Project Manager
Resume:
DORA TARVER
e-Mail: **********@**********.***
Phone: 212-***-****
SUMMARY:
Ms. Tarver is a Senior Program/Project Manager and member of PMI with
extensive experience leading and training teams of professional
consultants and employees, including external resources, to
successfully deliver IT solutions. Expertise in change management,
resource management, risk management, team development, client
management, time & cost analysis, business analysis, and project
schedule/project plan development. Skilled at working directly with
CTOs, VPs, Directors, Business Managers, Technical Leads, Developers,
and assistants, driving design, development, testing and
implementation of new products and services using Agile and Waterfall
methodologies.. Over 20 years experience in SDLC including project
closure procedures. Have published papers and spoken across the
country for PMI, including at the PMI Annual Seminars & Symposium.
Project Management Methodologies: Summit D (Process Management
Methodology from Price Waterhouse), RUP, Agile Development, Method One
(Anderson Consulting), Customized SDLC, Extreme Programming, SMS, Six
Sigma, and the PMI PMBOK.
EMPLOYMENT:
Integrity Plus Corporation - 1990 to Present
Provided consulting services for several industries that include the
following:
Benchmark Education, NY - January 2012 - May 2012 (Publishing)
. Program Manager and Solutions Architect for a SharePoint 2010
implementation. Responsible for implementing SharePoint Server
2010, SharePoint Designer, InfoPath and Workflows based on customer
requirements. Developed conceptual and logical designs for server
architecture and worked with developers in implementing the design
and then documenting the solution for the customer. Managed the
schedule, resources, tasks, and issues. Provided a road map for a
two year period that included phases for governance, taxonomy, and
business intelligence.
PepsiCo, Westchester, NY - June 2011 to December 2011 (Beverage)
. Responsible for implementing project management best practices for
Microsoft Project. Set up project schedule with proper milestones,
critical path, and predecessors so that changes could be seen
immediately. Trained staff to manage and report from the project
schedule.
MediaBrands New York, NY - June 2010 to May 2011 (Media Assets
Management)
. Managed web based global client profitability data warehouse and
reporting solutions for systems that delivered monthly reporting of
actual revenue, labor hours and costs against each client in a
market with the ability to drill down into any level of detail.
Tracked monthly labor actuals against the quarterly forecast.
. Responsible for gathering and documenting requirements as well as
training junior project manager in project management best
practices.
. Responsible for budgets, project schedules, weekly status reports,
tracking changes, issues, action items and risks during the project
life cycles.
IPC, New York, NY - November 2009 to July 2010 (eCommerce)
. Managed and developed online project management training and
services products for two e-Commerce businesses:
www.CreateAndManageSchedules.com and www.e-ProjectManagers.com.
. Responsibilities included requirements gathering and developing
training systems.
. Implemented new products and services for web based clients to
learn project management best practices, which included a toolbar
that provided access to videos, podcasts and social networking.
CBS Corporation, New York, NY - May 2008 to October 2009 (Media /
Broadcasting)
. Managed a large SharePoint portfolio of twelve programs, which
contained multiple projects.
. Coordinated activities across 12 programs and managed multiple
teams.
. Responsibilities included setting up governance, creating and
maintaining a master schedule and resource pool for the SharePoint
portfolio.
. Established SharePoint policies and procedures for the enterprise.
. Drove estimate gathering and drove teams to submit status and
deliverables.
. Drove requirements gathering sessions and documentation.
. Worked with technical and business leaders to plan resource
allocation and tracked issues, action items, and risks weekly.
. Managed vendors and resources located in multiple locations though
their project life cycles.
StarPOINT, New York, NY - June 2007 to December 2007 (Contracting)
. Contracted on multiple small and medium sized projects in a
SharePoint environment.
. Facilitated weekly status meetings.
. Managed Technical and Business Issues, Action Items and Risks.
. Responsible for creating and maintaining project schedules,
publishing status reports, leading technical teams overseas and
locally.
