Project Management Manager

Maninder (Mani) Singh ***********@*****.*** 847-***-****

Overview:

●Results oriented professional with 15 + years’ experience in Leadership; Project Management, Cross Functional Team Collaboration & Quality Assurance.

oStrong skill set: Listening, Understanding and Communicating with Leadership, Cross Functional Teams, Vendors, and Clients

oLeadership role: Project Manager - Delivery and Execution; Business Analyst; Risk Management; Change Management; Consultant

●Possess the business, analytical acumen, creative spirit, and communication skills experience to contribute towards the team and organization's success

●Fortune 100 experience working at Caterpillar, Allstate and Ecolab

●Experience with MS Project, Azure Dev Ops, Smartsheets, Primavera, SharePoint, IBM Quality Center amongst many other tools. Led projects in both Waterfall and AGILE methodologies. Have managed timelines, budgets, process and procedures, risks/issues to project completion.

●Managed customer relationships and utilize strong problem-solving skills to streamline processes.

●Strong ability to create Project Plans, understand, document, and communicate requirements with stakeholders, cross functional teams, vendors, and clients. Excellent presentation and communication skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CATERPILLAR Feb 19 – PRESENT

Project Manager

●Project Manager – Global Program Management (PMO) Integrated Components & Solutions Division

●Current role is SCRUM Master: Caterpillar Services and Solutions/Job Services

oAzure DevOps

oSCRUM Master of 3 Collaborative teams - India, UK and US

CAT Digital, Data Lake, and JSS

●Successfully implemented Workday – the biggest HR Implementation to date at Caterpillar

oWorkday Implementation from PeopleSoft

Managed Project Plans along with ~12,660 documents in SharePoint, ~1600 RAID items, ~350 Change Requests during the Workday Implementation.

o2.5-year timeline

o20 Workstreams

oCollaborated with multiple consultants (Workday, Deloitte, Collaborative Solutions)

o120+ person Extended Team

●Lead Project Manager

oWorkday UK Payroll

oWorkday Bonus (Helios – SAP Commissions) Project

oWorkday Security Assignment

oBrazil Onboarding Improvement

oIIQ AW10 (Conversion) Worker Management Project

oWorkday I9 Functionality Project

oPerformance Management Project

oHR Data Repository Consumer Integrations (12 Applications)

oHR ID Strategic Solution

oGDS - SAP Integration

oC-Cure Integration

oHRDR Change Integration Design

oResolve SailPoint Integration Product Gaps

●Successfully Implemented UK Payroll 2.0 Implementation reset as the Project Manager and Test Lead.

oAfter the initial implementation attempt missed several target dates, Human Services Division (HSD) along with the Global Program Management pulled me in for the Project Rescue. The legacy UK Payroll ITRENT system project was successfully implemented and replaced by Workday

ALLSTATE March 15 – Dec 18

Project Manager

oManaged projects in both Waterfall and AGILE methodologies for our Consumer Technology Customer Communications team. Liaison between PMO, business partners, technology, and management team.

oDeveloped detailed project plans, business requirements documentation, identified critical path, and engaged with stakeholders/team to develop risk mitigation plans.

oMonitored and controlled detailed plans, documentation, measured project success/milestones, established a budget and negotiated contracts with third-party vendors.

oCompleted end to end tasks for onboarding new projects and resourcing during the work intake process. Actively engaged in working sessions, sprint sessions, and SCRUM meetings.

oProvided ongoing clear and concise communications, along with open dialogue to PMO, Portfolio Manager, Business partners, Project Managers and IT team. Helping to reduce any miscommunication, gaps, potential risks to deliverables or project completion.

oCreated PowerPoint presentations, attended stakeholder meetings, along with reporting action items/risks/mitigation plans to upper management.

oStrong interaction and interpersonal skills helped build and maintain strong relationships with all Stakeholders.

ECOLAB August 2008 – December 2014

Senior Business System Analyst

oCreated clear and attainable project objectives, built the project requirements, and managed constraints of the project management triangle.

oConversant with phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) involving System Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and maintenance.

oProgram lead in the Audits and Assessments Project

oLead the portal integration between Corporate IT, the Business and Steton (vendor)

oCoordinated and presented weekly/daily meetings with senior management/operations managers/sales reps/clients/vendors to show

oProvided division and stakeholders with continuous updates, milestones, progress, and Risk on various projects

oPresented monthly/quarterly presentations to division on key points and milestones of various projects

Business System Analyst

Team Lead in the Health Department Intelligence Initiative

UAT Lead- STAGE, PRE-PROD, PROD

oSuccessfully lead implementation and rollout of the HDI project

oLed testing and implementation of new tablets for 300 field specialists

oCreated dynamic web reports that provided actionable data for clients

oProvided various marketing tools for various departments and clients

oCreated monthly HDI newsletters to communicate milestones, progress, next steps and other information to all departments of the division.

oHDI spokesperson for the annual NRA show at McCormick place

oProvided continuous documentation, power points, and "How to Manuals" for the various departments within the division, clients and vendors

oTeam contacts for upper management, directors, sales team, operations team, QA team, field specialists

oAwarded “Team of the Year" 2 years convectively

Specialist, Operations

oProgram lead for various clients (McDonalds, Chick Fila A, Hyatt Hotels, etc.)

oPresented quarterly updates to clients in

oLead customer discussions between the client and the business

oAdministrated training program for continuous ongoing knowledge customer standards

oProvided on call support for clients and corporate IT.

oCreated Webinars for clients and specialists.

oProvided On Site Training for other associates and field specialists.

oCreated Customer Web Reports

oQA Specialist

oSubject matter expert in client brand standards

oReviewed evaluations to verify accuracy prior to customer review.

oProvided on call support for clients and field specialists.

SKILLS

oPMP Certified

oAzure DevOps Certified

oAGILE Certified

oCompleted Project Management Courses

oCompleted SAFe course

oExperienced with MS Project, SharePoint, Primavera, IBM Quality Center amongst many other tools.

oMicrosoft Project/Office (Outlook, excel, power point, word, etc.), Smartsheets, Primavera, Sharepoint, AeP, IBM Quality Center, Release Management Site, PRISM, CSO, Service Now, Google Analytics; Adobe Photoshop.

oExperience in both Waterfall / working knowledge of AGILE methodologies.

oServSafe Certified and Food Safety Certified.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Major in Biology and Minor is Psychology UIC/Loyola Chicago, IL

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