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Project Management Professional (PMP)

Location:
Naperville, IL
Posted:
February 27, 2018

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Career Overview

RESULTS-DRIVEN CERTIFIED PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL (PMP) with successful expertise in managing software and infrastructure projects and creating Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) practices in order to increase project productivity, quality, and resource management. A proven track record in managing projects from initiation through closure with resources from external clients, vendors, application development, testing, implementation, and business teams. An excellent communicator and accomplished leader focused on exceptional performance through strategic team leadership, managing complexity and substantial problem solving skills.

Core Competencies

•Strong in Program and Project Management.

•Extensive experience with SDLC and IPLC.

•Experience with CMMi and RUP methodologies.

•Manage project time, quality, and budget.

•Strong action and results driven attitude to bridge technical requirements and business needs to drive solutions

•Management of multiple projects at once.

•Experience negotiating with clients, colleagues and vendors.

Training January 2016 to May 2017

•Delivering Strategy and Driving Transformation

•Project and Program Turnaround

•Agile Project Management Essentials

•Defect Management Processes and Best Practices

•Effective Leadership Communication Strategies

•Leading Teams: Building Trust and Commitment

•Ensuring Delivery of Value and Quality with Change

•Making Meetings Work and Communicating for Impact

•Fostering Collaboration in the Workplace

•Data and Social Media

Work Experience

Augeo Marketing June 2017 to Present

Project Manager

•Successfully managing IT projects budget of $100K to support rewards programs for financial institutions nationwide.

•Leading complex projects requiring new and/or modified: applications, system interfaces, reports, backend database changes, scheduled job runs, and security and user access.

•Introduced a successful and well received new Change Request form and associated process in order to preserve the Business Requirements document while allowing documentation of changes and impacts of changes.

•Leading all phases of the IT projects from initiation through closure.

•Monitoring project deliverables progress through daily stand up meetings with IT project members and weekly meetings with client project stakeholders.

•Keeping appropriate stakeholders informed of project progress with dashboard reports and participating in weekly PMO meetings.

•Delivering a variety of project items, some of which include: scope, project schedule, issues/risks logs, budget, implementation documentation, change requests, test plans, and production implementation results reports.

Aetna July 2012 to December 2015

Project Manager

•Awarded and recognized for outstanding results on provider conversion projects

•Flawlessly managed projects budgeted between $1-2M and supported either health care reform, corporate financial business needs, or health plans and workers’ compensation provider requirements.

•Successfully executed program management role to install and test 50+ applications on several new servers.

•Led complex projects requiring new and/or modified: applications, data warehouse, system interfaces, reports, backend database changes, queries, scheduled job runs, and security and user access.

•Successfully led large-scale program and project management efforts within a matrix environment forming cross functional project teams of 20-60 employee, contractor, and vendor team members with roles such as: sponsor, business partner, application manager, project manager, software architect, data architect, software developer, technical business analyst, quality assurance tester, uat tester, infrastructure engineer, risk management, security specialist, and production support.

•Led all phases of projects from initiation through closure while keeping the project within approved budget and schedule, and ensure projects are completed according to approved plan.

•Maintained project financial and project profitability, to include resource scheduling, revenue forecasting per project, billing reconciliations, expense report and time approval for project work.

•Monitored project deliverables and progress through continuous communication with project members.

•Delivered a variety of project items, some of which include: project control book, project plans, phase gate documentation, issues/risks logs, schedules, budget and financial reports, deployment documentation and communication packages, meeting agendas and minutes, and production deployment remedy tickets.

•Kept appropriate people informed of project progress, complete weekly Project Status Reports, Bi-Weekly dashboard reports, participate in weekly PM meetings and communicate appropriately with Executives.

Northern Trust Bank Chicago, IL April 2007 to February 2012

Senior Project Manager

•Recognized and award from the Operations and Technology Senior Leadership Team for demonstrating exceptional leadership on the Anti-Money Laundering software upgrade project.

