CATHY BIELSKIS, PMP, MBA

Tel. 858-***-**** E-mail: abnk7b@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Driven, highly-professional senior project manager with deep experience managing complex, mission-critical projects

for Fortune 500 and financial services companies. Exceptionally strong in managing client relationships and managing

multiple concurrent projects under very tight deadlines.

EDUCATION

THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, Washington, D.C.

• M.B.A., Management of Global Information Technology 1999

• B.S.B.A. (Cum Laude), Finance 1995

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ICW GROUP, Information Technology, San Diego CA 2009

The ICW Group was named one of Ward Group’s Top 50 US Performing Insurance Companies for 2009

Senior Project Manager

• Manage a $1.6M multi-phase project for the company’s Earthquake and Flood insurance Web application.

• Coordinate agile development efforts as well as testing activities between the company’s outside vendor and its

internal IT department.

• Communicate project progress/status and manage expectations with the business community as well as senior

level management (Steering Committee).

LPL FINANCIAL, Application Development, San Diego, CA 2007-2009

LPL Financial is one of the nation's leading financial services companies and the largest independent broker/dealer

supporting more than 12,000 financial advisors nationwide

Senior Project Manager

• Web / Security

Managed a 12 month / $1.8M program to implement digital certificates throughout LPL’s entire web platform. The

project impacted more than 19,000 internal and external users.

• Data Conversion / Reporting

Managed conversion of 8 vendors’ variable annuity data through multiple interfaces to be consumed by LPL’s

sophisticated Portfolio Management reporting application. Project included development & deployment of updates

to internal Operations applications to enable them to process and display the new data.

• Team Management / Requirements Management

Managed a team of seasoned project resources across multiple technical groups. Led status meetings with internal

and external entities. Developed and managed project timelines, milestone progress and critical path. Managed

Business and System Analysts to gather and validate requirements. Developed effective relationships with technical

and operations teams to ensure efficient and successful project execution.

FIRST AMERICAN, Enterprise Technology Group, Poway, CA 2000-2007

Lead Project Manager

Lead project manager for the this Fortune 500 company largest customer

CATHY BIELSKIS, PMP

Tel. 858-***-**** E-mail: abnk7b@r.postjobfree.com

• Managed wide variety of projects from ground-up software development, enhancements, packaged, complex multi-

vendor XML integrations, application migrations, and infrastructure upgrades.

• The platform supported the leading mortgage lender in the nation with transaction volumes of over 2.6M annually

and a net profit of more than $50M. Large-scale projects included multi-organizational participation with budgets

ranging from $100K to over $1M. Provided high levels of internal and external client interaction in support of

delivery service, requirements definition, relationship building and status reporting.

• Key participant in the establishment of a Project Management Office. Power user in the implementation of

Microsoft Enterprise Project Server and the refined PMP methodologies.

• Contributed to the establishment of a client-centric release management process to increase system stability and

flexibility.

• Implemented and managed a Change Control Board process for review of new projects and system enhancements.

Application Support Project Manager

• Managed enhancements relating to multiple websites and a PowerBuilder/Visual Basic application . Responsibilities

included: gathering business requirements, managing all project tasks from analysis through deployment, including

rollout preparations and communication to stakeholders, managing client expectations and changes to timelines

and requirements.

• Managed production issues for a platform that opened an average of 250 tickets a month and had a ticket closeout

rate of 96%. Responsibilities included: research and analysis of production issues, assignment of issues to a team

of six developers and two database administrators as well as setting priorities for the Quality Assurance engineers.

• Managed expectations via weekly meetings, issue tracking via helpdesk website, issues log, and ClearQuest, a

Rational Unified Process (RUP) ticketing system.

• Managed the reporting team responsible for the delivery of scheduled and ad-hoc client and vendor reports.

THE WORLD BANK, ISGIM, Washington, D.C. 1995-1999

Information Assistant

• Managed product development, system implementation, and software development and customization projects.

Responsible for business requirements gathering, data collection and conversion, testing and evaluation. Projects

included development and customization of imaging services (IRIS) and a correspondence routing and tracking

Lotus Notes database (EnCorr).

• Monitored functional testing of product before delivery to customer by reviewing test plans/strategies produced by

quality assurance activities to ensure compliance with specification and quality end results.

• Provided client support and analysis of user requirements for system upgrades and customization, and

enhancement of information flow and productivity in targeted units.

• Conducted junior staff and end-user training in information storage and retrieval, IRIS and EnCorr.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

• Certified Project Management Professional, Project Management Institute

• Process Based Project Management, Project Management Institute

• Optimizing Microsoft Project for EVM, Dekker Ltd.

• Rational Unified Process (RUP) Training

• Microsoft Enterprise Project Server Training

LANGUAGES & COMPUTER SKILLS

• French native – Fluent in oral and written communication; proficient in English.

• Windows 2000 & XP; MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Project); MS Project Server and Sharepoint;

SQL Analyzer; Visio; Netscape Navigator & Explorer; ClearCase; ClearQuest; Lotus Notes; StarTeam; QualityCenter;

Rational Unified Process (RUP) and PMI project methodologies.

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