Project Management

Summary of Qualifications

Superior process improvement and project management professional with an

extensive background in software development in addition to the following

broad-based proficiencies:

Agile methodology

Process Management

process documentation

Software Quality Assurance

Software Development

Project metrics

process improvement

. Six Sigma White Belt Certified

. Certified Project Management Professional (PMP).

. Certified Agile Scrum Master.

. Trained all project managers (PM) on the ERP Oracle PeopleSoft Resource

Management system in the area of budget and forecasting of resources.

Tracking and reporting of labor costs by project also provided to the

PM in each solution line.

. Demonstrated ability to be familiar with requirements needed to put in

place process improvements and work with a team to achieve Software

Engineering Institute (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM) Level II

and Level III certification for an organization.

. Successfully lead business analysts in the purchasing area for Xpedx,

a subsidiary of International Paper implementing new distribution and

order management system across multiple site locations throughout the

US.

. Systems Analyst for the General Motors Time Keeping System.

. Subject Matter Expert for complex centralized and decentralized on-line

information systems for General Motors / Delphi Automotive.

. Well organized, with the ability to coordinate efforts of diverse teams

to achieve goals.

. Web development work.

Professional Experience

LEXISNEXIS- Miamisburg, Ohio 2004 - Present

Senior Process Engineer, Global Solutions Development (GSD)

Global Portfolio and Planning

Support representative for the GSD project managers on project management

methodologies, and web base applications.

. Successfully lead the LexisNexis Global Solution Development (GSD)

SharePoint site implementation.

. Successfully lead the transition of the Practice Management Solution

line into the GSD tools and project methodologies framework.

. Lead and continue to support the Elsevier Science & Technology

Technical Service team through the Function Point Analysis process,

facilitating the creation of boundary diagrams and application

general system characteristics in conjunction with the offshore

vendor sizing and estimating requirements.

. System Release Management Committee member for the Global Portfolio

& Planning Team.

. Committee member on the GSD Testing Info Share monthly meetings.

. Ensures that projects meet established and approved performance

targets as specified in the project charter through the tracking of

project metrics: Time to Market (velocity), Quality, Productivity

and Schedule Predictability.

. Lead the implementation of Borland's Caliber Requirement Management

tool.

. Lead the implementation of Mercury Quality Center's interface to

Caliber Requirement Management tool.

. Lead the recommendation team to identify a requirements management

tool for waterfall projects.

. Lead process improvement review committee with representation from

all solution lines.

. Provides agile methodology training and support for the Global

Solutions Development projects.

. Worked with team to implement Hyperion Financial Management system.

. Successfully lead, developed and implemented the Project Quality

Review process for the GSD organization. And provided quarterly

metrics reporting to the leadership team.

. Provide training, training documentation, project management skills

/ tasks.

. Successfully lead the project quality review implementation process

across the organization.

. Supports the PeopleSoft Time and Labor System.

. Supports the PeopleSoft Resource Management System.

. Provide metrics reporting using Function Point Count (IFPUG

standards).

. Lead the implementation of the Sarbanes Oxley IT requirements for

GSD projects.

. Training of project managers on the internal project management

tools.

. Maintaining the Project website documentation.

. Provides advice and guidance to Project Managers in the project

management process.

. Cross training of functional areas: product management, project

management, development, testing and data center network services.

Electronic Data System (EDS) - Dayton, Ohio 1985 - 2004

Information Specialist, South Central Ohio Solution Centre

Business Analyst

Xpedx Corp. - International Paper - Business Analyst

I was the purchasing functional area lead for the implementation of MAX

(eMployees Achieving eXcellence), a distribution and order management

system, based on AS400.

. Lead the project management activities throughout the lifecycle of the

multi site implementation.

. Provided training, training documentation, project management skills /

tasks.

. Successfully lead the Mid American Region (13 sites) and the Florida

/Southern Sites (14 sites) MAX system implementation.

. Training of purchasing staff on the application, preparing power

point presentations and excel spreadsheets.

. Creation of documentation.

. Maintained the project plan for purchasing functional area.

. Setup of items, vendors, buyer codes, security for the staff.

. Cross training of functional areas: Customer Support, Accounts

Payables (SAP module), and accounts receivables.

Software Development

I was part of the Software SAP conversion / implementation team. We

converted from the Manufacturing Production Inventory system (PSIC)

to SAP. Providing, data base requirements, testing and user

interface reviews with the General Motors Delphi Plant. The Delphi

plant along with the other GM plants converted to this common

application.

Software support personnel for the General Motors Time Keeping System

(Hourly and Salary applications). I provided production support (24 hours

/ 7 days a week) to all General Motors and Delphi Automotive plants. The

application is a CICS/ COBOL online, DB2 databases and batch common

corporate time and attendance system.

