Management Project

Elon Browne

Email: *********@********.***

Address: **** ******** *****

City: Carol Stream

State: IL

Zip: 60188

Country: USA

Phone: 630-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $120,000

Willing to Relocate

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ELON B. BROWNE, MBA, MS MIS, PMP

* Carol Stream IL 60188 * 630-***-**** * *********@********.***

SENIOR IT LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT

Business savvy, vision-driven senior IT leader with strong experience in leading and managing IT resources, program and project management, IT strategy, relationship management, system development, business-IT alignment and IT service & governance improvement initiatives to support enterprise objectives. Outstanding achievements at Fortune 100 companies (e.g. Microsoft (full-time), Motorola(full-time)) to deliver significant cost saving solutions. Exceptional communication skills with a passion for developing influential business-IT partnerships to deliver comprehensive results.

CORE COMPETENCIES

* IT Governance and Strategic IT-Business Alignment

* Full Systems Development Life Cycle Management

* IT Program, Portfolio and Project Management

* IT Relationship Management (Multiple Customers)

* Budget Development and IT Resource Management

* Data Warehouse, BI, and ERP Systems Management

* Application and Database Design and Development

* Vendor Evaluation and Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

LARGE COMMERCIAL BANK (+$18 billion revenue - CONFIDENTIAL - Will provide on request), IL (Full-time employee) 2012 - PRESENT

VP, IT Project Tech Lead (Project Management - Application Development)

Provide project management leadership for a portfolio of projects, including the development of a new mobile application that leverages both internal (from nine cross functional groups) and external (vendor) development resources. Use bank`s project management methodology and tools based on the PMBOK model and agile type approach to support design.

* Partner with the business, internal IT teams and vendors to lead the development of a mobile application. Engaged with architect/development teams and used agile type design sprints to support technical designs.

* Created multiple concurrent project budgets of over +$10 million and presented to senior executives for approval.

* Execute project management activities (project scheduling (MS Project), issues/risk management, etc.) and lead cross group teams of approximately 129 (including offshore & SME resources) on major 6 and 9 month projects.

* Complete various project metrics, perform related metric analysis (e.g. delivery time, estimate at completion (EAC), etc.) and status reports to report on project performance to executive leadership and cross-group teams.

IT PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS & ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITIES 2010-2011

* Obtained additional training (day classes) and certifications - PMP (PMI), ITIL V3 and Six Sigma Green Belt.

* Conducted research into creating an IT consulting company. Opted not to initiate.

MADDEN COMMUNICATIONS, INC. Wood Dale, IL (Full-time employee) 2008 - 2009

IT Director (Project Management, IT Governance, Application Development, Infrastructure Support/Operations)

Directed corporate IT department and managed IT staff, governance activities, including portfolio management (PMO), vendor management, application development and infrastructure (SAP, Oracle, servers, networks, etc.).

* Initiated company-wide SWOT/Balanced Scorecard analysis (interviewed senior leaders including CEO, VPs, etc.) to understand critical success factors and KPIs and restructured IT department, hired resources and created new staff performance objectives that significantly increased IT efficiencies and business-IT alignment.

* Created preliminary IT roadmap and elevated project management maturity and system development (.NET) process activities (in accordance with PMBOK and CMMI best practices) increasing customer satisfaction.

* Directed project team in the analysis of critical customer (including Sales) requirements and the rapid evaluation of competing portal solutions to successfully establish a company-wide portal and business intelligence (BI) solution based on Microsoft SharePoint and Reporting Services technologies (SOA related).

* Coached and spearheaded team in the development of business requirements and functional design of product sales web application. Project`s design proposal helped Madden to win large new customer sales contract.

* Provided IT audit oversight leading to successful audit (external auditors) of Madden`s IT environment, including company-wide system security and SAP ERP system (FICO/SRM) functionality/production controls.

MOTOROLA, INC., Arlington Heights, IL (Full-time employee) 2006 - 2007

Senior IT Account Relationship Manager, Integrated Supply Chain (ISC), Finance and Procurement

Developed strategies, proposals, budgets and performed program management. Managed large teams (including outsourced resources) and worked with the PMO to establish governance practices in aligned with ITIL and CMMI.

