Project Manager Management

Joel Benson – Sr. Project Manager

***** ******* **** *******, *** E, Rockville, MD 20850

Home: 301-***-****, Cell: 703-***-****

Email: ***********@*****.***

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Technical Project Manager 12/2015 05/2016

Employer: CGI Federal, Inc.

12601 Fair Lakes Circle, Fairfax, VA 22033

Served as Technical Project Manager for the Momentum Performance Budgeting application at the Department of State.

Responsibilities included:

Served as key technical point of contact with client;

Owned and maintained the technical architecture design document;

Created and handled environment demand schedule, including coordination with Dev Infrastructure Support to insure asset availability when needed;

Managed Technical Analyst and Configuration team

Oversaw the O&M process;

Oversaw set up and maintenance of software test regions

Oversaw development and execution of performance test scripts.

Senior Project Manager 09/2014 12/2015

Employer: CGI Technologies and Solutions

11325 Random Hills Rd, Fairfax, VA 22030

Served as Sr. Project Manager and Scrum Master on multiple large and complex projects for Fannie Mae and their 50+ IT Financial application portfolio. Specifically, managed Structured Transactions Trading System, Autowire 2.0 both of which are part of the Common Securitization Platform Initiative and Loan Performance Publication (LPPUB). These projects incorporated a mix of both SDLC Agile and Modified Waterfall methodologies.

Responsibilities included:

Ensured the three key project constraints were met (scope, schedule and cost) while maintaining quality.

Estimated the Project Cost, managed Change Requests.

Regularly coordination with the Business Users and Stake Holders to stay aligned with their business needs.

Conducted regular sessions with the SMEs, to insure alignment and to update Functional and Technical Specification documents, Stakeholder Requirements and Requirement traceability matrix.

Created and published Project Schedules with high level milestones.

Regularly met with the stakeholders to create and maintained risks and issues in the Issue and Risk Log in EPPM.

Built relations and worked closely with Business, Dev Managers, Developers, Systems Analysis team, and QA team to ensure technical compatibility.

Generated weekly Status Reports to the Business Users, Stake holders, IT and Senior Management team on the Project Progress, Risks and Results.

Successfully managed all phases of the project delivery including Architecture Review, Enterprise Data Governance reviews, Analysis, Development, System Test, User Acceptance testing, Integration Test, Release management and Project Closure.

Monitored the schedule closely to insure the development team got design and code development completed as per the schedule.

Worked closely with the test team to develop a Test Strategy, Test Plan, RTM, Test Case Specification documents and Test Results summary reports for SIT and UAT.

Conducted Defect Review meetings during Test Execution to track the defects and resolve the issues.

Extensively used SDLC and Agile methodologies across various projects.

Conducted Project Closeout activities, Lessons Learned and post implementation activities.

Served as Sr. Project Manager and Technical Analyst on Siemens Test Data Management System (TDMS) Discovery Project. Worked with Technical team, Product Owner, and Business SMEs to put together a three-year road map for their TDMS new launches, while also upgrading their tech stacks (RDBMS, Interfaces, Code) to new technologies for security and other compliance requirements.

Senior Project Manager, 9/07 11/2013

Employer: Windwalker Corporation

1945 Old Gallows Road, Suite 600, Tysons Corner, VA 22182

As Project Manager:

Managed scope, resources, and schedules for projects.

Organized, directed, and managed all aspects of project teams.

Consulted with major stakeholders to formulate and review task plans and deliverables, ensuring conformance with program and project task schedules, costs, and contractual obligations.

Consulted wit and maintained communications with, the client and other project stakeholders.

Created and maintained project artifacts such as the project management plan, project schedule, risk list, and solution specifications document.

Managed risks and issues.

Established and maintained financial and other reports to show status of projects to management and clients.

Extensively used Waterfall and some Agile methodologies across various IT and non-IT projects.

Organized and assigned responsibilities to subordinates, and oversaw completion of assigned team tasks.

Clients included: US Bureau of Census, Xerox, Amtrak, DHS Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Navy (Pentagon), U.S. Army, and the Department of Education

Owner, Project Manager, 3/94 9/07

Employer: Multimedia Professionals, Inc.

803 West Broad Street Falls Church, VA 22046

As project Manager:

Successfully lead over fifteen six-to-20 team projects using mostly Waterfall based SDLC methodologies for both IT and non -T projects.

Successfully managed and delivered complex technical projects.

Teamed with the Business Users and Stake Holders to understand their business needs.

Created Project Scope and Project Plan documents and worked with Senior Management and stakeholders for approvals.

Estimated Project Costs and got CRs approved for various Projects.

Created and published Project schedule with high level and detailed milestones.

Coordinated the planning, management and execution of multiple related projects that were directed toward the same strategic objectives.

Managed and mentored resources toward common goals.

Used PowerPoint and Excel to help convey to stakeholders complex information and ideas.

Interacted with sponsors, stakeholders and various project members to ensure that specified business needs were met.

Monitored stakeholder concerns and, consequently, refined project charters, technical solutions, schedules and budgets as needed.

Clients included Defense Acquisition University, Federal Acquisition Institute, CIA University, U.S. Department of the Navy, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, Logistics Management Institute, AOL, Xerox, and National Association of Chain Drug Stores.

EDUCATIONAND CERTIFICATIONS:

University Of Minnesota May 1990

B.S. Degree, Mechanical Engineering GPA: 3.2/4.0

Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification (ID: 1701000) (Active to March, 2020

Certified Scrum Master (CSM), October, 2015

Clearances: Interim Secret Clearance (Active)

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Expert Knowledge of MS Project Professional, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Visio, Office, and Communicator; Cisco Jabber and WebEx; BMC Remedy; EPPM, MML, EMC Documentum, iCART, DOORs, CMDB, Jira, Momentum, and all version of Windows.

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