Kimberly M. McSweeney acxrqd@r.postjobfree.com

* ****** **. *****, ** 05452 714-***-****

Education

Masters in Business Administration; Boston University; 2001

Masters in Information Systems; Boston University; 2001

Bachelors in Economics; California State University, Long Beach; 1999

PMI-ACP Certification in Project Management; Project Management Institute; 2015

PMI Certification in Project Management; Project Management Institute; 2006

Technical Skills

Proficient in: MS Office Suite, MS Project, Lotus/Symphony Office Suite, Open Office, QMF, Rational Software Suite, Erwin, WinSQL, Hyperion/Brio, Essbase (end-user), SQL, Social Networking/Communication Tools

Experience with: Oracle 7, Visual C++, Active Server Pages, HTML, XML, Java Visual Basic

Professional Skills

Leading large global teams and managing large, complex, multimillion dollar projects.

Agile, Waterfall and Rational Unified Processes for software development and lifecycle management.

Experience

IBM- Finance Reference Data Transformation (CIO)

06/2014 - present

Customer / Partner Engagement Leader

Currently running the program office for the Pricing & Cost Estimation Solutions domain where I lead multiple, world-wide teams of program managers, architects, business analysts, developers and operations team members working towards many synergistic goals. The PMO includes 35 Assets, 9 dev/test squads, 90+ people.

I am also responsible for program level communication, tooling, morale, development, metrics and reporting.

Responsible for business controls posture of all assets in the portfolio.

11/2011 – 06/2014

Program Manager – Estimated Cost

Led multiple, world-wide teams of developers/testers and business team members to deliver value to the business in the area cost for hardware and software brands

Responsible for enhancements, new development and maintenance of seven cost related assets.

Worked closely with the enterprise wide implementation of SAP (Blue Harmony/iERP) to integrate legacy and strategic systems with the core SAP solution which was implemented to incorporate all financial systems into a single global solution.

Piloted and implemented Rational tools within the CIO and Application Services teams to improve productivity, transparency and efficiency within the team.

Continued to perform many of the Test Manager roles until a replacement could be found a year later and then trained and mentored two replacements.

01/2007 – 11/2011

Test Manager – Estimated Cost & Reference Price

Responsibility for planning, risk and issue management, plan & test execution and user support.

Piloted and then implemented the use of Rational Quality Manager (RQM) within IBM for internal projects. RQM was the first tool that could support the entire test cycle from planning to closeout and support the reuse of test cases in follow on development work which improved efficiency and increased productivity.

Developed and taught a 2-day training course on Rational Quality Manager (RQM) for 50+ people in the IGF organization as there were no courses available in IBM yet. The course was recorded and used throughout the company for other organizations during the roll out of RQM.

IBM- Finance IT

09/2004 -01/2007

Project Manager

Manage new development and maintenance of financial tools on the Division’s eBusiness portal using the Rational Unified Process and the Rational suite of software. Projects include the ASIC, Foundry and Standard Products pricing tools; the Product Cost Model; Engineering & Technology Services pricing model; and the Microelectronics Price Database.

Act as both the business process expert and the system administrator for the business lines. Write requirements and specifications for a six person development team. Participate in design and code reviews with the extended team.

Prepare the tools for internal certification and represent the business in audits done by Internal Audit, Price Waterhouse Coopers and the SEC.

Developed reports in Brio to give the management team visibility to gross profit and detailed information about our pricing and costing patterns.

IBM- Microelectronics Division

08/2001 -09/2004

Sr. Financial Analyst

Corporate business finance including budgeting, forecasting and expense and revenue analysis for:

oSemiconductor Research and Development Center (SRDC)

oCustomer Profitability

oNetworking Business Unit

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