Project Manager Management

Sherry Pate, PMP, CBAP

IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT

Executive Summary

Senior Project Management Consultant certified as a (PMP) by PMI and certified as a Business Analyst Professional (CBAP) by the International Institute of Business Analysis seeking a position as a Project Management Consultant within the local area of Chapel Hill, Durham, Raleigh, and Cary or a remote opportunity.

Core Competencies Include:

Project Management Methodology, PMO Development & Portfolio Management

Commercial off the shelf (COTS) Implementation and Rollout

Application Development/SDLC & Implementation

Project Planning, Scheduling & Monitoring

Business Analysis & Requirements Definition & Business Process Improvement

Budget, Resource & Scope Management

Risk Management & Issue Resolution

Managing Resources / Staffing / Vendor Management

Business Analysis & Requirements Definition & Business Process Improvement

Training, Course Development & Rollout of Training Programs

Extensive experience in all aspects of the project management processes from Initiating to Closing, with a strong emphasis on managing stakeholder relationships and requirements engineering.

Facilitated training for hundreds of project management and business analysis professionals in multiple subjects including PMP Prep, CAPM Prep, CBAP Prep, Project Management Fundamentals, Risk Management, Business Analysis, Communication and Negotiation.

Specific technology based projects are web development; software development; data warehousing design and development; business analysis; database administration and replication.

Strong executive level communication, interpersonal, presentation, facilitation, and problem resolution skills

Provided consulting and instructional services to the following industries:

Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Finance, Insurance, Software Development,

Telecommunications, Aviation, Manufacturing, Automotive, Higher Education, Banking,

Government, Military, Consumer Products, Oil and Gas, Telecommunications and

Law Enforcement

Professional Experience

Pate Enterprises, Inc. / RMC Learning Solutions 1/2006 – Current Minnetonka, MA

Instructor / Project Manager for an internationally recognized educational organization

Responsible for instructing Project Management and Business Analysis courses designed to prepare project managers and business analysts for the PMP, CAPM and CBAP Exams

Helped students acquire a firm grasp of the specific steps in the project management process and business analysis practices.

The classes teach students how to apply International PM and BA Standards in the real world while learning how to deal with issues that project managers and business analysts face every day.

Pate Enterprises, Inc. / Second Wind, Inc. 6/2011 – 1/2014 Carrboro, NC

Senior Project Manager for a start-up organization

Provided project management oversight for all aspects of the start-up and implementation of a newly founded business.

Managed and directed the efforts of planning, financial management, schedule management, vendor management and allocation of resources.

Later managed the oversight of operational improvements and ongoing support.

Pate Enterprises, Inc.

Collaborative Consulting Services 2/2009 – 4/2011 Greenwich, CT

Senior Project Manager for a large professional services consulting firm

Created a Project Management Office to standardize the practice of project management.

Managed the building and development of the PMO for management, which included the development of processes, procedures, templates, portfolio management along with coaching and mentoring existing staff.

By standardizing the practice of project management the organization was able to become more efficient and effective by having their projects come in on time and on budget as well as having a common practice that can continually be approved upon.

Improved the delivery of time of projects by 60%.

VW Credit 3/2002 – 10/2005 Libertyville, IL

Senior Project Manager / Portfolio Manager for fortune 500 automotive manufacturer

Led the selection and implementation of an enterprise Project Portfolio Management System known as PlanView.

Directed all aspects project management; schedule development, budget development and control.

Managed the rollout of training programs for the organization.

Performed executive level briefings; change management; issue escalation; resolution; vendor management and problem resolution.

Selected to present at an International Conference on Project Portfolio Management for a major portfolio management software company.

Worked with the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and the Director of Information Technology to establish a Program Management Office.

Served as a Senior Project Manager on a strategic/business value projects. The deliverable(s) represented how the IT objectives of an enterprise-wide system will provide value to VW Credit and how they will fit into the overall IT strategy. This effort is to include the representation of functional dependencies, high-level estimates and a recommended order of implementation.

Managed and coordinated VW Credit’s portfolio reporting process known as the “Information Technology Steering Committee” (ITSC). The ITSC is the governing body for all technology initiatives. The ITSC assesses new initiatives, oversees the on-going status of all major development efforts and is responsible for the achievement of the projected business benefits.

