Project Management
Resume:
MICHAEL ANTOINE WOFFARD
Saint Louis, MO 63121
abjzsd@r.postjobfree.com
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Senior Project Management Professional with extensive experience in retail
and consumer goods, manufacturing, healthcare, telecommunications,
financial services and state government verticals. Ten years of direct
focus in the delivery of process analysis, corporate, cross-functional
Information Technology solutions through: Project and portfolio
management, information technology project governance, business process
analysis and information technology methodology and process analysis
(PMBOK, PRINCE2, Agile, ITIL and 'Waterfall' methodologies and selected
areas of CMMI and Rational Unified Process frameworks).
EXPERIENCE
Elite Management Svcs, LLC, St. Louis, Missouri March 2010 - Present
Principle/Senior Management Consultant
As the principle, providing strategic transitional planning consulting &
functional program management leadership/governance while executing
management of divestiture activities across and within areas of Program
Management, Change Management, Cross-Functional or Cross-Organizational
Processes, Human Resources, Technology Infrastructure and Assets,
Facilities, Branding/Marketing/Sales, Legal, Finance and Accounting,
Compliance/Regulatory Affairs.
Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri
Global Infrastructure Solutions September 2009 - March 2010
Program Manager/Contractor
Position directly provided project management office structure processes &
functional program management leadership while managing large scale cross
functional global infrastructure information technology programs.
Responsibilities:
. Developing tasks for initiation, planning, design, build, and deployment
phases
. Managing Web, Database and Portal implementation/development teams and
server and network implementation global project teams.
. Led and facilitated stakeholder alignment meetings to include direct
participation in the review of stakeholder/business/functional
requirements to improve business performance.
. Managing global project teams; implemented information technology and
Project Management Office governance & training of project management
methodology and structure.
. Developing status reporting metrics and processes.
. Aligning milestones w/ Statement of Work, building Work Breakdown
Structures and base lined project schedules with tasks, writing
weekly/monthly stakeholder executive status reports.
. Writing RFPs', analyzing negotiating & managing vendor statement of
works, and managing vendor project schedule tasks to completion.
. Managing resource pool assignments for full utilization; provided
processes to assess/manage project and cost variances, risks, issues,
change control mgt, and deliverable acceptance.
. Initiating weekly/monthly project reporting structures, quality assurance
processes, and outlined project metrics.
Methodology used includes PMBOK, SDLC & Agile; Software tools used - CA
Clarity, MS Project Professional 03, 07; MS Project Server 03; MS Visio 03
for flowcharts & MS Word, Access, PowerPoint, SAP, & Excel.
Tata Consultancy Services
Global Consulting Practice North America September 2005 - March 2009
Senior Project Management Consultant
Position directly provided strategic alignment planning/consulting &
functional senior project management leadership in areas of process,
project management office governance, integration mgmt, scope mgmt, time
mgmt, cost mgmt, risk mgmt, communication mgmt & human resource mgmt while
managing the delivery & execution of large scale cross functional
information technology programs in areas of telecommunications, marketing
media, banking & financial services, airline companies and state government
agencies.
Responsibilities:
. Developed tasks for initiation, planning, design, build, and deployment
phases
. Led and facilitated stakeholder meetings to include direct participation
in the review of stakeholder/business/functional requirements to improve
business performance.
. Managed global project teams; implemented information technology and
Project Management Office governance & training of project management
methodology and structure.
. Developed status reporting metrics and processes.
. Aligned milestones with statement of work, building work breakdown
structures and base lined project schedules with tasks, wrote
weekly/monthly stakeholder executive status reports.
. Writing RFPs', analyzing negotiating & managing vendor statement of
works, and managing vendor project schedule tasks to completion.
. Managed resource pool assignments for full utilization.
. Provided processes to assess/manage project and cost variances, risks,
issues, change control management, and deliverable acceptance.
. Initiated weekly/monthly project reporting structures, quality assurance
processes, and outlined project metrics.
Methodology used includes PMBOK, SDLC & Prince2; Software tools used - MS
Project Professional 03, 07; MS Project Server 03; MS Visio 03 for
flowcharts & MS Word, Access, PowerPoint, & Excel.
Oakwood Systems Group, Inc., St. Louis, Missouri Nov 2004 - April 2005
Project Management Consultant
Responsibilities:
. Position directly provided senior project management leadership,
configurations and management of software installation deployment of
enterprise solution web server applications (Microsoft Enterprise Project
Management) to clients Scottrade and Anheuser Busch in an effort to
improve visibility of IT projects performances in their organizations.
. Led and facilitated stakeholder meetings to include direct participation
in review of stakeholder/business/functional requirements to improve
business performance.
. Managed global project teams; implemented information technology and
Project Management Office governance & training of project management
methodology and structure.
