IT Leader

Calm Leadership in the Face of Change

Experienced in Information Technology project management & leadership roles by consistently delivering assignments on time and budget

Executed projects in the financial, medical and manufacturing industries ranging from small to complex in scope and size ($50K to $3M).

Build relationships at all levels in the organization to drive results.

Entrepreneurial skills support changing environments and handling ambiguous situations

Introduced and developed new technologies and policies to improve business processes and reduce IT costs.

EXPOSURE AND TRAINING

Agile, Scrum Master, Product Owner, SAP (FICO, MM, APO), Hyperion Essbase and Planning, Business Intelligence, Change Management, PMO, Microsoft Office, Oracle, Sharepoint, MS Project, Clarity, SQL Server, Crystal Reports, MS Access, VBA, SQL, Toad, SSIS, XML, MAXL, ESSCMD, EDI, WecFOCUS, Ab Initio, SDLC, Method1, Time Box, Remedy, HP Quality Center, Unix, COBOL, CICS, JCL, Assembly, Fortran

PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI_ACP)

ITIL Version 3 Foundation Certification

Hyperion v9.3 Planning and Essbase Administration Certification

EXPERIENCE

Product Owner/Scrum Master, Schaumburg Market Place, Schaumburg, IL 2016 - Present

•Volunteering to launch a new marketplace website.

•Scrum Master for team developing subscription/logon features

•Product Owner for comprehensive job board features to focus on Schaumburg employers to attract people who wish to work in Schaumburg.

•Successfully motivating a team of volunteer developers and quality analysts to deliver incremental software at a high velocity while the working schedule is 3 days a week, 3 hours a day.

Owner, Kornick Enterprises dba Signarama, Schaumburg, IL 2013 – 2016

•Managed entire operations of B2B and B2C retail sign company growing sales 450% from $40K to $220K

•Product owner for all orders. Established weekly sprint planning and daily scrum.

•Established growth by setting monthly, quarterly and yearly target goals for sales team.

•Improved value stream by removing non-essential work and adding new processes to reduce waste and rework by 80%.

•Set release plan for target products and customer markets for high profit margin sales.

•Established vendor relationships for high quality products at low costs.

•Generated repeat customers and increased average per order sales by effectively networking.

•Trained and empowered employees to function as a high performing team.

Project Manager - Contract, Allstate Insurance, Northbrook, IL 2013 – 2013

•Led effort to recover in 4 weeks the production version of Hyperion Planning and Essbase and ensuring data was up-to-date. Supervised the sales regions verify their data. The application consisted of 18 planning databases and 42 Essbase databases.

•Led effort to change outline, scripts, and ETL to reflect restructuring of the sales organization.

•Successfully trained new support staff on all aspects of the applications.

PMO Project Manager – Contract, Citigroup, Elk Grove Village, IL 2012 – 2013

•Created new processes and governance documents for centralized project status reporting for the newly formed PMO to standardize for cost savings and consistent reporting.

•Efficiently trained and implemented project planning methodology to three application teams that were responsible for ETL, reporting and QA.

•Responsible for portfolio, release and resource management. Created a SharePoint application for all Project Managers to track relevant information for transparency.

•Utilized a core environment consisting of: Unix, SAS, EDI, HP Quality Center, and SharePoint.

Consultant - Contract, Allstate Insurance, Northbrook, IL 2011 – 2012

•Advised new Hyperion Support staff on database and coding changes for new requirements.

•Resourcefully trained new support staff.

PMO Project Manager – Contract, Hospira, Lake Forest, IL 2011 – 2012

•Responsible for delivering of Global SAP (SD, MM, FICO, and APO) and Non-SAP related Projects.

•Successfully led 15+ projects from concept to launch in the heavily regulated pharmaceutical environment, while meeting target dates and operating and capital expenditures.

•Managed concurrent projects ranging from $50K to $300K, with a total of $1.75 million. Projects were focused on warehousing and distribution of Injectables, I.V. Solutions, Infusion System and Medical Devices.

•Effectively created quicker development cycles by creating a streamlined methodology for small IT Projects (<$300k). Initial results of 7 projects showed a 40% decrease in time and $100K in savings.

•Managed business plans for world-wide locations in US, Canada, Europe, Asian-Pacific, APAC and Latin American.

•Provided effective leadership to cross-functional teams by defining clear & realistic goals and removal of barriers to warrant team progress and facilitate rapid decision-making.

•Developed project budgets and resource requirements (+-15%) for the IT financial planning group.

•Key environments included SAP, Solution Manager, MS Project, Clarity, Sharepoint

Project Manager, Allstate Insurance, Northbrook, IL 2001 – 2011

•Led projects and teams for several IT and business areas including SAP (CD & FICO), Hyperion Planning and ESSBASE, Financial Planning, Vended Applications, Claims to SAP ETL, Reporting and Business Intelligence, and Agent Administration & Commissions, Treasury and PCI.

•Fully responsible for project budgets ($10k - $3 million), resource planning and following the SDLC.

•Successful results for delivering projects on time at 85% and about $1 million under budget in total.

•Led matrix application teams, business resources and offshore personnel with a high level of enthusiasm to adhere to task level target dates.

•Proactively adapted leadership style to teams ranging from 2 to 26 resources while understanding each individual’s motivation and skill set.

•Reported to all levels of management on project progress, issues and risks.

•Diligently served on committees to assist in PMO with process definitions, Change Management and employee recognition programs.

•Successfully introduced new technologies into the IT environment: Crystal Reports and Hyperion Planning & Essbase. Worked with developers and IT architects to determine best practices for these technologies. Trained new resources on the business area they would be supporting.

EDUCATION

•MBA, Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, Lake Forest, IL

•B.S., Computer Science, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb IL

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