Project Manager Management

Summary of Qualifications

Information Technology professional skilled in Project Management and

Information Technology Systems Auditing.

Twenty years of system development projects, applications and integrated

audit reviews.

Experienced in project oversight of project management processes:

Initiation, planning, executing, controlling, and closing.

Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Ability to make decisions and provide leadership.

Proven record of dedication, enthusiasm, productivity, responsibility and

integrity.

Professional Experience

General Electric, Minden, Nevada

(2008 - Present)

> Lead Project Control Analyst - Responsible for the monitoring, tracking

and reporting of the financial budgets for approximately 33 Software

Programs. Analyze and report on actuals, YTD, YEE to meet Budget target.

Ensure system of record, eNPP, is updated correctly to reflect actuals,

YTD, YEE financials. Ensure SAP updated with timesheet corrections to

reflect correct charges. Ensure correct work orders are mapped to

appropriate budgeted NPI's. Ensure correct Purchase Order transactions

are reported.

> Project Manager: Facilitate Software Pprograms by providing PM

activities when needed. Project Manager for the Sorftware program

Essential Assets.

Southern Ca. Edison

(1999 - 2008)

Project Manager

> General Rate Case Project - The General Rate Case is a request to the

California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to increase base rates to

cover estimated future costs of doing business. The CPUC's Rate Case

Plan sets for the content, scheduling, and procedural requirements

governing the general rate case application. Managed a team of IT

resources to document testimonies for Capital and Operation and

Maintenance projects and expenses, the development of workpapers, the

integration with other business units, and the answering of Data

Requests from external agencies. Ensured that the timeline driven by the

CPUC was met. Reported to Executive Sponsors, Senior Lawyer's, Vice

Presedent and Chief Information Offercer.

> Enterprise Portfolio Manager - Matrixed Project Manager to manage and

provide leadership/oversight to IT's portfolio of internal initiatives

required to run IT as a business. This role required a detailed

understanding of investment model concepts, annual strategic planning,

asset management strategies, and portfolio management practices.

Directly supported governance boards made up of IT Directors and General

Managers as well as the SCE EPM team. Responsibilities included:

Managing the governance of a large volume of high profile projects and

related communications. Actively supporting the training and development

of a core team of business analysts on the EPM Processes, and ensuring

integration with other various IT teams. Developing and maintaining tools

that support monitoring, tracking, and reporting activities, including

the integration to other data sources and stakeholders as required. Acted

as a communicator and facilitator of change

> Project Manager for the Identity Management Services Build project under

the EASE umbrella. Responsibilities include, ensuring the goals and

objectives are accomplished within schedule, scope and budget. Work with

team to develop work breakdown structure, cost estimates, resources,

detailed schedule, milestones and dates. Identify and manage risk,

change control, issues and actions. Provide weekly performance reports,

stakeholder's status reports. Work with Infrastructure to ensure

hardware/software procurements, upgrades to existing software, High

Availability and Disaster Recovery design and implementation, and all

Infrastructure dependencies are completed timely. Manage team and

contractors and communicate with management. Identity Management

Services Build is budgeted at 5.5 million with a planned completion of

12/30/2006.

> Program Management Office Support Lead for the EAI Process, Framework,

Organization/Establishment Projects, IBUS Migration Project and the 2005

Identity Management (IdM) Project, under the EASE umbrella. Program

Management support responsibilities included: monitoring and tracking

scope, schedule, budget, quality, resources, communication, risk,

procurement, estimation, planning, technical reviews, SQA reviews, Change

Management, project close out, training and mentoring. EAI Process,

Framework and Organization initiated in October 2003 and completed

successfully June 2004. IBUS Migration initiated in October 2003 and

planned completion, June 2006. IBUS Migration consists of five

applications migrating from Vitria 3.x to Vitria 4.x. Total budget for

EAI consisted of 3 million. IdM consisted of 2 million for 2005.

> Program Management Office Manager for PlanView Implementation Program.

Responsibilities for this program included: monitoring and tracking

scope, schedule, budget, quality, resources, communication, risk,

procurement, estimation, planning, technical reviews, SQA reviews, Change

Management, project close out, training, with the additional

responsibilities of OCM and Testing. PlanView program initiated in

December 2003 and closed in June 2004. Budget for the PlanView Program

was 2 million.

> Project Manager for the development of the Program Management and

Division Support Website.

> Systems Analyst on the development of the Skills Resource Pool for ITAS

and IT Infrastructure. Prepared Business Requirements document, Business

Process Flows, System Requirements document, Testing plans and

Communication plans.

> Request Broker for the IT Program Management Office that acted as a

single point of contact for all work requests from all clients, provided

oversight, and aggregate project management support to Applications

Services and IT Infrastructure projects. Performed all of the tasks

associated with logging, assigning accountability, prioritizing,

tracking, and completing requests for service, utilizing a request

management tool built on the Peregrine platform.

Home Savings of America (Now Washington Mutualj)

(1987 To 1999)

Corporate IT Auditor

Audited applications, system development, Project Year 2000 audit

reviews and a LAN Security review. Results of reviews exposed security,

balance and control, data integrity, change management issues and lack of

ownership issues.

Risk Management

Conducted an evaluation of the internal control systems, provided

recommendations to managements for risk mitigation.

Senior Systems Analyst

Project Lead to develop a FileNet Imaging System for the Corporate

Accounting Accounts Payable processing. Duration of project was 18 months

with a budget of 1.2 million.

Project Lead on implementing a Vendor Package Fleet System. Duration

of project was 12 months with a budget of 700K.

Education

COSO - Home Savings of America

Agile Development - Scrum Master Certification

Green Belt - Six Sigman - GE

Project Management Certificate Program - University of California,

Irvine

Testing Information Systems - (Myers & Associates).

Fast Start in System Analysis - (Myers & Associates).

Associate - Business Essentials, Rathmines Collage, Dublin, Ireland.

IS Auditing for Systems Professionals: Making the Transition into

Audit - (MIS Training Institute).

Auditing Automated Business Applications Seminar - (MIS).

Introduction to Internal Controls & Auditing in Today's Technology -

(CPE)).

Vendor Management - (Home Savings of America).

PlanView Manager Training (SCE)

Visual Studio

Office Products

MS Project, Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Publisher)

PlanView, Visio, Lotus Notes, Outlook, SAP, eNPP, Visual Studio, Quick

Books

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