Project Manager Management

Kyle Robert Ankerman

720-***-**** ************@***.***

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kyleankerman

Professional Qualifications:

Management Experience: Demonstrates leadership ability to cultivate a team environment where employees strive to improve performance and reach common goals. Instrumental in developing newly formed teams as well as improving the performance of established groups within multiple industries. Adept at managing multiple tasks simultaneously and proficient in managing competing demands based on prioritization. Provides 15 years of management experience.

Process Consultation: Displays a thorough understanding of the Process Consultation philosophy as well as the Action Research methodology. Establishes helping relationships with clients in an effort to keep clients on track and focused on the end goals. Able to think and act independently with the forethought through active reflection to develop requisite project tasks for future success. Shows commitment to client projects and works diligently to affect positive change.

Process Improvement: Proven aptitude to effectively analyze current processes, formulate improvement strategies, initiate training objectives and implement new cost-effective streamlined techniques. Directed change initiative which resulted in process efficiency increase of over 350%.

Advanced Certification: Six Sigma Black Belt Certification.

Teaching and Training: Conscious of the importance to teach in a way that garners quick and thorough learning. Knowledgeable of the benefits acquired through the process of cross training staff. Innate ability to produce documentation of process work flow and to translate into understandable procedure manuals for training.

Communication Capability: Exceptional communicator with impeccable written, verbal, and presentation capabilities. Capacity to communicate in a way that fosters trust and buy-in among stakeholders, customers and throughout all organizational levels.

Accounting/Budgeting: Ability to perform receivables, payables, postings, closing functions, and bank reconciliations. Keen understanding of accounting principles, data interpretation, and an inborn ability to locate the source of inaccuracies. Performed reconciliations of bank accounts generating $650 million in monthly transactions.

Technical Talent: Knowledgeable in Microsoft Word, Excel, Publisher, PowerPoint, Project, SharePoint, Planview, and Visio along with industry specific software programs. Acute ability to navigate new systems with minimal training and exposure.

Education:

Colorado Technical University – Aurora, CO

Project Management Major; Graduated Summa Cum Laude with a 3.95 GPA; 2009 to 2011

MBA with a concentration in Project Management; 4.0 GPA; 2011 to 2012

Doctorate of Management; Organizational Development and Change; in progress

Acuity Institute – Denver, CO

Six Sigma Black Belt Certification and Simulated Project Certification – 2009

2005 Graduate of Leadership Holland – administered through the Holland Area Chamber of Commerce and the City of Holland, MI

Experience:

Enablement Consultant, Planview Inc., Parker, CO May ’16 to Jan ‘17

Led Enablement Strategy & Planning Workshops where discussions were centered on change management, communication strategies, and developing training plans.

Collaborated with the clients’ Project Manager, Enablement Team, and Project Sponsors to develop a tailored training plan specific to the individual end users.

Ensured best practices regarding communication strategies were understood by the client. Then led the dialog to build out a communication plan individualized to specific stakeholders.

Functioned as the Resource Manager for the training event. Scheduled and coordinated efforts of the Training Consultants (TC) and acted as the liaison between the client and TC.

Evaluated feedback and survey results from the training sessions to provide a quantitative assessment for process improvement as necessary.

Functional Consultant, Planview Inc., Parker, CO; Feb ’14 to May ‘16

Led consulting meetings to include project Sponsors, Stakeholders, and Executives.

Collaborated with the client’s core team to determine the specifications and requirements for Planview configuration.

Directed the configuration of the client system to achieve desired results.

Coached and mentored the client Administrators to function on their own after configuration was completed.

Guided customers through a review of the enabled capabilities and functionality in the Planview Application to confirm it met the Customer’s requirements and business outcomes

Process Consultant, Jones Lang LaSalle, Centennial, CO; Aug ’13 to Dec ‘13

Conducted research and provided analysis regarding best practices for consulting project.

Directly managed the project to include detailed strategy assessment, project planning, vendor engagement and management, risk mitigation, and kept the project team focused and on task.

Exhibited the ability to think independently and reflected on actions to propose future project tasks.

Facilitated the client system obtaining over 300% improvement through the consulting efforts.

Project Portfolio Manager, W.J. Bradley, Centennial, CO; June ’13 to Nov ‘13

Achieved business results by improving processes and procedures in order to gain and maintain a competitive advantage. Realized results through leadership, planning, situational awareness and strategic communications.

Provided directional input for portfolio including collaborative efforts identifying, prioritizing, authorizing, managing, and controlling projects to achieve specific strategic business objectives.

Ensured the project portfolio was regularly reviewed to prioritize resource allocation and to confirm that the management of the portfolio was consistent with and aligned to organizational strategies.

Acted as a portfolio-wide escalation point to communicate risks, issues, resource restrictions and budgetary concerns within the portfolio and across multiple portfolios.

Provided project management consultation and advice to Project Managers to achieve project objectives and to ensure the project plan aligned with the overarching portfolio plan.

As necessary, directly managed projects within the portfolio to achieve project objectives utilizing a collaborative cross functional approach.

Process Consultant, The SaddleUp! Foundation, Parker, CO; Feb ’13 to June ‘13

Strategic Project Manager/Business Analyst, Integrated Printing Solutions, Centennial, CO; Nov ‘11 to April ‘13

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