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Project Manager - Business Systems Analyst

Location:
Port Tobacco, MD
Salary:
60000+
Posted:
May 04, 2015

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

*/*/**** - */**/**** Major Law Firm, Washington, DC

Project Manager/Business Systems Analyst

Managed a team for the implementation of Innova along with Migration to Office

2010 - including conversion of MacPac templates and customizing ribbons;

interfaced with vendors and users.

Maintained content and created/modified web parts for the Firm's SharePoint

Intranet.

Implemented viDesktop for use by specific departments for tracking workloads and

annual reviews.

Designed an Attorney Awareness marketing campaign to "market" IS capabilities and

products to the attorney staff - included demonstrations/videos/lectures with all

levels of legal personnel.

Implemented firm-wide timekeeping system (WorkForce) for use by all

administrative staff - extensive work with outside vendor to enable

customizations.

Converted SharePoint extranets to Legal Anywhere; responsible for

creation/management of over 100 client collaboration extranets

Performed analysis and made recommendation of PDF conversion products

Implemented new patent and trademark application system (Foundation IP)

Synthesized the BABOK into a 40-page document for use in all Business Systems

Analyst activities.

2007 - Personal Sabbatical for Travel and Recreation

2004 - 2006 Hummingbird Ltd. (USA) Washington, DC

Senior Project Manager (Hummingbird Professional Services Group)

Implemented Hummingbird Enterprise Suite components at numerous law firms

throughout the eastern states; gathered requirements and wrote Statements of

Work; supervised on-site technical consultants, resolved implementation problems,

managed client expectations and trained new users.

Performed firm-wide needs analysis, documentation and implementation of DM5,

Enterprise Workflow, Records Management, Contract Management and Collaboration

for major firms

Installed and implemented a Contract Management system for major container

manufacturer enabling off-site personnel to dynamically create orders with Hot

Docs

7/1996 - 10/2003 Clifford Chance US LLP, New York, NY (Formerly Rogers & Wells

LLP)

Manager of Applications and Support

Responsibilities: managed a diverse group of developers/consultants for the

conception, evaluation, design, development, execution and support of all

applications for 1200 users in the Americas, as well as coordinating specific

programs with headquarters in London,

Identified corporate-wide need to capture and consolidate disbursement revenue

(fax, copier, etc.). Consolidated disparate disbursement processing programs into

a centralized, modular program providing consistency of validation and increased

capture of disbursements, increased revenue by 10-15% ($2-$3 million)

As the representative of the Americas region, spearheaded a global group

responsible for the evaluation/recommendation of a global Document Management

System from 5 software vendors.

Responsible for analysis and documentation of all computer programs and

recommendations for modifications for compliance with new, mandatory worldwide

Global Practice Management System (GPMS). Led management presentations for same.

Implemented firm-wide modifications from 5-digit to 6-digit employee ID in the

Americas region for worldwide move to new GPMS.

As Project Manager in the Americas Region,

Managed evaluation and comparison of leading Document Management Systems and Word

Processors for decision on replacement of DOS-based document processing.

Developed/Implemented marketing strategies to encourage user acceptance of

changes (WP 5.1 to Word 97), (Soft Solutions to iManage) resulting in smooth

transition to new environment.

Project Manager for firm wide conversion from Windows 3 to Windows 95.

1990 - 1996 Weil, Gotshal and Manges, New York, NY

Special Projects Manager (1991- 1996) Manager of Applications Development (1990 -

1991)

Responsibilities included implementing new systems, managing a team of

application developers and creating a Litigation Support Area in IT.

Identified various programming needs that had potential to be client-billable,

communicated directly with partners concerning this issue leading to

establishment of IS litigation support area and a 70% increase in client-billable

work for the IT Department.

Expedited new asset inventory system with portable bar-code readers - improved

accuracy of maintaining inventory and reduced time necessary for inventory by

60%.

1985 - 1989 Bear Stearns & Company, New York, NY

Group Manager - PC/Lan Development Group (4/89 12/89)

Project Leader - PC/Lan Development Group (3/88 - 4/89)

Systems Analyst - Information Center (3/85 - 3/88)

History of increasing responsibilities: Managed a team of developers of PC

Network applications, marketed IS services to entire firm. Hands-on project

leader with responsibility for IS user/staff 'training and project planning with

particular focus on project guidelines and schedules with resource allocation and

budget creation. Established department standards and development methodology

decreasing application development time by 20%.

1983 - 1985 Irving Trust Company, New York, NY --- Systems Analyst

Coded and implemented the synchronization/transfer of Customer Database, IMS to

CICS and CICS-based Collections System

1981 - 1983 Bankers Trust Company, New York, NY --- Programmer Analyst

Profit-sharing system for Eastman Kodak and various EFT functions for

client-based pension systems.

OTHER WORK HISTORY: Public School Teacher-Apartment Building Property Manager;

Tesol

EDUCATION

Numerous software-specific and BA-specific computer courses

International Institute of Learning - Orange and Blue Certification in Project

Management - working on Project Management Certification

Baruch College, New York - Courses leading to Masters in International

Business/E-Commerce

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL - BME (Academic Scholarship)

New York University, New York - Computer courses leading to Certificate in

Computer Technology

Columbia University, New York - TESOL Courses / Cross-Cultural Communication

Universita per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy (Full Scholarship) -Italian language

courses

Santa Cecilia Conservatory, Rome, Italy (Full Scholarship)

TECHNICAL BACKGROUND

SQL, MS-Office, MS Project, Interwoven, Hummingbird/Open Text, Visio, various

law-specific software products, knowledge of Cobol, CRM/Marketing products,

litigation support products - Summation, Concordance, IPRO, Legal Anywhere,

SharePoint, Camtasia.



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