Project Manager Management
Resume:
Debra DiCosimo
Email: abqg6o@r.postjobfree.com
Address: *** ********* ****
City: Southington
State: CT
Zip: 06489
Country: USA
Phone: 860-***-****
Skill Level: Experienced
Salary Range: $50,000
Primary Skills/Experience:
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Educational Background:
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Job History / Details:
Objective
Administrative or project related position for a company that revers integrity, dependability and personal values.
Professional Summary
Combining skills in administrative, legal, IT and Project Management has provided me the opportunity to excel in a number of career opportunities over my career. Coordinated service award banquets for over 300 guests, filed confidential documentation for the SEC and NASDAQ, set up email and telephone accounts for employees, migrated networks, upgraded office routers, managed a software testing lab, selected as Team Lead for desktop hardware and software upgrades, provided support to loan officers, real estate and corporate lawyers, managed projects for auto and home insurance and Sarbanes-Oxley.
Skills
* Professional and confidential * MS Office Products
* Communication skills * Outlook/Notes
* Excellent organization and coordination skills * Sharepoint
* Ability to multi-task
* Ability to manage teams
Work History
Project Manager 05/2009 to 09/2012
Travelers - Hartford, CT
* Control planning and execution of the projects activities and resources to ensure that established cost, time, and quality goals are met.
* Responsible for applying Project Management knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to Project deliverables, processes, and systems in order to meet or exceed stakeholder needs and expectations.
* Coordination with the Department of Insurance requirements for states.
* Operates within defined parameters using a proven Project Management Methodology.
* Manages team development, actively mentors members of the Project Management Organization.
* Primary point of accountability to Business and IT partners for the management and implementation of small to medium sized Projects and/or small Programs that support achievement of simple to moderately complex unit or corporate goals.
* Projects completed successfully: Safe Driver Discount New Car Discount Assigned Risk Multi Variate Rate Changes Multiple Home and Auto conversions from legacy products to current product.
Project Coordinator 05/2006 to 01/2009
Travelers - Hartford, CT
* Promoted to Project Manager) - Travelers Act as both Project Coordinator and Project Manager for various personal insurance business initiatives including: Using a Project Management Methodology, track and manage tasks, coordinate and conduct meetings, resource management, timelines and budget, communication to management, business and IT areas.
* Report and manage issues and risks.
* Projects successfully implemented: Country-wide Home Insurance upgrade - 2 year project involving rate changes and territory restatements.
* Compensation Print Suppression Provide web application training for Managing IS, create training documentation and survey users for needs analysis.
* Attend meetings and prepare presentations as a precursor to deployment of web application.
* Collaborate with IT department on deployment issues and entering project information into web application.
* Create and monitor business project requests.
* Create resource needs spreadsheets.
* Attend status meetings and update project plans.
* Planned and coordinated logistics and materials for board meetings, committee meetings and staff events.
* Created detailed expense reports and requests for capital expenditures.
Consultant 8/2005 to 5/2006
Phoenix Life Insurance - Hartford, CT
* Sox compliance company-wide project:
Coordinated all aspects of project from managing workflow for 4 employees, conducting meetings with business leaders, role creation, deployment timelines, status reports, documenting user rights to applications and network connectivity, deployment scheduling and team status.
Maintain contact with business leaders and other project managers for dependencies and risks. Maintain standards in compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley. Develop new role standards and coordinate the delivery of the application to employee desktops.
Analyst 12/1995 to 1/2005
Phoenix Life Insurance Company - Hartford, CT
* Selected as Senior Team Lead for field deployment of Windows 95 and NetWare 4.11. Gathered user requirements, planned schedules, prepared sites and authored documentation.
* Installed and upgraded user desktops, servers, peripherals and other hardware at various US locations.
* Developed standards for future desktop deployments and negotiated leasing arrangements with vendors to ensure equipment consistency.
* Coordinated 75 field offices and 400 employees by performing fixes and upgrades at site locations. Oversaw field office hardware inventory and standardized equipment for all field offices that considerably improved overall operations. Done by homogenizing equipment that eased troubleshooting and sales efforts.
Systems Analyst 01/1995 to 01/2000
Phoenix Life Insurance - Hartford, CT
* Field Automation.
* Selected as Senior Team Lead for field deployment of Windows 95 and NetWare 4.11.
* Gathered user requirements, planned schedules, prepared sites and authored documentation.
* Installed and upgraded user desktops, servers, peripherals and other hardware at various US locations.
* Developed standards for future desktop deployments and negotiated leasing arrangements with vendors to ensure equipment consistency.
* Coordinated 75 field offices and 400 employees by performing fixes and upgrades at site locations.
* Oversaw field office hardware inventory and standardized equipment for all field offices that considerably improved overall operations.
* Done by homogenizing equipment that eased troubleshooting and sales efforts.
Associate PM/Project Coordinator
* Roles Based Access Control) Project involving 1500 employees.
* Coordinated all aspects of project from managing workflow for 4 employees, conducting meetings with business leaders, role creation, deployment timelines, status reports, documenting user rights to applications and network connectivity, deployment scheduling and team status.
* Maintain contact with business leaders and other project managers for dependencies and risks.
* Maintain standards in compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley.
* Develop new role standards and coordinate the delivery of the application to employee desktops.
Lab Manager/Analyst
* Field application QA testing.
* Manage computer lab environment simulating company field office and supervise consultants.
* Act as Deployment Coordinator for company-wide Windows XP deployment and serve as contact person for 40 departmental Desktop Business Coordinators (DBCs).
* Gather user requirements and application information on 2000 employees.
* Provide support for laboratory hardware and maintain deployment data spreadsheets for information sharing with key IT areas.
* Schedule deployment dates and desktop technicians for implementation.
* Schedule user hardware upgrades and assist in resolution and follow-up of user issues following deployments.
* Successfully led operating system upgrade and hardware replacement for 75 field offices.
* Performed above-and-beyond services by upgrading connectivity that enabled increased bandwidth and prevented future network problems, leading to recognition with a $6,000 bonus.
* Skillfully coordinated multiple field office deployments.
Education
Associate Degree: Legal Option
May 1985 Tunxis Community/Technical College - Farmington, CT
Fundamentals of Project Management and Principles of Project Management- Company sponsored
2003 to 2006 Travelers - Hartford, CT
Fundamentals of Project Management - Villanova on-line
2002
Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Windows XP
2002 - Phoenix - company sponsored
Workstation Management with Z.E.N Works
1999 - IKON Systems
Novell Netware 4.1 Administration, Advanced Administration, Installation and Configuration
1997 - Connecticut Systems Incorporated
Certified Paralegal - National Academy for Paralegal Studies Paralegal
1990 National Academy for Paralegal Studies - West Hartford, CT
Licensed Hairdresser and Certified Esthetician
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