Jean Braun, PMP

**** ****** **** 651-***-****

Eagan, MN 55122 ac3uin@r.postjobfree.com

Senior IT Project Manager

Experienced project / program manager offering 15+ years of experience successfully leading all phases of diverse technology projects; PMP, MBA, DB2 credentials.

Experienced in waterfall and agile project management methodologies. Able to manage large teams, direct the transition from waterfall to agile methodologies.

Demonstrated skills to lead and facilitate system integration projects

Excellent communicator across all levels of management with the ability to discuss technology with business stakeholders.

Ability to coach, mentor and lead employees and contractors within a technical team environment

Manage cost, schedule and performance components of multiple projects adhering to PMI’s methodology to ensure quality, on-time and within budget results.

Demonstrated ability via hands-on experience in all project management processes using best practices.

Skills Summary

Project Management Microsoft Project Agile, Scrum

Microsoft Office Suite VersionOne Value added leadership

System Integration Costing & Budgeting Team Building

Mentoring System Migration Data Base Design (DB2)

Data base performance tuning / SQL (DB2) Project Scheduling SOX compliance

SAP HCM project management, upgrades Change Management Vendor Management

Large, complex data base systems crossing multiple lines of business Web Applications

Tools and Technology

Microsoft Project – strong experience with 2013; training in the 2016 version

PMP – Project Management Professional (2003 - present)

Experienced user of Microsoft Office Suite of products

Experienced in implementing SDLC and SSDLC (Security Software Development Life Cycle)

IT Service Management (ITSM) experience in managing projects as part of PMO standard practices.

ITIL - Foundations Certificate in IT Service Management

Scrum Master training and leader in developing change management processes from Waterfall to Agile

VersionOne experience managing/monitoring Agile projects

Experience leading infrastructure upgrades in DB2, Oracle and SAP

Strong PM skills to direct the project process life cycle of initiation, planning, execution, monitoring / controlling and closing.

SOX compliance implementation

Extensive DB2 DBA experience for large legacy and SAP data bases

Teaching experience in COBOL, MS Access, Object Oriented Design and XML

Professional Experience

May 2016 – June 2017

Senior Project Manager

Tech Valley Talent LLC

Amsterdam, NY

New York State Office of Mental Health

Cyber Security Project Manager for the following New York State Agencies: Office of Mental Health, Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse and Department of Health.

oResponsibilities include: all phase of the project, support for the security activities of the Enterprise Information Security Office; implementing repetitive PMO practices in the SSDLC (Secure System Development Life Cycle) and coordinating the activities of security engineers.

Project Manager for NIMRS (New Incident Management Reporting System) to re-write the application on a new and improved software platform to interface with additional NYS Health Systems including the Justice Center Vulnerable Persons Central Register.

Support functions and processes of the OMH PMO.

Preparing for the CISSP certification examination.

November 2014 – December 2016 (part-time)

Project Manager / Marketing Manager

3W Corp, LLC

Braham, MN

Project Manager for a start-up company specializing in wildlife and hunting accessories.

Responsibilities and deliverables include: Business, Marketing and Sales Plans.

Market research to understand the retail customers buying patterns and habits.

Developing and implementing a Social Media Strategy

Providing direction for the e-commerce solution.

Issues logs, timelines, e-commerce testing.

Providing status to the Board of Directors.

Working with stakeholders to ensure on time and within budget deliverables.

Mentoring the team in project management methodologies.

November 2007 – 2014

Project / Program Manager

United States Postal Service

Eagan, MN

Member of the USPS Senior Management Team

Business Project Leader for SAP Human Capital Management managing 65 resources which included: Configurers, Basis (technical), developers, and XI (middleware) technicians.

Provide non-production and production support for HR functions for 700,000 postal employees.

Project management responsibilities for all phases of the project life cycle including the charter, communication plan, scheduling, budget, implementation, monitoring and controlling and closing.

