Project Coordinator

Caroline Ajel

Rahway, NJ *****

908-***-**** • ********.****@*****.*** • LinkedIn

Professional Summary

Technology Professional seeking a position within a Business Unit that requires the ability to handle multiple priorities across multiple projects in an organized and efficient manner

Areas of Expertise

Broad knowledge and success in application development, which includes requirements gathering/assessment, technical analysis/design, technical and non-technical documentation and full systems development life cycle (SDLC) project coordination

Outstanding interpersonal and communication strengths leveraged to train users, troubleshoot system issues, and ensure total client satisfaction

Experience using various tools for document sharing, requirement and defect management such as Quality Center (ALM), Team Foundation Server (TFS), and SharePoint

Key Achievements

Successfully conducted presentations for key project stakeholders resulting in overwhelmingly positive unsolicited feedback

Trained and mentored new developers, growing associates’ understanding and building greater employee engagement with company goals, norms and practices

Spearheaded development and implementation of desktop user experiences, internal tools and related infrastructures, saving time and costs, and boosting overall performance.

Managed projects that involved PCI and SOX Compliance regulations

Technical Proficiencies

Platforms:

Windows, Windows Server, Linux, AS400

Tools:

SQL Server, MS Access, ODBC, Relational Databases, ALM, SDLC, UML, XML, Microsoft Office Suite, MS Project, MS SharePoint, Team Foundation Server, C++, C#, Visual Studio Development, OOA&D

Professional Experience

Source4Teachers, – Cherry Hill, NJ (10/2017-Present)

Substitute Paraprofessional / Teacher

Assist in classrooms in Middlesex and Union County NJ

Rahway Food for Friends, Rahway, NJ (11/2016 – Present)

Acting President Board of Directors (1/2017 – 4/2017)

Organize and run Board Meetings, Fundraising Events

Oversee all grants to be written and submitted

Elicit organization needs from volunteers as well as beneficiaries

Leverage professional expertise to design and maintain organization’s website through creative and unique image editing and content creation

DeVry University, North Brunswick, NJ (1/2015 – 11/2016)

Student – Bachelor of Science, Technical Management

Hands on Project Management requiring students from all programs to come together on teams to come up with a project and manage all aspects of the project

Senior project technical team member handling the upgrade of our client’s current website, documentation of all changes made and training of client on the new hosting program.

United Parcel Service, Inc., Paramus, NJ (8/1998 – 4/2016)

Project Coordinator Responsibilities

Coordination of high profile projects that included setting project schedules for the whole systems development lifecycle using MS Project.

Business requirement and functional design document translation to technical design using traceability matrix and use cases

Risk and gap analysis dealing with upstream and downstream systems timelines

Conduct weekly status meetings with all project stakeholders

Business Analysis Responsibilities

Feasibility analysis of sponsor requirements for enterprise release application

Worked closely with various stakeholder groups to gather and elicit requirements.

Provided requirement walkthroughs to QA, Development, and business users

Conducted JAD sessions for requirement review and approval.

Translated Business Requirements into Functional & Technical Requirements.

Created and maintained Use Case documents for various system functions.

Maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix to highlight relations between requirements and provide snapshot of requirement status.

Created process flows to outline system processes. Used Visio for process flows.

Intermediate Applications Developer

Application development on a Windows environment using MS Visual Studio

Work with quality assurance and end users for system, product, user and beta testing

Support application pre and post deployment with internal and off-shore support team

Worked on legacy systems conversion from C++ to .NET and C#. Used Visual Studio for code modification on Client and Server portions of application

Created databases and user access in SQL Server

Created database schemas in MS Access and facilitated SQL Server database schema design.

Wrote stored procedures in SQL Server using Triggers.

IHS, Inc., Woodbridge, NJ (1996 – 1998)

Consultant – Bellcore, Piscataway, NJ

Tier 1 Help Desk

Supervised team of 3

Managed team meetings

Tier 1 Internal support for Domestic 1 (800) lines

Education and Training

DeVry University, North Brunswick, NJ

Bachelor of Science, Business Technical Management

DeVry University, North Brunswick, NJ

Associate of Applied Science, Computer Information Systems

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