. Managed the budget and successfully delivered projected based on
the agreed statement of work. Met or exceeded all client's
expectations.
. Directed the requirements gathering process and signed off on
requirements.
AXA - Equitable, York, NY - September 2006 to May 2007 (Finance /
Insurance)
. Responsible for managing a program for the co-location of existing
work to offshore.
. This work included coordination of the build out of new offshore
platforms to support the work.
. Worked closely with the business to ensure the requirements were
well documented.
. Managed and tracked issues, action items, changes, and risks, as
well and project schedules for this program.
. Responsible for managing a program of 10 projects called Life
Services Stabilization.
. Provided weekly and monthly status reports, including overall
financial status of the program by project.
. Developed a master project schedule and manage issues, action
items, changes and risks daily. Facilitate a weekly program status
meeting.
. Work directly with business and IT stakeholders and ensure
communications are clear and that expectations are met.
. Conducted risks analysis and project forecasting for 2007.
Nomura Holdings New York, NY - April 2006 to August 2006 (Bank /
Finance)
. Responsible for implementing project management best practices and
supporting technical leaders in a back office conversion project.
. Normura began converting from NTAPS to an in house back office
processing system a few years ago which was scheduled for
implementation this past April.
. Was brought in by a manager who wanted to implement project
management best practices so that they had better control.
. Created a master schedule, coordinated and facilitated status
meetings, tracked issues, risk, action items and changes.
. Managed the relationship between the SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) team and
technology leaders to ensure control requirements were met.
AXA - Equitable, New York, NY - May 2004 to March 2006 (Finance /
Insurance)
. Responsible for monitoring, reporting project status, project
schedule development and management, status meeting facilitation,
issue and action item tracking and management, and overall project
analysis, requirements gathering and status reporting. .
. Provided Project Management functions by developing and driving
schedules, scope documents, change control documents, issues logs,
analysis, and status reports.
. Managed project costs in the form of time entry for employees and
consultants as well as collected project budget estimates,
developed budget forecasts, reviewed monthly financial reports to
track variances and budget related issues.
. Organized and drove the project communications, including recurring
project coordination meetings from team members to senior executive
management.
. Utilized solid project management skills in an IT environment and
implemented project management best practices and system life-cycle
standards.
ECommerce Partners NYC, NY - January 2004 to April 2004 (eCommerce)
. Conducted business analysis and introduced Project Management Best
Practices to support technology solutions to Global 2000
enterprises and emerging Internet businesses.
. Worked directly with clients and ECommerce staff to define best
practices that worked 'best' in their environment.
. Created a process for project planning and initiation that helped
ECommerce partners more successfully define the project scope,
costs, and conduct analysis and requirements gathering.
. Successfully implemented project management best practices into an
environment that had none.
. Created templates and forms that other project team members used to
manage their projects.
. Created a project management repository in SharePoint that outlined
the project life-cycle, steps, deliverables, and recommended
templates and forms.
. Successfully provided ECommerce partners with best practices
customized to their business model.
Weight Watchers.com, New York, NY - June 2003 to December 2003
(eCommerce)
. After conducting business analysis, established best practice
processes and procedures in the Engineering Department so that they
would have better control of costs and risks.
. Gathered details for and delivered a requirements document for a
website translation project (English to German).
Cendant, New York, NY - January 2003 to June 2003 (Consumer Services)
. Member of the PMO during merger of AVIS and Budget systems in a
SharePoint environment.
. Managed three project teams through the project life cycle,
including the requirements gathering process..
. Provided coaching, mentoring and training to staff Project Managers
within IT on project management best practices and MS Project use.
Bowne, New York, NY - July 2002 to January 2003 (Publishing)
. Project Manager for application enhan cements to web based systems.
. Managed teams through analysis, design, development, QA, and
implementation phases.
. Successful in introducing processes to provide structure and
organization to help achieve common objectives.
New York Times, NY - December 2001 to June 2002 (Publishing)
. Project Manager for an advertising system upgrade.
