Manager Project

Danielle P. Benson

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Senior Project Manager

Dynamic and motivated IT professional with experience and expertise in full project oversight from inception through completion, including requirements gathering, testing, implementation and user acceptance. Accomplished leader with effective collaboration skills and team building prowess.

Project Management Data Analysis Process Management Training and Development Agile Methodologies Waterfall Methodologies B2B Applications Relationship Management Team Leadership Project Portfolio Management Data Warehousing Vendor Management Business Requirements Documentation

Professional Experience

SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT Culver City, CA 2019-2020

IT Manager, Rights Management, Corporate Technology

Interviewed end users and key stakeholders to gather and analyze business requirements. Wrote requirement documents. Created user stories from requirement documents, and worked with offshore and onshore development teams to get story points and assign user stories to sprints. Managed the Scrum and Kanban boards. Facilitated daily Kanban and Scrum meetings. Created test scripts in TestRail. Created screen mockups using Figma.

Project Experience:

GPMS Implementation – Managed the lift and shift of the legacy Global Product Master System application, a $750K+ project with an onshore team of 15 and an offshore team of 5. GPMS (Global Product Master System) displayed summarized title and rights information to several thousand internal users.

Title Registry Rewrite – Drove the project to re-platform the legacy Title Registry application to AppDynamics. This application was used to track title names for Sony’s domestic theatrical releases that were registered with the Motion Picture Association.

GTRAC Implementation – Managed the lift and shift of the legacy GTRAC application, including coordinating the onshore and offshore development teams and reviewing application features with stakeholders. GTRAC was used to maintain the contractual and music rights displayed in the Global Product Master System (GPMS) and sent rights detail to multiple downstream applications.

Copyright Implementation - Led the lift and shift of the legacy Copyright application, which was used to track copyright information from the U.S. Copyright Office for Sony titles.

NBC UNIVERSAL Universal City, CA 2009-2019

Project Manager, Film Music and DreamWorks Animation Television Music 2013 – 2019

Sr. Business Systems Analyst, TV Music and Film Music 2009 – 2013

Drove project management for all project phases. Collaborated with business leaders to review and prioritize the project roadmap. Reviewed 12-month project scope with senior management. Proposed projects based on ideas generated from industry research and idea-sessions with business users. Maintained project budgets, and presented project status reports and monthly budget reports to senior executives.

Project Experience:

Film Music Roadmap Initiative – Led the project to complete a high-level review of the Universal Film Pictures Music business (licensing in, licensing out, creative, production, business affairs, royalty payment and tracking, and invoice processing). Interviewed stakeholders from all areas of the business. Documented the tasks performed, applications used, and how well the current business systems and applications meet their needs.

Music App Modernization Project – Led the project to conduct a deep dive into the Universal Film Pictures Music and DreamWorks Animation Television business with the goal of selecting new applications to meet the needs of their different business groups. Conducted in-depth business interviews, transformed interviewed notes into user requirements, worked with Sourcing to select vendors, wrote and distributed RFPs to selected vendors, and interviewed and selected the short-list of vendors for a proof of concept (POC).

Counterpoint Implementation Project – Led the project to replace legacy music rights applications with a customized off the shelf solution that would be utilized for clearing third-party music in film productions, tracking royalties, and maintaining music rights information about the score owned by Universal Film Pictures Music.

IT STRATEGISTS Los Angeles, CA 2008-2009

Project Manager

Created functional design documents, user requirement documents, training guides, and standard operating procedures. Created analysis documents, including use cases, process flows, and wireframes.

Project Experience:

Search Engine Marketing & Optimization – Developed web-based application to enable resellers to create multiple campaigns for smaller advertisers to drive SEO.

Search Engine Marketing – Created and implemented affiliate marketing site created in ASP.NET with an SQL backend including supervision of a two-member development team.

TECHLINK RESOURCES Los Angeles, CA 2007-2007

W-2 Contractor, Entertainment Industry Client

Interviewed key end users to gather and establish business requirements, based upon a thorough review existing system, data, and integration requirements.

Project Experience

Title Management Rewrite – Developed functional designs and communicated data and technical requirements to technical teams to drive transition from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005.

TECHLINK RESOURCES Los Angeles, CA 2005- 2006

W-2 Contractor, Hospitality Industry Client

Managed business and system process re-engineering to better streamline operations. Served as liaison and first point of contact for vendors and contractors to develop application and system specifications.

Project Experience

Hotel Program – Ensured comprehensive development and implementation of a hotel reservation system, ensuring accuracy and long-term business growth including serving as liaison with two vendors and legal teams to review contract terms.

Siebel Interface – Drove roll-out of Siebel through entire Asia-Pacific region including collaborating with local teams to deploy appropriate technology and developing how-to manuals for the Asia Pacific staff to bridge gaps between company regions.

SPHERION TECHNOLOGY W-2 Contractor, Insurance Industry Client 2005-2005

PARTNERS CONSULTING SERVICES W-2 Contractor, Automotive Industry Client 2004-2005

FLINT HILLS RESOURCES Project Manager – Human Resources and Compliance Systems 2002-2004

Education and Professional Courses

MBA in Information Management - University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

BBA in Management Information Systems - Howard University, Washington, D.C.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Project Leadership, Management, and Communications Managing Projects in Organizations 120 VC Project Management Training Managing the Project Budget Agile Lifecycle Training

TECHNICAL PROFILE Microsoft Project Scrum Kanban Figma Jira ServiceNow TestRail Confluence AppDynamics Java Oracle Business Objects SSRS Rights Clearance iMaestro Record Maestro Music Source Online Maestro Data Hub Maestro Report Writer Waterfall Methodologies

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