,
Testing Phases, Implementation Plans (SoE - Schedule of Events), Check-
Outs;
Project Finances - Internal / External / Capital Resources, Latest
Financial Position Reports, Committed Spend Views, Burn Rates, Savings, Re-
phasing, Invoicing / Cost Agreements, Cost Management Approvals
Project Support
MI (Management Information) ? Project Co-ordination ? Business Analysis ?
Systems Analysis ? Stakeholder Engagement ? Business Requirements ?
Technical Requirements ? Risk / Issues Analysis ? Project Reports ? Team
Leadership ? International Relations ? 3rd Party Vender Management ? Data
Modeling ? Data Warehousing ? Technical Writing
COMPUTER SKILLS
SQL Queries ? MI Reports Access / Excel (Charts, Pivot Tables, Graphs) ?
Business Objects ? SAP ? IT Infrastructure Implementations ? PC/Desktop
Deployments ? Windows OS 95/98/2000/XP/NT/2003/7 ? Office Suite
95/97/2000/XP/2003/2007/2010 ? AD Queries ? Active Directory
Management/Administration ? Remote Access Support ? Exchange
Administration ? PowerPoint ? Excel ? Access ? Word ? MS Project 2003 /
2007/ 2010 ? SharePoint Site Administration ? SQL Server Administration ?
SMS packaging / Administration ? File Sharing / Backup Management ? Desktop
& Laptop Builds / Configurations ? trading floor support ? Business Objects
? System Testing? PlanView
EXPERIENCE
Project Manager, ODS Program - Post Business Review - PPI, Lloyds TSB,
Edinburgh (August 12 - Present)
Responsibility and Accountability for the E2E Delivery of a 4M Cards
Customer Database Project. Establish and Maintain Project Scoping, planning
and resourcing deliverables, interfacing with multiple work streams (both
business and technical resources) (both onshore and offshore), managing
inter-work stream dependencies, Stakeholder management (technical teams and
business), Progress Reporting, Financial Management
PMO Lead, ODS Program - Post Business Review - PPI, Lloyds TSB, Edinburgh
(Feb 12 - August 12)
Program level management and support of governance on 3 Projects. Quality
management of MSP Plans (Milestones, Change Requests), Financial Support
and Management, Change Management Tool Status Reports (RAIDs, Executive
Reports, Project Governance, Milestone planning and reporting).
PMO Finance Lead, Account Switchers - Simplification Program, Lloyds TSB,
Edinburgh (May 11 - Feb 12)
Planview Program Financials (Internal / External / Capital Resources,
Forecasts vs. Actual, Authorized Agreed Spend Amounts and Cost Management
Approvals, Burn Rates, Accruals, Invoices, Re-Phased Spend and Saving)
Spend reviews with Business Budget Owners, Supplier Procurement Support
MI Analyst, General Insurance Partner Operations Relationships, TESCO Bank,
Edinburgh (Jan 11 - May 11)
Developing / Organizing of Tesco Bank's General Insurance Relationship
Management Information Reporting Process; Development of multiple Weekly /
Monthly Executive Reports; Production of executive reports and commentary
to explain trends and issues; Meetings / Facilitating workshops with third
party vendors to understand data relationships and definitions; Collection
and Management of MI from multiple third party sources; Documentation of MI
processes; Management of team documentation distribution.
PMO Analyst, Integration - Platform Integration Program, Lloyds TSB,
Edinburgh (June 10 - Dec 10)
Program level management support of 5 Integration Projects. Quality
management of MSP Plans, Financial Support, RAIDs, Progress Reporting,
Governance.
Data Business Analyst, SOX Scoping Integration Program, Lloyds TSB,
Edinburgh (Dec 09 - June 10)
Creation of Divisional / Business Process Scoping of financial models,
project support, database management (creation, updates, queries, reports),
business requirements
Project Analyst, Payment Service Directive Project (PSD), Royal Bank of
Scotland, Edinburgh (Sept 09 - Dec 09)
Project -driving- / business support for three small compliance projects;
Technical / Operational engagement of business requirements; Stakeholder
engagement; Implementation Plans; Implementation Checkouts; Project support
Data Analyst / Technical Writer, Active Directory Consolidation Program,
GSK, Durham (Dec 08 - June 09)
Active Directory data queries for +200K accounts, +300 Servers,12 domains,
and +200K computers; Project Support / Change control of Business Units
Infrastructure changes; Documentation; Project Communications; Project
Support
Data Business Analyst, Contactless Card Program, Royal Bank of Scotland,
Edinburgh (July 07 to Sep 08)
Conceptual data modeling for project stakeholders; Management of the
program statistics / data on card issuing, usage, and performance; data
quality / validation control; industry / scheme wide reporting of program
progression; Facilitating workshops with the Cards Business Information
team and Card Business Analysis team to build data warehouse for program.
Managing the setup of a database systems that provides real-time data for
program analysis;- Facilitating workshops with the program work streams
(debit, credit, and acquiring businesses) and organization work streams
(Doc, Risk, Fraud, Exec, Schemes, etc-) to make sure their requirements and
analysis is met and provided in appropriate / accurate forms; Ad-hoc
analysis on program performance
NT-XP Migration Data Analyst / Project Admin, Royal Bank of Scotland,
Edinburgh (May 07 - July 07)
Obtaining correct information for future migration machines / users
accounts; processing machine and user information for database uploads;
liaising with upper management for scheduling of departmental hardware and
account migrations; updating and maintaining scheduling databases; tracking
departmental migration information that has come into project.
NT-XP Migration I.T. Project Manager / Coordinator, BT / Edinburgh City
Council, Edinburgh (Nov 05 - April 07)
Manage / coordinate 3-5 I.T. desktop migration projects at a time. Manage,
understand, communicate and control the departmental migration / deployment
process from start to finish for each assigned department ranging up to
2000+ users each; Manage multiple projects to ensure milestones / targets
are met and are appropriate;- review milestones / targets to ensure success
of the overall migration initiative; Client Relationship Management; Change
Control Management; SharePoint team documentation management
Project Coordinator / Systems Admin, The Paper Company, Glasgow (June 04 -
Nov 05)
Support Engineer, Nursing and Midwifery Counsel, London (Dec 03 - May 04)
Application Tester / Project Team Support, National Australia Group,
Glasgow (Jan 03 - Nov 03)
Desktop Support, Britannic Asset Management, Glasgow (July 02 - Jan 03)
Employment History before 2002 Available upon request
REFERENCES
Available upon request