Marlene Tabberrah, PMP®
*** **** **., *** *******, Illinois 60016
**********@*****.***
Program Management / Senior Project Management Summary
Business Strategist: Successful in satisfying business strategic goals and objectives, experience in business process re-engineering and applying organizational change management across functional business areas.
Senior Program and Project Manager with proven success in managing multi-million dollar projects, aligning business goals with technology to drive business transformation, process and procedure improvements to drive competitive advantage.
Excellent in applying Project Methodology or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes in organizing project(s), defining Project Charter (SOW), Communication Planning, Project Planning, Resource Management, Scope Management, Time, including Risk/Mitigation, Issue Resolution and Lessons Learned throughout the project life cycle.
Excellent work ethics, highly motivated, self-starter, confident, flexible, with strong interpersonal skills in working with senior management at all levels, across the organization, project teams, communications, leadership, coaching, presentation and facilitation skills. \
Skills Summary
Program / Project Management
End-to end ERP Implementation
Financial Implementation
Supply Chain Management (SCM) / Logistics
Warehouse Management Implementation and Integration
Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
Production Control and Shop Floor Scheduling
Customer Requirement Planning (CRM)
Mergers & Acquisition, Divestiture
Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
Software Migration and Integrations
HCM / Payroll Implementation
Organizational Change Management / Change Management
Process and Procedure Improvements
ERP/SCM Software Selection Process\
Vendor Management (SAAS and Others)
Project Life Cycle / Methodology / Tools
Project Charter (SOW)
Project Planning and Scheduling
Communication Planning
Project Costing / Budget Monitoring & Tracking
Project Building & Mentoring
Cross-Functional Requirements Analysis
Project Control and Status Reporting
Project Testing / UAT
Project Readiness Review
Project Rollout / Closure
Stakeholders and Executive Management
MS Project. MS Office, PowerPoint, Visio, SharePoint
Mainframe MVS Environment
SDLC, DMAIC Methodology, PLM
RUP Methodology
Industry / Verticals
Manufacturing and Distribution
Consumer Package Goods (CPG)
Healthcare
Insurance
Outsourcing
Pharmaceutical
Government Census Bureau and Indiana
Power Fossil and Nuclear
Professional Experience
Worked at top Software Companies for Manufacturing and Distribution companies, to provide Program and/or Project Management over large scales implementation initiatives, top-priority, complex projects. Managed budgets from $800K to 10M with cross-functional teams of up to 25 IT resources and 40 functional resources.
Implemented end-to-end manufacturing ERP, Financial (AP, AR, GL and Fixed Assets), Supply Chain Management, and Warehouse Management integrated to both ERP and Supply Chain Management systems. EDI Integration of ANSI X12, EDIFACT to Supply Chain Management systems.
11/2017 – Studying to renew my Project Management Professional (PMP/PMI) and for the PgMP (Program Management) Certification
Infodata Northfield, Illinois (Manufacturing ERP, Revenue 500K) - ERP Project Manager/Consultant 12/2015 – 05/2016
Learned the ERP software (ProfitKey) by myself, taught a new consultant Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash. MRP. Financials
Worked with the technical person and applied change management to the design of the Credit Card program for flexibility.)
Trained the client on BOM/Routing, Purchase Orders and Work Orders.
Identified and wrote the difference between inventory Auto-Issue and Back-flush, for to qualify the amount of work Engineering has to do. (Change Management)
Working with the technical developer to convert master files, planning data, open sales orders and open purchase orders.,
Escalade, Evansville, Indiana (Manufacturing Assessment) Consultant
11/2015 – 12/2015
Assessment and evaluated the process of Manufacturing/Distribution/Financial between EPICOR ERP system and Legacy System.
Hendrick Manufacturing (Revenue - 60M, Locations Elgin, IL / Owensboro, KY / PA) – ERP Project Manager
04/2013 - 01/2016
ERP Selection - Gathered Requirements and Developed a Request for Proposal (RFP) for three manufacturing locations, for business transformation.
Evaluated several ERP Software packages, recommended two ERP software’s that fits Hendrick Manufacturing process and procedures.
Hendrick Management selected EPICOR ERP Systems.
We worked with EPICOR to decide what modules we needed to support the entire business.
Purchase servers from an EPICOR partner and doubled the size of the servers, the servers were installed in PA.
EPICOR installed version 0.5 and tested the entire system, to verify that the installation works.
IMPLEMENTATION: Created a detailed Project Plans to manage the EPICOR system and MES implementation in Owensboro, KY, in a Manufacturing Company/
TRAINNG: Performed system configuration with the Vice President and General Manager, and the project team to support the training of all the end-user for two months..
CONFERENCE ROOM PILOT: Ran a conference room pilot with live data for 2 months, on EPICOR version 10, checking material and labor postings to financials.
The EPICOR system implementation provided new processes and procedures enhancements.
EPICOR was implemented on EPICOR version 10.
Developed Project Management artifacts (Project Charter, Communication, Risk / Issue, Project Budget, Tracking, Agenda, Meeting Minutes, Status Reporting, Lessons Learned and others).
Elite PM-Prog Inc. Des Plaines, Illinois (Time & Material Consulting), Team Size - 5 Resources – Program/Project Management 01/2008 - 12/2012
ERP Program Manager – Contributed to the improvement of the IT PMO Methodology, supported the implementation of PeopleSoft Finance 9.1, PeopleSoft SCM 9.1, PeopleSoft Contracts 9.1, PeopleSoft Project Costing 9.1,
PeopleSoft HCM, 9.1, PeopleSoft Payroll 9.1, PeopleSoft Time & Labor and Agile PLM with Single Sign-ON, in England and Milwaukee.
