Project Manager Management

Noel Davidson

Harbourview Crescent

Toronto Ontario M8V 4AA9

Telephone: 416-***-****

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www.sabali.ca https://ca.linkedin.com/in/noelsdavidson PROJECT MANAGER / PROGRAM MANAGER INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PMP certified expert with critical expertise in spearheading enterprise-wide technology initiatives Executive Summary

PMP certified program manager with a background in Computer Science and a strong record of achievement in managing highly-visible enterprise technology projects and programs. Proven success working with global and diverse stakeholders. Applying project management skills to ensure project objective are met. I have worked independently and collaboratively from project concept to deployment, planning, monitoring risk, organizing project data, communicating status and tracking, controlling and leading activities to ensure project goals and objectives are met within the approved time frame, scope, quality and budget. Professional Employment History

CentriLogic (Formerly Advance Knowledge Network - AKN) Mississauga, Ontario Canada Project Manager / Program Manager, July 15th, 2012 - Present Led efforts to plan, manage, influence and execute plans to implement project scope following both plan driven and agile or change driven methodologies. Developed progressive and integrated baseline project plans. Effectively purse multiple priorities, issues, constraints while mediating and collaborating with team members to resolve and escalate when needed. Anticipated project risk and effectively manage risk through the project lifecycle. Employed planning structure to manage project data including schedules, status, metrics, key artifacts, financials, activity and control logs, stakeholder management and appropriate communication to the project audiences. Embedded quality planning and lesson learn in all project processes, activities and deliverables from inception to completion.

Critical Skill Set

Developed comprehensive projects plans for multi-year, multi-company IT initiatives involving cross-cluster approvals, including development

Identified resource requirements including staffing resources, physical and financial resources

Developed and negotiated project budget based on multiple funding channels and jurisdictional dependencies

Managed activities throughout all phases of large scale, multi-year systems projects

Anticipated, identified and resolved complex issues, coordinated and secured provision of senior level technical expertise to develop solutions. Provided advice and guidance to clients and project staff

Led client consultations from multiple partners, internal clients and external stakeholders

Led steering committee and stakeholder forums

Developed and managed the processes Express of Interest, Request for Information, Request for Proposal, Picture for Proof for the acquisition of business solutions and external project staff

Managed project teams and consultants as well as provide technical guidance to functional area staff Accomplishments

Renegotiated maintenance contract to better serve the client’s business needs while netting additional revenues of $200,000 for the last two quarters of 2016.

Improved bid to work process by introducing bottom up estimation awareness to reduce underbidding by 20%. Incorporated efficiency performance measurements into individual reviews to relate company successes to career success.

Implemented Product Quality matrix plan to eliminate poor product quality delivery. Subsequently lowering defects to new feature set introduction from 55% ratio to less than 5% in the Ontario Tire Stewardship core application suite.(Peer Review, Internal Knowledge Share, and Training) Noel Davidson Page 2 of 2

Prophix Software. Mississauga, Ontario Canada

Program Manager Consultant, Jul 12th, 2010- Jul 6th, 2012 Responsible for all aspects of the program’s software development projects. Provided oversight and leadership of projects supporting multiple business units across the enterprise. Planned and directed project schedules, managed budgets and supervised projects from initiation through delivery. Assessed program risk and developed resolutions to exceed productivity, quality and client-satisfaction goals.

Partner with Architects, BSAs, TSAs, suppliers and other IT teams to design and implement the application

Implemented program management processes and procedures to an unstructured program, resulting in milestone release of product on schedule, within budget, and improved quality.

As Change Control Board Lead, developed and implemented comprehensive program change control process, ensuring changes to planned product releases were in alignment with strategic goals and objectives.

Collaborated with line management and company executives to ensure program objectives were in alignment with company goals, and key stakeholders were apprised of status.

Worked directly with executive and functional area stakeholders, conducted software implementation and configuration, performed architecture/design of corporate performance management (CPM) installations and project management across North America and the United Kingdom in 4-10 weeks ranging from 75K to 150K (Billing an average of $7200.00/Week).

Led the implementation of Business Application software with numerous clients, was responsible for outstanding quality and solution deployment, conducted pre-site visit and high-level requirements solicitation, validated SOW documents, liaised as the primary contact between sales and development teams and developed user stories.

Collaborated with R&D teams, gathered dashboard requirements for BI and KPIs, led Quality Assurance benchmarking and Business User Acceptance Testing, created training/technical manuals, and built monthly status, financial, revenue, expense, cash flow and budget reports.

Mapped traceability matrix and utilized excel modelling tools to compile into single database staged on MSSQL Server.

Additional Career History

Fairmont Raffles Hotels International, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Business Analyst Jan 8th, 2007- Jul 9th, 2010

Applied agile methodology to create product/system vision/scope, documented and implemented requirements from stakeholders through development, testing, training, deployment and application support. Coordinated projects, facilitated feature/function prioritization, defined requirements with internal and external customers, aligned development efforts with business expectations, and ensured effective solutions integration

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) (Formerly ATI Technologies) Markham, Ontario Canada Senior Software Engineer Aug 10th, 1998 - Dec 22nd, 2006 Designed, developed and supported web applications, Microsoft SQL Server databases and data models, performed project management and executive reporting, and researched, analyzed, and documented business requirements for new systems or significant software application enhancements. Contributed technical SAP ISU billing & invoicing reports, developed Business Intelligence (BI) Dashboards & KPI, Generated custom reports using SSRS/SQL Server BI studio, created and built dashboards in the SSRS Environment for development and quality assurance, SSRS Reporting. Tools

Project Initiation Documentations (PIDs)

WBS, Gantt Charts, PDM Network Diagram

Critical Path Analysis, Variance Analysis

PERT, Earn Value Management

Risk Management, SWOT Analysis

Microsoft Project, Jira, SmartSheet, Trello

Asana, Scheduling Systems

Mendelow Matrix (Stakeholder Analysis)

Resource Histogram, Burndown/Burnup Charts

Requirement Traceability Matrix

Education and Accreditations

BSc, Computer Science, York University, Ontario, Canada Graduated 1998

Project Management Professional Certification (PMP) Complete 2010

Ryerson University, Ontario, Canada Certificate Project Manager 2015

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