Senior Project Manager
Resume:
Patricia Ampaw
Executive IT Consultant
Senior Project Manager Information/Solution Architect Business Analyst Quality Assurance Manager
Ms Varieur is an accomplished information systems professional with 18+ years of progressive experience and proven record of significant, successful contribution across various disciplines; implementing processes, standards, and systems in a wide range of organizations that previously had no standards or programs in place. Ms. Varieur is also serves as a council member of the Gerson Lehrman Group as an expert consultant to the IT industry and is a member of the National Association of Professional Women.
employment history
uDig, 7/2014 - Present
Senior Consultant / Project Manager @ FICO
Primatics Financial, 8/2014 - 7/2015
Systems Implementation Lead/Project Manager
BIS Global CharityEngine, 2/2014 - 7/2015
Director of Client Services & Implementations
NavigationArts, 2/2011 - 2/2014
Quality Assurance Architect
FGM, Inc, 12/2010 - 2/2011
Business Analyst/ Quality Assurance Manager
SRA International, Inc, 1/2008 - 12/2010
SAP Test Manager
United States Dept of Agriculture
Lockheed Martin (sub via Mailsail, LLC), 1/2005 - 1/2008
Lead Information Architect
Dept of Homeland Security, CBP/ACE Project
notable accomplishments
Drove overall Information Architecture / Structure in alignment with development environments, including SAP CRM, JAVA and JavaSwing for Customs and Border Protection Modernization Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Project.
Provided overall application direction and UI strategy to Systems Engineering, Senior Management and Client.
Proactively established SDLC processes for onboarding new clients in an enterprise, cloud-based, SaaS solution for non-profit organizations and agencies, leading to the successful migration and onboarding of 23 new clients; increasing client-base by over 650% in 18 months.
Successfully lead Agile Sprint planning and grooming sessions, daily SCRUM standup meetings; coordinating efforts of multi-functional onshore/offshore teams
Lead the initiative to transition from waterfall to modified Agile development methodology in order to increase productivity and shorten project delivery times.
Spearheaded Project Management policies throughout the Client Services organization, significantly increasing productivity and efficiency of resources by over 300%
Designed and implemented from the ground up, organization-wide, structured QA-testing process, including Unit, Integration, User Acceptance and Performance; and SDLC methodology across six major business units, applications of which touched every aspect of organization.
Defined overall testing strategies for multiple clients, including tools recommendations, documentation, sign-off, meeting entry and exit criteria throughout all testing cycles.
Worked cross functionally with PMO to define approach for meeting project goals and milestones, defining and overseeing threaded development approach used throughout the project lifecycle, to effectively lead team to successful Critical Design Reviews, while overcoming schedule and resource challenges.
areas of expertise
Project Management
Agile & Waterfall Methodologies/Tools
Software Implementations
Client Relationship Mgmt
Business Process Engineering
Departmental Planning & Mgmt
Project Management
Quality Assurance Management
Information Architecture
education and training
MWCC Corporate Training Center
2000 - Active Server Pages, Creative Data
Mount Wachusett Community College
2000 - Psychology
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pvarieur
focus
Project Management
Client Management
Software Implementation
Resource Management
Change Management
Risk Management
Quality Management
Solution Analyst
Data Migration
Information Architecture
Business Process Mgmt
Departmental Planning
tools
Agile Management Tools
Atlassian JIRA
Team Foundation Server
Rally
Information Architecture Tools
HTML, CSS & JavaScript
Knowledge Management Tools
Confluence
Sharepoint
Quality Assurance Tools
Quality Center ALM
Bugzilla
Remedy
Project Management Tools
MS Office Suite
Zoho Project
OpenAir
Basecamp
VISIO
Outlook
CMS & CRM Tools
Sitecore CMS
Drupal CMS
CharityEngine
Salesforce
Blackbaud
RaisersEdge
Database
SQL Server
FinTech
EVOLV
clients
PNC Bank
Bank of New York Mellon
Capital One Financial
Wounded Warrior Project
Toys for Tots
OCNA
BrightFocus Foundation
Ernst & Young, LLP
Marriott International
Progressive Software
AARP
HeathSouth
Strayer University
Time Warner Cable
US Dept of Agriculture
Dept Homeland Security
publications
LEAN on Quality Assurance
Preventative Medicine for Software Development
A Look at Healthcare.gov from the Quality Assurance Viewpoint
Scaling Back Scope Creep
Defining Quality in Software Development
References
Mr. Steve Titus
CTO BIS GLobal. Inc
*****.*****@*********.***
Mr. Austin Sincock
Hiring Mgr @ ACE & SRA
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Mr. Ted Smith
Former COO @ NavigationArts
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Mr. John Bales
Former Co-worker @ ACE
& NavigationArts
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