. Developed status reporting metrics and processes; aligned milestones with
statement of work, building work breakdown structure and base lined
project schedules with tasks, writing weekly/monthly stakeholder
executive status reports; managing resource pool assignments for full
utilization.
. Provided processes to assess/manage project and cost variances, risks,
issues, change control mgt, and deliverable acceptance.
. Initiated weekly/monthly project reporting structures, quality assurance
processes, and outlined project metrics.
Experience with the following software packages: .NET and MS EPM Solution
2003; MS Project Professional 2003, Word, Access, SQL, PowerPoint, Excel,
MS Share Point Services & Portal.
321 Studios, St. Louis, Missouri May 2003 - August 2004
Project Management Consultant
Responsibilities:
. Facilitated senior project management leadership of the development of an
E-commerce web (online technology) software platform to support internet
marketing with online transaction processing.
. Structured project management processes with components and managed
Project Management Office.
. Direct liaison to all business groups. This role used project management
tools (Microsoft Enterprise Project Management Solution 2003 and
Microsoft Project Professional 2003), methodologies (RUP, "waterfall")
and structured software development lifecycle enabling successful product
releases to the business.
. Reviewed stakeholder/business/functional requirements to improve business
performance, manage change implementations, create project plans and
schedules, manage mitigation of risks and issues, obtain and manage
resources, facilitate project execution, project status reporting,
managing change control and project closure.
. Demonstrated concise understanding of the software development
lifecycles.
. Managed Project Management Office resources while ensuring overall
project management compliance.
. Worked directly with executives to prioritize project phases.
. Developed weekly project reporting dashboards and reports for executive
meetings and reviews.
. Provided post project/budget (789k+) reviews and analysis for process
improvement initiatives and software reengineering.
. Implemented testing methodology, networking training, and administrating
MS Project Server 2003 throughout business units.
Experience with the following software packages: Java, Java script, HTML, &
.NET and MS Office Project Professional 2003; MS Project Server 2003.
LMS Logistics LLC, St. Louis, Missouri August 2001 - May 2003
Project/Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
. Conducted feasibility studies and implemented business process needs
analysis to quantify transportation management system projects and
deployments. Position was also directly responsible for project
scheduling, project status reporting, processing change requests, and
project closure.
. Prepared high and low level software requirement specifications with Use
Cases, while managing the overall visual basic development of web
interface customizations; Created Software Requirement Specification
(SRS) documents with use case scenarios then communicated to software
developers and internal and external clients.
. Managed national account transportation optimization by creating load
plans for both LTL and line haul, routed freight with contracted and
independent carriers, interpreted carrier contracts, rate negotiations
and overall logistics management.
. Direct client liaison between sales, internal software developers and
directors initiating processes for generating and analyzing project
budget (500k+)s, further analyzing business and technical requirements
which include client data files; executing file spec and import through
BizTalk Server into SQL server environment with further data analysis
analyzing client's transportation optimization requirements for web-based
TMS (Transportation Management System).
. Serving as direct business analyst/program manager for all new client
implementations; focusing analytically on the overall business needs for
a client through RUP methodology with the purpose of providing a superior
service/product, attaining departmental/company objectives and managing
all project schedules to completion through Microsoft Enterprise Project
Management Solution tool.
. Gathered and wrote software requirements specifications documented with
real use cases to assist in identifying user functionality, testing
methodologies with development data; coded logic and assuring timely
completion of development to meet client release timelines. Client
support included user maintenance, permissions access and troubleshooting
ASP errors.
Experience with the following software packages: C++, VB, MS Biztalk, MS
SQL Server, and MS Project 98; MS Office.
Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri Feb 2000 - Jan 2001
Project Management Consultant
Responsibilities:
. Analyzed existing business and software processes for planning a data
warehouse infrastructure and organization for marketing/sales contract
project. Position was also directly responsible for project scheduling,
project status reporting, processing change requests, and project
closure.
. Generated (RUP Use Cases) and executed business and technical
requirements for design and development to interface AS400 mainframe data
with web interface database infrastructure; additionally formulated data
entry and customer service groups to execute key marketing objectives,
mainly the collection and interpretation of annual agriculture chemical
and seed sales data. Facilitated risk/change management control of
projects and schedules.
. Performed usability testing for .asp interface and MS Structured Query
Language (SQL) Server database.
. Managed and supported staff in biotechnology sales data collection from
retailers and seed companies through the use of MS Access and ensured
accurate promo payments, collection of license fees and sales data
records in compliance with Environmental Protection Agency standards.
Experience with the following platforms & software packages: AS400; MS
Biztalk, MS SQL Server and MS Project.
EDUCATION
Bachelor Science Degree- Marketing Grambling State University Grambling,
Louisiana
PMP PMI Certification - 2003
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