•Program manager activities included mentoring junior project managers and collaborating with other project managers in the creation and management of program and project level reports and deliverables.

•Managed all aspects of projects using planning, monitoring and controlling processes.

•Led the completion of more than one project at a time on programs and projects categorized as application, infrastructure, or a combination of both while performing a variety of tasks including setting deadlines, assigning responsibilities, and monitoring and summarizing progress of the project.

•Led project team to create multiple business intelligence dashboards in order to increase the efficiencies of multiple business units.

•Led a multi-year project cross functional company and IBM contractors supported team to create a centralized processing and reporting system for multiple banking systems.

•Led the first implementation of the Summit vendor software package which created the first centralized data hub system for all other bank applications to use for reporting and analysis.

•Led a multi-year project implementing Basel vendor software to allow investment portfolio managers to run multiple Monte Carlo simulations to predict the best investment for clients and an upgrade to the statistical investment SAS system to meet new federal investigative requirements.

BP Warrenville, IL December 2006 to February 2007

Project Manager Contractor

•Provided program management standards and controls while leading subject matter experts on how to create detailed plans and project documentation.

JP Morgan Chase Chicago, IL May 2005 to December 2005

Product Manager Contractor

•Provided new motivation and focus to the JPMorgan/BankOne EFS Infrastructure connectivity issue which resulted in improved network performance for the entire Chicago EFS product suite.

•Monitored and controlled the business and IT deliverables for three full life cycle implementations to clients of over 20 different States.

ABN AMRO/LaSalle Bank Chicago, IL September 2004 to May 2005

Project Manager Contractor

•Led three web projects that required new hardware and software to support the use of a new Trading and Reporting System with Advent, LaSalle Bonds, and SunGard.

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Chicago, IL January 2004 to August 2004

Project Manager Contractor

•Managed a $2M project to enhance the Eurodollar options system which provided a new electronic trading system that delivered global short term interest rate options markets with unprecedented levels of price transparency, competitiveness, and ease of trade execution.

•Coordinated with executive offices to keep the technology and business teams synchronized with the corporate project goals and objectives.

Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Skokie, IL July 2003 to November 2003

Project Manager Contractor

•Practiced CMM level 5 policies, practices, and standards while managing a project that was part of a $70 Million information systems contract between SAIC and Pfizer to decommission and close the Pharmacia company sites in Skokie, IL

National Computer Systems Pearson Iowa City, IA June 1999 to April 2002

Project Manager/Analyst

•Adhered to CMM level 3 methodologies and practices on 8 government-contracted financial aid projects with up to 40 people and budgets $10K-$100M.

•Managed the creation of a company's first division based technical training SQL database system.

Instructional Technology and Development Normal, IL December 1998 to May 1999

Project Manager/Developer

•Gathered business and technical requirements, designed, coded, tested, and managed web sites for Illinois State University professors and staff.

Education

National-Louis University B.S. in Management

Platforms, Technologies, and Tools

DataStage, QualityStage, .Net, Mainframe, MQ, Oracle, SQL, Unix/Linux, Web Logic, Access, AFP, C, CICS, COBOL, DB2, HTML, JAVA, JCL, J2EE, SAS, SQL, VSAM, Visual Basic, Visual Studio, Citrix, Infragisitics NetAdvatnage, Netezza, SSIS, SFTP, Fileshare, ServiceNow, Sharepoint, Zeke Schedulier, Intuit QuickBase, IBM Rational ClearCase Explorer, IBM Rational ClearQuest, IBM Rational DOORS® Next Generation (Requirements Composer), JIRA, Confluence, Planview, Remedy, MS Project, MS Office Suite, PMBOK.

Community Involvement

Saint Thomas the Apostle Parish October 2017 to Present

Teacher’s Aide

•2nd grade for 2017-18 school year, 3rd grade for 2016-17 school year, and 1st grade for 2015-16 school year.

•Set up classroom before class, assist children with activities, take attendance, review homework assignments, hand out supplies for the day, clean up after class, ensure students have papers and homework, and assist the teacher as needed.



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