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* Produced a $50M benefit to supply chain team by directing the project management activities across the full system development life-cycle for a product cost and bill of materials reporting web application.

* Surmounted significant cross-group change management differences and directed project teams to update purchase order terms in Oracle ERP systems for 10 international regions across five business groups. Saved hundreds of millions of dollars in legal risk exposure to suppliers.

* Directed cross-company team activities leading to automated transfer and reporting of direct material spend data and metadata from acquired company`s SAP system to Motorola`s Cost Management System.

* Orchestrated global change management initiative that synchronized all Oracle ERP payment terms with central financial payment system. $700M impact to cash conversion cycle.

TD BANKNORTH, Portland, ME (Full-time employee) 2005 - 2006

AVP, Information Technology Relationship Manager, Finance / Administration

Managed prioritization and scope of portfolio of IT projects for business groups (Finance, Accounting, HR and Legal). Executed governance activities and facilitated the formal creation of service level agreements for technology services. Engaged in IT planning and supervised staff of project managers and system analysts (PMO).

* Partnered with senior IT and business leaders (CIO, CFO, VPs, etc.) and created an IT relationship management plan with strategies that improved IT`s value and bank`s Capability Maturity Model level (CMM).

* Managed an IT team that successfully evaluated several vendor products/contracts using a weighting system to support the selection, procurement and implementation of the bank`s outsourced 401K and travel systems.

* Management oversight for project management/procurement activities leading to timely implementation and release of bank`s outsourced time tracking system. Reduced HR administrative cost by 55%.

* Achieved full Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance for all externally audited Finance and HR systems. Provided oversight for the execution and documentation of effective IT system controls.

* Coached project managers and established methodologies leading to efficiencies in planning and execution.

MICROSOFT CORPORATION, Redmond, WA (Full-time employee) 2000 - 2005

Senior Program Manager

Managed direct reports (program/project managers and systems analysts) and matrix resources (including offshore resources) to lead technology solutions for internal business groups. Utilized different program/project management methodologies (including Agile / Iterative approach) to complete .NET web applications (data warehouse/ business intelligence (BI)/ ERP). Led IT governance, requirement management, functional design specifications, etc.

* Saved Microsoft $100M annually and slashed processing time from 6+ hours to 10 minutes by successfully leading a team (full SDLC) to re-engineer and deploy a new Excise sales transaction .NET web application. Created functional design based on data warehouse ERP system and used Six Sigma methodologies.

* Provided leadership across the full system development lifecycle and created functional specifications for a SQL Server Analysis Services business intelligence (BI) application that audited the data quality of Microsoft`s financial reports based on data in an ERP system (based on Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

* Awarded the highest customer satisfaction scores for outstanding performance and IT leadership in directing internal application development initiatives and championing change management in the Tax and Audit group.

* Spearheaded program management tasks and deliverables and coached resources to ensure quality results in software delivery. Activities achieved a 60% increase in the release of data warehouse applications.

* Completed budget ($5.5M) and provided re-architecture design oversight that increased data integrity of Microsoft`s HR data by establishing a data warehouse connected to SAP payroll, accounting systems, etc.

* Managed the successful delivery of several internally developed applications for different business groups. Projects included: SharePoint portal implementation; asset tracking re-architecture (6 day to 7 hour improvement); time tracking web application implementation; SQL Server 2000 upgrade, etc.

Previous Work Experience (Banking): Project Manager - Programmer-Analyst (Banking systems, Ingres 4GL, Object-Oriented)

EDUCATION / CERTIFICATIONS

MBA (Honors) ~ University of Pittsburgh, PA - Full time student.

MS, Management of Information Systems (Honors) ~ University of Pittsburgh, PA - Full time student.

BS, Information Systems Management (Magna Cum Laude, Dean's List) ~ State University of New York, College at Buffalo, NY. Internship completed at Deloitte. - Full time student.

Certifications/Training (not a complete list): PMP, ITIL, Six Sigma Green Belt, CMMI, COBIT, MS Project, .NET

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