Project Manager

DANETTE R. HOPKINSBEY

Cell: 773-***-**** \ Email: *.**********@*****.***

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Skillful and dedicated with over 10 years of extensive Highly focused, detailed and result oriented in handling

experience working in the construction, real estate, complex deadline driven operations;

engineering, banking and financial services industries Adept in identifying goals and priorities

Effective in handling and meeting deadlines, proactive Extensive experience in initiating, coordinating,

follow through in handling issues on projects, planning projects and effectively managing all essential

dependable, trustworthy, and customer driven tasks

Strong interpersonal skills and communication skills

Adept in developing and maintaining detailed

Excellent customer relations and contract negotiation

administrative and procedural processes that reduce

skills

redundancy improve accuracy and efficiency

SPECIALIZED TRAINING

Being an Effective Leader/Supervision Concepts and Microsoft Word

Practices of Management PowerPoint

Managing Multiple Priorities Excel

Coaching for Performance Enhancement

Microsoft Project

Managing for Results

Clarify

Enhancing Business Writing Skills

SharePoint

Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Walgreens Corporation (Brooksource contractual) April 2014 – Present

Jr. Project Manager/Sr. Project Coordinator

Execute implementation process for 76 store closures

Develop strong working relationships with Project Managers, District managers, Store Managers and other

project team members

Ensure project objectives, goals and requirements are being delivered according to stakeholders expectation

Responsible for tracking project and ensuring the overall performance of the project plan and timeline

Effectively negotiated and interpreted agreements and upgrade processes for account managers and customers

Successfully managed issues by implementing and recommending resolution strategies to the district and

store managers and Walgreens leadership team

Perform quality control and trend setting to benefit restructuring project plan

Collect, analyze, report project schedule, resources, and employee retention metrics via Microsoft Project and Excel

Escalate issues, document and track risks, change requests and resolutions, as appropriate

Demonstrate ability to multi task and work in a fast paced environment

Maintain files, project documentation and identify and create lessons learned to be documented as a resource for corporate wide

use

Rolls Royce (ShiftPoint – direct consultant) September 2013 – November 2013

Program Coordinator

Executed implementation of Microsoft enterprise wide migration project involving MS Windows 7, MS Office 2010,

several other applications and computer hardware and mobile device upgrades

Ensured project objectives, goals and requirements were being met and delivered according to stakeholder expectations

Developed strong working relationships with multiple internal leaders

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Responsible for tracking project and ensuring overall performance of the project plan, timeline and budget

Successfully logged, monitored and managed issues and risks by recommending and implementing resolution

strategies to the migration and leadership teams

Ensured quality control of computer hard drives that were designated to be destroyed quarantined or washed

of confidential proprietary information prior to refurbishing equipment and maintained a logged of all quarantined and

destroyed equipment. Effectively lead and coordinated daily meetings with other vendor teams to coordinate scheduling for

daily migrations

Collected, analyzed, reported project schedules, resources, and performance metrics data via Excel

Communicated, documented and escalated issues, risks and change requests when necessary.

Demonstrated ability to multi task and work in a very fast paced environment

Roche Diagnostics (Smart IT Staffing contractual) February 2013 – August 2013

Jr. Project Managing Coordinator

Executed implementation process of glucose meters in hospital’s ranging in size from $4 billion to $100

billion

Developed strong working relationships with hospital project teams, account managers and service partners

Responsible for tracking projects and ensuring overall performance of the hospital’s upgrade plan, timeline

and deployment of glucose meters

Effectively negotiated and interpreted agreements and upgrade processes for account managers and customers

Successfully managed issues by implementing resolution strategies for customers and account managers

Performed quality control and trend setting to benefit restructuring project plans

Collected, analyzed, reported project schedules, resources, and performance metrics data via Microsoft Project and Project

Recaps

Ensured project objectives, goals and requirements are delivered according to stakeholder expectations.

Escalate issues, risks and change requests, as appropriate. Document and track resolution of project issues, risks and change

requests.

