Manager Project

Cathy Musgrave

adcs97@r.postjobfree.com / 214-***-****

Senior Leadership Profile

Program & Project Management / Client Relationship Management / Business Development

Accomplished leader with deep expertise in identifying strategic business opportunities and leading teams to develop and implement tactical solutions to realize strategic goals.

Hands-on IT professional with over 30 years experience providing extensive practice and skills in program/project and technical management. Possesses diverse technical expertise coupled with excellent management and consulting skills focused to provide superior project delivery.

Effectively engage stakeholders while cultivating leadership teams. Create positive, respectful working environments and lead by example. Core competencies include:

Program Management

Project Management

Management Consulting

Team Leadership

Change Management

Stakeholder Management

Engaging Presentations

Supply Chain Management

Relationship Management

Vendor Management

ERP Systems – SAP & Oracle

Systems Implementations

Solution Assessments

Professional Experience

Practice Partner, 12/2009 – 02/2020

WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES, Houston, TX

Accountable for growing the client base in North America as well as working with existing clients, for the identification and delivery of business, both operational, and technical solutions. Cathy helps clients achieve their strategic objectives through improved processes and enabling solutions. She is responsible for building effective implementation teams to work closely with clients. Cathy offers Information Technology and Management Consulting expertise and services to companies across multiple industries.

Selected accomplishments:

Program Manager for an Oracle implementation – management of all aspects of development and implementation including scope, schedule, communications, budgets, deliverables, risks and status reporting, etc. Including management of third party vendors. Development of detailed work plans, tracking progress, review program deliverables, develop and deliver presentations to “C”- Level Sponsors.

Serving as the Consulting Partner at a client site for nearly 8 years. Performing duties such as providing staff to on-going project teams as needed, leading team RFP’s, participating in strategic planning sessions with the client, leading teams on multiple acquisitions, and providing quality assurance for all Wipro projects. She is the key point of contact for all client needs and requests.

Serving a downstream Oil & Gas client for over 5 years working for the Transformation Office managing a program of 8 different projects. This includes a number of teams internal and external as well as the vendors engaged in each initiative. Along with a multitude of technologies including Cloud Services, SAP, Microsoft, and other third-party applications.

Served as the Information Technology Sr. Project Manager for multiple projects including implementation of a railcar management solution, document management solution, maintenance scheduling tool for Logistics, and replacement of a yield accounting model.

Responsible for the implementation of a global standardized approach to Project Management, Implementation Guidelines and Integrated Deployment Models for a mid-size oil company.

Effective global and local stakeholder management and communication; special focus on business partner integration and alignment.

Facilitated transfer of learnings and the development of standardized global approaches through networking.

Drove change management activities, including organizational design, communications, and training.

Assistant Vice President, Oil & Gas Upstream Practice, 02/2002 – 12/2009

SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (SAIC), Houston, TX

For nearly 7 years, Cathy contributed to the company’s bottom line success by providing extensive experience in project management, product development and delivery. Her role within the Business Integration Services Organization was Practice Manager of the US Enterprise Asset Management team. Responsible for the development and overall delivery of a portfolio of software implementation and business optimization projects within the Upstream Oil and Gas industry. She also acted as account manager, program manager, project manager, team lead and subject matter expert on multidisciplinary project teams, sales and proposal activities, and other firm-wide initiatives.

Selected accomplishments:

Participated in the deployment and roll out of a Global Work Management System across all of E&P of a global O&G company. Included training, change management and communications.

Reporting lead, testing manager and business cutover manager on a global purchase to pay initiative.

Program manager and RICEF lead for a P2P initiative. Responsibilities included managing the P2P legacy applications custom development interface work from functional design through test. Assisting in defining and maintaining the P2P legacy applications interface inventory.

Provided project management, consulting, development and design of an interface between Maximo and SAP.

Led a global downstream R&M purchase-to-pay program, using two distinct buying methods (routes to market) to all businesses for all 3rd party spend.

Served as project manager for assessing integration efforts of Maximo and SAP had a secondary objective of the prioritization of the interface installation order to the overall solution.

Project manager and Lead Systems Integrator to help improve the work order fulfillment and purchase-to-pay (P2P) processes for both its buyers and suppliers.

Team lead for a Back Office SAP/Maximo Process/Requirements Assessment. Primary responsibility was to assess and document the current invoice process and how that process differs across multiple sites.

Served as a functional team member of an SAP BW Financial reporting system for a major petrochemical company.

Sr. Manager-Experienced Manager-Business Consultant, 01/1996 – 05/2002

ARTHUR ANDERSEN, LLC, Dallas, TX

Recognized and created revenue opportunities while effectively managing project teams from inception to completion. Directed full-spectrum technical aspects of development lifecycle for each project, designing, developing and implementing successful solutions.

Selected accomplishments:

Participated in a number of projects as team lead to project manager from managing software selections to implementing a number of ERP systems for a number of companies. Also participated in CMMS assessments, inventory reconciliation projects, redefining contractor management processes, deployed plant maintenance systems, training and process redesign.

Education & Credentials

Accounting/Business Management, North Texas Community College, Mt. Pleasant, TX

PMP

SAP Certified:

ASAP (AcceleratedSAP)

Materials Management

Finance & Controlling

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