Responsible for project risks and implementation for upgrading the infrastructure to support the latest version of SAP (UCC6)

Responsible for budgets $12 - 20M.

IT Business Project Leader for the SAP configurers, developers and Technical Basis Team including Exchange Infrastructure support for integrating the SAP products of Solution Manager, eCareer, LMS and EHS (Health and Safety) across the landscape.

Responsible for the interfaces to all USPS legacy systems using SAP Exchange Infrastructure (XI) and the upgrade and ongoing support to Process Integration (PI).

Co-leader (two-in-the-box) with SAP project manager throughout the blueprinting, realization and Go-Live of the integration of the Employee (ESS) and Manager Self Services (MSS) modules.

Managed projects using Microsoft Project and VersionOne.

Manage 25 resources supporting all phases of the project life cycle utilizing waterfall and agile methodologies. Oracle 11g, PL/SQL, Java and COBOL are used as the programming languages.

Managed resources to provide and maintain data in the corporate data warehouse.

Managed district re-alignment project which refreshed financial data in the corporate data warehouse.

Coordinated resources to support and upgrade the infrastructure supporting the application systems.

Support includes interfacing with technical support to verify all server and network upgrades in all environments (DEV, SIT, CAT, PRD).

Facilitated systems integration between all stakeholders including the business customer, analysts, data base administrators, technical teams and programmers to deliver successful implementations.

IT leader providing an interface between business stakeholders and senior management to define strategy and implementation of software solutions.

Define and implement governance policies.

Implemented Agile methodology for software development.

Dashboard status presentations to senior management.

Business Project Lead responsible for the IT implementation of the Time and Attendance HR transformation to move the administration function from the field into a centralized shared service center. The successful implementation reduced costs, personnel and improved operating effectiveness.

May 1999 – Oct 2007

DB2 DBA

US Postal Service IT Division

Raleigh, NC.

SAP DB2 project lead for the initial HR transformation from a legacy HR system to an SAP ERP system for HR functions which included Personnel Administration, Operational Management, e-Learning and e-Career. The project included supporting a shared Service Center, converting interfaces to the new system and data base implementation and performance tuning for continuous availability.

SAP DB2 Data base support for test and production systems.

Developed the software infrastructure to execute data base utilities in a dynamic environment.

Implemented DB2 data bases to support the USPS Delivery Confirmation which included the

storage infrastructure to support partitioned data bases.

DB2 DBA implementation and support for the SAP HCM application multiple landscapes

running DB2 on z/OS.

Project manager for the infrastructure upgrade of the Pin Number data base used by the majority of Postal Systems. A successful but challenging project that involved stakeholders from the entire Postal Service.

System integration included analyzing, requesting and scheduling security changes to open ports external

to the security enclave and coordinating activities across multiple technical and business teams.

Education

Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL.

MBA in International Business

University of New Haven, New Haven CT.

45 graduate credits in Computer and Information Science.

Southern Connecticut State College, New Haven, CT.

Master of Science in Science Education

State University College, Oneonta, New York

B.A. in Chemistry/Secondary Education

Certifications

PMP – Project Management Professional (2003 - present)

IBM Certified Solutions Expert – DB2 UDB V7.1 Database Administration for OS/390

IBM Certified Specialist – DB2 UDB V6.1/V7.1 User

ITIL - Foundations Certificate in IT Service Management

Professional Affiliations

Project Management Institute (PMI) – member since 2003

PMI – Minnesota Chapter

IT Co-Chair 2017 - 2018

Director Community Outreach 2012 -2013

Membership Operations Chair 2011

Volunteer Services – liaison between volunteers and opportunities 2010

PMI – North Carolina Chapter

President 2007

Executive VP 2006

VP Membership 2005

PMI Master’s Class Leadership Training

EMEA 2007

Teaching

Project Management (CAPM) – North Hennepin Community College Spring 2014

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