Summary: Project Manager/ Consultant with extensive corporate experience as well on-the -job and classroom environment education and training. Capable of working with all levels of management with polish and tact. Extensive experience in IT and Telecomm platforms. Knowledge in PMBOK methodology and extensive contribution in building PMOs. Democratic manager with a firm bottom line.

Bastian Solutions April 2020 to present

Software Project Manager

Responsibilities included:

Provide oversight and responsible for all phases of various software development and automation projects, including coordinating team members, material, and equipment. Ensure that all specifications are being followed and that work is proceeding on schedule and within budget. Being the single point of contact to our customers a proactive, positive, focused on problem solving approach.

General Job Duties

• Submit weekly Project Reports to keep the customer continually updated,

hold teleconferences, and schedule face-to-face meetings.

• Learn the customer's business to best represent its needs to the BSS team.

• Continually manage the project budget, approve all purchases, approve all

invoices, and constantly try to improve the financial standing of the project

(cutting costs, not quality).

• Create initial Gantt chart using an BSS Project Schedule Template in

conjunction with the Scheduling Manager.

• Acting as an integral participant in the testing, debugging, and eventual

turnover of the system to the customer.

• Provide key input about the customer's operations to ensure that BSS

creates the best design possible for the customer.

Superior Performance Objectives

• Maintain a Constant Customer Focus.

• Manage all Financial Aspects of the Project.

• Perform all Scheduling of Project Events.

• On-site Implementation.

• Project Design Input.

• Personnel Supervision.

• Work with Sales Consultants.

• Provide Long-term Customer Support.

Consortium of Business Consultants LLC. Allen Texas February 2018 to 2020

Sr. Projects Manager/ Consultant

Professional Services Department

Responsibilities included:

Telecom

Managing the implementation and installation of special large Verizon projects related to Optical Distribution Networks (ODN), One Fiber Core, 4G & 5G projects in the Dallas Metropolis Market. Managing vendor relations and channeling mainstream communications between engineering output and vendors for proper project design and implementation post approval. Reviewing, monitoring and ensuring execution of project milestones on time and under budget. Establishing project methodology and collaboratively work with other markets to unify and solidify project status output for management global project review.

Product Development Projects

oDrive projects across different products within a business line

oAligns with marketing, Product managers, product management and Product engineers to ensure Product requirements are identified and documented for each project.

oCommunicates project status and issues to management on a regular basis

oWorks with project teams to decompose requirements into feature deliverables, development tasks and time estimates to complete each task

oWorks with the resource manager to ensures each project / project team has the correct staffing

oPerforms risk and gap analysis as required

oDevelops, publishes and maintains project schedules

oEnsures that Product development teams are following appropriate development processes

oParticipates in continual improvement of Product development processes

oBe an ambassador and champion of Product project management tools

Frontier Communications May 2013 to February 2018

Projects Manager Contract. Allen Texas

Professional Services Department

Responsibilities included:

Involved in Managing and supporting the design and installation of a Mission Critical Telecommunication systems Project:

Lead cross-functional municipal and client wireless data network deployments

Handle scheduling, quality assurance, budget formulation/administration, client relations, and problem solving. Municipal project scope encompasses anchor tenants in several environments to include hospitals, hotels, small businesses, and municipal entities; range of outdoor service runs from a two-block site to several square miles.

Backhaul – and entire system of Anchor system and Hotspots

oADTRAN, Aruba, HP controllers, Ruckus

oWorking with Transport and Wireless Technologies Management providing wireless backhaul and alternate access services

oNGPON Back hall GPON and GPON, FTTP Fiber and DSL

Deloitte Consulting, LLP - Dallas Texas August 2011 to February 2013

AMS Project Associate 6/ Consultant

Professional Services Department

Responsibilities included:

Technology Service Area Sr. Project Manager helping clients to identify and solve most critical

information and technological challenges. Provided advisory and end-to-end implementation services.

Developed and maintained effective working relationships with team members, client stakeholders, and

peers. Applied Project Management disciplines such as quality, risk, resource, and change management

while being accountable for meeting the time, cost, and scope of each project. Communicated the plan,

roles, constraints, milestones, and critical path to all team members and project stakeholders.

Managed and lead high-priority projects, which often required considerable resources and high levels of complex functional integration.

Applied Project Management disciplines such as quality, risk, resource, and change management while being accountable for meeting the time, cost, and scope of each project.

oFinance Projects

Covered the test procedures over the component related to accurately present total Indebtedness by the borrower (“Amounts Due”), and the default period by the lender (“Default Period”).

Quality Control – Review processed loan for foreclosure ensuring proper procedures in place to accurate presentation of the total indebtedness by the borrower (“Amounts Due”), and the default period by the lender (“Default Period”).

Assisted in loan review process procedures and procedures updates, trained new loan reviewers on procedures and systems

oPMO & Technical Projects (e. Room, SharePoint & Clarity)

Software and System integration implementation project

•Managed a global Network Optimization Utility rollout between North America and Europe, synchronization and optimization of geographical connectivity

•Managed a global Internet Explorer rollout for North America and Europe.

Consortium of Business Consultants LLC. Allen Texas February 2003 to July 2011

Sr. Projects Manager/ Consultant

Professional Services Department

Responsibilities included:

Implemented Projects according to PMBOK methodology, the five Project Management Process Groups and the nine Knowledge Areas

Designed and implemented processes and procedures for the PMI department according to PMO governing body, from initiating the capture sheet to creating the design under which process, and procedures were incepted and implemented

Managed sub-contractors and 3rd vendor relations

Planned, executed projects according to strict deadlines timeline and within budget.

Managed, staffed and budgeted professional services projects to include Product Development, IT operations, technology integration and software implementation.

Responsible for managing $ 1,400,000 revenue per year

Software implementation Projects

oMedical Software Solutions (Endo/Colonoscopy for 250 Hospitals & Clinics)

oDental Medical Software (Imaging Software for 500 dentists)

oDocument Management Software (125 Hospitals and Clinics)

oSystem Monitoring Software (125 Hospitals and Clinics)

Telecom Projects

oInternational projects

oATVAM (Automated Traffic Violation Admin Management, International

Fiber Direct, GPON, PTP, WIMAX and Microwave

oUnified Communication / Passive & Active

oDomestic projects

oVerizon, managed regional FTTB implementation

oGE, managed the WI-FI Survey for Canada and USA Sites

oHome Depot, responsible for managing implementation for 45 stores

oWal-Mart, Kmart, responsible for managing implementation for 67 Stores

oSchool district of the city of Dallas Texas, implemented 12 Schools

Education:

Master’s Degree, Management Information Systems

Friends University, Wichita, KS

Bachelor of Arts, Business Management

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

PMP training PMBOK 6th edition and Rita Mulcahy - PMP® Exam Prep 8th Edition

Languages: French

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