. Support of the Time Keeping System

. Software project management of application enhancements, responsible

for all software lifecycle phases (requirements, functional

specifications, produce, unit and system testing, user acceptance

testing, implementation).

. Developed new COBOL programs and maintains current application

programs.

. Maintain JCL.

. Customer Support, coordinating needs from the help desk calls.

. System is now used at over all General Motors and Delphi Automotive

plants in USA and Canada.

. System was used as a basis for the GM Salary system (overtime needs)

and was implemented in the late 1990's.

Project Management / Process Management

I am a team member of the software process improvement organization to

develop project management skills and to understand the many development

areas of the solution centre. Duties include software quality auditor,

scheduling of audits for all active projects, providing status to senior

leadership, facilitating team meetings. Representative and co-facilitate

the QA Network meetings, which includes quality assurance personnel in

North and South America, and Canada.

. Successfully lead the Software Quality Assurance Team, providing

project management skills and meeting the quarterly audit requirements

of the organization.

. Instrumental in assisting the process improvement team to achieving

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM)

level II and level III for the organization.

. Trained organization on software development processes and project

management processes.

. Developed training manual for the organization to implement the key

process areas of the SEI CMM.

. Software Quality Assurance subject matter expert

. CMM subject matter expert

. Company success in SEI CMM certification lead to more software

development for the center.

WEB Development

I led the intranet WEB page development and implementation project

for the solution centre, using HTML and project management skills to

complete this internal project. Requirements gathering were

conducted with internal management team. I worked with the

engineering team, which supplied me, information from their UNIX

base applications.

Software Development

Software support personnel for the General Motors automotive component

division's accounts payable system and purchasing system.

. Providing production support to all General Motors Automotive plants.

The application is an IMS/ COBOL online, and batch.

. Lead the conversion of data from mainframe application to PC

application.

. Selected to participate on the Physical Inventory System and Control

(PSIC) application team to review and recommend the replacement system

for the GM manufacturing plants. This complex application was the bill

of material system for all United States and Canadian locations.

. Identified requirements

. Selected to implement the common corporate payables system and shared

extensive knowledge of the current application, which would be replaced

with the common system for all United State and Canadian locations.

. Consultant and business analysis skills required to ensure transition

from current application to the new application

. Co- project managed consolidation to the common system.

. Developed new COBOL programs and enhanced current application programs.

. Customer Support, establishing and coordinating needs from the help

desk calls.

NCR Corporation - Dayton, Ohio 1980 - 1985

Systems Analyst

Charged to implement and support ATMs and Bank Authorization systems.

Initial responsibilities included implementation of the Dayton based

automated teller machine network, Green Machine Network. Later responsible

for all phases of software lifecycle including design, development,

documentation, installation, training and support for major Electronic

Funds Transfer (EFT) switches.

The systems supported over 1,500 ATMs in Washington, D.C. area and

throughout Florida. The application and system was located in the Data

Center at NCR World Headquarters building. EDI ANSI x12 interface support

and troubleshooting was also done between the Data Center and Bank

interface.

Education and Professional Development

Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI

BBA - Bachelor of Business Administration degree

1980

Major: Operations Research Information Systems

LEXISNEXIS Continuing Education Program

Dayton, Ohio

. Six Sigma White Belt Certified

. PMP MBA - crash course on financial analysis

. PMP Certified

. Class on Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set

of concepts and practices for Information Technology Services

Management (ITSM), Information Technology (IT) development and IT

operations.

. Agile Scrum Master Certification

. Function Point Counting course

. PMI training courses

. Borland's Caliber Requirements Management tool

. Oracle PeopleSoft Resource Management tool training (Enterprise

Resource Planning)

. ScrumWorks tool

EDS Continuing Education Program Dayton, Ohio

. Trained in HTML, Java, Oracle SQL, JAVA Script, Visual Basic

. Developing project schedules and organizational skills

. DOS/MS Windows and MS Access/Excel/ Mail/Office/Outlook

. Desktop support, Help Desk, and software support

. MS Windows 2001 XP/Windows NT Workstation, MS Excel, MS Power Point, MS

Project and MS Word

. Project management, project planning, project scope, scope management,

systems life cycle

. Lotus Notes

. Requirements definition, and requirements development

. Defect Collection (Metrics)

. Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) - Just-in-Time

course study Manufacturing

. EDI ANSI x12 standards

Community Service

Dayton,

Ohio

. Active Wegerzyn Gardens -Five Metro Parks Volunteer

. Active volunteer for the Miami Valley Literacy Council's tutoring

program.

. Volunteer for the St. Vincent's breakfast meals through local youth

program

. Past Board Member of the Dayton Software Process Improvement Network

(SPIN)

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