NYK, New York, NY - April 2001 to October 2001 (Logistics / Shipping)
. Managed a team of engineers through the design and development of a
global web based booking application that communicated with legacy
systems.
. Adopted a methodology that was similar to the PMI PMBOK.
. My responsibilities included development and maintenance of the
project plan, requirements gathering and documentation, and
installation of network servers with firewall configuration.
New York Interactive, New York City, NY - November 2000 to February
2001 (eCommerce)
. Developed a detailed design document and prototype for the client
to bid on a project.
. The design document was a proposal for a web based content
management tool.
. My assignment involved travel, research, analysis, and close client
and vendor interaction.
. Managed user interface developers through the development of
prototype and the development of engineering specifications.
New York Life - July 2000 to October 2000 (Insurance)
. Tailored a methodology from Anderson Consulting (Method One) to
better support the needs of project managers.
. Conducted business analysis and made recommendations based on
interviews with department staff.
. Wrote project management templates and provided examples for
project managers to follow.
Dean Witter (Morgan Stanly) - April 2000 to July 2000 (Financial)
. Conducted an analysis and implemented Project Management Best
Practices into the Web Services Division.
. Managed the implementation of an off the shelf methodology to
support the management of a large portfolio of web based projects.
Cablevision - October 1999 to April 2000 (Broadcasting)
. Managed the global roll out of "Vignette", a web content management
tool.
. My responsibilities included project schedule development, budget
management, resource management, hardware purchases, and PMO
analysis and reporting
Marsh & McLennan - June 1999 to October 1999 (Insurance)
. Managed the implementation of an off the shelf Fixed Asset
Management System.
. Was responsible for the development of the project plan and
assignment of project resources.
. Also was responsible for managing vendors and other business
managers located across the country to deliver the system ahead of
schedule.
Paradym4 (NYC Contractor) - May 1999 to June 1999 (Contracting)
. Converted a large "Primavera" project plan into "MS Project 98".
. Responsibilities included training staff on how to use MS Project
98.
. "Paradym4" managers were new to the nuances of MS Project, however
they quickly learned and were successful in delivering the project
plan along with two large PERT chart models to meet the project
deliverables.
Schroeder's Capital Management - October 1998 to May 1999 (Financial)
. Managed Y2K testing and contingency plan phases for a portfolio and
financial account management system.
. Developed and implemented the project plans for the Y2K testing and
remediation, Y2K contingency plans, and the migration from one
portfolio and financial account management system to another. .
Bank of New York - May 1998 to October 1998 (Banking)
. As a member of the Year 200 project office, was responsible for
overall management of upgrades and new system development projects.
. Delivered all projects on time, met or exceeded quality
expectations and stayed within budget.
Met Life - 11/97 to May 1998 (Insurance)
. Managed the process for enhancements and quality assurance for a
Financial Management Information System's application that collects
and summarizes reserves.
. Directed the technical interview process for prospective full time
employees, directed research and analysis phases of an object
modeling and automated testing tool.
. Performed an impact analysis outlining time, cost, and performance
variables for the implementation of new technology.
. Wrote and conducted high level presentations.
. Applied Price-Waterhouse- Coopers "SUMMIT D" methodology to provide
a structured approach to the systems delivery life cycle including
the development, implementation and maintenance of systems.
Ross Labs - August 1996 to October 1997 (Pharmaceutical)
. Managed several enhancements to product tracking applications.
. Worked with managers to identify requirements, code and test the
new functionality
EDUCATION:
Brandeis University, BA
Boston University, MS
Additional Training:
Microsoft University - Microsoft Project IIL- Project
Management Excellence
Cablevision - ABT Project Workbench IIL - Project
Management Excellence
PMI - PMP Review PMI - Project
Management Controlling Process
PMI - Capturing Project Requirements & Developing Project Scope
Infinity Plus Consulting - Project Management
Certifications: http://www.e-
projectmanagers.com/certificates/certificates.html
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