Managed approximately 20+ projects simultaneously

Managed project contracts and invoices via SAP

Demonstrated ability to multi task and work in a fast paced environment

Maintained files and project documentation via SharePoint

Indiana Supreme Courts – JTAC (Sondhi Solutions contractual) November 2012 – February 2013

Project Manager

Created and communicated requirements and developed Scope of Work along with project stakeholders

Developed and leveraged appropriate technical, functional, or business knowledge to support the successful

development of business partner / user solutions

Managed several small projects ranging from $50K to $180K

Set goals and objectives for a low complexity work efforts with technical project team members

Followed Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) ensuring timely and efficient completion

Performed quality control and utilized ITIL knowledge to effectively communicate tasks to technical team

Ensured project objectives, goals and requirements are delivered according to stakeholder expectations

Sprint/Samsung Project (NextGen Overland Contracting, Inc. contractual) May 2012 –October 2012

Project Coordinator

Organized and coordinated project in telecommunications for major telecom company

Monitored project from construction start to project completion

Ensured daily synchronization of client’s project details through Primavera and company’s Quick Base system

Forecasted upcoming NTP and Construction start, and created and monitored project’s gap analysis report

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Created purchase order requests and followed purchase orders to execution of payment

Monitored material orders, quotes and timely delivery of materials to warehouse and construction site

Reported environmental and structural conflicts to Lead Construction Managers and Environmental and Engineering

groups

Facilitated project scheduling, forecasting process and monitored daily workload of Field Contractors via scrum

methodology

Collected, analyzed and reported Field Construction Managers daily status reports

Acted as a liaison between Field Construction Managers, Lead Construction Managers and Program Manager

Indiana State Government –FSSA (MMY Consulting consultant) February 2012 – May 2012

Program Coordinator

Organized and coordinated various projects

Collected, analyzed, and report weekly status reports, project schedules and human resources availability on project

Tracked projects against budget and ensured overall scope and performance of project

Created project governances and maintained files and program documentation

Managed and facilitated the onboarding process of employees and maintained a high level of confidentiality regarding

employee records and hiring and termination practices

Facilitated, lead and took minutes at weekly project team meetings

Acted as a liaison between project consultants and Program Manager

Walgreens Project (Comm Works contractual) October 2011 – December 2011

Project Coordinator

Organized and coordinated projects in telecommunications, low voltage cabling or other technical areas

Collected, analyzed and reported project schedules, resources and financials

Responsible for high volume telephone calls answering subcontractors’ questions and scheduled, organized and monitored

subcontractors’ time on site to ensure completion of project according to project plan.

Coordinated all aspects of the project with management and the sales team

Demonstrated ability to multi task and work in a fast paced environment

Bank of Ireland (Office Team contractual) March 2009 – September 2011

Project Coordinator/Office Manager

Organized, managed and coordinated projects and proposals in healthcare, government/military and banking/financial

services and other special projects

Collected, analyzed, reported project schedules, resources, financials and performance metrics data via Microsoft Project

Tracked projects against budget and ensured overall performance

Maintained files, program documentation and assisted with federal audits

Maintained a high level of confidentiality of employee records and hiring and termination practices

Acted as a liaison between employees and Director

Prepared requisitions and purchase orders via SAP

Primerica Financial Services (independent contractor/self employed) July 1998 – January 2011

Regional Manager/Personal Financial Analyst/Field & Classroom Instructor

Initiated, planned, created and managed various projects

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Successfully presented financial education to families, resulting in a 3 to 1 closing ratio and winning several awards as top

ten sales team in mortgage loans submitted and closed and top ten sales team in Life Insurance sales in Illinois

Ensured team’s overall performance and quality of business index on a monthly basis

Collected, analyzed, reported project schedules, resources, financials and performance metrics data

Track projects against budget and ensures overall performance of clients personal finance

Created and implemented training programs resulting in well trained and compliant sales representatives

Effectively mentored and coached sales team to properly introduce and sell financial plans to qualifying consumers

Demonstrated excellent customer relations, conflict resolution and management skills

Successfully generated and managed over 800 client accounts by demonstrating a high level of customer service via

telephone contacts, mass mailings, and periodic home visits.

Successfully created presentations via Microsoft Word and Power Point and presented oral and visual presentations and

workshops to groups and organizations

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN

Degree: Bachelor of Science

Program: Organizational Leadership; minor in Business Administration

Current GPA: 3.0+

Anticipated Graduation: December 2014

Micro Train Technologies, Chicago, Illinois

Courses Completed: Project Management Professional, ITIL Foundations, Business Analysis, Microsoft Project, Lean Six

Sigma Green Belt and SharePoint

Program: Project Management

Course Completion Date: September 2011

Achievement: Course Certificates of Completion Received

DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois

Degree: Bachelor of Science

Program: Business Administration

GPA: 3.4

Years of Attendance: 1997 1999

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