Project Manager

SAMUEL R. SHEFF

**** ********* ***** • Fairburn, GA 30213 • 919-***-**** mobile • ***********@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Highly qualified, self-starter with 10 years experience in project management and engagement management

based on strong organizational skills and client relationship management. Demonstrated ability to partner

with multiple position levels throughout an organization to optimize cost benefits, maximize efficiency,

streamline the organizational infrastructure, and provide cohesion. Areas of effectiveness:

Engagement/Project Management Manager Resource Management

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Project Kick-offs/Conference Director Vendor/Third Party Management

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Project Portfolio Dashboard Management Virtual Offshore Management

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CAREER ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Headed up the development/reorganization of Project Management Offices (PMO) for internal and

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external domestic and global clients.

Selected by Accenture Senior Management to take over and revitalize a global offshore project from a

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competing consulting firm. The goal was to get the project back on track, within scope, and to manage

project team accountability minimizing implementation obstacles.

Awarded American Express Recognition by Accenture Senior Management for achieving successful

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results and high client ratings for Accenture Fast Track Conferences ™.

Directed the launch of Cerner’s Project Methodology: Method M PMO, which lowers the total cost of

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ownership by reducing project variance, increasing efficiency, and optimizing resource usage.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SYNGERY TECH CONSULTING, Atlanta, GA 2008 – 2009

Manager Project Management Office Manager Lab Systems

Responsible for ensuring smooth and efficient operation of the project management office (PMO) while

coordinating, communicating closely with various areas of client organizations on a global and domestic

basis while maintaining successful client relationships within sales, operations and technology services

throughout the project lifecycle.

• Directs the daily activities of the Project Management Office (PMO) staff ensuring that work is

performed according to industry best practices and standards.

• Serves as the central and primary point of contact for all solution and process improvement projects.

• Oversee the preparation of project reports, presentations, documentation to meet contractual and

project requirements.

• Development and maintenance of strong working relationships with project personnel at client sites

and acting as a liaison to client and 3rd party vendors to efficiently resolve issues and problems.

• Manage all client communications including scheduling and management of Executive Governance

meetings and engagement status reporting.

• Work in partnership with project sponsors, stakeholders and various project members to ensure that

specified business needs are met; assists in the post-implementation analysis to ensure that

requirements are fulfilled.

• Drive and monitor the completion project deliverables to keep projects aligned with the project

timelines and scopes.

• Collaborates with stakeholders/clients within a Matrix environment throughout the full life cycles of

projects.

SAMUEL R. SHEFF

7651 Waterlace Drive • Fairburn, GA 30213 • 919-***-**** mobile • ***********@*****.***

ACCENTURE, Atlanta, GA 2007 – 2008

Manager Project Manager PMO Pharma LIMS Solutions

Accelerated Solution Design Director Cerner Lab

Managed large-scale client engagements encompassing complex programs/projects that interface processes

with technology by managing client relationships and project engagements while ensuring successful

delivery of functional industry solutions and methodologies.

Recruited to be Accelerated Design Director responsible for organizing and directing Accenture Fast

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Track Conferences™, which is a workshop used as an orientation to techniques involving large numbers

of executive client stakeholders across multiple facilities to assess and determine complex business

requirement definitions and processes.

Mediated weekly or biweekly status meetings with steering committee, project teams, stakeholders, and

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senior management to update project plans, deliverables, outstanding issues, risks, and to review project

budget, timeline management, scope creep, and vendor/third party project deliverables.

Represented North America in Global Project Management; helped develop and support global

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methodologies and plans while participating in the global direction and promotion of North America

needs to the project forums.

CERNER CORPORATION, Kansas City, MO 2005 – 2007

Engagement Manager/Solution Consultant PathNet Lab Systems

Delivered project management deliverables and milestones for multiple clients within the Southeast and

Midwest regions to maintain successful client relationships, while ensuring accurate and timely completion

of SDLC projects that support strategic missions and objectives for clients.

Partnered with executive management in a proactive manner during project engagements to ensure that

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client satisfaction level was kept high throughout the lifecycle of projects by reporting key milestones

and critical issues to PMO and Chief level executives.

Managed the delivery of solutions to clients; accountable for resource management, scope and budget

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management for assigned project engagements.

Facilitated and managed steering committee meetings between client executive project members and

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Cerner project team members with updates of tasks, deliverables, issue management resolutions and

updated projects plans.

GLAXOSMITHKLINE, Research Triangle Park, NC 1999 – 2004

Project Manager Laboratory Information System (LIMS)/Robotics

Managed internal and external third party project teams during the implementation of a global laboratory

information management systems and process-redesign implementation projects.

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Accenture Program and Project Management 2007

Bachelors of Science, Biology

North Carolina Agriculture and Technical State University, Greensboro, NC

COMPUTER & TECHNICAL SKILLS

Microsoft Office Suite XP (SharePoint, Project, Visio, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word)

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Industry Package Laboratory Solutions: PathNet, Labware, Siemens, Bioinformatics solutions

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Proprietary Data Management Systems and Architecture Development

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