Project Manager

HARLOW D. STEVENS

****************@*****.*** Greenwood, IN 847-***-**** www.linkedin.com/in/harlowstevens/

PROJECT MANAGER / PROJECT COORDINATOR

Accomplished IT and business professional with an MBA having more than 15 years of experience in a variety of corporate

information technology, project management, and financial roles.

• Ability to work well with senior level management and internal and external end-users on assignments and projects.

• Willing to adapt quickly to new challenges and initiate new courses of action.

CORE COMPETENCIES

■ Project management and facilitation ■ Software development life cycle (SDLC) ■ RFP and vendor negotiation

■ Software licensing and harvesting ■ Project Management Office (PMO) ■ Meeting planning and facilitation

CERTIFICATIONS/ TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES

■ Microsoft Project 2013 ■ Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) ■ MS Office plus Visio & Access

■ ITIL Certification ■ QuickBooks Pro ■ Business Analysis

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Beacon Hill Technologies (Oct 2014 to March 2015)

IT Project Manager, Contractor at Cummins, Inc.

• Responsible for assembling, analyzing, and representing customer business process requirements.

• Performed feasibility analysis, scoped projects, and recommended alternative solutions and project strategy.

• Developed high-level implementation plans along with deliverable prioritization.

• Ensured that technical functional specifications covered all business functional specifications.

• Worked in collaboration with the IT Support Team, internal customers, and other IT functional groups.

Omaha Steaks – Vernon Hills, IL (Feb 2009 to April 2012)

Retail Sales Associate Part Time, promoted to Full Time, Feb 2011

• Responsible for the daily operations in a retail store environment including opening, closing, sales & marketing of

frozen foods and related products. Assisted with monthly inventory counts and in-store marketing ideas and displays.

Automation Station – New restaurant start-up (March-December 2011)

Prospective co-owner

• Created complete business plan for a proposed automated restaurant covering both build or buy options.

• Completed thorough marketing, business, and revenue analysis of similar type restaurants in US and rest of world.

• Established a project plan for the execution of the business plan highlighting the risks and quality of service needed.

Klehm Plants (June 2009 – October 2010)

Controller

• After 100% staff turnover, took control of inactive accounts receivable, payables, general ledger and payroll functions.

• Converted these functions to QuickBooks from a failing legacy system and overhauled the process for paying of sales,

payroll, and business related taxes as well as incorporating inventory control, thus lowering monthly costs by 25%.

• Completed realignment of the networking of all the PCs, printers, faxes, and scanners within the main office.

• Directly supervised 4 person office staff in the absence of the president/owner.

Abbott Laboratories (Sept 1999 – Jan 2008)

Senior Systems Analyst, Diagnostic Division (ADD)

• Member of the ADD Project Management Office (PMO) during its initial start-up phase.

• Project Manager of international cross-divisional team responsible for upgrading the division from Windows 97 to

Windows 2000 delivering the project on time and on budget.

• Led the ADD Technical Review Board (TRB) which included; facilitating bi-monthly meetings, assisting with software

and hardware evaluation projects, updating software standards, and providing SDLC guidelines.

HARLOW D. STEVENS

****************@*****.*** Greenwood, IN 847-***-**** www.linkedin.com/in/harlowstevens/

• Responsible for all aspects of the TRB meetings including scheduling, conference room selection, establishing

international conference calls, minutes, and any follow-up items as required.

• Created and helped negotiate RFP’s for various TRB projects with hardware and software vendors.

CompuSense, Inc. & Alternative Resources Corporation (1993-1999)

SeniorTechnical Support Specialist, Contractor at Abbott Labs Pharmaceutical Products Division (PPD)

• Help Desk single point of support contact for all 5 regional offices, 200+ field sales managers and indirectly their sales

representatives for the PPD Division of Abbott Laboratories.

• Provided remote support on Lotus Notes, Windows, Microsoft Office, Word Perfect, pcAnywhere, and Lotus Suite.

• Directed and provided on-site laptop hardware maintenance and data communications troubleshooting (AVOC).

• Assisted with end user support of all multimedia applications and laser printers.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

• Project manager and data processing manager for two respective Fortune 500 subsidiaries leading the process of

automating them from totally manual systems.

• Creator of a business plan for an interactive, multi-player gaming network and responsible for taking the plan from

concept to formation of an actual functioning business.

EDUCATION

• Microtrain - Microsoft Project 2010 Level 1 & 2, Project Management Professional Certification, Business

Analysis Fundamentals, ITIL Foundations

• Keller Graduate School of Management – Masters in Business Administration

• Wabash College - B.A. History, President of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity

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