ERP Project Manager – Baan Implementation for Clark in Mexico (Sales and Manufacturing Facilities) - Part Time. Created a plan for data conversions and integrations between the organizations for a seamless SCM/ERP implementation.
Developed an ERP Proposal for the Public Sector (Contract Management, Purchasing, Financials AP, AR and GL, Human Resources and Payroll). Performed business analysis and process documentations to create the
ERP proposal for the State of Indiana.
Harris Corporation Rochester, NY (Manufacturing Revenue - 7.5B, Budget – 4M, Team Size – 7 resources) – Manufacturing Project Manager 06/2006 - 01/2007
Documented the integration and dependencies of all manufacturing and supply chain management (Siebel CRM, Quote and Pricing to QAD Sales) for US and UK, MIPSIS - Receiving Inspection, PickPro - Carousel Inventory,
Freedom - Standard Inventory along with integration to QAD, and utilized RFID for shipments to military. Agile - CAD with integration to QAD BOM, and PeopleSoft Financial (AP, AR, GL Project Accounting), Ariba e-Procurement. Developed detailed project plan for the entire project.
Utilized RUP Methodology to eliminate single point of failure for various systems.
Managed the migration and deployment of all Agile (CAD), Manufacturing (all listed above) and financial application systems to the new infrastructure.
Results – Project was implemented under budget by 20M. We eliminated single point of failure for all systems.
Previous Program / Projects:
End-to-end Implementation of ERP Projects, Supply Chain Management, Warehouse Management systems (Provia, Catalyst, 3PL) and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) with integration to Supply Chain
Management systems, to clients such as Land O’Lakes and SoloCup.
Results: Projects were completed on schedule and within budget, reducing warehouses from 250 to 150 for Land O’Lakes. There was large project change (All divisions were added)/ that increased the project cost to more than double.
IT Program Management, directed the implementation of ERP with 54 entity GL to support global rollout (USA, Canada, Asia and Europe).
Results: The system was implemented successfully and seamlessly with an organizational change that affected the implementation.
Information Technology Management, responsible for a P&L to support direct reports of 20 professional and five consultants. The following systems were implemented ERP, Supply Chain Management with
WMS. Financials, HCM / Payroll.
Results: All systems were implemented successfully saving the organization 1.5M during the implementation.
Mergers and Acquisitions – Managed the merger of disparate systems from acquired client companies, shows and trained all the key professionals how the new system works.
Results: Ensured defect free transition to the new system through careful planning and rigorous testing efforts
Early Career
SoloCup Highland Park, Illinois ontract SCM Project Manager 05/2005 - 07/2005
Supply Chain Management with WMS to support the merger of Solocup and Sweetheart Cup
CSC/AON Chicago, Illinois (32M Budget) – Program Manager - 05/2004 – 11/2004
Outsourcing of mid-range computers and systems to a new operating platform
BCBS Columbia, SC (Tricare – Military Healthcare Insurance) - Project Manager 05/2003 - 11/2003
Integrated 5 Provider files into one and created 3 regions instead of 5.
Retail Startup Niles, Illinois(POS, Inventory, Payroll) - Project Manager 01/2002 - 04/2003
PeopleSoft Westchester, Illinois – Supply Chain Project Manager 03/2000 – 07/2001
Implementations at Mutual of Omaha, Sprint, State Farm Insurance)
Computer Science Corporation (CSC) Oakbrook, Illinois – Project Manager 03/1999 - 05/2000
Arial Telecommunications – PMO Processes
Pharmacia UpJohn (Proposal)
General Motors (Proposal -Won a 2M Proof of Concept)
IMI, Marlton, NJ (Land O’Lakes – Revenue = 10B, Budget = 6.5M), Project Manager SCM 03/1997 – 03/1999
Implementation of Oracle Financials, Supply Chain Management, Logistics,
Transportation and Radcliff WMS
Visibility Fordham, MA (Manufacturing Software) – ERP Project Manager/Consultant 01/1995 - 03/1997
Babcock and Wilcox (Fossil and Nuclear Boiler Revenue – 2.6B, Budget = 10M, ERP Implementation), Organizational Change Management, (Global Program Manager)
Pauwels Canada (Manufacturer Electrical Power Transformer Revenue - $50M, ERP Implementation,
ERP Project Manager
Service Tools (Manufacturing of High- Performance Machine for Food and Beverage Industry)
ERP Project Manager
John Crane Inc. Morton Grove, Illinois (Revenue – 500M, Budget-15M) IT Application Manager 04/1986 – 12/1964 Promoted twice in 18 month to IT Management position
Responsible for hiring, firing, development and performance appraisal of a professional staff of 20 and 5 consultants, with an operating budget of $2 million.
Information Technology mainframe and client server systems.
Motivated, mentored and trained all professional staff to keep performance high and moral up in a high-pressure environment.
Implemented the following systems:
ERP with integration to the AP and GL
Financials (AR, AP and GL)
HCM/Payroll with integration to the GL
Supply Chain Management (Appointed by the CEO)
Supply Chain Management was integrated to the GL
Utilized Vertex for state tax calculation and reporting
Designed, development and budgeting system for management
Acquired and Merge two ompanies into the IT Systems
Automotive Business Line – Divestiture.
Developed an end-to-end ERP / RFP
Reviewed SAP, QAD, BAAN for replacement software.
Education and Certifications
University of the East, Bachelor of Arts, Major in Mathematics
Project Management Professional (PMP/ Certified – 103241PMI) – 57682
Six Sigma Green Certified
Agile Project Methodologies (Scrum, XP, RUP)