Project Manager Management

Matt Sliwoski

**** *. ******* **** **., South Jordan, UT 84095

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801-***-**** ****.********@*****.***

Senior Project Manager

Summary of Qualifications

I am a results driven project manager with a desire to advance my career

into product management. I have a proven track record of meeting goals,

increasing productivity, improving quality, and customer satisfaction. I

am a self-starter and analytical problem-solver with demonstrated ability

to manage program offerings and projects from initiation through

implementation in fast-paced, cost-constrained, time sensitive

environments. Background includes managing large scale programs as well as

large and small software projects for web technologies, hardware upgrades,

and implementations. Experience managing cross-functional teams located in

different geographic regions. An additional advantage is that I have an

extensive development background and I am very familiar with the Software

Development Lifecycle (SDLC).

Skills/Technologies/Tools

Project management experience includes: initiation, planning, executing,

control, closing, reporting; project estimating; scope and requirements

definition; full software lifecycle management; billing and contractual

management; client customer service and support; business process analysis

and reengineering; process change management; quantitative project and

performance management; technology integration; conflict management;

problem solving; decision making; negotiation, communication; cross-

functional team building and leadership

Tools: Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, Visio, Enterprise Architect,

Erwin, BPwin, Eclipse, TOAD

Previous development experience with: SQL, SQL*Plus, PL/SQL, Oracle RDBMS,

Oracle Application Server, Oracle Designer, Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports,

Java, JSP, XML, UML, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Fidelity Investments - Salt Lake City, Utah 07/2008 - Present

Systems Project Manager

o Coordinate technical implementations and business scheduling for

Fidelity's e-Business Security offering

o Oversee projects / initiatives related to the offering and provide

point of contact services for business and technical teams

o Report program costs, risks, status to upper management as well as

letting project teams know current status of the program

o Involved in multi million dollar programs for large companies using

Fidelity as provider for 401k and investment tracking.

o Provide best practices for project managers and development teams

through the project lifecycle when dealing with e-Business security

projects.

o Provide project reviews and input to ensure that project managers are

utilizing best practices for their initiatives.

o Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, budgets, and other

supporting documentation.

o Decompose scope information into tasks that correlated with the

project plan.

o Manage project teams located in different geographic areas.

o Provide cost estimating, constant cost tracking, and cost management

through controlling time charged to project and program activities.

o Resolve difficult team relationships, communication issues, and

provided feedback to team members.

o Hold frequent, cross functional and client status meetings

o Facilitate meetings with both executives and technical team members.

o Communicate to clients and senior management in a timely and effective

manner.

o Provide peer review and feedback on documentation, correspondence, and

reports.

o Build team relationships with other departments and assist in the

resolution of differences and conflicts between departments,

personnel, companies or individuals assigned to projects.

Coinstar E-Payment Services - Salt Lake City, Utah 08/2007 - 07/2008

IT Project Manager

o Technical project manager for host to host and point of sale

connections between Coinstar and various customers and suppliers.

o Introduced agile development methodology and processes to the Coinstar

E-Payment Services team to better handle rigorous release schedules.

o Managed development efforts, schedules, and issues.

o Managed routing for incoming technical support issues.

o Maintained relationships with customers, suppliers, and vendors both

in the U.S. and in the U.K.

o Facilitated meetings for technical team members.

o Communicated requirements effectively between development and

customers.

o Engaged in continuous process improvement.

Fidelity Investments - Salt Lake City, Utah 08/2006 - 08/2007

Systems Project Manager

o Developed and maintain project plans, schedules, budgets, and other

supporting documentation.

o Decomposed scope information into smaller tasks that correlated with

the project plan.

o Managed project scope, authored and approved scope changes.

o Facilitated meetings with both executives and technical team members.

o Managed project teams located in different geographic areas.

o Maintained resource planning for current and upcoming projects.

o Provided cost estimating, constant cost tracking, and cost management

through controlling time charged to project activities.

o Resolved difficult team relationships, communication issues, and

provided feedback to team members.

o Held frequent, cross functional and client status meetings.

o Identified potential risks throughout the project and the mitigation

strategy for addressing each risk.

o Communicated to clients and senior management in a timely and

effective manner.

o Provided peer review and feedback on documentation, correspondence,

and reports.

o Develop clear and concise definitions of team member roles and promote

the growth of team members.

o Build team relationships with other departments and assist in the

resolution of differences and conflicts between departments,

personnel, companies or individuals assigned to projects.

O.C. Tanner - Salt Lake City, Utah 08/2004 - 08/2006

Senior Software Engineer

o Involved in detailed analysis & design, requirements decomposition,

development, and testing of Java/J2EE applications.

o Developed process improvements to ensure quality, timely delivery, and

increased relationships between I.S. and business leaders.

o Directed development activities and associated design and code reviews,

resulting in quality improvements and reduction of issues introduced to

the system.

o Successfully managed project initiation, planning, progress, and

completion timeframes of critical business objectives.

o Conducted consultation meetings with internal customers/stakeholders to

determine business priorities, requirements, and other objectives prior

to development activities.

o Developed and implemented project management initiatives in an extreme

programming development environment that maps both development

deliverables and project management deliverables. The result was

successfully integrating project management into a methodology where

project management had not been practiced.

o Trained individuals on the importance of project management principles

in software development.

o Contributed to a company wide process improvement project that

concentrated on streamlining software development and release cycles.

o Provided analysis for critical projects and helped identify key

deliverables, work breakdown structures (WBS), associated risks and

critical path to achieving our mapped objectives.

o Contributed to modifications of the organizational structure to align the

development efforts closer to the business objectives.

Northrop Grumman - Clearfield, Utah 07/1999 - 08/2004

Software Engineer II

o Involved in analysis & design, requirements decomposition, development,

and testing of Java/J2EE applications for several government contracts.

o Attained fast-track promotion through series of increasingly responsible

positions.

o Co-developed and implemented quality plan for software development team.

o Directed four employees in developing web based prototypes for

demonstration to our government clients.

o Contributed in project planning of migration from client server to web

based applications. Involvement with feasibility study, resource

planning, stakeholder management, activity definition, and schedule

development.

o Involved directly with customers to map expectations and acceptance

criteria.

o Developed and delivered software training plan for U.S. Air Force

personnel.

o Trained U.S. Air Force personnel at several government installations on

software products produced by Northrop Grumman.

o Held Secret government clearance for this position

U.S. Army - Schweinfurt, Germany 07/1995 - 06/1999

Reconnaissance Specialist

o Managed the security, inventory, accountability and issuance of serial

numbered/sensitive weapons and other government property.

o Provided company deployment plans when transporting weapons and munitions

that included security plans, inspection preparation plans, and resources

involved.

o Directed three individuals in armament security. This included training,

security clearances, proper adherence to regulations and performance

reviews.

o Subjected to daily, weekly, and monthly inspections to ensure the

conformity to U.S. Army standards and regulations when dealing with

sensitive materials.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems (12/2003)

Park University, Parkville, Missouri

AFFILIATIONS

Member, Project Management Institute (PMI)

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