Project Manager

John S. Padley, PMP

603-***-**** ** Shore Drive

*******@*********.*** Northwood, NH 03261

SUMMARY

Expert PMP certified Technical Project Manager with over seven years delivering application development

and integration projects on schedule and budget meeting client expectations. Refined analytical skills ensure

that business objectives are clearly identified, consistently validated and delivered successfully in every

project. Highly effective leading business and technology teams with superior stakeholder expectations

management skills, building solid relationships through clear communication and timely follow-thru. Driven

by a personal sense of ownership and a hands-on approach, coupled with a retail developed sense of

urgency and customer service orientation.

• Proven ability to drive decision analysis and selection, skilled taking strategic concepts from

inception through implementation

• Presented project proposals, status reports and negotiated priorities with executive management

and stakeholder steering committees

• Demonstrated ability to understand the business behind the project to keep project goals on

target with the business drivers.

• Proficient utilizing resources and managing project activities in matrixed organizations

• Developed and executed concurrent project plans with varying degrees of scope and complexity

including projects utilizing over 17,000 resource hours.

• Accomplished leading teams in web based, client server, and mainframe environments

• Completed software development and integration projects utilizing Web Services, XML, .Net,

PeopleSoft, PeopleSoft EPM, Ascential Datastage, SQL, Business Objects, COBOL, CICS and

Java development teams in MVS, AIX and WinTel environments

• Mentored colleagues and teams in the application and promotion of project management

principles and tools

• Expert in the use of Microsoft Project and Project Server

EDUCATION & ASSOCIATIONS

B.S., Business Administration / Minor in Computer Science, Daniel Webster College, Nashua, NH

PMP certified - Project Management Institute

Active Nashua SCRUM club member

EXPERIENCE

SKILLSOFT, LLC, Nashua, NH 2005 - 2009

Project Manager – Business Systems (2005 – 2009)

• Managed all facets of business systems projects – from initiation through planning and execution.

• Ensured that the requirements of all stakeholders were represented, key deliverables and milestones

identified, tracked and met.

• Conducted projects in several business areas, including – Finance, Contract Management, Marketing,

Royalties, Commissions, CRM, Order Fulfillment and BI/Data Warehouse.

• Managed project activities of off-shore teams and 20 internal developers and analysts; coordinated

efforts and priorities between developers, infrastructure, security and business teams during project

design and execution.

• Managed internal and offshore project teams to implement a Data Warehouse (PeopleSoft EPM) for

Financial Analytics utilizing Ascential Datastage ETL and MS SQL server.

• Executed a strategic business reengineering project identifying and defining process improvement

initiatives in product fulfillment operations that spanned across several technical and business functional

areas.

• Implemented a CRM Leads Management project integrating a third party leads data collection into a

secure closed loop exchange with SkillSoft’s CRM system, facilitating between developers, Vendors,

Legal, Infrastructure and Technical Security teams.

• Promoted the implementation of Project Management standards and best practices through coaching,

mentoring and providing guidance to project teams and business stakeholders.

• Developed project schedules using Microsoft Project and Project Server 2003 from resource and

project/portfolio modeling through complex-interdependent multi-phased projects.

John S. Padley, PMP

603-***-**** 98 Shore Drive

*******@*********.*** Northwood, NH 03261

THE TIMBERLAND COMPANY, Stratham, NH 2001 – 2004

Project Leader - U.S. Retail Systems (2001-2002)

• Managed several enhancement, upgrade and compliance projects for the retail store environment.

• Developed, documented and executed project plans and schedules.

• Led the implementation of Timberland’s Electronic Gift card program integrating new POS development,

back office systems, settlement reporting, marketing, operations and training.

• Managed system development, deployment and support for 83 retail sites in the United States.

• Administered all retail system related contracts and vendor relationships

Project Leader – Global Retail Systems (2002 - 2003)

• Administered all retail system related contracts and vendor relationships.

• Collaborated with senior management to develop and present business cases for funding, manage the

selection process and led project execution.

• Directed retail system development, deployment and support for over 200 stores in 15 countries.

• Led the contract negotiation outsourcing worldwide retail store system deployments and first level

support, revived stalled negotiations by engineering a mutually acceptable SLA.

• Managed retail systems deployment projects supporting new business introduction into Asia.

• Coordinated global development and support efforts with European and Asian colleagues.

Manager – Global Technical Support (2003 - 2004)

• Directly managed a team of technical support professionals, contractors and vendors to provide global

application support for approximately 2500 retail and corporate employees.

• Established schedules and budgets for Technical Support projects, deployments and upgrades.

• Developed change management policies and procedures to control production environment integrity.

HANNAFORD BROS. CO. 1990 - 2001

Programmer Analyst / Systems Analyst (1990-1996)

• Provided primary support and development for business critical applications including POS Electronic

Payment, Courtesy Card and Retail Store Accounting systems.

• Designed, developed and supported applications and systems in an AIX RS600 distributed platform with

an IBM 3090 OSVS host.

• Designed and developed item management system with 3090 IDMS hosting application integration with

distributed retail store individual department scales.

Team Leader – Retail Systems (1996 - 2001)

• Directed all retail and back office system development and support for a 170 store grocery chain.

• Collaborated with a broad spectrum of business sponsors to recommend and implement technology and

process solutions, facilitated setting priorities between the groups, developed, supported and presented

funding requests to executive management.

• Directly managed 8 analysts, programmers, integrators, project leaders and several vendor partners.

• Mentored others in project management principles, championed the creation of Hannaford’s PMO.

• Provided hands on project management as well as supported team members implementing projects

ranging from new development, enhancements to vendor product integration from inception, through

prioritization and execution.

PROFICIENCIES

Project Management, SDLC, Integration, Analysis and Design, Deployment, MS Project, MS Project

Server, Visio, MS Office, MS PowerPoint, MindManager

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