Managed the revision, creation, and rollout of IT procedures, processes, standards and guidelines, including the organization’s Project Lifecycle Infrastructure for the purpose of FDIC compliancy.

Fujisawa Health Care, Inc. 10/2001 – 3/2002 Northbrook, IL

Senior Project Manager for a fortune 500 pharmaceutical company

Responsible for the implementation and rollout of a disaster and recovery plan to replicate production databases to off-site locations in the event of a prolonged outage or an unexpected disaster.

Efforts included overseeing the requirements, planning, implementation, installation and configuration of database replication in a test and a production environment, consisting of multiple servers and databases.

Created a database and system administration training and support program

TWJ Consulting 1/2001 – 10/2001 Skokie, IL

Senior Project Manager and Partner for a professional services firm

Managed the requirements, design, development and implementation of a survey tool for the American Hospital Association (AHA) to facilitate an annual hospital survey for care management.

Prior to the new online survey, the AHA conducted their survey manually, which was time consuming and costly.

In the first year the new system paid for itself in reduced costs. Survey personnel were reduced, data quality improved and the overall time required for processing survey data was reduced.

Aerospan.com 1/2000 – 1/2001 Elk Grove Village, IL

Senior Project Manager for a Business to Business Internet Company

Senior Project Manager within a Project Management Office; managed the implementation of a custom developed online Business To Business E-marketplace for parts and services in the commercial aviation industry for a joint venture between a company in the US and in Switzerland.

Led the effort of building and directing of a 40 person technology team, coordinated efforts in reporting status to upper management, identifying, managing and mitigating risks and overseeing all aspects of implementation.

Other responsibilities included the creation and implementation of database, system administration and customer support training.

TAP Holdings Inc. 7/1999 – 1/2000 Lake Forest, IL

Senior Project Manager for a fortune 500 pharmaceutical company

Hired to manage a project using business intelligence software to query, analyze and report on data within a pharmaceutical database.

Responsibilities included working with Clinical Systems and IT management to establish and gain consensus on requirements, application goals, objectives and deliverables.

The purpose of the Clinical Data Browser project was to allow clinicians and data management personal to access, query and analyze drug study data.

CNA 4/1996 – 7/1999 Chicago, IL

Project Manager for a fortune 500 insurance company

Provided project management, replication oversight to a complex data warehouse.

Coordinated the efforts of a large data warehouse with the development team and the database and system.

Led the effort to design and document backup and recovery procedures for replicated databases and the main data warehouse. The data warehouse replicated data to over 40 servers.

The Northern Trust Company 7/1993 – 4/1996 Chicago, IL

Project Manager for a fortune 1000 finance company

Managed the effort to define and implemented a DBMS architecture for all environments from development through production.

Led and coordinated the development of a data warehouse and managed a team of database administrators.

Designed and taught a Database Administration Class to internal database administrators.

Established the operating policies and standards for both the trust and banking division. Evaluated additional tools and products for ongoing operational support.

World Bank - 6/1992 – 7/1993 Washington, DC

Application Consultant – International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Conducted and organized a product evaluation study in order to find the most suited CASE/Repository tools on the market for IFC’s growing data administration needs.

Managed financial databases across multiple servers.

NYNEX Science & Technology

Application Consultant 7/1991 – 6/1992 White Plains, NY

Elicited, analyzed and wrote business requirements, rules and specifications for a telecommunications access system.

The Communication Management System Controller application channeled data between a mainframe host and hand held computers for the purpose of receiving dispatched service orders and sending back service order statuses upon completion.

Citicorp POS Information Services

Application Consultant 2/1990 – 7/1991 Stamford, CT

Designed and developed data warehouse systems by eliciting, analyzing and writing requirements and specifications for applications accessing the data warehouse.

Prior Experience

Health care management experience, to include starting up a HMO satellite office for one of the largest HMOs in the country, (Harvard Community Health Plan).

Managed both a pediatrics and mental health department in the HMO after the startup was completed.

Managed an executive health program for a health care clinic in Los Angeles.

Education and Certification Highlights

California State University Chico; Science and Health Care

Northeastern University; Computer Science

Colman College; Computer Science

Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute

Certified Business Analyst Professional (CBAP) from the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA)

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