Mary Harrison
**** ******** ****, ********, **. *5070
Cell: 972-***-****
E-mail: *************@*********.***
CAREER SUMMARY
1. Twenty seven years of experience in the IT industry
2. Strong analytical problem solver
3. Strong interpersonal, communication, leadership and organizational
skills
4. Strong team player as well as individual contributor
5. Quick learner and flexible to change
6. Adept at managing projects with small and large teams
7. Highly qualified in telecommunications, banking, travel, and retail,
real estate, and call-center operations industries.
8. Vast experience working in the areas of Business Process Outsourcing
(BPO), Product Line Management, Field Services, Customer Support,
Purchasing, Asset Management and Inventory Controller.
9. Key talents/skills include:
1. Project management
2. Team/people management and development
3. Experience with structured application development and testing
methodologies
4. Experience with developing creative and innovative solutions
5. Extensive experience with Standard PMO practices
6. Detail oriented
7. 5-10 years experience implementing Oracle, Unix platforms,
Knowledge Management (KM)-Knova, Sharepoint,, Automated Call
Distribution (ACD), VoIP, Hardware & Software
Upgrades/Refreshes
8. 11-30 years experience MS Office Suite Applications, Project
Management Practices, Infrastructure Projects, Vendor
Management, Relationship Management, SAP, and Change Management.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
BCForward Consulting Employee April 2011 - January 2015
Hewlett Packard - Senior Project Manager ES WW ITO Delivery Team
Plano, TX. (April 2011- October 2014)
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1. Managed a team of professional Project Coordinators who oversee field
engineers installing, decommissioning, testing, surveying, handling check
ins and outs for various technologies/projects and clients. ?
2. Developed Project Specific and Standard Operating Process and Procedure
documents. ?
3. Proactively worked with team members to develop individual annual goals.
1. Mentored team on an ongoing basis with client tools, processes,
training, metrics and financial tracking. ?
2. Conducted interviews, hired, fired, resource balancing, project
assignments, created salary justifications and participated in employee
ranking sessions.
3. Successfully supported the following projects; HP Data Centers Global
refresh of Hardware Midrange and software Transformation.
4. Developed and maintain key relationships with Client Program Managers
and Tower Leads to build a stronger presence within the client's
environment. ?
5. Handled resource and scope management for projects and/or client
engagements.
6. Negotiated rates with 3rd party vendors who supplied us with our field
technicians.
TEK Systems Employee October 2006 - July 2009
Nortel Networks- Systems Engineering Project Manager
1. Supported 10 Design Engineers.
2. Responsibilities included learning new leveraged system used at
Nortel (Matrix).
3. Managed new product releases for the roll out of new designs and
documentation of changes for the team.
4. Created excel spreadsheets for product status and updates for
multiple systems and countries.
5. Submitted new products and codes through system for approval and
making them also RoHS compliance.
6. Interacted with various teams and countries for system access,
approval for new products and system clean up.
Maintained time lines and updates to management.
David Weekly Homes Carrollton, Texas August 2005 to
2006
Sales Consultant -2 years
D.R. Horton Homes Rowlett, Texas Nov. 2001 to Feb.
2005
Sales Consultant - 4 years
EDS Employee February 1988 - October 2001
Senior Project Manager, EDS BPO
Plano, Texas (January 1998 - February 2001)
1. Directly responsible for the IT project management tasks associated to
deliver various call center applications within EDS' North America,
Europe and the Asia Pacific regions.
2. Those tasks consisted of creating and managing the planning, design,
build and deployment of various modules our clients required. I tracked
risks, issues and change controls related to these projects and
escalating items to management when appropriate.
3. Facilitated all related project meetings - Requirement Gathering
Sessions, Joint Application Design Sessions, Weekly Status Meetings,
Training Sessions, and Lessons Learned Reviews.
4. Coordinated and managed resources from engineering, operations,
architects, call centers, testing, training, delivery and production
support to ensure a cohesive project team and successful delivery to our
clients on time and within budget.
5. These implementations provided me with experience deploying the
following applications: Quality Monitoring and Logging (QM&L), Workforce
Management (WFM), Knowledge Management (KM), CASE Management, Unified
Sign-On (USO), Automated Call Distribution (ACD), Interactive Voice
Response (IVR), Voice Over IP (VoIP) and Computer Telephony Integration
(CTI).
Project Manager, EDS Digital Workflow Asset Management
Plano, Texas (March 1995 - January 1998)
1. Performed as the Subject Matter Expert for the leveraged service
delivery team.
2. Led the team that created the EDS Asset Management solution.
3. Responsible for the engagement of the inventory team, selection of tools
and deployment to perform asset management.
4. Developed the processes for new services that were sold in the delivery
services account.
5. Created and maintained excel spreadsheets to track all of the components
for system updates for multiple sights and clients.
6. Managed the roll out of the inventory collection and tools to over 240
sites for GM.
7. Led the team that was in charge of reconciling inventory and updating
various sights and systems.
8. Worked with the marketing team to develop presentations to obtain new
business and leveraged services.
9. Lead the coordination for the planning, testing and operating phases of
the new tools rolled out.
10.
Business Planning Specialist, EDS Infrastructure Services Communications
Portfolio Management
Plano, Texas (January 1990 - Feburary 1995)
1. Directly responsible for marketing EDS' voicemail service line offering
to General Motors.
2. Researched the marketplace for comparable offerings and pricing.
3. Negotiated with providers, created exit strategies for service lines,
gathered customer requirements and provided a solution to meet those
requirements.
Business Planning Specialist, EDS Service Delivery
Plano, Texas (Febuary 1988 - January 1990)
1. Directly responsible for researching and analyzing the ATM card process
method used by Bank of America and working with our client and internal
team to create a recommendation on improving there current process.
2. We successfully created an improved process and implemented one of our
automated tools that provided better oversight into the ATM business,
identified areas of loss and increased profit margin for the client.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
EDS University - Plano, TX.
Business Administration Asset Management, Financial Controls, Accounting
and Financial Orientation, Successful P&L, Basic Leadership Workshop,
Effective Business Writing, Presentation Techniques, Executive
Presentations, Voice Communication Fundamentals, Appraisal Workshop,
Microsoft Application Suite, Microsoft Project 98, Project Management
startup, PM Planning, Project Management Execute and Close Down, Project
Management Advanced, Requirements Determination Process.
Macomb Community College, Mt Clemens, Michigan - Business Administration