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Project Manager Management

Location:
Los Gatos, CA, 95032
Posted:
September 07, 2010

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Resume:

Teri Perlstein

Los Gatos, CA *****

408-***-****

****@*********.***

SUMMARY:

I am a highly analytical, skilled and motivated Business Analyst/Project

Manager with an MBA in Information Systems and a development background

with extensive experience in relational databases, SQL, VBA and report

writing.. Accomplishments range from providing senior leadership in the

development of a variety of mission critical systems to creating detailed

business requirements and functional specifications documents to devising

comprehensive test plans.

EDUCATION

Pace University; White Plains, NY

Lubin Graduate School of Business

M. B. A. Information Systems

California State University; Long Beach, CA

60 Credits; Math, Educational Psychology

University of New Mexico; Albuquerque, NM

B. A. Art; Education

EMPLOYMENT

Envisage LTD

8/1992 Present

Envisage focuses on Business Requirements Analysis, Business Process

Reengineering and Project Management for both Operations and IT.

Clients Include:

Cisco, Gartner, Microsoft, Stanford University, Stanford Hospital Applied

Materials, Hitachi Data Systems, BMG Music, Novellus, Ethan Allen,

Dataquest, LSI Logic, Intel,

Mercantile SD&T Trust Division

Representative projects include:

Client: Cisco

Duration: September 2006 - August 2010

Role: Project Manager/Business Analyst -Worldwide Service Operations

As part of WW Service Operations, worked with personnel across the

enterprise to understand the issues around service contracts, support

entitlement, contract renewals, and coverage metrics to design and

implement business process, improve provide coverage/renewal opportunities

and narrow the gap of entitlement "leakage" leading to un-entitled support

and software. Worked with BI analysts and IT organizations to implement

tools for Channel Partners and Internal personel toward the above goal.

Worked with sales, channel partner agents, partners and other organizations

to interface with Partners for these programs.

Client: Stanford Hospital (as an FTE of Perot Systems)

Duration: October 2005 - September 2006

Role: Business Analyst/Project Manager - Web Applications

Managed the full SDLC for implementing a wide variety of Web Applications

for Stanford Hospital. Responsibilities included interfacing with Sponsors,

Stakeholders, Users, IT management, programmers, and IT support personnel.

Creating BRDs and User Acceptance Test scripts, and managing the projects

from inception through post-implementation.

Client: Cisco

Duration: February 2004 - October 2005

Role: Project Manager - Partner Enablement Program

As part of the PE program team, worked with personnel across the enterprise

to gather content. Managed analysis, uselability and UAT testing in

coordination with the IT department to implement a "home-grown" content

management system that would "feed" the new portal for the program -

dynamically. Designed and managed the content migration from the static to

dynamic site.

Additional Projects Include:

Client: Gartner/Microsoft

Role: Project Manager, Business Analyst, UI/Technical/DB Designer,

Programmer, QA and User Acceptance Manager

Environment: Visio, Access/VBA, Excel

Implemented a software tool based on a model for measuring a company's

agility and making recommendations for improvement. The model was created

by the leading research company for the high-tech industry for a multi-

billion dollar software vendor. In these roles I managed the development

cycle, gathered requirements and translated those into the technical design

inluding UI/Prototypes, Process Flow diagrams and ERDs These specification

documents were used when I implemented to tool. This project entailed

interfacing with the team of top research analysts and industry consultants

along with the representatives from several areas of focus within the

software vendor.

Role: Project Manager, Business Analyst

Environment: Rational Requisite Pro,Visio, MS Project, PL-SQL/SQL-Server,

Cognos PowerPlay

Managed a $5 million worldwide project and ten-person, international,

development team tasked with designing and building the research

infrastructure for a global market research firm. The system reduced labor

required, improved cycle time to publish by 50%, reduced data errors,

improved data consistency by 25%. Requirement management was done using

Requisite Pro. Visio was often incorporated to show process flows.

Client: Stanford University

Role: Project Manager, Business Analyst, UI/Technical/DB Designer, QA and

User Acceptance manager, QA

Environment: Visio, MS Project, Dreamweaver, SQL/Sybase

Worked on a variety of projects as part of a team that supports the Office

of Development and Alumni Association for one of the most prestigious

universities in the world. Projects include both client/server and Web

technologies interfacing to a Sybase database. (Stanford University).

Projects included major data conversions, system conversions and new

systems. In my role I gathered and documented requirements, including

UI/screen layouts, process flow diagrams and descriptions and ERDs. Once

reviewed and approved by the users, I created complete technical

documentation for the programming team. Web applications also included

prototypes developed in Dreamweaver.

SKILLS:

Business Analysis - User Requirements and Design (Web and Client/Server),

Database Design and Development, DataMart/ DataWarehouse design, Business

Process re-engineering

Management of Projects, Human Capital and Resources

User Acceptance, QA Management, Functional and Technical Testing User

Interface Design

Technologies: Visio, SQL, Rational Requisite Pro, Access,

Microsoft Office/VBA, FrontPage, Dreamweaver, MS Project

Scholarships

Calder Fellowship;

Graduate Professional Opportunity Program Scholarship;

Pace Graduate School Assistantship

Other Affiliations and Recent Personal Accomplishments

- Los Gatos Schools Art Docent and Treasurer

- Coach Girls for a Change Organization

- Alumni Relations Chair, Reunion Co-Chair and website designer/creator for

School Reunion

- Team in Training (LLS).

Raised $2850 for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

- 3-day Breast Cancer Walk (60 miles)

Raised $3000 for Breast Cancer Research



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